Chapter 45: Holding Hands~

Jiang Zihan laid his back toward the bedroom door before slowly sliding down. That was so embarrassing... all of the nonsense I was thinking about!!

A few minutes later, when he finally forced himself to calm down, he cautiously opened the door and silently sneaked his head out. Seeing that there was no sound coming from the other bedroom, he let out a long breath before closing his bedroom door again.

Then he looked around his room and nodded his head, as he was satisfied with how it looked.

Jiang Zihan brushed a hand gently across the bed before laying down on the bed. Then he turned to the side and closed his eyes, letting out a sigh of relief. Finally having the chance to take a break. The non-stop fight over the past few days had been so torturous.

He opened his eyes again and stared at the white ceiling, recalling what he had experienced before. He had tried to dive deep into his own consciousness again, but there seemed to be a barrier that had been blocking him from doing so.

If only he could communicate with that light purple star again...

BOOM!

When Jiang Zihan was lost in his thoughts, a loud crash caused his heart to skip a beat. He instinctively sat up from bed and looked out the window. His eyes widened in shock when he saw a large explosion coming from the direction of the garden.

What in the world is happening?!

Before he could gather his thoughts, another explosion happened, sounding even louder than the previous one. That gave Jiang Zihan the feeling that even the building itself was shaking. In the next moment, he saw students from other dormitory buildings opening their windows and complaining about the situation.

Curious of what had happened, Jiang Zihan decided to head downstairs and see what’s going on. The moment he opened the door, he saw that Mo Shiyan was already sitting on the sofa and waiting for him, with a cup of coffee in hand. "Zihan—"

Before Mo Shiyan could finish the sentence, Jiang Zihan instinctively shut the door. Why would Mo Shiyan be outside?!

Just then, he heard a knock on the door. He froze in place and took a deep breath before opening the door. Mo Shiyan was standing outside, asking innocently. "Want a cup of coffee?"

Mo Shiyan’s reaction seemed to be pretty normal. Of course, since he didn’t know what I was thinking.

However, my earlier suspicion that Mo Shiyan intended to kill me was totally my overthinking. He is definitely not that kind of person.

Although those random thoughts that I had before were pretty embarrassing, as long as not a second person knows, then it’s totally fine.

Hearing what Jiang Zihan was thinking, a light flickered through Mo Shiyan’s eyes, though Jiang Zihan did not notice.

"I don’t need to," Jiang Zihan replied as he had already thrown his previous thoughts to the back of his mind. Now there was something else that was catching his attention.

He hurriedly rushed toward Mo Shiyan and naturally reached out for his wrist. "Want to go with me to check out what’s happening downstairs?" he asked with a bright smile on his face.

Mo Shiyan seemed to have frozen a little, staring toward the hand that had wrapped around his wrist. Seeing that there’s no response, Jiang Zihan gave him a gentle tug before he nodded his head and allowed Jiang Zihan to bring him out of the dorm.

The elevator lobby was packed, as the students all crowded together. Students from different dormitory buildings were all attracted by the two explosions that had just occurred and were all chatting about it.

"I heard that the explosion had happened near the garden." One of the students said what he knew.

"Really? Could it be that someone was experimenting with magic?" another student exclaimed.

"Are you stupid? Who would run an experiment that close to the dorms?" the first student retorted.

Jiang Zihan jumped up and looked through the crowd, but could barely see anything. "There are so many people. How long do we have to wait in order to take the elevator?"

Suddenly, Mo Shiyan held onto his head. Before Jiang Zihan could react, he led him toward the staircase. "Come this way. There’s no need to wait this way."

"Wait—"

As Mo Shiyan led the way, Jiang Zihan instinctively looked back at the group of students who were still crowded by the elevator. As the two of them slowly went down the staircase, the voices from outside seemed to slowly vanish.

Jiang Zihan lowered his head and looked toward the hand that was still holding his hand. His brain kept reminding him to struggle and let Mo Shiyan let go of him, as it was super weird for the two of them to be holding hands together. However, he somehow felt that his heart was beating very fast, causing him to quietly look away as the tips of his ears uncontrollably grew warm.

What is this weird feeling...?

By the time they finally reached the first floor, Jiang Zihan let out a sigh of relief as he planned to slip his hand free when Mo Shiyan held even tighter in the next second.

Jiang Zihan: "...?"

He looked toward his face, but didn’t see any change in Mo Shiyan’s expression, causing him to think that he might have mistaken. However, when he tried to slip his hand free again, he was still not able to pull it out.

So it was Mo Shiyan’s problem...

The heat that spread from the back of his neck made him feel a bit uneasy, so he quickly pulled up his collar with the other hand to make sure that it had hid the suppression patch inside before anyone noticed it.

BOOM!

Another explosion suddenly came from the same direction, scaring Jiang Zihan a little. That sound caused him to stumble over his own feet and fall backward to the floor.