"Did I say sothing funny?" Looking at Yang Ze, who was back to his usual self after a burst of laughter, Lin ilin couldn’t help but ask.
"Yes." Yang Ze replied without batting an eye.
"I do not have feelings for her."
"Then..." Lin ilin was about to speak further when Yang Ze interrupted her.
"The two of them scamd . There is no doubt about that."
"But I don’t really hold a grudge against them." This was Yang Ze’s true feelings. The previous body owner died due to his own stupidity. He was scamd because of his own incompetence.
Why would the current Yang Ze care about what happened to him? In his eyes, these two people simply used their skills and wits to achieve what they wanted.
As for the burly man selling him to the Lin family... It was also what he wanted. At that ti, going into the Lin family seed like a smart choice to get all those talents.
"What the hell are you even talking about?" The more Lin ilin listened to him, the more confused she got. She couldn’t help but take a step forward before appearing directly in front of Yang Ze.
"..." Before Yang Ze could even react, she simply used her fingers to pry open his eyelids and looked at his eyes.
"You don’t seem drunk or intoxicated."
"Did you perhaps hurt your brain? An internal energy that wasn’t healed?"
Listening to Lin ilin’s outrageous words, Yang Ze hurriedly patted her hands away before shaking his head and replying in a hurry.
"I just think that keeping them for forty years in prison is much better than killing them."
"Let them suffer for what they did to and all other poor people."
"...."
"...."
"You are a strange one, aren’t you?" Clicking her tongue in wonder, Lin ilin waved her hand, and with that, the figure of both the burly man and the woman disappeared.
"Judging by the expression that you showed earlier, you don’t seem to like the idea of killing people."
"Is it true?"
"Is the idea of killing people so frightening to you?"
Yang Ze didn’t give an imdiate reply but stood in silence for a long ti. Though there were no emotions on his face, Lin ilin could feel the turmoil in his heart. And just when she was wondering what la excuse he was going to give next, Yang Ze spoke a single word.
"No."
"...."
"...."
"I am not frightened by the idea of killing. I just don’t think everyone deserves death."
"Why not?" Lin ilin raised an eyebrow.
"Why do they?" Instead of answering, Yang Ze asked back.
"You seem awfully fixated on this topic."
"Why would you want to kill those two?"
"Heh." Lin ilin simply let out a scoff as if she couldn’t believe her ears. "Are you seriously asking that?"
Listening to her question, Yang Ze replied with a nod.
"How about the fact that they scamd you and sold you as a slave?"
"How does that sound for a death penalty?"
"Not enough." Yang Ze simply shook his head in response.
"What they did was bad, but not bad enough to warrant death."
Pausing for a mont, he asked again.
"Why do you want to kill them?"
"I don’t think you caught and brought them here for , did you?"
With a pause, Yang Ze’s eyes suddenly flashed with understanding as he spoke in a low voice.
"You actually wanted to kill them."
"You wanted to see whether I would kill them or not, didn’t you?"
The more Yang Ze spoke, the higher his voice got.
"Why would you do that?"
"...." Listening to Yang Ze’s accusations, Lin ilin didn’t answer but quietly gazed at him from top to bottom once again, though this ti there was a hint of appreciation in her eyes.
She didn’t expect him to guess it correctly in a single go.
And just when Yang Ze was frantically guessing the reason behind Lin ilin’s action, she gave an answer.
"I wanted to see your resolve."
"My resolve?" Yang Ze couldn’t help but ask in confusion.
"I wanted to see whether you are capable of killing people or not. I wanted to see whether you are decisive enough or not."
Lin ilin spoke in a flat tone, while her eyes were still stuck on Yang Ze as her head tilted slightly.
"Why would you do that?" Yang Ze asked.
"To know what kind of person you are. To see whether you will be able to kill Han She or not."
"And judging by what I have seen..." Lin ilin shook her head with a gentle sigh.
"You should give up on your revenge."
Her words instantly made Yang Ze narrow his eyes.
"If you are this hesitant to kill two people who took advantage of you, then how are you going to kill the person who possesses the body of the person you loved?"
"Who is to say that you won’t forgive her?"
"Who is to say that you won’t talk about the so-called morality there and back down?"
"So... instead of wasting everyone’s ti, it is much better to just give up."
Yang Ze quietly listened to Lin ilin’s words. He didn’t interrupt her or put forward any other excuse. He simply stood there in silence.
It wasn’t until a few minutes passed in silence that he spoke out.
"I will kill her." It was a single sentence, but it was enough to show his resolve.
"You don’t have to worry about whether I can do it or not."
"The only thing you need to do is teach , and if you can’t do that, then perhaps the two of us should part ways."
"While I am grateful to you for rescuing ti and ti again, I will be better off myself."
"I am not afraid of killing soone..." Yang Ze looked Lin ilin deep in the eyes before speaking further.
"But that doesn’t an I will go around killing every single person." The more Yang Ze spoke, the calr his voice got.
"Today, you are pointing at those two fraudsters... tomorrow you might point at so innocent bystanders?"
"Where do you actually draw the line?" Yang Ze didn’t just stop there but kept on speaking.
"If tomorrow I go to a bustling city and a child tries to pickpocket , does that an I have to kill the child too?"
With a long pause, Yang Ze spoke further.
"The only person I am going to kill is Han She."
"As for whether you want to help or not... I will leave that decision to you."
Speaking till here, Yang Ze went silent for a long ti.
He had decided that he wasn’t going to be manipulated by the won around him anymore.
While he was thankful to her for saving him, it didn’t an he was going to do as she said. Especially not after what he had gone through.
It was only because he trusted others too much and listened to everything that they said that he ended up in this situation.
Had he stood up for himself, made his own decision and decided by himself what was right or wrong, Cang Yue would still be alive. It was because he was a pushover that he lost everything.
He got tricked by the won he trusted... people he considered friends, and ended up losing the only person he ever loved.
He wasn’t going to make the sa mistake again.
If Lin ilin could teach him, then it would be great, but if she couldn’t and wanted him to act according to her wishes, then it would be better for the two of them to part ways. He would find a way in the future to help her out as a repaynt for saving his life.
Looking at his firm expression, Lin ilin was at a loss for words. She didn’t expect things to turn out like this.
She was rely testing Yang Ze’s limits and whether he was capable of taking a life or not. But who would have thought things would escalate into this?
Lin ilin could already feel a headache. She could already foresee how difficult things were going to be with him in the future.
For a mont, she was even frustrated with Yang Ze. Why couldn’t he simply listen to her? Why couldn’t he just do what she asks him to do? Was it necessary to make things this complicated?
"Forget it." The more Lin ilin thought, the more frustrated she got. In the end, she just shook her head before speaking to Yang Ze.
"Fine... I will not ask you to do anything that you don’t want." This was the only way to keep him close. She didn’t want him to run around constantly.
"Don’t be mistaken." Her voice had a hint of solemnity in it as she spoke. "I only asked you to kill them because I wanted to see the type of person I was going to train."
"And now I do."
With a slight smile on her face, she gently raised her hand to poke Yang Ze on the nose.
"And I know exactly what type of lessons you need."
"I will need so ti to prepare our first lesson. In the anti, you can go and explore the Yuyang City... since those events at the Sword Sect, the world has gone through so changes."
"It would be great for you to be aware of the changes in your surroundings." Gently rubbing his nose, Lin ilin’s figure disappeared into thin air, leaving behind Yang Ze, who just stood there in silence.
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"Martirach..." Inside the Lin Family, a middle-aged woman hurriedly knelt towards Lin ilin after seeing her enter the hall.
"Umm..." Lin ilin rely nodded in response before looking at the two kneeling figures in the corner of the room.
"Did you find what I asked you for?"
"Replying to matriarch, no, we did not." The middle-aged woman replied hurriedly.
"We searched all over their petty base as well as their house, but we couldn’t find it."
*Hmph
With a cold snort, Lin ilin waved her hand in response.
"Get out."
The middle-aged woman didn’t dare to squeak a word. She simply nodded in response before walking out of the room.
It wasn’t until she was almost half a mile away that she finally wiped the cold sweat off her forehead and looked behind her in confusion.
"She looked even more irritated than before... was finding that thing really so important?"
Muttering to herself, the middle-aged woman hurriedly made her way towards the main hall of the Lin family. There were still many things that she personally needed to take care of.
On the other hand, Lin ilin looked at the figure of the burly man as well as the petite woman who were still trembling in front of her before letting out another cold snort.
"What a joke..."
Her words only make the two people even more frightened. They didn’t even dare to utter a single word. In front of Yang Ze, they were sowhat confident, but in front of the matriarch of the Lin family, whose strength had surpassed their understanding, they didn’t have a single distracting thought.
"Fake identity, fake personality, fake body, fake mory... what about you is true?"
The two of them didn’t understand what Lin ilin was talking about, and they didn’t dare to ask. They just stayed in a kneeling position.
"Is this your retaliation against ?" Ignoring their confused expression, Lin ilin kept on talking to the two people in front of her.
"You really overestimate yourself and underestimate ."
"If you think you can manipulate ..."
Lin ilin didn’t complete her sentence; instead, she rely waved her hand, and with that, the people in front of him disintegrated into dust without ever letting out a scream.
Lin ilin looked at it all expressionlessly before completing her sentence.
"then you are severely mistaken..."
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