"Let's go?" Zhuo Jingren rose from his seat when he realized that it was already past ten in the evening. He roamed his eyes around the empty temple before he noticed that Lily was looking at him worriedly. "Even though this place had been abandoned, the lights from the lamp posts are still working. I would get someone to change the bulbs every now and then. You don't have to be scared," he assured Lily with a smile.
"I am not scared," Lily said before she got up from the bench. "It's quite late. Are we riding back to the resort on a bicycle?" Her hands were clutching the coat that had been draped on her before she finally decided to wear it properly. It was getting colder after all. She reckoned that Zhuo Jingren wouldn't need the coat more than she did as he was a large hot-blooded male. Moreover, the man had given the coat to her!
He smiled when he saw Lily wearing his coat. "Yes and no. We will cycle back halfway, then someone will come and pick us up and send us back to our villa."
"Alright." She nodded. Zhuo Jingren was right, even though this place had been abandoned, it was also obvious that the place had been maintained somehow. For Zhuo Jingren to take care of this place, it must be because this place held a very important place in his heart.
"Going down is going to be more difficult than going up. Do you still want me to carry you?" Lily raised an eyebrow at Zhuo Jingren's shameless words.
"No, thank you," she answered before taking huge strides past him towards the bamboo forest, taking the lead. The duo followed the stone path through the bamboo forest and it wasn't long before they reached the same flight of steps they had climbed up earlier. As they were going down, they could still catch a view of the lake and even the city below. From time to time, the duo would stop to appreciate the view. They knew they had reached the end of the long flight of steps when a huge gate greeted them, the same gate they saw when they first arrived.
Zhuo Jingren went up to his bicycle that was parked by the gate and asked Lily to get on the bicycle. Lily complied and obediently sat down on the passenger seat behind Zhuo Jingren. Just then her nose caught a faint scent. Slowly, she inched her nose towards Zhuo Jingren's back as she breathed in his scent.
The scent on him was mild, like the smell of a morning dew. It reminded her of spring and summer. It smelled comforting and it warmed Lily's heart. Once again, her arms naturally made its way around his waist, unaware of its effect on the man who was riding the bicycle. During the ride, Lily had her eyes closed as she indulged herself in his warmth.
After a few minutes, Lily sensed that the bicycle had stopped moving which prompted her to open her eyes. She immediately got off the bicycle without being asked to. "A buggy?" she asked when she saw a buggy waiting ahead of them.
"Yeah, well… We get to take in the magnificent view and breathe in some fresh air if we ride on a buggy. I figured you might like it…" he frowned, "Don't you like it? If you don't like it, I can ask someone to drive a car over. But that would be another twenty minutes wait if you don't mind."
"Oh, the buggy is not a problem." Lily gave him a sincere smile. "I would love some fresh air."
The duo then approached the buggy. However, before Zhuo Jingren could get on the buggy, the middle-aged driver stopped him. "Mr. Zhuo, Mr. Ito said that he is coming here to meet you. So I am only here to fetch Miss Lily," he said in Japanese.
Zhuo Jingren instantly furrowed. "At this hour?"
The driver nodded.
"No," Zhuo Jingren declined immediately and assisted Lily to get on the buggy before following suit.
"But Mr. Zhuo…"
"Have you forgotten who is Riku's boss?" Zhuo Jingren's words instantly silenced the driver. "Are you expecting me to wait for someone who serves me?"
"Mr. Zhuo… I-" the driver stuttered, avoiding Zhuo Jingren's gaze. "I will drive you and Miss Lily back to your villa," he immediately said before boarding the buggy and driving off.
There was still quite a distance from where they were to the resort. The road was quiet and empty as it was late. Their buggy was the only vehicle travelling on the road.
"The view is beautiful from this side of town. Especially at night," Zhuo Jingren said while looking out of the buggy.
"You are right. It is very refreshing to have this…"
*BOOM!*
A loud explosion interrupted Lily from finishing her sentence. The driver immediately stopped the buggy before looking at Zhuo Jingren and Lily worriedly. "Boss, I think there is something wrong up ahead," he spoke in Japanese.
Zhuo Jingren only furrowed his brows as the rumbling sound seemed to be coming towards them. He could literally feel the ground shaking as if an earthquake had just occurred. "Out of the buggy," he instructed while gently pushing Lily out of the vehicle.
Lily got out of the vehicle immediately before roaming her eyes at her surroundings. The shaking and rumbling continued… as if... As if it was heading towards them. She instantly turned her head towards Zhuo Jingren who had also gotten out of the buggy as he stood in front of her protectively. "What was that?" she asked, squinting her eyes into the darkness ahead. The light coming from the buggy was not enough to illuminate what was ahead of them.
Once again, the ground shook. Zhuo Jingren instinctively grabbed Lily's hand before he yelled. "Run!"
Everything happened too quickly. The roar of the ground was getting louder as she tightened her grip on Zhuo Jingren's hand. She followed his lead, unaware of the current direction that they were heading to.
Then…
BAM!
Lily felt herself being wrapped by something warm and comforting before her consciousness left her.
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When Lily regained her consciousness, she felt a throbbing pain in her back as she began to survey her surroundings. Slowly, she tried to turn her body only to realize that she was lying on the ground and something was pressing on her body. She furrowed her brows and tried to wriggle free only to realize that she was trapped under Zhuo Jingren who had his arms wrapped around her protectively.
"Hey…" Lily tapped on Zhuo Jingren's arms, her eyes trying to make out of their surroundings. If her guess was right, they were knocked out the road by what seemed to be a landslide. But it hadn't been raining, so what could have caused a landslide?
"Hey." She tapped on his arms once again.
"Hmn…" Zhuo Jingren let out a moan.
"Zhuo Jingren, can you hear me?"
"Hey! Are you alright?" Lily gently shook Zhuo Jingren's arms. No response. Lily wanted to get up, so she tried her best to roll Zhuo Jingren over from her but she realized that it was not going to be easy. That's because Zhuo Jingren had a big built from regularly exercising and he was also tall, at 183cm. Compared to Lily's petite frame and standing only at 165cm tall, the man looked like a giant.
When she finally succeeded, Lily immediately sat up and tried to retrieve her phone from her pocket, only to discover that it is no longer there. She immediately searched Zhuo Jingren's pockets and was relieved to find that his phone was still there. Lily pressed a button on the phone and the screen lit up. That was when she realized that the screen was cracked. At least the phone was still working. As Lily didn't know the password to unlock Zhuo Jingren's phone, it was still in locked mode but just the light on the phone was useful enough.
Lily focused the light from the phone on her surroundings and immediately furrowed her brows when she discovered they were no longer on the road and they seemed to have fallen off a cliff or a valley. All Lily could see were rocks and pieces of wood littered around them.
She lifted her head to look at the night sky and was a little appeased that she could still see the stars. At least, they were not trapped in some cave or something.
She then focused the light on the person lying motionless beside her. Fear instantly leaped out of her when she saw Zhuo Jingren's ashen face. Lily's cold hands immediately reached out to check his pulse.
'Alive'
Lily let out a sigh of relief before she trailed down the light down his body to check if he had sustained any wounds. Then she discovered that his right leg was bleeding.
Without any second thoughts, Lily ripped her shirt and made a make-shift tourniquet and tied it around Zhuo Jingren's wound. She then secured it with a piece of stick that she found nearby. Lily's movement's were fast and agile, her face was calm and serene but the occasional scrunching of her brows revealed her worries.
After making sure that the bleeding had slowed down, Lily covered Zhuo Jingren with his coat before she got up to walk around and survey her surroundings once again.
"Hello?" she called out, her voice a little hoarse. Then, she felt a small pellet of water had dropped on her face. It was immediately followed by a brilliant shock of white light ripping across the sky.
'Damn' she cursed inwardly when she realized that it had started to rain. 'Why does it have to rain at times like this?'
Lily quickly made her back to Zhuo Jingren and slowly moved him away from the open area, towards a space that seemed to be untouched by the falling rain. It would be a perfect shelter from the rain.
After much half-dragging, half-lifting, Lily finally succeeded in shifting Zhuo Jingren to that space and she laid him to rest against a rock. That was when she discovered something bizarre.
Zhuo Jingren's back was damp. She immediately used the phone to check out his back and widened her eyes to see it was littered with wounds. The back part of his once white shirt was drenched in blood and was in tatters. In a flash, Lily crouched down in front of Zhuo Jingren, straddling him before she hugged his body so it could rest against hers while she continued to examine the wounds on his back.
What she didn't expect was his consciousness to suddenly return.
"If I have known that being wounded would make you hug me like this, I would have gotten myself injured that night we first met," he whispered, surprising Lily. However, she remained composed and continued to check his wounds.
"Don't move. You have lost a lot of blood and your wounds are still bleeding" she said before gently laying him back down against the rock.
"Yeah… I have mild hemophilia," he calmly said.
"What?"
"Apparently, it's hereditary."
"I…" Lily lowered her head as a lightning lit up the sky, revealing her troubled expression. "I'm sorry," she muttered,sitting down on the ground beside him.
"It's not your fault," he said. "You should take the coat and cover yourself with it because it's getting cold in this rain. It won't take long before people find us here."
"We are in the middle of nowhere and it's dark and raining. They won't even know that we have not returned to our villa," Lily said as she sat down next to Zhuo Jingren.
"They will… my watch has a tracker that will update my secretary with my latest location every five minutes. Go Jichen will know that something is wrong if he sees that if I have not moved for a long time in a place like this," he explained. Sensing that Lily was awfully quiet, he added, "It's a part of his job to monitor my location. I have enemies in this country. So…"
"You protected me," Lily interrupted him. "That's how you got your wounds on your back..."
"It's because you hugged me during the fall." Lily added in a voice was soft.
"As your future husband… It is my duty to…"
"Oh shut up!" Lily hissed. "You are so stupid for protecting me. You know that you have hemophilia yet, you still protected me! You are so stupid!"
"If loving you is stupid then… I am indeed very stupid."
A single tear instantly fell from Lily's eyes as she let out a long sigh. "Stupid man! Everyone who had ever protected me is now dead. Do you want to become one of them? Do you want to die while saving me?"
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