Chapter 67
The moment the sports car rushed up to us, the roar, shouts, and gasps seemed to fall silent in an instant, as if time had been paused and we had entered a vacuum.
The afterimage of the red car's front was reflected in Xu Qingzhou's pupils. In that critical moment, however, the image that flashed through her mind was Chi Jun leaning against the electric scooter and smiling at her.
Surprisingly, I didn't feel the expected reluctance or regret. Instead, I felt a sense of relief, as if I had let go of everything.
fortunately.
Fortunately, the misunderstanding between her and Chi Jun had already been cleared up.
However, Xu Qingzhou sighed inwardly; she wanted to see him one last time.
As if God had finally heard her prayers after all these years, this thought flashed through Xu Qingzhou's mind, and then Chi Jun's face appeared before her eyes—
He was no longer smiling; his serious face was filled with anxiety and a desperate determination.
Xu Qingzhou felt a pair of hands tightly hugging his body. Before his brain could react, the scene before his eyes blurred, leaving only afterimages, and his body fell heavily...
It felt like a camera recording footage had fallen to the ground. The image in front of me shook violently for a couple of seconds, and then my vision cleared. But instead of the expected pain of falling to the ground, my body felt soft, as if I were sitting on a cushion.
Amid screams and gasps, the street was already in complete chaos.
Some people scattered and fled, some hurriedly hid in nearby shops, and a few bolder individuals rushed up to Chi Jun and Xu Qingzhou, glanced at the speeding sports car, and asked Chi Jun, "How are you?" while calling the police.
"Hello, is this 110? There's a car hitting people on Chengnan Street at an extremely high speed. It's probably drunk driving. Please come quickly..."
Someone chimed in:
"They might have been on drugs. The people in the car were laughing strangely and throwing money into the air. It didn't look normal at all!"
The chaotic scene and various noises pulled Xu Qingzhou back to reality once again.
Xu Qingzhou looked down at Chi Jun, who was being pinned down by her.
So, she is still alive.
It was Chi Jun who saved her.
If Chi Jun were an ordinary person, she would have been torn to pieces by the impact...
"Zhouzhou?"
A soft call came from beside my ear.
Xu Qingzhou blinked and saw Chi Jun slightly raise his head, gently patting her face with one hand, and ask anxiously, "Does anything hurt? How are you feeling?"
Xu Qingzhou shook his head and mouthed:
"I'm fine."
She wanted to ask how Chi Jun was, but as soon as she said "I'm fine," Chi Jun's head, which he had propped up, immediately fell back down, and he closed his eyes, as if he had let out a long sigh of relief. He unconsciously stroked her head a couple more times, as if to comfort her.
As the roar subsided, the sports car gradually disappeared from view.
The pedestrians who had scattered and fled into the shops finally returned to the street after realizing that it was safe.
In the moment of crisis, everyone disregarded everything else. Now that the street had calmed down again, everyone stared at the red banknotes scattered on the street, and a subtle atmosphere gradually filled the air.
Some people pointed and muttered to themselves, having the idea but too embarrassed to do it, while others were more proactive and grabbed the item without saying a word, stuffing it into their pockets. The man who had called the police earlier was clearly a righteous person; seeing this, he shouted from a distance and immediately strode over.
"Hey! Aren't you afraid of bringing bad luck if you pick up something like this?"
"That kind of person is definitely taking revenge on society. If the police catch him, he'll have to return every single penny of that money! You can't take it back even if you try!"
The problem isn't scarcity, but inequality; this has been the truth since ancient times.
Either everyone gets a share, or nobody gets a share.
Those who had initially been tempted but were too ashamed to do so immediately took the moral high ground and echoed the condemnation of those who picked up the money. In an instant, the people who had been surrounding Xu Qingzhou and Chi Jun dispersed.
Xu Qingzhou, however, paid no attention to the money from beginning to end. Her eyes were only on Chi Jun, and she was so anxious that even in the cold weather, a fine layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.
How are you?
Her hands trembled uncontrollably as she wrote.
Chi Jun's eyelids drooped slightly as he glanced at the words on the paper, his voice sounding somewhat weak:
"Not very good."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qingzhou panicked even more.
Although Chi Jun is not an ordinary person, such a critical moment may still cause harm to his body.
She was afraid that Chi Jun had broken a bone, so she dared not make any rash moves. She could only anxiously look at Chi Jun's body, but after searching several times, there seemed to be no signs of bleeding.
In this situation, an ordinary person would naturally take him to the hospital for a check-up immediately, but Xu Qingzhou remembered that Chi Jun's identity was not ordinary, so he could not go to the hospital rashly.
Just as he was anxiously about to ask Chi Jun what to do, Chi Jun raised one hand slightly:
"Help me up first."
Xu Qingzhou was taken aback, and a little worried.
Are you sure... this is okay?
Chi Jun hummed in agreement.
Since he had said so, Xu Qingzhou quickly stuffed the paper and pen into his pocket and pulled Chi Jun up from the ground.
Chi Jun didn't have to exert much effort to pull her up, but after standing up, he lost his balance and fell directly onto her, as if a thousand-pound weight was pressing down on her head. Xu Qingzhou almost fell over because she wasn't paying attention.
She quickly took a deep breath to steady herself, pulled Chi Jun's arm onto her shoulder, and struggled to stand up.
Then--
Xu Qingzhou turned to look at Chi Jun.
We await his next instructions.
Chi Jun also looked at her and said calmly:
"Let's go home."
Xu Qingzhou: "?"
She's already so weak, is she really still able to ride an electric scooter?
Just as I was hesitating, a hesitant voice came from the right.
“Xu Jun…”
Xu Qingzhou and Chi Jun turned their heads at the same time.
It's Chen Mi.
She was clearly terrified by what she had just witnessed; her eyes were wide open, and even her hand gripping the doorknob was trembling. Her voice was a mixture of shock and concern as she asked:
"Are you alright? Do you need to go to the hospital? I can take you there."
Excluding the last sentence, the first two sentences are exactly what Xu Qingzhou is concerned about.
She immediately looked at Chi Jun.
Whether it was a misperception or not, Xu Qingzhou felt that Chi Jun's body seemed to pause slightly at that moment.
But the next moment, his refusal was heard:
"No need, thank you."
No need anymore...
Xu Qingzhou felt a little regretful.
She was genuinely worried that Chi Jun wouldn't be able to handle taking the electric scooter home.
"If you're not going to the hospital, at least let me drive you home."
As Chen Mi spoke, she lowered her head, took out her car keys from her bag, and walked over.
Chi Jun still said, "No need."
Chen Mi paused, stared at him for a few seconds, and suddenly got angry.
"No need for what? I'm not a man-eating monster, why are you avoiding me like this?"
She paused, then added through gritted teeth, "I don't need you, don't flatter yourself!"
Xu Qingzhou: "..."
Such a sentence would be difficult for a girl to say, and Xu Qingzhou believed Chen Mi almost immediately—she could see that Chen Mi had her own pride.
Xu Qingzhou turned her head and looked at Chi Jun expectantly.
Chen Mi also stared intently at Chi Jun.
Under the double pressure of the two girls' gazes, and just as they were about to forcibly lift him into the car, Chi Jun closed his eyes and slowly lowered the hand that was on Xu Qingzhou's shoulder.
When he opened his eyes again, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then, in front of the two girls, he jumped up and down twice, heavily and dramatically.
Chen Mi: "..."
Xu Qingzhou: "..."
Faced with two girls who looked completely bewildered, Chi Jun remained calm:
"I told you I'm fine, now you should believe me, right?"
Xu Qingzhou: "..."
I believe it.
Chen Mi stared at Chi Jun, remained silent for a while, then put on sunglasses with a cold and delicate face.
Just before turning away, his gaze swept back and forth between him and Xu Qingzhou twice, and he cursed:
"Xu Jun, you're a real scoundrel."
The shameless Chi Jun looked completely unconcerned and immediately reverted to his "weakness," turning to Xu Qingzhou and saying:
"Come here, I'm dizzy, let me lean on you."
Xu Qingzhou: "..."
After a few seconds of silent eye contact.
Without saying a word, the little girl turned around and walked across the road, put on her helmet, got on her electric bike, and quietly watched him.
—Waiting for him to come over on his own.
Chi Jun: "..."
Wow, the little girl has really grown up.
They've all developed little tempers.
*
In the end, Chi Jun compromised and walked towards the electric scooter across the street.
However, he didn't forget to limp while walking, continuing his "playing the victim" act to the very end.
When Chi Jun dodged to save Xu Qingzhou, it was purely instinctive; he didn't have time to consider the consequences. After calming down, he felt a little uneasy, but fortunately, he sent a male ghost to investigate that afternoon and quickly received news—
The surveillance camera at the street corner in the south of the city happened to be broken, so it didn't capture anything strange.
While marveling at the age-old rule that "surveillance will inevitably break down when something happens" in the human world, Chi Jun also felt that it was a good thing that the surveillance was broken.
But the perpetrator wasn't so lucky. He drove his sports car recklessly through two streets before crashing into a snack shop. With nowhere to go, he was quickly apprehended by police who arrived at the scene and taken back to the police station.
An investigation revealed that they were indeed two rich kids who had taken drugs and then sped off in the street throwing money around.
However, Chi Jun was not interested in this.
Clearly, he was more interested in teasing Xu Qingzhou.
For example, during meals, he would lie and say that his hand joints were out of control and he couldn't eat, and that Xu Qingzhou had to feed him.
Unfortunately, the girl didn't fall for it. She finished her meal without saying a word and then went back to doing her homework.
A hearty laugh echoed from the rabbit cage, as the rabbit loudly mocked him for being shameless and deserved to be tricked by Xu Qingzhou.
Chi Jun, however, remained calm, leisurely picked up his chopsticks, and turned to the rabbit, saying:
"What are you laughing at? Do you think you deserve that kind of treatment?"
The rabbit looked at him with disdain, suspecting that Chi Jun had damaged his brain.
"...Is this some kind of great treatment? Why would I want it?"
"This is certainly very good treatment."
Chi Jun simply turned around, picked up the bowl, and said to it, "For a girl like Zhouzhou, she is always polite to outsiders, but she only shows her true emotions to those closest to her."
What does this mean?
Chi Jun tapped the bowl solemnly, quite proudly: "It shows that I am the closest person in her heart."
rabbit:"……"
That mouth of hers is quite good at comforting herself.
Xu Qingzhou overheard Chi Jun whispering to a rabbit. Although he didn't know what the rabbit was saying, he could guess from Chi Jun's words that the rabbit was mocking him.
For some reason, I found it kind of funny.
She lowered her head and silently pulled down the corners of her mouth that she couldn't help but turn up.
Even in the evening, Chi Jun didn't stop complaining that his arm was injured and he couldn't take a bath, so Xu Qingzhou had to help him.
Xu Qingzhou knew he was just joking and couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention.
But Chi Jun wouldn't give up, and even when he went to bed at night, he came up with a new name.
"Zhouzhou, I'm a little panicked."
He lifted the curtain and said to Xu Qingzhou.
Xu Qingzhou pursed his lips speechlessly: [Then what should we do?]
Chi Jun: "Hold my hand while you sleep."
A loud sneer echoed from inside the rabbit cage, accompanied by the rabbit's merciless mockery: "Shameless! You might as well just let that pretty girl hold you while you sleep."
Chi Jun ignored it and continued to say to Xu Qingzhou, "Really, my heart is beating very fast, it's really abnormal."
Xu Qingzhou: "..."
She glanced at Chi Jun silently, and with the action of turning off the lights, she showed him—give up, I won't fall for your tricks again.
Even after the lights were turned off and the small rented room was pitch black, Chi Jun still didn't stop.
He kept muttering, "I feel anxious and short of breath, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well tonight," and then said, "Good deeds go unrewarded, I've seen through this cold and indifferent world." His words were full of disappointment and sadness for this cold and heartless world, and he acted quite realistically.
Xu Qingzhou felt both helpless and amused.
But then she thought about it again and realized that if Chi Jun hadn't risked his life to save her, she might really be dead.
Besides, she had already ignored Chi Jun all day, so what difference would it make if she just let him have his way and held his hand at night?
After thinking for a while, Xu Qingzhou also felt that he was being somewhat ungrateful.
But now that Chi Jun has been quiet for five minutes, it seems a bit strange for her to suddenly bring up the topic again and say, "Okay, then hold my hand."
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Qingzhou didn't speak. He pretended to turn over and silently reached his hand through the bed curtains, intending to make a casual and gradual move.
Even though it was at Chi Jun's request, for some reason, as her fingers moved inch by inch toward that spot, Xu Qingzhou's heart still couldn't help but beat faster.
After an unknown amount of time, my fingers suddenly touched something icy cold.
Xu Qingzhou's fingertips trembled involuntarily. Before he could react, his hand was suddenly gripped from behind.
The large, warm palm gripped the hand firmly and domineeringly.
At the same time, Chi Jun's laughter rang out.
Xu Qingzhou felt an embarrassment at having her little secret exposed. Her face flushed instantly, and she immediately pulled her hand back, but the hand gripped her tightly.
She pulled back forcefully, and at the same time saw the bed curtains being lifted, and Chi Jun rolled over.
A breeze blew through the night.
He hovered in mid-air beside her, staring straight at her, arrogant and full of vigor.
The moonlight, like water, gently enveloped the bed. If you looked closely, you could see the outline of the other person's face in the dim light, as well as the faint glimmer in their eyes.
The rabbit in the cage seemed to make a sound at that moment, but Xu Qingzhou didn't hear it clearly and didn't have time to figure out if he had misheard.
After a moment of stunned silence, as she gazed at Chi Jun's face in the darkness, her heart began to beat wildly and uncontrollably.
She knew perfectly well that the force she had used just now was definitely not enough to pull Chi Jun over.
Chi Jun, however, came over on his own initiative.
—He moved closer to her in such a forceful yet intimate manner, staring at her directly.
This has never happened before.
Even for other men and women, this would be considered excessive intimacy.
Xu Qingzhou felt that he was really useless.
Right now, it was just a slightly overstepping joke by Chi Jun.
Even with these self-reminders, in the silence, she could still clearly hear her own heartbeat, so loud it made her ashamed, "thump-thump," each beat like a playlist, countless scattered images flashing haphazardly across her face during that time—
Chi Jun gave up the entertainment industry and returned to her small town.
After getting drunk, Chi Jun stared at her blatantly and said, "Just because you're pretty doesn't mean I can't look at you."
Chi Jun said, "If getting married has nothing to do with you, then who else does it have to do with?"
All of these factors converged and blended rapidly in this strange atmosphere, seemingly trying to convey a very clear message...
Xu Qingzhou couldn't help but pinch his palm.
No.
Xu Qingzhou, you need to calm down.
Chi Jun loves to joke around; wouldn't it be very awkward if he misunderstood?
Besides, Chi Jun had repeatedly warned you not to have any improper thoughts about him, so why would he take the initiative to do anything to you?
Thinking of this, she closed her eyes, took very slow, small breaths, calmed herself down, and prepared to gently push Chi Jun away.
To her surprise, as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Chi Jun looking at her face and slowly lowering his head.
This action clearly went beyond what could be explained as a joke, and Xu Qingzhou's hard-won mental preparation was instantly overturned.
A jumble of thoughts flooded her mind, and the little girl couldn't sort them out. Instinctively, her whole body tensed up, and she closed her eyes.
However, the next moment, instead of the tense yet expected kiss, Xu Qingzhou closed his eyes and vaguely felt a gentle breeze pass by. Then, something soft yet heavy suddenly fell onto his chest.
Xu Qingzhou was puzzled, her heart pounding. After a few seconds of peace, she cautiously opened her eyes a tiny crack.
At the same time, unexpectedly, a familiar yet unfamiliar fox cry rang out from right in front of my chest—
Ang ang!
"?"
She was stunned for a moment, then quickly propped herself up.
As she moved, the little thing that had been lying on her chest rolled onto the sheets.
Under the soft moonlight, one could clearly see—
It's a snow-white, fluffy fox!
Xu Qingzhou: "...???"
What... it's changed back again?!
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