You really are... so delicate.

People in three layers inside and outside surrounded her and insisted on sending Gou An to the hospital for a thorough check-up to see if she was okay. After all, anyone would be in trouble if they were hit by such a strong adult man.

Gou An couldn't resist, but at least he rejected the exaggerated invitation to get on the stretcher, emphasizing that he could walk to the infirmary.

She followed the crowd and walked two steps outside. Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she turned around and looked at He Jinxing who was standing outside the crowd.

He still stood there without moving.

I can’t tell whether he will follow me or not.

But what is certain is that from the beginning, his eyes have been on her and have never moved away, because their eyes met easily.

“…”

Gou An couldn't explain what he felt now.

Strictly speaking, according to past theories, at this moment she should be quite afraid of He Jinxing because she went to save the beauty Ye Lang and got furious, and then the vicious female supporting role received some strange punishment...

But at this moment, she realized that the fear she thought she had was only a small part of it.

She would rather do other things right now than worry about her situation.

For example, now, immediately, right now, when she felt her whole body was about to be crushed to pieces, she complained to him and felt pain all over her body.

Even though saying it wouldn't stop the pain, if she opened her mouth to complain, she would just want to complain to him, regardless of whether he liked to hear it or not.

——She wanted him to follow.

The thought flashed through my mind, startlingly.

Just like a young animal that is injured in the wild will subconsciously look for the guardian behind it.

Perhaps it was because when most of the troubles happened, Gou An would always see such a person standing behind him when he turned around. Whether it was by chance or intentional, he seemed to be there.

——Guardian.

She didn't know when He Jinxing had given her this fixed impression.

Gou An walked to the door and kept looking back at He Jinxing. He looked like a lost lamb surrounded by the crowd, and looked a little pitiful.

She frequently looked back to find his gaze, and under that gaze, He Jinxing found that it still took some effort for him not to follow him immediately.

"You're not going with me?"

Jiang Yi's voice came from behind, "She seems to want you to go with her."

He Jinxing stood there without paying any attention to him or moving.

Jiang Yi looked at his friend with a cold face and stood still, as if some unlucky guy would be defeated tomorrow. He felt very emotional and suddenly turned around and whistled at a friend not far away.

When the other party looked at him blankly, Jiang had already taken out a lighter from his pocket and threw it over -

There was no prior discussion or greeting, and the other party didn't know what he was throwing at him, but he still opened his arms and steadily caught the lighter that Jiang Yi threw over.

The man looked over with a question mark in his eyes.

Jiang Yi smiled with his white teeth showing. He raised his hand and patted the shoulder of the He family leader who was watching his series of actions coldly beside him: "Did you see that? Sometimes it's just an instinctive reaction to subconsciously stretch out your hands to catch something thrown at you. Why are you so angry?"

"..." The man expressionlessly slapped away the hand hanging on his shoulder, "Take your hand away, it's heavy."

The tone was still foul, but the expression on his face was no longer as gloomy as it had been a second ago.

"Tsk tsk, Jinzi is really angry!" Jiang Yi stared at the man's slightly relaxed profile and couldn't help but sigh, "I know you are angry, but don't be angry first. You should understand why people like this will subconsciously reach out to take things occasionally. I don't need to tell you. I don't know why you are uncomfortable... Is it because Gou An reached out to take another man instead of a lighter, so you are unhappy and your reason runs away from home-"

"It's so noisy."

He Jinxing raised his hand and brushed it against his ear as if he was shooing away a fly.

"Strictly speaking, even if I'm really unhappy about her reaching out to another man without thinking, isn't that okay?"

Jiang Yi was silent for two seconds after hearing such an emotional sentence.

Two seconds later, he slowly opened his eyes and said, "But I was joking when I said 'unhappy' just now. I was teasing you... Are you really unhappy?"

“…”

"Jealous?"

“…”

"No, you don't suspect that Gou An and Ye Lang have something going on, do you?"

"What do you know?"

"I don't know, but I have eyes."

Jiang Yi pointed in the direction Gou An left.

"I only noticed that Miss Gou didn't even look at other people until the last second before she walked out of the practice field, let alone Ye Lang. She was hit so hard by him that she couldn't even stand steadily, and she didn't even take the time to scold him."

"She keeps looking back for you."

After a simple examination, it turned out that Gou An was fine.

But everyone, including Gou Yu and Jiang Yuan, was shocked. The couple rushed over. Jiang Yuan rushed to her daughter to make sure that she was not missing any arms or legs, while Gou Yu stopped outside the ward and did not come in.

Gou An seemed a little absent-minded when he took the time to answer his mother's question, and asked casually: "What is Dad doing outside?"

"Swearing." Jiang Yuan waved his hand, "Ignore him."

At first Gou An thought Gou Yu was scolding Ye Lang, until the door of the ward was opened from the outside. She heard Gou Yu cursing, "You can't even take care of me by yourself. Are you too old?" "If you can't do it, tell me as soon as possible." Such inexplicable lines floated in...

As soon as he looked up, he saw his old father standing at the door with his sleeves rolled up and his hands on his hips. Opposite him, the head of the He family was leaning lazily against the wall, standing awkwardly, with that gentle smile that even dogs could see on his lips. He said nothing and was patiently scolded.

Gou An: “…”

At this moment, perhaps sensing her gaze, the man who was listening obediently trembled his eyelashes, raised his eyelids and glanced into the ward -

The moment their eyes met.

Gou An seemed to hear a huge stone fall from her heart, shaking all her internal organs below her chest.

Gou An lifted the quilt and lay back on the hospital bed. He pulled the quilt up high enough to reveal only his eyes, then closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

After all the noisy people in the ward left and her ears returned to silence, she still closed her eyes, and her heartbeat finally returned to normal.

Only the ears stood up high.

Even though her eyes were closed and her hearing was not good enough to catch other people's slight breathing, she had a strong feeling that there was probably still someone in the ward who had not left.

Gou An curled up under the sheets, closed his eyes, and listened to the slight sound of his soles stepping on the wooden floor.

The sound was getting closer.

Curled up under the quilt, her clenched hands closed silently, her shoulders were so stiff that she even felt the pain from lying on the hard bed in the infirmary.

The person finally stopped beside the bed and looked down at her direction, as if a light line of sight was looking over at her——

The tension in her heart reached its peak.

The heartbeat becomes abnormal again.

At this moment, she smelled the extremely familiar scent of woody cologne...

Then, the loose hair that was hanging on her cheek was brushed away by a finger.

"Don't pretend to be asleep if you're not sleepy."

The man's voice sounded calm.

Gou An immediately opened his eyes, turned over, and stared at him with his dark brown eyes. When he met the other's emotionless eyes, his eyes were like the rising tide.

She didn't say anything, but just pursed her lips, as if she was forcing herself to hold back some emotion.

"Why that expression?"

He Jinxing chuckled, and then Gou An felt the bedside collapse a little, and the person who was originally standing by the bed sat down on the bed.

He reached out and pulled the bed sheet that was covering half of her face, forcing the other half of her face to be revealed. His eyes moved around her stern face and he sighed.

"I just didn't follow you right away. You really are... so delicate."

——Look, this is Miss Gou.

It was she who acted like a hero and saved the beauty, rolling around with another man and falling to the ground right under his nose.

As a result, she felt wronged first.

"Then why didn't you come right away?" she asked in a low voice.

This question is really tricky.

He Jinxing felt helpless more than anything else, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, which was not sure whether it was mockery or self-mockery. At the same time, he felt her silently tugging at his sleeve -

"Why don't you come over here right away?" He repeated the question, this time with a stubborn tone.

He thought she was so persistent because she was afraid as always.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, he lowered his eyes and looked at her. After she finished asking the question, the moisture in his eyes condensed and turned into a thin layer of mist.

"What's wrong? I'm not some man-eating devil. The reason I didn't follow you at that time was because... if the Bodhisattva saw that situation, he would be furious."

He Jinxing sat back and said in a lazy tone, "But I'm not going to cancel the engagement with you because of this. Why are you crying? Are you that scared?"

“…”

It was like a bolt of lightning striking down, and Gou An's head was buzzing.

At that moment, I didn’t think of anything else. I just thought of the little lion in the animal world who was thrown to the side of the road by the male lion to fend for himself because he ran too slowly and couldn’t keep up with the group…

It may squat in the grass from now on, dare not move, like a poor little thing abandoned by its guardian, and finally die quietly.

………………This association is a bit outrageous.

Gou An knew that she had messed up the original storyline, so even if she broke off the engagement with He Jinxing, she would most likely not die.

But I still feel sad for no reason.

She didn't quite understand why.

The tears in her eyes quickly thickened, so much so that she could no longer see clearly. She could only try to stare at He Jinxing with her tearful eyes wide open, and asked in disbelief, "You want to break off the engagement with me?"

He Jinxing was stunned.

"Hmm? No, you don't understand--"

"don't want."

Her jaw was tense as she tried hard to hold back the tears. She heard herself arguing, "Are you angry about Ye Lang? I don't want to apologize, because that would mean I was really wrong. But I'm a little scared because I'm afraid you'll think I'm still in love with him behind your back, not because I'm afraid I've done something wrong. Regardless of whether Ye Lang planned to run in front of me and fall off his horse, I would have reached out to catch Lu Wan if she fell off that situation."

He Jinxing suddenly thought of the time on the boat when she inexplicably stood in front of the most annoying Lu Wan and had a fight with the Xu brothers and sisters.

Yeah, that's pretty convincing.

He looked at her.

As if to encourage her to continue.

"I am a little afraid of you, but the fact that I don't want to cancel the engagement is different from the fact that I am afraid of you."

She spoke in a firm tone, but in the end she couldn't hold it back and tears as big as beans rolled down, hitting the bed sheets with a "pa" sound that was so loud that it was deafening.

"I just simply don't want to."

Her voice landed loudly.

He Jinxing had seen women cry before. In the past, when business deals fell through, among the representatives of the other party who would lose their jobs or be scolded, there would occasionally be one or two who could not help but cry in front of him.

Mostly he was indifferent.

But now the situation suddenly becomes different.

It must be said that He Jinxing could feel that he was a little abnormal. Facing Gou An's tears, he stared at the quilt that was wet with tears, and was a little surprised to find that he could not treat it coldly like in the past...

He bent his knuckles subconsciously and moved his wrist, almost as if he was about to lift it up.

I almost ignored the vague dissatisfaction in my heart and wanted to help her wipe away her tears.

He held back, barely able to hold back, and didn't move.

"...Don't cry yet."

In the end, the suggestions only seemed slightly more sincere.

"No. I can't help it."

Her voice still had a hint of bitterness from crying.

This pitiful voice successfully made the man feel more emotional. It only took He Jinxing about three seconds to go from "slightly abnormal" to "abnormal to the point of being speechless" -

It's time for Gou An to say a sentence or six words.

Suddenly I learned to hesitate and think before speaking.

Oftentimes, he doesn't know how to speak and doesn't need to deliberately grasp the degree of communication he needs to use. For example, the sentence "I won't cancel the engagement" just now was just a consolation in his eyes...

But it succeeded in making her cry uncontrollably.

If he said a few more wrong things in this situation, she would cry even harder, and He Jinxing himself might even feel like a beast.

"What do you want me to do so that I won't take Ye Lang seriously anymore?"

Gou An's eyes were red, and she kept holding his sleeve tightly. At this moment, she looked determined and stubborn.

"Bring it up."

Ye Lang is the source of the problem.

But in the big picture, it's not all his fault.

He had no idea where to start. All the words got stuck in his throat and turned into a sigh. He Jinxing just changed his tone to be more negotiable, "Well, we can discuss this issue later--"

“We need to solve it now.”

“…”

So why does Jiang Yi like to hang out with young girls every day and collect a large group of them at a time? It is obvious that just one of them can make a person's hairline retreat one millimeter.

"I suddenly asked you to do something, so I have to think about it again...? The first thing you should do is stop crying, okay?"

"Except this."

She shook her head.

"Because I really can't help it."

OK, negotiation failed.

The little girl thought he refused to cooperate, and she cried even harder in anxiety, with tears flying everywhere, one drop even flying onto the back of his hand.

Warm and moist.

No lethality at all.

Its lethality is comparable to that of concentrated sulfuric acid.

Staring at the back of his hand, the usually reserved man was completely speechless in an instant. Before staring at the back of his hand until it smoked, he finally reached out his hand and used his knuckles that had been curled for a long time to wipe away her tears.

I have to admit that in this round, he surrendered and admitted defeat on his own initiative.

He He Jinxing admitted defeat voluntarily.

What a novel experience.

The little lion, who would not be forced to fall behind for the time being, reached out to grab the lion's paw that was wiping its tears with an infinitely clingy attitude, when he heard a "ding" sound from the system.

The good news is that He Jinxing’s friendship level has risen to 55.

The bad news is, she has no idea why.

(End of this chapter)