Yun Qiqi’s state was still off. Sometimes she would zone out, sometimes she would stare at Yan Yan with that wary yet calm gaze.

The next morning, when they were about to set off for the neighboring city, in the underground garage, Yan Yan was already in the car, but She was still standing where She was, not moving.

The car door was open, waiting for Her to get in.

But after a long while She still didn’t move. In the end even the driver couldn’t help giving Her a baffled look from the side.

"Miss Yun, is something wrong?"

Yun Qiqi shook Her head without saying anything, the look She cast toward Yan Yan in the car full of wariness and vigilance.

Yan Yan stepped his long legs out of the car again, ignored Her wary gaze, and pulled Her straight into his arms. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

He lowered his voice, soothing Her gently: "Little Gua, let’s get in the car, okay?"

In his arms, Yun Qiqi felt the familiar scent on his body, and Her expression eased a lot. She gave a muffled nod.

Yan Yan had realized that as long as he had close physical contact with Her—like holding Her hand or hugging Her—the wariness in Her eyes wouldn’t be so deep.

Once they were in the car, he simply didn’t let Her buckle the seat belt, and directly settled Her on his lap.

He reached out to rub the top of Her head, then told the driver, "Let’s go."

All the way, the Young Girl’s face stayed expressionless, Her eyes calm and hollow, obediently leaning in his arms.

Yan Yan casually tore open a bottle of AD calcium milk for Her, and She just quietly drank through the straw.

His hand would absently stroke the top of Her head now and then, like he was coaxing a child.

At the same time he was on the phone, talking business with a client on the other end.

The car soon got onto the highway. Yan Yan took several calls on and off, sometimes in Chinese, sometimes in English.

On one of them, just as he was in the middle of talking, a large truck suddenly roared up from the rear side, going extremely fast.

Luckily the driver reacted sharply, jerking the wheel in the opposite direction to dodge to the side, or they would definitely have been hit by that truck.

The vehicles passed by each other with their bodies almost touching, the distance from their side mirror to the truck no more than five centimeters.

The narrow escape made the driver wipe a cold sweat from his forehead.

After steadying himself he quickly apologized to Yan Yan: "Sorry, Boss, that truck suddenly rushed up."

Yan Yan didn’t take it to heart. "It’s fine."

It was just that the milk slipped from Yun Qiqi’s hand, the straw spilling milk all over the seat. He saw She didn’t react, Her gaze empty as She stared at the scenery outside the window.

So he freed one hand and grabbed some tissues to wipe it dry.

He was halfway through wiping when the car suddenly lurched sharply to one side. Yan Yan frowned and looked ahead. "What’s going on?"

One glance and he saw another large truck had somehow come up behind them and was now side by side with them.

The highway was very wide; in theory two vehicles running side by side shouldn’t be a problem at all. Yet their black sedan was being forced toward the edge, just a hair away from scraping the guardrail.

And that truck acted as if it hadn’t seen them, still ramming hard toward their side.

Yan Yan only needed a look to sense something was wrong, and spoke lazily, "They’re doing it on purpose."

In the past two years, Yan Yan had been making big moves in the business world. Yan Shi had grown rapidly, offending plenty of people. Add to that the fierce fight with the mysterious organization that had taken Yun Qiqi, and the assassination attempts he’d been through, if not in the hundreds, were at least in the dozens.

The driver was experienced too. Hearing this, he sucked in a sharp breath and focused all his attention on controlling the car, narrowly dodging the other side’s squeeze.

He hadn’t even relaxed yet when several vans quickly came up right behind them.

Yan Yan immediately made a call. "Di Shan."

"Boss, we’ve seen it. We’ll block them right away." Di Shan’s voice came quickly from the other end.

Then several cars belonging to his security detail around Yan Yan all accelerated at once, hemming those vans in behind them.