125 Tan Na

Tan Na pulled off her wig and her contacts, making a face at the thin man sitting beside her on the backseat.

"Why are you looking at me as if your favorite anime show has been suspended?"

Error glared at her through the lenses of his thick eyeglasses. He spun his laptop around, making her face the display screen.

"You know exactly why."

There was a video playing on his laptop, showing a girl rushing towards an old man about to be hit by a two-decker bus. Fortunately, she managed to pull him to safety in time, and both her and the old man were still alive.

"The guards were too far away to stop her, and it was only due to luck that Miss Hui isn't lying on a morgue right now. If she managed to die under our watch, do you think even a thousand of our lives would be enough to appease the boss? Silver, I thought I told you not to let her out of that apartment!"

"What do you want me to do?" Silver, who was Tan Na in disguise, retorted at Error. "Do you think I could offer her a reasonable explanation that would stop her from having a simple dinner outside? Should I say to her 'Excuse me, Miss Hui, but can you not step outside the apartment because if you even get so much as a tiny scrape on your knee, our heads will roll'?"

"You should have followed her then! You're an informant, yet you couldn't even stay close to the target?"

"I already have a capable junior who's close to her! Do you think I'm dumb enough not to put one of my trusted aides by her side?"

Silver crossed her legs and huffed. It was not only Error, she too was feeling stressed out. Infiltrating a drug cartel was less nerve-racking than this.

"Oh?" Finally, Error's panicky look calmed down. "You did? Tell me her username, I'll give her a video call. I want to know exactly why she didn't stop Miss Hui from nearly committing suicide at a point blank range."

Silver's expression darkened at his words, but she didn't argue. She was also curious as to why this junior of hers hadn't stopped Miss Hui. If she wasn't afraid of arousing any suspicion, she would have immediately confronted her after that useless director had scolded them.

Soon, the face of her junior appeared on the screen of Error's laptop. She looked like she was inside a bathroom, and they could hear the loud sound of running water in the background. Silver nodded her head in approval. It seemed that this junior of hers had remembered her lessons well.

"Teacher?" The girl glanced first at Silver, and then at Error. "You called for me?"

"Why didn't you stop Miss Hui?" Error didn't wait for Silver to explain and dived right into the crux of the problem. He had no patience for stupid formalities. "Didn't Silver tell you to protect Miss Hui at all costs? Are you just there for decoration?"

Error didn't mince his words. He was usually a laid-back guy, but this was a mission that put his life on the line. Any mistakes on a colleague's part could very well spell his doom. He didn't want to waste niceties on a girl who didn't even do her job right.

Silver's mouth twitched, but she didn't interfere. It was Error's right to be mad at her junior's mistake.

"That..." The girl looked down, hiding her expression. "I got distracted. I didn't realize what had happened in time. Teacher, please forgive me for my negligence. I didn't mean to do it."

"Besides..." She hesitated for a split-second before quickly adding, "Aren't you overestimating her importance to CEO Lu too much? She's just an ex-fiancée!"

Both Silver and Error looked at her like she was an idiot.

"So this is your trusted and 'capable junior'," Error commented sarcastically to Silver. "Someone who didn't even know what's at stake."

Silver blushed. She knew that he was right, and she was starting to feel irritated at the girl as well. But she couldn't help feeling defensive at Error's remark, since the girl was still her junior.

"It's because she didn't have the necessary information. If she had, she wouldn't have been so careless."

Error snorted. "So give her the necessary information then. I don't want a blind mouse running carelessly around my mission, making problems left and right. Silver, you know how important this is to our boss. If you weren't my friend, I would have kicked you out for this blunder without hesitation. I've already given you enough face as it is."

Silver bowed her head in shame, her shoulders slumping. "Thank you, Error."

"Teacher..."

The girl on the video finally lifted her face, her expression a mixture of reticence and regret. But Silver merely glared at her with narrowed eyes.

"Shut up. You've done plenty enough. If you don't want the situation to get any more worse than it already is, then regard Miss Hui as someone more important than your life. Do you understand what I'm saying to you right now?"

"But..."

Silver's voice sharpened. "The only reason I'm not pulling you out is because you've got in too deep with Miss Hui. Otherwise...you know what'll happen to you when my temper gets foul. You might be my junior, but I value my life more. And you've nearly jeopardized that."

Error curled his lip at the ignorant girl on his laptop screen. It didn't escape his attention that although the girl looked like she was giving in, there remained an unyielding resolve in her eyes.

"You say that Miss Hui is only an ex-fiancée?" He twisted his lips, giving her a contemptuous look. "Do you know how stupid you sound, saying that without knowing what kind of strings the boss is pulling behind the scenes just to keep her by his side?"