Fog Returns to the Capital

Chapter 99 Wait for me obediently
"what happened?"

Xu Xiling ignored his bad feeling and replied in a calm tone.

Li Wu just looked at Xu Xiling quietly and asked.

"Can you tell me what he's hiding from me?"

"what?"

Xu Xiling's expression remained calm and undisturbed as always, his tone of voice was completely flat and even indifferent.

Li Wu smiled and didn't ask any more questions.

He and Zhou Jinghuai were brothers who grew up together, and their closeness was obvious.

Li Wu stood in the cold wind for a while longer until her eyes were no longer red before returning to the private room.

Unexpected.

Xu Xiling stayed with her the whole time.

……

Later, on the way back, as soon as they got on the bus, Li Wu climbed into Zhou Jinghuai's arms.

"So proactive today?"

Zhou Jinghuai naturally put his arm around Li Wu, looked down at her and smiled.

"It's windy outside, and I'm a little cold."

As she spoke, Li Wu hugged Zhou Jinghuai with some affection, as if trying to draw warmth from him.

Li Wu felt a chill creeping into her body.

As Zhou Jinghuai asked the driver to turn up the temperature inside the car, he glanced at Li Wu's long legs clad in stockings.

A thin layer.

Her slender legs were fair and beautiful.

"You prioritized style over warmth, and now you're feeling cold?"

Zhou Jinghuai said calmly.

"I like it!" Li Wu couldn't help but retort, "And it looks good this way."

"Yeah."

Zhou Jinghuai stared intently at Li Wu, then spoke slowly.

That instant when Zhou Jinghuai looked at me.

Li Wu's heart skipped a beat, and she instantly had a bad feeling.

really.

The next second, Li Wu heard Zhou Jinghuai's unhurried voice fall.

Upon hearing this, Li Wu's face flushed involuntarily, and her soft voice trembled with embarrassment, "What nonsense are you talking about..."

"I'm not talking nonsense."

Zhou Jinghuai's tone was very gentle and composed, but the meaning behind his words was not entirely true, "There has been a careful comparison..."

"Stop talking!"

Before Zhou Jinghuai could finish speaking, Li Wu, seemingly embarrassed and angry, reached out and covered his mouth, stopping him from continuing.

Zhou Jinghuai went along with Li Wu's wishes and stopped teasing her.

He looked at Li Wu with a smile in his eyes, as if he were indulging an unreasonable child.

Many times, Zhou Jinghuai would just look at Li Wu, and Li Wu would be so bewitched that she couldn't help but want to get closer to him.

Especially when Zhou Jinghuai looked at her with a smile in his eyes.

Her eyes and brows are gentle.

Li Wu felt as if light was shining on her.

When their eyes gradually met, just like Zhou Jinghuai's.

Li Wu seemed to have lost her mind, slowly removing her hand from his lips and involuntarily tilting her head back to kiss him.

“Zhou Jinghuai…”

She called his name.

But they only called him by his name.

Zhou Jinghuai looked down at the girl who was sitting in his arms and kissing him, no longer as clumsy and tentative as before.

She gradually became familiar with him and grew increasingly dependent on him.

Upon realizing this, Zhou Jinghuai felt a slight stirring in his heart.

His long, slender fingers unconsciously ran through Li Wu's thick, smooth hair, forcefully holding the back of her head and forcing her to tilt her head up slightly.

Then--

He lowered his head and kissed her.

But at the same instant, a loud vibration from a cell phone suddenly rang out inside the car.

Li Wu was so frightened that her whole body trembled slightly involuntarily.

She is easily startled.

Zhou Jinghuai patted her back silently to comfort her, and was about to take out his phone to see who was calling when Li Wu suddenly reached out and wrapped her arms around Zhou Jinghuai's neck, kissing him deeper and more passionately, following him inside.

It seems they don't want them to be separated.

In my memory, Li Wu rarely showed such initiative and enthusiasm.

A hint of a smile flickered in Zhou Jinghuai's eyes, and he let Li Wu do as she pleased with his lips and teeth.

But when he saw the caller ID on the lit phone screen, Zhou Jinghuai's gaze suddenly paused.

When Li Wu noticed Zhou Jinghuai's unusual behavior, she stopped kissing him.

He paused for a moment or two.

Li Wu didn't even turn her head to see who had called Zhou Jinghuai.

She then consciously moved away from Zhou Jinghuai and sat obediently to the side.

Normally, Zhou Jinghuai would definitely comfort Li Wu immediately.

Even when the top leader called Zhou Jinghuai before, Zhou Jinghuai was able to calmly answer the phone while holding Li Wu in his arms and slowly playing with her hand.

But not this time.

Zhou Jinghuai didn't even have time to look at Li Wu's expression before answering the phone.

……

A few minutes later.

Li Wu saw Zhou Jinghuai tell the driver to pull over, and then he turned to look at her.

"Li Li."

Zhou Jinghuai said gently, "I have something urgent to attend to right now. Should I have the driver take you back to Yuqing Garden first?"

Hear the words.

After a moment of surprise, Li Wu didn't even ask any more questions before obediently nodding and replying, "Okay."

Zhou Jinghuai raised his hand and ruffled Li Wu's hair, his voice much gentler than before, "I'll come back to you after I've finished dealing with things."

"Wait for me."

……

But after Zhou Jinghuai left that night, Li Wu didn't see him again for the next week.

Zhou Jinghuai had never abandoned her halfway before; this was the first time.

It must have been something very urgent.

Li Wu had a vague sense of unease, but she still thought so.

The freshman year curriculum was very demanding, and Li Wu had two full classes that morning. She didn't have any classes in the afternoon, but she planned to go to the library after lunch.

When Li Wu received Su Jingyao's call, she had just packed up her books and left the classroom.

"Lili, save me..."

As soon as the call connected, Su Jingyao's screams of resistance came through the phone, interspersed with words like "no" and "get away."

Li Wu gripped her phone tightly and hurriedly asked where Su Jingyao was.

Upon receiving the address of a certain hospital, Li Wu hurriedly rushed there.

Li Wu almost fell because she was running too fast down the stairs of the teaching building.

Fortunately, her classmates nearby kindly reached out and helped her up.

When Li Wu arrived, the operating room lights had just been turned off.

Li Wu's heart sank instantly.

A few minutes later.

A doctor wearing a mask came out of the operating room and was giving instructions to a man in a suit standing to the side.

It was only at this moment that Li Wu noticed that there was another person standing outside the operating room.

She just didn't recognize him.

But the next second, Li Wu's attention was instantly drawn to something on the white tray in the nurse's hand behind her.

Inside the white medical tray were two or three spherical objects, each about the size of an adult man's fist. They were covered in blood, their original color unrecognizable.

Also.

Between the three spherical objects was a bloody, mangled mass. It seemed to have just been removed, and countless drops of dark red blood were still dripping from it.

At first, because of the distance, Li Wu only saw a rough outline.

It wasn't until the nurse walked past her with a white tray that Li Wu could barely make out the bloody mess—

It's almost finished...

Li Wu couldn't hold it in any longer and immediately dry heaved beside her.

"Miss Li."

The man waiting outside the operating room seemed to know Li Wu and came over to greet her.

Li Wu had no time to pay attention to him and hurriedly went to look at Su Jingyao.

When I saw that scene in the operating room.

Li Wu suddenly froze, as if the blood in her body had stopped flowing.