Chapter 34 Besieged

It takes more than three hours to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong, and Jiang Yunian feels that every minute and every second is unbearable.

The morning after getting the marriage certificate, he could clearly feel Lin Xian’s politeness and distance, so he deliberately reduced his presence and even asked Lin Xian to bring him food.

At this moment, he wished he could go back to her immediately, even if he didn’t have to do anything, just stay with her.

Jiang Yunian pulled out the documents from the file bag. In the yellowed ID photo, the young and immature Lin Xian came into view. He gently touched the little girl with his finger.

At this time, the sunset over the port city had just dyed the sky red, and Lin Xian was blocked by a group of young male students.

“Pretty girl, let’s play together.”

“My friend said he likes you very much, can you be his girlfriend?”

“Even if we don’t become girlfriends, we can still play together.”

Lin Xian clenched her palms, sweating slightly. She observed the surrounding environment silently.

It was all her fault for getting lost. She wanted to find a faster way back to the dormitory after dinner, but she took the wrong path and turned into this alley. There was no one around.

Three boys, tall and strong.

If he really was a student, he would probably give up when faced with difficulties. But if he was a young person in society, she didn’t know if she could get away with it.

Lin Xian felt her cell phone vibrate, but she had to stay highly focused to deal with the three people in front of her.

“Sorry, not available.”

She answered in the calmest tone possible, and then tried to turn and leave.

Unexpectedly, a boy came up and grabbed her hand, “Don’t be shy, you will get familiar with it after playing.”

Lin Xian hated physical contact with strangers, especially strangers of the opposite sex. She quickly pulled her hand back, kicked the man in desperation, and turned and ran away.

“Fuck! You have no shame. Boss, wait for me to catch her back.”

Lin Xian ran towards the setting sun. She vaguely remembered that this position should lead her back to school.

But her physical strength is limited after all, and the man soon caught up with her.

Her ponytail was grabbed, causing her to gasp in pain.

“Let go!” she shouted through gritted teeth.

The boy behind her not only didn’t let go, but also tucked her long hair in his palm, “Why are you running away? Being favored by Young Master Qin is such a rare opportunity, many people would beg for it.”

Lin Xian clenched her fists and was about to swing at the man when a deep, mature and steady voice sounded beside her.

“What are you doing?”

The boy suddenly let go of Lin Xian’s hand and said respectfully, “Doctor Ji, we are just playing around as friends.”

Lin Xian looked over and found that it was Ji Hanzhou, whom Jiang Yunian had brought her to meet. She quickly explained, “I don’t know him. He insisted on taking me away, saying he was taking me out to play.”

Ji Hanzhou is a celebrity in the school. Almost all students of the University of Hong Kong have heard of his name.

He pushed up his glasses, and the eyes behind the lenses scanned the boy’s face like a hawk, “So what’s her name?”

“Lisa or Lily?”

The boy answered with a guilty conscience. The sound of Ji Hanzhou’s dark brown leather shoes stepping on the ground was resounding, which brought invisible pressure to the boy.

“I just realized I recognized the wrong person. Let’s go first.”

Lin Xian’s palms were wet. Her palms tended to sweat when she was nervous. She was so afraid that Ji Hanzhou would not remember her that she couldn’t even speak clearly.

“Lin Xian, why are you here?”

“Professor Ji, do you still remember me? Thank you for helping me out just now.”

Ji Hanzhou shrugged, “It’s okay, I just happened to be going back to the dormitory, it just happened.”

The air fell into a silent awkwardness.

Lin Xian didn’t know how to start a conversation with Ji Hanzhou, but she also felt it would be impolite to just leave.

Ji Hanzhou seemed to have seen through her embarrassment and said casually, “Jiang Yunian and I have a research project. Are you interested in participating?”

Lin Xian pointed at herself and confirmed: “Me?” Ji Hanzhou recalled that Jiang Yunian asked him to help take care of Lin Xian. Isn’t recruiting her to participate in the project the best care?
“Well, HKU has many research groups and many students involved, but our project needs to be kept confidential, so it is not open to students.”

“No, thank you. I’ll be leaving now.”

Ji Hanzhou was a little stunned by Lin Xian’s refusal. Looking at her leaving back, Ji Hanzhou seemed to suddenly understand why Jiang Yunian cared so much about Lin Xian.

She is not as weak as she appears. Instead, she is cold in nature and even a little aloof.

Her skirt fluttered in the wind, the afterglow shone on her, her long hair was blown away by the wind, and she blended completely into the surrounding environment.

It’s poetic and picturesque, like the beauty who is returning to the painting.

But this beauty is not only beautiful in appearance, but also in bones. Maybe…

Ji Hanzhou pushed his glasses silently, turned around and left.

When Lin Xian found the message from Jiang Yunian, she had already returned to the dormitory.

School was about to start, and she felt she needed to familiarize herself with the environment.

After thinking it over, I replied: [What time will you be back? I’ll be staying in the dormitory tonight, I’ll come over when you arrive.]

She didn’t want to overstep the line. That was Jiang Yunian’s home and had nothing to do with her.

Having not received a reply from Jiang Yunian, Lin Xian sat by the bed for a while, a little dazed.

Before returning to the dormitory, she went to buy a few cheap clothes, because she had nothing to do in the afternoon and checked the price of the skirts at D’s house. She didn’t deserve to wear a skirt worth tens of thousands of yuan, so she wanted to wash the skirt and return it to its original owner.

After Lin Xian washed up and changed into pajamas, she glanced at the neatly made empty bed next door, thinking that the man would not come back to stay tonight.

Well, she has never been good at dealing with people, and she became friends with Jian Shiya only because she took the initiative.

As soon as I thought of Jian Shiya, the other party called me as if they had telepathy.

Lin Xian did not tell her friends about her fake marriage. She only said that the scholarship had been arranged and she could stay and continue her studies.

Jian Shiya was happy for her, “I knew our Xianbao was the best. Gold will shine sooner or later. I will work hard to earn a scholarship this year and come to Hong Kong City to play with you.”

“Well, Xiaoya, come on!”

Lin Xian also silently said to herself, “Come on!”

Her study life in a foreign country is about to begin, and the all-English teaching is also a test for her.

When she was adopted by the Chen family, the 14-year-old girl was stagnant in her primary school studies. Qiongying sent her to a famous junior high school and ordered her to get the first place in the entrance exam.

She was two years behind others, especially in English, which she had never been exposed to. It took her a lot of effort to catch up with the class progress at that time.

It was simply wishful thinking to want to get first place, but she refused to give up and persisted until the third year of junior high school, and won her first first place.

But Qiong Ying already disliked her, and even being ranked first couldn’t save her.

Lin Xian collected her thoughts and was chatting with Jian Shiya when her phone flashed twice. After she hung up, she realized that it was Jiang Yunian who called her.

She quickly called back.

“Are you there yet?”

“Lin Xian, where are you now? Ji Hanzhou said you were bullied, are you okay?”

Lin Xian was a little surprised. She didn’t expect that Ji Hanzhou would report such a small matter to Jiang Yunian.

“I’m in the dormitory. It’s okay. Professor Ji helped me drive them away.”

Jiang Yunian’s hair was messy. He couldn’t wait for the driver from home to pick him up, so he took a taxi at the airport and went straight to Lin Xian’s dormitory.

He had to make sure with his own eyes that she was okay.

Jiang Yunian took a deep breath and said, “Okay, then wait for me, I’ll be there soon.”

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[Note: The younger sister is not a bad person, she just has a preconceived prejudice. She will help Lin Xian later, and the person she has a crush on is Ji Hanzhou. ]

　
(End of this chapter)