Ji Lanyuan was unwilling.
Although she had made a slight sacrifice of her past friendship for Paintbrush and love, she was unwilling to go too far.
No, more accurately, she was unwilling to be the one standing at the very front.
So she stubbornly insisted that unless Speckled White Sails demanded it of her, she absolutely would not take the initiative to attack her former companions.
She was only helping Paintbrush. She had no interest in becoming a traitor in other people's eyes.
Knight truly liked her. After all, a beautiful girl who was kind, intelligent, and devoted to the friends she acknowledged was easy for men to like, even if her personality was a little strange.
Especially for men with less-than-stellar morals... In his eyes, Ji Lanyuan was practically a saint.
So he kept gently persuading her, even as Ji Lanyuan continued shaking her head with a stiff expression.
However, Tanya had no interest in playing this tug-of-war game with them.
Xue Yunfeng and Cunlü had to be killed—one of them, at least—before she could answer to her bosses.
As for whether Ji Lanyuan would fall into some kind of predicament after discovering that Knight's identity was different from what she had imagined... what did that have to do with her?
She had already boarded their ship. Could she really jump off now?
This was an interstellar express vessel. If she tried to jump ship, she would lose a layer of skin even if she survived.
Tanya pushed Knight aside and, with a smile on her face, spoke words brimming with menace.
Ji Lanyuan quickly understood what she meant.
She stared at Knight in shock, flames swiftly igniting in her eyes... Anyone who could get along so well with Cunlü, Old School Striking King, and the other women had