The Domineering Chief Dotes on His Wife

Chapter 191 Her past, Lu Jingshen's suspicion

The place where the banquet was held is a bit far from Huatian Xinyuan.

The two kept talking on the phone until Lin Jiaran's phone ran out of battery and turned off.

Lin Jiaran sat huddled by the window with her hands on her knees, opening the curtains to let in a faint ray of city light from outside.

In the quiet night, without bright lights, scenes that she had forgotten for a long time suddenly emerged in her mind.

At that time, she had just become a motherless child and went to boarding school when she started elementary school.

Her young mind suffered a severe blow. She became very quiet and introverted at school. She gradually stopped socializing and talking to people. As a result, she became an easy target for bullying and the subject of discussion in every grade at school. She had no friends and was often isolated.

The one she remembers most vividly was a power outage at night. She bumped into a classmate while walking and apologized in a friendly manner, but was still locked in the toilet by the classmate's senior sister for the whole night. She was only seven years old at that time. After that incident, she was afraid to go to that school. However, her biological father did not listen to her at all. He married a stepmother and thought she was unnecessary and insisted on sending her to that school.

At school, her things could be touched by anyone, but she couldn't. Other students could get good grades, but she couldn't. To this day, she still doesn't know what she did wrong that they would treat her like this.

At that time, she didn't even dare to speak loudly, let alone tell the teacher, otherwise she would be targeted even more severely. Most of the students in that school came from well-off families, so no one knew about her experience. Since then, she has suffered from intermittent phobia, and she experienced such lonely and helpless days for half a year.

At this time, someone opened the door of the room with a key.

As soon as the door opened, Lu Jingshen started calling for help, holding his cell phone and turning on the light to look for someone.

Because the power was out and the elevator couldn't be used, Lu Jingshen ran all the way up, breathing heavily.

"Ran Ran"

Lu Jingshen's shouting brought her back to her senses.

The light shone on the glass window of the balcony, revealing a figure. The figure looked extremely weak under the light, and the person raised his head with flickering eyes.

Lu Jingshen walked over, squatted down, hugged the person in his arms to protect him, and placed the phone aside with the screen facing down to take the photo.

"Ran Ran"

"I've been waiting for you for so long, why did you come just now..." The sudden memory made her feel scared and uneasy, and her voice choked with sobs.

His big hands rubbed the back of her head and kissed her forehead from time to time. He hoped to give her more sense of security.

"sorry!"

"Be good, don't be afraid..."

Seeing that she was crying even harder, the man, who had no idea how to deal with her, simply kissed her roughly, covering her crying mouth, until she stopped crying.

After venting his uneasy emotions, Lin Jiaran snuggled up to him, and Lu Jingshen hugged her from behind as they sat in front of the window.

"Why haven't you called yet?"

"It is estimated that electricity may not be available until tomorrow."

"Did you not pay the property management fee? Your efficiency is so poor!"

Mrs. Lu's attitude was obviously bad at this time, but some people did not feel annoyed at all. Instead, they felt happy deep in their hearts. Mrs. Lu began to take the initiative to find him when she needed him, which made him very happy.

"I'll call again."

When he picked up the phone, the lights went out, the screen was off, and Lu Jingshen's phone was turned off!

Lin Jiaran's originally calm mood started to get a little irritated again.

"Lu Jingshen, did you do this on purpose? You turned off your phone at this critical moment?"

"I really didn't mean to do that. I was in a hurry when I came up here and forgot to take my charging device." Lu Jingshen explained.

Lin Jiaran took the turned-off phone and turned it on again and again, but she really couldn't turn it on.

"We have spare candles at home. Just sit here and don't run around. I'll go get them."

"I don't want to be here alone!" Lin Jiaran objected loudly.

"Lu Jingshen, please don't leave me here alone. What if you leave and I'm dragged away by a ghost? Where will I go to cry?" Lin Jiaran rushed over with her hands in the dark, hugged Lu Jingshen's legs and said in a crying tone.

"I didn't go far. I'll get it in this room."

"Then I'm going too. People really have to have some bottom line. Lu Jingshen, don't take advantage of my weaknesses. If you treat me like this, I will really curse you." Fearing that she would be left alone here, Lin Jiaran said threateningly.

"I was afraid that you would bump into it if I wasn't paying attention." Lu Jingshen explained again.

"I won't die from a bump or a bump, but I will die if you leave me here alone in the dark. I beg you not to leave me here alone."

Lu Jingshen didn't say anything else. He picked up the person and groped in the dark to find a candle.

After finding a few candles, I lit them. Since there was no safe place to put the candles in the bedroom, I placed the lit candles on the marble table in the living room.

Lin Jiaran, on the other hand, wrapped herself in the quilt obediently, leaning quietly in Lu Jingshen's arms.

"What if I fell asleep and you took the opportunity to run away?"

"Go to sleep if you're tired. I won't leave."

Lu Jingshen lay down on the spacious sofa, covered her with a quilt, and adjusted his posture so that the person in his arms could lie better.

There was no time, and she didn't know how late it was. She was feeling sleepy, but she was still blinking as she looked at the candlelight. She couldn't fall asleep, and the faint light couldn't illuminate her flickering eyes clearly.

The person in his arms felt uneasy.

"Don't you want to sleep?"

Although there was candlelight, it was weak and not as bright as the lamp. It could not give her a sense of security at the moment and made it difficult for her to fall asleep peacefully. Once she closed her eyes, she felt that she was in the abyss of darkness all the time.

She had already gotten used to turning off the lights before going to bed, but the memories just now surfaced, making her lose the long-lost sense of security, and she couldn't help but recall the scenes she didn't want to remember.

In the brief dream, she appeared again...

Because of the school violence she had experienced, her fear of the dark had become an indelible psychological shadow for her. She needed light at night. Even when sleeping, as long as it was dark, she dared not stay alone for too long and would leave or turn on the light as quickly as possible.

There was a peaceful silence in the room, and he watched the steady breathing of both of them.

Gradually, a faint and tiny sound was heard; the person in his arms was sobbing quietly.

"Ranran, what's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable or were you hurt just now?" Lu Jingshen asked anxiously.

She had overcome the habit of turning off the lights when sleeping and was no longer afraid, but the deep-seated memories kept coming out and made her afraid again.

"It's still too dark, Lu Jingshen, I'm still a little scared, what should I do..." She said in a weak and aggrieved voice.

"The phone should ring soon, so hold on a little longer, okay?"

Lu Jingshen lit up all the unlit candles he had found to make the light brighter.

Deep in Lu Jingshen's heart, he was secretly wondering whether she had ever been hurt because of the darkness, which led to this situation.