Chapter 40: Crime and Evil (1/2)

When Cheng Xi regained her wits, she found that she and Lu Chenzhou were the only two people on the street, and that Lin Fan had left some time ago.

She was still a bit dazed and somewhat scared because Lu Chenzhou’s kiss this time was quite different from the previous two times. He had learned to stick his tongue out somewhere, and despite not having any finesse, had licked her lips and face like a little dog. This kiss had shocked Cheng Xi more than any other.

When he tightly embraced her, she could also feel that he had gotten an erection.

This was…

She clutched her face. At the very least, he hadn’t done anything about it, but she guessed that it wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but rather that he……didn’t know how to? This guess came from the fact that he was currently looking strangely at the lower half of his body, and even reaching his hand out as if to touch it.

When Cheng Xi saw his movements, she felt black lines streaking across her forehead, and she quickly grabbed his hand. “Let’s go. My hand’s really about to break off.”

She pulled him back to the office with her, only relaxing once she saw that he had calmed down—given his earlier behavior, she was worried that if her colleagues saw him, they would beat and throw him out as if he were a hoodlum.

Cheng Xi had Lu Chenzhou sit down. He did so obediently, like a deep thinker sitting with his back straight and head held high and coolly. His indescribable antics made Cheng Xi want to laugh at the absurdity.

She pursed her lips, not thinking about him, but not leaving the room either. She took her jacket off and prepared to look at the arm that Chen Jiaman had bitten.

When she rolled up her sleeves, even Cheng Xi herself was a bit shocked by the sight. Chen Jiaman’s bite had been very fierce indeed, and there was a clear set of large and round tooth marks embedded into her skin.

Luckily, since it was winter, she had been wearing a jacket. If it were summer, she probably would have had a large chunk of flesh ripped out of her arm.

She was also trying to be brave. Cheng Xi didn’t want to cause any more trouble, so she scavenged some iodine and cotton swabs, intending to privately disinfect her wound.

But she was quite sensitive to pain. As she poured iodine onto her wound, she immediately felt pain course through it again. It was as if there were thousands of mouths gnawing on her flesh, and she was almost unable to continue.

“Do you regret it?” Lu Chenzhou had finished thinking some time ago, and had come over to watch her treat herself.

Cheng Xi’s forehead was covered in a thin sheen of sweat. She forced herself to raise her head to look at him. “Regret what?”

Lu Chenzhou took a cotton swab and poked at her wound.

“Ouch!” Cheng Xi couldn’t handle it anymore, and her head hit the tabletop out of exhaustion as she powerlessly said, “Don’t make a fuss, Lu Chenzhou.”

When he noticed that she hadn’t called him Mr. Lu, he felt rather happy. He decided to let her off the hook, and even kindly offered, “Let me help.”

And then he took another cotton swab, poured alcohol on it, and helped her clean her wound.

A rich young master like him had never done such a thing. As the cotton swab penetrated deep into Cheng Xi’s wound, so much pain wracked her body that she started quivering. After stubbornly bearing it for a while, she gave up, and exerted just enough strength to stop the cotton swab in his hand. “Alright, you can stop now.”

If he were to continue, her arm might really break off!

This time, she didn’t even dare let him help wrap her wound. She did it herself casually, rolled her sleeve back down, and then put her jacket on.

“Just that?” He raised his eyebrows questioningly.

“No. I’ll go get some medicine from the surgery area later, and I might also have to get a shot.”

Lu Chenzhou looked at her.

“What is it?” she asked as she tidied up the table.

“Why?”

“Hmm?”

“Why help her like that?”

“I’m the doctor whose responsible for her.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Chenzhou smiled coolly, but didn’t say anything more.

His grandfather’s banquet was still going on, and Lu Chenzhou naturally couldn’t stay out for too long. Once they called him and asked about his situation, he left quickly.

Cheng Xi never returned. She didn’t know what Chen Jiaman would be like when she woke up, and she didn’t feel comfortable leaving before finding out.

But she also was somewhat worried about Lu Chenzhou, and she forcibly found him a substitute driver, even calling Cai Yi to warn her. “His condition doesn’t seem too stable, as if he was scared by Chen Jiaman’s incident. Once he returns, please help take care of him, professor.”

Cai Yi replied, “Okay.” Perhaps it was because she could hear the note of remorse in Cheng Xi’s voice, but she also reassuringly added on, “It’ll be fine, don’t worry. He’s not a novice, and won’t truly be scared from something like this.”

Cheng Xi smiled. “That’s good.”