Cheng Rui used to have some scars on his body from previous missions, but later, with the enhancement of his supernatural abilities, they faded to the point where they were hardly visible. It was impossible to tell where he had been injured.
This time, he fought alone against a mutant species he had never seen before, resulting in his right shoulder to back being scratched. The ferocious scars looked shocking, and if not properly taken care of, they would leave indelible marks.
As Bai Qingqing’s finger slid along the edge of the scar, just as it reached the man’s strong lower back, her wrist was suddenly grabbed tightly.
“Ah!” She was startled and turned her head to look.
Cheng Rui had opened his eyes at some point, holding her delicate wrist. It seemed that his consciousness wasn’t fully clear yet, and he instinctively grasped her hand, which had been intimately close to his skin.
Bai Qingqing was caught off guard, her heart pounding like thunder. A shy blush flashed across her face.
The man looked steadily at her face, his black eyes becoming clear, his voice slightly hoarse as if he had just awakened. “Bai Qingqing?”
“It’s me.” Bai Qingqing saw Cheng Rui trying to sit up and quickly used her other hand to press down on the uninjured area to prevent him. “Don’t get up, your wound hasn’t healed yet.”
Cheng Rui paused for two seconds, then obediently lay back on the bed, still holding onto her hand without letting go.
“I was just applying medicine to you. How do you feel now?” Bai Qingqing said calmly, “Does the wound feel a bit better?”
She lowered her eyelashes slightly, a guilty expression on her lovely face, and whispered, “I’m sorry, it’s all because of me that you got such a serious injury.”
Cheng Rui had never been close to any other woman in the team before. He mostly interacted with some soldiers. After joining the team, he was usually silent, occasionally exchanging some words with Bai Tiantian, but mostly Bai Tiantian would take the initiative to give him food.
When Bai Qingqing saved his life in the parking lot, it changed his perspective on the amnesiac Bai Qingqing to some extent.
The relationship between him and Bai Qingqing had become somewhat ambiguous after the previous incident involving [touching muscles]. This time, getting injured was like repaying a debt. He owed Bai Qingqing his life.
Cheng Rui didn’t have any complaints in his heart. Privately and publicly, he should protect Bai Qingqing.
With a guilty expression on the girl’s face, her gaze on his back was full of tenderness, as if she had dropped a pebble into his heart, causing a ripple.
“Cheng Rui, fortunately, you’re okay. Otherwise, I don’t know what I would do.” She reached out her finger and gently touched his scar again. “It must have hurt a lot.”
The girl’s slender fingers, white as leeks, touched his back, and the soft sensation brought about a strange feeling, different from the previous time she touched his arm muscles.
Cheng Rui couldn’t describe the feeling, but he suddenly felt a dryness in his mouth, and his voice became slightly husky and low.
“It doesn’t hurt.” He was tongue-tied and could only say those few words.
“How can it not hurt?” Bai Qingqing looked at him tenderly, her eyes shimmering, and she said gently, “You must be hungry. There’s some congee in the kitchen. I’ll go get it for you.”
Cheng Rui watched the girl stand up and hurriedly walk downstairs. Her
figure was very attractive.
After Bai Qingqing went downstairs, she immediately announced the good news: “Cheng Rui has woken up.” Then she turned and went to the kitchen, picking up the warm congee to bring it upstairs.
Fu Chen and Shen Mingxuan were driving ahead, Bai Tiantian was resting in the room, and Liang Zhiyu and Xiao Yang were sitting on the sofa in the living room.
Xiao Yang saw her carrying the congee upstairs and quickly followed, “Cheng ge really woke up?”
Bai Qingqing responded with a sound, and Xiao Yang hurriedly took the congee from her hand. “Let me help you.”
“Be careful, it’s hot,” Bai Qingqing said from behind.
Xiao Yang silly smiled, “It’s not hot.”
The two of them entered Cheng Rui’s room, and Liang Zhiyu also followed. The small room became somewhat crowded.
Liang Zhiyu checked the situation and after a while, he said, “The recovery is not bad. Don’t touch water for the next few days and rest well to recover from your injuries.”
“Okay.” Cheng Rui’s gaze involuntarily turned to Bai Qingqing.
Bai Qingqing wanted to take the opportunity to improve her impression, so she took the porridge bowl from Xiao Yang’s hand and sat down on a stool by the bed.
“Xiao Yang, Liang Zhiyu, help Cheng Rui sit up. I’ll feed him.”
Cheng Rui hadn’t eaten for two days, relying on intravenous nutrition. Xiao Yang and Liang Zhiyu helped him sit up.
Xiao Yang knew that it was Bai Qingqing’s initiative to take care of Cheng Rui and apply medicine to him. After all, Cheng Rui got injured protecting her, which made him feel a little sour.
Not only was he jealous of Fu Chen, but Cheng Rui had also become the target of his jealousy. If only it were him who was injured, he could let Qingqing take care of him tenderly.
It was said that women liked the handsome and tough type like Cheng Rui, and his sunny and cheerful type didn’t have much appeal. No, he couldn’t let Cheng Rui have the privilege of being pursued!
A smile appeared on Xiao Yang’s face as he played his little tricks in his mind, “Qingqing, let me feed Cheng ge instead.”
As soon as he said that, Cheng Rui and Liang Zhiyu frowned at the same time. The sight of a man feeding another man was a bit hard to look at.
Cheng Rui furrowed his brows and said coldly, “No need, I can do it myself.”
Bai Qingqing’s black eyes flashed, and she quickly said, “Don’t move! I just finished dressing your wounds. If it cracks again, I’ll have to dress it all over again.”
Bai Qingqing turned her head and smiled at Xiao Yang beside her, “Xiao Yang, you can go and do something else. I’ll take care of Cheng Rui.” She paused and added, “Don’t you trust me to take care of him?”
“No.” It wasn’t that, but Xiao Yang felt a hint of jealousy deep inside.
Liang Zhiyu’s lips curled up as he grabbed the reluctant Xiao Yang and headed towards the door.
As Xiao Yang walked away, he turned his head to look, resembling an abandoned puppy, eagerly waiting for its owner’s response.
Bai Qingqing glanced in that direction and flashed a beautiful smile, “I’ll come find you later.”
Xiao Yang left with his tail between his legs, and the room was left with only Bai Qingqing and Cheng Rui. She held the porridge and scooped it up with a spoon, blowing on it gently.
Cheng Rui watched her fluttering long lashes, her delicate and upturned nose, and her beautiful rosy lips, and his gaze became heated.
Bai Qingqing was completely unaware as she blew on the porridge. She brought the spoon to his lips and smiled, “Here, it’s not hot anymore. Take a taste.”
Cheng Rui ate several spoonfuls with her feeding, and the porridge was slightly salty with minced meat, tasting delicious. After not eating for two days, he had a good appetite.
Bai Qingqing’s expression was gentle as she fed him a large bowl of porridge and asked, “Are you full? Do you want more?”
“No, thank you,” Cheng Rui shook his head.
“Then I’ll go downstairs and call Liang Zhiyu to help you lie down and rest,” Bai Qingqing said as she picked up the bowl.
Cheng Rui said there was no need and slowly lay down on the bed by himself.
In the afternoon, the
team entered Flower City, which had turned into a zombie-infested ruin. They found a hotel, cleared the surrounding area of zombies, and settled in.
In the evening, Bai Qingqing continued to feed Cheng Rui, taking the role of a caregiver to the extreme, attracting some strange looks from the others.
The next day.
Bai Qingqing carried the medicine box and woke up early to change Cheng Rui’s bandages. Just as she reached the doorway, she ran into Shen Mingxuan, who looked down at her from a high vantage point.
“You seem quite enthusiastic about Cheng Rui. What? Did he save you like a hero, and you fell in love with him?”
Bai Qingqing had a good relationship with every man in the team, except for Shen Mingxuan, whom she treated with a cold attitude and occasional childish provocations.
Every time Bai Qingqing provoked him, Shen Mingxuan would get angry but couldn’t do anything about her.
Bai Qingqing enjoyed pushing the boundaries of death and had Fu Chen to back her up. As the captain’s sister, she naturally became a bit arrogant.
She enjoyed seeing Shen Mingxuan disapproving of her and being unable to do anything about it.
Based on Shen Mingxuan’s life experiences, on the surface, it seemed that he liked cute and obedient girls, and his ideal type was someone like Bai Tiantian.
NO, that was wrong.
Shen Mingxuan, with his somewhat perverse personality, deep down actually liked a girl who was beautiful, cool, and opposed him.
The more she ignored him, the more it aroused his desire to conquer.
That’s why he had a playboy image before the apocalypse, always surrounded by beautiful women but never getting involved with them.
Bai Tiantian’s cuteness, obedience, and kindness did remind him of his mother’s tenderness. He pretended to be a protector and wanted to take care of her, thinking that this type of girl was the one he should love.
He hadn’t realized what he truly wanted in his heart, and she just needed to break the illusion he had created for himself and make him understand.
Bai Qingqing ignored Shen Mingxuan’s provocation and said indifferently, “Move aside.”
Shen Mingxuan saw her smiling face like a pure white lotus towards everyone else in the team, but she showed a cold and indifferent attitude towards him, which made him feel disdainful.
“Bai Qingqing.” He leaned closer, lowering his voice, “I advise you to play fewer mind games. None of the people in the team are playthings you can handle.”
“Oh, really?” Bai Qingqing narrowed her eyes, a hint of mockery on her face. “Can’t handle it…”
She suddenly approached him, looking at his furrowed brows, and suddenly reached out to touch his face. “Do you have the final say?”
Shen Mingxuan hadn’t expected her to suddenly get close to him. He stood there stunned, watching the girl who was now within arm’s reach, her beautiful and enticing face and her alluring lips right in front of him.
After losing her memory, she had completely changed. She no longer deliberately used vulgar methods to harass men and would hide her thoughts, quietly making men develop favorable opinions of her.
He hadn’t been too guarded against her, and that’s how she managed to touch his face.
As soon as he reacted, he immediately grabbed her hand, gripping it so tightly it seemed like he wanted to break her delicate wrist, his tone filled with extreme displeasure and anger. “You finally revealed your true face, Bai Qingqing.”
Bai Qingqing endured the pain in her wrist, wearing a provocative expression, with a hint of charm and seduction in the corners of her eyes.
“What true face?” She sneered, cold and seductive. “Are you saying seducing you?”
Shen Mingxuan’s eyes were filled with coldness, various irritations gathering in his heart. He coldly laughed and said, “You? Are you even qualified?”
Suddenly, the sound of the door opening reached them.
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