After Miss Lu became the only one to enjoy the limelight, her six brothers knelt down and begged for

Ji Chiqian took Lu Ning back to her private hospital room.

His movements were very gentle, as if the girl in his arms was a fragile porcelain doll.

When he pulled the blanket over Lu Ning, he noticed that her hand was still gripping his tightly, her fingertips pale, as if she were clutching her last straw.

Ji Chiqian's heart softened at just one look.

He sat down on the edge of the bed without moving, and reached out to touch Lu Ning's forehead. What was she afraid of just now?

At this moment, Gu Zifeng walked in: "Is Little Lemon alright? I just asked the dean, and he said everything went smoothly."

Seeing the situation just now, he thought something had happened.

Ji Chiqian glanced at the sleeping person and lowered his voice, saying, "It went smoothly, but she woke up in the end."

He recounted everything that had just happened.

After listening, Gu Zifeng said in surprise, "Based on my understanding of Xiao Ningmeng, there must be something going on here."

"I think so."

"Hmph, the Lu family is all the same, no good at all. Look what they've done to our Little Lemon!"

Ji Chiqian glanced over indifferently: "Your little lemon?"

"Ahem, alright, is your little lemon alright now?"

Ji Chiqian then looked away, his tone light and casual: "If this is true, I will absolutely not let the Lu family off the hook."

"Of course we have to avenge Little Lemon. But why has she never mentioned it?"

Gu Zifeng found it strange: "Look how good our relationship with Xiao Ningmeng was before, we knew about everything that happened to her in the Lu family. But she never mentioned anything about Lu Xicheng."

Ji Chiqian pursed his thin lips coldly: "I've investigated, and Lu Xicheng did indeed go to the island to do research a long time ago and has never come back."

"A long time ago, when was that?"

"A few years after the Lu family's incident, Lu Xicheng graduated from university early and left."

Gu Zifeng stroked his chin: "So it's only been a few years. What could possibly happen? That it could make Little Lemon so scared that she doesn't dare to bring it up?"

"I suspect she was used for experiments."

Ji Chiqian shared his guess.

Gu Zifeng gritted his teeth in anger: "If that's really the case, damn it, we'll definitely make that Lu Xicheng pay the price."

Ji Chiqian held Lu Ning's cold hand and said gently, "At all costs."

We will absolutely not allow her to remain in danger.

That night, everyone felt like an eternity.

Only Lu Ning was sleeping soundly.

She felt like she had a lot of dreams, and every time she thought she had woken up, she found herself still in a dream.

From the fire in the school dormitory to Lu Xicheng removing his kidney on the hospital operating table, and then returning to the scene of the car accident from years ago.

Lu Ning witnessed the scene of herself sitting in the car, with her father driving in the front and her mother in the back seat.

But then a car accident happened, and her mother lifted her out of the window.

"Please, save her first."

That's the sound of my mother crying.

Lu Ning saw a pair of slightly immature hands reaching out, cut by broken glass.

She was led away, held tightly in someone's arms, and taken away from the car.

A boy's voice, going through puberty, came from above her head: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Why does this voice sound so familiar?

Lu Ning was placed on the ground, and the person ran towards the car again, but at that moment the car exploded.

As Lu Ning watched the car explode, tears streamed down her face, and she couldn't even cry anymore.

So this is what happens when a person is at their most grief-stricken: they don't do anything at all.

As still as a stone.

But tears kept falling.

Suddenly, everything went black before Lu Ning's eyes. Someone covered her eyes, not wanting her to see what was happening.

Lu Ning opened her mouth and bit his hand with all her might.

"It's okay, it's okay."

His gentle voice still reached her ears, and only then did she stop.

Lu Ning looked up and finally saw what the person who saved her looked like.

That was Ji Chiqian when he was young.

His features were even more youthful, and he looked panicked; his clothes were stained with blood.

When Lu Ning saw the face in front of her and couldn't help but reach out, the dream ended.

She opened her eyes, and a blinding light appeared before her.

Lu Ning found herself in a hospital, with the pungent smell of disinfectant in her breath.

Is this a dream, or reality?

Even she couldn't tell the difference.

"woke up?"

After hearing about life, Lu Ning turned her head and saw Ji Chiqian. His face was mature and handsome, quite different from the Ji Chiqian of his adolescence.

She reached out and touched his face.

Ji Chiqian didn't move, letting her hand fall on his face; her palm was still a little cold.

Lu Ning suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed him down.

Ji Chiqian did not resist and followed her force to get closer to her face.

He spoke in a low voice: "What do you want to say?"

But Lu Ning kissed his lips directly, her actions carrying a hint of hesitation and probing.

Before Ji Chiqian could react, his lip was bitten.

"it is true."

Lu Ning stopped and looked at the wound on the corner of his mouth: "This is not a dream."

Ji Chiqian was at a loss for words. He moved closer to her and touched the corner of her mouth with his lips: "It's not a dream."

"Does it hurt?"

"Kind of."

Lu Ning smiled and said, "I've had so many dreams that I can't tell which ones are reality and which ones are dreams anymore."

Ji Chiqian held her cold hand: "This is reality, not a dream. You've woken up."

Lu Ning kept looking at him, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't speak.

She remembered everything that happened in the car accident.

It was he who saved himself.

At that time, he risked going back to try to save his parents, but it was too late.

But if he had been a step earlier, he would have been blown up too.

When Lu Ning thought about these things, she felt a tightness in her chest.

Ji Chiqian wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Why are you crying? Who made you suffer?"

He felt that there must be a reason why Lu Ning had never mentioned her relationship with Lu Xicheng.

He didn't want to ask at this time; he wanted to wait until she had recovered a bit before asking.

Lu Ning then realized that she had cried, which was quite embarrassing.

She had previously blamed Ji Chiqian and said those hurtful things.

She was indeed too embarrassed to tell him.

Lu Ning turned her head away, not daring to look at him.

Ji Chiqian asked, "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Lu Ning shook her head: "No, I just want to drink water."

Ji Chiqian immediately poured her a glass of warm water, held her in his arms, and fed her the water little by little.

Lu Ning felt much better after drinking the water.

She asked in a hoarse voice, "Was anyone injured at school?"

"No, you're the one who's most seriously injured."

When Ji Chiqian mentioned this, he couldn't help but sigh: "You could have left first, why were you so foolish?"

"I didn't think that much at the time. There must have been people who hadn't woken up in the middle of the night, but I was fine, wasn't I?"

"You've passed out, and you're still okay?"

Lu Ning lowered her eyelids, hearing the rise and fall of his chest in her ears.

She answered softly, "Because I don't like fire, is it wrong to faint from fright?"

"Because of the car accident back then?"