Lazily yours

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Chapter 245: Madness Called Love

"You are being mean." Shen Qui complained when Lyca suddenly pinched his wrist. "I am still wounded, you know."

Lyca glared at her man. "You got careless."

Shen Qui smiled before he started coughing.

"How could you act like a hero?" she asked. "Acting like a hero is tiresome." She remembered all the tv series that she watched. Every time, the hero would always end up wounded and bruised while the villain was just commanding people to beat up the villain. Of course, she wouldn't want Shen Qui to be the villain either. After staring at Shen Qui for a few more seconds, Lyca finally decided to call the doctor and Ronan.

The Doctor didn't take too long to inform them that he is already safe which was a little surprising considering the amount of blood that Shen Qui lost. In the end, the doctor just gave Shen Qui a few more medicines that he needed to take for his recovery.

"You were lucky, the bullet didn't hit any major artery or organs." Ronan immediately said when the doctor left. However, Shen Qui was too engrossed as he stared at Lyca who was already sleeping on the couch. "Rue told me she's different. I didn't know… it would be this different." Ronan muttered.

"You can leave us."

"Hm?"

"She's sleeping. Let's talk when she wakes up."

"Oh!" Ronan nodded when he realized that the wounded Shen Qui who was in the hospital bed was actually worried that their conversation would wake up the sleeping Lyca. Ronan stared at Lyca as he sighed inwardly and nodded. "Alright… I have some things to do anyway."

"Hmmm." Shen Qui nodded, his gaze never left the woman who is silently sleeping. Then he smiled. "Turn off the lights on your way out."

Ronan nodded in response. Love can do wonders to people— he immediately told himself not to fell into this madness called love in the near future.

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Meanwhile, Jessica was fuming as she gripped her phone tighter. Tears were already streaming down her face. She looked at the images on her phone again as she covered her mouth with her other hand. On the image was Shen Qui. He was clearly wounded. Clearly, these are some shots taken from a CCTV.

She stood from her bed and walked out of her room.

"Young Miss, I'm sorry but the mayor is not allowing you to leave the room." A tall man uttered the moment Jessica walked out of her room.

"Where is he?" she asked. "Where is my father?"

"There— There is a celebration going on on the other side of the mansion. The Mayor and his people— "

"Why?"

"That— "

"Why are they celebrating?" Almost immediately her brain spiraled out of control. Did Shen Qui die? She wasn't even thinking about who sent her the video. Or the reasoning behind the action. All she knew was the fact that Shen Qui might have died. Is that why her father was celebrating? 

"I don't — "

"Did they kill someone?"

"Young miss, I really don't know." The guard said.

"Then… let me go and see my father."

"But young miss, I can't allow you to leave."

"Just this once! I want to see my father!'

"I'm sorry, Young Miss. The Mayor told us not to let you out no matter what happened." This was one of the Mayor's orders. After the mayor tried his best to change the headlines about his daughter, the mayor is now doing everything to make the public forget about those images.