Moon Shadow could not find a precise answer right away.
How could someone become a private detective?
A young master with a bright future like you has no need to enter a profession that condemns you to moving through the shadows, with your life at risk at every turn.
But there was not a trace of pretense in the longing on the boy's face.
He really seemed to want to become someone like her.
Moon Shadow gently lowered her lashes.
To infiltrate the Liang Family as a maid, she had altered her appearance, making her striking features look more ordinary.
But now, the moonlight spilling through the floor-to-ceiling windows cast deep shadows beneath her long lashes.
Moon Shadow spoke. She wanted to ask him.
"Why... do you want to..."
Before she could finish, Liang Chen interrupted her.
As though he knew what Moon Shadow was about to say, he picked up the thread, gesturing excitedly.
"Didn't you say your life is often in danger?
An experience that exciting is just like the utopia described in books!"
Moon Shadow was a little taken aback.
That made sense. When he had first seen her, a stranger, he had been exceptionally calm.
That was hardly how a normal person would react.
Just then, a faint scent of blood drifted in from outside the room.
An ordinary person might not have noticed it, but Moon Shadow had smelled it often since childhood and was acutely sensitive to it.
She covered Liang Chen's mouth and listened carefully to the sounds outside the door.
Suddenly, the door clicked.
Someone had unlocked it with a key.
A burly man wearing a hood and carrying a gun stepped inside.
He flicked on the light switch by the door with a sharp tap of his gun's grip, then raised