The Villain's Wife (WN)

To Lily and Zhou Jingren, Harringfort is somewhat childish. He likes gambling, and he gets irritated quickly. If someone described him this way, they would think that he is another rich young master who loves women, alcohol and expensive toys. However, if he was dumb, would he really survive this long while dealing with drug dealers, terrorists and world leaders?

After Harringforts conversation with Zhou Jingren the other night, he had decided to step back and observe. By now, Harringfort had concluded that something is indeed wrong in this situation. Why would they insist on protecting Lily as if she was a piece of treasure?

To Harringfort, humans are like plastic things that one can buy online. Most of them are not thick enough to survive. While some are pretty useful, one could not deny that they are easily replaceable. And Harringfort could not understand why Lily had to be special when she can barely defend herself.

According to the information that he had personally gathered, Lily is not an expert in both firearms and martial arts. She does not even drive her car and does not know how to cook. Her physical strength should be below the average lady who knows how to do these menial jobs.

While Harringfort understood that Lily's value was on her level of analysis, he also happens to know a few other people like Lily. Smart, cunning, more ruthless and some of them were trained killers.

So… why Lily?

All night, Harringfort had been thinking about this matter. Instead of planning Pierre Weber's assassination, he was forced to analyse things about Lily and the organisation. As far as Harringfort knew, the organisation was the one responsible for Lilian's death. They even killed Lily's Grandmother Ye to stop her from informing Lily about the information that she knew.

With the organisation that willingly kills every person that could expose Lily the whole truth, Harringfort could not help but wonder if it was really worth it. Back then, Lilian was a force that not many could handle. She was not only smart but ruthless and deadly. 

So, why kill her and not make anyone replace her seat? Instead, the organisation waited for Lily to mature and replace her. Since Harringfort Is not a part of the council, he does not have access to the information that the council had.

He only follows their orders without even asking questions— and even if he could ask, he would instead choose to stay silent and carry on with his duties. After all, he was saved by the organisation a long time ago.

At that time— well maybe until now, Harringfort knew that the things that he did were to help humanity survive this jungle of a world. He might have harmed a lot of people, but he solely believes that he had saved thousands as well.

So what if he had organised assassinations before? These actions were enough to cause a riot in some countries; it had caused damages and killed a lot of people. But without the chaos, there would be no changes. Without the revolution, there would be no new beginnings.

Until last night, Harringfort had never been so sceptical about the things that he knew before. He had never been so uncertain about the council's words. However, seeing how easily they want him to kill Pierre Weber just because of a plan, Harringfort could not help but wonder what the real goal of the council was.

In his eyes, there is no need to kill Pierre Weber as he had a lot of people following behind them. He is working against the government of Luxembourg because he sincerely believes that he could make significant changes. Moreover, he also thought that he was in the right. In Pierre's mind, there is something wrong with the government.

While that may not be necessarily true, Pierre believed it wholeheartedly. And this belief is the reason why some people chose to follow him. For Harringfort, this is the first stage of a revolution. A leader with the impression that he was right.

So… why would the council willingly kill the man?

The more Harringfort thought about it, the more he concluded that it was because they thought Pierre found something that he could use against Lily. And there it was again… Lily.

Everything seemed to revolve around Lily.

'Lily was pregnant.'

Maybe that is the reason why the council is stepping up to protect Lily? Harringfort lowered his head as he thought about the things that had been happening lately. For some reason, he felt that the council was not telling him something.

Were they planning to use him against Lily? Were they planning to use him to save her? Or make him as her enemy? Slowly, an idea sprouted in Harringfort's mind. The only logical explanation that he could come up with is pretty simple.

The council wanted him to get rid of Zhou Jingren.

This was a surprising conclusion. However, if one would think about it, the council knew how much Harringfort hated Zhou Jingren. They knew that his emotions could easily compromise this mission. However, they still sent him here.

Was it because they wanted Zhou Jingren to embarrass Harringfort again? Was it because they wanted him to get riled up? After all the emotional roller coaster that Harringfort went through, he could not help but think that the council deliberately did this to him, and then they ordered him to kill Pierre.

If someone would approach this in a very logical way, Harringfort was supposed to kill Pierre silently. However, the events that happened before the order came already made Harringfort raging towards Zhou Jingren. Someone would easily predict that he would use this opportunity instead to frame Zhou Jingren for Pierre's death. After all, Zhou Jingren would surely avenge his wife, right? 

Was it possible that they really wanted to use Harringfort against Zhou Jingren? Or… was he only over thinking about things?

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