"Ning Beichen, I shouldn't have treated you like that before. I know you risked your life to save me. Those people who kidnapped me had guns. I saw them, they had many guns," Liu Yixin said to Ning Beichen, tears streaming down her face.
"You must have come here disregarding your own life. I even bit you and blamed you just now."
"Stop, don't be touched, Second Miss. I'm just a bodyguard. This is my duty. You don't need to thank me or be touched," Ning Beichen didn't believe her sudden change of heart, as if she had instantly grown up and become a sensible, well-behaved girl. He would rather she continued with her usual spoiled and willful young lady persona, as that would at least make him feel a little more at ease.
"No, Ning Beichen, I know you're a good person, you can't fool me. I've never seen a bodyguard as brave as you," Liu Yixin said, hugging Ning Beichen's neck.
"Second Miss, you truly have a discerning eye. I didn't expect my noble character, so well hidden, to be discovered by you. Alright, I admit it. I am the embodiment of justice, a fusion of handsomeness and beauty. But please, don't fall in love with me or like me, because my heart already belongs to another." Ning Beichen went along with her words, talking nonsense and making Liu Yixin giggle uncontrollably behind him.
"You're really full of yourself. I only praised you a couple of times, and you're already getting conceited," Liu Yixin rolled her eyes at him and said grumpily, erasing the slight bit of感动 she had just gathered. This guy couldn't be praised.
"I admitted it, and you still don't believe me? Then why bring up my sad past?" Ning Beichen pretended to have a troubled look on his face, feeling the pressure on his back as he carried her. He didn't experience any of the fanciful thoughts that novels and TV shows talked about when carrying a woman. Ning Beichen wasn't someone who hadn't seen women before. Forget carrying, what difficult poses hadn't he tried? Carrying a woman was nothing.
But just as Ning Beichen was carrying Liu Yixin to the car, he suddenly sensed a chilling sense of crisis. Without hesitation, he grabbed Liu Yixin and rolled directly into the fish pond. Immediately after, he saw the van Ning Beichen had driven explode with a bang, turning into a fireball. Countless fragments flew past Ning Beichen. Since he had to protect Liu Yixin, he couldn't dodge and left the danger to her. He felt the flaming metal shards and glass fragments cut his skin. A searing piece of metal also grazed Ning Beichen's scalp, and a large amount of blood gushed from his forehead, dripping onto Liu Yixin's face, scaring her into a stupor.
But Ning Beichen didn't care about the wounds. He sensed that the crisis was not over. He must have overlooked a master, an absolute master assassin. The fact that this assassin had held back until now showed that he was a truly calm killer, not some incompetent fluke.
Ning Beichen held Liu Yixin and sank into the fish pond. However, Liu Yixin couldn't swim and couldn't hold her breath. Just as she was about to open her mouth, Ning Beichen quickly used his mouth to seal hers and give her air. However, the water in the fish pond was very murky, so Ning Beichen couldn't give her any further instructions. He also had to deal with the assassin outside, so he could only rely on Liu Yixin to understand.
Fortunately, Liu Yixin wasn't stupid and quickly grasped Ning Beichen's intention. But being mouth-to-mouth with a man made her resist at first. Later, she gradually found that she didn't dislike it and was even enjoying it. However, Ning Beichen had no such thoughts. His mind was focused on the outside, trying to deduce the assassin's location.
Just then, a bullet pierced the surface of the water and struck Ning Beichen's shoulder, splashing a bloom of blood. Fortunately, Ning Beichen had sensed the danger in advance and turned his head aside. Otherwise, it would not have been his shoulder but his head that was hit. In fact, if Ning Beichen hadn't been protecting Liu Yixin, he would have had many ways to dodge the bullet. But if he dodged, Liu Yixin would have lost her life, so he had to use himself as a shield.
However, this was not a sustainable plan. Staying in the fish pond would only lead to death. Moreover, Liu Yixin didn't have his ability to hold her breath. Even with him giving her air, it wouldn't last long. If they didn't get out, both of them would drown in the fish pond. Therefore, Ning Beichen needed to find a way to get himself and Liu Yixin out of danger so that he would have a chance to fight back instead of passively waiting to die.
But before Ning Beichen could act, with a splash, Ning Beichen was shot again. This time, it pierced his calf. Ning Beichen had no time to think further. He endured the pain and, holding Liu Yixin, swam towards the water grass in the fish pond, using it to obscure the assassin's view. As expected, when they hid in the water grass, the assassin stopped firing. But Ning Beichen knew that the assassin must be waiting outside for them to surface, as no one could hold their breath underwater for so long.
If he were alone, Ning Beichen would have had plenty of ways to deal with him. But now, with Liu Yixin, he needed to protect her from harm. Ning Beichen rummaged under the fish pond with his hands and found a few stones. Then he released Liu Yixin's mouth, pushed her forcefully into the water grass, and threw the stones in his hand towards the surface of the fish pond. With a splash, the stones broke through the water's surface.
With a bang! A bullet struck the stones. At this moment, Ning Beichen took the opportunity to surface from the fish pond and pinpointed the assassin's location, less than a hundred meters from the fish pond. But Ning Beichen didn't have time to deal with his bow and arrow. He grabbed a handful of pebbles from the bottom of the fish pond and sprinted towards the assassin's location. The assassin reacted quickly and immediately fired a shot at Ning Beichen. But as soon as the gunshot sounded, the pebbles in Ning Beichen's hand had already flown forward.
If there had been a slow-motion camera at this moment, it would have been seen that as the bullet flew towards Ning Beichen, a pebble flew directly towards the bullet. With a snap. The pebble and the bullet fell to the ground simultaneously, while Ning Beichen had already sprinted more than ten meters forward. The assassin looked incredulous and fired a second shot at Ning Beichen. Still with a snap. The bullet was knocked away by a pebble, and at this moment, Ning Beichen was almost upon him, less than ten meters away. The assassin immediately dropped his sniper rifle, pulled out a handgun, and furiously pulled the trigger at Ning Beichen. At such close range, he didn't need to aim.