"Xiao Fei! Do you know what you're doing?!"
Xia Huan, standing nearby, was scared half to death when he saw Li Fei holding a blade against Chen Xiang's neck.
He had already violated the rules by bringing Li Fei directly to see Chen Xiang, a prisoner. If Chen Xiang ended up dying at Li Fei's hands, he might lose his official position over it!
Li Fei paid no attention to Xia Huan's words. He simply looked at Chen Xiang calmly.
Chen Xiang tugged at the corner of his mouth and smiled.
"I'm already a condemned prisoner. Don't you find it laughable to threaten me with death?"
He had colluded with Western Spies, which was a capital crime. The only reason he was still alive was that Surveillance Headquarters had yet to dig any valuable intelligence out of him.
Li Fei said calmly, "On the way here, I carefully thought back over what happened. You could have killed me yourself, but you insisted on borrowing someone else's hand. Apart from having a specific reason, you also wanted to protect yourself. If that student from Great Earth Martial Hall had successfully killed me, you wouldn't have needed to act yourself. Even if you were suspected and arrested afterward, you would have had an excuse to clear your name by claiming that you had known nothing about it."
Chen Xiang froze for a moment and looked at Li Fei. "What meaning is there in saying all this now?"
Li Fei said, "There is. It shows that you don't actually want to die. You want to stay alive very badly."
Chen Xiang laughed. "Who would want to die? But I can't stay alive now."
"No."
Li Fei shook his head. "If you had known from the start that death was your inevitable end, you