Chapter 105 - Yue Wan Heard a Beast's Roar.

----Underground-of-the-Wei----

With a sinister smile on her face, Shu Lan marched toward the punishment room with a serving tray full of food in her hand. Underneath the serving tray, she had hidden a cell phone.

The guard didn't suspect anything so he let her in.

After five minutes she came back with an empty tray and no sign of the cell phone.

'Pisces trapped in the net.' She smirked.

----Inside a room---

Yue Xiang tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't. They seemed as if heavyweights were resting on his eyes, preventing them from opening, no matter how hard he tried.

He could hear some noises in the distance, becoming more precise the closer they came. He tried to open his mouth to call out, but like his eyes, his mouth refused to obey his commands.

"Wh-Where?"

He lifted his finger and grabbed onto the thing that was closest to him.

Without opening his eyes, he demanded in a voice that broke with hoarseness, "Where am I?"

"Oh My God! He is awake! Doctor Bai, Doctor Bai!!"

The voice beside him yelled in panic.

Yue Xiang soon heard more footsteps coming closer to him. He assumed that one of them was the Doctor Bai that the other person had mentioned.

Doctor Bai rushed into the room when he heard his nurse yelling for him. Taking out his stethoscope, he started to examine his patient. "Young Master, you alright. Please relax. You were involved in a car accident and fell unconscious as a result. Let me examine you now."

Yue Xiang was in no mood to relax, he forced his eyes open, and while he was gasping for breath, he grabbed onto Doctor Bai's white coat, and demanded: "Where is Wan? Tell me she's alright."

"Big Brother?" A sweet voice that he thought he could only hear in his dreams floated to him from the other side of the room.

Yue Xiang's eyes widened as he looked around the room for the source of the voice. Not being able to see what he wanted, he rubbed his eyes a few times before he could focus on the faces in the room. Then, he saw her.

Wearing the same white dress with some bandages on her head and a pink cat print Band-Aid on her nose, Yue Wan stood before him with a weary smile.

"Little Wan, you alright?"

Yue Wan gestured for the others to leave them and helped her brother into a comfortable, upright position.

"You need to stop being so impulsive. I was so scared when you suddenly fainted."

Yue Xiang was in the worst condition in the two of them. He had dressings covering every inch of his body except his face, and even then, there were scratches and bruises.

With a confused face, he asked her: "Where are we?"

Before Yue Wan could respond, a crispy voice replied, "At my place."

Mr. Ye Xian appeared behind the door with blue-wolf pajamas. He approached the bed but kept some distance between Yue Wan and himself.

Yue Xiang's face warped into a puzzled expression, 'Again with those PJs!?'

Yue Wan turned to face Mr. Ye Xian, and with a tint of blush on her cheeks, she expressed her gratitude: "Thank you, Mr. Xian, for arriving just in time to save us."

Ye Xiang ran his tongue over his lips, and with a seductive gaze, he was ready to start flirting with her. However. ...

Yue Xiang quickly interrupted them before they both start with the PDAs: "What happened after the explosion?"

Yue Wan knew that her brother wouldn't leave it alone until he heard her explanation, so she recounted the things that had happened just before the explosion.

"I don't remember how I got out of the car, but I had the feeling of being dragged out just as the fire was ignited. The only sensation that I felt at that time was that something was biting me on my shoulder. However, when I woke up again, there was nothing that showed any marks or bites. So it might have just been my imagination."

Yue Xiang and Ye Xiang had the same look of puzzlement on their faces: 'Little brat/Fatty?'

Yue Wan continued her explanation, "I looked around to see if I could find what had dragged me, but there was nothing around. So I looked for you, and. ... you know what happened after that."

"You saved me," Yue Xiang had a proud feeling when he said it. Then he had a sudden realization, "What about his two underlings?"

Playing with a handkerchief in her hand, Yue Wan was wondering how to say it. The truth was that she didn't understand what happened there...

Seeing her hesitation, there was a fear in Yue Xiang's mind, "Wan?"

Yue Wan's eyes stumbled over her brother's face; she could see the fear of what might have happened during his absence.

In a quavering voice, she replied, "After you fainted, I didn't know what to do? Since we were in a remote area, I knew it is useless to cry for help. So I moved you to a safe location, and came back to retrieve Tian Mein's phone."

She gazed straight at her brother's eyes, "And, at that time, I heard a loud scream of a man...."

----Flashback---

She couldn't breathe; it felt as if someone was choking her. She wanted to wait for someone to save them, but she knew that no one would, and no one was around.

Suddenly there was a cry for help from dark bushes.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!! Save meeeee!"

Following that shriek, there was a loud howl of an animal, and then silence.

"Growl -- Growl -- Rawwrrrr"

Suddenly, she heard a beast's roar. She could hear her pulse thumping in her ears, and sweat started to drip down her back.

"Wh. ... was ... th. ...at?"

The next second and a man crawled out the bush with a bloody face. He jerked his head to look slowly at Yue Wan's location and lifted his one hand as he mumbled in a very low voice.

Yue Wan's eyes scrunched up as she couldn't understand what he was trying to say, so she moved a step closer to him.