Chapter 12

I nodded.

Good thing Bai Qing had prepared thoroughly, forcing me to learn sign language and lip-reading beforehand.

He suddenly shoved a gun into my hand and continued signing, “Can you write?”

The cold metal of the gun against my skin made me shiver, and I nodded tremblingly.

I couldn’t even squat steadily.

Eventually, I just plopped down onto the floor, and the people in the room burst into laughter.

Shen Jing curved his lips. “Alright.

“Clean it up.”

He stood up, looking down at my fearful expression.

“If I hear even a whisper outside.

“One word, and I’ll break one of your fingers.”

I lowered my head and nodded subserviently.

Someone next to him said, “Brother Shen, next time, let us handle this kind of thing. No need to dirty your hands.”

Shen Jing leaned back in his chair, slowly turning halfway around.

He propped his chin up, looking at the corpse on the ground as if it were trash.

“He was asking for it.”

That subordinate echoed, “Exactly, daring to use Miss Bai’s information to scam a bounty.”

Miss Bai?

Was it Bai Man, or was he talking about me?

Wasn’t Bai Man always by his side? Could Shen Jing… really have confirmed that I wasn’t dead yet?

Then what did he want from me now?

Did I still have any value he could exploit?

The others had already wrapped the body in a carpet and carried it out.

I knelt on the ground, wiping the bloodstains, sticky and reeking, trying to suppress the urge to vomit.

And Shen Jing just sat in his seat.

I could feel his scrutinizing gaze, like daggers in my back.

Just when I thought he might have seen through me, Shen Jing answered a call.

Then he left.

After he left, I went into the inner room of his office, pretending to clean.

There, were the office surveillance cameras.

If I could get the surveillance footage, I’d understand what had happened over the past year.

But the computer was locked.

Fortunately, my all-capable female lead, Bai Qing, knew everything.

Including this kind of computer hacking.

Bai Qing’s voice came through my invisible earpiece: “Xiao Man, plug in the USB drive, and I can hack into the computer and copy the recordings.”

But just as I inserted the USB drive.

I heard a “click” as the outer door opened.

Someone had come in.