Chapter 58 His Secret: He loves her, he doesn't want to let her go, he wants...

The next morning, sunlight streamed into the room through the hotel window.

Wen Yi looked out the window and said softly, "The weather is nice today, suitable for traveling."

"Don't you have anything to take with you?" Wen Chi couldn't help but ask as he looked at Wen Yi who didn't even have any luggage with her.

She forced a smile, "Well, it's easier to travel light..."

Wen Chi's heart tightened, but he remained calm and asked, "You're going to meet your savior, and you don't even need to bring a gift?"

"Oh right," Wen Yi suddenly thought of something. "What do you think is a good self-defense device for girls? Pepper spray? An alarm? Which one is suitable for me?"

Wen Chi frowned slightly, his tone unusually tense: "Who are you guarding against?"

She said vaguely, "Just to be prepared. I heard that girls have to be extra careful when going out alone."

He was silent for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Do you really want to see that police officer? Do you absolutely have to?"

Wen Yi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course! He is my savior."

He sighed softly: "After so many years, he must have forgotten you a long time ago."

She tilted her head and looked at him: "So what? I just wanted to thank you in person."

The two chatted as they walked towards the elevator. The elevator door was open and there was no one inside.

Wen Yi raised her chin at him and said, "The elevator is here, let's go."

She walked briskly and was the first to step into the elevator.

Just as Wen Chi was about to follow in, the elevator door began to slowly close.

"Wait!" Wen Yi turned around and immediately reached out to press the door opening button, but the elevator door continued to close.

Wen Chi was quick-witted and quick-handed, and suddenly stuck his arm into the crack of the door.

The elevator door did not open as expected, but instead clamped his arm tightly, as if forcing him to exit.

Wen Chi frowned.

"Brother!" Wen Yi slammed the door button, her voice anxious. "Quick, stop! There's probably something wrong with this elevator. It's okay, just wait for the next one."

Wen Chi gritted his teeth and exerted force, forcibly pulling his arm out from the crack in the door.

The moment before the metal door closed, Wen Yi made a reassuring gesture to him.

"Ding!" The door finally closed completely. Wen Chi stood there, his suspicious eyes reflected on the stainless steel door - something was wrong.

He took a deep breath and was about to press the button again when he heard a sharp sound of metal friction.

The numbers on the floor display were dropping rapidly—10, 9, 8, 7…

Each change in numbers was accompanied by a terrible muffled sound, as if the whole world was collapsing layer by layer.

Wen Chi’s face turned pale instantly and his heart skipped a beat.

"No……"

He looked at the ever-changing numbers and for the first time didn't know how to use his abilities to save Wen Yi.

A deafening roar seemed to come from far away underground: "Bang--"

The elevator car crashed heavily onto the first floor, and everything was settled.

Wen Chi's heart was also crushed by the loud noise. He stood still with a blank mind.

He couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes. His legs went weak and he could hardly stand.

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The moment the door closed, the elevator suddenly fell into darkness.

This is not right! Wen Yi's heartbeat quickened. The strange feeling of disharmony she felt when she entered the door was not an illusion. The ominous premonition turned into reality.

The elevator sank suddenly, and then fell rapidly without any warning, as if it was going to drag her into the abyss.

A strong sense of weightlessness came over her, her feet left the ground, and her whole body crashed backward, hitting the cold metal heavily.

She reached out in panic to grab something, but only felt cold air.

The whistling sound of high-speed air friction came to her ears, and fear engulfed her like a tide.

At the critical moment, she instinctively mobilized the strength in her body, and an invisible wave spread from her body, offsetting part of the impact force in time.

But the gravity she could control was limited after all, and the elevator still carried her heavily to the first floor.

Severe pain rippled through her limbs and bones, and Wen Yi lay on the ground, her ears ringing. She raised her head with difficulty, her throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

She clenched her teeth tightly, this was definitely not an ordinary malfunction!

Wen Yi heard hurried footsteps outside in the darkness.

"Yiyi! Can you hear me?"

In her blurred vision, she saw the deformed elevator door being pried open little by little.

As soon as the door opened, Wen Chi rushed in. Dan Qi knelt beside her, and his trembling fingers gently stroked the bloodstains at the corner of her mouth.

"How are you?" He said in a very hoarse voice.

Wen Yi swallowed the blood in her mouth and answered with difficulty: "...For now, I won't die."

After a quick check, he carefully picked her up by the waist, avoided the crowd that had rushed to the scene of the accident, and quickly left the hotel.

She leaned weakly in his arms and was about to speak, but after seeing his expression, she chose to remain silent.

His brows were furrowed, and his eyes were filled with shock and heartache... and a kind of worry that she was all too familiar with, which she had seen in Gu Yifeng's eyes countless times.

There was a secret in her heart that was about to come out.

The roar of the engine sounded, the car drove onto the highway, and Wen Chi drove her towards Yunhu City.

The car was silent, and the two of them remained silent tacitly.

Wen Yi leaned back in her chair, eyes closed, to rest. Having ridden a real bungee jumping machine early in the morning, her bones ached, and even breathing was painful.

But she already had a vague understanding that the elevator accident was no accident. Cao Mo had warned her long ago that if the past timeline discovered her "non-original existence," a certain purge mechanism would be triggered, completely erasing her. Xu Xiaoyi, Cheng Yan, and Zhang Mingyuan were all dead, and now the only one who knew her secret was Wen Chi. It turned out that she had already touched the edge of the rules, but she hadn't discovered it yet.

After careful consideration, she said softly, "Brother, I saw a movie before."

Wen Chi turned his head slightly and glanced at her.

"The protagonist in the movie travels back in time, hoping to change something." She clutched the corner of her clothes with her fingertips and tilted her head to look out the window. "But his secret was discovered, and they knew he didn't belong here. In the end, he was completely erased from this world."

The car fell silent again.

"Did the movie say..." Wen Chi's fingers tightly gripped the steering wheel, "What should we do to protect the protagonist from being erased?"

Wen Yi shook her head gently: "No. Perhaps the only way out is for the protagonist to leave this timeline as soon as possible. After all, those who don't belong here will eventually be abandoned by this world."

The car slowly drove into a gas station in the suburbs. It was sparsely populated and quiet all around.

Wen Chi got out of the car to refuel, leaving Wen Yi alone in the car.

She was thinking about how to sneak into the Zero Laboratory after arriving in Yunhu City, find the "Anchor of Time", and try to return to her own time point.

At this moment, a black shadow appeared in front of her. The car that was originally parked in the parking space suddenly started and rushed towards her like a mad beast.

Wen Yi's eyes widened suddenly, her heart nearly stopping. Her mind went blank, and she almost forgot how to unbuckle her seatbelt, her body pinned firmly to the seat.

Damn! This cleaning mechanism is too aggressive! It's going all out to kill her!

Just when she thought she was doomed, a familiar figure flashed by from the side like lightning.

The next second, ripples appeared in the air. Wen Chi stood in front of the car, and the special area unfolded instantly.

Bang!

A loud crash was heard, and the entire car seemed to have hit an invisible barrier, stopping abruptly less than ten centimeters away from Wen Chi.

The hood was completely twisted and deformed, and thick smoke was billowing from the car.

Wen Yi covered her mouth tightly, broke out in a cold sweat, and her limbs were still shaking uncontrollably.

She finally understood that this purge mechanism wasn't just a scare tactic. It was truly determined to completely wipe her out at all costs.

Wen Chi quickly got into the car and slammed the accelerator. The car sped out of the gas station as if it was being chased by the god of death.

"I've discovered something," he whispered, staring at the road ahead. "As soon as the protagonist in the movie is left alone, the removal mechanism will immediately come to him."

Wen Chi analyzed calmly, "So I have an idea - the safest way is to let him stay with the people closest to him all the time."

He glanced at her sideways, his eyes deep: "From now on, he is not allowed to be alone, not even for a minute or a second."

Wen Yi was stunned.

Considering that she was still injured, Wen Chi took her to a hotel to rest as soon as he arrived in Yunhu City.

He stayed by her side all the time, as if he was afraid that something might happen to her at the next moment.

"You should rest for a while too," she said softly.

Wen Chi nodded, but did not leave the bedside: "You go to sleep first, I'll watch you."

She leaned against the pillow, extremely tired, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, Wen Yi woke up in a daze and found the room was pitch black.

It was a dark night, with no lights on in the house, only the faint moonlight streaming in from the window.

"Brother?" she called softly and turned on the bedside lamp.

The moment the lights came on, she saw Wen Chi's face clearly - his eyes were bloodshot, his expression was distorted, and something was wrong.

Wen Yi felt a little uneasy, but she still tried to keep smiling: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

She didn't know that Wen Chi could no longer hear her at this moment.

His world was filled with countless chaotic illusions and surging emotions. His eyes would sometimes see her smiling face, and sometimes her determined back as she walked away with someone else.

His hands were shaking and his heart was twitching.

In the ever-changing illusions, he saw himself reaching out to touch her countless times, but pulling his hand back abruptly; wanting to get closer, but gritting his teeth and forcing himself to retreat.

His memory flashed back to the day when Wen Yunzhi took him from the side branch.

"Look, that's my daughter, Wen Yi."

The boy tilted his head, glanced at the little girl of seven or eight years old, and nodded calmly.

"Is she pretty?"

He couldn't help but take another look, then nodded vigorously.

Wen Yunzhi suddenly changed the subject: "Which one do you want, the Wen family business or her?"

He frowned slightly: "I...haven't thought about it."

"Sooner or later, you will want at least one of them. If you can be together as I wish, then both of them can be yours." Wen Yunzhi said meaningfully.

For many years, he has walked in the darkness, wandering in the gray area, and has seen the intrigues and sinister hearts of people. But there is always a pure land in his heart, reserved for the girl far away.

He gradually felt that his father was right - he wanted both the Wen family business and her. But her heart had never been with him.

An inexplicable anger was running rampant in his body, as if something was controlling him.

Wen Yi was unaware of the danger and subconsciously wanted to get closer to him.

The next second, his special domain suddenly expanded, binding her tightly to the bed.

Memories, obsessions, and desires devoured his remaining sanity at this moment.

He finally tore off the disguise and saw himself clearly.

He loves her, he doesn't want to let go, he wants to get her.

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Author's words: Gu Yifeng: I don't agree with this play! Director! I want to see the director!

Wen Yi: Jumping off the (fake) building (bone) machine (science) is so exciting!

Wen Chi: Life is like a play

Director: Immersed in my own world, unable to extricate myself [sunglasses]