My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!
Chapter 168 Don’t Cry, Don’t Be Afraid

Chapter 168: Chapter 168 Don’t Cry, Don’t Be Afraid

At that time, Shen Liguang had just responded to a call when the alarm sounded again, and this time the call was urgent—the caller said a girl was hanging from the sixth floor.

The fire truck couldn’t go further and had to stop at the roadside.

Shen Liguang led his team towards the neighborhood, where a crowd of people were congregating around a building.

A police officer, sweating profusely, led the way and explained the situation.

"A middle-aged woman hanged a girl from the sixth floor, seemingly out of retaliation because the girl’s boyfriend is a firefighter. Apparently, the girl’s boyfriend failed to rescue someone during a rescue operation, and the woman had been looking for someone surnamed Shen..."

"By the way, is there anyone surnamed Shen among the firefighters who responded this time?"

"Yes."

"That’s great. Regardless of whether he’s the girl’s boyfriend or not, he can take his place for now so that the woman will open the door and we can rescue the person."

The crowd of onlookers all craned their necks to look up at the building and promptly made way when they saw the firefighters approaching.

Shen Liguang looked up, his heart skipped a beat at the sight of the girl hanging from the building, and he tried to calm himself down.

But the next second, he uncontrollably rushed into the building and went upstairs.

The woman had seen Shen Liguang in the hospital before and recognized him at a glance as the firefighter who had tried to rescue her daughter.

She was frantic, nearly collapsing as she questioned Shen Liguang angrily, "Why did you let go, that was a life! Why did you release your grip!?"

The door remained closed, with a small glass window that had been smashed, allowing one to look outside through it.

The other end of the hemp rope was fixed, about as thick as a finger, and the woman had been using scissors to fray the rope, to witness Fu Ying fall as he arrived.

"I didn’t let go, I wanted to save her too."

"No!" the woman denied in despair, shaking her head vigorously, her fingers entangled in her disheveled hair. "I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! She was fine the night before, she called me, she was fine, she said she was about to take her college entrance exams and would move to city Z for university so she could live with me, she always wanted to live with me, I’m useless..."

The woman suddenly broke down crying, "I’ve been a housewife for several years, and when I divorced her father, I didn’t even have a job, couldn’t support her, couldn’t keep her with me, I’m useless..."

The woman’s emotions gradually calmed down, clenching her hair and muttering to herself repeatedly.

Shen Liguang’s gaze was fixed on the part of the rope that was fraying, tightly stretched, ready to snap at any moment.

Shen Liguang gripped the doorknob tightly, his heart tight as well, "I came alone, open the door, if you want revenge take it on me, it was me who let go, it has nothing to do with her."

Hearing this, the woman looked up at Shen Liguang, her gaze vacant and devoid of any light, unnervingly calm.

She turned back to see the rope, noticing the frayed area beginning to tear under the girl’s weight, raised her hand to open the door, smiling coldly and eerily.

The door slammed loudly, and as Shen Liguang rushed to the edge of the roof, the rope suddenly snapped. Shen Liguang, quick as lightning, grabbed the rope, which slipped a bit through his hands before he steadied it.

Police and firefighters rushed up behind him, and the woman was restrained.

Someone shouted, "Quick, save her!"

Shen Liguang held onto the rope tightly, pulling it up bit by bit, each effort tugging at his heart.

The girl’s wrists were rubbed raw and bleeding, with blood trickling down.

Shen Liguang’s eyes reddened, looking at the girl, nearing a breakdown, his heart painfully throbbing, unusually agitated this time.

"Ying, Yingying, don’t struggle."

Fu Ying closed her eyes, tears rolling down her cheeks, her mouth sealed with tape, unable to speak to Shen Liguang.

Shen Liguang had no protective measures on him, half his body leaning out, veins bulging on his hands.

"I know you’re scared, brother is here, don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid."

Fu Ying realized he was trying to grab her hand, her eyes red as she constantly shook her head desperately.

Fu Ying’s hands were smeared with lubricant, and it was only then that Shen Liguang realized, his heart tightened, his fingers couldn’t muster any strength, and then he watched as his fingers slipped off.

"It’s okay." Behind him, Qian Zheng spoke urgently.

The girl suddenly fell downwards, the crowd below gasped in shock, Shen Liguang suddenly lunged out, embracing her in his arms, the rope wasn’t secured in time, three or four firefighters on the rooftop pulled, leaving the two hanging at the fifth floor.

Shen Liguang felt the girl in his arms shaking, constantly soothing her.

"Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, Yingying, brother is here, brother is here."

Wu Xiaowu on the fifth floor saw the person falling and immediately opened the window, pulling her in.

The onlookers below heaved a sigh of relief, the scene just now was too perilous, as if carrying them through a brush with death.

Fu Ying was still in shock, her body trembling, she clung to Shen Liguang, burying her face in his chest and quietly sobbing.

Shen Liguang took a deep breath, his heart aching intensely.

Two police officers approached: "We need the child to come with us for a statement."

"She is emotionally unstable now, it’s not suitable for her to go with you."

"We need to contact her parents."

"I am."

"What is your relationship to her?"

"Boyfriend."

The police officer paused, realizing late: "Boyfriend doesn’t count, we need to contact her parents."

Shen Liguang looked at the person in his arms, shrinking into him, shaking badly, asking Wu Xiaowu to fetch a cellphone from the car.

"Yingying, brother will have to leave soon, will you go with the police, okay?"

The girl didn’t speak, only held him tighter.

Shen Liguang took a deep breath, feeling suffocated.

"You also need to come with us, to understand the process of your rescue of the high school girl that day, and it seems, this child also can’t be separated from you."

Shen Liguang nodded.

Fu Mingchuan, after hearing the news at home, was scared pale and immediately rushed over.

In the police station, Fu Ying sat next to Shen Liguang with a pale face, her fingers tightly grasping Shen Liguang’s clothes, both her wrists abraded by the ropes, bleeding outward.

"At ten ten PM on September 21st, we received a distress call, saying a girl from Lide High School was attempting suicide by jumping off a building, we arrived at ten twenty-five, as soon as the girl saw us, she immediately jumped down, in a rush I grabbed her hand but she resisted the rescue fiercely."

"I feel guilty about her falling to her death, I also think I should have held onto her tightly, if she had even a slight will to live we could have saved her, but she was bent on dying."

Shen Liguang raised his eyes, his gaze slightly cold: "I think it’s crucial for you to understand the girl’s school life, the dormitory manager told me, the girl always had suicidal tendencies, and she was bullied, molested at school, these are the reasons she wanted to kill herself."

"Also." Shen Liguang looked down at the little girl next to him, glanced at her wrists, "I want to treat her wounds."

The police officer nodded: "Okay."