When Nina wakes up in the hospital bed, it is dusk.
This is the familiar VIP ward and the familiar light disinfectant taste. The piercing pain in the ankle has disappeared, only numbness and slight swelling left.
Who sent her to the hospital? Is that Lucien? Where is he?
The light in the room is very dark. Nina tries to reach out and press the switch on the wall.
She has no strength in her calves. Nina stretches her arm as hard as she can...
Suddenly, she loses her balance and falls off the bed with a thump!
"It's killing me!" Nina touches her right elbow, and her tears are out because of the pain.
What bad luck! This is her second visit to the hospital this month!
The more Nina struggles to stand up, the more she can't move. Unluckily, there is no one around, which makes her feel desolate. She has no one to rely on.
The door is gently pushed open from the outside, and a rush of footsteps come towards her bedside.
Nina sits on the ground against the wall, and a large basin of green plants just blocks her figure. She watches Lucien gawk at the empty hospital bed, pause for two seconds and then rush to the bathroom.
"Who do you want, sir?" Nina says leisurely with her arms in front of her chest.
Lucien seems to be struck by lightning, turning around in an instant.
In the dim light, only a petite shadow can be seen near the big flowerpot. Lucien hurriedly presses the switch on the wall.
The light illumines the smiling face of Nina, and there is a mischievous smile in her sweet eyes. She is looking at him with her head askew.
His tight muscles caused by tension and fear immediately relax. Lucien strides towards her and hugs her tightly in his arms, without saying a word. He holds her so tightly that he seemed to melt her into his bones and blood.
"Sir, how can you just come over and hug me? Be polite, will you?" Nina buries her head in his neck, smelling the light fragrance of mint from his body, and says solemnly.
Lucien doesn't speak. He turns her head with his thick and warm hand. Then, a passionate and ecstatic kiss comes down.
Nina is so dizzy by his kiss that she gasps for breath for a long time. She leans against him and asks him innocently, "Lucien, you were so nervous just now that you were almost crying?"
A moment ago, when he saw that there was no one in bed, he was dismayed. The expression in his eyes is what Nina has never seen.
Lucien tweaks her nose, "Yeah, I thought someone was taken away by the bad guys and raped and dismembered."
"Why are you so worried about her?" Nina asks knowingly. Her eyes are as sly as a naughty kitten.
Lucien's mouth curves, "Because she is the stupidest fool in the world. She is not wary of people and is easy to be cheated."
Nina drops her shoulders in frustration and looks at him with a pout, "Lucien! You know that's not the answer I want to hear!"
She knows that he is still the boyfriend of Jasmine. But she survives, she wants to be willful and indulgent in short course!
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