"I'm not, I didn't, you're just making that up."
Zhou Chen instinctively denied everything, his eyes wide. "How can you slander an innocent man out of thin air!"
"Do you want me to pull up the files from your last few missions?" Jiang Che asked, leisurely stirring her coffee.
"Uh..."
He hesitated, then sighed. "Fine, I admit my methods were a little... intense. But just a little. They were either Illegal Ascenders or vicious smugglers..."
Jiang Che held out her coffee-coated spoon, cutting him off. "I'm not saying you did poorly. On the contrary, you did very well. If you were timid and hesitant, *that* would have been a problem."
"Huh?"
"What do you think the Extraordinary World is like?" Jiang Che asked.
Zhou Chen thought for a moment. "Dangerous?"
