Forget whether there was actually something wrong with that chef. Just his size and appearance alone were terrifying enough. In a way, a cleaver-wielding chef over two meters tall, at least 135 kilos, covered in blood and grime, was far scarier than a Class B Hunter urban legend.
“The chef...”
Staring at the tightly shut door, Jiang Qianyu frowned.
Looks like she’d have to send the puppet to check out that restaurant when she had time.
She couldn’t accept a place selling human-meat buns opening near her home.
“Do you want some hot water or warm milk or something? You’ve been nursing that cup of coffee for forty minutes. It went cold ages ago.” Lu Yunzhi stood beside Jiang Qianyu, head tilted, smiling softly.
“Mm, bring me some milk. I slept too late last night. Coffee helps me stay awake.”
“Okay~”
Before long, Lu Yunzhi brought over some hot milk. She also dragged over a small stool and sat beside Jiang Qianyu to bask in the sun with her.
Neither of them spoke. Jiang Qianyu held the cup in both hands. Only after finishing the last of the milk coffee inside did she ask softly, “About the Nightwatchers... they reject you that much. What are you planning to do next? For future missions, are you really going to have only you and me take part in all of them?”
“Yeah. Just you and me.” Lu Yunzhi propped her chin on both hands. “I’m not going to suck up to them anyway. If they don’t want to work with me, that’s their choice. We’re all adults. We know what we’re doing.”
“It’s dangerous. And the road ahead will only get harder.”
“I know. So what?” Lu Yunzhi pouted. She stretched lazily and looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle. “I’m a living, breathing person with two hands and two feet. It’s not like I can only survive by relying on them.”
“...”
Seeing Jiang Qianyu stay silent, Lu Yunzhi realized her words had come out wrong. She hurriedly waved both hands. “Ah, ah, ah, I wasn’t talking about you. I meant...”
“It’s fine. You’re right. Just like you. Without you, I really couldn’t live.”
“I...” Lu Yunzhi lowered her eyes and let out a hard sigh. “I just can’t swallow this anger!”
“I refuse to believe I can’t live without them!”
“If the Witch wants to kill me, I can understand that. She’s a monster, after all. She’s not even really alive. But I can’t be controlled by her forever. I’ll definitely find a way to get rid of her. For you, for our daughter, and for myself.”
“But them? They’re Nightwatchers too. Companions I once trusted. The fact that they want to kill me... I really can’t accept it.”
“So I’ve been thinking, it doesn’t matter if I don’t have them. I don’t need them either.”
“If I can’t handle Class A Hunter missions, then I’ll do Class B Hunter ones. I’ll build things up little by little. One day, what I’ve accumulated will be enough to get me through Class A Hunter missions.”
“Once I reach Class A Hunter, what, are they still going to kill me?”
“If they really hate me that much, then they’d better kill me now. Otherwise, once I get stronger, I’ll definitely purge every last one of them!”
“What’s the point of keeping tumors like that around!”
“They use fake rules and hypocritical morality to bind us, while they hide behind it all and do things worse than beasts!”
“Today, one Lu Yunzhi dies. What about later?”
“If they can kill their own people on a whim, strip away souls whenever they want, then what about the countless ordinary people?”
“So, Xiaoyu, do you understand now? I don’t hate the Witch. I’m just afraid she’ll hurt you.”
“But I really do hate that deputy minister of the Nightwatchers, and everyone like him.”
Lu Yunzhi stood up and patted her relatively modest chest. Her black-blue ponytail swished, and her face was full of confident laughter. “Xiaoyu, don’t laugh at me, okay? I may be a total weakling right now, but everything I just said was what I truly think.”
“As Hunters, we should at least have some conviction, right?”
Lu Yunzhi wasn’t just sunny, cheerful, and full of energy on the surface. That was how she acted too.
Put nicely, she had ideas of her own.
Put bluntly, she was a hotheaded fool.
Jiang Qianyu nodded slightly, her tone serious. “Mm. I believe you. I’ll stay by your side forever.”
In the afternoon, Jiang Qianyu had just changed clothes and come downstairs when she saw Bai Dongqing, wearing a little bear backpack, running over.
Today, she had on a beige wool coat and a white duck scarf.
Lu Yunzhi had bought her that outfit, and she’d never wanted to wear it before.
Lu Yunzhi, standing nearby, was dressed almost the same way. It looked like a matching parent-child outfit.
“Let’s just wander around a bit. Buy some clothes and food, then go relax at the plaza. We’ll come back after dinner,” Jiang Qianyu said.
As she spoke, Lu Yunzhi jogged over and took hold of her wheelchair.
Before Jiang Qianyu could say anything, she spoke first. “As your wife, leave this kind of thing to me. Don’t worry. I’ll take good care of you.”
Jiang Qianyu said nothing. She actually wanted to say that going out shopping was fine, but they should take it slow. Otherwise, with Lu Yunzhi’s personality, she might turn it into wheelchair street racing...
Somehow, Lu Yunzhi had gotten hold of a luxury car with a spacious back seat. With Lu Yunzhi supporting her, Jiang Qianyu got into the car.
Thankfully, her wheelchair could be folded up and fit perfectly into the trunk.
“We’re definitely going to have fun today!”
Lu Yunzhi started the car and adjusted the rearview mirror. Through it, she could see Jiang Qianyu and Bai Dongqing sitting in the back.
“Seatbelts on. We’re heading out!”
For Jiang Qianyu, today was destined to be unforgettable.
Since being reborn, this was the first time she had accompanied her family into the outside world in this body, with this identity.
Especially Bai Dongqing.
The feeling was hard to put into words.
After her rebirth, she had mostly felt worry and fear.
Or she’d split apart and go kill people.
She had thought about too many things. At one point, she had truly believed she would go mad.
It was too suffocating. There was too much to consider. One wrong step, and she would fall into the abyss.
But once she stepped out of that little room and touched the outside world again, watching people come and go, her mood really did improve a lot.
On the street, one girl pushing another girl in a wheelchair, with a smiling little cutie beside them, drew quite a few glances.
The three of them were simply too good-looking, and the atmosphere around them was warm and bright. They chatted and laughed as they walked.
In the crowd, a pair of bloodshot eyes was watching them too.
Unlike the other men around him, this person’s gaze was locked tightly on Bai Dongqing beside Jiang Qianyu.
“Daughter, daughter, my daughter... is that you...”
With both hands in his pockets, the man muttered under his breath. He kept repeating the word daughter as he quickly moved toward the three of them.
“Hungry... I’m so hungry... Daughter, you finally came back.”
“Let Daddy take one more bite. One bite. Just one...”
He gripped a sharp switchblade tightly in his hand. Moving against the flow of the crowd, he brushed past person after person.
No one noticed anything strange about him.
