Just now, she had been focusing on treating this man’s wounds, fearing that if anything went wrong, these people would not let her go.
When he was making the phone call, she only caught snippets. Being soone who focuses intently, she only vaguely heard a few words.
Chu Munan’s face still bore a slight smile that seed like no smile at all. Hearing Yu Xia’s words, his eyebrows twitched, and he uttered a aningful "Oh," then asked indifferently, "What did you hear? Am I going to kill you to silence you?"
Yu Xia’s face changed at his words, but she quickly regained her composure, shaking her head repeatedly, with a sycophantic smile on her delicate face, "I really didn’t hear anything. Look, I’ve been busy bandaging your wound. How could I have had ti to listen to your phone call? You may not know, but once I start doing sothing seriously, I tend to block out everything else, not hearing others talk, really... You have to believe ."
If you don’t believe , I really have nothing left to say.
Yu Xia thought the man before her was the most attractive she’d ever seen. Being soone who values looks, she was even spellbound for a while at the beginning. She even thought about whether she should plan to trick this man into coming ho with her, forgetting that he’s not a good man.
But for her, who is a sucker for good looks, she couldn’t help but want to indulge. Initially, she didn’t want to remove the bullet for this man because firstly, he threatened her at the start, and secondly, he clearly wasn’t a simple character.
Yet, seeing that handso face, that wasn’t lacking in beauty either, Yu Xia felt she was losing control again. It would be great to bring him ho and just gaze at him every day.
Chu Munan slightly raised his eyebrows, looking at Yu Xia, then spoke, "I didn’t know you had this habit."
Yu Xia, "... Big brother, if you’re going to kill or slice , can’t you just do it quickly? Although your face is so handso, it’s irresistible, talking to you scares , you know..."
"So... What exactly do you want?" Yu Xia felt like crying. She just wanted to leave this room now.
At this mont, only two invisible-like n in black standing watch by the window remained in the study. The others were all outside, with occasional thunder echoing, making Yu Xia’s heartbeat race even faster.
Not out of excitent, but out of fear.
Because she is not very brave, and is quite timid...
Chu Munan, however, said nothing further. The bullet had just been extracted from his chest, and there were no anesthetics available here. Although it hurt, it was still bearable.
The man’s handso face maintained a smile, like a perfect mask, irresistibly drawing people’s fascination.
Looking at the girl before him, he wasn’t sure if it was her fear that amused him or whether it was seeing the girl, initially acting fearless, now groveling that sowhat impressed him. She seed to rge incomprehensibly with the woman who had attacked them upon first sight.
A dual personality?
Chu Munan surveyed Yu Xia from head to toe, his gaze hiding an elusive glint of light.
Yu Xia felt uneasy under his stare, almost instinctively moving backward.
The surgical tools on the floor that had not been taken away imdiately made an ear-piercing noise as she inadvertently knocked them while backing up, frightening Yu Xia almost to the point of jumping.
Chu Munan watched as Yu Xia steadily attempted to distance herself from him. His smiling face instantly beca expressionless, his eyes grew colder as they fixed on her, and his lips parted to speak in a low, toneless voice tinged with a rasp as if he had not drunk water for hours. In fact, he hadn’t had a drop in the many hours since his injury, giving his voice an even colder edge, "Are you afraid of ?"
When Chu Munan asked this, he gazed steadily into Yu Xia’s eyes, enunciating every word clearly.
Yu Xia nodded subconsciously, but just a second before nodding, she feigned obedience by shaking her head, no longer retreating. She felt this distance was safe enough. After all, the man was injured and couldn’t do much to her. She bit her lip and said, "No."
"Then why are you so far from ?" The man’s face remained expressionless, even giving off a feeling of chill that seed to shoot straight from his eyes to Yu Xia standing in front of him.
Yu Xia’s heart skipped a beat again, and it took her awhile to regain her voice. She explained, "I... I’m just afraid of accidentally hurting your wound and making it worse."
"That’s a feeble excuse." The man pierced through her lie rcilessly, still looking at her coldly, as if the smile before had been just an illusion.
Yu Xia, "Yes, I am afraid of you." This ti, she steeled herself, not bothering to find excuses, and admitted through gritted teeth.
Since he already thought so, any denial would be considered deceit by him. It was better to be honest.
A little more sincerity, a little less deception would be good.
Death is certain one way or another; Ning Yuan would rather play the hero than be a coward like a bear.
Chu Munan heard what Yu Xia said, fully within his expectations, yet he didn’t know why he felt an inexplicable twinge of discomfort flash by in his heart. Because it appeared so suddenly and disappeared so quickly, he could not grasp it at all.
His gaze indifferently observed Yu Xia across him; neither spoke for a mont, both silent.
The handso man, sowhat pale, sat in the sofa, expressionless, his face devoid of any change in emotion, just staring fixedly at the woman opposite him.
With delicate features, her hands still stained with so unwashed blood belonging to the man opposite her, the woman’s lips pursed thin, her teeth inside her mouth subtly biting her own lip. She appeared calm, but her trembling hands were not hard to notice.
The courage of just monts ago, mysteriously vanished under his gaze, and fear began to rise in her.
"Am I that frightening?" It seed like a long silence had passed when Chu Munan asked Yu Xia this, his face slowly breaking into a faint smile, deeper than the shallow one before, and without waiting for Yu Xia’s reply, he slightly lowered his gaze, his expression turning a bit more sorrowful, "She is afraid of , you’re afraid of , it seems like everyone is afraid of ... Am I really so frightening?"
Yu Xia stood there, perhaps because the man’s voice was too soft, but she didn’t catch the end of what he was saying and was montarily dumbfounded.
"Leave now, I don’t need you here anymore." Just at this mont, the man who had been looking down suddenly lifted his eyes toward Yu Xia, emotionless in his gaze, and indifferently spoke to dismiss her.
Hearing the man telling her to leave, Yu Xia naturally couldn’t wait; she said nothing, turned imdiately to the study door, opened it, and left.
However, as she was about to turn and close the door, her gaze inadvertently fell on the man leaning against the back of the sofa, now resting with closed eyes. An inexplicable emotion flashed through her heart.
Looking at his figure, sitting there alone, like an abandoned child, emanating an aura of solitude that made others see him as if he were lonely.
This thought gradually surfaced in Yu Xia’s mind, but it didn’t last long before she shivered and dismissed it, thinking she was overthinking.
This man had always been so lofty from the beginning, with so many subordinates, and just from looking, his status was extraordinary. How could he be lonely?
It was an illusion, certainly a delusion of her own.
...
In the living room on the first floor, only Song Qiao sat alone in a daze, how long she had been sitting there was unclear, her back straight, staring blankly ahead at the coffee table.
After leaving the study and coming down to the living room on the first floor, Yu Xia realized that the villa was almost entirely occupied by the man’s subordinates. She couldn’t help but feel a chill, thinking that if that was the case, breaking into this villa would not be difficult for them.
Originally, Yu Xia learned from Elder Lu that only about twenty people were arranged to protect Lu Jingchen by his side. When Lu Jingchen went to work at the company, surely so of those would follow and protect him discreetly. After dispatching so, naturally, not many would remain here.
Coming out from the study, looking at the number of black-clad people in the corridor, living room, and by the door, there had to be at least twenty or thirty of them.
This was certainly a long-planned sche.
"Song Qiao, why are you sitting here?" Yu Xia directly approached and sat down beside Song Qiao, waved her hand in front of her, and asked.
Song Qiao instantly snapped out of her daze and looked at Yu Xia, who had appeared unexpectedly in front of her, and said belatedly in a daze, "You ca down? What ti is it?"
Yu Xia glanced at the clock on the wall and spoke mildly, "Half-past twelve."
After saying that, she surveyed the people around them and, seeing nobody paying attention to their side, she leaned closer to Song Qiao’s ear, lowering her voice as much as possible to ask, "Have you told Lu Jingchen we’re in trouble?"
At this ti, if Lu Jingchen was still unaware, she really had more to nitpick about that man.
Song Qiao paused, then instinctively and very honestly shook her head, biting her lip slightly, "I haven’t had the chance to ask him for help; I left my phone in the bedroom, and they won’t let go up."
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