Jing Yiran was astonished. He took Lu’s supple hands in his own and mumbled. “I am a bad guy, everyone thinks that I am a bad guy. Why do you treat me so nicely?”
His voice was incoherent, but Lu could hear better than others. So she caught each word clearly.
“I think that you are nice. Compared to me, you are less evil. In some way, we belong to the same category of people.”
Having said the words, Lu got off the bed, found her clothes and went to change in the bathroom.
Lying in the bed, Jing Yiran’s heart stirred.
If he kept fighting against Jing Yichen, Lu would surely lose the Jing Family’s protection and her enemies will keep coming after her. In that way, she would not have a steady life at all.
But was he going to give up all the loath and hatred for her?
Even if Jing Yichen had not killed Zhang Rong, he had killed him, except that he was lucky enough not to die.
For one second, Jing Yiran truly had no idea what to choose. But he had realized that Lu was a very important person in his life and he could not leave her alone.
Two days later, Lu got wounded again even before the old one was cured.
Her enemy had come after her again.
A day later, the killers’ camp she used to be with, came after her. They wanted Lu to return to the camp and work for them. If she did not accept the offer, they would send out the best killers to take her life. If they failed to get what they wanted, they would not allow a top killer like Lu drifting about in the world, being a huge threat to them.
Four days later, another group of enemies came after her. She was such a famous figure that the group wanted to hire her and make her fight for them.
Seven days later, the research institute which Lu’s deceased parents belonged to, came for her as well. She was carrying the biggest discovery of their institute – the evolved genes of the virus. They wanted to bring her back to the institute for further research. She could not end up being in their hands. If the perfect genes could be extracted from her body, their institute would be the richest institute in the world and every member would become a billionaire!
During the past few days, Lu had not had a good sleep at all. Had it not been because of her unusually strong body condition, she would have collapsed.
“We can’t stay in this hospital any more. We need a new place, otherwise we would lose our lives. The situation is out of my hands.”
Ignoring her new wound, Lu packed up her stuff and the medicine which she had bought from the hospital.
But Jing Yiran took hold of her from behind and whispered. “Lu, no more running. I have made up my mind to take you back to Family Jing.”
Lu got shocked. She turned to Jing Yiran and asked in astonishment, “What did you say?!”
Jing Yiran was not taking her back to Family Jing for revenge, but for protection!
That meant that he was willing to bend down to Jing Yichen.
That was impossible.
She knew that there was a deep grudge between Jing Yiran and Jing Yichen and they always fought whenever they met each other. She also knew that Jing Yiran would never bow down to Jing Yichen, even in his death!
Seeing blood dripping out of Lu’s wound, Jing Yiran had tears in his eyes and he blinked them away.
“It hurts when you are injured, and is worse than being shot by Jing Yichen. I will take you back home, back to A City and to Family Jing. We are not staying in the USA any more!”
Lu saw Jing Yiran crying for the first time. He was a man who had not even cried when his mother passed away.
“I am so incapable that I can’t keep you safe. But if Jing Zhongxiu can keep you safe, I would be willing to return and become a docile son who never wants anything. I will never fight for the properties with Jing Yichen. He can take everything. I only want you to live well!”
Lu stretched out her hands to wipe off his tears as she listened quietly.
A gentle smile hovered over her face.
She had not smiled in a long time. Maybe the other Lu smiled every day, but for her, her real smile happened dozens of years ago!
Ever since the age of 14, she had stopped smiling. When the virus was affecting her body, it was turning her into a cold woman too. She had believed that most of her emotions had disappeared.
The rumor had it that Angel was a killing machine who knew how to carry out a mission perfectly but didn’t know anything about the world or its emotions. That was true.
She used to be numb and did not feel a single change after killing, always incredibly calm!
She had long forgotten what it felt to be moved and how it felt to smile.
But now, she was somehow glad.
It was a strange feeling!
She saw Jing Yiran wrapping the bandage around her and said softly, “I don’t think that we can return to Family Jing. Jing Zhongxiu would not accept me back easily. You know that I have got so many enemies and once he accepts me, he will have to deal with these people and that would mean a huge expense and headache for him.”
Jing Yiran tied a knot at the gauze and then cut off the remaining gauze as he frowned. “If he could keep you safe before, then he would surely keep you safe in the future. Don’t worry, I will talk to him.”
Lu shook her head and said straightforwardly. “You are nothing in his eyes. The Jing Family has thrown you out and there is no need for you to go to him. If Jing Yichen says it, he would do whatever he can to help him. You are not that valuable to him.”
“We just need to be more careful. Those people are able to find me right now, because I undertook a mission of killing someone. It must have been a trap to hook me. I was fooled and exposed my location. I won’t take any missions in the following six months. We can go into hiding.”
“No!” Jing Yiran looked at Lu with determination. “I told you that I will take you home.”
He was not a stupid man. He had noticed that those men had eyes on Lu and they would not leave her alone so easily. It was not something that could be accomplished simply by not accepting any more work.
What was more, he did not want Lu to live a life that always put her at risk.
“Don’t worry. I have a way to make Jing Zhongxiu accept you. I will go to Jing Yichen and talk to him. He needs a favor from me, because I know something that he doesn’t.”
