Chapter 216: Just An Acciden (2/2)

One of them accidentally brushed against her hand, but the slight touch caused pain to arc through her body as she had used it to block Lu Chenzhou’s blow. But she grit her teeth and silently bore the pain because she saw Lu Chenzhou when she lifted her head. He was standing behind everyone else, propped up against a wall as if he’d lost his ability to stand, and was staring looking at his fist in shock.

After almost a year, Cheng Xi once again saw the same expression that he had made when he almost strangled her to death: a horrified amalgam of shock, fear, and anxiety.

With a debilitating sense of helplessness pervading through it all.

She coughed, and called out to him. “Lu Chenzhou.”

He turned around and looked at her, completely distraught.

“Can you help me up?” She had taken a heavy blow from him, and her face and lips were still stark white.

She was so pitiful that Cheng Yang thundered out, “You still want him to help you?! Do you want to die?!”

He was truly so angry he felt like he was about to explode at any moment, but his outrage was only exacerbated by Cheng Xi’s next words. “Brother, please leave.”

“......”

If it weren’t for the fact that Cheng Xi was so weak that he couldn’t drag her away, he almost would’ve dragged her back home, and then cleared her head up for her!

Cheng Xi had already pushed him aside, and was now barely standing upright with Baldy’s help. She looked at Lu Chenzhou and asked in a slightly ridiculing tone, “Do you want someone else to carry me?”

Her taunt was effective, and Lu Chenzhou slowly walked over before helping support her somewhat stiffly.

“Are you…… alright?” His mouth was bone-dry, and it was hard for him to even talk.

Cheng Xi even joked back, “It’s not too bad. At least you only hit my stomach. If it were a bit further to the left, I wouldn’t have gotten away with just vomiting. I’d probably have to pay the ER a visit.”

Her tone was relaxed, but her words were the truth; based on how hard Lu Chenzhou had hit her, it was very, very fortunate that his fist hadn’t landed on her spleen.

Perhaps Lu Chenzhou understood what she meant, because his face paled some further.

Baldy and Lu Chenming were both dazed. According to Cheng Xi’s words, doesn’t that mean that Lu Chenzhou was the one who hit her?!

…The world’s moving too quickly. It feels like I can’t keep up!

Lu Chenzhou didn’t even dare to reach out and touch her, so Cheng Xi could only fall into his embrace and lean against him weakly. “It was only an accident. Lu Chenzhou, hug me.”

She truly wanted to say that she was alright, but her body just wouldn’t listen to her. She was already starting to feel light-headed, her dress was drenched in sweat, and her body trembling out of control. She was very familiar with this feeling because she had experienced it once before when she had donated her blood in high school.

So she knew that she wouldn’t be able to stand up for much longer.

But she didn’t want to just fall over. Her vomit was still splattered on the ground, and if she landed in the pool of her own vomit…

Luckily, Lu Chenzhou responded quickly; as she began to fall down, he hugged her tightly. In the moment right before her vision went black, all Cheng Xi could see was Lu Chenzhou’s pupils, wide in shock.

Cheng Yang yelled out shrilly, both frightened and angry, “Cheng Xi!”

I’m alright. I just need to lie down for a little.

But no one could read her mind. As she fell, she prayed that Lu Chenzhou wouldn’t be too scared and that Cheng Yang wouldn’t be so overtaken with anger that he’d try to pick another fight with Lu Chenzhou; there was no way he would win!