Chapter 134
“I never thought . . .” he said, gasping for breath, “that I would lose this shot to you.”
“I foresaw it long ago,” Bo Jinyan said. “All thanks to you, I spent close to a year in darkness, so my eyes adjust to darkness more readily than yours.”
Derrick smiled again, then his arm slowly lifted up, with the gun in hand. Bo Jinyan frowned minutely and used his body to shield Jian Yao, all the while training his gun on Derrick. His finger slowly tightened on the trigger.
But Derrick suddenly closed his eyes with a pained expression and groaned softly. After a fair length of time, he opened his eyes and fixed them on Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao. Unexpectedly, he smiled.
To Jian Yao, it was a rather strange smile.
There was sorrow, there was peace, there was the gentle relief of having finally shed all the treacherous pretense.
He said, “So it turns out that he has always been like this, letting you stand behind him.”
Jian Yao was slightly stunned. Bo Jinyan’s expression remained unchanged.
Derrick raised his gun and shot himself in the temple.