Rebirth! The Assassin's Revenge-Chapter 431: Everyone Has Their Own Fate

Ling Tianyou smiled faintly: "Actually, if it were me, I would make the same choice. But I would have acted years earlier, before you got engaged to Ye Mingchen."

Gu Ningyue glanced at him and snorted coldly, "For the ten billion dollars I’m about to inherit, right?"

Ling Tianyou nodded, "Of course, people die for money, just as birds die for food. The old Gu Ningyue was so naive; a bit of attention would make her willing to give up everything."

Gu Ningyue puckered her lips, "Men are no good."

Upon hearing this, Ling Tianyou reversed his chopsticks and flicked the back of Gu Ningyue’s head, "What are you saying!"

Gu Ningyue rubbed her forehead twice, "Isn’t it true? She’s had it bad; lost her mother when she was young, Gu Zheng didn’t care, and she was bullied by others. All she got was some money—what else did he ever do for her? Nothing, absolutely nothing."

Ling Tianyou ate as he spoke, "She is indeed pitiful, but if she had put up even a little resistance, things wouldn’t have turned out this way."

Then he looked deeply at Gu Ningyue: "When you first arrived, weren’t things terrible? Yet, now you’ve managed just fine, haven’t you?"

Gu Ningyue was momentarily stunned, "How can they be the same? She was pampered by her mother from a young age, while I, I came through the battlefield. It’s not the same! You can’t expect a rich young lady to go to the battlefield and kill, can you?"

Ling Tianyou chuckled, "Exactly! Everyone has their own fate. Fortunately, she met you, and you avenged her. Hopefully next life she won’t be so foolish, so easily trusting."

Gu Ningyue looked at Ling Tianyou with some surprise, "Aren’t you the one who doesn’t believe in ghosts or afterlives? Why the change now?"

Could it be that he actually believed what she said that day?

Ling Tianyou said coolly, "Now you’re sitting right in front of me, so I have no choice but to believe."

Unless Gu Ningyue had really gone mad, and what she told him was just the ravings of her illness.

But from the look of her, he felt he must be the one going mad.

Otherwise, why would he believe everything she said was true?

Gu Ningyue took a sip of her drink, "Have you never doubted that I might really be sick?"

Ling Tianyou chuckled, "To be honest, on the way to see Ye Mingchen at the prison, I did have doubts. But for some reason, I still wanted to verify it. You know, if it were anyone else, I would have kicked them out of my life long ago."

Gu Ningyue spat the chicken bone into the trash, then looked up at Ling Tianyou, "So, are you saying that I’ll always be the exception for you?"

"You could say that." Ling Tianyou looked at Gu Ningyue and asked, "What about me? Am I an exception to you?"

Gu Ningyue deliberately didn’t answer, only said, "I’m not telling you, because such things depend on actions. Even if I say it, it might not be true!"

Ling Tianyou nodded lightly, "Then I shall wait and see."

After finishing the meal, Gu Ningyue got up to stretch, then went upstairs to get a jacket and came back down: "Shall we go? The sun is setting."

Ling Tianyou agreed and asked Aunt Zhang to clear the table, grabbed his keys, and left with Gu Ningyue.

"Where are we going?" Ling Tianyou asked.

Gu Ningyue took the keys from his palm, smiled, and said, "Let me drive! It’s not necessarily a place that navigation can find easily."

Ling Tianyou was a bit curious, "That mysterious?"

Gu Ningyue walked while talking, "Not mysterious, just too remote to find on the map maybe."

Ling Tianyou didn’t ask further upon hearing this and got into the car with Gu Ningyue, watching her skillfully start the car, a hint of a smile appearing in his eyes.

Honestly, no matter who she is, as long as she’s by his side and loves him, that’s enough.

Even if she really went mad, he’d find a way to save her.

The sunset painted the sky in vibrant oranges and reds, a rare beautiful sight.

Gu Ningyue couldn’t help but take another look, then turned to find Ling Tianyou not watching the scenery outside, but looking at her.

"What’s up? Is there something on my face?"

Ling Tianyou shook his head, his voice taking on a richer, tender tone under the spell of the sunset, "Has anyone ever told you that you are more deserving of the title of A City’s most beautiful woman?"

Gu Ningyue laughed, "Nope! What I hear is more like ’A madwoman could never match Ling Tianyou!’ ’Miss Chen suits President Ling better’ ’How could she match up to Miss Chen, she’s just a penniless orphan,’ all kinds of rumors like that, except for Xing Tong and Han Yin, I think no one sees me as better than Chen Rui."

Ling Tianyou furrowed his brows slightly, "I also think you’re better than Chen Rui."

Gu Ningyue turned to look at him, "Really?"

Ling Tianyou responded, "Of course it’s true."

Gu Ningyue chuckled, chatting to kill some boredom on the road: "Then tell me, in what way am I better than Chen Rui?"

Ling Tianyou didn’t even think before he replied, "You’re kinder than Chen Rui, more genuine. And personally, I think you’re prettier than she is."

"I won’t deny the last point, but the first and second, those are debatable." Gu Ningyue smiled, "Don’t forget, I’ve hidden many things before, truthfulness doesn’t quite apply, does it?"

As for kindness, in her previous life, she had nothing to do with it.

She was just a task-executing machine, detached from everyone except the few people she cared for in her organization.

That was a result of her mentor’s stringent education; long ago, she hadn’t been that way.

Having seen and been hurt so often, the concept of kindness had become deeply buried within her.

But now, this rebirth brought some change.

Otherwise, seeing Ji Qianqian wouldn’t have stirred that little compassion inside her.

Perhaps because she shed the assassin’s skin, she could begin to rediscover herself.

Thinking this way, Gu Ningyue realized this body hadn’t brought her only trouble.

Something gained, something lost, I suppose!

"Yet in the end, you chose to tell me everything, risking being seen as mentally ill again." Ling Tianyou smiled, "Moreover, had you told me from the start, I wouldn’t have believed it either."

No matter how much he thought about it, it still felt unbelievable.

Gu Ningyue turned to him, "So you’re not mad at me?"

Ling Tianyou shook his head, "I’m not mad, but I hope you won’t keep anything from me going forward; no one likes feeling deceived!"