Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Chapter 414 - 414 Dead.

Luo Lixi's face twisted as she felt the pain of her skin tearing apart and blood oozing out from her temple. She slowly raised her right hand and gently touched it. 'Ouch!'

Luo Lixi scolded herself for doing it. In the first place, she was suffering because of the drug and the fall just now had added salt to the injury. Endless suffering!

"Yichen… Just what… happened…?! Are you… fine?" Luo Lixi asked with a hoarse voice as she was worried that he might have been shot by a gun. 

"I'm fine, Miss. Also, don't move." Zhao Yichen whispered in concern as he remained motionless. 

Luo Lixi faced the ground as Zhao Yichen hugged her from behind, shielding her body from any possible danger. 

At that moment, she couldn't see anything but one thing Luo Lixi guessed with fear, 'Something terrible is going to happen…' And this very thought brought shivers down her spine.

Her heart was frightened a lot and it shook her violently. The familiar fear of when Luo Lixiang grabbed her hand abruptly and cut her wrist, throwing her off the bridge came back suddenly. 

Luo Lixi shook in fear as she clenched her eyes and then opened them. She even rubbed them hard but all she could see was endless darkness. 

On the ground, while inhaling the dust, Luo Lixi thought in dismay, 'Why is it happening again?! Did I have to stay in 24-hour observation to live?!'

Unfortunately, nobody was there to answer her. Luo Lixi thought about herself as well as Zhao Yichen. She was worried that she might have implicated him this time. 

…

"They have already fallen and are helpless. Should we go and kidnap her now?" One man, in a black getup, asked the person beside him. 

Currently, a group of men were hiding on the rooftop of a building. Many long-range rifles were pointed at Zhao Yichen and Luo Lixi, ready to shoot at any moment. 

Just an order from the old man and the two people would turn into corpses in a split second. Who would have thought, some people would be so daring to do such things in broad daylight?!

The old man, who was staring down on the two people with indifference as if they were ants, lifted his hand subconsciously to reply when…

Bang! 

A bullet came from the ground and pierced his shoulder. Hua Xiamin's face changed as he froze and glanced down. As it turned out, their whereabouts were discovered by Zhao Yichen the moment someone fired a bullet at the tire of the bike. 

It would have been a piece of cake for Zhao Yichen to handle the situation if there was only him but because of Luo Lixi, he couldn't act in haste. 

Bang! Bang! 

Zhao Yichen didn't wait and shot two more times. The shooters were forced to hide because of his swift shooting skills. But Hua Xiamin didn't hide as he successfully evaded the bullets without any fear. 

"Nasty brat… Kill him for me!" Hua Xiamin commanded with hostility as he glared at the man who was protecting Luo Lixi with his body. 

Hearing his abrupt order, the shooters hesitated. They glanced at each other and someone voiced out all of their concerns with a sentence, "But… he seems to be Elder Bin's grandson."

"Heh! Don't worry. No one will find a dead body buried in a mountain... SHOT RIGHT NOW!" Hua Xiamin muttered out coldly and his lips revealed a smirk as he turned his eyes away. 

The meek personality of when he acted as a butler of the Luo Mansion was no longer present in him. 

Yet… He was the one to command to kill yet he was reluctant to see the man's dying moment. 

Even though Hua Xiamin's shoulder was bleeding and made him experience the bone chewing pain for the second time in life, he was smiling without holding back. 

'Little boy, blame your fate for being the bodyguard of the Luo family! Blame your grandfather too!' Hua Xiamin thought as he closed his eyes. 

The shooters found confidence when Hua Xiamin told them. They nodded as they revealed themselves from behind several walls and focused on Zhao Yichen. 

As the man had worked in the army, Zhao Yichen's intuition was ringing alarms nonstop. He picked Luo Lixi from the ground and shouted, "Run! As far as you can, run! Don't look back!"

Despite being unable to see anything Luo Lixi was able to run when Zhao Yichen started to run because he had grabbed her hand tightly. But, there was no way to escape as they were in the middle of a road and their situation was the same as ants in a hot frying pan. 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three shooters fired bullets at the same time and no bullets missed the target. Right after, Zhao Yichen froze in his steps, unable to move an inch any longer. 

Luo Lixi widened her eyes in fear when she heard the ear-piercing loud noise of gunfire. In the next moment, she felt the hand holding her loosening bit by bit. 

Even though Luo Lixi couldn't see anything at that moment, she held the person who was falling down and shouted in a shaky voice as she embraced him with trembling hands, "Yichen! Say something, Yichen!"

But no voice answered her at that time. From the back of his head, blood was rushing out like a flood and the man's eyes were still staring ahead, full of concern for the lady in front of him even when he was on the verge of death. 

But there was no light in those black orbs anymore. Luo Lixi couldn't care much about the ache she was having in her body. Rather, two streams of water fell by her cheeks and she could no longer support the man's heavyweight. 

Both of them fell to the ground with a loud thud. Luo Lixi hurriedly collected herself despite getting new pains and put her hands on his face. With fear, she felt the outline of his face and put fingers in front of his nose as she stayed still. 

In the next minute, all her hopes shattered and Luo Lixi didn't care anymore as she burst into tears. She repeated again and again with madness in her eyes, "I am sorry! I am sorry! Yichen, you died for me. I am so sorry! Forgive me!..."

Looking at her crying face, the shooters felt sad. After all, men felt pity whenever they saw beauty in pain. They had the urge to go down and gave her some comfort. Hua Xiamin walked ahead beside the wall without any expression and looked down on the two figures, one crying, one motionless. 

"Let's go. Time to collect the lady." Hua Xiamin smirked as he turned around. 

While leaving, he tore open his black suit and dug into his flesh. Shivers ran down the shooters' spines when the man took out the bullet with his bare nails. 

'Oh my God! Is he a monster?! Didn't he feel the pain?!' It was the collective thoughts of the three shooters but they didn't know. Rather than pain, there was ecstasy on Hua Xiamin's face at that moment. 

… 

Luo Lixi was crying silently as she held Zhao Yichen's head tightly. Even though she knew death could come to her at any moment if she still stayed at that place, she didn't try to move. 

First, she was under the effects of the drugs and was momentarily blinded. Second, to her, it was useless even if she tried to escape. Where could she run to in this wide road with her enemies all around and her only support lying lifeless on the road?!

This was still difficult to process but having Zhao Yichen's lifeless body on her lap made it hard for her to move as thoughts rotated in her mind, 'He died for me… Because of me...If only… I didn't insist on returning in a hurry...I am sorry…' 

Luo Lixi kept apologizing inside her mind despite her being half-conscious of what was happening around her.

Luo Lixi stopped whimpering when many sounds of footsteps entered her ears. Boots made loud noises against the concrete ground and four men walked towards her. In a few seconds, they stopped right in front of her. 

Luo Lixi didn't want to face them, nor did she want them to see her vulnerable side. With the back of her hands, she wiped away her tears but her skin got stained with Zhao Yichen's fresh blood.

She wanted the time to stop or either vanish her into the thin air. She wanted to hide away from them and then ask Sheng Ruming to help her get justice for Zhao Yichen… only if she could. 

Hua Xiamin crouched down and stared at Luo Lixi. But to his surprise, she didn't even lift her eyes to see who was in front of her. He moved his hand and touched her hands which were grabbing Zhao Yichen's head.