Seeing her panicked expression, Lin Fan could no longer hide, he quickly kicked his legs and surfaced, wiped his face, and hurriedly explained loudly, "Sorry, I was just passing by... not, swimming by... I didn’t mean to spy!"
However, just as she tentatively revealed her head above water, she sank again, and in the chaos of her thrashing limbs, she began to drown, leaving Lin Fan even more helpless.
"Save me... cramp... save me... ah..."
The woman in the water struggled ceaselessly, but Lin Fan just treaded water, quietly watching beside her.
Watching as the flailing woman slowly sank into the water and ceased to struggle, he eventually swam over to her, "Hey, you were swimming just fine earlier, why be nervous?"
Lin Fan reached under the woman’s armpits and then lifted her head above water, then with one hand holding his belongings and the other holding the woman’s body, he quickly swam toward the shore. By this time, the woman had passed out and stopped breathing, her voluptuous body being pulled along by Lin Fan, finally reaching the water’s edge.
Throwing his belongings onto the bank, Lin Fan then hooked his arms under the woman’s body, laid her on the wooden dock, straddled her, and began compressing her chest with his hands interlaced.
"One, two, three, four, five..."
With each compression, Lin Fan had to bend down, pinch her nose, and breathe heavily into her mouth, giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After repeating this four times, the woman violently coughed a few times and then spit out all the water she had inhaled.
Lin Fan grabbed a bathrobe hanging on the dock, covered the woman with it, then opened the condom wrapper and took out the contents. But this scene, seen by the woman lying on the ground, filled her with terror. She couldn’t believe this guy even had his tools ready, as if he was about to begin an operation.
"Scumbag... what are you doing... my house has an alarm system... don’t mess around... or else I’ll have the police catch you!"
The woman, now standing and clutching her voluptuous chest, screamed loudly.
"Big sister, I just saved your life. Even if you aren’t grateful, you shouldn’t be cursing me."
Lin Fan turned his head to look at the woman who was about his age. Her delicate features were indeed stunning, and combined with her curvaceous body, she really matched the mansion behind her, probably some big shot’s mistress.
"You’re not a scumbag... what are you doing with a condom!"
The woman stared at him in terror, but then saw him extract from it a cellphone, wallet, keys, and lastly a lighter and cigarette. He took a cigarette and placed it in his mouth.
"This thing isn’t necessarily used only in that way, I use it as a waterproof bag."
Exhaling smoke, Lin Fan, exhausted, sat on the ground. It had been a long time since he swam, and saving someone had drained his energy.
"So... why were you spying on me!"
Looking at the condom now lying aside, the woman’s tense heart relaxed a bit.
"I told you, I was passing by... right, you were drowning and didn’t hear."
Taking a breath, Lin Fan said helplessly, "I saw the water was clean and just wanted to swim, didn’t know you’d be naked... I didn’t want any misunderstandings, so I stayed under the water, but then you swam down... it’s a public place... you can’t blame me for looking... I didn’t intend to."
"But... but you... you just... blatantly ignored me when I could have died..."
The woman, whose emotions were gradually settling, now remembered Lin Fan’s indifferent gaze and grew angry.
"Big sister, it’s not ignoring if someone could die. When people are drowning, they flail and grab at anything. If I had swum over then, you’d have dragged me down too, and we’d both have drowned. I had to wait until you passed out before I could rescue you. Back where I’m from, we say it’s better to drag a dead dog than save a drowning one, it’s all based on experience!"
Lin Fan’s words made the woman’s eyes widen in shock: "What did you just say?"
"I said it’s all based on experience!"
"Not that, the sentence before!"
"I said I had to wait until you passed out..."
"Not that, the thing about the dog!"
The woman’s gaze intensified as she intensely stared at Lin Fan.
"’Better to drag a dead dog than to save a live one’... don’t misunderstand, it’s not an insult, it’s just a saying where I come from, just a metaphor!"
Lin Fan hurriedly explained, but noticed the woman’s eyes flaring up even more.
"Are you from Lotus Town?"
"Do I have an accent?"
Lin Fan, puzzled, looked at the woman, but she hurriedly stumbled to her feet, not even bothering to put on her bathrobe, and approached him, grabbing his arm: "Ten years ago in the summer, what did you do at the reservoir?"
Looking at her bare breasts close by, especially that small patch of bush right before his eyes, Lin Fan’s mind momentarily blanked, but he thought hard and responded, "I saved a little girl in the reservoir, how do you know that?"
"I’ve finally found you!"