"Hehe, I'll tell you the truth."
Maid smiled.
"Actually, I'm an assassin too. I was specifically sent to kill you and Lord Dan Heng."
"?" Yan Huan froze with his teacup raised, then quickly looked at her.
"Y-you poisoned us!"
"No, no, of course not."
Maid gently shook her head.
"Judging from past examples, an ordinary person trying to assassinate a Chrysos Heir is simply wishful thinking."
"Of course, I understand that neither of you is a Chrysos Heir."
"But my instincts tell me that you're both far stronger than Chrysos Heirs."
"So I wouldn't be stupid enough to actually carry out the assassination."
"Then what are you doing here?" Yan Huan scratched his cheek, unable to make sense of this girl's logic.
He had thought she was genuinely a maid, only to discover she was moonlighting as an agent.
The key point was that she had come to stab him.
"As I said before, I'm slacking off."
Maid said with a smile:
"As long as I stay here, no one will know whether I'm working properly."
"The cleaning job, the assassination job—it's all the same. Once the door is shut, no one would know even if I went to sleep..."
"So, Lord Yan Huan, if you ask to keep me here specifically to take care of your daily lives, I'll be taking care of both sides at once."
"No, no, there's a bug in that." Yan Huan's expression turned serious.
"If you stay here the whole time and nothing happens to Dan Heng and me, then wouldn't the assassination mission have failed?"
"How can it count as a failure if I'm not dead?" Maid blinked her pretty eyes.
"An assassination is something that needs long-term planning."
"The first step is earning your trust."
"Think about it. How hard is