She is the most beautiful rose

Chapter 194 Isn’t he the only one you wanted to leave?

At four o'clock in the morning, Si Dai heard the sound of the car's engine downstairs and drove into the underground garage.

He closed the notebook in his hand, got up and went downstairs wearing a home cotton coat.

On the terrace at dusk, Shen Manzhi sat on the edge of the stage outside, with one leg bent in front of him and the other leg hanging underneath, silver light flashing in his hand.

When he got closer and took a closer look, he saw that she was lowering her head and wiping the sharp knife in her hand.

Si Dai leaned against the threshold with his arms folded and looked at her without saying a word.

It stands to reason that when she comes back at this time, she should take a bath and go to bed directly, instead of sitting here and killing time.

Taking on the task of asking Party B for an account is a common occurrence for Shen Manzhi, so he won't let such a thing disturb his mood.

He said quietly, "There was an accident?"

Shen Manzhi polished the sharp knife and did not raise his head, "Sir, there is no need to ask knowingly."

Si Ji walked forward and asked, "Where is the injury?"

"My destiny is great, no problem."

It's not like he was lucky. The door of the small warehouse was unlocked. Qin Yanfeng had a gun in his hand and could take away anyone who broke in and put him in danger at any time.

Shen Manzhi thought so, and also figured out why he didn't lock the door.

He suffered a gunshot wound and was bleeding profusely. He was afraid that he would lose consciousness before anyone came to rescue him, and he would not be able to open the door and tell everyone that he was here.

Shen Manzhi stood up, put the sharp knife back into his pocket, looked at him with cold eyebrows, "Sir, do you know what big event happened at the Marina Pier tonight?"

Hearing this, Si Ji was surprised for a moment, "There are indeed a lot of maritime transactions over there. You just went to ask for the accounts and you won't get involved... Did they misunderstand your identity?"

Shen Manzhi looked at Si Ji's expression carefully, and finally looked away.

It was originally thought that Si Dai deliberately sent her to find Party B early in the morning, and thus meeting Qin Yanfeng was his arrangement. But now it seems that he didn't know.

"That's not true," she yawned slightly and walked back, "I'm sleepy, let's go to bed first."

Si Ji stood with his hands behind his hands, looking at Shen Manzhi's back, some thoughts appearing in his eyes.

The next day, he received news that there was a shootout at the Binhai Pier transaction last night. It wasn't until his subordinate mentioned the name of the other party that he knew why Shen Manzhi said that last night.

After hanging up the phone, he turned around and saw Shen Manzhi coming down from upstairs dressed neatly.

"where to?"

Shen Manzhi lifted his hair behind him and looked at him with slightly squinted eyes, seemingly surprised that he asked this question.

Si Ji later realized that she was not from Lingjiang, and there was no need to report her whereabouts to him all the time. She would only occasionally take on Lingjiang's tasks, and the pay would be extremely high.

But this time Shen Manzhi left China and lost contact with her for nearly two months. He only replied to the email he sent her not long ago and took over the mission in Las Vegas a few days ago.

Shen Manzhi smiled casually and said, "If you're tired of staying here, change places."

The excuses I made were not half-hearted.

Si Dai calmly returned to his usual indifference, "Don's people are still looking for you, so be careful when you go out."

As if remembering something, he continued, "Mr. Tang was seriously ill not long ago. He is old and cannot help himself. He doesn't say it on the face, but he is always worried about him in his heart."

Shen Manzhi was stunned for half a second.

During her time at Jiuqing Temple in the capital, she used rosewood to carve a six-inch-sized little old man exactly like her master, as well as a girl sleeping under the wintersweet tree at her feet.

It was her farewell gift to her master.

After all, the master and Si Ji didn't know her status as a "hostage", nor did they know that after she left the country, she had already made plans not to come back.

Si Ji said no more, but when he was about to go upstairs, he turned back so that he could look at her calmly.

"Do you think I deliberately arranged for you to go to the Marina Pier in the early morning?" Shen Manzhi retracted his thoughts and looked back calmly.

Si Ji rarely softened his tone, "I was told just now that there was a gunfight at the Marina Pier in the early morning. From your tone last night, did you see him?"

Who does this "he" refer to? The two of them knew each other tacitly. After all, they had met together not long ago.

Shen Manzhi did not deny it. Si Ji's words also directly made it clear to him that her meeting Qin Yanfeng was not deliberately arranged by him, it was purely an accident.

"Logically speaking, he was so seriously injured that he would never be able to escape as long as he was still at the dock. When you saw him, you didn't save him?"

Si Dai's tone was calm and casual, but there was a hint of probing in his words.

"Sir, what do you mean? You might as well tell me directly."

Si Ji leaned back slightly and leaned against the wall, looking downcast, "On the day before Lantern Festival, he openly disclosed your relationship without hesitation. Even the Huo family personally went to clear your marriage certificate, but someone saw that Lantern Festival Late at night, you guys parted ways at the airport...did you dump him? "

Shen Manzhi looked at him rather intriguingly, and the "someone" in Si Dai's mouth seemed to be a bit cover-up.

"Sir, are you interested in my affairs?"

She unabashedly exposed Si Dai's thoughts, but the latter's expression did not change, "Regardless of the relationship between you, he is so injured, with your ability, you can save him, but you can't."

Shen Manzhi's eyes were slightly cold, and he retorted almost instantly, "How did you know I didn't?"

Si Ji seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, "Because not long after you left, the two parties met and another gun battle broke out. The one who had already been shot had killed a thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses. He was lying in the ICU alive. Very good……"

Sure enough, before he finished speaking, he saw an unbelievable look of shock in Shen Manzhi's eyes.

It was rare to see this kind of emotion from her, and Si Ji found it interesting, "If you saved him, why would he have to suffer again?"

Shen Manzhi stared at him with a frown on his face, biting her teeth. After leaving the small warehouse, she watched a group of people take him out before leaving.

But she really had no way of knowing what happened next.

Si Dai admired the changes in emotions on her face. After a long moment, he gently said, "I lied to you."

"..."

Seeing Shen Manzhi's cold expression, Si Dai stopped his smile and said slowly, "You are avoiding him."

Shen Manzhi raised his eyes, but calmed down and looked at his boss with an inquiring look, "Why should I hide from him..."

"You were planning to leave when you returned to the capital after the New Year," Si Dai explained slowly. "On the night of the banquet, you didn't want to see him. When we met again at the dock, you were unwilling to save him. You wanted to break up with him. To open contact means to leave without mercy.”

There were some things he didn't tell her. Si Ji had said that she was that man's weakness. As a man, he knew it.

Qin Yanfeng recognized her and stopped halfway after chasing her. He knew that Shen Manzhi was so ruthless in wanting to leave him, so he chased her closely to avoid her disgust.

There was a fierce gun battle at the Binhai Pier, and the two met again. Qin Yanfeng could not let her go easily, but he did not keep her, and Shen Manzhi could not ignore her. The only possibility was to drive her away with duplicity. Naturally, he was also afraid of implicating her.

As he spoke, Si Dai smiled. The person with a temperament as cold as green pine and white snow, who destroyed the corpse without any trace of hesitation, actually felt a bit powerless in a trance.

"You didn't reply to my email for two months in a row, and you cut off all contact. If it weren't for revenge against Don, you wouldn't have accepted that mission. Shen Manzhi, he was not the only person you originally wanted to leave."

Shen Manzhi's cold expression finally relaxed a little.

When Si Ji reviewed the story, he would not let go of anything. The central purpose fell to the last sentence, which was just to clearly state what he had guessed: she was going to escape without telling everyone.

Just like after she clearly had a place in the capital, she didn't want to go to Linjiang to have someone to rely on. Instead, she wanted to go back to Huaicheng alone, deliberately reducing her contacts with people in the capital.

So it wasn't that he didn't want to contact Shen Manzhi, it was that she was deliberately avoiding it.

Taking such a long detour to question her behavior gave Shen Manzhi a headache.

Being guessed, she did not refute at all, with a touch of coldness and arrogance between her eyebrows, "Sir, I am not someone's caged bird. I wasn't before and I am not now."

Therefore, no one can control her.

"If you want to take care of me," she smiled brightly and charmingly, "at least you have to have a status. It's a pity that there is no place for you at the moment."