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When she returned home, she saw a line of blood clearly visible on the floor, from the hallway to the washroom. She stood at the door of the washroom and looked at the bloodstained floor and the pool of blood in the bathtub. She covered her head with her hands and gave a little cry. She felt cold all over and her head felt dizzy.

Yes, she was afraid. The fear in her heart far exceeded her imagination.

She was holding on, because after what had happened, she couldn't back down.

At this moment, when she returned to the scene of the accident, she felt that all the hidden emotions had escaped from her.

Just when she felt that the nerve in her brain was on the verge of breaking, she suddenly fell into a warm embrace.

This temperature instantly warmed her body, causing her to feel cold. Surprisingly, she didn't feel repulsed at all.

The faint fragrance of mint wafted from the tip of his nose. Was it him?

Qin Xiaotao spun around, but her head bumped into the man's chin. She reached out to touch his forehead, but he was the first to reach out and press his hand gently against her forehead.

"Did it hurt?"

That familiar voice, was not Ye Chimu's voice.

Qin Xiaotao raised her head. What appeared before her was a figure that she had not expected to see, but which was within reason.

"Brother Shen?"

Shen Xi Ming looked at the washroom behind her and frowned, then reached out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face.

It was only then that Qin Xiaotao realized she had been crying.

He patted her shoulder soothingly. "Don't be afraid."

It was this sentence that had become the final straw that had overpowered her nerves. Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes. As she wiped them away, she said, "I'm sorry. I … I don't know either. What happened to me?" As she spoke, she forced out a smile. However, this smile appeared to be extremely desolate on her tear-stained face.

Shen Ximing's frown deepened. He reached out and took her in his arms, stroking her hair, "It's okay, I'm here."

His voice was light, but it had a magical soothing effect. Qin Xiaoshui leaned against his chest, sniffing the faint fragrance of the peppermint. After a while, everything quieted down.

After calming down, only then did she gradually realize how ambiguous she was with him.

She coughed lightly and tried to pull away, but he tightened his arms so that she couldn't move. The next second, he bent down and picked her up.

"Ahhh!" Qin Xiaotao flew into the air and grabbed ahold of him.

"You should sleep." After saying that, he carried her towards the room.

"Hey, wait, wait a minute."

Shen Xuming stopped in his tracks, "What is it?"

"I came back to get Linlin's clothes. I have to get back to the hospital."

"You have a fever, don't you know?"

Qin Xiaotao rubbed her forehead and realized that it was indeed a little hot.

Shen Xuming didn't stop, "Don't worry about it, leave it to me." As he spoke, he looked at the two doors in front of him, "Which one?"

Qin Xiaotao could only point at the room inside.

He put her on the bed and covered her with the blanket. "Sleep." After Shen Xuming finished speaking, he was about to leave when Qin Xiaotao grabbed his arm.

He turned around. "What?"

Qin Xiaoli hesitated for a moment before she smiled and shook her head, "It's nothing."

If she wasn't sure before, then when he held her just now, she could already confirm that the person who saved her in the industrial area was actually him.

When Qin Xiaoshui woke up, it was already dusk.

When she arrived at the living room, the blood on the floor was no longer there. The washroom was also very clean.

The door opened, and Shen Ximing appeared in the doorway.

She hurried over. "How's Linlin?"

Shen Xi Ming's brow creased slightly. After a moment of hesitation, he handed her a piece of paper.

"Don't look for me, I'm fine." There were only these few words on the slip of paper.

"What does that mean? Where is she? " Qin Xiaotao asked anxiously.

"She was gone when I got to the hospital."

"Well, what about Dr. Grant? Isn't she always accompanying Linlin? "

"She's been shooed away, and all the doctors and nurses."

She walked towards the hallway. "No, I have to find her." she said as she changed her shoes.

Shen Xi Ming pulled her back, "Where are you going?"

She had lived with Punlin for a year, but she knew very little about her. She didn't even know where she was most likely to go, nor did she know anything about her family's situation. There was no way to contact her family.

"She's already an adult, so she naturally knows her limits. Since she's gone, she definitely doesn't want us to find her. You running out recklessly like this, other than wasting your efforts, you won't get any results."

His voice was surprisingly gentle, causing Qin Xiaoli's anxious heart to quickly calm down, "Then what should we do? We can't just stand there and do nothing. I'm really afraid that something might have happened to her, Dr. Grant said. She's already depressed, just in case, just in case... "

She covered her eyes as she spoke, her shoulders shaking slightly. Even she did not know why she cried so easily in front of this person.

Shen Xi Ming gently caressed her shoulder and softly said, "I've already sent someone to contact her family, as well as the police. I sincerely admire and Dr. Grand, so I went out to look for them."

"But, if I don't do anything, I really won't be at ease, Brother Shen, do you know? If, if I had discovered earlier, if I had stopped them from being together, I would have paid a little more attention. Perhaps, I would have known of her condition since long ago. And she's so weak, where can she go? "

Shen Xi Ming wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes, "Alright, I'll go with you to look." As she spoke, she took her hand and walked outside.

Beauty salons, food stores, gym, they are all the shops that Park Linlin usually goes to. However, at this moment, they knew that it was impossible for her to be in these places, but they still went there, holding onto a glimmer of hope.

Finally, he returned to the large campus and looked around. It was already the second half of the night.

Qin Xiaotao looked at the junction in front of them. She remembered that day when they separated here, when they went to class, she said, "Xiaotao, I like W very much. I liked it very much. When I first saw him at the art exhibition, I knew that it would be him for the rest of my life."

Now that she thought about it, her back at that time was actually filled with a trace of righteousness, a determination to fly into the fire like a moth to the flame.

She used all of her passion to love Ye Cheng.