Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 312 - 308

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"Sir, do you need me to ask the young lady to come up?" Wan Song asked for instructions.

Zhou Zhenghui was brought back to his senses by his subordinate’s voice, and at this moment, he felt an intense heat throughout his body, with a particular unrest still burning within him, he responded in a hoarse, muffled laugh, "No need."

Wan Song detected the displeasure in his master’s tone and immediately stepped back a few paces, not daring to speak any further.

At the same time, he recalled the schoolgirl downstairs, who was, in the five years he had followed his master, the first woman he had seen come so close to him.

Although he did not know the exact situation in the room at the time, the faint sobs he had heard were enough for him to finally realize that his master was a normal man.

Don’t be fooled by his master’s strong work capability and his usually gentle demeanor towards others. That’s all just a facade.

In reality, if someone not deemed a friend or family member were to die in front of him, he could continue conversing and laughing without changing his expression.

A gentleman of authority with a gentle smile but an extremely cold heart inside.

Zhou Zhenghui watched as the young girl delighted in playing with the peach blossom petals in her hand below, gradually calming the unrest in his body.

Observing the girl laughing happily and sweetly with her companions, beneath his peach blossom eyes lurked even more hidden undercurrents. He gave the indifferent command, "Prepare the car."

"Yes, Sir." Hearing the tone of his master, Wan Song immediately sensed something was amiss and acted with prompt efficiency.

"Go to the entrance of First Middle School." The city government and the entrance of First Middle School were in opposite directions; it would take roughly fifteen or sixteen minutes to get there from here.

This implies that there were very few vehicles on the road at the moment.

However, for a young girl walking from the back hill to the school’s entrance, with companions frolicking in between, it would definitely take at least twenty minutes or more.

Wan Song’s estimated timing was not wrong. By the time he drove to the school entrance, he had waited nearly twenty minutes before he saw three or five young girls saying goodbye at the school gate.

"Sir, Miss Xie Jingzi has come out."

The man, who had been working in the car for nearly thirty minutes, only put away the report in his hands after hearing his subordinate’s report. Instead, he rolled down the car window, looking towards the schoolgirl saying goodbye to everyone; a light breeze lifted her hair to her shoulders, scattering it.

Xie Jingzi was unaware that someone had been tailing her in a car all the way, until she suddenly realized that there was an old peach tree in the alley behind her house, with pale white peach blossom petals blooming, lightly lifted by the wind, blurring her vision.

Since moving to the county town, her life had been entangled in trivial matters like studying well at school and taking care of her family after school. Now, finally taking a leisure moment amidst the busy, she discovered the beautiful spring scenery all along the path from her school to her home.

"So beautiful..." But she had changed.

Xie Jingzi let out a quiet sigh in her heart, looking at those pale and blush petals, a bitter sourness surged in her heart. The sense of loss and sadness made her eyes misty and red. She bit down hard on her pale, bloodless lips, refusing to let her tears come easily.

When Zhou Zhenghui saw her stop walking, he ordered the car to stop.

The girl, immersed in her inner turmoil, did not notice someone approaching her, someone who even obscured her figure behind the car so that she could no longer be seen from the outside.

Xie Jingzi raised her hand, attempting to rub away the moisture in her eyes, but someone unexpectedly grasped her wrist and pulled. Startled, she turned her head and met Zhou Zhenghui’s mesmerizing peach blossom eyes. He pulled her abruptly, and her body nimbly crashed into his solid embrace.

"You!" Xie Jingzi shrank back in fear, "Why, why are you here!"

Zhou Zhenghui gripped her slender wrist with one hand and forcefully propped up her chin with the other. The sorrowful tears in her eyes invaded his vision just like that.

"Why are you crying?" A deep and enchanting voice, lightly uttered from his thin lips.

Just before this, he had looked at her with a sweet and tempting smile.

"Let go of me! It’s none of your business, let go now!" Xie Jingzi angrily hit him with her schoolbag.

One hand was caught by him, and her chin was pinched; Xie Jingzi’s mind went blank: How, how could he be here?

Upon seeing his face, Xie Jingzi turned pale. She couldn’t help trembling, and the images in her mind became even clearer—she thought she could forget!

Zhou Zhenghui loosened the hand on her chin, took the hand she was using to hit him with the schoolbag, and held it tightly, immobilizing her and locking her in his embrace.

"You, you’re going too far!" Xie Jingzi felt panicked, struggling even harder. What, what does he want to do? Wasn’t hurting her once enough?

"Heh~ I’ve already done things that are far worse."

"You, you bastard, let me go! I’ve said it, I didn’t drug you, I’m a victim too! Wuu... get away from me, stop appearing in front of me!" Xie Jingzi, like an animal startled by Jingzhe, struggled fiercely, crying and shouting.

Tears flowed like they were free, falling the moment they were spoken, and in a short while, her fair little face was covered with tears. Her frantic struggling made her hair disheveled, like a small, enraged beast.

Upon seeing his master’s actions, Wan Song immediately got out of the car and stood at the entrance of the alley, perking up his ears, trying to listen carefully.

Unfortunately, beyond a few earlier phrases, the subsequent sounds seemed to be muffled, and he couldn’t hear clearly.

Zhou Zhenghui, seeing her so distressed, pressed the little woman hard into his chest, his chest silently absorbing all her crying and fussing, while gently caressing her back to comfort her: "I know, you didn’t drug me, I’m sorry."

Seeing her cry so earnestly, without any pretense, made him resonate more with her, causing his heart to beat slightly.

"It really wasn’t me who drugged you..." That the girl who bore a striking resemblance to Third Sister-in-law could do such a thing, Xie Jingzi would say it was agony.

But this mistake couldn’t be blamed on others, only on her own naivety, with no guard up, that she fell for the ruse.

Although the man before her was also a victim, he was at the same time, the man who hurt her! How, how could she possibly marry someone else after this?

"I know, I will take responsibility," Zhou Zhenghui suddenly said.

"Ah?" Xie Jingzi was stunned by his words, foolishly forgetting to struggle, standing still as she raised her head to look at him.

"I said, I will take responsibility."

Xie Jingzi heard clearly this time and, frightened, pushed him away with great force, shaking her head and yelling, "You, what kind of joke is this!"

Alas, it was a pity that, despite her considerable strength, she couldn’t budge the man at all; instead, she was pulled even more forcefully into his embrace.

"I never joke. I’m serious, I will take responsibility. Xie Jingzi, are you planning to marry someone else?"

Zhou Zhenghui, seeing that she was not only unmoved but also pushed him away with a look of surprise and repulsion, narrowed his peach blossom eyes coldly and counter-questioned her.

The softness in his heart just a moment ago, due to her vehement resistance and his own thoughts, surged with extreme displeasure.

"Let go of me, you’re insane, who asked you to take responsibility!" Xie Jingzi, seeing the seriousness on his face, could only feel that he might be sick, completely unmoved.

"I am indeed sick," Zhou Zhenghui nodded, using his arms to trap her shoulders, his hands locking behind her back, and then holding her head from both sides, nodding as he said so.

Due to the difference in their heights, Xie Jingzi was forced to tilt her face up to meet the handsome face looking down—