CHAPTER 8

Opposite of where she sat, Ye Cheng laid peacefully on the six by six bed. Due to his height, a part of his legs hung loosely over the edge. 

A half-filled drip was connected to his left hand on his bed, with a plaster tapped over his palm. His body was neatly cleaned by now, bandaged and stitched in the needed places.

“Finally, all done. That should do it and get whoever did this to him off our trail,” she weakly muttered to herself.

‘Li Jing, what are you playing with? You wanted to start a new life and here you are butting into an obviously dangerous situation.’ She scolded herself inwardly.

She couldn’t put her mind to it, but something in her felt the need to help him even though she knew she was playing with fire.

Perhaps it was her clear conscience, she couldn’t tell. She also remembered a woman telling her to always do good and be kind to everyone and anyone.

Funny enough she didn’t even know who the person was but those words were etched deep at the back of her mind.

Whenever she recalled the words, she tried to recall the face as well, but she couldn’t see the face as it was blurry. All she knew was that anytime she recalled, there was this motherly feeling attached to the voice. 

She went ahead to ask Ding Jiaying about it, but rather than a favorable answer, she got scoffed at and Ding Jiaying asked her saying, “Who in this life told you such nonsense? Why would you do good to just anyone? This life is all about give and take. Only those who understand this principle would be able to survive in this world.”

Since then, Li Jing decided to ignore her and kept that mysterious lady’s word close to her heart and always abided by it.

As her mind was occupied with thoughts of the past, she felt something flash before her eyes, pulling her out from her reverie. 

On a closer look at her surrounding, she couldn’t find anything, but when her gaze landed on the bed, she saw that he had moved his body a bit. 

Quickly she moved to the bed to check up on him, completely ignoring her tired state body and climbed unto the bed beside him. 

Part of her was hoping he had woken up, at least then she would able to relax her raging heart that was about to burst out of her chest with worry.

Carefully she studied his face, but did not notice any sign of him waking up. Li Jing let out an exasperated sigh at the situation then she made to turn her head away.

She stopped and returned her gaze back to his face. It was at this time that she took in his features and recognized his handsomeness.

His features were sharp, almost eye piercing, making Li Jing to wonder how she had missed not noticing him before.

He had an auburn brown hair that was cut low at the sides and the ones in the middle moving all the way to the front to cover the right side of his face.

He had an asymmetrical face, chiseled jawline, a perfectly carved, lightly thick eyebrows that put most girls’ brows to shame. His long lashes were slim and straight adorning his pretty eyelids. 

Her eyes moved downwards, to his nose, a not too big pointed nose, a perfect match to his already handsome face. And then to his thin light reddish pink lips, whose unusual color only complimented his looks the more.

Not taking in enough of this godlike being in front of her, Li Jing’s eyes travelled down to his well-proportioned chiseled chest and down to his abs, the sexiest she had ever seen.

Not that she had seen much, but every other guy she had seen on tv and commercials paled in comparison to him.

Her gaze betrayed her and went down, enjoying the full view of his torso and muscles that showed the curves going down to his pelvic region, just above his trousers and she gulped.

“He looks so… delicious. Drop dead handsome.’ She found herself licking her lips at her shameless thought.

Her eyes popped open when the thought reach home and registered in her mind. ‘Wait, did I just think that? Get a grip of yourself, Li Jing! You cannot afford to start crushing on anyone now.’ she scolded herself, inwardly.

“Anyways, I am more than grateful, we are out of the critical part. For both our sakes, I hope they do not find us,” she said in an almost whisper because of how low her voice was.

She got up from the bed and took one last glance at him. “Get well soon, there are a lot of unanswered questions.”

With that, he walked out of the room and dragged herself to the bathroom to have a calming hot bath. Her whole body ached after having to carry Ye Cheng all the way to her house on her own.

“What a day, Li Jing. Bravo.”

She gave herself as mental thumbs up as she recalled the event that had occurred today.

*******

By dawn the next day, the men that attacked Ye Cheng had arrived at the shoreline in a speeding boat to check for his body.

“Boss, we can’t find him. Shouldn’t we go back?” One of the men dressed in an all-black outfit asked.

The leader who wore grey colored jacket and black jean trousers, looked at him and replied. “In this job, you must be thorough. We would only report to boss after we are sure his body is nowhere to be found.”

“Perhaps the fishes in the water had found him. There is no way he could have survived that blast and swam all the way here,” another one of the men stated.

“True, but look some more.”

“Boss!” A third guy in similar outfit to the rest called out.

He pointed to the ground in front of them and shouted to them, “Take a look.”

Since he was ahead of them, they all rushed forward to where he stood, with his hands outstretched and pointing to some marks on the ground.

“Boss, these are…”