C9

I just want to comfort you

The wind by the river was getting stronger and stronger. As if Jin Chen had found an outlet for her emotions, Jiang Yaner tightly grabbed his shirt and cried.

"It's over, it's all over, it's all over." she kept saying.

The willful Ni Xiaoxing might not be able to come back this time.

Jin Chen looked at the river surface and the neon lights in the distance. He thought to himself, "Weak Jiang Yaner, sensitive Jiang Yaner, cowardly Jiang Yaner, can I endure so much pain in the future?"

At this moment, the phone vibrated.

"Yan'er, I'm so scared. Why don't you come with me?" Trembling, she finished the text.

It was Ni Xiaoxing!

She immediately dialed the number, and the call was picked up after a short pause.

"Xiao Xing, Xiao Xing, where are you?" She asked nervously, afraid that if she wasn't careful, she would break the news again.

Jin Chen signaled her to turn on the hands-free phone. Jiang Yaner put the phone down beside her ear and clicked on the hands-free phone under the cold autumn wind.

"Do you know? He didn't want me anymore, he's gone missing, "she said, laughing and crying again, and a wave around her drowned out her voice." I thought everyone was wrong, and in the end I was the only one who was wrong. She sneered, then buzzed again, and the line went dead.

"What do we do? What do we do? The phone's been cut off." Jiang Yaner almost burst into tears.

"There's the sound of water and the wind," Jin Chen lowered his head and tried to find the source, "It's not a bathroom, it's definitely outside."

"There's the sound of waves, right? That can only be the seaside, can't it? " Jiang Yaner seemed to finally have some clues as she rushed to the car. Jin Chen dialed a number and ordered some people to search the seaside carefully. The two of them soon arrived at the seaside.

Along the coastline, dozens of people were running around, shouting Ni Xiaoxing's name.

After a long time, there was no result.

"Jin Chen, could she have …" She couldn't help but begin to guess, let her imagination run wild, so she held her head as she squatted by the sea, her mind filled with terrible images.

That was the end she could not bear.

"Over there!" Someone shouted. Looking in the direction he pointed, it was a figure that was about to disappear.

Jiang Yaner's eyes were wide open as she searched for Nie Tian. Far away, the lower half of her body had already been submerged. In the middle of the waves, a faintly discernible, white figure could be seen.

"It's her! It's her!" She turned around and looked at Jin Chen, both her eyes were bloodshot.

Before Jin Chen could react, she had already disregarded everything and ran towards the sea. She ran into the water with great difficulty, but was tightly controlled by the force behind her.

"Come back here!" Jin Chen hugged her, making her unable to move willfully, "Do you know how to swim? "Hurry up and go!" he ordered loudly.

Three or five people jumped into the sea and tried to swim forward. At this moment, there was no longer any trace of the white figure in the sea.

"Ni Xiaoxing!" "Ni Xiaoxing!" Jiang Yaner struggled in the embrace of Jin Chen. She could no longer see Ni Xiaoxing's back as she felt the breath of death.

Time seemed to have frozen. A long, long time.

"CEO, I couldn't find him." The first to come ashore, his lips purple from the sea, brought no good news.

Soon after, everyone went ashore, but they still didn't bring Ni Xiaoxing back.

Jiang Yaner sat on the beach, tears flowing down her face before being dried by the sea breeze. She didn't know what to say to that feeling of having a part of her chest dug out.

"Yan'er." Jin Chen's hands froze in the air and he finally held her gently.

"Maybe it's a mistake. Let's continue looking." He saw the despair in Jiang Yaner's eyes, and he sat beside her, helpless. She didn't need to be hurt anymore, she was like a deer that had been shot by an arrow, fleeing in panic.

"I know, I know," he reassured her stiffly, holding her face but not seeing her expression. "If we keep looking, she'll be all right."

"It's her, I'm sure it's her," Jiang Yaner said quietly. "Call Uncle and let him know."

Jin Chen looked at her in surprise. He didn't expect her to be so calm.

He thought that it was time to inform Ni Xiaoxing's family, so he got up and made a call.

"Director Ni, please inform the police to come to the seaside." He didn't know how to tell this news to his old father.

After hanging up, he turned around to find that Jiang Yaner was no longer behind him.

He looked around, not in the water.

"Jiang Yaner!" "Jiang Yaner!" He started to run along the shoreline.

Not far away, on the reef, she was clearly visible.

"Don't come over, I want to be by myself for a while." She sensed someone approaching behind her and held out her hand, motioning him to stop.

Jin Chen merely took light steps and quickly walked behind her. He didn't use much strength to carry her to a safe zone and only gently hugged her.

"I won't force you to stop feeling sad right now, but I will always be behind you. Don't chase me away, okay?" As he finished, he tightened his grip on her.

Jiang Yaner closed her eyes and could no longer hold back her tears.

At this moment, Jin Chen could not recall any hatred or grudges. All he could think of was how to warm her, how to comfort her, how to make her pain less, even if it was just a little bit less.

Suddenly, the sirens were getting closer.

Everyone got off the police car. In the middle was the old Director Ni, with gray hair and a suit that was no longer neat. It seemed like he suddenly aged by ten years.

"I'll go down and take care of it. You stay here and be quiet, okay?" Jin Chen whispered in her ear, "Or are you going with me?"

"Let's go together." Jiang Yaner turned around and jumped off the reef with his support.

"Yan'er, where's Xiao Xing?" Nei's father saw that someone had appeared and quickly went over to ask. Perhaps he already knew, but he was still unwilling to give up any hope.

"Uncle …" Before she could even open her mouth to explain, she was already sobbing uncontrollably.

Nei's father understood.

The police began their search in the sea. All kinds of salvage tools and boats were in place.

Jiang Yaner stood aside. Jin Chen embraced her and made her bury her head deep in his chest, preventing her from seeing the scene in front of her eyes.

Nei's father was alone and he refused to let anyone near him. He was just staring at the sea in a daze. Perhaps, there was guilt in his heart that no one knew about.

A long time had passed since the waves hit the beach, and the surroundings were deathly silent.

The police also chose to give up.

"Sorry, no body was found." After a long period of salvage work, the police and salvage crews all went ashore.

Nei's father didn't say anything. He turned around and returned to the car. The car sped on, as if fleeing in panic.

Jiang Yaner had already lost her strength. She let Jin Chen carry her into the car and wrapped her in a thick windbreaker before bringing her home.