Chapter 2098: Who Did You Scare Away

Li Jian swallowed a gulp.

He rarely backs down.

Like now.

The moment their eyes met, he turned to flee.

“Who did you scare away?” Yaen Chi’s voice came from behind him, unhurried.

Li Jian inexplicably felt a tingling on his scalp, turned around, and smiled ingratiatingly, “No one, I know her, but she didn’t recognize me, and we couldn’t clear things up, so there was a misunderstanding.”

As soon as he finished speaking, chaotic footsteps approached from outside, followed by Ye Wanting’s tense voice, “Brother Shu, it’s them, they have Brother Chi under house arrest!”

Xu Shu was hurriedly dragged over by Ye Wanting, already puzzled. How could anyone manage to put Yaen Chi under house arrest, when the military hospital protected him so thoroughly?

Therefore, he wasn’t too nervous, being pulled all the way here by Ye Wanting, past a door and those two doorkeeper-like men, as Ye Wanting pointed at Li Jian, who was just trying to slip out.

Li Jian turned around and went toward Yaen Chi, “I said I know her from Rongcheng City, that little girl beside you. But she seems to have misunderstood, thinking you were being watched, and rushed to find help.”

Yaen Chi’s brow twitched, inwardly cursing, managing to restrain himself from erupting at Li Jian on the spot.

He kicked Li Jian to the side, eyes fixed only on the frightened, pale Ye Wanting.

“Is everything, everything okay?”

Ye Wanting was dazed. She could not enter the door earlier, but now it was wide open, and no one stopped her. She tentatively walked in, found no resistance, and hurried up to Yaen Chi.

Confirming repeatedly, “Is everything really okay? Are you okay?”

Yaen Chi’s voice came out soft and soothing, “I’m fine.”

“Then you…” Ye Wanting bit her lip, “I was talking at the door just now, and you didn’t respond, why… why didn’t you make a sound?”

“I napped late and had just fallen asleep, didn’t hear anything.”

The bed indeed showed signs of recent occupancy, with a dent still in the middle of the pillow.

Ye Wanting bit her lip, breath yet to fully ease, rising from her throat, and when she spoke again, it was with a choking undertone.

“But this person told me you were under house arrest, hinted that something might have happened to you, life uncertain…”

She fixed her gaze on Li Jian’s position, raised a hand to point at him, then quickly lowered it, nervously picking at her fingers.

Yaen Chi’s brow furrowed instantly, eyes sharp on Li Jian, “You, Li, looking for trouble!”

Li Jian kept his mouth shut, not daring to make a sound, hands defensively in front, retreating stealthily, anxiety causing his waist to bend.

Suddenly, a hand pressed against his back, holding him up.

Turning around, Xu Shu smiled at him, causing an inexplicable shiver down his spine.

Despite his injuries, Yaen Chi’s anger was past containment, compounded by days of frustration, emotions teetering on the brink of eruption, intending to thrash Li Jian, whether he could or not.

Suddenly, a figure leaned closer…

Ye Wanting threw herself down, arms coming from either side of his neck, enclosing his shoulders, her head resting in the nook of his shoulder, initially silent, then a few muffled sobs, finally unable to hold back, letting out quiet cries by his ear.

“Scared me to death, really scared me to death… I truly thought something bad happened to you, and he… that person threatened me not to leave, said leaving would harm you, but what could I do? I ran to find Brother Shu, couldn’t afford to stop all the way, I… I was terrified, sob…”