From Dusk till Dawn!

"If you really were scared, then what is that in your hand?" Tang Li pointed towards the gun that Si Xiu was holding.

The woman's mouth formed an 'O' shape as she looked at the gun in her hand, "I…He gave that to me," She pointed towards the dead man towards her feet. Dead men tell no tales anyway. Realization her wrong wordings, she corrected herself, "I mean I got that from him. Coincidentally." Bullshit!

Tang Li walked towards Li Yu before passing her scarf to him when she noticed his bleeding arms. They were stuck inside the maze for nearly two hours and looking at the number of mercenaries, who were clearly above a hundred, she could tell that Li Yu fought quite a battle, all alone by himself.

"This...I can't expect," He clearly hated the woman, so it would not be good for him to waver in his opinion just because she was a little considerate.

Tang Li narrowed her eyes, "Don't worry. I'm not trying to gain your favor. Whether you like it or not, your boss is my man," She deadpanned.

Li Yu: "_" Hateful woman!

Si Xiu felt her nerves calming down. Seems that they brought her excuse of the gun not being hers. But before she could let out a sigh of relief, Tang Li's gaze turned towards her, "They were mercenaries," she muttered.

Si Xiu's brows bumped together as she glanced at the countless dead bodies on the enormous floor. Of course, they were mercenaries. But even if she knew it, she did not show it on her face, "Mercenaries? As in the one we read about in fiction or cool dramas?" She asked in a childlike voice.

Tang Li chuckled. A mirthless chuckle. 

Li Yu, who has seen the woman in action quite a few times could easily tell that her psychotic self was kicking up. He could just hope that she would not go berserk! He spared Si Xiu a pitiful glance before looking back at Tang Li.

From the corner of her eyes, Si Xiu spotted Li Yu looking at her, she stroked her highlighting purple hair with her left hand before tucking the unruly locks behind her ear. Was she representable? She wondered.

"You don't know about mercenaries?" Tang Li asked.

Unaware of the danger in her voice, Si Xiu shook her head, "I don't.." She even flashed a pitiful look, like that of an animal who got bullied.

"The gun in your hand is not theirs. They have a logo on their guns," Tang Li up, raising the gun in her hand to show them a small silver batch kind of logo as she continued, "The one in your hand is XDM 502, the rarest one ever seen."

Li Yu's eyes dilated in astonishment as his gaze traveled to the gun that Si Xiu was holding in her hand. It was exactly what Tang Li mentioned. From his angle earlier, he failed to notice it but now that he saw it, he was a bit taken aback. First, because Tang Li seems to know how to wield a gun pretty well, she seems well-informed about guns too. Secondly, the seemind=gly innocent woman from earlier did not seem to be so innocent anymore.

Under their scrutinizing gazes, Si Xiu suddenly felt ashamed. Impulsive! She has been too impulsive this time around but she did not know Tang Li was well updated about guns. She also forgot to take Li Yu into consideration, the man could easily see through her pretense.

'No wonder he always said that I should be trained more properly,' She thought bitterly.

"Yes?" Tang Li's voice snapped her out of her trance, the atmosphere turning heaving all of a sudden.

"I…Actually, I.."

'Bang!'

"Fuck!" Si Xiu cursed before shooting the man who was pretending to be dead up until this point. Without giving him a chance to try anything funny, she shot both his knees before walking towards the man and knocking him out. The man couldn't retaliate since he was already badly injured.

But she did not kill him knowing that he might help spill something and leak some clues.

She turns around to see if Li Yu was fine but her eyes widened when she saw the scene. "President…" She quickly ran towards Tang Li who was sitting on the floor leaning back on the wall as Li Yu tried to stop the bleeding in her arms, where the bullet has grazed through.

"Why did you even do it?" Li Yu gritted his teeth as he looked at the woman with a complicated look in his eyes. From the very first day, he came to know about her, he has hated her very existence, directly or indirectly, he always berated her. In his, she was not the woman who deserved to be with his boss, she was not a good partner but a disaster who would lead to his downfall one day.

He has even risked her safety a few times to see what she was capable of and to find how she would manage to save herself.

After all those nasty things he did, he was damn sure that the dislike and hatred between them were mutual.

Then why did she push him away and risked her life? If her movement was a little sluggish then she would've been dead by now.

Tang Li smiled, a hint of haughtiness in it, such a smile would strike a man's ego in an instant since it looked like she was looking down on everyone.

Li Yu clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles turned white, "Why did you even do it?" He was infuriated by being protected by a woman like that, the woman he loathed the most, the woman who has landed his boss in trouble since the day she came into his life.

He noticed the mockery in her eyes, she was challenging him about something and one thing he was sure of was that he was in for a big trouble right at that moment she saved his life.

"Oh~ Is this the awakening of your man ego? I must admit man, your ego seems to be much larger than you pen*s."

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