Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Chi Yan’s expression turned cold, but Song Di had already left. The girl was still squatting at the entrance of the cave. She had never been so disobedient before.
A drop of water fell on Chi Yan’s face. He reached out and touched his cheek, only to find that she was crying.
Chi Yan gritted his teeth, and suddenly, without saying a word, he took out a dagger and started chiseling the stone wall.
He chose a good spot to chisel, and the sound was not loud, but it was extremely dangerous, after all, there was a python lurking in the cave.
Chi Yan used all his strength, and fortunately the wall of the cave was not very hard, so he actually dug out four or five holes.
Jiang Sui guessed what he was going to do and stared at the snake in the cave nervously. Fortunately, it didn’t wake up.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and Jiang Sui’s painful toes had become numb.
Chi Yan dug several holes with large gaps between them. He stepped on those holes to barely reach the ground. He then used his strength and pushed his arms to get out of the cave. Jiang Sui’s tense mood finally relaxed.
More than half an hour had passed since Song Di left.
Chi Yan’s palms were cut by rocks and daggers and were bleeding a lot. He wiped them on the snow, then he walked over and picked up Jiang Sui. His arms were also cold, but she was obviously colder.
Chi Yan touched Jiang Sui’s cheek and found tears on it.
He didn’t say anything, just wiped her tears and carried her back to where they had to go.
He walked for a while and saw the marked place. Chi Yan held her and walked over to it. He pushed aside the snow and revealed a small cave inside. This cave was different from the karst cave where Jiang Sui and the others fell. It was very narrow inside and there were several rotten branches at the entrance.
Chi Yan put her down first and then went in again.
His voice was still very calm, as if it had no emotion: “The snow is getting heavy, let’s go down the mountain at daybreak.”
Jiang Sui naturally didn’t object. She was so cold that she almost didn’t have the strength to speak. She just wanted to fall asleep like this.
Chi Yan frowned, picked up the rotten branches and blocked the entrance of the cave again. He was afraid of being blown down by the wind, so he took off his tie and tied it.
It was windy and snowy at the end of January. Fortunately, the winter in R City was colder than other places, and people wore much thicker clothes. Chi Yan took off his outermost down jacket and wrapped her in it. He was just in a shirt, but he turned his back to the cave entrance, and then carried her over.
Jiang Sui rested her forehead against his chest.
When she finally woke up, his chest was warm again, and under the thin layer of muscle, her forehead touched his heartbeat.
It was very loud, like the beat of a drum.
He hugged her tightly, his back facing the cold wind, and she really couldn’t feel anything but warmth.
Chi Yan didn’t say anything extra. On a night like this, he was as quiet as ever, even still having a bit of coldness ingrained in his bones.
Jiang Sui suddenly realized inexplicably that maybe he really liked her a little.
At least not a lot of men would jump into a snake cave for her.
Chi Yan was also very tired. He closed his eyes and thought about the route to take her down the mountain tomorrow.
A small hand in his arms gently touched his cheek.
Chi Yan lowered his head and met her eyes.
“Are you cold?” Jiang Sui asked softly.
Chi Yan said expressionlessly: “It’s not cold, go to sleep, it will be dawn when you wake up.”
“Nonsense, take your clothes back.”
Chi Yan: “I’m used to it.” He said this very calmly. He was really used to this kind of cold. When he was a child, such windy and snowy nights did not freeze him to death when he was wandering around, and naturally it would not happen to him after he had grown up.
Her eyes trembled, and she retracted her hand. The cheek she touched was as cold as ice. Jiang Sui asked him, “Chi Yan, did you mean it when you said that you like me that day?”
This was a question that had troubled her for a long time. It was so strange, even horrifying, that she felt more surprised than shy.
Chi Yan was silent for a long time before he said, “That’s not the case. Go back to that village tomorrow and don’t come to places like this again.”
If it were in the past, Jiang Sui would have been embarrassed and thought she was being sentimental. After all, when she invited Chi Yan to dinner, the conversation was vague, and it was even unclear whether it was a confession or not.
But now, when he said no, she actually thought it was a lie.
Jiang Sui broke free from his arms, took off his coat and put it back on him.
As soon as Chi Yan frowned, she snuggled into his arms and wrapped them both in his large coat.
Feeling the soft body and the little head nestling in his arms, he suddenly froze, as if he had been hit on the spine with a club and could not move.
It was the first time that Jiang Sui did this which caused her cheeks turned red, but she knew that this was the only way to avoid having the wind blowing on Chi Yan’s back all night.
The man’s sudden and violent heartbeat made her eardrums vibrate.
She said slowly, “If you say no, then no.”
Sometimes it was there, sometimes it wasn’t. She really believed his lies.
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