AWDC Chapter 79
by VolareChapter 79: The Protagonist is Dead
Lin Xi was completely stunned.
The people at the scene gasped.
Before they could react, something even more shocking happened –
Mu Chuang and Zhao Yuming stabbed each other simultaneously, and the swords struck their hearts, completely extinguishing their chance of survival.
Old Master Mu collapsed.
Lin Xi rushed over desperately. When he saw their condition clearly, he was speechless.
“Xi Xi,” Mu Chuang said with his last bit of consciousness, “Live well, wait for my reincarnation… I’ll protect you again.”
Lin Xi looked at him, his mind spinning, and his eyes involuntarily filled with tears. He wanted to call out to him, but then he heard Zhao Yuming say, “Little Yu, although I know you are no longer Little Yu, I still truly love you. If there is a next life, I will still come and find you. Live well, wait for me…”
Lin Xi turned to look at Zhao Yuming again. Whether in his past life or this one, this man had always treated him well. His guilt deepened; he felt unworthy of living, that living was a sin.
“I shouldn’t exist in this world,” he closed his eyes, and two lines of tears slid down his cheeks. “I am a jinx, I don’t deserve to live…”
After he said that, he did something that no one expected—
He, who was usually afraid of tickles and pain, smeared his neck on the sword inserted into Zhao Yuming’s chest.
Blood gushed out, and the scene fell into a deathly silence.
By the time everyone reacted, the three of them were unconscious.
“Ah—” Old Master Mu went crazy, and the world instantly darkened…
*
In the intensive care unit, Mu Chuang suddenly opened his eyes. The attending medical staff were so surprised that they couldn’t react for a long while.
“Hospital?” Mu Chuang asked, his mind blank for a second. Then, the previous memories flooded back…
Realizing his situation, his first thought was Lin Xi. Before the medical staff could exclaim, he flipped over and got up, pulled out his oxygen tube, and eagerly got off the bed.
His parents were guarding outside the ward, having lost weight in the past few days, their hearts clenched tight, and their eyes lacking light.
Suddenly, they saw Mu Chuang running out of the ward, looking full of energy.
“Son?” Mu Chuang’s parents were incredulous and didn’t react for a moment.
“Where’s my car?” Unexpectedly, Mu Chuang’s first words were about his car, not comforting his parents.
“It’s downstairs at the hospital. I had someone fix it.” Although overly surprised, Mu Chuang’s father still answered immediately, and then he saw his son dash past him like the wind, running “thump, thump, thump” downstairs.
When he got downstairs, Mu Chuang realized he didn’t have the keys and waited for his parents to catch up.
“What are you doing?” His father, panting, finally caught up with him. “Don’t you feel uncomfortable anywhere on your body?”
He was most worried about this, because Mu Chuang’s sudden exit from the intensive care unit was too unbelievable.
“I’m fine, give me the keys, I need to go home.” Mu Chuang replied, and as his father approached, he quickly snatched the car keys from him, then got into the car. “Do you want to come with me?”
He finally deigned to ask his parents.
“You just ran out like this, we haven’t talked to the doctors yet, how can we go back?” his father replied. “What are you rushing back for?”
He really didn’t understand Mu Chuang’s actions and feared that he was experiencing a final burst of energy. He was extremely nervous.
“I’m going to see Xi Xi, he must have come back to life too.” Mu Chuang left these words behind, ignoring his parents’ feelings, and without asking them to come along, he drove away.
His parents stood there, feeling that their son was out of his mind. How else would he say such things, knowing that Lin Xi had been dead for so many days, how could he possibly come back to life?
“Woo…” His mother couldn’t help but cry, her legs suddenly weak, nearly unable to stand.
Meanwhile, Mu Chuang quickly returned to the village.
He couldn’t wait to get out of the car and ran eagerly to the place where Lin Xi was buried. As he expected –
The originally raised small mound was gone; someone had filled the soil back in, and the ground was flat and smooth, not at all like there was someone underneath.
“Xi Xi!” He couldn’t contain his joy, turning and running towards Lin Xi’s house.
However, when he arrived, he found only Lin Haiqi there; Lin Xi was nowhere to be seen.
Mu Chuang’s heart clenched tight, fearing that his idea was wrong. “Uncle Lin, where’s Xi Xi?”
His voice trembled, waiting for Lin Haiqi’s answer like waiting for a decision between life and death.
“He left.” Lin Haiqi simply replied, then leaned against the eaves, smoking his pipe, unwilling to say another word to Mu Chuang.
Because he knew that his son’s suicide attempt was largely because of him. Although he was now alive, this matter remained a knot in his heart.
Therefore, his feelings for Mu Chuang were the same as Lin Xi’s—
The same hate, the same unwillingness to see him.
Mu Chuang asked a lot more, including asking where Lin Xi had gone and how his health was, but ultimately, he didn’t get another word from Lin Haiqi.
In the end, he had no choice but to leave tactfully and then drive after him.
He knew that Lin Xi’s departure would inevitably pass through the county’s only bus station, and waiting for the bus would take some time. If he could get there during that time, he would have hope of finding him. Otherwise, once he got on the bus, he wouldn’t know where his next stop would be.
Although he had his contact information, with Lin Xi’s hatred for him, he certainly wouldn’t pay him any attention.
He floored the car, driving like crazy towards the county’s bus station.
At this time, Lin Xi had fifteen minutes before his bus arrived and was sitting in the waiting room.
A familiar figure suddenly barged into the hall, startling him. He was originally planning to go to the bathroom again before checking in, but now he couldn’t wait and picked up his suitcase to leave.
“Xi Xi!” Mu Chuang saw him at a glance and, seeing him walk to the ticket gate, ran over like he was flying and pulled him back. “Xi Xi, don’t go.”
Undoubtedly, he knew that Lin Xi would no longer return to the old factory and was going somewhere else, to a place where he couldn’t find him.
The suitcase and the person were grabbed by Mu Chuang, and Lin Xi had to stop. He looked at the other’s anxious face and thought about how he had died in that world fighting with Zhao Yuming for him. His mood was complicated.