Luo Qianqian clutched the coat that still carried his warm scent tightly, obediently closing her eyes to ignore everything around her.

However, because of his arrival, I felt for a moment that I had been rescued from an endless purgatory.

She couldn't see anything around her, only the faint sounds of people screaming in pain, and the faint smell of blood wafting towards her.

Gu Yunche didn't let her open her eyes, and she didn't dare to open her eyes either, tightly gripping the clothes draped over her body as if she were holding onto a lifeline.

After an unknown amount of time, an endless silence fell over the surroundings.

Then, footsteps approached her.

But this time, she was no longer afraid. Her intuition told her that the person who came was someone she trusted.

Gu Yunche picked up the girl who was sitting against the wall, walked out of the dirty and dark little house, and headed towards the car parked outside.

He then put her down on the ground, supported her with one hand, opened the car door with the other, helped her into the car and sat down, and then went around to the other side to get into the driver's seat.

As night fell, he drove away from the nightmarish village.

Throughout the journey, Luo Qianqian clutched the clothes draped over her body, staring intently at the headlights illuminating the road ahead, still feeling a lingering sense of fear.

She couldn't imagine what she would have faced today if he hadn't shown up.

Gu Yunche drove with a livid face, and after a long while he spoke.

"Why didn't you say so when you came over here?"

If he hadn't happened to find the doll at the Shiva temple, if the monk hadn't told him that she had been there.

So he had no idea she had come, let alone what had happened to her.

In that situation, if he had arrived just a few minutes later, it would have been too late.

"If I told you, would you still let me come?" Luo Qianqian asked in a hoarse voice.

He didn't particularly enjoy meeting her, and she was afraid of his rejection, so she came secretly.

"No," Gu Yunche said.

If she wanted to come here, he would of course refuse.

She didn't care how chaotic India was or how unsafe it was for girls there.

Luo Qianqian thought he meant he didn't want to see him, and her eyes instantly reddened, tears streaming down her face.

"Fine, I deserve it, I brought this on myself..."

"Qianqian!" Gu Yunche slammed on the brakes and turned to look at the girl who was crying uncontrollably beside him. "I mean, I won't let you come to such a dangerous place."

However, when she thought about everything she had experienced today, Luo Qianqian couldn't stop crying.

She originally wanted to appear in front of him happily and spend a simple and warm birthday together.

Little did he know, he would almost lose his life here.

However, the moment he appeared before her, she felt not a single trace of regret.

Even after experiencing such terrible things, she didn't regret coming here because of his appearance.

Just like how she never regretted falling in love with him.

Gu Yunche frowned slightly, looking at her thoughtfully as he asked.

"Why are you here?"

Wasn't she in China having a great time with that young man?

As a result, he didn't reply to my messages or answer my calls for two days.

Today, however, he suddenly appeared in Bangalore, as if he had been waiting for him to appear.

Luo Qianqian, looking disheveled, looked at the man who had been waiting for her for a day and a night. Perhaps it was the feeling of surviving a disaster that made her speak without any restraint.

"Because today is my birthday, I want to spend it with you."

"Because I like you, I can't help but want to see you, but I'm afraid you don't want to see me, so I came secretly and hid where you were coming from..."