Yue Rujing had an innocent look on his face, offering a bitter smile, "I’m being harassed by her patient, is this a trivial matter?"
Qin Changlin nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes!"
With fire in her eyes, Yue Rujing realized that she couldn’t continue with this work.
Fine, in order not to create additional problems, she decided to endure it for now. Once her senior brother returned, she would have someone marry off that clingy piece of candy.
In the blink of an eye, Jin Zijin had been gone for over half a month. In the last few days, Gu Youyou had been sleeping restlessly, always feeling that in the middle of the night, someone was moving around the house like a ghost.
In the darkness, Gu Youyou widened her eyes, listening carefully to the noises outside.
This night she was determined to make sense of it.
The whooshing sound wasn’t the wind; it seemed like someone was flying around the house, closing in.
Oh no, the area around her house had definitely been disturbed these past few days. Listening to the noises, it seemed different from the previous days. Her heart raced with the feeling that something big was going to happen tonight!
Gu Youyou couldn’t help feeling nervous, instinctively wrapping herself tighter in her blanket.
But then she thought, if she encountered people with knives and sticks, what use would a cotton blanket be? It would only hinder her if she needed to run. Therefore, she threw off the blanket, cautiously got up, dressed herself in clothes and shoes, and took the scalpel from under her pillow.
At that moment, she heard the hurried footsteps of Yue Rujing from the study across the way heading in her direction. Gu Youyou was startled—had he noticed something too?
Yue Rujing didn’t knock on the door, but instead, with a bang, kicked it open, grabbed Gu Youyou, and said, "Come with me quickly, it’s not safe here."
Although Gu Youyou didn’t consider Yue Rujing to be any good, and equally untrustworthy, she remembered Jin Zijin’s instructions before he left and was willing to trust him. She hesitated only for an instant before following him.
Though Gu Youyou now appeared to be a normal person, she was still quite thin. Yue Rujing scooped her up easily and in a few leaps had bounded out of the house.
The moment they left the house, the roof of Gu Youyou’s bedroom caved in with a massive hole, and two men in black leapt down, ripping the blankets aside without a second thought.
The blanket was empty, yet it retained the faint warmth of Gu Youyou’s body.
"They’re outside, chase them!"
One of the men in black looked through the window and spotted Yue Rujing and Gu Youyou outside.
The assailants moved quickly and dashed out in pursuit without delay.
Yue Rujing glanced back at the pursuers and, with a faint smile flickering on his lips, whispered to Gu Youyou, "Hold on tight!"
"Ah...?" Before Gu Youyou could react, she felt her body lift off the ground as Yue Rujing took to the air.
Flying was not a new experience for her, but it was still an unpleasant one, as if her stomach was churning a sea.
Seeing the opportunity to get back at her, Yue Rujing reveled in glee, running faster as Gu Youyou grew more uncomfortable and scared. He intentionally hopped and skipped intermittently, even performing a 360-degree flip in the air.
"Haha... now you know fear! How does it feel? Unpleasant, isn’t it?"
"Yue Rujing, you bastard!" Taking advantage of the situation to exact revenge.
If it weren’t for the two men in black chasing them like specters, she would have clawed him to death.
In no time at all, they had left Qingshui Town far behind, reaching the open outskirts.
Yue Rujing stopped and dumped Gu Youyou behind a large tree, saying, "Hide well here on your own, and be nimble."
Gu Youyou, clutching the tree trunk, retched a great deal, her complexion ashen, having vomited everything she ate that night.