Hidden Assassin 122

“Gu Jia Ming, if this woman you called here rapes me tonight, I’ll blame you for the rest of my life…”

Such thoughts flashed through Ya Han’s mind, and a cold glint appeared in her eyes. She delivered a three-part kick in rapid succession. The beautiful woman by the door seemed to have not expected Ya Han to know martial arts. The dagger she was spinning in her hand flew away first. By the time she reacted, her left hand didn’t try to block Ya Han’s kicks but directly grabbed for Ya Han’s chest. Ya Han’s second kick landed on the woman’s hip, but the force was significantly reduced. She immediately guarded her chest and retreated.

“You…” she began, unable to articulate her anger. The beautiful woman in front of her just smiled, revealing her teeth, and slapped the light switch on the wall behind her. In an instant, half the room was plunged into darkness. Seizing the opportunity of the light change, the woman suddenly charged forward.

“Ah!”

“Beauty, don’t resist anymore…”

“Die!”

“Any beauty targeted by me, the Flower-Picking Great Thief Yujinxia, cannot escape…”

After exchanging blows several times in the darkness, Ya Han felt like vomiting. This woman was incredibly agile, twisting her arms behind her back twice in a short span of time. Gradually, she retreated to the other side of the room, where the bathroom light provided some illumination. Suddenly, colorful lights flickered in the air, Ya Han felt a sharp pain in her hand, and her leg was tripped by the opponent, causing her to lose her balance and fall onto the bed.

“Ugh, let go of me…”

“The more you struggle, the more excited I get, haha…”

Her arms were twisted behind her back, tightly bound by a colorful beaded chain, and the opponent was pressing her knees into her back. Ya Han kicked her legs, struggling desperately. Thinking about the beautiful woman who was about to assault her, she felt a sense of humiliation and couldn’t help but laugh in despair.

“Alright, alright, stop struggling. Big sister will be gentle. Be a good girl, okay…” The woman leaned towards Ya Han’s ear, her voice soft, carrying a faint fragrance like orchids. As she felt the woman’s fingers tracing across her shoulder, Ya Han felt goosebumps erupt all over her body, and a sense of revulsion washed over her. She continued her futile struggle: “Let me go—you, you…huh?”

Recalling the woman’s previous words, Ya Han suddenly froze. She turned to look at the pretty face beside her, and her resistance stopped. After a moment of eye contact, a faint blush appeared on Ya Han’s face, a mixture of shame and annoyance: “Flower-Picking Great Thief Yujinxia…Jia Ming, you…how is this possible…”

“Hehe.” It was no longer the sweet and melodious female voice that laughed this time. The “Flower-Picking Thief” sat down on the sofa nearby, untied the colorful beaded necklace that bound Ya Han’s hands, put it on, and assumed a graceful and composed posture. She smiled sweetly: “Idiot, finally recognized me?” The voice that spoke was clearly Jia Ming’s.

“No, no…impossible…” Ya Han was so frightened that she jumped off the bed, knelt on the quilt, and stared with wide eyes. “How is this possible, Jia Ming, you…impossible, impossible, impossible. It must be a hallucination, it can’t scare me…”

“Please, I can change my appearance and voice, okay? As long as the height is right, I can even pretend to be your dad…Hey, what are you doing, idiot? What’s there to look at, of course, the chest is a plastic water bag. Hey, you’re taking off the skirt too, you’re taking advantage of me, stop pulling, stop pulling…”

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Around midnight, Huang Hao Yun wandered through the crowd at the casino, feeling somewhat disheartened. He occasionally placed bets and then walked away, letting his chips dwindle. Perhaps because things you can’t get are always the best, as he thought back on his past feelings, he realized that he had truly loved Zhang Ya Han, even though she had never given him a chance.

The incident at the summer camp with the robbers was just an excuse. Although he hadn’t performed well, he understood that it was merely a pretext for her rejection. Her heart had never been ready to open to him.

Over the years, he had continued to bask in the halo of his family, flitting around beautiful women. His feelings for Ya Han had gradually faded, but seeing the beautiful woman he had pursued end up with someone else still aroused jealousy in his heart, especially…because she had chosen Gu Jia Ming, the useless person everyone in his family looked down upon. Even though he was drunk, he had actually used the term “child bride,” and there was such a significant age difference between them. It was hard to imagine…

He had considered telling his elders about this immediately. The so-called arranged marriage was essentially off the table. However, he was an adult, twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and he realized that such a snitching behavior was incredibly undignified. It would probably make Ya Han look down on him even more. After much deliberation, he decided to go out alone, have some drinks, and then head to the underground casino to lose all his money.

The casino, although located in the hotel basement, was said to be operated by gangsters, with close connections to the police and the upper echelons of New Ning City. The Diamond International Hotel was one of New Ning City’s landmark hotels, so crackdowns and such did not reach this place. After walking around for about two rounds, he had already lost most of his chips. Hearing the shouts from a poker table not far away, he laughed sarcastically.

He knew the man at that table who was winning so much that his eyes were red. He was a relative of his family, named Xu Chang Hong. Although his name was decent, he was a sleazy person. After his wife remarried, he lived with his daughter, Xu Yi Ting, but set a terrible example. He loved gambling and was rumored to be a drug addict. His family members treated him and his daughter like pariahs. Like father, like daughter. The cousin named Xu Yi Ting, although she seemed to be a good girl, was rumored to have been corrupted by her father and had become a drug addict. Now Xu Chang Hong was on a winning streak, excitedly gambling and laughing with red eyes, likely having just injected himself.

Even if I am a loser, I won’t become someone like that!

He walked to a nearby gambling table and placed his last two hundred yuan in chips on “small.” Before he could take his hand away, another person reached out and picked up his chips: “You can’t do that.”

A sweet voice came from beside him. He turned his head and saw a black-haired girl in her twenties beside him. Her hair flowed gracefully, her face was gentle, and she held his chip between two fingers, tapping it temptingly against her red lips. Then she winked cutely: “Hmm, you’re down to your last chip. If you lose, you won’t have money for the ride back. To prevent another promising young man from falling into the abyss of loan sharks…trust me, bet on twelve.”

She arbitrarily placed his chip on the number “twelve” and smiled sweetly, patting Huang Hao Yun’s shoulder: “Listen to your sister. When you win, go home. Bye.”

Huang Hao Yun was speechless, staring at the girl’s smiling face. When she was about to turn and leave, he suddenly grabbed her sleeve. In an instant, she smashed him with her handbag. The girl frowned coldly, “What are you doing?”

“Uh, sorry, I didn’t…hehe, I just wanted to thank you. My name is Huang Hao Yun, what about you?”

“Heh.” The girl looked at him, then shook her head and smiled, “You don’t need to know. I just extended a helping hand to someone who might face a tragic fate out of pity. We won’t have any more interaction in the future. Bye.”

She turned around, put her hands behind her back, and walked away without looking back, her silver high heels clicking. It was like she had appeared and then vanished, a sprite. Only at the end of his gaze, another girl darted out from the crowd, excitedly grabbing her hand, seemingly dragging her to the nearby gambling table. It turned out that the girl who was now excited like a child was none other than Ya Han, who had changed into casual clothing.

What’s going on…Did this woman come here on purpose because of Zhang Ya Han…?

His mind was slightly muddled. A voice from behind him announced, “Three, four, five, twelve, big…” Then, a pile of chips was pushed towards Huang Hao Yun.

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Holding his chips, Huang Hao Yun walked through the crowd. After circling around twice, he finally saw the two women again.

The girl beside the stranger, holding chips, was indeed Ya Han, who had always kept herself away from such places and maintained a clean image. Now, she was like a little girl seeing something new and fascinating, intently watching the changes on the gambling table. When she won, she would jump up excitedly and shout. Occasionally, she would even shake the strange girl’s body in excitement. Compared to the stranger, Ya Han seemed slightly older, but the strange girl acted like her guardian or older sister, laughing helplessly from time to time.

With her stylish and elegant attire, casual movements, and bright and confident smile, the strange girl seemed even more accustomed to being the center of attention than Ya Han. Or perhaps she was born with a natural ability to attract attention. Every move she made seemed to be surrounded by a halo of angels. Seemingly sensing Huang Hao Yun’s presence, the girl glanced back at him with disdain. After a while, she chatted with Ya Han for a few words. Ya Han also looked over and explained something with a smile. The girl’s expression then became enlightened, indicating that she had learned his identity.

Huang Hao Yun followed them for about twenty minutes and witnessed the power of gambling skills. In those twenty minutes, the girl’s bets had not been wrong once. However, it seemed that she didn’t enjoy gambling. Every time Ya Han got excited and dragged her around, she would bet and win. In twenty minutes, the two girls had casually wandered around, and Ya Han’s chips had accumulated to over two hundred thousand.

A man who looked like the casino manager stopped them.

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