However, Yue Yao did not really rely on the two of them to take action. Mainly, in terms of theoretical knowledge and case experience, they were very rich and perhaps could find the root cause of Li Yan’s condition—like maybe he was hit with a pressure point using some ancient martial arts. If they could solve Li Yan’s problem, then it would no longer be a problem!

...

After a flurry of strategic maneuvering, Yue Yao logged back into the Assassin Platform. Upon checking, she found the few missions in City S unexpectedly had all been successfully completed!

Although she couldn’t get more detailed information, having a batch of top-tier assassins come to City S was already a rare occurrence. It’s impossible to have more missions in such a short time. She was certain that these tasks were targeting Zhang Tianyi, Zhang Yurong, and Li Yan. But Zhang Tianyi and his wife, Zhang Yurong, including Li Yan, were still alive. Except for some issues with Li Yan, how could the missions be deemed complete?

But the status now wasn’t just a response from the assassins; the client had confirmed and agreed to pay. Could it be there really were other tasks for City S just coincidentally?

Or... did these assassins force the client to confirm after finding them? That would certainly be against the rules, as the platform protects client information and would never disclose it.

No matter what, she didn’t dare to relax at all for now. Finding this assassin group wasn’t too difficult, but Yue Yao was cautious!

She couldn’t use ’them’ for revenge—regardless of who was stronger, even if ’they’ had the absolute power to win, it couldn’t be done. It’s not that she didn’t want everyone to sacrifice for Li Yan—she loved ’them’, and she loved Li Yan even more—but because many in the circle knew Li Yan was their leader. If ’they’ acted without reason for revenge now, the other side would immediately surmise that the person who appeared last night was King!

Exposing King’s identity, revealing the identities of those King cared about, would mean all those new assassins looking to rise by challenging the myth of the assassin would rush to City S, just like last year when they flocked to Cloud Island. If that happened, even if ’they’ all returned to defend, it would be overwhelming. It would bring endless disaster to Zhang Yurong and others!

In such a situation, it was possible to seek external help. But that had to be someone with iron-clad trust, someone willing to risk their life for each other; otherwise, it might even be a betrayal of Li Yan.

Take Rocana and ’Rose’, for example. They are weaker than Li Yan, but they are still S-level assassins. If they could help, their strength would be much enhanced. But even ’Rose’, Eva under Li Yan’s gun, faced with interests, Victoria and Sonia could calmly put down their grudge and cooperate with Li Yan!

But that cooperation was purely interest-based, having nothing to do with friendship—Eva also worked with Li Yan before, but after the cooperation, she targeted Li Yan, eventually shooting Yue Yao and getting herself killed by Li Yan. Their cooperation stemmed from Li Yan being stronger than them, with better connections and environment. If they knew Li Yan was now like a man in a coma, would they help him fend off strong comrades, or take the chance to eliminate and remove Li Yan’s foundation?

These considerations made Yue Yao calm down immediately, so now everything was conducted within controllable limits.

...

While Yue Yao was urgently maneuvering forces to protect Li Yan and everyone else, in the bedroom, Yurong was dealing with an anticipated problem!

After Yue Yao brought food over, Yurong did not have any appetite. She just sat dazedly by the bed, watching Li Yan on the bed, recalling a similar incident that happened before.

That time, she had kicked him in the groin, and then he fell unconscious on the bed. That night, she, Yue Yao, and the ’unconscious’ Li Yan lay on the bed and slept until dawn. It wasn’t the first time the three of them shared a bed, but it was the only time all three slept till morning together.

This led to asking Yu Xiaodi to step in and trick Li Yan into a medical examination. Later, Yu Xiaodi personally brought the medical report and detailed the findings—there was nothing wrong. After that time, she temporarily accepted Yu Xiaodi and made a one-year agreement.

Not wanting Li Yan to have psychological pressure or burden, Yurong never mentioned the incident to him, and Yu Xiaodi and others shared the same thought. Li Yan, who was pretending to be unconscious, was just trying to joke around, but it escalated, even bringing Yue Yao to ’examine his body’. If he had revealed the truth, he would certainly be accused of doing it deliberately, and with her personality, she would undoubtedly be furious. So, she never knew it was all a pretense by Li Yan.

Months passed, and now Li Yan was again in an unidentifiable condition. Earlier at the hospital, Yurong was anxious and worried. Now that they were home and had Li Yan on the bed, the familiar scene brought back memories of that time, naturally linking the two incidents together.

The previous medical check had shown nothing wrong, which should have been reassuring, but now it’s happening again, and the hospital couldn’t identify anything either, confirming her suspicion that something was indeed wrong last time, possibly a yet-to-be-discovered disease!

One instance might be coincidence; two definitely indicate a problem. But since this issue had appeared before, it still gave her some reassurance. At least... he woke up the next day last time. It’s uncertain when he fell unconscious this time, but perhaps he’ll definitely wake up by tomorrow.

However, this kind of problem is bound to become more severe each time. Once he wakes up, he can’t ignore the issue anymore. She must tell him directly, urging him to visit the world’s top hospitals, to diagnose and properly treat it to prevent it from happening again.

Li Yan provided a bit of reassurance, and with Yue Yao at home, she could talk to her directly. But Yu Xiaodi and others were still anxiously waiting. Yurong understood their feelings, so she also wanted to inform them for now, to let them wait together until tomorrow at least, to let them know he had been found.

When Li Yan went to the Liu residence last night, he turned off his phone just in case. Later, while being cautious, he set the phone on vibrate mode. After he fell unconscious, and when Chen Xiaoen and Chen Junwei took him away, they turned off his phone completely, and it hadn’t been changed back since.

Previously, when Yurong met Li Yan at the hospital, she was too disoriented to know what to do, and even just turning on his phone to find Zheng Yixuan’s number was quite a feat, let alone caring whether it was on vibrate or ring mode!

She saw those few text messages, later putting the phone in her bag. After joining Yue Yao to bring Li Yan home, she was too busy and didn’t pay attention to the phone again.

When she remembered now and picked up the phone, there were already over a hundred missed calls!

After checking, the number of calls was high but from limited people. Other than the company’s main line, Jiang Xueyin, and Xu Ping, who might have called on business each once, the rest were from those who had previously texted. Once the phone was on, they received delivery notifications of their texts, so they called Li Yan and found that the calls connected, but no one answered. Repeat calls often hit busy signals (as everyone was calling), so they tried again and again out of worry.

By number of calls, it went: Yu Xiaodi, Wen Qianyi, Qiao Huanxuan, Hai Fu, Huang Ying, Li Jie... Even the cool Li Jie and shy Huang Ying hit double digits.

Of course, at this moment Zhang Yurong didn’t know who called more and who called less. All she could ascertain was that, even if it was only Yu Xiaodi who made a hundred calls, the others were also quite close to Li Yan and cared deeply for him.

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