Qiao Yanze returned to the city gates once more. When he glanced at the slender woman hanging there, he confirmed almost immediately that the woman was Cen Xi.
If not, Xiao Ying would not have listened to Long Ming’s instructions so obediently and served Sachs. The only thing that Xiao Ying could be threatened with was her younger sister, Xiao Xi.
The sisters really did have a strong bond. The younger sister was willing to let go of her dignity and repay her older sister’s debts while the older sister was willing to sacrifice everything for the younger as well.
Recalling Xiao Ying’s words, Qiao Yanze felt his emotions overwhelming within him.
If what Xiao Ying said was true, with how he had vented all of his anger and hatred onto the innocent Cen Xi, how would he dare to face her in the future? Suddenly, he felt like he really deserved to die. He was too much of an a**hole!
However, this wasn’t the time to repent. What was crucial now was to save Cen Xi.
After being hung up there for so long, she must feel like dying!
That d*mned Long Ming! He will find a chance to settle this properly with him!
Qiao Yanze forced himself to calm down. He glanced at Da Zuo and Xiao Zuo, instructing calmly, “Let’s split up into two groups. Da Zuo, you lead a team to distract the guard while Xiao Zuo, you’re in-charge of covering me.”
Da Zuo and Xiao Zuo answered in acknowledgement before Da Zuo led a team towards the city gates quickly.
A few minutes later, Da Zuo and his team managed to distract most of the watching guards away. Catching the chance, Qiao Yanze hurriedly ran towards the gates and shot a zip line at the wall. He crawled along the wall using the zip line and easily cut the string that was holding Cen Xi up and pulled her into his arms.
“Someone is taking the criminal away!”
The cut string activated the alarm. Once the guards Da Zuo had distracted realized that they had been tricked, they returned hurriedly.
Qiao Yanze took off the face veil covering the woman’s head. Seeing Cen Xi’s pale and weak appearance, his expression tensed.
He didn’t have the time to feel the various emotions whelming him right now. He hurriedly put Cen Xi into the car before he got into the driver’s seat, started the engine, slammed his foot on the accelerator and drove away.
Xiao Zuo led the remaining men to fight against the guards that were running after them. They were in Long Ming’s territory after all and they still needed to use Long Ming to find Young Master Li. That was why they didn’t use any weapons. The only defense Da Zuo and Xiao Zuo carried were silver needles laced with anesthetic. The moment the needles were shot into a body, the person would fall unconscious immediately.
Da Zuo and Xiao Zuo didn’t bring too many men with them, so they lost the upper hand very quickly. Several guards instantly started to chase after the direction where Qiao Yanze had left towards.
Cen Xi laid in the car weakly. She knew that someone had saved her, but her consciousness was so weak she couldn’t tell who had saved her.
Qiao Yanze drove the car into the outskirts, but the guards chasing after him were relentless as the latter kept shooting at the car in warning.
If this continued, the guards would catch up very quickly. Qiao Yanze stepped on the accelerator harder, before he stopped the car at the foot of a mountain. He carried Cen Xi out of the car and up into the mountain.
He hurriedly hid them under a secluded hill, hiding their bodies with leaves.
Cen Xi’s muddled mind slowly regained her consciousness.
“Thirsty…”
She said with a dry throat.
She couldn’t hear anything and didn’t know that there were guards chasing after them currently.
Qiao Yanze looked down at the woman in his arms. Her face was completely pale, her lips split dry as her consciousness seemed weak. His eyes shined with heart ache. “Hold on for a while. I will give you water after they’re gone.”
Cen Xi couldn’t hear what he was saying. She only knew that she was getting thirstier by the second. If she didn’t drink anytime soon, she was going to die of thirst.
“Water. I want to drink… Give me water…”
Seeing that the guards were only a few meters away from them, Qiao Yanze had no choice but to press her hand against Cen Xi’s lips. He leaned into her ear. “Don’t speak. It’s very dangerous right now.”
Cen Xi hadn’t regained her consciousness fully. Right now, she felt like a traveler who had walked in the deserts for a very long and was desperate to find a green patch.
She poked her tongue out and licked at Qiao Yanze’s palm.
The moment her warm, soft and tender tongue licked his palm, Qiao Yanze shivered. A current spread from his palm to the rest of his bodies, numbing a good part of his body.
Unable to drink, Cen Xi could only lick and bite at his palm again and again. Her slender figure wriggled in his hold from her discomfort. He felt a warmth rush towards his abdomen from her relentless wriggling.
Seeing the guards run in the opposite direction, Qiao Yanze hurriedly moved his hand away from Cen Xi’s mouth and carried her up, walking towards the foot of the mountain.
The tires of the car had been shot through, so he wouldn’t be able to drive again. He took out a bottle of mineral water from the car and fed it to Cen Xi.
Worried that the guards would return, Qiao Yanze found an old and tattered shed while carrying Cen Xi.
After drinking, although her thirst was quenched, Cen Xi started to tremble from the cold. Qiao Yanze put her on the floor before he went to collect some dry wood outside. He hurriedly made a fire pile and lit it up.
He carried her and sat down by the fire, before feeding her more water.
Just like that, Cen Xi’s shivering body only calmed down a little after half an hour.
Slowly, Cen Xi opened her eyes. She could feel a ball of fire warming her. Her eyes were still a little blank as she closed and opened them again.
Her blurred consciousness slowly returned. She licked her dry lips and looked up. Suddenly, she met a pair of dark eyes.
Cen Xi’s heart skipped a beat.
What did she see?
Qiao Yanze?
Cen Xi almost thought that she was hallucinating and looked down hurriedly. When she looked up again, the man’s handsome and cold expression was still in front of her.
Wasn’t this a dream?
Was he the one that saved her?
How?
Cen Xi moved her body, realizing that she was lying in his arms. She hurriedly struggled to get up, alarmed. Seeing the panic and guardedness in Cen Xi’s eyes, Qiao Yanze felt his heart tighten.
After knowing that she had been “burned to death”, he felt like a century had passed when he saw her in Burma once again.
Instead of letting her go, his arms around her tightened as his eyes turned red.
It was fortunate that she was still alive!
Seeing Qiao Yanze tighten his hold around her as an unreadable expression appeared in his eyes, Cen Xi used all of her energy and spoke with an extremely hoarse voice, “Let go of me!”
Qiao Yanze could sense her disgust for him. His heart tightened. “Cen Xー”
Before he could finish saying, she struggled and stood up from his arms. She was still extremely weak, feeling dizzy the moment she stood up. She almost fell into the fire pit and Qiao Yanze hurriedly caught her.
Disgusted by his touch, she pushed his hand away, not even looking at him once as she started to walk away.
It was nearly midnight now. The skies were completely dark while the air was completely still.
Cen Xi’s mind was in a mess. She didn’t know why Qiao Yanze had appeared in Burma. She didn’t know where he had brought her either. But she knew that she had to stay far away from him!
At the door, Cen Xi was about to go out when her wrist was grabbed. Her slender figure was pulled back suddenly and she fell against the old door frame weakly. “Mr Qiao, please take note of your actions!”
Qiao Yanze looked down, his eyes staring straight at Cen Xi’s pale face. His tall figure trapped her between his arms and the wall overbearingly. “What am I supposed to take note of? Do you know what I feel from seeing you alive?”
Feel what?
Did he feel like he wanted to kill her personally? Was seeing her in such a state not enough?
