Shameless Gangster

Chapter 12B

Title: Fighting the wild goose all day long, one will inevitably be blinded by the goose

Source: Journey to the West - Borrowing the Palm-Leaf Fan: Sun Wu Kong was the cleverest in the world and had killed many monsters, but the Bull Demon King deceived him; it was indeed a silly moment

Meaning:: a metaphor for people who have made mistakes; used to refer to overconfidence and negligence to make mistakes that should not be committed.

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Jiang Xiaoning awoke during the surgical operation and the first thing he felt was that his shoulder was being torn. He only yelled out in pain once and then enduringly grounded his teeth. Once the shrapnel was taken out and the bandage tightly fastened, he was already soaked in cold sweat.

By the time the nurse pushed him from the operating room to the ward, he had yet to relax when he saw that someone was already waiting inside for him.

This person had a slender stature, fair features, and appeared to be refined in a manner like a normal white-collar worker. The second Jiang Xiaoning saw him, he sighed and felt that the wound was a hundred times more painful than before.

This person was Shixiong, Xin Muran. When he acted as an undercover agent at Sun Zeyu's side, Wu Qinghua had arranged for Xin Muran to look after him. The two of them had even lived together for a while. When it came to his own work and taking care of his shidi, Xin Muran did both flawlessly - Jiang Xiaoning feared and respected him to a degree. However, Xin Muran was hard to get close to. On the one hand, he always showed an arrogant attitude of "I know all the information. I know everyone's secrets" while on the other hand, he showed an abnormally close relationship for work.

This time, he nearly messed up the mission - he didn't know what kind of price he would be met with now.

However, Xin Muran remained calm and collected and did not look at him at all. Only after the doctor and nurse helped him settle in and left one after the other did he finally look at Jiang Xiaoning and coldly said, "When you go out, don't say that I brought you out. I can't afford such disgrace."

Jiang Xiaoning quickly explained, "Shixiong, you must have been the one to not allow them to give me anesthesia. I'm really hurt here and you're venting your anger? This time, I've indeed met with an unexpected failure... I didn't expect the opposite side—"

"Didn't expect?" Xin Muran interrupted him gloomily. "This mission was in another part of the country where you're unfamiliar with, you must wait for reinforcement. How many times have I said this? You didn't say anything and operated without waiting for reinforcement. Alex was obviously following closely behind you, why did you take off on him?"

"I can resolve it myself," Jiang Xiaoning answered. "Besides, I've also got the goods..."

"And then you lost it and only got it back after taking a shot," Xin Muran cut in - his specialty was to track and infiltrate. He normally was an expert in concealing his emotions, but this situation had evidently made him angry as knives were seemingly shooting out of his eyes. "Don't think that just because you were ultimately able to seize and return with the goods means that I will let you go. You were lucky to have narrowly escaped death. If that bullet had strayed just a bit more, you deserved it if you died, but implicating Alex and I, how are you going to compensate?"

Jiang Xiaoning was brimming with stubbornness. He frowned and said, "In any case, I completed the mission anyways even if I got shot, I can pay for it myself. I have not caused any damage."

The knives in Xin Muran's eyes sharpened even more. He looked at Jiang Xiaoning with a blank expression while the corners of his lips exposed a smile that was there yet not there.