After being reborn, I became the big boss's darling.

The car door was suddenly forced open from the outside, immediately pulling Ji Nianci back from her wandering thoughts.

She froze for a moment.

The man before her was soaked to the bone, just like her, with mud splattered on his clothes. He must have run there; his breathing was rapid, and what streamed down his face was a mixture of rain and sweat, it was hard to tell. The droplets slid down his cheeks and dripped onto the ground, forming small puddles.

In Ci's memory, the man before her had always been calm and composed, serene and unperturbed. Yet now, seeing his current expression, she was stunned, her mind went blank, and she didn't know what to say.

She stared blankly at the man, a man who had always remained calm and composed in the face of any situation, but whose face now seemed to be shrouded in an invisible pressure.

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze, and the only sound was the soft breathing of the two of them. After hesitating for a long time, Ji Nianci finally asked softly, "Are you... alright?" The man just glanced at her silently, then slowly lowered his head, seemingly trying to suppress some emotion.

Shen Ceyan didn't say anything, but stepped forward and hugged her tightly.

"Sigh..." He hugged her very tightly, and Ji Nianci was a little breathless from his embrace. Just when she felt like she was about to suffocate, Shen Ceyan finally let go of her.

The man stared at her intently, his expression complex, which Ji Nianci couldn't quite decipher.

She tentatively began, "See, I'm fine, don't worry..."

"Why did you meet with him again?" he asked in a low voice.

"I..." Ji Nianci really didn't want to lie to him, but she really didn't know how to start. Should she tell Shen Ceyan that she had been reborn and was meeting him to seek revenge?

He probably thinks he's not very bright...

"What did he do to you while you were on the mountain?"

After a moment of silence, Ci Mo finally spoke up to answer.

"His initial plan was to lure me to a secluded place and then run me over with his car..."

Upon hearing this, the man frowned deeply.

She quickly added, "But haha, I cleverly thwarted his plans. Not only did his plan fail, but I also made him suffer a bit."

"And then what?" Shen Ceyan naturally didn't believe that Zhou An could come up with a way to kill someone after careful consideration, and that he would let it go.

"Then...then he got angry and pulled out a knife to stab me. Of course, he didn't succeed. Just as he pulled out the knife, I sprayed pepper spray into his eyes. You wouldn't believe it, he couldn't open his eyes because of the burning sensation. Then I took the opportunity to punch him and smash a rock into his head. He immediately fell to the ground, hahaha. Zhou An has absolutely no fighting ability. How about that, am I amazing?"

She tried to describe the matter in a lighthearted way, hoping to ease Shen Ceyan's mood.

But it doesn't seem to be of any use.

When Shen Ceyan heard Zhou An take out a knife, he felt his heart stop beating for a few seconds.

"How are you? Are you hurt anywhere?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Nianci instinctively hid her hand behind her back.

Shen Ceyan immediately noticed and quickly pulled her hand over.

The fair, smooth arm was now loosely wrapped with a gauze, probably because it had been rained on. The originally bright red blood had mixed with the cold rainwater, staining the entire gauze red, which looked rather frightening at first glance.

Because she had her hands behind her back the whole time, Shen Ceyan didn't notice.

He was both angry and distressed. "Why didn't you say you were injured sooner?"

Ji Nianci was about to say that she was fine, but before she could answer, he said to Lin Cheng in the driver's seat, "Go to the hospital, hurry up!"

Ji Nianci dared not utter a sound; she could sense that Shen Ceyan was in a very bad mood.

Shen Ceyan took her hand and silently took out the emergency medicine kit from the car, pulling out a roll of gauze.

He gently removed the gauze from her arm, revealing the knife wound underneath. The wound had been soaked by rainwater and then covered by the gauze, causing the skin and flesh inside to turn outwards. The outer layer was white, and there was faint blood seeping out.

Shen Ceyan stared intently, his brows furrowed, without uttering a word.

As if afraid of hurting her, he bandaged her very gently.

Assistant Lin drove very fast and arrived at the hospital in no time.

Shen Ceyan pulled her along and quickly walked inside.

Assistant Lin completed the formalities behind them, and soon a doctor came to examine her.

After a thorough examination, the doctor told them, "There's nothing seriously wrong, but the wound is a bit deep and needs stitches."

"Huh? Stitches?" Upon hearing that she needed stitches, Jinianci immediately panicked. Involuntarily, she imagined the needle piercing her skin and the feeling of the thread being pulled out. She involuntarily shivered.

"I don't think it's necessary... just wrap some medicine..."

"Doctor," Shen Ceyan interrupted her, "how many stitches do you need?"

"Seven needles."

"Huh? Seven needles??" Ji Nianci was about to collapse. If she had known that the knife would be cut, she would have dodged backward. That way, the wound wouldn't have been so deep.

Shen Ceyan patted her shoulder, as if to comfort her: "Be good, listen to the doctor."

Ji Nianci was in despair. With a worried look on her face, she asked, "Doctor, can we use anesthesia?"

"..."

The doctor cleared his throat. "We usually don't use anesthesia for this kind of wound. Don't worry, the stitches won't hurt much. If you use anesthesia, you'll need three more injections, which might hurt more than the stitches themselves."

"..." She felt her vision go black.

When it was time to start stitching, Ji Nianci kept her hands tucked in, not daring to extend them.

Since childhood, her greatest fear has been the hospital. She is terrified of injections and blood draws, and she would rather take medicine than get a shot.

When she was little, she was sick and needed an injection. Her protests, which involved screaming and yelling in front of her mother, were ineffective. So, she secretly slipped away when her mother and the maid weren't looking. Later, her father came with people and searched the hospital thoroughly several times before finally finding her.

This incident later became a topic of conversation at the family dinner table, and her parents still bring it up from time to time to make fun of her.

And yet, someone who is terrified of needles is now needing stitches; she feels like the end of the world is upon her.

Just as she was lost in thought, a large hand suddenly covered her eyes.

Her vision suddenly went dark, and she could only feel the warm touch on her eyes and the faint scent of ebony in her nostrils.