"Who I am isn't important. What matters is that you were lucky enough to do a good deed and meet me. Otherwise, you'd already be meeting the King of Hell."
Li thought back. After being shot, she had passed out, and she remembered nothing after that.
"You saved me?"
"Sort of. Actually, you saved yourself. If you hadn't stood up for my employee, even if the rebels hadn't killed you, you still wouldn't have survived."
Jiang Siming spoke bluntly.
Li's eyes froze for a moment. "What happened to those rebels?"
"Of course the regular army wiped them out." Jiang Siming casually made something up.
"What about those mercenaries?" Li asked again.
"They died too, of course. Every last one of them."
Li fell silent for a while. Her eyes were vacant, and her heart was a jumble of emotions.
She wasn't grieving the death of the blond man. In fact, when the blond man had chosen to make her sleep with someone at the mine, all ties between them had already been severed.
It was just that she had been with this mercenary unit for several years.
After her parents died, she had joined the unit. To her, it was practically a second home.
Although they wandered everywhere and lived by the sword, constantly risking their lives in a business where there was no guarantee of tomorrow,
at least after her parents' deaths, the only people she knew were the members of this mercenary unit.
Now that she had heard they were all dead, Li felt that the last thing she had to cling to was gone as well.
"Thank you."
Though her feelings were complicated, Li still softly thanked Jiang Siming.
"Forget it. You saved my employee first, so it was only right that I saved you. But if