She didn’t overreact to his analysis and coldly replied: “An assassin is never afraid of death!”

Li Qiye disagreed: “Wrong. What are the rules of an assassin? The first is to stay alive, the second is to complete the mission. Only by staying alive would you be able to complete your mission.”

He slowly continued: “Any assassin must make ample preparation before a mission. For example, knowing the target’s identity, strength, habits, weaknesses, and so on and so forth… By knowing the enemy, you will emerge victorious one hundred times in one hundred battles. It is meaningless to sacrifice oneself to complete a mission. That would render you a puppet, a tool for murder. You would be unable to go further on the dao of assass...