Acted Out of Character

"Woah! A life for a life..." Zhao Chuchu raised her brows. "We can't be going around and killing people, can we?"

Xie Heng did not expose how brutal Zhao Chuchu was. He replied, "Nothing will happen to you."

"What if they found me out?" Zhao Chuchu retorted on purpose.

"Then you should get away from the scene and wait until I'm back."

"Are you suggesting that you'll do the dirty job?"

"Yes."

Zhao Chuchu raised a corner of her lips and scrutinized Xie Heng.

"Hey, hey. Quit talking about taking life all the time. You're an educated person."

"An educated person? The quill pen in a learned person's hand is the deadliest murder weapon. Stop thinking so highly of polymaths."

"Well, you're not wrong. But, Da Lang, you've changed."

At first, he was a blind and frail scholar. But he somehow became crueler as of late.