Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 472 - 485: Deadly Struggle

Lu Shifeng did not want to discuss this issue with Wei Linnan.

If possible, he wished the Scatana Virus would flare up more violently, granting him the ability to tear Wei Linnan apart bare-handed, but he knew well how dangerous Wei Linnan was; the best outcome was mutual peace. He looked at Su Xingyu’s worried face and said, "I’ve completely controlled this virus now; nothing like that uncontrolled incident on the rainy night will happen. Xingyu, don’t be afraid."

"What did the doctor say? What kind of virus is it?" How could she truly be at ease?

Lu Shifeng only comforted her: "Everything is fine."

Just from hearing him speak, she understood it wouldn’t be that simple. If everything was truly fine, he would have told her the origin of the virus, its activation principles, and which hospital he visited. But now, he was evasive. She didn’t know what to do to help him, suddenly realizing how powerless she was—going to the hospital to inquire about his condition? His situation was too shocking; she dared not casually disclose the news to the doctors, fearing that he might be captured for experimentation as some sort of bizarre creature. How else could she help him?

She could only ask, "What do I need to do for you?"

Lu Shifeng looked at her gently, a rare expression of tenderness.

He gazed at her for a long time until she felt faintly uneasy, and then he said, "Be by my side."

Su Xingyu was taken aback.

"Xingyu, the only thing you need to do is be by my side," Lu Shifeng told her. "During the two previous virus activations, I nearly lost control, but when I thought of you, I could stay sober. Xingyu, as long as you’re by my side, I’ll never become a monster."

Her heart ached, and she turned away, not letting him see the struggle in her eyes.

Be by his side?

Be by the side of the man who deeply hurt her, who appeared in her most profound nightmares countless times?

But he...

Besides hurting her, he had saved her so many times.

She didn’t know how to continue interacting with him.

The light outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window streamed down; she looked at a wisp of cloud on the horizon, hurriedly changing the subject: "What happened to that piranha? And the diving coach who went underwater with us, was he really bitten to death by that piranha?" She had never truly realized people could die such a way, bitten by a fish—how absurd.

And how terrifying.

Lu Shifeng was silent for a moment, his voice very deep: "Yes."

"Yes?"

"He’s dead," Lu Shifeng said. "At the lake bottom, when that cloud blocked the moonlight, I was planning to reach out to turn on the flashlight on the diving helmet, but halfway through, I suddenly felt a chill against my back. You could call it a sixth sense or whatever, but I felt something was very wrong and didn’t turn on the flashlight. I intended to swim toward the cabin where you were, but feared attracting something unknown in the water over, so I hesitated for a moment or two, and not far beside me, the diving coach turned on his flashlight. I saw a shadow flicker in the flashlight beam, then his blood exploded."

Su Xingyu uttered a low cry, her face ashen.

She understood he witnessed the diving coach being eaten by the fish.

Lu Shifeng continued, "At this time, the direction of the cabin, your flashlight also came on. The fish had eaten the diving coach, and the coach’s flashlight was attached to it; I saw very clearly. I saw it swimming towards your direction, so I went toward it, also driving it away, away from you as much as possible. The situation was urgent; I couldn’t go to you and warn you to turn off the flashlight."

Su Xingyu listened, heart pounding, realizing that not only did he save her from suffocation, but even earlier, when she was unaware, he was already fighting to the death with the piranha for her!

Then, Lu Shifeng continued speaking, his tone dispassionate, as if recounting a common event: "I attacked the fish, angering it; at this point, I dared not turn on the flashlight, for fear you’d be drawn over by the light. I planned to remove the flashlight from the piranha and fought, luring it in the opposite direction of the sunken ship. But the fish was too large; I was not agile in the water and gradually grew exhausted. Perhaps because of this, the virus gene dormant within me began to stir, the black scales flared up, vying for control of my body."

Unknowingly, she held her breath, listening to him continue.

He said, "That flare-up was very painful. I had a feeling if I failed, I’d completely lose my human awareness. Control over my body would weaken, unable to continue fighting the piranha, but the piranha seemed to be very afraid of me, maybe it feared the virus in me... it swam away from me. I don’t know how long I fought the virus; all I thought was, I can’t lose, I must win, I must live, live to save you, Xingyu." He looked into her eyes, "It’s you who made me hold on, survive."

She didn’t know what to say; if, under such difficult circumstances, he truly could rely on this will to sustain himself, then...

Should she stay by his side?

To prevent him from being swallowed by that mysterious virus?

Her heart was in chaos. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Then Lu Shifeng said, "Later, I finally regained control over my body, even able to freely utilize the power of the virus. I saw the piranha swimming towards you, so I quickly chased it. Luckily, I made it in time to save you."

She knew what happened next.

He appeared promptly before her, suffocating, killed the piranha, kissed her, and kept her alive.

If she was the intention in his heart that saved him in his battle against the virus, then wasn’t he her redemption?

"Lu Shifeng..." she softly murmured, her voice like a sigh.

He looked into her eyes, "Promise me, don’t ever do something so dangerous again, don’t easily get involved in these conflicts, don’t go underwater."

She knew he was referring to her insistence on diving for photos.

Actually, her heart was filled with pain, the diving coach truly died, if they hadn’t gone underwater a second time, he could have returned alive.

The diving coach had his own parents and family, right? Just because of her careless decision, she killed him...

Her expression was bleak.

Lu Shifeng said, "I’ve sent someone to find the diving coach’s family, to give them a substantial death compensation. Xingyu, although you must remember diving is very dangerous, you must also understand that the diving coach’s death is not your responsibility, this was an accident, not to be blamed on you. If to blame, we failed to anticipate such deadly piranhas were in the water."