go home.

He Jinxing did not ask Gou An whether her cat had died a long time ago and she was so frightened that she was unconscious and had hallucinations.

Holding the trembling person in his arms in the heavy rain, he was completely unable to empathize with her sadness. In fact, he now had a sense of groundedness with his feet on the ground, an unprecedented sense of security, which almost made him smile.

Fortunately, Gou An couldn't see it, otherwise he would be furious at the two people's completely different mindsets and the empathy that the man had not shown until that second.

He patted Gou An's back with his big hand and asked her if she could still walk out by herself.

The heavy rain soaked Gou An like a drowned dog. She nodded with difficulty, and soon realized who was standing in front of her. She didn't need to pretend to be strong, so she shook her head again while He Jinxing patiently lowered his head and waited for her to regret.

The next second she was picked up, she hugged He Jinxing's neck and sat on his strong arms——

The hugging posture made her subconsciously look at the top of his head. In the past, she could see a clear display of friendliness whenever she wanted, but now, above the man's head, there was only heavy rain and the burnt black ruins, with the lingering sparks flying and not yet extinguished.

Thinking of the little kitten wagging its tail, proud for no reason but proudly declaring itself an invincible electronic pet, Gou An's heart was struck again.

She curled up slightly in He Jinxing's arms and buried her face deeply in his neck.

He Jinxing could easily detect the sudden clinginess and deepening vulnerability of the person in his arms. He patted her back tolerantly, "Cold?"

Gou An hummed a little, her eyes reddened, and only her black and white pupils were washed by the heavy rain and became unusually bright. She asked He Jinxing: "Why did you bring her here?"

He Jinxing then turned around and looked at Lu Wan behind him——

Sitting on the charred wooden beams, her soft and warm pure white home clothes seemed to have turned into a torture, wet and heavy, sticking to her cold body. Her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were covered with carbon marks and mud.

He Jinxing explained the whole process to Gou An in a storytelling tone.

The beginning of the story is not too far from now. It probably starts from the day when He Jinxing went to dig up Yelang in the ruins after the typhoon.

After digging Ye Lang out of the ruins, they talked about the person who had locked Gou An in the original building. Then they stopped talking about people during the day and ghosts at night. As they were talking, the person appeared from an intact building.

“I also want to believe in science.”

The only male protagonist in the world who was kept in the dark and had no idea that he was the male protagonist sighed.

"But the buildings around her collapsed, but hers was the only one that remained unscathed. This is a bit strange."

Then Ye Lang told her ambiguously that it was the heroine.

He Jinxing certainly didn't know what he was talking about, but intuitively, he guessed that it was probably about Lu Wan's ability to turn danger into safety, which could not be explained by natural science.

He really accepted this setting easily.

As for whether Lu Wan deserves such a good fortune, he doesn't care at all.

When talking about the shantytowns being easily burned tonight, He Jinxing naturally thought of large-scale fires. They were all disasters, so there was no reason for him not to use Lu Wan to test the waters...

Anyway, he would always have to go into the fire scene to find Gou An, and bring Lu Wan with him (even though she was very reluctant). If it was useful, he would use it, and if it was not, it would not have any impact.

While He Jinxing was talking about something that was basically not the logic of a normal human with a heart, Lu Wan was not far away.

Of course she could hear what he said.

She curled up into a ball, hugging her knees, trembling and crying, her face close to a nervous breakdown.

However, neither of the two people in the conversation paid any attention to her, and even Gou An did not come to take advantage of her misfortune to ridicule her -

The latter was hugging the man's neck, busy asking "what next?" and angrily scolding "you are gambling, have you heard that you can't touch pornography, gambling or drugs?", and then...

She let the man hold her and walk towards the alley exit.

"You use people as fire extinguishers... This even sounds a bit yellow, and there shouldn't be any article that uses the word 'fire extinguisher' in such a literal sense—"

"I don't quite understand what you're saying. Is this a secret code between you and Ye Lang?"

"……no."

"snort."

"What are you humming for?"

"It better not be."

"He Jinxing, you are really too reckless! Shouldn't you have some self-control that you can be proud of? What would you do if Lu Wan doesn't have the fire-fighting ability you imagined?"

"Hmm? I'll find you and die with you in my arms."

"...He Jinxing!"

The man was even able to hold her back while he stretched out a hand to touch his ears which were itchy from the yelling. The raindrops flowed down his well-defined cheeks and gathered at his chin. He turned his head and glanced at the person in his arms who was furious.

Their eyes met.

Gou An was slightly stunned, then he realized that his attention had indeed been diverted, and instantly grasped his purpose of provoking people in this inappropriate way.

Raising her hand to scrape off the water drops hanging from his chin, she pursed her lips and said awkwardly, "Better."

While the two were talking, a group of policemen passed by them. They had cold faces and were well-trained. The splashes of mud stained their black boots.

The one running at the end was probably their leader. When he passed the man and woman hugging each other in the heavy rain, he paused for a moment and exchanged glances with He Jinxing who turned his head. The man had his usual friendly smile on his lips: "There are people behind us, in the ruins by the roadside, it's so dark, can you use a flashlight?"

Such thoughtful words spoken.

The police officer nodded slightly to him, raised his hand to press down the brim of his wet police hat, and walked towards Lu Wan without looking back.

The direction of the main gate was the initial point of the fire. Even with such heavy rain, the fire has not been completely extinguished, and the fire has collapsed severely.

He Jinxing followed Gou An's instructions and took her out through the side door. They saw the main door from afar. Gou An then realized that the sound she heard when she was running in the fire just now was not an illusion.

There were seven or eight police cars and fire trucks parked in front of the open space at the scene. Under the rain, the roof lights of these special types of vehicles were flashing alternating red and blue warning lights.

Countless uniformed police officers held down the people who were gathering to cause trouble. A middle-aged man in a wrinkled suit was pulled out of the passenger seat of He Jinxing's Maybach and pressed face down on the ground.

The police officer handcuffed his hands behind his back, but for some reason he was still crying and shouting that his face hurt and asked not to be pressed. At the same time, he hurriedly apologized and said he knew he was wrong.

The police officer who was holding him down looked quite young. Working in the heavy rain seemed to make him even more excited. Hearing that, he straightened up and kicked the man who was kneeling on the ground with the hard tip of his shoe. "How dare you kidnap and extort? Do you think you can cash the check safely at the bank and deposit it into your own account? You think we police officers are just here to eat for free! Ha!"

As he spoke, he bent down again and took out a folded check from the middle-aged man's wrinkled suit. He took a look at it, sneered, and handed it to his colleague behind him to put it into a sealed evidence bag.

"Or am I worrying too much? It turns out that this uncle didn't know that a check would be scrapped if it was folded?" The policeman was overjoyed. "It seems that He Jinxing didn't remind you at the time."

The person whose name he called had a blank expression on his face and put the person in his arms back to the ground.

After Gou An stood firm, he looked up and down at the man in front of him. He felt that this man exuded a certain strong atmosphere from head to toe, from inside to outside...

To use an old-fashioned word, it would probably be "sinister".

Behind those spectacular police cars were Gou An's family, who rushed over almost as soon as they received the news.

But now he is blocked behind the cordon.

Looking at the collapsed alley, Jiang Yuan leaned weakly in her husband's arms. Even though the police and the fire brigade said the fire inside had been under control, she covered her mouth and nodded, but she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Gou Yu was extremely anxious, and kept asking the police colleagues who had gone in if they had any information, whether his daughter had been found, and he also had to distract himself to calm Jiang Yuan down...

And his son who was going crazy beside him.

What was surprising was that Gou Xun was also there. Strictly speaking, given his mental state and behavior, it would not be a problem to charge him with obstructing the performance of public duties and lock him up for fifteen days.

The tall and strong boy was extremely agitated at this time, jumping up and down as if possessed by another groundhog spirit, shouting "Let me in, I'll go find her"! A firefighter held his waist, and the remaining two policemen pressed his arms, barely holding him in place!

Gou Yu was already anxious, and now he was dizzy from Gou Xun's noise, so he yelled: "Stop jumping around! What are you doing in there? You'll only cause more trouble! Are you in a hurry to find your little teacher or your sister?"

Gou Xun turned his head suddenly, tears bursting out, and he became crazy and scolded his father as well: "What nonsense are you talking about? Of course I'm looking for my sister! My sister is in there!"

He paused as he spoke, his eyes gradually turning red.

"I have to find her. I haven't even apologized to her yet! Fuck! Let me go!"

The explosive power of basketball players should not be underestimated. He twisted his waist with brute force and really shook off the firefighter's arm like a loach and rushed forward half a step -

Just then, a stone hit him from behind and hit him hard on the back of his head.

The young man was stunned and turned around, only to see the person he was crying and shouting for was now standing with his hands on his hips, looking at him expressionlessly.

The rain washed her pale cheeks, and the two identical pairs of eyes looked at each other silently. She blinked, and a drop of water fell from her eyelashes.

Before Gou Xun pounced on Gou An like a bear, Jiang Yuan and Gou Yu had already pulled their daughter into their arms.

Gou Xun, who was a step slower, looked at Gou An who was standing there alive. After the ecstasy, his mind went blank. His legs went soft and he knelt in the wet mud, hugging his sister's waist.

In the chaos, the boy buried his cold, bloodless face in his arms, his nose red, and repeated countless times, "Sister, I'm sorry."

I don’t know when the wind and rain will stop.

The cold fingertips grabbed his short hair, grabbed it, shook it, and finally turned it into a light slap on his head.

"stand up."

Gou An said.

"go home."

(End of this chapter)