A Warm Wedding and A New Bride of Young Master Lu

Chapter 64 - Accidental Discovery

It would seem that Su Jianan was completely unfazed after the incident where she had been taken hostage. But in truth, she had merely kept her fears to herself.

The fact was that her terror had come after the incident.

Now, Lu Boyan was telling her, "Jianan, you don't have to feel scared anymore."

Those words were akin to a dose of sedative. Every word had soothed her troubled heart.

This also seemed to be the first time Lu Boyan had spoken so many words to her. She had once thought of Lu Boyan as the type who valued his words as if they were gold. She thought he would never utter so many words in the same breath.

Realizing that he was being scrutinized, Lu Boyan frowned. "What's wrong?"

"Were you the one who released the ropes on my hands that day? My brother said he saw you go upstairs."

After so many days, Su Jianan was finally willing to bring up that incident. She was finally willing to face and deal with whatever that had happened that day.

However, it was also the image of Su Jianan rushing desperately towards Jiang Shaokai, the way she had pressed down on Jiang Shaokai's wound as she cried, and that had Lu Boyan taking up a cigarette again.

So many days had passed since that day. Lu Boyan had almost forgotten about the whole thing. Now that she had brought it up, Lu Boyan felt a wave of frustration building up in his heart. It was an inexplicable feeling, one that he could not quite put his finger on.

"I didn't know you were there," Su Jianan said all of a sudden. "The first night, I was knocked out and tied to the chair by He Tianming. When I woke up the second day, I couldn't even speak and my reactions were very slow. After that, he told me he was planning to start a live broadcast featuring the process of him cutting me up. I, I got a bit scared. After all, who would've thought that they'd die in such a horrible way, right? I didn't expect Jiang Shaokai to risk his life to save me, though. He was bleeding out and I really thought that I had caused his death. I got even more afraid and I didn't see you. So... I didn't know you were the one who released the ropes."

She lowered her head slightly. She had spoken a bit slowly, her small hands tightening around each other as she spoke. The delicate joints on her hands became clearer and clearer...

Finally, Lu Boyan understood the reason she had not brought up the incident all this while. The truth was that she was scared.

In her moment of greatest fear, it was Jiang Shaokai who had saved her.

Lu Boyan felt the frustration in his heart slowly seep away. "If you had seen me that day, what would you have done?"

"Probably won't feel as scared, I guess."

Her answer was not what Lu Boyan had expected.

Some kind of intense turmoil seemed to be roiling in his profound eyes. In the end, those intense emotions went away as he calmed down. He held Su Jianan's hand in his own. "It's alright now."

Smiling, Su Jianan hummed and went back to her breakfast.

Before he left for work, Lu Boyan handed Su Jianan a bag.

Su Jianan knew that bag all too well. It was the fast-acting painkiller that she had taken in the hospital yesterday.

Her eyes went wide as she stared at Lu Boyan in horror. "I, I don't... feel the pain anymore."

"Argh! I don't want to eat it! Don't be tricked by Lu Boyan again!" she thought.

Lu Boyan placed the pills on the table. He reached out and stroked her hair. "I'm not asking you to take them now. Keep it around and take them when you don't feel good."