I won't leave you alone
Qiao Mo's feet were already fine. Adding to the fact that she was here today to take a cable car to watch the Mount Switzerland's snowy scenery, there wouldn't be too many inconvenient places.
A group of people squeezed their way in. Naturally, Xiao Yan and Qiao Mo stood together, as the carriage was a little crowded, and Qiao Mo stood near the door of the cable car. This cable car, which was completely lit up with glass, could see all the snow covering the Mount Switzerland, but its height was increasing, which made people feel a little afraid of its height.
Xiao Yan stood behind her and reached out his hand to encircle her. She was only concerned with the snow scene in front of her, and didn't pay much attention to it.
When the cable car reached halfway up the mountain, it suddenly stopped. The passengers inside were all from a tourist group, and most of them were Chinese tourists. After sliding for a distance, the cable car finally came to a stop.
At this time, the snow outside was getting heavier. Even though it was morning, the sky seemed very gray. The cable car had stopped rising and was hanging halfway up the mountain. The door of the cable car was locked; it could not be opened.
Qiao Mo was startled, some tourists had already taken out their phones to make emergency calls, but they did not know how many hotlines there were.
Xiao Yan was not alarmed as he lowered his head and looked at Qiao Mo silently. She did not panic much, and even though the surrounding sounds were already so noisy, she did not display any signs of being very afraid.
Amidst the noise, the cable car suddenly started to slide down quickly, and the carriage started to shake. Xiao Yan hugged Qiao Mo tightly, and the two of them squeezed into the corner of the cable car, their bodies sticking closely to the transparent window.
It was extremely difficult to stabilize the cable car for the time being, but he did not know when someone would come to rescue her, nor did he know if the cable car would start shaking again in the next second. After some time, Xiao Yan looked at her from behind and called out to her with a deep voice: "Qiao Mo?"
She acknowledged, "What?"
"If we were stuck here, you wouldn't have anything to say to me?"
Qiao Mo smirked, it was extremely faint, "What can I say to you? If it was someone in love, they would probably confess their love at such a time, but Xiao Yan, what did you want me to say to you? Say I love you? Or are you saying that we still want to be husband and wife in our next life? We are on the verge of a divorce, and besides, I don't think anything will happen to the cable car.
She reminded him that they were two people on the verge of a divorce. Annoyed, he reached out to pinch her chin and turned her face toward him. His eyes were narrow, and he asked each word in return, "Do you want to draw a line between you and me so much?"
Xiao Yan and Qiao Mo were squeezed into a corner. The narrow space made it hard for Qiao Mo to breath, but it seemed like Xiao Yan didn't know what accident was, and only lowered his head and looked at her.
The two of them did not speak, after a long while, it seemed that the workers at the starting point of the cable car had already sent people to repair it, the cable car returned to normal and continued to slide upwards. The entire road was getting more and more beautiful, but in Xiao Yan's eyes, it was already boring.
She kept her gaze on the pure white snow outside, not even sparing a glance at him. Even though he had chased after her for thousands of miles, she remained indifferent.
Just now, under those circumstances, she hadn't said a single word of kindness to him.
Along the road, Xiao Yan didn't hold her hand, but walked out of the cable car. Qiao Mo didn't care too much about it, and followed the flow of people.
The white night in Mount Switzerland seemed to be short, furthermore, it was delayed for an hour or so along the way. After they finished their meal, the sky started to turn dark, and the travelling party had already entered the cable car and started to descend the mountain. Just as Qiao Mo was about to go in, her gaze swept across the people in the cable car, but she did not see Xiao Yan.
She called him, but his phone was already turned off.
She took a step back and asked the man in the cable car, "Sir, did you see my husband just now? in a black coat, a very tall Oriental man. "
The man shook his head. She asked a few more questions, but still said she didn't see anything.
However, this seemed to be the last cable car.
A staff member at the side asked in English, "Miss, are you leaving? The cable car is leaving in five minutes. "
Qiao Mo suddenly became anxious and said to the staff member: "I'm sorry, I don't know where my husband went. Can you wait a little longer?"
"Sorry, the cable car can't be late."
Qiao Mo's heart was in a panic, she did not care anymore as she continued walking towards the direction of the snow. It was already dark, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of her feet stepping on the soft snow. As she walked, she opened her palms to her lips and shouted loudly: "Xiao Yan! Xiao Yan! Xiao Yan... "
She walked further and further away, further and further away from the starting point of the cable car. There was no sign in the snow, and it was also night, and it was very easy for her to lose sight of the road. She no longer cared about turning back, and left behind a string of footprints in the snow.
She walked forward and saw the traces of snow collapsing on the steep slope. Her heart skipped a beat.
She shouted a few times down below, "Xiao Yan! Xiao Yan! Xiao Yan, are you down there?! "
However, the only response she got was the response from the heaven and earth. No one replied.
She tried to slowly walk down the snow, but no matter how protective the snow boots on her feet were, they would not be able to do much in this kind of snow mountain. Her hands that were exposed to the cold were red as she carefully walked down the snow hole, what if Xiao Yan fell and became unconscious?
Just as she took a few steps back, a clear and cold male voice suddenly shouted out, "Qiao Mo, don't go down!"
Caught off guard, she twisted her feet and directly rolled into the deep pit. The surrounding soft snow collapsed quite a bit due to the sound, and Qiao Mo who was trapped inside the hole wasn't injured at all while holding onto his head. Xiao Yan ran over and tried to pull her up with his hands, but the snow hole was simply too deep.
Xiao Yan quickly protected her from the falling soft snow by putting her in her overcoat. The snow all landed on his head and neck.
It was not easy for him to wait for the snow to stop falling. After a moment of silence, he pulled her out from his embrace and asked with shining eyes, "What snow hole are you jumping into?"
There was urgency, there was anger, and there was a hint of imperceptibility in his words … Expectation.
Looking forward to that answer.
When Qiao Mo fell down earlier, she was still in a daze. After all, she was a girl, and her voice was trembling uncontrollably as she looked at him, "I thought you were down there …"
In the darkness, his hands tightly gripped her shoulders as he gazed at her with a complicated gaze. After a long time, he suddenly pulled her into his embrace.
In an instant, Qiao Mo was also stunned. Her ice-cold hands stiffened in midair, and after a long while, she finally reached out and hugged his back.
Unconsciously, it turned out that they could be considered to have passed through a life-and-death juncture together.
More than half of the anger in Xiao Yan's heart disappeared. He lowered his head to kiss the top of her head and explained: "I just smoked a cigarette on the east side of the cable car. My phone is out of battery."
She slowly withdrew from his embrace and asked, "How do we get up there now?"
Without waiting for Xiao Yan's reply, she frowned: "What did you jump down for? You should have asked the staff at the cable car for help. "
He continued to look at her seriously for a long time before saying in a low voice, "I won't leave you alone."
Qiao Mo's frozen fingers froze for a moment. She still clearly remembered the feeling of walking alone two years ago.
Xiao Yan looked up, and said rationally: "I think we won't be able to climb up tonight, let's wait for midnight. There should be patrolling staff members coming over. "
Qiao Mo wanted to take out his phone to make an emergency call, but the phone in his pocket had already disappeared. Xiao Yan saw that she was rummaging through her pockets, so he asked: "Did you lose your phone?"
As she searched around, she replied, "Maybe it was lost when I fell down. It should still be around."
He pursed his lips and reached over to pull her hands, which were red from the cold. "Don't look for it anymore. Even if you find it, you don't know how many hotlines there are. Moreover, this place might not be able to get through."
He held Qiao Mo's hand in her own, rubbed it for her seriously, and even breathed in a few mouthfuls of hot air from time to time.
She bit her lower lip and said, "So we won't freeze to death if we stay here forever?"
He stretched out his long arm and pulled her into his coat. With his other hand he placed her hand on the waist of his coat, warm, not cold for a moment, and his voice had a soothing charm in it. "No, I'm here, don't be afraid."
At this moment, she no longer struggled. Instead, she took in a deep breath and hugged the man tightly.
In this moment of life and death, he actually didn't abandon her.
Her face was buried in his chest, and she did not dare look at Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan sensed that something was wrong, and pushed her away slightly to look at her face.
He laughed. "Silly girl, what are you crying for?"
She bit her lips as tears fell unrestrainedly, "Xiao Yan, why did you jump down and accompany me?"
Even if her heart was a boulder, it would be difficult for her to remain indifferent at this time.
He reached out to wipe the tears on her face and said with a faint smile, "The temperature here is very low. You'd better not cry, because it's very likely that ice will form soon."
Xiao Yan suddenly felt that Qiao Mo was actually pretty easy to coax, and was much less troublesome than the other girls. However, no matter how troublesome it was, he wouldn't abandon her again.
Qiao Mo had never faced Xiao Yan in such a manner before, nor had she ever faced such a gentle and affectionate Xiao Yan. In the end, she asked him about the doubt that Pan Huan had in the bottom of his heart, "Why did you come to Mount Switzerland to find me?"
He pulled her back into his arms and looked up at the night sky. Instinctively, he said, "I don't know."
Qiao Mo bit her lips, "... Xiao Yan, why did you push me away two years ago? Why do you think that I can't accompany you through this crisis? "
Xiao Yan gave her a bland glance, "Although I forgot what happened two years ago, I still know that I'm afraid that you'll be hurt, that you won't be able to take the blow. Thus, there is no need for you to ask such foolish questions in the future. "
Qiao Mo's vision became blurry, and she asked again: "Xiao Yan, what do you want me to say to you on the cable car this afternoon?"
He lightly smiled and placed a warm kiss on her forehead. "Stop talking. Save your energy. You still have most of the night to endure."