Chapter 280 I'd rather the chandelier had hit me instead

The incident happened in the blink of an eye. A few seconds later, the shaking of the ground stopped. Chu Rou tried to get up, but she was pinned down and unable to move.

"The chandelier fell and hit someone!"

"Call an ambulance immediately!"

...

The surroundings were filled with chaotic noise and the sounds of people running around.

She was hit by a chandelier? Did it hit her or the person on top of her?

"He Wei..." She was struggling to breathe, trying to tell the person on top of her to get up, but she couldn't make a loud sound. "Can you get up?"

"Rou Rou! Rou Rou!" It was Mo Chi's panicked cry.

Chu Rou stretched out her hand and patted the ground, calling out to Mo Chi at the top of her lungs, "Mo Chi, I'm here!"

"Rou Rou!" Mo Chi spotted Chu Rou. He grabbed Chu Rou's hand, trying to pull her out, but found that she was being tightly protected by He Wei.

"Rou Rou, don't be afraid, I'll rescue you right away."

Mo Chi released Chu Rou's hand and directed his men to move the chandelier off He Wei.

"Move them away!"

Chu Rou heard footsteps approaching, and the weight on her body suddenly disappeared as she was pulled into a familiar embrace.

"Rou Rou, how are you?"

Chu Rou's chest heaved as she desperately gasped for air. Her mind gradually cleared, and she looked up to see the tense Mo Chi. "I'm fine, I'm just a little short of breath from the pressure."

"It's good that you're alright!" Mo Chi's brows remained furrowed, and when he saw the person lying next to him, the wrinkles between his brows deepened.

Chu Rou turned her head to look in the direction of Mo Chi's gaze, her pupils suddenly contracting.

He Wei lay on the wrecked ground with his eyes closed, his face covered in blood, making it impossible to tell if he was alive or dead.

Chu Rou trembled, clutching Mo Chi's clothes tightly, and asked in a trembling voice, "Mo Bao, is he... is he dead?"

Mo Chi glanced at He Wei's chest, which was rising and falling slightly. He shook his head at Chu Rou and said in a deep voice, "He's not dead! We've already called 120, and the ambulance will be here soon."

Hearing that He Wei was alive, Chu Rou relaxed. If He Wei had died saving her, she would have lived with guilt for the rest of her life.

Chu Rou struggled to stand up from Mo Chi's arms. Mo Chi looked her over again. Her legs were cut in several places by shards of glass, and blood beads were oozing out of the wounds. Her legs looked bloody and somewhat frightening.

"Rou Rou, let me take you to the hospital to treat your wound first." Mo Chi tried to pull Chu Rou away.

Chu Rou glanced down at her legs, which looked frightening, but she felt no pain. "I'm fine."

After she finished speaking, she focused her attention on He Wei, saying, "We'll go to the hospital together when the ambulance arrives."

Mo Chi glanced at He Wei, his brows furrowed. He had better be alright; if He Wei was going to die, he couldn't be allowed to get involved with Chu Rou.

"I called Deng Qian."

Now, the only person connected to He Wei is Deng Qian. Chu Rou nodded. With such a big incident, He Wei's family must be notified.

Mo Chi dialed Deng Qian's number, and she answered quickly, "Mo Chi, what's up?"

"Do you know that He Wei is coming to City C?" Mo Chi asked coldly.

He suspected that He Wei had deliberately come to City C to find Chu Rou.

Deng Qian paused for two seconds, then said in a calm tone, "He went to City C to meet with clients to discuss cooperation. Did he harass you again? I have already conveyed your message to him, but he is determined to do it his own way, and there is nothing I can do."

The sound of an ambulance siren rang out outside. Mo Chi cut to the chase, "He Wei is in the same club as us. There was an earthquake in City C just now, and a chandelier in the lobby fell and hit him. The ambulance is here and will take him to the hospital immediately. Do you want to come and see him?"

"What did you say?" Deng Qian exclaimed in surprise. "Is he seriously injured?"

"Head bleeding profusely, unconscious!" Mo Chi said succinctly. "I'll send you the exact address when we get to the hospital. Try your best to come; it might be the last time you see him!"

Mo Chi hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

He Wei has already been put into an ambulance.

Chu Rou wanted to go with them, but Mo Chi stopped her, saying, "We'll go in our own car. I'll send someone to accompany He Wei."

Chu Rou knew that Mo Chi had always been hostile towards He Wei, so she had to consider Mo Chi's feelings and nodded, "Mo Bao, I'm worried about He Wei's safety because he saved me, not because I have feelings for him."

“I understand,” Mo Chi’s cold expression softened slightly. “He saved you, and he can ask for any reward he wants, except for you.”

"sister!"

"Xiaorou!"

"Sister Chu Rou!"

Shen Luo and the other three came running in, panting, and surrounded Chu Rou. "How are you?"

When the earthquake struck, the four of them ran out of the villa.

Several security guards ran towards the main hall. They heard on the walkie-talkie that someone had been hit by a chandelier, and it seemed to be the boss's wife.

The proprietress? Could it be Chu Rou?

The four of them were so frightened that they ran over.

"Sister Chu Rou, your legs!" Huang Shan was horrified by Chu Rou's bloody legs.

"It's nothing, just a cut from glass, a little blood, it's all clotted now." Chu Rou didn't care at all; this little injury was nothing to her.

Shen Yan saw a pool of blood on the ground and asked nervously, "Whose blood is that?"

Chu Rou looked in the direction Shen Yan pointed, frowned. She hadn't noticed it before, but it was revealed after He Wei was carried away. "It should be He Wei's."

"Who?" Shen Luo exclaimed in surprise, "How come he's here too!"

Chu Rou sighed, "I don't want him to be here either. I'd rather it was me who was hit by the chandelier. This debt of gratitude is too heavy; I'm afraid I can't repay it."

Shen Luo and Shen Yan looked at each other, unable to understand Chu Rou's meaning.

Mo Chi took Chu Rou's hand. "Let's go to the hospital first."

Shen Luo and Shen Yan could not stay any longer, so the four of them went to the hospital with Chu Rou.

At the hospital.

Chu Rou was taken to the treatment room to have her wounds treated; some of the wounds still contained shards of glass.

The doctor patiently cleaned Chu Rou's wounds, some deep and some shallow, and then bandaged them with gauze after disinfection.

Chu Rou didn't feel anything when she was cut, but it really hurt when they disinfected her wound; she even cried.

She wiped away her tears as she left the treatment room. Mo Chi went up to her and asked worriedly, "Rou Rou, why are you crying?"

"It hurts!" Chu Rou's beautiful legs were wrapped in gauze. "Disinfection is too irritating."

Mo Chi was both amused and exasperated. He hugged Chu Rou and comforted her, "I'll blow on it when we get back and it won't hurt anymore."

Chu Rou:......

She glanced around furtively, hoping that Xiao Luo and the others hadn't heard her; it was a bit embarrassing.

Shen Yan coughed, his expression remaining serious, but if you looked closely, you would notice that the corners of his mouth were turned up.

Huang Shan and Qu Jie lowered their heads and suppressed their laughter.

Shen Luo's expression was complicated, a mixture of envy and disgust. He envied Mo Chi's thick skin, which allowed him to say such cheesy things anytime, anywhere, but it was so disgusting that it made him want to roll his toes.