Chapter 1841 [Shang Xie] I’m afraid it’s too late
And in this mind-numbing pain, she heard a clear and slightly cool voice, whispering to her from not far away,
"Xia Fuyi, why do you have to follow me?"
“…”
The girl leaned against the car wall with her eyes closed, and after opening her lips for a moment, she murmured a reply.
"I...want to protect you."
Her eyelashes trembled slightly like feathers in the dim light, and her incoherent answer swept across the man's heart as soft and fragile as a feather.
The long eyelashes under the mask trembled. Li Chi sat in the carriage, his dark eyes covering Xia Fuyi's entire body.
It was a long time before he found his voice again.
"I'm no longer in danger."
"That's not the case..."
Xia Fuyi closed her eyes, her voice vague as if she was mumbling in a dream.
"They will always follow you."
Li Chi's eyes narrowed slightly, and his voice became even lower.
"who are they?"
"...Tianji Sect."
"How well do you know Tianji Sect?"
"I understand...very well."
"Why are you leaving?"
“…”
As if being asked a question that she really didn't want to answer, the girl frowned slightly, and the voice quickly changed the question.
"What kind of place is Tianjimen?"
"To achieve the goal, we will do whatever it takes."
The man in the carriage curled his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes.
He lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then said calmly,
"So, if their goal is to kill me, they will achieve it no matter what?"
"I will protect you,"
The girl answered this way for the second time.
She closed her eyes, with blood stains still on her face, and was clearly paler than Li Chi. However, she held the sword tightly in her hand and refused to relax.
"You are my employer. I will get you home safely."
Li Chi fell silent.
The dim light shone on his lower jaw exposed outside the mask and his tightly closed lips, which inexplicably gave off a cold and oppressive feeling.
He looked at the girl silently, and after a long time he slowly looked away.
You forgot.
I never gave you money.
And as the man said, even if we are in a real employment relationship, you don't have to risk your life for me.
The wind blew the sky-blue car curtains, and a maple forest passed by the window. Red leaves fell and floated into the dim car window with the wind.
Li Chi picked up the leaf casually. The clear veins on the leaf were reflected in his eyes, spreading out a faint red.
Then he threw the leaves out of the window and tied the curtains tightly to the wooden frame.
There was no wind in the car, and the girl fell into an even deeper sleep.
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I don’t know how many days and nights it took.
Day and night began to lose their presence in Xia Fuyi's eyes.
The high fever became her friend, coming and going at any time without any notice, leaving her in a drowsy dream all day and all night, and she didn't even know how much blood she had vomited.
But even when she was so unconscious that she couldn't recognize who was around her, she never let go of the sword in her hand. As long as she stayed by Li Chi's side, she would always open her eyes instantly if there was any movement around her.
One day, when I was woken up by the noisy and monotonous sound again, it was already dusk outside the window.
Xia Fuyi kept her eyes open until the figure sitting opposite her gradually became clear in her eyes. Then she slowly shifted her gaze and looked behind her.
A slightly cool breeze with moisture blew in from the gaps in the curtains. Xia Fuyi, who had lived on the top of Taixu Mountain for many years and had never felt cold, felt the unbearable cold for the first time.
She gripped the hilt of the sword in her hand, resisting the urge to shrink herself, and asked softly,
"Is it raining?"
Li Chi hummed, his voice heavy and deep beside Xia Fuyi's ears.
She was drowsy for a moment, and suddenly coughed softly amid the sound of wind and rain behind her.
But this cough seemed to cause all the poison she had been suppressing these days to burst out, and large mouthfuls of blood began to flow out of her mouth.
She lost all her senses almost instantly. In her increasingly blurred vision, the masked man opposite her reached out and lifted her chin.
She looked at the pale half of his face, and in her consciousness which was about to go dark, she was still apologizing to the man embarrassedly.
——
I wanted to send you home, but now it seems that it is too late.
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