"Clang—"
The scene shifted to a presidential ward.
Erling looked at the man on the hospital bed, gasping for breath and pale, and said with a cold face, "Hey, you've got a real knack for survival. A few bullets couldn't kill you."
Kristino opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on his friend.
After a long moment, his voice hoarse, he asked, "Erling, am I dead?"
Erling rolled his eyes impatiently, "Dead! Dead!" The thought made him angry. He cursed, "It's just a woman, isn't it?"
"What if you can't have her?"
"Does that mean you're so disheartened you want to die?"
"Kristino, you're a man! Stop being so dramatic!"
Kristino was stunned by the scolding, his eyes vacant: "————"
He...
Didn't want to die...
He just...
His fingers twitched, his palm tightly clenching something, his hand so tight it was almost bleeding.
He couldn't even feel his palm.
Kristino laboriously raised his hand and placed it on his chest.
This movement exhausted all his strength, and he gasped for air, regulating his blood flow.
After a long period of recovery.
Kristino slowly opened his palm, staring blankly at the shattered pendant.
Erling was choked by his friend's pathetic state. Damn it!
Just one woman!
"If you can't let go, why do you care about worldly conventions?" Erling said forcefully, "Just consummate the marriage, make it a done deal. Then see if Du Ruoxin will yield to you!"
However, his outburst had no effect on the man on the verge of death.
Kristino seemed not to hear him, instead tenderly kissing the pendant shattered by bullets.
His cherished gaze was that of a devoted lover.
Erling: "—"
Fine, he'd said nothing.
Kristino, this man, outwardly appeared cold and ruthless, but all his tenderness was reserved for Du Ruoxin.
To make him hurt her would be more difficult than taking his life.
The ward fell into a tense silence.
Until Kristino spoke again, "She saved me."
She had saved him again.
"Erling, I've died three times."
His feet had already stepped into the gates of hell. If not for Erling using Du Ruoxin to provoke him.
Perhaps, this time, he would never wake up again.
Someone who had already died, why would they care about worldly conventions?
It wasn't important.
Nothing was important anymore.
Towards Du Ruoxin, he had given up, he had escaped, and even death couldn't remove her from his mind.
Then why was he torturing himself?
The man's deep voice, laced with a sense of release, looked up, his blue eyes filled with unparalleled determination, "Even death couldn't make me forget her."
"I..."
"Don't want to go against my own will anymore."
If he was going to hell, then let him go.
As Kristino finished speaking, the projection ended, and the screen went black.
The entire cinema hall was plunged into darkness.
Only Du Ruoxin's heart pounded wildly.
[Big Brother... gave up on her?]
This was something Du Ruoxin had never known.
She had only thought he was terrifying, frightening, and that she wanted to escape him at all times, but she didn't know...
To give her up, he wasn't even afraid of death.
He...
"Xin'er." Angus knelt before Du Ruoxin, holding her hand, and said softly, "You are the only reason your Big Brother lives."
"To find you, he has searched every city in these past few years."
Du Ruoxin's throat felt tight, unable to speak, "I—"
Seeing her Big Brother wanting to die, she also felt distressed.
But—
She couldn't—
They couldn't—
"I know your concerns." Angus saw Du Ruoxin's unspoken worries and choked out, "But to make you stay by his side with peace of mind, your Big Brother is currently undergoing a bone marrow transplant and a blood transfusion at the hospital."
Du Ruoxin trembled violently, "What?!"
Bone marrow transplant?
Blood transfusion?
A healthy person, why a blood transfusion, a bone marrow transplant?
Is he crazy!
"Yes, Big Brother has gone mad." Angus said sadly, "But I can't dissuade him."
"He said only if he has different blood from yours can you accept him."
Du Ruoxin was enraged by this statement, "Nonsense!"
She had never said that!
How could she say such a thing!
"I I—"
"He—"
Du Ruoxin's heart trembled with agitation, her lips parting and closing, but no sound came out.
Angus continued, "Xin'er, a blood transfusion is a major surgery, and there's a possibility he might not survive the operation."
"Only you can save Big Brother."
"Hurry and go."
"Tell him not to do anything foolish."