Chapter 28 Hold Her Tight in the Arms
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After Song Shuang's wife died, he became a bit erratic.
Gu Baisheng gradually became alert when she was more used to his erratic behaviors.
Every time when Song Shuang overreacted or had terrifying eyes or look, she would become extremely alert, brace herself, and face him.
In the elevator now,
Gu Baisheng felt uneasy because of the chill gave out by him.
Song Shuang stared at her so closely and fiercely.
As if he had intended to cut her skin open and examine her step by step like dissecting a body.
She realized it too late.
She suddenly remembered that she appeared to know the place to get water, and she subconsciously touched her lobe which Gu Baisheng often did.
All of a sudden, she looked really pale.
"I... I..."
She tried to explain.
Song Shuang interrupted, "How did you know where I keep the water in my car?"
"Well... I..."
Gu Baisheng didn't know how to explain.
When Gu Baisheng was Song Shuang's wife, she tended to be very emotionally unstable when she was with him because of the death of her child.
In order not to argue with him when they met each other, she always prepared a bottle of water and took a sip from time to time when she had to meet and talk to him.
When Gu Baisheng was caught in the rain, Song Shuang was on his way home, so he asked her to get on the car.
Gu Baisheng suddenly remembered that her son died on such a rainy day.
She talked about the death of her son emotionally after talking with him for a few rounds.
Gu Baisheng planned to calm herself down with some water when she realized that it was so awkward to cling to the past.
But she wasn't able to find any water.
Song Shuang bought two bottles from a convenience store, giving one to her and putting the other one in the cabinet.
So Gu Baisheng could found a new bottle every time she finished the last one.
And they were different brands.
The dates were new as well.
She had believed that Song Shuang kept it for himself, but now she realized that he prepared it for her.
But when Song Shuang asked her now, she couldn't explain how she knew things like this as Bai Shengsheng.
She frowned and tried her best to find a proper reason. But she felt so stressed when Song Shuang kept staring at her.
And Song Shuang's face was so close to hers. His nose almost touched hers.
They could feel each other's breath.
She couldn't help looking away because she felt they were too intimate.
This small movement made Song Shuang's surprise fade away when he saw her lobe.
Then the elevator stopped with a beep.
The door opened slowly.
Gu Baisheng was still looking at Song Shuang with caution.
Outside the elevator, two neighbors looked at what Song Shuang was doing to Gu Baisheng surprisingly.
Suddenly, Gu Baisheng and her neighbors became a bit embarrassed and shy.
Song Shuang let go of Gu Baisheng and walked out of the elevator coldly like nobody was there.
Gu Baisheng tidied up her hair around her ears and hurried out from the elevator with her head down.
When she walked out of the elevator, she touched her lobe again.
She then realized with surprise that Bai Shengsheng didn't have any piercings.
But Gu Baisheng had.
She got her piercings the year she met Cheng Bi. She looked at a pair of cherry earrings multiple times when they were shopping at a night market.
But she didn't intend to buy.
Cheng Bi noticed it, so he bought them for her and put them into her pocket.
She was really happy about it and got her ears pierced.
But she felt extremely painful after she got it done.
She tended to be nervous when she met Cheng Bi. And every time she felt nervous, she wanted to cover her face, but she thought it looked silly.
So she touched her lobes.
When Cheng Bi asked her why,
she told him that her ears hurt.
It became her habit after a long time. Years later, she still touched her lobes whenever she felt nervous.
And she kept the habit after she married Song Shuang.
She told him that her ears hurt when Song Shuang asked.
Song Shuang knew that it was a lie, but he stopped asking after he saw through her embarrassment.
She did the same in the elevator.
It must've reminded Song Shuang of Gu Baisheng.
That explained why he was so mad.
He felt that she was a copycat.
But she was wronged.
She was Gu Baisheng. Although she changed into her form, she couldn't change her habits so easily.
After knowing the reason why Song Shuang was mad, she dared not show up in front of him after following him into the room.
Song Shuang left after he collected his things in the side bedroom.
Gu Baisheng heard the sound and knew that he left.
But she suddenly caught a sight of Song Shuang's coat lying on the couch.
She thought it would be troublesome if Song Shuang noticed it and came back, so she picked up his coat and sent it to him in the garage.
...
Song Shuang was holding a photo album in his hand. His finger joints were slightly white.
The cold wind was blowing after he walked out of the elevator.
And it blew up his hair on his forehead.
His mind became clearer.
But he couldn't stop thinking about Bai Shengsheng's eyes and gestures when she talked in the elevator. It reminded him so much of Gu Baisheng.
He walked to his car subconsciously as if he had lost his mind.
There were two men's voices.
"Does that b*tch really live here?"
"Yes, she lives in flat 2202, building 2."
"We have to teach her a lesson after seeing her upstairs. How dare she to report us?"
"Of course, Mr. Jin asked us to give her a real lesson."
They couldn't help bursting into laughter after saying this.
Song Shuang opened the door and got in the car.
He started the car and was about to drive away.
He suddenly stopped.
He frowned and realized something.
Flat 2202, building 2 was his place.
So the woman whom they planned to give a lesson was...
"Bai Shengsheng!"
Song Shuang became serious.
Before parking his car back, he suddenly stopped his car and rushed out of it.
Gu Baisheng saw the two evil-looking and aggressive men at the front door when she walked out of the elevator.
They were both bald.
She looked down naturally and walked away from the two while holding Song Shuang's coat.
The two looked at each other and murmured, "Is that she?"
"It seems so."
Gu Baisheng didn't understand their conversation, but she saw Song Shuang rushing towards her from a distance. He looked really worried and shouted at her, "Run!"
Gu Baisheng became confused.
"Run?"
Why did he say so?
Before she even realized it, she could feel a high wind behind her.
She looked back subconsciously.
Instantly, she was almost scared to death.
She didn't know where the two bald men get a machete and was slashing at her.
Gu Baisheng had seen scalpels and fruit knives but not a machete which only appeared in films.
She suddenly froze.
She knew that she should've run away as she was told. But all her blood rushed to her brain, and she couldn't think.
She couldn't move at all when she was watching the machete cutting across the wind.
A thrust suddenly pushed her to the ground before the machete fell on her.
So she didn't get hurt.
Later, that bald man changed his direction and chased after her with the machete.
Song Shuang couldn't hide away, so he held her tightly in his arms, in front of his chest. He blocked the machete with his back.
There came a sputter.
The slashing sound was so loud and thrilling. Gu Baisheng heard it so clearly.
Song Shuang's white shirt was instantly stained by his blood.
The two men were startled. Apparently, they didn't expect this man would try his best to protect her.
But when they saw Gu Baisheng was safe, they hit Song Shuang's head to separate them,
Song Shuang's hands were really strong. Like a steel wall, he protected Gu Baisheng perfectly.
Accordingly, the two men hit his head more violently.
Gu Baisheng looked up, but she was pushed back by Song Shuang.
She was shivering. She didn't know what to do when she heard the hitting sound.
At that time, the security guard who was patrolling the parking lot saw this. He blew the whistle and rushed to them with his spontoon, "What are you doing?"
The shout attracted the other two guards' attention, so they rushed to them as well.
The two bald men were shocked and ran away.
Gu Baisheng looked at Song Shuang frowning in surprise. His handsome face was twisted because of the unbearable pain.
"How do you feel?"
Gu Baisheng crawled out from his arms and held him tightly when she looked at his back injury.
She felt a bit relieved when she saw the injury stretch out from his shoulder rather than being on his spine. Then she held Song Shuang's face with her hands and tried to comfort him in a shaking voice, "It's alright. I'll send you to the hospital now! The ambulance is coming!"
Song Shuang's face and lips looked so pale.
The security guards called the ambulance for him right away.
Gu Baisheng took her coat off to cover Song Shuang's wound.
Then she thought that the material might be scratchy, so she hurried to take off her cotton shirt. She held Song Shuang and comforted him non-stop in her coat, "Hold on. The ambulance is right there!"
She was wearing a sports b*a underneath her coat, but her waist was still showing. Song Shuang reached out his fingers powerlessly.
But he still tried to button her coat stubbornly.
She didn't want this woman who looked like Gu Baisheng showing her waist to other people.
Gu Baisheng froze when she saw this.
Then she buttoned her coat all the way up obediently. Then she wrapped Song Shuang in his coat, held him, and whispered in his ears, "It's alright. Don't worry. Don't worry."
Her comfort was more like talking to a child.
As if he were her child.
Song Shuang was held by her, and he somewhat felt it very familiar.
His body started to be cold, and he felt dizzy with a large amount of blood gushing out from his injury.
Finally, he passed out before the ambulance came.
- Writer
