When Qian Xu opened his eyes, he saw Lorraine half-lying next to his hospital bedside, browsing medical information with one hand supporting her head, and taking notes with an electronic pen in the other. Slightly curly long hair casually bundled behind her head with a strand of messy hair pointed up. Her fair skin had some red marks on. Completely tough, but her focused expression revealed a serious beauty.
When Qian Xu stared at the bruise on her cheek, Lorraine seemed to have noticed something and immediately raised her head, cracked a smile, "You're awake?"
"Hmm. Why are you here?"
"I want to return this to you." Lorraine put the gun he had previously given her into his hand.
Qian Xu held the gun. His gaze was deep: "Why didn't you shoot?"
"You... remember what happened?"
"It was like having a dream, as if it wasn't my own body that happened. But I knew that I broke the car window and wanted to kill you." Qian Xu stared at Lorraine "Why didn't you shoot?"
Lorraine was on fire: "You know perfectly well that you can recover your consciousness and you still let me shoot? If I listened to you, wouldn't I become a murderer who killed her best friend?"
"If you waited for me to regain consciousness, you would be killed by me."
"Oh, so you can't be a suitable murderer then you let me be a murderer instead!"
Qian Xu was taken aback. He closed his mouth tightly, eyes full of anguish.
Lorraine immediately gave in: "Let's stop quarreling about what didn't happen. Anyway, in the end, you didn't kill me dead and I didn't kill you dead. Everything is normal."
"Do you really think that everything is normal? Do you still have the courage to go out alone with me?"
"Yes! Why not?"
Qian Xu stared at her: "Even if I can recover my consciousness this time, it doesn't mean that next time I will still be able to recover!"
"I'm not afraid!" Lorrain raised her chin, "If you don't believe it, we will go out together all alone tomorrow."
"But I'm afraid!" Qian Xu looked away and said bitterly, "I don't want to kill you, and I don't want to be killed by you. The best way is for us to lessen our contact."
Lorraine looked in disbelief at Qian Xu: "Are you serious?"
"No one would take one's life as a joke."
"Lessen contact? I think the safest will be if we don't have any contact at all! Maybe from now on we better never see each other again!" Lorraine slipped all unchosen angry word with a bit of stupid girlish temper, hoping that those hurting words could provoke Qian Xu to withdraw his own words back. However, men were animals with another thinking system.
Qian Xu was taken aback for a moment. Turned out he said in agreement: "That is certainly the best."
Lorraine was going crazy. She plainly asked like a sheep in wolf's clothing: "Qian Xu, I will ask you one last time. Do you want to break our relationship?"
Qian Xu remained silent and did not answer.
Lorraine looked at him coldly. Her face seemed to be full of stubbornness. All couldn't be said, but only she knew how panicked and difficult to bear she had in her heart.
Suddenly the doorbell rang, breaking dead air between the two.
Lorraine turned around, hadn't spoken anything yet. The door had already been opened, Zong Li and Zi Yan walked into the ward one after another.
Lorraine asked: "What are you guys up to?"
Zi Yan stood beside her, beaming smiled and said, "Work."
Zong Li walked straight to the patient bed and showed Qian Xu his ID: "I am Zong Li, Minister of the Federal Ministry of Public Security. Four people died in the federal territory. You need to cooperate with the investigation."
Qian Xu sat up: "Okay."
Zong Li was the chief of the police. A fake policeman appeared. Of course he somehow had to come investigating, but... Lorraine suddenly came to a response and anxiously grabbed Zi Yan's arm, lowered her voice and said, "Do me a favor..."
Zong Li's cold voice came interrupting her unfinished word: "Madam Wife of the Commander, please step back. I need to inquire Qian Xu alone."
Lorraine's hand squeezed tightly. Her whole body was petrified, standing stupidly. Her brain was blank. She never hoped that she could conceal Qian Xu for a lifetime. She even thought of when would be the time to confess to him. But regardless of what she had thought, she had never thought that she would be in this kind of situation where Qian Xu would find out that she had been deceiving him from the beginning.
"Wife of the Commander?" Qian Xu's voice was sway and weak, as if it came from somewhere far away.
Perhaps he hoped that Lorraine would say something like "You've got the wrong person.", but Lorraine didn't even have the courage to even look at him.
Zong Li raised his voice in displeased: "Madam Wife of the Commander! Your Royal Highness! Did you hear what I said? Please go out!"
Lorraine knew that she should go out, but her body trembled uncontrollably.
If it wasn't for her one hand that still hold Zi Yan's arm tightly, even standing steadily, she afraid that she might not be able to. Zi Yan said to Zong Li, "I will be escorting the princess out."
He clung to her shoulders and brought her out of the room.