Chen Ruowen didn't know where she had gone, she was scurrying around in the dark alone, unable to find the direction, unable to see the road clearly, the hillside was still shaking very strongly, and the messy rubble came out of nowhere and rolled to the ground, making her almost fall down several times.

Getting up from the surface again, Chen Ruowen turned around and walked briskly in the direction of the top of the mountain.

Gao Tang was still in place when she left, and with his stupid and stubborn nature, it was likely that he would still stay on the mountain stupidly, waiting for his life to bet on whether she would relent.

She couldn't really leave that idiot out there.

"Boom—"

Another ball of stones rolled down the mountain, Chen Ruowen narrowly avoided it, barely maintaining her balance in the ground movement, but suddenly stepped on the air and fell to the ground.

Earthquake?

Chen Ruowen did not know the situation.

She was half-kneeling and looked up at the top of the mountain.

Gao Tang's idiot had better leave already, otherwise she would be caught by her and he would definitely beat him up.

Gao Tang's sad eyes flashed in his mind when he left, Chen Ruowen gritted her teeth and stood up, stumbling and continuing to walk back.

It was an extremely difficult journey, with earthquakes and rockfalls on the one hand, but also because it was too dark, and the fear of darkness was constantly invading her from all directions.

Chen Ruowen's face was pale, but she still didn't stop.

A more important thought than fear is to find him.

Although, Chen Ruowen didn't seem to have discovered her thoughts at all.

It's just that the pace of progress was tripped by the rhizome of an unknown plant on the ground again, Chen Ruowen knelt on the ground and gasped, pulling a handful of grass in the dark, trying to tear off the thing that tripped him.

But when it was dark, her hands were shaking, and she was impatient, and a few grasses were like dead knots in her legs, and she couldn't pull them anymore.

Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling sound, the ground shook, Chen Ruowen covered her ears and glanced at the source of the sound, and then stayed in place.

At the very top of the mountain, a huge cloud of black smoke rose into the air, amplifying, magnifying, and magnifying again in a roar. A thick cloud of black smoke weighed heavily in the air, enveloping the entire mountain range, as if the end was coming.

Beneath this cloud of black smoke, countless pieces of rubble rolled down from the top of the mountain. I don't know if it's dazzling or what, Chen Ruowen seems to have seen something blow up the top of the mountain, and then the mountain pass turned out, as if it was ...... Mountain, collapsed.

She watched as huge clumps of boulders rolled down, sand and stones flew up, and the air was filled with a pungent and suffocating smell.

Chen Ruowen lifted the entangled leg hard, and before she could get up, she saw countless falling rocks hitting her.

"Boom ——!"

There was a muffled sound, and the impact came as promised, but the place where it was hit didn't seem to be very painful.

Chen Ruowen opened her eyes, and the boulder that was falling on her seemed to have rolled to the foot of the mountain, and she was also pushed away from her original place.

Directly above her, a figure held her in his arms.

"Tang ......"

Chen Ruowen didn't have time to be happy, and the stones behind the previous boulder fell down one after another.

There was no time to dodge the second time, Chen Ruowen watched as the rubble smashed into Gao Tang's back, arms, legs, and head one by one......

He closed his lips and didn't say a word, and the large and small stones were blocked by his body, rolling down to both sides, one after another, and Chen Ruowen was always firmly protected by him.

Chen Ruowen didn't know how long it had been since this round of volcanic eruptions, as if it was only a dozen seconds when she looked at Gao Tang stunned, and it seemed like a century had passed.

Until, she saw a scarlet blood color, flowing down Gao Tang's forehead and onto his face.

"Ah Tang......" Chen Ruowen's voice trembled.

But Gao Tang knelt halfway up the mountain, hugged Chen Ruowen in his arms, and ignored her shouts.

It wasn't until the ground stopped shaking and there was no more stone and sand falling from the top of the mountain that he slowly let go of his hand, and then the whole person fell like a stone sculpture that had lost its pillars.

"Tang ......?"

Chen Ruowen crawled in front of Gao Tang in a panic, looking at the blood stains on his face, looking at his clothes and pants that he could no longer distinguish the color, and looking at the blue and purple bruises on the back of his hands......

Chen Ruowen panicked.

She was scared.

Fear, that fear that scares her more than the darkness.

"Tang......" her voice was crying.

I don't know if it was due to the influence of the air after the volcanic eruption, or the fear in her heart grew out and grabbed her throat, and Chen Ruowen even became difficult to breathe.

She grabbed Gao Tang's palm tightly, shook her head constantly, and couldn't stop shaking, except for calling his name, she couldn't even say a complete sentence.

There are countless thoughts pouring out of his mind at the same time, and the only thing that can be caught by Chen Ruowen is the emotion called "regret".

Blame her, blame her.

If it weren't for her refusal to agree to Gao Tang's marriage proposal and a stalemate with him for several hours, they would have left this mountain range long ago, or even left this island, and it would have been impossible to encounter a volcanic eruption.

Blame her, if it weren't for her willful departure, she wandered around in the mountains for so long. Even if a volcano erupts, Gao Tang can leave safely with her.

Blame her, if it weren't for her fear of the dark, if she wasn't lost, if she wasn't tripped by the grassroots, she wouldn't have been unable to move in the most dangerous minutes of the landslide, and Gao Tang wouldn't have been injured for saving her.

Blame her, blame her.

If there is anything to do with Gao Tang, then ...... She's the one who did it!

"Don't cry...... Gao Tang's eyes moved, falling on Chen Ruowen's face, and then, he showed a smile. I am...... Willing ......"

He seemed to know exactly what Chen Ruowen was thinking, and knew her fear and regret, so the first thing he said was to tell Chen Ruowen that he was willing.

The injuries on his body were already numb to pain, and he didn't know if he hit his head, Gao Tang only felt that his brain was numb, as if he might fall asleep at any time.

No, he can't sleep yet.

If he can't wake up from this sleep, then at least ...... He has to settle the girl he loves the most.

He wants to ensure that even without him, she will be happy for the rest of her life.

"Chen Ruowen." Gao Tang endured the feeling of dizziness and weakness and called out the name of the woman next to him.

"I'm here." Chen Ruowen held Gao Tang's hand and stared at his face.

Gao Tang wanted to shake her hand back, but found that he couldn't do it at all.

She finally took the initiative to approach her again, but he didn't have the strength to respond, what a pity......

Gao Tang thought so, and then forced himself to pull back his thoughts.

"If I Die......"

Gao Tang said, and then saw Chen Ruowen's face full of fear and panic.

It occurred to him that dying like this didn't seem too bad to occupy a little place in her heart.

Bai Jinyan...... It's ...... love you."

Gao Tang tried his best to suppress the bitterness in his heart.

If he really died today, the only thing that could make Chen Ruowen less painful in the second half of his life was Bai Jinyan.

Only he has the potential to do it.

"You should have told you a long time ago...... But I ...... Selfish...... Hide it from you...... Other...... Don't blame me......"

Selfishly wanted to keep her by his side, even knowing that she was sad and painful, he selfishly concealed the truth.

I thought I would be able to let her out, I thought she would fall in love with herself one day, I thought I could be by her side for the rest of my life......

What a pity.

"What if...... Can you like me...... Only...... Okay......"

Even if it's just a little bit.