Chapter Twenty-Two: He's Just a Man

  In the empty alley, a few muffled sounds rang out, which was the sound of bullets entering flesh. Without looking at the corpse on the ground, she expressionlessly put the silencer back into her pocket.

  "Little sister, thank you." The woman realized there was no danger and opened her eyes to see the slender figure with his back to her, thanking him gratefully.

  With great effort, she pushed away the man who had collapsed on her and hastily adjusted her clothes, not noticing the sticky **... on her hand.

  "Ahh!!!!!" The woman's shrill scream echoed through the alley, her white clothes stained with crimson spots as she discovered her hands... were covered in blood!

  She seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly turned her head to look at the men lying on the ground. Under the dim light of a distant street lamp, several men had a crimson blood hole in their foreheads, with thick red liquid oozing out.

  That's... gunfire!!

  "Did you, did you kill someone?" She shuddered, feeling a chill run through her entire body. People who grew up in the superficial peace created by the government could never imagine that one day there would be several warm corpses lying next to them.

  And she just seemed to have bumped into...

  Xiao Fengxue turned around, glanced at the woman, and saw that her eighteen-year-old face, which was originally beautiful with a light makeup, had been messed up by tears. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were tattered, and there were still bruises on her body from struggling just now.

  Looks disheveled.

  My gaze fell on the floor, and those feet were wearing light blue sandals...

  Her pupils constricted and her face turned pale in an instant.

  Those blue sandals...

  Memories of three years ago flashed through my mind one by one...

  Xue Er, this is the birthday gift I gave you when you were 15 years old!

  Happy birthday to my Xue Er who has grown one year older again.

  Try it on and see how it looks.

  Yeah, I bought this pair of shoes just because it reminded me of you, as clean and transparent as water, with the color of the ocean.

  I think no one is more suitable for it than you.

  In her memory, the young man's deep and passionate eyes, his warm voice, existed in her mind like a magic spell.

  The pain is almost suffocating in my chest.

  She lost her breath in an instant, she didn't know how to react, what they had agreed to forget, what they had agreed to start anew...

  The next second, she calmed down the emotions that made her extremely disgusted with herself, raised her bright red lips, and said in a cold and clear voice without any emotional fluctuations: "Zheng Biya, you really are getting more and more out of control."

  Just a few dead bodies and you're already scared like this.

  The girl heard the other party accurately shouting her name, suddenly raised her head, and saw a scene that shocked her to the point of being unforgettable for life.

  The night wind gently lifted, the clouds and mist swirled, gradually revealing a bright and clear moon. The moonlight shone into the dark corners, faintly visible was the girl's delicate face like a painting, her eyes seemed like a cold and deep abyss, exuding a calm and serene tranquility like water.

  Silver light poured down on her, even in the endless darkness, it was hard to conceal the splendor of all things, piercing eyes that saw through everything, with cold gleams in the jet-black pupils.

  A somewhat familiar outline, with a thrilling and wild beauty that is both surprising and strange.

  "Are you... Lin Luo Xue?!" Zheng Bi Ya's pupils constricted, she simply couldn't believe that one day they would meet in this way and under these circumstances.

  She is elegant and refined, with a cold and arrogant demeanor, but she herself is in a state of dishevelment.

  Then she saw a familiar yet strange girl in front of her, with a hint of mockery at the corner of her mouth that she had never seen before.

  "It's great that you still remember my name." Unfortunately... it was a fake name.

  "How did you...". She had a lot of questions to ask and a lot of things to say, but found that her words were all stuck in her throat.

  "Sorry, I still have something to do. If you don't have anything else to say, I'll take my leave first." As she spoke, she turned around and walked away with elegant steps, the dark and narrow alley having no effect on her, as if she were strolling in her own garden.

  "Xue Er... no, Yin Luoxue, wait!" Zheng Biya hastily shouted at the departing figure.

  Xiao Fengxue's footsteps paused for a moment, and she turned her head to look at that face which was more familiar than anything else, with an expressionless face:

  "Is there anything else."

  "Thanks just now, and also..."

  She felt she should say something, but under that all-knowing gaze, it seemed like saying anything would be futile.

  Zheng Biya took a deep breath, and the shocking sight of Xiao Fengxue made her temporarily forget about the several corpses beside her. "I want to say... three years ago, that thing... I'm sorry, I know it's useless to say more now, but at the time, I didn't think too much, I really treated you as a friend, and I don't know why things developed like that later... I... today... is my engagement party with him."

  She muttered on and on, not knowing where to start.

  "And then? What do you want to express? Apology? Or...boast?"

  Xiao Fengxue's hands were clasped across her chest, her eyes seeming to smile yet not quite smiling as she gazed at her. Her slender figure stood tall and proud, looking down on her with an air of superiority, as if watching a clown jumping through hoops, the feelings in her heart known only to herself.

  "No, no, listen to me, at first he was with me just because of my uncle's orders, he didn't like me at all, everything was just my own self-deception. Today's engagement party... I understand now, he likes you! Always has!"

  The last sentence was almost shouted out, after shouting, she leaned against the wall, and the young woman's face seemed to have a few more vicissitudes and repentance.

  "So, since you've been gone for so long, can I ask you not to appear in front of him?"

  Xiao Feng's eyes flashed with a cold intent, but he smiled lightly and said, "Heh, it's just a man."

  "Also, let me remind you of something, what happened tonight is best left unsaid, otherwise... I don't think I need to spell out the consequences for you."

  She finished speaking, and her slender figure had already disappeared around the corner.

  Everything was quiet once again.

  Zheng Biya sat on the ground in a daze, after a long while, she savored her last sentence again and thought about where she was... Suddenly her face turned pale white, "Ah......"

  The corpse, how could she have forgotten that there were several corpses lying beside her! How could she have forgotten... those people just now... were killed by Yin Luoxue's own hands!!

  She picked up her bag and stumbled out of the alley, not stopping until she was safely in a taxi. She still had a lingering fear, as if what just happened was just a dream, a thrilling and bizarre dream.

  If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have thought that the naive and weak girl who had been taken advantage of in every way back then would actually... kill someone in front of her!

  Zheng Biya's eyes, wide with shock, took a long time to close and felt a bit sour. She leaned back in her chair, numbly staring at the scenery outside the window flying by quickly.

  Sheng once said that Yin Luoxue was as clear and blue as seawater, as white and soft as a cloud.

  Maybe he was wrong, she is as deep and mysterious as the sea, surging and majestic, like white clouds, ethereal and unattainable, only suitable for admiration.

  They were all wrong, actually, the most complicated person... is her!