He wanted to pick up Lin Zhiyi, but was afraid of hurting her wound. He was at a loss for a moment, and finally took out his cell phone.
Just as he was about to call Li Shuhuai to drive the car over, a siren sounded outside.
The two of them looked up and saw the police and ambulance arriving.
Lin Zhiyi was carried into an ambulance on a stretcher, while those who were beaten by Xiao Ci were tortured away.
This usually quiet old house became lively, and people passing by couldn't help but stop.
Lin Zhiyi felt embarrassed and buried her face in her arms. Fortunately, the ambulance left quickly.
After all, it is not a glorious thing. If someone recognizes it, not only will it be impossible to hide it from the parents, but it will also be embarrassing.
In the ward, the doctor had cut the fabric on Lin Zhiyi's back. Without the cover of clothes, he could see a blue and red wound on the skin that was originally as white as jade, and the surrounding area was swollen.
Xiao Ci's eyes darkened, probably because he regretted that he was too gentle when he beat those people.
"Silk——" Lin Zhiyi gasped when the cotton ball touched the wound.
"Don't be nervous." Xiao Ci held her back.
"But it hurts." Lin Zhiyi didn't pretend to be strong, and tears fell down, making Xiao Ci feel uncomfortable.
"You know it hurts, how dare you pounce on me next time?" Xiao Ci was very angry, but more importantly, he felt distressed that he didn't even notice.
"But if I didn't pounce, you would have been injured." Lin Zhiyi said, as if protecting him was a matter of course.
"Don't you know that people are selfish? When people are in danger, their subconscious reaction is to protect themselves." He never thought that she could do this for him.
He really didn't know whether he should call her stupid or call himself an asshole.
"Then maybe you are a more important person to me than myself." She smiled calmly and sincerely, without any fear or regret at all.
But facing her such hot emotions, Xiao Ci did not dare to look directly into her eyes.
After a long while, he said: "Be good, be patient, I will buy you candy later."
Logically speaking, after something like this, their relationship should have warmed up.
However, his attitude was very cold and his feelings were not responded to. Lin Zhiyi could not help but feel disappointed, so she asked dissatisfiedly: "Do you think I am a child?"
"Yeah." Xiao Ci admitted generously.
"Xiao Ci——" He always found a way to make himself angry.
"Do you like orange flavor or peach flavor?" He asked and took out a few lollipops from his pocket, finally picked one and said, "I guess it's lemon flavor."
Lin Zhiyi's attention was immediately diverted. Didn't he just say to buy it? Why did it appear in his hand so quickly?
No, this candy looks familiar, it’s obviously from her bag.
"You are really good at borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, right?" What she borrowed was her flowers to coax herself.
Unfortunately, before he could finish his words, he had already stuffed one into his mouth. It really tasted like lemon.
"How do you know I like the taste of this?" There was sugar in her mouth, causing her speech to be slurred.
"Because the one I ate before was lemon-flavored," Xiao Ci replied.
Lin Zhiyi couldn't help but think of the lollipop he had taken away from her mouth before.
Seeing his hand reaching towards her lips again, she quickly dodged it and warned: "There is someone here."
"My saliva is drooling." Xiao Ci wiped the corners of her lips with his thumb, not showing any distaste at all, and acted naturally and intimately.
Lin Zhiyi's heart felt warm. Although there was some secret happiness, she still felt that there seemed to be something missing between the two of them, perhaps because of his vague attitude of evasion.
The nurse helped Lin Zhiyi take care of the wound, explained the precautions to Xiao Ci in detail, and then left with an ambiguous smile.
Probably in the eyes of the nurse, this young couple is happy.
However, Lin Zhiyi felt that Xiao Ci was a little different. Before the gangsters surrounded them, he said that he didn't need to accompany him, or he hadn't seen each other in the past few days, or even earlier.
"Were you avoiding me before?" That's why you deliberately stopped contacting me.
Maybe she didn't think so much at first, but now she has to think so.
"I just have some questions that I don't understand." Xiao Ci said, but he didn't completely deny it.
"Have you figured it out now?" Lin Zhiyi asked again.
Xiao Ci looked at her and didn't answer for a while.
In fact, he didn't show up these days because he was thinking about how to deal with their relationship.
He approached Lin Zhiyi originally to take revenge on the Lin family.
He thought that if something happened to the Lin family, he would have a showdown with Lin Zhiyan and give him a heavy blow, which would definitely make people happy. This was also his dream.
But as the plan was implemented, he became more and more uneasy, and suddenly he didn't want to do it.
Especially when thinking about the grievances between his family and the Lin family, Lin Zhiyi was originally unaware of it.
Of course, it was not that he was out of kindness, but that he seemed to care more about hurting Lin Zhiyi than Lin Zhiyan's pain.
What would happen to her if she knew the truth? Would she hate herself?
Especially today, after she protected him without hesitation, she made him feel even more like an asshole, so he decided to let her go.
"Thank you, the company is sending me abroad." After thinking about it, maybe pretending to leave is a good choice.
"Aren't you an intern?" Lin Zhiyi frowned.
"So the opportunity is rare." Xiao Ci said.
Lin Zhiyi didn't know what he was hiding, but she could tell from Xiao Ci's tone that he had already made a decision.
Although he was unwilling to do so, he did not hinder him. He just asked dully: "How long will it take to go?"
Will they have a long-distance relationship from now on?
Xiao Ci looked at her and felt a little sad thinking about the separation, but he knew that the long-term pain was worse than the short-term pain, so he said: "One year."
He thought that one year would be enough to wear away her new feelings for him and make her forget about him, right?
After all, they had just "fallen in love" not long ago, maybe... it wouldn't take that long at all.
He knew that this had completely deviated from his original intention of getting closer to Lin Zhiyi. This decision made his previous investment in her meaningless, but he just wanted to do this.
Lin Zhiyi was silent for a moment.
After all, from her perspective, her relationship with Xiao Ci has just begun, and is not even stable yet.
If the two places are separated for a long time, it will be full of too many unknowns and uncertainties.
Xiao Ci looked at her face, already prepared for her to have a big quarrel with him. He thought he could take the opportunity to break up, which would be considered a beginning and an end.
Unexpectedly, Lin Zhiyi quickly adjusted her mood and smiled at him and said, "Okay, it's just one year. At worst, I will fly over to see you often."
The reason for this was that Lin Zhiyi thought that if he didn't show up these days, he must have struggled, so he didn't want to embarrass him.
Anyway, she was not short of money, so she would visit him more often when she was not busy.
Lin Zhiyi didn't know that the more he acted like this, the more tolerant he became, and the more he went beyond Xiao Ci's expectations.
How could she be so stupid and unable to see that he was going to abandon her?
Xiao Ci felt a little irritated, stood up and said, "I'm going to smoke a cigarette."