Chapter 145
Chapter 145
Faced with the man’s absolute trust, Xia Sheng’s heart stirred, an indescribable emotion surging inside her.
It felt a little full, a little swollen, and at the same time, a little happy.
She smiled too, rose onto her tiptoes, and pressed a light kiss to the corner of his lips. “I’m hungry. Let’s go have lunch.”
Shen Yanchen smiled at her indulgently. “Okay.”
Everyone else: For no reason at all, they’d just been force-fed a mouthful of PDA.
Shen Yanchen took Xia Sheng’s hand and was about to leave when Xia Sheng suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at Ning Xi. “Xixi, come eat with us. The more people, the livelier it is.”
Ning Xi had originally wanted to say yes, but the moment she met Shen Yanchen’s distant, cold eyes, she immediately changed her answer. “You go ahead. I’ll eat with my roommates.”
Shen Ninth Master was obviously not welcoming her. She wasn’t so clueless that she’d go over there and play third wheel.
Since Ning Xi said she was going to have lunch with her roommates, Xia Sheng didn’t insist, and left with Shen Yanchen.
After the two of them were gone, the previously quiet scene instantly erupted into heated discussion.
By noon that very day, gossip and news about Xia Sheng and Shen Yanchen had spread like wildfire across the school forum and every group chat.
The guys envied Shen Yanchen for finding a girl as beautiful, smart, and capable as Xia Sheng, while the girls envied Xia Sheng for finding a rich, handsome, elite man like Shen Yanchen.
In the end, it all summed up to eight words: a talented man and a beautiful woman, perfectly matched.
After lunch with Shen Yanchen, Xia Sheng made another trip to his company and drew today’s Talisman in his office.
Once she was done, she stretched lazily and looked at the man busy at work beside her, feeling a quiet sense of peace, as though the years themselves had gone still.
…
After Zhou Yichuan left the school, the more he thought about how he’d lost face in front of everyone just now, the angrier he became.
At the end of the day, this was all the Old Daoist’s fault.
If that Old Daoist hadn’t given him a useless piece of jade, he wouldn’t have ended up so humiliated today.
At that thought, Zhou Yichuan gritted his teeth and immediately went to the hospital to find the Old Daoist.
Ever since his leg had been broken that day, the Old Daoist had been recuperating in the hospital.
When Zhou Yichuan arrived at the hospital and passed by a patient room, he heard a burst of agonized wailing from inside.
The crying sounded like it could lift the roof off the building, so loud that Zhou Yichuan couldn’t help frowning.
Several nurses at the nurses’ station seemed annoyed by the noise too. One young nurse couldn’t help complaining, “Why is the patient in bed 7206 crying so hard? I remember that’s a male patient, right? His hand was only fractured. Why is he crying harder than people with terminal illnesses?”
“You haven’t heard?” another nurse said gossipy. “The person in bed 7206 really did only have a fractured hand before, but last night, for some reason, his left leg suddenly snapped off out of nowhere. If something like that happened to anyone, wouldn’t they cry too?”
“Snapped off? You mean his leg was fractured too?”
“Not fractured. If it were just a fracture, that would’ve been one thing. His entire leg broke off starting from the root and directly disappeared altogether, leaving only a huge bloody hole behind. I was on duty last night, and you have no idea how terrifying it was. Another young nurse who went over with me was so scared she almost fainted! Good thing we contacted the doctor in time and got him into surgery, or he wouldn’t have survived.”
The young nurse was stunned. “It directly disappeared? You’re not messing with me, are you?”
“Hey, why would I lie to you about that?” the nurse said, sounding a little annoyed. “If you don’t believe me, you can check the security footage yourself. That patient was even out taking a walk on his own during the day yesterday. But when he was wheeled out that night, one of his legs was gone. No one even knows what could’ve sawed it off. I think our hospital might be haunted…”
“Alright, alright, stop talking. I’m scared of that kind of stuff the most…”
After overhearing the nurses gossip, Zhou Yichuan didn’t take it to heart and went straight to the Old Daoist’s room.
The moment he stepped through the door, he saw something that made him stop short.
The Old Daoist’s missing leg had somehow already grown back.
At that moment, the Old Daoist was walking around the room, as if getting used to his new leg.
Remembering that the patient in room 7206 had lost his left leg, Zhou Yichuan couldn’t help looking a few more times at the Old Daoist’s extra leg before asking, “Did you steal that leg from the patient in room 7206?”
“Steal?” The Old Daoist stopped walking and snorted. “What do you mean, steal? I snatched this back for myself fair and square!”
Even Zhou Yichuan, a villain himself, felt that the Old Daoist was a little too shameless.
Still, the Old Daoist had taken someone else’s leg, which had nothing to do with him, so he didn’t press the matter and instead started questioning him about his own issue.
“Let me ask you this. Are you sure there was nothing wrong with that jade you gave me? Why is it that when I put it in Xia Sheng’s backpack today, Xia Sheng still didn’t fall in love with me?”
The Old Daoist said, “There’s no way my jade didn’t work. You either used it the wrong way, or you never put it on that person at all.”
Seeing the Old Daoist shirk responsibility, Zhou Yichuan said angrily, “I can say for sure that I put it in Xia Sheng’s backpack. It’s your jade that doesn’t work. There’s no way I made a mistake on my end.
“Get me another piece of jade and I’ll take it to Xia Sheng again. Otherwise…”
“Otherwise what?” the Old Daoist said with a cold snort. “If I hadn’t been on the verge of death before, did you really think a mere mortal like you could push me around?”
Thinking back on what had happened before, the Old Daoist remembered that while he had been close to death, Zhou Yichuan had still used the jade for his own purposes, causing him to almost truly die.
Remembering the pain of that day, the Old Daoist looked at Zhou Yichuan as if he were already a dead man.
As it happened, he had a treasure that still needed a living person as a sacrifice, and this bastard in front of him would do nicely.
Zhou Yichuan failed to notice that the Old Daoist’s gaze was growing increasingly sinister. Lifting his chin arrogantly, he said, “My family has power and influence. If we want to kill a nobody like you, it’d be easy!
“Hurry up and get me another piece of jade, or I’ll call people over right now… Ah!”
Before Zhou Yichuan could finish speaking, the Old Daoist swung his sword and chopped off one of his legs.
Zhou Yichuan cried out in agony and collapsed to the floor, blood gushing out nonstop.
He stared at the Old Daoist in disbelief. “Who gave you the guts to do this to me!? You… Ah!”
Before he could finish, the Old Daoist viciously stomped down on the place where his leg had been severed.
The Old Daoist let out a cold laugh. “That day, I was gravely wounded, and you abused me like that. And now you’re asking why I’m treating you this way?
“If I didn’t still have a use for you, that strike just now would have taken your life.
“But even if you don’t die right now, in a few hours, you should be dead all the same.”