Shen Bai smiled. "So you're spineless. I like your type. It makes finding clues easier."
He snapped his fingers.
The poison in the woman's body receded slightly, but the pain remained excruciating. It was just enough for her to be able to speak.
Shen Bai crouched down and yanked the black veil from the woman's face.
Beneath the veil was a beautiful face, but her delicate features were twisted in agony, giving her a somewhat grotesque expression.
Shen Bai grabbed the woman's hair with his other hand and shoved her face into the ground, burying her right cheek in the dirt. "Talk. Who sent you to deal with me? I'm still some distance from Nanxing Prefecture, and already an assassin is trying to kill me. It seems this Nanxing Prefecture is quite interesting."
Pinned by Shen Bai, the woman got a mouthful of dirt. Her once-delicate, beautiful face was now smeared with mud.
