Dedicated to studying, yet forced into a chaotic situation.

Chapter 138 The most deadly temptations are the ones you don't even realize you're being s

As soon as the nurse left, the ward fell silent.

Shi Sui took a deep breath, suppressing the cough from choking on water, and was about to explain.

Xu Chaomu took out a tissue, bent down and gently wiped the water stains from her mouth, then patted her back and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

Her voice was as pleasant as the clear water in a spring pond.

Shi Sui was momentarily stunned, then quickly said, "I'm fine. That nurse was just talking nonsense, don't listen to her."

Xu Chaomu smiled; he actually hoped that what the nurse said would come true.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I just said I was going back to the hotel to get my computer, not that I was leaving you alone in the hospital. I didn't make that clear. I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I never thought you would really leave."

Xu Chaomu was stunned for a moment, then looked up at her.

Shi Sui tugged at the blanket, then launched into a moral blackmail: "After all, you're the one who made me go to the hospital, so of course you have to stay with me tonight, but—"

She looked at the laptop he had placed on the bedside table and asked curiously, "What are you doing with the laptop?"

"Check the nearby surveillance footage." Xu Chaomu moved a folding chair over and sat down next to her.

Shi Sui immediately perked up: "You're looking for the mastermind behind it all, right?"

"Yes, that's right." Xu Chaomu nodded, then suddenly realized and asked, "Shi Sui, are you going to sleep?"

"No, I'm not going to bed that early." Shi Sui was full of energy, and she lifted the blanket and leaned closer to Xu Chaomu. "I also want to see the surveillance footage. Humph, who is trying to harm me?"

Of course she knew who wanted to harm her.

She just wanted to know if Gu Chenyi would be recorded by surveillance cameras.

The boy turned on his computer, and its boot speed was faster than 99% of computers. Various pages switched quickly, dazzling the eye.

Shi Sui couldn't understand his operation, but she thought his fingers were very beautiful, and they looked especially white against the black keyboard. When he typed, it was like he was playing the piano.

Shi Sui shifted her gaze to the screen, leaning slightly forward to stare intently at it.

Strands of hair brushed against his shoulder. They were very close. Xu Chaomu's breath hitched, and his typing slowed down as he became distracted.

All the surveillance footage near the accident site was retrieved, and the screen was divided into more than a dozen small windows.

Because Xu Chaomu deduced the time when the person fell into the snow pit, he could quickly locate the target by checking nearby surveillance footage.

Shi Sui pursed her lips, staring intently at the screen.

After a while, the surveillance camera showed Shi Sui and Xu Chaomu walking side by side in the snow.

Then Shi Sui slipped and fell into a snow pit. Xu Chaomu tried to pull her up, but no one pushed him from behind. It was as if his foot slipped and he fell in as well.

Shi Sui watched the replay and quickly accepted the reality that Gu Chenyi's image had not been blurred out, but rather the traces of his image had been completely removed.

Damn it! That darn protagonist halo!

Startled, Shi Sui suddenly remembered that when she told Xu Chaomu at the bottom of the snow pit that someone had pushed him, he hadn't responded.

"Xu Chaomu," Shi Sui asked him, "didn't you feel someone pushing you?"

Xu Chaomu nodded slightly: "I didn't feel anything."

"Just because I said I had it, you went back to the hotel to get your laptop and check the surveillance footage?"

Xu Chaomu closed her notebook and turned to look at her: "Yes, I believe you."

His gaze was warm and clear, like the sunlight melting the cold frost and snow on a high mountain.

They were getting a little too close; she could smell the faint, cool woody scent emanating from him. She immediately stepped back, lifted the covers, and lay back down on the bed.

Shi Sui: "I must have seen it wrong. I always have hallucinations when I'm scared."

Xu Chaomu got up and straightened her blanket, then asked, "Were you scared at the time?"

"Of course I'm scared," Shi Sui said. "But it's not that I'm scared of falling myself, it's that you grabbed me and I'm afraid you'll fall with me."

Xu Chaomu was taken aback.

The girl's eyes crinkled as she said, "But it turns out that falling down wasn't a big deal. You came back up quickly, and you weren't hurt."

Xu Chaomu lowered her eyelashes and asked softly, "Does the wound still hurt?"

"I've told you a million times, it really doesn't hurt at all." Shi Sui looked at him and whispered a reminder, "You're being discharged tomorrow morning."

Xu Chaomu gave a soft "Mmm": "Then go to bed early tonight, and turn off the lights?"

"Okay, okay." Shi Sui nodded obediently.

After turning off the lights, Xu Chaomu gently unfolded the folding bed and lay down on it.

Because of her head injury, Shi Sui couldn't lie on her back, so she lay on her side looking at him and suddenly realized, "You don't have a blanket, so I'll share half of mine with you."

The hospital only provides folding beds for caregivers; blankets are not provided.

The hospital bed and the folding bed were very close together. Shi Sui pulled the blanket over Xu Chaomu, giving him no chance to refuse.

Xu Chaomu breathed softly; the girl's warmth and scent still lingered on the blanket.

The hospital bed was by the window, but the hospital curtains couldn't completely block out the light, so some outside light filtered in.

He quietly turned his head to look at her.

She lay on her side on the pillow, her fair face serene, her raven-white eyelashes casting a faint shadow beneath her eyes.

Just watching her sleep makes me feel so warm.

Suddenly she moved, and a stray strand of hair slipped down, one of which landed on her lips.

Xu Chaomu's eyes grew darker.

My mind went blank for a few seconds. When I came to my senses, I found myself brushing her hair aside and my fingertips resting on her lips.

Soft, warm, and completely defenseless.

The clear tactile sensation reached his cerebral cortex, and he felt numb as if he had been electrocuted, his reason momentarily confused.

He had accepted that life was dark, lonely, and meaningless, but he had also been warmed and illuminated by the sun.

She was his only desire to live.

He really wanted to kiss her.

Shi Sui heard a slight sound coming from the folding bed.

She didn't fall asleep; after all, someone who stays up all night doing practice problems can't possibly fall asleep before 1 a.m.

Feeling something being rubbed on her lips, her eyelashes fluttered slightly, and Shi Sui opened her eyes.

In the surrounding darkness, it suddenly caught the boy's gaze, deep yet bright, as if hiding something.

Why isn't he asleep?

Shi Sui was about to speak, and subconsciously her lips parted slightly, but she felt something pressing against her lips.

"You had some hair on your lips, I removed it for you." Xu Chaomu withdrew her hand, her fragile rationality almost snapping.

But his fingers unconsciously touched her teeth, catching the scent of her lips.

My heart is beating so fast.

"Oh, thank you." Shi Sui didn't notice anything amiss and looked at him, asking softly, "Xu Chaomu, you're not asleep? Is it because the folding bed is too hard?"

The folding bed was hard, but he could accept it. However, before Xu Chaomu could answer, she continued.

"I just went into the wrong ward and saw two people lying on the bed in the next ward."

"If we squeeze the hospital bed together, it seems like two people can sleep there."

"Do you want to come up and sleep with me?"

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The most deadly temptations are those that one is completely unaware of.