Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 348: Three hundred and forty-eight Cold Night Mine_1

Chapter 348: Three hundred and forty-eight Cold Night Mine_1

However, it was clear that Gu Chen was not keen on divulging too much information about the Spirit Spring Water.

He brushed it off with a vague laugh and promptly changed the subject.

Dong Yuwei was evidently a bright woman in this regard, aware that Gu Chen might not want to discuss it.

So she didn’t persist with the question.

"I think we should find a way out of here first, the day has already grown late.

If we delay any further, I’m afraid we’ll run into more trouble, which won’t be good."

Gu Chen looked up at the sky and realized that after all the commotion,

the sun had already begun to set, and he had no interest in camping out in the wild.

And in a primitive forest like this,

who knew if they would encounter something out hunting for food at night, like a bear or a tiger.

Dong Yuwei naturally didn’t have any objections; the two took a short rest right where they were.

Then they chose a direction and set off together.

As they made their way through the woods,

Dong Yuwei stayed hidden behind Gu Chen, cautiously observing their surroundings.

She had always been well-behaved and was the beloved daughter of her family.

She had never experienced anything as thrilling as what had happened today, not only knocking those bad guys aside,

but also surviving a great misfortune with Gu Chen and ending up stranded here together.

This made her feel both nervous and inexplicably flustered and excited at this moment.

All the unconventional things in her life so far

had nearly all happened when she was with Gu Chen, which made Dong Yuwei’s gaze

unintentionally rest on Gu Chen’s face, which was both sunny and quite handsome.

Even though they were in this uninhabited dense forest, as long as Gu Chen was by her side,

Dong Yuwei felt an inexplicable sense of security and even subconsciously wanted to rely on him.

Her heartbeat sped up slightly, and she unconsciously drew closer to him.

She inhaled the pleasant scent coming from Gu Chen.

Her head lowered, the temperature on her cheeks growing warmer.

"Yu Wei, are you scared?"

Gu Chen’s voice suddenly sounded in her ear.

Dong Yuwei’s body jolted, and she quickly shook her head.

At this moment, she felt like a little thief afraid of having her feelings exposed.

She explained somewhat incoherently,

"No, I’m not scared, just... I’m just a bit worried."

Gu Chen did not look back but kept his gaze fixed ahead.

He could feel the girl’s momentary tension behind him, but he just assumed she was very afraid of the forest.

So he couldn’t help but speak words of comfort,

"Stay close to me. No matter what happens later, I will definitely do my best to protect you."

Gu Chen felt that, after all, she was his lifesaver

and she had a sense of honor. Despite being the daughter of a scholarly family, she had not complained, even though she had been dragged into this by him,

nor had she uttered a word of grievance against him so far.

In short, he felt it was his duty to help her out of this forest.

However, quite clearly, these words came as a shock to Dong Yuwei,

causing her cheeks to turn red all the way to the tips of her ears.

After all, this was the first time a man had ever said such words to her,

and being just the two of them, her heart was instantly filled with sweetness.

But she didn’t have the courage to respond to Gu Chen.

She simply lowered her head, pressing her little head tightly against his broad and warm back.

A sense of inexplicable reassurance began to rise in her heart.

Walking ahead, Gu Chen was immediately bewildered and stopped in his tracks.

How did she lean against him while they were walking?

Could it be that she was tired?

But they hadn’t walked far, had they?

Gu Chen felt puzzled, but then he thought that the girl behind him was the daughter of an internationally renowned professor of medicine.

She probably had been pampered since childhood and wasn’t used to the manual labor he’d done before.

What he wanted now was to get out of the forest as soon as possible.

He didn’t have the spare capacity to wonder what the girl behind him was thinking.

But he also didn’t want her to slow him down, so after thinking for a bit, he stopped and said,

"If you’re feeling tired, I can carry you for a while, but let’s get one thing straight, I’m not trying to take advantage of you."

"The main issue is that the sun is about to set, and once it really gets dark, it will be difficult to find our way."

Gu Chen was truly in a hurry, after all, nobody wanted to grapple with tigers in the primeval forest, and he certainly wasn’t Wu Song.

Clearly, the girl behind him misunderstood his intention.

Hearing him say that, she couldn’t help but utter a shy "mhm" in a low voice.

Then she added with some concern,

"Big Brother Gu, you better not, I feel like I’m too heavy..."

However, before she could finish, Gu Chen had already hoisted her onto his back and continued striding forward.

"Don’t worry, your weight is nothing to me, to use a phrase from TV dramas, it is as light as a feather," said Gu Chen playfully, trying to divert her attention.

However, despite his best efforts to rush, Gu Chen still failed to get out of the forest before sunset.

As it grew darker, Gu Chen was extremely anxious, but he couldn’t show it.

After all, if he, a grown man, panicked, then the girl behind him would probably be even more frightened.

Even though he had mentally cursed Xu Qingmu and his ancestors a hundred times for sending people after him,

he was clear that he had to hold the fort at this moment.

He then stopped fixating on getting out of the forest as quickly as possible,

and started looking for a place where the two of them could shelter for the night.

Fortunately, upon passing a hollow in the mountain, he stumbled upon an abandoned air-raid shelter long out of use.

This discovery gave him a jolt of hope, knowing that the main road couldn’t be far from him.

But by that time, it was completely dark, with nothing but pitch-black all around them.

The mountain wind kept blowing past their ears, and Dong Yuwei shivered slightly, involuntarily holding Gu Chen’s neck even tighter.

"Are you feeling cold?" Gu Chen asked.

The average temperature in Chuan City was quite high, but the high humidity in the air and their constant wandering in the forest made it unbearable.

Even Gu Chen was feeling the chill of the night, not to mention Dong Yuwei, the slender girl at his side.

"Let’s stay here tonight and continue on our way when it gets light tomorrow,"

Gu Chen said as he set her down on a relatively clean stone and gently urged her.

Then he stacked some stones to block the entrance to the shelter, which still couldn’t keep out the cold wind,

but at least they could protect themselves at night.

As darkness deepened, by the time Gu Chen had done all this, he felt almost completely drained.

Then he leaned against a rock wall, chatting with Dong Yuwei by his side, trying to help her dispel the panic in her heart.

But as time passed, he began to feel his eyelids growing heavier and the sleepiness more intense.

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