Chapter 96: Whitehead

Shen Xinghe held Lin Shuliang's hand and put it in his pocket to warm it, fearing that it would be blown by the wind.

"Let's go back. It's almost over. There's snow in the back field. Let's go see where. Call Luo Yun and Jiang Yang, and we'll go have a hot pot." Shen Xinghe had made up his mind and just informed her.

The two of them walked back along the same path, their heads covered with snow.

"Does this mean we are grey-haired?" Lin Shuliang asked with a smile.

He brushed the snow off her head. "We have white hats now."

Li Panxi had already approached. After hearing this conversation, she said in a cold voice: "Life is so long, and you are just thinking about growing old together? Don't you know the saying: God is unpredictable?"

Shen Xinghe subconsciously protected Lin Shuliang behind him and looked at her warily, "What are you doing here?"

Li Panxi put her hands in her pockets and kicked the snow on the ground. She stood sideways under the tree, not facing them head-on. "Your century-long confession was so popular on the Internet. I just came to Rongcheng to play, but I didn't expect to encounter such a grand event. It's a pity that I didn't come to take a look."

There were media present at the venue, so it was not surprising to see it online.

She looked at them. "Why are you so nervous that I look like a terrorist? Don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble, Shen Xinghe. I've figured it out. I'll just treat all these years as a dream. I wish you and Lin Shuliang a long and happy life together."

Her smile didn't reach her eyes, but at least she didn't look as cold as she did at the beginning.

Shen Xinghe relaxed a little, "Thank you, but I don't need your blessing."

"Oh... that's right." She stood up straight, took out a gun with one hand, and held the weapon in her pocket tightly with the other hand. "Your sweetness is built on my pain. What else can I bless you with?"

Lin Shuliang had been standing behind Shen Xinghe. When she heard this, she asked, "So it's not all your own fault. Who could have pushed you to this point?"

"Hey, why aren't you hiding? I thought you were going to hide behind him tonight." Li Panxi sneered, "Except for Shen Xinghe, no one can force me to this point. If he hadn't been helping Chen Jingyi from behind, the news on the Internet wouldn't have spread so quickly and stayed up for three or four days, and my dad couldn't even get out of it. Now my life is a mess, my dad is so angry that he ignores me, but you guys are so proud, being affectionate here and accepting so many people's blessings."

She was not as sharp as when she spoke to Lin Shuliang. Instead, her narration was plain and calm, which made people feel even colder in this snowy night.

What a lie! Lin Shuliang stood in front of him and said, "Don't you think it's ridiculous to say that? Has anyone wronged you for what you did?"

"No, it's all my fault. But in this process, Shen Xinghe is the culprit! I have liked him for so long, why can't he see it! And he hurt me again and again for you. In his eyes, I don't even exist, why? I am no worse than you in any way, Shen Xinghe, what do you have the basis to do so?"

She started to cry, her whole body was shaking, on the verge of collapse, she questioned Shen Xinghe at the top of her lungs, completely ignoring Lin Shuliang. She always felt that all her misfortunes should be attributed to others.

"I can't answer your question. I have never made any promises to you, nor have I done anything to cause you to misunderstand. What you are saying now seems to be that I have misled you and made you fall in love with someone else. In fact, I have only ever been in love with Lin Shuliang." Shen Xinghe still kept Lin Shuliang by his side, for he was afraid that Li Panxi would go crazy.

She looked up at the falling snowflakes, "What you said makes sense. But Shen Xinghe." She looked at them with tears in her eyes, "Have you heard what Voltaire said? In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent."

They looked at each other, not knowing what she wanted to express. In this scene, it seemed that they were the ones who had let her down.

"If you're okay, we'll leave first." Shen Xinghe ended the conversation and took Lin Shuliang away.

When passing by Li Panxi, he deliberately walked around her from a distance.

She turned around and called him, "Shen Xinghe, I really plan to give up on you. Aren't you happy?"

"Thank you," he said without any emotion.

After letting go of a relationship that lasted for several years, I received a thank you.

Li Panxi asked: "Do you like Lin Shuliang so much?"

"I love her and have long decided to walk with her for the rest of my life." They were on a slope, Shen Xinghe held Lin Shuliang's arm and reminded her, "Be careful where you step, it's slippery."

He actually used the word "love" and was so affectionate in front of her. Her eyes suddenly became firm and she gripped the knife handle tightly.

She laughed, her voice was mournful. "Is that so?" she said lightly, then quickened her pace and walked over. "Then you can go to heaven and love her!"

Shen Xinghe didn't notice, but Lin Shuliang was always paying attention to her movements. When she saw the knife in her hand swinging over, it was too late. Lin Shuliang shouted, "Xinghe, be careful!"

She pushed Shen Xinghe to the side with force. The snow was slippery and Shen Xinghe fell on the slope and almost rolled down.

Li Panxi originally wanted to stab Shen Xinghe in the back with her knife, but instead it cut Lin Shuliang's arm.

The knife was very sharp and it cut through the clothes. Blood flowed onto the ground. In the vast expanse of white snow, the blood instantly dyed the area red.

When she saw the blood, Li Panxi's hands began to tremble. She threw the knife to the ground and said, "You deserve it! You're not a hero."

Shen Xinghe showed no mercy at all at this moment. He kicked Li Panxi in the stomach, kicking the knife far away, "You'd better pray that she's okay!"

He hugged Lin Shuliang, his eyes full of distress, "What are you doing here?"

This was the first time she was stabbed. Lin Shuliang's lips turned pale from the pain. She covered the bleeding area and said, "My hand was injured. She wanted to stab your back. It's too dangerous."

"Stop talking. I'll take you to the hospital." Before leaving, Shen Xinghe glanced at Li Panxi who was sitting on the ground. "Wait for the lawyer's letter."

There were no interjections and his eyes were cold.

She stared at the pool of blood in a daze, her face expressionless.

Lin Shuliang was bleeding more and more, Shen Xinghe was very scared, "Did she hurt you anywhere else? Why is there so much blood?"

The journey was only a few minutes, but he felt it took a long time. He called 120, but the emergency services took a long time to come. He was extremely anxious, and the collar of his white shirt was completely stained red.

Lin Shuliang leaned weakly on his chest, "I'm fine."

After saying this, I couldn't say anything else and passed out.

"Shuliang, Shuliang, Lin Shuliang..." He called several times, but there was still no response.

Xu Chen and the others were still talking here. Hearing the voice, A Lan said, "Is this Shen Xinghe? Did something happen?"

Xu Chen had a bad feeling, "You just said you saw someone get it, it was a woman."

"Yeah." A Lan nodded affirmatively.

"Oh no!" He ran away.

Ah Lan chased after him, "What's wrong? Tell me."

He just ran. Seeing Shen Xinghe jogging with Lin Shuliang in his arms, he ran over in two steps. "What happened?"

Shen Xinghe got angry when he saw him because he and Li Panxi were partners before. "Go ask your Bai Yueguang."

In the past, whenever he picked a fight with Shen Xinghe, he would say, "Pan Xi is my white moonlight, you can't bully her."

Seeing that Lin Shuliang was already unconscious, he didn't care about this sentence. "There are many roads in our school, and the 120 ambulance can't get in for a while. You go along this road, and I'll lead the car over."

After saying that, he ran to the front. Looking at his figure, he ran too fast and fell twice.

Sure enough, 120 didn't know which route to take and was on the phone. Shen Xinghe was holding someone and couldn't answer the call.

As soon as Xu Chen saw them, he brought a doctor over and admitted the patient within two minutes.

Shen Xinghe was sweating profusely. For the first time in his life, he felt helpless. Seeing Lin Shuliang like this, he could do nothing. "Doctor...she...she..."

"Don't worry, leave everything to us, just go to the side." The nurse comforted him and took him to sit in the front, not letting him watch from the back.

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the doctor.

Ah Lan then caught up and asked, "What happened? I saw blood on the ground."

"Shuliang is injured. Call 110. I'll go find Li Panxi."

The situation was urgent, so Lan made the call without asking any more questions.

He walked up along the bloodstains and saw Li Panxi sitting in the snow. She had picked up the knife in her hand at some point and placed it beside her.

Because it was a masquerade party today, and when she acted like this, people thought she was cosplaying and didn't pay much attention.

She heard approaching footsteps and saw that it was Xu Chen. She grinned and asked, "Is Lin Shuliang dead?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Chen could no longer bear it and slapped her in the face, "Li Panxi, you are really crazy."

When Ah Lan saw this scene, she hurriedly pulled Xu Chen over because there was a knife nearby and she was afraid that Xu Chen would also be injured.

Li Panxi covered her slapped face and looked at A Lan, "Xu Chen, you said you liked me before, but then you said you didn't like me anymore, you couldn't stand the way I was, and you liked Lin Shuliang. What about now? Do you like this little beauty again?"

She didn't care at all about what Xu Chen said and stayed out of the conversation, but she was very interested in A Lan.

Seeing her like this, Xu Chen really didn't want to continue the conversation with her, "Tell the police what you want to say."

Li Panxi stood up and said, "You actually called the police. You want me to go to jail. Don't you regard me as your white moonlight?"

She asked three times in a row, which made Xu Chen laugh and cry. "Li Panxi, what you did makes me feel disgusted!"

There is a police station next to A University, and the police arrived very quickly. When Li Panxi was taken away, she resisted fiercely. She seemed unable to accept the fact that Xu Chen called the police to arrest her.

Ah Lan saw it, and Xu Chen was not happy either, "Who is she?"

"A fool who has driven himself into a corner." Xu Chen summed it up in one sentence, "You go back. I'll go to the hospital to see Shuliang."

"I'll go too." A Lan followed closely.

"Lan Lan, I really have no interest in you! Can't we just go our separate ways? Li Panxi was driven crazy like this. She always hinted to herself that Shen Xinghe liked her and was moved by her, so he turned her into what she is now. You should come back, we are not suitable. Sorry, my words were not nice."

Having said that, he turned and left.

Ah Lan still followed stubbornly without saying anything.

Xu Chen was really clueless and ignored her.

Just now in the car, he had already asked which hospital it was, so he took a taxi directly there.

Ah Lan stood on the side of the road, not daring to get on the same bus with him. Seeing her lowering her head and looking aggrieved, she must be a stranger in this city as well.

Xu Chen sighed, "Get in the car, Shuliang will be happy to see you."

In the car, Ah Lan suddenly said, "I know very well that you don't like me. The person in your heart is Lin Shuliang. But I also know very well that I like you. I have the right to be biased, but I won't be crazy enough to hurt others to fulfill my feelings. Xu Chen, you don't understand me at all."

There was a hint of sadness in the conversation.

Indeed, Li Panxi is a minority, how can he put A Lan and Li Panxi in the same category?

But when we arrived at the hospital, he never apologized.

After asking about Lin Shuliang's ward at the hospital front desk, they hurried over.

In the ward, Lin Shuliang has woken up.

The nurse smiled and said, "Your injury is not serious. It will heal after a period of rest. It is just a flesh wound."

"How is that possible? There was so much blood. Was the examination complete?" Shen Xinghe asked hurriedly.

The nurse nodded. "Don't worry. We have done a full body checkup as you requested. You don't know how worried your boyfriend is! You two have a really good relationship."

Lin Shuliang lowered her head and smiled, "If he got hurt, I would be worried too."

Xu Chen walked to the door, stopped, turned around and left.

Ah Lan asked him, "Why don't you go in now that you're already here?"

"As long as she's okay, why would I go in? It's not me she wants to see right now."

Xu Chen was happy to know that she was fine, but what happened that day also cast a shadow of a cloud over his heart.

A Lan accompanied him and walked aimlessly on the streets of Rongcheng.