"What did you say!"
Zhou Lu was shocked to the point of turning pale, dropping her phone to the ground with a pathetic crash, its broken pieces mixing with the heart-wrenching cries on the other end, leaving everyone trembling in fear.
"Brother Ye..."
She turned to look at the person beside her, only to see the teenager’s face suddenly turn deathly pale, as white as a transparent sheet of paper, devoid of any color, with arms stiff and unresponsive.
He broke free from her, staggering as he ran out. As he reached the door, he tripped over a piece of equipnt that had abruptly extended out, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Brother Ye!"
"Mr. Ye Xian!"
"Senior Ye Xian!"
The knees of Ye Xian’s jeans were scuffed as she half-kneeled and slid on the ground, her knees scraped and swelling red with stabbing pain, but she seed to feel nothing, getting up to continue running outside.
On Huannan Avenue, a nanny van sped by like a bolt of lightning. Due to the excessive speed, the shadow of the car caused the air around it to tremble slightly, much like the little woman in the driver’s seat.
Her hands, clutching the steering wheel, were shaking uncontrollably, her foot on the gas pedal was equally erratic. Blood surged throughout her body, coursing backward through her veins with icy chill. Tears uncontrollably welled up, blurring her eyes; everything she saw—from the lights to the roads to the passing cars—was but a hazy illusion.
No, it can’t be, it definitely can’t be...
He won’t be in an accident, he definitely won’t be, he definitely won’t be!
Under the signpost of Route 103 in the Capital Suburb, a group of people dressed in firefighter uniforms had erected a long yellow cordon around the accident site. The nanny van ca to an abrupt halt on the periphery, the tires screeching against the ground to leave a long mark. Inside the van, the little woman looked up, and upon seeing the massive fire blazing outside, her mind went blank as if it had exploded.
The fire at the accident site extended for hundreds of ters, the orange flas dying the sky a different color, growing fiercely as if doused with fuel.
Ye Xian pushed open the car door, staring at the raging fire before her and the splattered car debris. For a mont, the world spun around her, and her ears buzzed with nothing but silence. Her narrow amber eyes lost focus.
"Sir, sir, hello, this is the accident site, the section has been sealed off, please keep your distance!"
"Sir, you can’t enter here!"
"Let go!!!"
Five or six people held Ye Xian tightly, but her frenzied, bloodshot-eyed appearance frightened them. Like a madwoman, she tore open the cordon and rushed into the accident site that stretched hundreds of ters, stumbling as she frantically searched the chaotic scene as if urgently looking for sothing. But in the expanse of her empty gaze was only the increasingly rampant fire, as if it were about to ignite her entire being.
"Bo Tingshen... Bo Tingshen..."
"BO TINGSHEN!!!"
Suddenly, she clutched her chest, her heart felt like it had been stabbed with a knife, suffocating her with pain, until she could barely breathe.
"Bo Tingshen, where are you?"
"Where are you? Where are you!!!"
Tears stread down her face like broken beads, scalding hot and rolling large, blurring all her vision. Stumbling within the chaos, she cried out, her voice torn apart, "Answer , Bo Tingshen, answer , please?"
"If you answer , I won’t be mad at you!"
As long as you reply, anything you want is fine, you can lie to , you can play with , just answer , just live!
"Bo Tingshen, Tingshen... where are you?"
Outside the cordon, more than a dozen people were stunned by the young man’s near breakdown, his frantic appearance and tearful, heart-wrenching cries, unable to utter a word.
Ye Xian ran to the end of the cordon, and in an instant, saw the heart of the fire where it burned the strongest, consuming a car with license plate showing two overlapping R’s, the number she knew so well.
Her once-empty gaze suddenly fixed, as if pierced by a sharp sword, unfathomable.
Bo Tingshen...
Bo Tingshen, are you there?
Bo Tingshen, I’ve co to find you.
Fearlessly, she ran towards the towering flas when suddenly a deep, magnetic voice sounded from behind her, "Ye Xian!"
Ye Xian’s steps halted abruptly, as if she were hearing things. She slowly turned her face and saw the man walking toward her not too far away.
He was wearing a dark coat, slightly lifted by the winds of the suburbs, his tall and straight figure exuding unmatched elegance, standing out against the blazing orange-red inferno behind him, his features as refined and peerless as the sun itself, striking and captivating as when she first laid eyes on him.
Amidst the sky-high flas and ethereal smoke, Ye Xian had a mont of disorientation, thinking she was seeing a hallucination. But even if it was a hallucination, she rushed toward him without hesitation.
The man marched toward her in grand strides, she flew into his arms like a bullet, pushing him back a few steps from the impact.
Embracing his waist tightly, she felt his warm, solid chest, his urgent and heated breath, his scent the most familiar and comforting, and she imdiately broke down crying like a child who had lost and then found a great treasure, "Wuuu scared to death, you scared to death... I thought you were gone, you were gone..."
"Baby, baby don’t be scared, I’m here, I’ve always been here."
The ultimate heartache and excitent blended on Bo Tingshen’s handso face, holding the little woman in his arms so tightly it seed he wanted to ld her into his very being, his expression frantic yet utterly satisfied, "My baby is still here, how could I bear to leave?"
No words, no emotions could express how he felt seeing her calling his na, rushing into the fire without a second thought.
His Xianxian cares for him deeply, and he was falling madly in love with his Xianxian too.
How could she be so wonderful, how could she tornt him so?
"Wuuu!"
"Wuuu wuuu wuuu..."
Ye Xian, traumatized greatly, curled up in his arms like a small abused animal, and Bo Tingshen’s heart nearly shattered from her crying. He kissed her deeply on the top of her head, forehead, eyes, and when he saw the swelling redness around her eyes, he kissed away every tear that fell, even his deep eyes turning slightly red, "Xianxian, Xianxian don’t cry, there’s no need to be scared, I’ll always be by your side, never leaving you."
His fiery kisses, tender confessions, and gentle sighs pulled her taut nerves back, dispelling the extre fear bit by bit.
He’s real, truly Bo Tingshen.
He’s okay... he’s okay...
Ye Xian buried her face in his chest, unable to stop her tears for another ten minutes, soaking his thick coat thoroughly.
Pang Kai, while directing the hired personnel to clear the ’accident’ scene behind the cordon, couldn’t help but shed a few tears himself.
He didn’t think Ye Xian, who usually couldn’t get anything right but was number one at making the CEO angry, would dash into a fiery inferno for the CEO at a critical mont. With such a raging fire, to go in was akin to a death wish?
It turned out the CEO was this important to her.
This is the power of love!
Truly moving!
But to witness such a scene, they owed big thanks to his superb acting today; it would be unfair if this year’s Oscar nominations didn’t include him, given his outstanding performance!
"Baby, stop crying. Your tears are breaking my heart. I’m standing right in front of you safe and sound, aren’t I?"
Bo Tingshen gently patted her back, lowering his head to claim her soft whimpering lips, just as he was about to cradle her face and deepen the kiss, Ye Xian abruptly pushed him away.
Having gone through such intense fear, joy, and release, a wave of grievance and anger suddenly surged up within her, and she attempted vehently to push him away.
But held so tightly, she couldn’t move him an inch.
"What’s wrong?"
Bo Tingshen looked at the charming and captivating little woman in front of him with a puzzled expression, gently brushing aside the disheveled bangs on her forehead.
Ye Xian’s eyes were blazing with anger, "You deserve it! Deserve it even in death! Who asked you to go abroad with your childhood sweetheart? Go again if you dare!"
Bo Tingshen suddenly burst into laughter, his lips curved high with a resonant laugh, not knowing how happy he was. His smile was exceptionally attractive, ten thousand tis more than in the revolving restaurant, yet to Ye Xian, it was an eyesore.
He had just laughed at that pretty woman in the restaurant in the sa way! This big jerk, with his deep scheming mind...
"Fake, all of that is fake."
"... What? What’s fake?"
Ye Xian was stunned, staring at him dumbfounded.
Bo Tingshen found her bewildered expression irresistibly cute and couldn’t help but try to kiss her while holding her face, but unfortunately, she pushed him away again.
Ye Xian grabbed his tie seriously and earnestly, pressing him for answers, her eyes bright and intense, "Explain clearly! What’s fake?"
Bo Tingshen leaned forward, his tongue lightly touching his jaw, incredibly pleased to see her jealous look, "The childhood sweetheart is fake, the al is fake, the chat is fake, going abroad is also fake."
"???" Ye Xian was even more bewildered, "You’re lying! Then smiling so happily at her, and renting out the place for her, is that fake too?"
"Smile? Do you know I called you all night without getting through, I even had murderous thoughts, it took a great effort for to force out that smile."
Ye Xian: "?" So it seed it was still her fault?
"I rented the place because I was afraid soone would recognize you."
Ye Xian: "..." How was this even believable? How did he know she would go?
"Then why did you fake it?"
"What do you think?"
Bo Tingshen raised his fine ink-like eyebrows, brushing a finger over her nose, "Of course, to provoke you, my little fool."
"Provoke ?"
Ye Xian was dumbfounded, then suddenly had an epiphany.
Wait, when Jiang Wen suddenly called her to shoot a comrcial, he stayed up all night and went on a date with so childhood friend, coincidentally under her building, could it be that all of this was his deliberate setup? Just to provoke her?!
"Why did you do this!"
Before Ye Xian could get angry, the man reprimanded her, his voice low and deep, as if she had committed an enormous mistake, "Why do you think? I like you so much, I’m going crazy from liking you, yet you, my little fairy, keep torturing , not giving an answer, just how long do you plan to drag this out?"
"..."
Ye Xian was intimidated by his imposing deanor, inexplicably feeling a bit guilty? Clearly, she was the one questioning him!
"Who, who’s dragging you? When you confessed to before, how was I supposed to know my own feelings, whether I like you or not..."
"If you don’t like , who do you intend to like? You can only like !"
Ye Xian was scolded and realized the topic was getting more and more off-track, almost to her grandmother’s house, "Wait, weren’t we talking about why you set up a sche to provoke ?"
"Because I couldn’t wait any longer, I couldn’t stand being just your superior any longer, couldn’t stand you giving no response, couldn’t stand only fantasizing about you in secret, unable to speak the true words of my heart to your face!"
Ye Xian was stunned by his words, her cheeks slightly flushed, "..." How could this person speak such shaless and goosebump-inducing words so smoothly?
"And you think you can deceive ?"
"You’ve deceived so many tis, what’s so wrong about deceiving you once?" Bo Tingshen rested his forehead against hers, gently rubbing, the love in his eyes almost spilling over.
Still angry, Ye Xian turned her head away, "But this trick is too infuriating! Too sinister!"
Did he know that seeing him smile so happily, so thoughtfully at another woman, made her so mad she almost cried?
Bo Tingshen exhaled warmly on her fair face, making her flush red and white, "Baby, I was wrong, I promise this is the last ti, the only ti I deceive you, but even this ti wasn’t my idea, it was Shangguan’s."
"Shangguan Yunli?"
Ye Xian frowned, just as she thought! How could he do such a childish and ridiculous thing, turns out there was a puppet master behind the scenes!
"That person always coming up with such lousy tricks, why would you listen to him!"
"Heh~" He laughed softly, nuzzling against her milky-scented neck, as if helpless, "I had no choice, driven to madness, grasping at straws."
When he was being aggressive, Ye Xian felt a bit angry, but seeing him like this, she stuttered, feeling shy, "All, all this just to get to agree to you?"
"Yes."
"Then I..." Ye Xian bit her lip shyly, inadvertently seeing Pang Kai directing people to extinguish a fire in the distance.
"Here, here, clean up thoroughly, don’t leave any traces!"
"?"
Pang Kai can command firefighters?
Wait, such a major car accident happened, the Rolls Royce totaled into ashes, how did the CEO and Pang Kai manage to co out not only unscathed but also clean and pristine?
She had been too shocked earlier, lost her head, now she ca to her senses...
"This car accident, was it also a trap you designed to deceive ?"
Bo Tingshen’s body stiffened, Ye Xian sensed it sensitively, her expression suddenly changed, her amber eyes almost spitting fire as she struggled hard to push him away, "Bo Tingshen! You bastard, you even deceived about this! Let go of ! I hate you to death!"
Bo Tingshen, seemingly prepared, tightened his grip on her, his gentle eyes not seeming false in their depth, "I worked so hard to get you, and now you want to let go? Wishful thinking!"
"You..."
"You’re despicable, shaless, and low!"
She pounded on him wildly, enraged, biting his chest with all her might unlike before when she only pretended, this ti using all her strength to vent the earlier sadness, not expecting the man to gasp in enjoynt, murmuring into her ear, "Feels so good, my little Xianxian’s bite feels so good on hubby."
"?!"
Ye Xian let go of her teeth, embarrassed and angry, "Who’s hubby! Let go!"
"Don’t even think about it."
Bo Tingshen’s dark eyes curved, mischievously pecking her forehead, "Now answer , do you like , are you willing to be with ?"
"I don’t like..."
"If you dare refuse , I’ll jump into the fire right now!"
Bo Tingshen looked at her with a grim face, Ye Xian frowned, "You’re still threatening ?"
Bo Tingshen’s smile deepened, "I wouldn’t dare, I’m afraid if I jump in, you’ll follow to mourn your husband."
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