Chapter 2182: The Truth Abroad (14)
Chapter 2182: Chapter 2182: The Truth Abroad (14)
The small body in his arms was stiff and icy, still trembling. Duan Xi’s heart ached beyond words. He held her tightly against his chest, trying to pull her back to her senses, to calm her down. "Jiaobao, don’t be like this, we’ll face it together..."But as soon as the words left his mouth, Ruan Jiaojiao started screaming, pounding crazily on his shoulder, jumping up to cover his mouth. "Don’t say it, don’t say it, Brother Xi, I’m begging you, I’m begging you, don’t say it, okay? Please, okay..."
Yet faced with Ruan Jiaojiao’s pleading, Duan Xi still said those three words, his voice so calm it was almost cruel. "He’s dead."
"Aaahhhh!!!!"
Ruan Jiaojiao’s vision went completely blurry. She collapsed weakly to the floor in front of Duan Xi. The tears that had long filled her eyes but stubbornly refused to fall finally broke through the dam at this moment.
She sat on the ground, both hands covering her eyes, tears rushing out between her fingers one after another.
Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t want to believe it. She hoped Duan Xi was joking with her.
But she knew very well that Duan Xi was not someone who would joke about something like this. What’s more, these past few days she’d sensed Lu Xian’s abnormal state more keenly than anyone else.
It was just that she had never, ever imagined this abnormality in this direction!
Duan Xi slowly crouched down and pulled her trembling, crying little body back into his arms.
Ruan Jiaojiao cried like her heart was being ripped apart.
From outside came a burst of frantic banging on the door. "Darling, darling, what’s wrong?"
"Jiaojiao? Jiaojiao?" Shu Jiao’s voice.
"Jiaojiao, open the door!" Ruan Hao and Ruan Jie’s voices sounded at the same time.
Then the Ruanlin Family who lived downstairs and Old Master Shu also came up. They called through the door, but Ruan Jiaojiao had already buried her head in Duan Xi’s chest, crying so hard she couldn’t hear anything from outside.