Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Chapter 1030 1030: Concern behind the anger

"Stay still," Jin's gaze darkened at Alix who kept squirming in her seat from time to time as the doctor attended to her wounds.

"This is too much. Why are we here?" Alix sourly asked.

"Because somebody is injured."

"This is not defined as an injury."

"Then what is?"

She gave it a thought. "A violent car crash."

His face blackened like a burned pot.

The doctor said, "It's done. I have massaged a soothing balm so it will give relief. Other than that, there is nothing to worry about."

Alix sneered at him. "See?"

"But it could have been serious if any important vein or artery was pressed upon any harder. You would have fainted because of the improper blood supply."

Jin glared. "See?"

Nobody is on my side today, Alix muttered to herself.

When the doctor left, Alix rose to leave too. But Jin blocked her way with black clouds looming over his head.

"Is there going to be a storm?"

"It is sunny outside."

"The top of your head is not."

He gritted his teeth. "What else do you expect when you just…up and leave the show on the pretext of going to the washroom!"

She touched her chin. "Hmm, my mistake."

He was taken aback by her immediate acceptance.

"I should have thought of a more logical excuse to explain the time."

Alix turned to leave once again and Jin stepped in her way yet again. Her eyes narrowed this time dangerously.

"I am not liking this game."

"Who is playing a game here I wonder? And that too with their life!" Jin's black pupils widened with an imminent threat in them.

"What is wrong with you these days? First you didn't tell me anything about your plan, then you even asked Chyou to not spill anything and on top of that, the most important part, is that you decide to confront Kang Yuze all alone!"

"I know what I was doing."

"Really?" Fumes could be seen escaping the top of his head. "If you knew what you were doing, you probably wouldn't have had to kick him in self-defense, would you?"

She said nothing.

"You had almost violently crashed your head against the wall had I not arrived in time! So no, you didn't know what you were doing at all. You just jumped into the fire all by yourself!"

"It was my fight. Naturally, I had to resolve it on my own-"

Jin took a step forward, his shadow slowly consuming her.

"It wasn't only your fight. You involved me every step of the way whether it was using my check, my name or my office. We worked for your fashion show together and we planned to bring down Kang Yuze together too. You kept barging into my world every single time and now was the time you suddenly thought you wanted to become a lone wolf? What were you expecting from a psycho, obsessed man who had gone as far as to poison you to make you crazy? That he would shower flower petals on you?"

The more Jin spoke, the more his voice silently began to tremble. Only he knew how jarring those moments felt when he was madly searching for Alix. It felt like a knot had tightly curled in his stomach, leaving him no space to breathe. Worry about Alix's safety gnawed every fiber of his being.

When he saw Alix's head about to hit the wall, his heart had taken a harsh dive to the sinking depths of nausea. Even now, he shuddered to think what would have happened had he been late by a few seconds. It was only when she was safe in his embrace that his pounding heartbeats calmed down.

Alix pressed her lips but remained stubborn on her point. "I was fine-"

"No, you were not!" He exclaimed. "I give it to you that you are a smart woman. Cunning even. But there is a difference between playing mind games with your opponent and being physically stronger than them. I am sorry, can you remind me if you are actually trained in self-defense?"

"I kicked his balls."

"Only after he almost strangled you to death," he gnashed his jaw. "It was your instinct, not any damn training. At this point, I am just taking it as your lucky break."

Alix's patience was thinning.

"Why are you showing so much concern-"

"Because you are a woman and Kang Yuze is a man and I am all for women equality but if you have no clue on how to physically fight a man then yes, I will say run the hell away and keep playing your mind games! As for him going berserk? You should have left that to me. I wouldn't have let even his shadow touch you."

Alix wasn't liking this at all. Not Jin's anger but the concern behind his anger. She almost felt herself hyperventilating. She hated concern, whether it was Lin who showed it at one point in time or Jin at present. The feeling that somebody wanted her safe and was angry because she put herself in danger never boded so well with her.

On top of her own personality traits that refused anybody's worry, Jin's possible feelings towards her only made her more uncomfortable. But compared to before, her heart felt at more solace.

Kang Yuze's chapter was now closed and there was no need for her to work from Jin's office anymore or get anymore involved with him. This would make them naturally drift apart and any budding feelings taking root in his heart would also naturally dissipate with time.

She looked back into the depths of his black eyes that gleamed with a mix of anger, concern and some other feelings she didn't want to explicitly know about.

But for now, how am I supposed to escape this dragon breathing fire?

"Pastry auuuuunttt!!"

She almost stumbled back with Ailun's speedy figure grabbing her legs in an excited rush. His eyes shone with pure innocence.

Jin's eyes widened in surprise. "Ailun?"

"Pastry aunt! Uncle Jin!" He chirped.

Jin looked back and found a head peeking in at the entrance. His gaze darkened.

"What are you doing there, Zhou Ai?"