Chapter 113: Replenishing Nutrition for Mr. Ji

"Brother... is he... is he still watching us?"

Liu Xiaoxiao hid behind Ji Linmo, her head bowed in terror, not daring to meet the gaze of the young man standing a short distance away.

—Five hours ago, it had been the most desperate moment of her life.

Back then, she had been tied to a tree by a group of people who had doused her in gasoline, threatening to burn her alive. Ji Linmo, the only kind soul who had been willing to help her, was lying unconscious.

Just as Liu Xiaoxiao despaired, certain that she was about to be set aflame and burned to death, something strange happened. The very people who intended to kill her suddenly burst into flames one after another!

Amidst the burning and the screaming, she saw a young man in a crisp white shirt standing nearby, looking at her with an inscrutable smile.

"Ms. Liu, I was sent by Mr. Ji to rescue you."

The youth walked toward her unhurriedly, stopped at a distance that was neither too close nor too far, and opened his palm.

—Two small purple tomatoes lay silently in his broad hand.

"Madam, I have two tomatoes here. One can save you, while the other is poisonous and will kill you instantly. Which one do you choose?"

In the darkness, the youth’s expression was spectral; his smiling face was illuminated by the flickering firelight, casting him in shifting patterns of shadow and light. An eerie, chilling sensation washed over Liu Xiaoxiao.

Seeing the fire creeping toward her, she panicked, scanning the youth with growing fear. It was so strange—didn't he say he was here to save her? Why didn't he just untie her? Why was he staring at her like this?

But instinct told her that she absolutely must not anger him or lash out. Tentatively, she asked, "Do I... do I have to choose? Can I pick the one that works?"

This question seemed to amuse the youth, and he couldn't help but laugh aloud.

"Ms. Liu, you are truly interesting. How about this? As long as you answer one question for me, I will give you the right tomato. How does that sound?"

With that, a strange smile tugged at the corner of his lips as he looked down at her abdomen. His sharp gaze seemed to pierce through her body, as if he could see exactly what lay inside.

"Ms. Liu, you aren't actually pregnant, are you?"

"Why lie to us and say that you are?"

The fire crackled in the distance, its tongues of flame threatening to consume her at any moment. Despite her fear, a look of confusion crossed Liu Xiaoxiao’s face as she looked at Qin Feng with a strange expression.

"I'm not pregnant... why do you think I'm not? I’m definitely pregnant!"

"Oh? You’re so certain?"

The smile on the youth's face deepened, and his eyes grew darker.

But in the next second, one sentence from the woman made his eyes widen.

"Because I kissed Lin Bufei! My sister said that if you kiss a man, you get pregnant!"

Liu Xiaoxiao’s tone was absolute, her conviction so unshakable it sounded like an immutable truth of the world. "You! You're just a child, you don't understand these things, so I won't hold it against you! Just wait until I give birth to the baby and show you, then you'll see!"

"So... can you save me first?"

This time, the youth could not hold back his laughter. He scrutinized her closely, then smilingly shoved one of the tomatoes into her mouth.

"My apologies, Ms. Liu. I misunderstood you. You don't seem to possess the intellect required to deceive us~"

Liu Xiaoxiao was even more bewildered. She swallowed the tomato and watched as he untied her ropes. Such a bizarre person... No, she had to wake her sister up. She couldn't make sense of a person like this.

Liu Xiaoxiao followed him silently as he took the second purple tomato and shoved it into Ji Linmo’s mouth. This action made her gasp in horror, and she grabbed his hand in a panic.

"That one is poisonous... are you trying to kill him? Didn't you say you knew each other?"

The youth merely raised an eyebrow at her and smiled.

"I was teasing you. Actually, both of them are poisonous..."

Liu Xiaoxiao’s eyes widened, staring at Qin Feng in disbelief.

"Or rather, you were already poisoned; I'm just making the toxin act a little faster..."

Having said that, he pinched Ji Linmo’s chin and gently shoved the purple tomato into the man’s mouth. The unconscious man was, naturally, unable to swallow. Besides, a tomato was not something one could gulp down in one go.

"Hmm, our Mr. Ji is sound asleep. It looks like he needs my help~"

The youth’s voice sounded exceptionally pleasant. He used two fingers to press the tomato against the man’s tongue, crushing it slowly. The small purple tomato was pulverized in an instant, its juices spilling out.

"Ugh..."

The man bound to the chair instinctively furrowed his brows, trying to recoil from the foreign object invading his mouth. But this only made the youth press his fingers deeper, stirring them inside the man’s mouth with dissatisfaction.

"Ugh... stop..."

As the man struggled slightly, his breathing grew ragged, and the crushed tomato was mixed more thoroughly. Under the youth’s rough ministrations, the juice-filled tomato was ultimately forced down the man’s throat.

"Good. Mr. Ji needs to replenish his nutrients every now and then~"

The youth pulled a tissue from his pocket, wiped his hands, and smiled with a look of complete satisfaction.

Liu Xiaoxiao stood to the side, stunned into silence. She felt that there was something deeply wrong with his actions, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. When he had fed her the tomato earlier, he hadn't done it like that. Was it because Ji Linmo was unconscious that he resorted to such strange,