That really was a scene that could scare a person's soul right out of their body.
Lin Yebai watched it with lingering fear; for a very, very long time, the hand he had clamped around the woman's arm kept trembling slightly.
Hu Xiaoyan was frightened too, sitting dazedly in the snow; for a long time, she was just stupefied.
It wasn't as if she'd never gone through life‑and‑death situations before; back when she was with Ghost, she'd lived every day licking blood off the tip of a knife. But that was different from today.
Today, she'd had no guard up at all, and ever since she had washed her identity clean, she hadn't had that mindset of being ready to die at any moment for a long time.
Without that mindset, naturally she clung to life, naturally she feared death.
The girl, completely drained of color, sat there for a long, long time before she could catch her breath…
