Chapter 81: Tearless (4000 words chapter)_2

She defied her family's orders.

It was certain that injuring the old woman who had come to take her back would provoke a response from the Assassin organization under her family's jurisdiction, a fact that had become clear to her when they left Fufeng City together, and her right hand had gripped the hilt of the short sword behind her back.

Then, she felt not the slightest hesitation in her heart.

Fierce and straight, as unswerving as ever, the reflection in the astonished and puzzled eyes of the old woman, who had been knocked unconscious, was mirrored in those brown eyes, as serene as frost.

She was never a person with many emotions.

Her mind was just like that of her ancestor who secretly assassinated the Ancestral Dragon a millennium ago.