Chapter 93
Gu Jingchen stared at Bo Zhijin, who buried his head deeper in front of him, his silver-white pupils filled with confusion.
What happened to this boy?
He had only come into contact with Luoluo, a mermaid omega, and was a little confused about the current situation.
“Hey! What happened to you?”
Gu Jingchen reached out and pulled up Bo Zhijin, who had been squatting on the ground, and controlled his glands to release soothing gardenia pheromones into the air.
Bo Zhijin’s mood stabilized under the comfort of the man’s fragrant gardenia pheromones.
The corners of his eyes were wet and red, and he spoke to the man in a weak tone: “I… my grades are not good. My brain is not good either, so I can’t help you. I am a useless person!”
The young man lowered his head, looking particularly fragile.
When Gu Jingchen heard the young man’s words, his thin lips couldn’t help but curve into a smile.
He reached out and touched the young man’s soft and delicate hair and said to him with a chuckle: “It doesn’t matter even if you can’t help. You just need to follow me; I won’t put you in any danger.”
“Wha, what?”
Bo Zhijin raised his head and looked at the warm smile on the white jade face of the man in front of him. His heart stopped, as if he had missed an important beat.
The feeling this man gave him at that moment made him feel strange, but for some reason, he didn’t feel any disgust at this feeling. Instead, he felt a trace of curiosity.
Although Bo Zhijin was happy that the man wouldn’t abandon him, he felt that it wasn’t good for him to drag others down like this, so he couldn’t help asking the man weakly: “You… you really don’t mind if I drag you down? In fact, we have nothing to do with each other. You don’t need to bring me, the person who is holding you back, and you can probably leave here by yourself faster.”
Seeing the young man’s cautious look, Gu Jingchen replied to him without any hesitation.
“Don’t worry. You have never been a burden. I will send you safely to the ship and watch you go home.”
Feeling the firmness in the man’s tone, Bo Zhijin’s face immediately showed a happy smile, and his tone of voice became much cheerier when he spoke.
“Handsome guy, you are so kind to me. It’s been so long, and I still didn’t know your name. My name is Bo Zhijin. What about you?”
“Bo Zhijin, what a good name. My name is Gu Jingchen.”
After the two introduced themselves under the setting sun, their eyes unconsciously locked onto each other’s. The atmosphere around them became warmer without either of them noticing.
After time seemed to stand still for a moment, the sound of a cruise ship’s horn interrupted their gaze.
“This… this sound is the sound of a cruise ship!”
A glimmer of light flashed in Bo Zhijin’s pupils, and he turned his head excitedly to look at the endless sea in front of him. Sure enough, he saw a moving cruise ship on the sea far from the shore.
“Jingchen, look, look, there’s a cruise ship there. We’re saved, we can go out!”
He reached out and took the man’s arm, shaking it excitedly, completely unaware of the lack of concentration in the silver-white pupils of the man next to him because of his behaviour.
“Hey, we are here.”
Bo Zhijin let go of the man’s arm, ran toward the coast, stretched out his hand, and waved violently in the direction of the cruise ship.
However, the cruise ship was too far away from them and didn’t notice their presence. It actually continued to move further away.
“Ah, what should we do? Didn’t the people on the cruise ship notice us? If we miss this cruise, how long will it take for the next one to show up?”
Bo Zhijin looked at the cruise ship gradually disappearing before his eyes, lowering his hands feebly with a deep sense of loss on his face.
The man beside him looked at the young man’s extremely disappointed expression, stretched out his big palm, and pulled the young man’s slender wrist, a firm look replacing his usual gentleness.
“Ah Jin, don’t worry. You’ll be able to go home soon. I’ll send you there right now.”
As soon as the man finished speaking, he pulled Bo Zhijin beside him toward the sea.
When Bo Zhijin was led into the deep sea by the man, and the salty water gradually covered his neck, a look of fear appeared on his delicate face.
“Jingchen, the water here is so deep, and there are many sharks and venomous snakes in the sea. You don’t want to take me to the cruise ship by swimming, do you?”
“Yes.”
The man held his hand and nodded. There was no joking look in his silver snake-like eyes, but Bo Zhijin was shocked.
After all, the distance between them and the cruise ship at that time was several kilometres, and the speed of the ship was much faster than their swimming speed. How could they possibly catch up with it?
“Jingchen…”
What was Bo Zhijin trying to say?
The man holding his hand turned his head to look at him first, with a happy and confident smile on his face, and asked him, “Ah Jin, do you believe me?”
Seeing the determined expression in the man’s silver-white pupils, Bo Zhijin’s heart, which had originally been full of fear and doubt, unconsciously calmed down.
He nodded to the man, with a firm look on his face, and said in a sonorous tone, “I believe you.”
“I won’t let you down.”
Gu Jingchen received a positive answer from the young man. His face was full of confidence, and his thin, beautiful lips raised into a slight smile.
The next moment, the legs of the man’s lower body transformed into a silver-white fish tail nearly two meters long.
He stretched out his hand to hook the waist of the young man beside him. He looked like a gentleman and showed no trace of gangster behaviour. He said with a slight apology in his tone, “I’m sorry. This can reduce the impact of our parade in the water and help us get to the ship faster.”
“No, it’s okay.”
Bo Zhijin felt as if he were nestling in the man’s arms at that moment. The distance between the two of them was very close. When he saw him, it seemed like he could smell the sweet and rich fragrance of gardenia on the man’s body.
This overly intimate move couldn’t help but make the young man’s cheeks blush slightly.
Under the beautiful sunset, the man held him and wandered in the sea for a long, long time.
At that moment, Bo Zhijin couldn’t help but recall the story his father had told him about his encounter with his mother during his childhood.
At that time, he had felt in his heart that his father was lying, thinking that it was impossible for a person to swim 1 kilometre in the sea with another person in his arms. But now, he had actually met such a person.
‘Dad, this time, I really believed you!’