The room was somewhat quiet.

The phone was still ringing.

Wang Xi got up and walked to the bedside, not picking up her phone, but directly connecting the call and turning on the speaker.

"Mother, dear."

"It seems Li Feng kept you; he didn't do anything to you, right?"

Wang Xi listened to the question from the phone.

"He slept with me."

"Oh!"

The voice on the other end of the phone was clearly a bit taken aback, obviously not expecting Li Feng to sleep with Wang Xi.

"He's not by your side, is he?"

Wang Xi exhaled: "Mother, dear, do you think he dares to rest by my side? Even if he bullies me, he's always wary of me, and I even feel he's constantly waiting for me to make a move."

"As long as I make a slight movement, he'll twist my neck directly."

"Hmm, tell me the details of your meeting."

The Dark Butterfly didn't hang up the phone, not knowing if she wanted more information or to determine if this daughter was being held hostage.

Wang Xi was personally trained by the Dark Butterfly from a young age and later stayed by her side. Wang Xi knew her mother well; she never trusted anyone, including the daughters she trained by hand.

It seemed the only person who could make her give her all was that man, Lin Changsheng.

"Sure!"

Wang Xi immediately recounted meeting Li Feng, their verbal exchanges, and how Li Feng pushed her down, just shy of explaining the intimate details.

The most believable lie in this world is nine parts true and one part false. The only thing Wang Xi didn't say was that, at this moment, Li Feng was sitting beside her, and Li Feng heard their entire conversation.

Li Feng watched Wang Xi recount the details truthfully, but his gaze fell on Wang Xi's composed body.

What exactly was this Dark Butterfly planning with her twelve tones?

Was this a pledge of allegiance?

But even then, Li Feng couldn't possibly trust Wang Xi; there's a stratagem in the Thirty-Six Stratagems called the ruse of self-injury.

What if the other side was using a plan within a plan?

People's hearts are hidden.

That's why there's the saying, one thought turns to Buddha, one thought turns to demon; perhaps, at this moment, Wang Xi betrayed the Dark Butterfly. But who knows if this is an act, and maybe at the last second, she turns against him.

Just like the things she said, everything she said was true, except for one thing; he was beside her.

"Mother, dear, is the meeting set?"

"Yes, the Sect Master will arrive in Huacheng tonight, but the meeting place and time will be sent to you tomorrow morning."

"You should rest first."

Doot doot, doot doot.

The phone was hung up.

Wang Xi flicked her wavy long hair back and turned to Li Feng: "You seem to have something you want to ask me?"

"Why?"

Li Feng directly asked why. Li Feng couldn't believe that just because he slept with her, Wang Xi would be conquered by him.

That's pure nonsense.

For someone like Wang Xi, who was trained as a swallow since childhood, if she were so easily tamed, she wouldn't be a swallow.

"I expected you to ask this. To put it simply and bluntly, I want to live like a person, not a tool."

"Actually, before this, I always thought I was different. I had an outstanding appearance, even an intelligent mind. I didn't have to seduce men with my body to complete tasks like my other sisters."

"But last night, those thoughts were shattered. A tool is ultimately just a tool; it won't become different because it's exceptional."

"When I came to you, I was already a pawn. My life wasn't in my hands, and I really didn't like that feeling."

"I prefer to control my own destiny."

Wang Xi's eyes flickered, and Li Feng looked at her, thinking about controlling her own destiny. This woman was indeed very different.

Li Feng sat up: "Originally, I didn't trust you at all, but now I suddenly feel that maybe we have a basis for cooperation."

"Just a bit?"

Wang Xi said, suddenly reaching to pull off her towel and then lunging at Li Feng: "We haven't determined the winner yet."

Li Feng was pinned down on the bed.

...

Gurgle gurgle.

Li Feng's stomach growled with hunger.

Li Feng picked up the phone beside him, ordered two meals, lit a cigarette, and looked at Wang Xi, who was recovering her strength.

"How do you plan to get rid of the Dark Butterfly?"

Li Feng looked at Wang Xi; since she wanted to control her own destiny, she definitely needed to rid herself of the Dark Butterfly.

Otherwise, everything she said was empty words.

Wang Xi turned over, nestled in Li Feng's chest, and said: "To get rid of the Dark Butterfly, there's only one way."

"To destroy the Dark Butterfly."

Li Feng looked down at Wang Xi: "You want to destroy the Dark Butterfly?"

"Surprised?"

Wang Xi said: "You don't think that because I call that woman "mother," I'm really her daughter, do you? We're all just adopted by her."

"Oh, no, many were even trafficked to her."

"Though I was very young at the time, I still remember clearly how I was sold to her by traffickers, and how she picked me."

"I've always remembered that."

Wang Xi spoke with determination, and if it were merely adoption, she might truly see the other as a mother, even if she wasn't particularly kind to them; after all, she gave them a different life.

Wang Xi remembered that she wasn't an orphan, although her memories of her family and home were vague, this fact she never forgot.

This is why, when the Dark Butterfly treated her as a pawn, she didn't go to sacrifice herself like those brainwashed sisters for the sake of "Mother, dear."

Li Feng, hearing Wang Xi say these things, also thought of the Xu Family's Dark Hall disciples, seeming to both relate to the orphan charity founded by Lin Changsheng.

Except that Lin Changsheng gave part to the Xu Family's Dark Hall, just as secretly, he cultivated this female assassin group of the Dark Butterfly as a hidden force.

"So, you want to use me as a knife?"

Li Feng squinted his eyes; there was no love without reason in this world.

Li Feng wasn't about to trust Wang Xi unconditionally, even after several rounds of intimacy, or act as a tool for her.

She was, after all, one of the Dark Butterfly's twelve tones; who knew if she was setting a trap.

Wang Xi leaned her head back to look at Li Feng: "Even if I don't use you, you would do it anyway, wouldn't you."

"No matter what kind of reconciliation you reach with Lin Changsheng tomorrow, the Dark Butterfly will list you as an assassination target."

"Lin Changsheng wouldn't allow a factor like you, which he can't control, to remain, nor would the Dark Butterfly allow her failure."

"Therefore, as long as Lin Changsheng is immortal, and the Dark Butterfly undestroyed, your troubles will never end, and you must be wary of every woman who appears around you, including those already by your side."

"This action was too hasty, so it was clumsy and had many flaws."

"But you must know, the Dark Butterfly has never been a simple Assassin Group, and my sisters, the twelve tones, are not ordinary women either."

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