Chapter 43: I Think It’s Faith

Ji Mingchen’s smile faded slightly as he spoke, a rare seriousness flashing in his eyes.

Back in the thirteen districts of Beizhou, she had lived such a hard and tiring life, yet she still lived with innocence and persistence, always sticking to what she believed was right, never giving up. Like the little grass growing in the cracks of the stone, she was tenacious, strong, with an unyielding vitality.

It was hard not to ask, why? Was it just for her so-called belief in standing on the side of justice?

Hearing this question suddenly, Wen Yao was stunned.

For so many years, what had she been living for…

The year the apocalypse came, she was only fifteen years old, still in high school. At first, she just wanted to find her lost family, to find her sister who had gotten separated from her during the escape. Later, she couldn’t find her sister, but she met Shen Yichuan by chance, and luckily escaped with him to a temporary base in a small town in Beizhou.

Later, she admired Shen Yichuan and wanted to get his approval, so she trained with him every day, growing step by step, until she became one of the best in the base training camp after passing numerous tests.

During those years, besides following Shen Yichuan, she gradually had other goals, that was to protect her teammates, to protect the thirteen districts of Beizhou…

“If I have to say, I think it’s faith.”

Ji Mingchen raised an eyebrow, as if finding the word strange: “Faith?”

Wen Yao nodded: “Yes, faith.”

Ji Mingchen smiled, leaning back into his original position: “Then what’s your faith? Shen Yichuan?”

“…”

Wen Yao suddenly grabbed his tie: “Can you stop looking down on people?”

Ji Mingchen was amused by her fierce and cute appearance. His breath was unsteady, like a dissolute demon, he laughed for a long time without letting up. Finally, he slowly took the girl’s hand away, straightened his tie and said: “Be good, don’t pull, you’ll pull all the buttons off again…”

“…” Pervert!

Wen Yao let go, mentioning Shen Yichuan, she looked downcast and silent for a few seconds, then honestly said: “Actually, it’s not wrong for you to think that way…”

“He saved me a few times at the beginning, I admired him a lot. Later, he and I were assigned to the same team, we spent so much time together, it’s normal for me to have feelings for him…”

Ji Mingchen was straightening his collar, when he heard this, his eyes paused slightly, and the corners of his lips involuntarily drooped.

But Wen Yao didn’t notice, as if lost in memories, her eyes became a little wistful: “For a while, I did take him as my role model and faith. I wanted to stand beside him, I wanted him to see me, pay attention to me, and even hoped he could like me.”

Ji Mingchen straightened his wrinkled clothes, he didn’t know what mood he was in, but he looked at the sky and sighed: “What a pity, he not only didn’t like you, he even left you to die on the snowfield, tsk, so tragic…”

Wen Yao: “…Are you gloating?”

She didn’t know why, but whenever he mentioned Shen Yichuan, he would be sarcastic. He was like this before.

But before, she could use a knife to cut him to vent her anger, but now she couldn’t…

Her fists were clenched, but she was helpless. Wen Yao simply turned around, but before she could get up, a hand suddenly reached out from behind, wrapping around her waist and pulling her back.

The next moment, her back hit the man’s chest. Not only was her waist confined, but her hands were also pressed down by the man’s other hand.

Faced with this incredibly ambiguous posture, Wen Yao frowned, she endured and endured, finally she couldn’t bear it anymore: “Ji Mingchen!”

Ji Mingchen: “Don’t call, I’m…”

“…”

Wen Yao then said: “Don’t think that just because you’re in a position of power now, I won’t bully you.”

Her voice was originally sweet and soft, and with her efforts to suppress her anger, it didn’t have any deterrent effect at all, instead it sounded more like she was scolding him.

Ji Mingchen then leaned from behind to the girl’s reddened earlobe, and whispered softly: “Really? Then I’m looking forward to it…”

“I wonder how my little partner wants to bully me? Want to bully me…where?”

The man’s magnetic, low and slightly soft voice sounded in her ear, his voice deliberately raised, his thin lips parted slightly, his breath brushed against her neck, warm, moist, itchy, making her skin crawl while instinctively making her tremble.

Wen Yao took a deep breath, pushed his hand away, and stood up from the lounge chair: “Don’t go too far!”

Ji Mingchen was pushed by her and let go, his whole body leaned back lazily on the lounge chair, and put his fingers on his brilliant red thin lips, his sexy and beautiful Adam’s apple moved up and down.

She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but his voice as he spoke with a smile even had a slight gasp, gentle and seductive, extremely tempting: “It’s you who wants to bully me, not me who wants to bully you, how come it’s me who’s going too far? Hmm?”

“…” This man was simply unbearable!

Wen Yao’s fair face was already flushed with a light blush. She wanted to say something to refute his distortion of the truth, but she was afraid he would say something even more obscene and outrageous. She had no choice but to turn her head and leave.

Ji Mingchen lay on the chair, watching the white-skirted girl leave, her skirt fluttering. He put his fingers on his chin and laughed until his shoulders trembled. Finally, he looked away and looked up at the sky.

Night had fallen by now, the afterglow of the sunset was only a faint red, and in the deep blue sky, the stars were scattered. If this wasn’t the apocalypse, if you ignored the devastation on the ground, the scenery was vast, unique, and beautifully intoxicating.

Ji Mingchen’s eyes were wistful, when he saw the white dove flapping its wings flying by, he leisurely raised his hand and hooked his finger.

The dove, as if tempted by the man with a gorgeous face, actually obediently landed on his jade-white, slender index finger, and even tilted its little head and cooed twice.

Ji Mingchen retracted his hand, stroking the dove’s feathers as he said to it: “Shen Yichuan is a fool, right?”

White dove: “Coo coo.”

Ji Mingchen heard the two cooing sounds, the hand that was stroking the feathers suddenly closed, becoming a gesture of pinching the dove’s neck, his beautiful peach blossom eyes, dotted with stars, narrowed slightly, his breath was still extremely soft: “I’m asking you.”

The white dove trembled all over, its feathers almost exploded: “Coo!”

Ji Mingchen was finally satisfied and smiled with bent eyebrows: “Good.”

When he let go, the dove, as if frightened, quickly flapped its wings and flew away, completely different from its leisurely and carefree arrival. This time, it was in a panic and almost bumped into the glass building not far away.

This beautiful man was not a gorgeous rose, but a poisonous poppy!

Not only did the white dove fly away in fright, but Wen Yao, who had returned to the corridor of the ancient castle, was also a little flustered. Not only was her face flushed, her hands and feet were hot, even her heartbeat became chaotic…

All she could think about was the feeling of the man gently wrapping her from behind, the faint scent of roses filling her nostrils, and his clear and magnetic voice in her ears, every breath he took was filled with endless temptation…

The man was like a lazy cat when he was relaxing. When he hugged her just now, he didn’t really use any force at all, it wasn’t a forceful confinement, but she couldn’t help but pause for a few seconds before she realized she had to push him away.

How could this be…