32 My Home (2/2)

But how could they? She wouldn't let anyone near herself. Chiang Jin's heart was filled with worry and sickness. Of course, he wasn't such a nice person to feel worried about her, but Qiu Yue's current condition was caused by Wang Xi and the connection between Bao FeiYin and Wang Xi...

Qiu Yue felt like the world around her was buzzing. When someone spoke in front of her, she couldn't understand a thing. All of the voices had melded into that one monotonic buzz. She just wanted to go back home, crawl into her bed and sleep forever.

No matter where she looked, it felt like the room was full of familiar strangers.

But suddenly there was a louder buzz and when she turned to look at it— his warm eyes were fraught with worry and she felt like he was her refuge. She had no idea why, and even she didn't understand it. He made her feel like home, like the sunshine on that cold winter morning. Her feet took a step towards him. But it was like all her feelings suddenly came crashing down on her all of a sudden and she couldn't seem to move an inch, frozen with a bone-chilling cold.

The hands that she had clasped together in front of herself suddenly felt warm as large, steady hands wrapped her up in their embrace. Looking up in a haze, she saw his eyes looking back at her, reflecting only her, like always. They were filled with concern and something else she had never seen in her world.

Qiu Yue didn't know what love was. But perhaps if she were asked to ever define it, it would be what Huo Zi Feng held in his eyes at this moment, only for her.

Her fingers trembled as she grasped his shirt, laying her head on his chest. As the warmth seeped into her cold body, her calm façade shattered. Her breath quickened as tears began to fall. She wasn't crying because she had been scared, she was crying because without saying anything, he had just hugged her.

It didn't matter what had happened. Huo Zi Feng had pulled her close to himself and given her his wholehearted, unconditional love.

He held her closer as she cried endlessly into his chest, pressing his cheek against hers, not saying a word.

Chiang Jin felt guilty.

He thought she didn't have any emotions, standing stoically. To the extent of being unreasonable and not letting anyone near her, not even for treatment. But it hadn't been that. Qiu Yue just couldn't trust anyone else. No one other than Huo Zi Feng existed in her eyes right now.

A distant look appeared in his eyes as he wondered why Bao FeiYin had never been able to do the same, and whether he could do the same for her.

Yao Yan quietly sank into the darkness, watching by the sideline, looking at the both of them. She'd known, Qiu Yue wouldn't allow herself to cry unless she really considered that person a part of her heart.

Yao Yan had held her once while she had cried. And that moment would also be the last. She wasn't fortunate enough to be that close with Qiu Yue ever again.