1083 Perplexed and Smitten 143 (1/2)
He returned to the cage and opened the door before squatting down. Staring at Fang Erlan, who was still quivering in terror, he said in an alluring voice, \”Come out.\”
Fang Erlan looked up at him with tears in her eyes that were as dark as ink. She then walked out of the cage slowly.
When she was about to reach him, he grabbed her arm straight away, causing her to stumble forward and fall into his arms. He took the chance to pick her up.
She did not struggle to get out of his embrace at all and was instead behaving as meekly as a lamb, perhaps because she had just gotten a great shock.
He carried her back inside the room.
She finally felt better after he placed her down onto the bed.
\”Xiao Chenyang…\”
\”Yes.\”
\”Did you kill those two people?\”
\”Yes.\”
\”Will the police arrest you, then?\”
\”Are you worried about me?\” he asked, feeling a sudden sense of joy.
She did not answer his question and instead asked again, \”Will they arrest you?\”
\”They wouldn't.\”
\”Why not? You killed people…\”
\”Don't you know that you won't be punished by the law if you were to kill terrorists? In fact, you'll even be handsomely rewarded. Don't act like a saint and tell me that terrorists are humans too, that their lives ought to be respected as well.\”
\”I won't do that or pretend to be a saint. What do you take me for?\” she retorted.
\”I'm very happy.\”
\”About what?\” she asked in puzzlement.
\”I'm happy that you were worried about me just now.\”
\”I wasn't being worried about you. I was just afraid that I'll be implicated if the police were to arrest you. Although I was the victim, I would more or less still be affected.\”
\”Even then, I'm still very happy. That's a form of concern too, although you do sound like you don't have a conscience.\”
Feeling extremely disgruntled, Fang Erlan snapped, \”Who's the one who doesn't have a conscience? You insisted on making me come here. If I hadn't come here, would I have almost died in a foreign place? How dare you accuse me when I've yet to berate you?\”
Xiao Chenyang's lips curled into a smile, and he said, \”Send your boss a text message to tell her that you're safe. Tell them that they don't have to worry anymore.\”
\”Okay.\” She grabbed her mobile phone that was charging and sent An Xiaoning a text message.
She received a reply soon after.
\”Sis said that the four of them are leaving tomorrow for a short vacation in another nation. They're planning to return to the country after that. Shall we… tag along with them?\”
\”Why should we do that? Let's go on a trip alone with just me and you. We'll return to S Nation after a couple of days too,\” said Xiao Chenyang, who had his own plans in mind.
Feeling uncomfortable at the thought of having to be with him alone, she said, \”Why must we be alone with each other? Let's go together with them, shall we?\”
He could tell that she was extremely reluctant to spend time with him alone.
However, the more unwilling she was, the more he enjoyed compelling her.
Fang Erlan's heart sank upon the sight of him entering the bathroom.
She pinched her legs, which were still weak and feeble, before removing her shoes and moving her pillow up to lean against it.
She opened her Weibo page and published a post that read: \”Being alive is the most blissful thing ever.\”
Those words truly described how she felt at this moment.
It was exactly how she felt after having a close shave with death.
Despite that, there were still a bunch of ill-intentioned netizens who mistook and tweaked the meaning of her words.
However, she had fortunately already become numb and invulnerable to the comments of strangers. She no longer felt as upset as she did when the rumors of her dating Jing Yang were first exposed.
\”What are you looking at?\” he asked.
Fang Erlan put down her mobile phone and answered, \”I posted something on Weibo.\”