Pampered by My Ex's Cousin-Chapter 163 - 157: Unrequited Love is the Honey of Youth (Part Eighteen)

The man’s handsome face, dotted with water droplets and reflected by the streetlights, stirred a strong sense of familiarity within her. She opened her mouth in surprise and pointed at him, "You... you..."

The man chuckled, "If you still don’t recognize me, I’m going to start wondering if you’ve got amnesia."

"Doctor Xiang, how come it’s you?" Ji Anning finally exclaimed in astonishment.

She looked at Xiang Yiqing, equally drenched and full of confusion.

"Yes," Xiang Yiqing replied with a wry smile and a helpless look on his face, "I’d like to know that too."

He lived nearby and had been out for a run when he heard someone shouting that a person had jumped into the sea. He ran over, saw that it was true, and courageously dove in to save them.

He hadn’t expected to rescue a familiar face.

Looking at him, it seemed he had just happened to save her. Observing Xiang Yiqing closely, Ji Anning expressed her gratitude, "Thank you."

Then she slowly got up. Having swallowed a lot of water and been unconscious, she still felt very weak, on the verge of collapsing. She quickly walked over to lean on the seaside railings, waiting for the dizziness to pass.

Suddenly, she thought of something and turned around nervously to look at Xiang Yiqing, "Doctor Xiang, you haven’t told my... Ji Chicheng about this, have you?"

Last time, he mistook her as Ji Chicheng’s girlfriend and likely still didn’t know her actual relationship with Ji Chicheng.

"Not yet," Xiang Yiqing shook his head. "I was too busy trying to save you to think about that."

Hearing this, Ji Anning let out a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness!

"I will call him now to come and pick you up," Xiang Yiqing suggested while reaching into his pocket.

"Don’t." Ji Anning saw Xiang Yiqing pulling out his phone and hurriedly rushed over to stop him. She reached out and quickly snatched away Xiang Yiqing’s phone.

With the swiftness of a thunderclap.

She managed to grab the phone, but the next second she felt a darkness before her eyes and stumbled forward.

"Hey, what’s wrong?" Xiang Yiqing quickly reached out to catch her, preventing her from falling.

Ji Anning fell into Xiang Yiqing’s arms, her small body soft and cool.

"Anning?" Xiang Yiqing looked down at her. She seemed so weak as if she had no strength at all, her thick eyelashes casting shadows under the streetlamp’s light.

Her body shivered and he couldn’t bear to push her away.

She seemed to be murmuring something, but Xiang Yiqing couldn’t hear it clearly. He leaned down, bringing his ear closer to listen.

"Don’t tell him, don’t call Uncle..."

Uncle?

Xiang Yiqing frowned in confusion, looking at Ji Anning’s face, her palm-sized little face suddenly seemed very close, and he momentarily held his breath.

A gust of sea breeze blew by, and he shuddered, as if awakening from a haze and shook his head to clear it.

Shit, Xiang Yiqing, this is Ji Chicheng’s woman. Do you have a death wish?

...

"Mmm... mmm..." The sense of familiarity was so real. It must be the demon. No.

Her mouth felt sealed shut, and Ji Anning struggled to breathe. She violently shook her head and resisted desperately, flailing her arms and legs.

Fear, horror.

Finally, as if she broke through a hazy barrier, she opened her eyes fully awake.

Her hands fumbled around underneath her, it was a bed; she was lying on a bed. Above her was a floral chandelier, bright light shining down. She touched her eyes, no eyepatch on them.

She blinked, this... was different from the previous times.

Could the previous experience have been a dream?

As Ji Anning pondered, she took deep breaths. After being dazed for a while, she looked around.