Up to You - C196
Those withered hands were now like blades. With a slight twist of her wrist, she could break my neck.
I was trembling with fear.
In the darkness, I saw her face slowly appear in the light, moving closer and closer to me, a gun pressed against her head.
After a long time, he heard a familiar male voice coming from the darkness.
Icy, low, and unquestionable: “Let go.”
The woman wore a black veil, but her pair of withered eyes were enough to make one think of her facial features. Just how thin and terrifying was she?
She didn’t seem frightened when the gun was pointed at her, but when she heard the man’s voice coming from the darkness, she shuddered.
The woman’s chest heaved up and down, and then her whole body shook. She reluctantly withdrew her hand from my neck, and in the next second, as if she had been deflated, she was unable to stand. She staggered and almost fell to her knees.
The owner of the gun came slowly out of the darkness and I knew who it was until I saw his face in the moonlight.
“Uncle Huainan…”
Outside, the rain and wind seemed to have stopped. Besides the heavy rain, there was only the sound of the rain.
He gave me a light smile and said gently, “Don’t be afraid.”
That man in black probably noticed me following her a long time ago, it just so happened to be dark early. This corridor is also a hidden corner that the camera couldn’t find, she wanted to get rid of me.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have attacked so heavily.
The woman panted in pain. The suffocating and terrifying atmosphere suppressed by the Mr. Mou made her quiver and mutter out a few words with great difficulty.
“Why are you here?”
Mu Huainan laughed coldly.
“I should ask you that.”
I couldn’t help but clench my fists and ask, “Speak! Did you kidnap Jing Yu?! ”
She met my gaze and answered, “Yes.”
“You!” She really didn’t expect that she could still act so righteously after kidnapping someone! I was furious. “Speak! Where is Jing Yu?! ”
The woman didn’t seem to be in the mood to continue paying attention to me. She tilted her head and looked out the window, but in reality, she was sizing up Mu Huainan from the corner of her eyes.
She raised her eyebrows, as if her fear from the earlier emergency had calmed down a lot, as she asked in a relaxed manner.
“What? You want to kill me?”
The darkness of the night was imprinted in Mu Huainan’s eyes.
“Of course not.”
The words’ light and elegant ‘seemed like they could be blown away at any moment, but when they landed in that woman’s eardrums, it seemed even more terrifying than killing her.
He added, “It’s too easy to die.”
These six words finally made that cold woman take off all her armor. Cold sweat dripped down her body like rain.
However, she refused to admit her fear and pulled out an excuse.
“Because you don’t dare to kill me. If you kill me, you will never be able to find Jing Yu’s whereabouts. Although you don’t care about Jing Yu’s life, you care about the opinion of the woman in front of you.”
She gave me a cold look as she said, “This woman in front of me.”
There was disdain in his eyes, but there was also disdain for the jealousy underneath that I had seen through.
After following Mu Huainan for a long time, he had more or less learned a way to see through his intentions.
Mu Huainan did not reply. Instead, he reached into her pocket and took out bottles and jars from inside.
Looking at them carefully, they were all medicine that Jing Yu had to take everyday.
The reason that you destroyed the water pipe was so that you could have the chance to sneak in to steal the medicine.
The woman clenched her fists and didn’t say a word.
“You’re more afraid of something happening to Jing Yu than me.”
After a long while, Mu Huainan spat out those words coldly, kept his spear and walked towards me.
He took me in his arms, knowing I was cold, and rubbed my arm with one hand until it warmed up a little.
As he looked at her, the rain and thunder that had finally settled for a while outside the window began to fall once more, and the sound of a thunderclap was deafening.
In that instant, Tian He Earth seemed to calm down again. He spoke word by word, like an executioner about to be punished, each blade slashing down on the woman’s bones, “If you want to reminisce about the past, Jing Yu is delirious, you have chosen the wrong person.”
The last sentence was clear and cold, yet it was like a blade stabbing into a woman’s weakest spine.
“I’m still here.”
She stumbled against the cold wall, gasping for breath.
And Mr. Mou, from beginning to end, was the work of a sect’s Mr. Mou.
He watched calmly as she slid down the wall and then looked down at her.
“You haven’t changed at all over the years.”
His words were laced with sarcasm.
The woman sneered.
“Are you trying to say that I’m still as useless as I was many years ago?” She didn’t wait for Mu Huainan’s reply and knew that Mu Huainan wouldn’t answer, so she continued to speak for herself. “Mu Huainan, you’re wrong! The me back then is completely different from the me of now. If you look down on me, you will definitely regret it. Just you wait, I will make you experience the same life and death feeling as I did in the past! ”
A flash of lightning flashed past, and the colorless face of a female ghost appeared.
I couldn’t help but shrink back into Mu Huainan’s embrace.
However, no matter how big the threat was, it was just a child’s play in front of Mr. Mou.
“Mu Huainan, you were the one who told me this, once a person has a weakness, they will lose.”
The woman’s eyes were bloodshot and she scratched me.
“Lu Weian, I know that Mu Huainan has protected you well all these years, but this life of yours will soon come to an end.”
Mu Huainan’s bottom line is that I can never receive a threat. He, who had been calm and composed since the beginning, suddenly bent down sharply, grabbed the woman’s chin and lifted her face.
“If a person has a weakness, they will lose.” He said, “But you forgot who I am.”
The panic and fear in the woman’s eyes flared up, and it took me several murmurs to understand what she was saying.
She said, “You’re not a human, you’re a ghost, a demon.”
The weak point of a demon was something that no one could touch. As long as one approached a demon, they would be crushed into foam. There was no chance for one to touch his weak point.
Finally, in the dark night, the woman was completely paralyzed on the ground, the sound of the rain became sharp and ear-piercing. She was like a skeleton whose soul had been extracted, and all that was left at this moment was a pile of scattered bones.
Mu Huainan looked at me, then turned and left.
Standing in front of the door on the first floor, he could see the lights of the cafeteria in the distance. It was still raining, so the patient and the doctor didn’t come back that quickly.
Mu Huainan took off his suit jacket and draped it over me, tightly wrapping it around me.
I looked at him, a little afraid to face him.
He’s always been the most angry with me for lying to him. This time I came to the nursing home on the pretext of going to the company. He would be angry.
“Uncle Huainan…” “I’m sorry,” I said miserably.
He gave an indistinct “En” in response.
“I shouldn’t have tricked you into coming to the sanatorium.”
Just thinking about what happened just now made him extremely afraid.
“And then.” he asked as he continued to warm my hands.
“I… I won’t lie to you anymore to make you angry. ”
“How do you want to make up for this?”
I hesitated, unable to speak.
“I… “I’ll go back and write a review …”
Mu Huainan refused to forgive him, “And then?”
“Then …” His voice was so light that I knew he was waiting for me to say something.
“Alright!” I’ll do whatever you want me to do. ”
Mu Huainan laughed happily in the hall. He kissed me heavily and then hugged me up by the waist as a car coincidentally stopped in front of the hall. He walked over and the driver came down to help him hold up an umbrella to take us away.
Before the engine started, I hesitated to look inside the building.
“Jing Yu, she …”
“I’m fine.” Mu Huainan hugged me and said, “I will bring her back.”
“Yes.” I buried my head in his arms, not wanting to ask anything, not wanting to say anything, and my heart, which had been trembling with fear, finally returned to its original position in his arms.
The rain never stopped, and when we all got home, it didn’t stop.
When he took me in his arms and soaked me in the bathtub, I felt the warmth.
At that moment, it was almost enough to dispel all of the haze.
I nestled with him in some of the smaller bathtubs, and several times I said I wanted a bigger one and he wouldn’t let me, but he squeezed with me every time, saying it was so warm.
He held me, the water rising around me.
“Uncle Huainan.” I finally asked him.
“Is that person really an old friend of yours?”
He nodded.
“Then… “Who is she?”
Mu Huainan sighed, and after a long while, he slowly spoke out.
“I didn’t want to tell you these things.”
He looked at me and gave me a pampered smile, pinched my cheek, and said, “Always like a kid. So curious.”
He finally let go. Ken told me about the woman.
“Her name is Lin Shupei. Back then, she had disguised herself as a man and snuck into our eight boys to undergo the Old Owner’s trials together.”
“Disguise as a man?” I thought for a moment and asked, “Is he the one that you said was skinny and like a girl, everyone calls him ‘little sister’?”
Mu Huainan nodded.
“It’s actually a woman?!” Furthermore…
“She won first place in her first test?”
Mu Huainan nodded again.
She’s still alive.
I couldn’t help but shiver.
“Uncle Huainan… Didn’t you say. Are all the people you fought over back then dead? ”
He suddenly sighed deeply.
“That’s a long story.” He got out of the water and said, “It’s already over. Let’s go to bed early after we finish the shower and choose a free day. Let me tell you something, okay?”
I couldn’t shake him, so I nodded reluctantly.
Before he went to bed, he gave me a medicine to prevent a cold, for fear I would freeze to death and get sick tomorrow, and when we finally came to sleep in the same bed, he suddenly told me good night.
“I’ll go and bring Jing Yu back tomorrow.”
