He tightened his arms around her, causing Yan Zao to almost struggle for breath, but for the first time, she was this close to his heart. Feeling the beat of his heart, she became involuntarily docile, like a well-behaved child, and nodded obediently, "Oh... oh..."
It took Lan Mu less than twenty minutes to get here from the moment he received the call. During those twenty minutes, he thought of nothing else but to hurry, to quickly be by Yan Zao's side.
Embracing her at this moment, he suddenly realized that his world seemed unable to be without this silly woman, Yan Zao.
He also suddenly found that he couldn't bear to see her being bullied even a little bit, not at all. He couldn't remember when he started wanting to protect her, but it had been a very long time.
The two of them embraced, forming a warm and touching scene, when the abrupt ring of a cell phone shattered the moment.
