Chapter 284 - Ill Force Her out of Stars Entertainment (1/2)

Chapter 284 I’ll Force Her out of Stars Entertainment“My leg is broken, but my arms aren’t! Go on, then! Expose your junk if you dare!”

Ah Sha stared at Bai Qi coldly with both hands raised at the ready.

Bai Qi buckled his belt again when he saw the needles in her hand.

“You sure you don’t want to look? Maybe just a teeny-weeny peek?” Bai Qi asked one more time.

Ah Sha gritted her teeth. “No. I don’t want to look at your junk. At all.”

Ah Sha shifted her left leg slightly and found that her entire calf was now immobile. Frustrated, Ah Sha peered at the tree hollow’s opening two meters above. Then, she glared at Bai Qi who was now seated beside (when did that even happen?) her.

The bastard had done it on purpose from the start, she was sure of it. Why else would he have jumped into this tree hollow?

As if he had read her mind, Bai Qi said, “You can’t move one of your legs, and my arm is now useless thanks to you. What if we run into wild animals?”

What he was really trying to say was: “If you hadn’t poked me with your stupid needles, we wouldn’t have fallen off the cliff in the first place. Look what I got for trying to save you?”

Ah Sha no longer had the strength to argue with him, so she closed her eyes to rest her mind. Right now, Xunxun was her only hope; she hoped Xunxun could figure out sooner that he had been chasing the wrong trail and then return to the original site of the landslide to look for her.

Twenty-four hours had passed since Ah Sha went missing. Wan Qingsi’s long hike had already brought him to the headwaters of the stream. Still, he hadn’t encountered any signs of Ah Sha along the way.

“Young master, we’ll be out of this mountain if we go any further.”

Wan Qingsi suddenly halted in his steps. Every one of his followers held their breaths, fearing that he might suddenly go berserk and reduce them to a bunch of corpses.

“Let’s head back.”

Xiao Hua froze. “We’re going to stop looking?”

Wan Qingsi turned around and started walking. “No. We’re going back to the site where Ah Sha fell.”

Everyone was too afraid to question him further, so they just followed him as they made their way back to the starting point of the hike. The search party had been working non-stop throughout the entire night. Wan Qingsi’s subordinates were still good to go, but the staff members from the hot spring village were pretty much dead beat. Even so, the dedicated staff members clenched their teeth and soldiered on.

Thank God for Xiao Hua’s cleverness when she decided to contact the chopper. After Xiao Hua had given the pilot their location, Wan Qingsi brought his subordinates to carry on the search while the others were left behind to wait for the chopper.

“Young master, do you think the young miss is here?” Wan Yi asked once they had reached the site of the landslide. “But we’ve already looked. There aren’t any caves around.”

“Search again,” Wan Qingsi said, giving Wan Yi a pointed look. “Caves aren’t the only places that humans can hide in.”

Xiao Hua pointed at the few trees behind a huge rock. “That’s the only place we haven’t looked.”

Wan Qingsi climbed up to the top of the rock and examined it. Leaves and branches were strewn across the top surface of the rock. Wan Qingsi walked around the rock in one full circle. Then, all of a sudden, he saw something that nearly had his heart leaping to his throat. There was a crack on the trunk of one of the trees, and lodged in the crack was another shoe. It was Ah Sha’s other shoe!

Wan Qingsi jumped down and sprinted towards the tree. “Ah Sha!” he yelled. He crouched down to examine the crack and realized that it was actually the opening to a deep hollow inside the tree. “Ah Sha!” he shouted, louder this time.

“Xunxun!” Ah Sha’s voice wasn’t loud, but it was clear.

“Bring me a rope!” Wan Qingsi roared.

By time Ah Sha was on board a chopper bound for the hospital, it was already afternoon. “Are you hurt anywhere other than your leg?” Xunxun asked, wrapping his arms around Ah Sha carefully.

“Nah. I broke my leg, that’s all.” Ah Sha’s eyes were shut due to exhaustion.

She hadn’t slept since yesterday; she had to keep her eyes open most of the time and be on her guard against Bai Qi. Xunxun adjusted her into a comfortable position and then planted a kiss on her forehead. “It’s alright now. Just go to sleep.”

“Mm,” Ah Sha said. She didn’t make a sound again after that.

The warmth of sunlight was the first thing she felt when she finally woke up. She opened her eyes and met the gaze of the man who had been sitting there, watching her sleep.

“Are you hungry? Do you want to have a bowl of porridge first?”

Ah Sha stretched her arms above her head and yawned. “How long was I out?”

“Right now, it’s noon on the second day of your hospitalization.” Xunxun raised the bed higher and readjusted her position so that her head was now leaning against her pillow. “Don’t move your leg. You’re wearing a cast now, and it’ll be a few months before you can walk again.”

Ah Sha watched as Xunxun brought out the porridge and several light dishes. She sniffed and stretched out her arms. “Hug,” she said.

Xunxun turned around and pulled her into his arms. The two of them stayed in the embrace while everything else in the world faded away. After a while, Ah Sha was starting to feel annoyed with herself for being so weak, like a damsel in distress. Just as Ah Sha was about to push Xunxun away, Xunxun said, “I’m so sorry!”

If he hadn’t been so careless, Ah Sha would never have been brought away by Bai Qi. Nor would she have fallen off the cliff and ended up lying here, injured and debilitated.

“It’s not even your fault!” Ah Sha shoved him away. “You’re letting your imagination run wild again. Stop that.” “Hey, where did all this guilt come from, huh?” Ah Sha said, poking the man’s chest. “I’m the one who should apologize!”

Xunxun laugh incredulously. “What on earth do you have to apologize for?”

“Um, for making you worry?” Ah Sha stared up at him. “You must’ve been worried sick when you couldn’t find me. Believe it or not, I wasn’t scared at all. I knew you’d find me!”

Xunxun stared deeply into her eyes. Then, he buried his head against the column of Ah Sha’s neck. “I could’ve just left Bai Qi there, but you didn’t allow me to. Why?”

When he was rescuing Ah Sha, Xunxun had actually planned to kill Bai Qi, but Ah Sha stopped him. In the end, they rescued Bai Qi as well. Xunxun left him in the care of the hot spring village’s staff.

“He never would’ve fallen down the cliff if it weren’t for me. He tried to save me, that’s why he fell.” Ah Sha pressed her lips together, forming a tight line. “It didn’t feel right to kill him under that kind of circumstances.”

“Okay. I understand. Now, time to eat!” Xunxun set the bowl of porridge before her.

After making a short work of the porridge, Ah Sha called Ying Qingcang.

Unsurprisingly, the first thing Ying Qingcang did was give Xunxun a piece of his mind. When the phone was passed back to Ah Sha, she dared not tell Ying Qingcang about her broken leg. Instead, she told him that she had merely sprained her ankle. After that, Ah Sha was subjected to Xin Qing’s anxious questioning about the state of her health. At first, Xin Qing had insisted on coming to visit Ah Sha at the hospital. But then she changed her mind after Ying Qingcang had said something to her.