The last few words from the godfather were chillingly penetrating right through the spine.

"I thought about pretending to crash into her car to get close to her, but her scheming is too deep. She doesn’t easily trust me, always on guard against me. Plus, Ji Lingkong is often by her side, a child with very strong vigilance, surrounded by many guards protecting her. If I acted rashly, it would be too easy to be discovered. So, I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to slowly gain her trust and then control her. But I was too confident in my own power, and Ji Lingkong saw through me, and I was caught."

"Falling into their hands and yet you returned unharmed; I’m really surprised. That girl doesn’t seem that foolish to let a major threat go free," the godfather said with palpable sarcasm.

Ying looked up at him, his eyes pure: "She remembered that I subdued Yiren and saved her, so she let me return."

"That sounds reasonable, but you’re not ordinary and neither is she. When you two get together, it’s not possible for ordinary things to happen. Are you hiding something?" the godfather smiled eerily, his soft voice almost tender, "Child, have you also been enchanted by her?"

"No." Ying’s spine shivered slightly, and he replied coldly without hesitation, "She’s on my hit list. To me, she’s merely a living corpse."

"Haha, really?" The godfather’s eyes crinkled in an ambiguous smile, then he let go of him, "I’m really afraid, my ardently nurtured subordinates have both been seduced and betrayed me. King has already greatly disappointed me; my child, you better not break my heart, you’ve been raised by me since childhood, I’m like half a father to you."

"Ying will definitely not betray." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The godfather, hand on the armrest, spoke faintly: "Then prove it to me, show me evidence of your loyalty."

Upon hearing these calm words, Ying was shaken, a chill rising up his spine. Having been with the godfather for so many years, he knew very well that this statement meant the godfather didn’t trust him at all.

He thought his years of loyal and perilous service were enough to earn the godfather’s trust.

But this man had never really trusted him, probably had never trusted anyone.

"What does the godfather want me to do?" he asked, without any resistance.

"Well, you can either give me a ’word’ or... one of your eyes. Your choice."

Ying shuddered, understanding that the ’word’ the godfather spoke of meant admitting he had spared Ye Lu and shown her mercy.

After a long while, he quietly said.

"...My eye."

"Good, Mason, come in."

The godfather called Dr. Mason in, and his immediate change in demeanor upon sensing the atmosphere turned his face pale, his heart constricting, anxious as he looked at Ying.

However, the godfather looked at Ying and smiled: "That’s right, since your identity has already been exposed, she would recognize you too easily. It’s troublesome, since none of our targets have ever lived to recognize us. This exception has occurred, and you must pay a price; indeed, we need to change your physical features so she won’t recognize you again."

Suddenly, his sinister fingers swept across Ying’s face, shockingly digging into Ying’s eye socket and brutally plucking an eyeball out.

Mason turned deathly pale in shock, wanting to intervene, but his feet seemed rooted to the ground, not daring to move forward.

Because he knew that when the godfather was truly enraged, although there was not a trace of anger on his face, he was immensely furious; otherwise, he wouldn’t commit such a cruel and ruthless act towards Ying.