Chapter 37
The next second, a beam about five meters long fell from the ruins above and hit Shen Yuqing’s back.
The beam was very heavy. If he hadn't blocked it, Xia Ruirui might have died by now.
Xia Ruirui had no time to be afraid, looking at the pale Shen Yuqing, she touched his face anxiously.
Her hands tentatively touched his back, and the place where he was hit by the beam was sticky.
Before long, the familiar smell of blood filled the air.
In the past few days, the smell of blood has become commonplace to them.
But realizing that the smell of blood came from Shen Yuqing, Xia Ruirui couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat.
She didn't ask Shen Yuqing if he was okay, she knew he must be in great pain at this moment.
Normally, no matter how much pain he was in, he would not cry out, but just now she clearly heard him groan.
Xia Ruirui knew very well that Shen Yuqing was hit by the beam just to save her.
Otherwise, with his agility in pushing Xu An away just now, he should have been able to dodge it.
The ruins collapsed again after the aftershock, and the broken stones fell down over the two men's heads.
The two were trapped in a small space and couldn't move, and Xia Ruirui could only move her body very slightly.
The aftershocks continued, but fortunately, the beam that had just fallen on Shen Yuqing fell to the other side after the second aftershock.
The weight of the beam was suddenly reduced, and Shen Yuqing fell on Xia Ruirui due to loss of strength, but fortunately she caught him.
Her hands went around Shen Yuqing's body and carefully felt his back through his shirt, trying to see if his bones were dislocated or misaligned.
However, Shen Yuqing pushed her away.
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Xia Ruirui also knew what he was feeling uncomfortable about.
After seeing her and Ji Chuyao, Shen Yuqing must have felt that she had deceived him and thought that she was Yunjin who came with Ji Chuyao.
But she had no intention of explaining anything at the moment, she just wanted to quickly confirm the severity of his injuries.
She had just vaguely felt the wound on his back. The wound was very deep and was bleeding. Even the only shirt he was wearing was soaked with blood.
Xia Ruirui held back her tears and tried to calm herself down: "Chen Yuqing, take off your clothes first, your back is bleeding."
In the cramped space, it was extremely difficult for the two people to even turn around.
Shen Yuqing curled up his long legs and leaned weakly on the pile of rocks behind him. He didn't move and didn't pay any attention to Xia Ruirui.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Xia Ruirui was really worried about the injury on his back, so she directly reached out and tried to tear open his shirt.
But he was rejected again by Shen Yuqing.
The two of them pushed each other silently, competing with each other secretly.
Until Shen Yuqing felt the coldness on Xia Ruirui's face...
His body stiffened as he realized she was crying.
He was a little at a loss, but finally gave up resisting and half-heartedly let her tear open his shirt.
It was so dark in the ruins that Xia Ruirui could not see her hand in front of her face. She could only rely on the sense of touch of her fingers to roughly judge the location of his wound.
She took out a roll of gauze from her pocket. It was the one she had used to bandage the injured person and she had just put it in her pocket. She didn't expect it would come in handy at this moment.
After realizing that Xia Ruirui was crying, Shen Yuqing no longer resisted and let her play with his body.
In the darkness, his senses were further amplified.
He could feel Xia Ruirui's fingers brushing against his wound, and he shuddered unconsciously.
And the sound of his heartbeat as loud as a drum as she carefully wrapped the gauze around his body.
Shen Yuqing remained silent throughout.
When he thought of the scene of Ji Chuyao and Xia Ruirui staying together in the tent at the rescue site, he felt an indescribable sense of loss in his heart.
After Xia Ruirui bandaged Shen Yuqing's wound, she didn't say anything else.
The two people were silent in the darkness.
There was no sound outside the ruins. Xia Ruirui didn't know what had happened to Xu An's child, nor did she know how long it would take for someone to come and rescue them.
But looking at Shen Yuqing who closed his eyes and was unwilling to talk to her, she didn't know what to say.
Is it true that she and Ji Chuyao just met by chance?
But her depression is unstable, so why would she want to harm Shen Yuqing who has finally come out of it?
Is she really ready and able to bear his feelings for her?
Even if I explain it, what will it change?
Thinking of this, Xia Ruirui glanced again, and Shen Yuqing, who was closing his eyes and not speaking, also closed his eyes.
Not long after she closed her eyes, Shen Yuqing opened them.
In the darkness, he couldn't see Xia Ruirui's expression, but he could feel her breathing.
Listening to her strange yet familiar breathing, Shen Yuqing's memory seemed to have returned to his senior year of high school...
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In her senior year of high school, after Xia Ruirui discovered the divorce agreement between her father and mother in a drawer, her grades began to decline due to her emotional problems.
Even its ranking fell out of the top 300.
In order not to delay Shen Yuqing, who was the top student in the grade, Xia Ruirui chose to separate from him.
In fact, they were not in a relationship at all when they were in high school, and they just stopped talking to each other after breaking up.
In order to prevent Shen Yuqing from being distracted by her, Xia Ruirui even took the initiative to find the class teacher.
She asked to change seats. At that time, she and Shen Yuqing were deskmates.
At that time, the head teacher made a rule that students could choose their own deskmates based on their grades.
Xia Ruirui is Shen Yuqing's deskmate chosen by being the first in the grade.
The head teacher originally thought that they were in a premature relationship, and when he heard that Xia Ruirui took the initiative to change seats, he naturally agreed.
So, when the head teacher asked her who she wanted to sit at the same table with, Xia Ruirui didn't think twice and sat at the same table with Ji Chuyao, who was sitting alone at the time.
Because she felt that changing seats in public was too conspicuous, she deliberately chose to change seats during the break.
At that time, everyone had gone downstairs to do exercises, and only Xia Ruirui was left in the classroom.
Shen Yuqing had a bad feeling as soon as he saw Xia Ruirui enter the head teacher's office.
Sure enough, when he came back from running, he saw Xia Ruirui moving tables and chairs.
He did not stop her and watched Xia Ruirui move her desk and chair from his side to Ji Chuyao's side.
Her desk was not heavy, so Shen Yuqing was very restrained and did not rush over to help her move the desk.
However, he did not help, but Ji Chuyao stood up and helped her move the chair over.
When he came over, the two looked at each other, and Shen Yuqing was sure that he saw the provocation flashing in Ji Chuyao's eyes.
Not only Shen Yuqing, but also the classmates who came back from running exercises one after another behind him saw this scene.
Everyone thought they broke up and looked at him with sympathy, but they didn't know that they had never been in a relationship in the first place.
Ever since Xia Ruirui changed her seat, Shen Yuqing's outward reaction seemed normal.
He looked as calm as ever, but only he knew how much he had actually absorbed in class.
How many times had he stared blankly at the backs of Xia Ruirui and Ji Chuyao?
How many times had he been distracted by the two of them whispering to each other?
Xia Ruirui has always been a talkative person, and Shen Yuqing knows this very well.
Whenever it was chemistry class, she would complain to him about how hypnotic the chemistry teacher's class was.
But Shen Yuqing never thought that there would be a day when Xia Ruirui would say these words not to him, but to someone else.
In the classroom, the chemistry teacher was spitting all over the place, while Xia Ruirui and Ji Chuyao, two poor students, were whispering to each other below.
The two of them were whispering to each other, and their expressions looked very happy. It seemed that he was the only one who was not used to the change of position.
Only him.
Ji Chuyao is very handsome. Although there are always boys in the class who secretly make fun of him for his feminine appearance, Shen Yuqing knows that it is out of jealousy.
Shen Yuqing is also very handsome. He was even anxious at one point because of his outstanding appearance, but he never felt inferior because of his appearance.
But looking at Xia Ruirui whispering with Ji Chuyao, Shen Yuqing felt a little insecure about his appearance for the first time.
Looking at Ji Chuyao's evil face not far away, he secretly compared in his heart -
Who is better looking, him or Ji Chuyao?
But……
Even if everyone thinks he is more handsome, what should he do if Xia Ruirui likes Ji Chuyao's androgynous looks?
Shen Yuqing began to fall into self-doubt and even gave up on himself.
He was three rows behind the two of them, watching them whisper to each other during study time, and then pass notes the next second.
Even when Xia Ruirui was reading novels, Ji Chuyao was the one who kept watch for her and then tipped her off.
Xia Ruirui changed her seat, but it seemed like she also took a part of him away.
But even so, Shen Yuqing's grades did not decline but improved, which even he himself found ironic.
Shen Yuqing remembered the report that Xia Ruirui wrote for Ji Chuyao who was participating in the sprint at the sports meeting in the first semester of senior year.
His photographic memory, which he had always been proud of, now became his pain.
Even to this day, Shen Yuqing can still recite the original press release by heart.
Even on countless sleepless nights, he recited the draft in a self-torturing manner, trying to tell himself that Xia Ruirui no longer liked him.
He had tried his best to avoid the two of them, out of sight, out of mind, but fate seemed unwilling to let him go.
After the sports meet, Shen Yuqing was on his way to receive the award when he accidentally heard Ji Chuyao and Xia Ruirui's confession.
Xia Ruirui hadn't answered yet, but he ran away because he was afraid of hearing Xia Ruirui's response of agreement.
Later, Xia Ruirui must have agreed to Ji Chuyao, and the two of them have been sticking together.
Even at the school anniversary celebration, the two performed together.
One of them plays the violin and the other plays the piano.
The two of them played their instruments in perfect harmony, just like they were a perfect match in person.
Everyone said they were a perfect match, and even the class teacher in the audience applauded their good match.
Shen Yuqing in the audience looked at the two people on the stage silently, only feeling that the crowd today was particularly noisy.
When watching the school anniversary performance, students sat according to their classes.
But even so, Gu Zijin and Shen Qingli from Class 16 were worried about him and sat over when the teacher wasn't paying attention.
At that time, Shen Qingli and Gu Zijin were comforting him, telling him that Xia Ruirui separated from him so that he could study hard and did not want to hinder his future.
Although Shen Yuqing didn't think so, he was willing to believe it.
He thought Xia Ruirui might be in trouble because her grades had been declining, but because he was afraid of disturbing her, Shen Yuqing never asked her clearly.
I want to wait until the college entrance examination is over before asking her.
However, after the college entrance examination, something happened that no one expected, which completely shattered his pride and self-esteem.
After meeting the old friend again after many years, the memory of Ji Chuyao was also completely unsealed.
The two people's perception of the ruins was also magnified several times by the darkness.
Hearing the sound of footsteps coming towards them outside the ruins, Shen Yuqing knew that someone must be coming to rescue them.
The rubble in the ruins was slowly removed, and a ray of sunlight shone through the cracks in the stones.
The long-lost light temporarily interrupted Shen Yuqing's thoughts, and brought him back to reality from his senior year of high school...
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