In an instant, Xu Yi's gaze turned cold as he stared straight at Xu Yanzhi. A flash of realization crossed his mind. So you're not my bodyguard. Yuwen Tuo hired you to kill me?
Xu Yi hadn't been without suspicions when Xu Yanzhi first appeared. When she said Director Yu had asked her to come, he'd already found it strange.
Given his relationship with Director Yu, they weren't close enough for that. Director Yu had no reason to go to such lengths for him.
But as the situation changed, Xu Yanzhi had risked her life to protect him, refusing to abandon him. He'd been moved, and had come to believe that Director Yu had indeed sent her. There simply hadn't been any other explanation.
Now that Xu Yanzhi had spoken Yuwen Tuo's name, everything made sense.
All that so-called protection along the way had been for one reason: to keep him from being eliminated.
And the reason Xu Yanzhi hadn't struck was simple. If she killed Xu Yi during the trial, the organizers would certainly launch an investigation, according to the rules.
Only once the Red Name appeared could she kill without restraint.
Xu Yi had already been marked as a Red Name, which should have made his death a foregone conclusion. But Yuwen Tuo hadn't been satisfied, and had hired Xu Yanzhi, an unrivaled killing god, to finish him off for good.
No one could have foreseen the tables turning, the situation changing until it reached this point.
The person she'd been determined to kill had risked his life to save her. Xu Yanzhi's heart trembled, and her resolve wavered.
"Why say it at all?"
After a long, dazed silence, Xu Yi let out a heavy sigh. "Whenever you want to take my life, Fellow Daoist Xu, I'll be