Le Yu instantly put the letter back in the notebook, then returned the notebook to the drawer without making the slightest sound.
However, the footsteps had already reached the door, and he had no chance to escape. After all, this was his first time committing such a petty theft. Even with the advanced professional experience of Xuanzhu Batman Jing Zhengwei and Night Rogue Yin Yinyin, Le Yu still made the same mistake he had made during his zero-cost shopping spree: focusing all his attention on one particular thing.
Who knew how many assassins and thieves had been lured in by gold and silver treasures or the married woman beside the homeowner, causing their breathing to grow heavy and their blood to rush to their heads? A burglary would then develop into a murder, only for them to trigger the homeowner's mental defenses and wake the homeowner, exposing themselves and landing in prison.
Only a handful of veterans knew that when a Radiant Person was asleep, if you generated killing intent toward them at close range, they would almost certainly wake up suddenly. An ordinary person could never know this rule. This nocturnal secret was considered one of the Assassin Organization's closely guarded thousand-year-old treasures.
If not for the Ice-Blood Physique suddenly stimulating him and allowing him to hear the footsteps outside, Le Yu would not even have had time to react and would have failed to synchronize immediately.
In truth, it was still because the contents of this letter were far too unexpected. Leaving aside the discussion of Holy Sword Huiyao in the letter, the "Brother Yan" mentioned in it was most likely a relative of Yan Yi, the mentor of Tianhui. Moreover, "Brother Yan" was Qin Xiao's friend. In other words, this letter was at least over a decade