Chapter 170: Won't You Hug Me?

Bo Jinxiu furrowed his brows.

His expression turned a shade colder.

"Once the show's recording wraps up, I will send you to Switzerland to lie low for a while. I have already bought an estate there. Wait for me for half a year; once I have settled everything in the country, I will come back for you."

Jiang Ciyou was silent for a few seconds.

Then she let out two dry, mocking laughs.

"Bo Jinxiu, are you out of your mind? What gives you the right to arrange my life? What are you to me anyway?"

Bo Jinxiu's expression, however, remained exceptionally serious.

"Ciyou, I am not joking with you. Your current situation is extremely dangerous."

"My eldest sister will be back soon. Whether she finds out that you are my vulnerability or that Shen Yibai has feelings for you, based on what I know of her, she will deal with you directly."

"All sorts of fatal accidents will start happening in your life. I know you are capable, but can you dodge it ten or eight times even if you manage to avoid it once?"

"Don't think I am making mountains out of molehills. My eldest sister once engineered six accidents for me within a single year. I was lucky enough to survive, having spent time in the ICU twice and still managing to hold onto my life."

Jiang Ciyou's tone was equally resolute: "I don't care who your eldest sister is or what she is capable of, I will never follow your arrangements."

"Furthermore, I will definitely make this clear to Chairman Bo. I have not the slightest bit of interest in either you or Shen Yibai, and from now on, I don't want any connection with the two of you whatsoever."

"Surely your eldest sister doesn't go around killing innocent people indiscriminately, does she?"

Bo Jinxiu sneered: "You understand her far too little. You probably won't even get the chance to explain. Over all these years, the number of lives on her hands is likely beyond count."

Hearing Bo Jinxiu speak thus, Jiang Ciyou still felt a jolt of shock within her.

The Bo family possessed wealth that could rival a nation and power that reached the heavens.

Could they truly reach a point of defying the law, disregarding rules, and taking human lives as if they were mere grass?

Jiang Ciyou seemed to ponder for a moment.

Then she said calmly, "Bo Jinxiu, I won't gamble with my life, but I won't follow your arrangement to go abroad either."

"If your eldest sister is truly that formidable, can you guarantee that you can defeat her within half a year? Haven't you been fighting her for so many years without finding any solution to this day? Does that mean I'm supposed to hide abroad forever?"

"Besides, I live my life and do things openly and aboveboard. There is really no need for me to scurry around hiding."

"Ciyou!"

Bo Jinxiu grabbed her hand again: "Do you have any idea how worried I am about you?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to know. Bo Jinxiu, we are already finished."

"So my life and death have nothing to do with you either. If I am truly assassinated by your sister, then it was simply my destined time to go, and I will never blame you."

"Of course, rest assured, I am not that easy to kill. I will find a way to handle it myself."

Jiang Ciyou had already made up her mind.

If Bo Wanhua was truly as crazy and perverted as Bo Jinxiu described.

She would simply go seek shelter from her senior martial brother or her master.

Her senior brother came from the underworld and possessed his own forces both domestically and internationally.

Although he had washed his hands of it long ago, protecting her from assassination should pose no major problem.

Then there was her master.

Who had lived in seclusion from the world for a long time.

For all these years, apart from her senior brother, no one knew his whereabouts.

At worst, she could just spend half a year in seclusion with him.

Seeing Jiang Ciyou remaining so stubborn,

Bo Jinxiu was driven almost to the verge of fury.

"Jiang Ciyou, will you only be satisfied when you've driven me to my grave?"

Since Jiang Ciyou already had her plans mapped out, she had resumed her usual composure.

"If you really don't want anything to happen to me, stay away from me. You are the source of the disaster here, aren't you?"

Bo Jinxiu's eyes sank.

He had indeed done that in the past.

It was just that the present proved that path hadn't worked.

Yet when he wanted to retrace his steps, Bo Jinxiu discovered that all the paths leading back had been completely blocked off by Jiang Ciyou.

Bo Jinxiu felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness.

His head suddenly drooped, coming to rest against Jiang Ciyou's shoulder: "If you refuse to listen to me, I cannot force you. But please remember, if you ever encounter danger or feel that something is wrong, you must come to find me."

This time, Jiang Ciyou did not snap back at him.

She sensed the utter exhaustion radiating from Bo Jinxiu.

In truth, how could Jiang Ciyou not know that Bo Jinxiu was being sincere?

Yet she would never allow herself to become anyone's vulnerability, nor would she let herself become the blade that Bo Wanhua used to stab Bo Jinxiu.

Therefore, she had to sever everything connected to him.

From this moment onward, they would simply treat each other as strangers.

He leaned against her shoulder, acting just like a grown child.

Jiang Ciyou's hands had also been released long ago.

Stiffening her body, she stood straight there, not moving an inch.

Nor did she push Bo Jinxiu away.

Her nostrils were filled with the pleasant, cool scent that belonged to him.

Jiang Ciyou had never seen him look so exhausted before.

As if he could barely even stand on his own feet.

"Will you hold me, please?" Bo Jinxiu's voice traveled over from beside Jiang Ciyou's ear.

Jiang Ciyou did not move.

"Just consider it the last time."

There seemed to be a hint of pleading in Bo Jinxiu's voice.

At this moment, the bodies of the two were pressed almost tightly together.

Each could feel the warmth radiating from the other.

That familiar body heat and heartbeat seemed capable of passing through the skin, piercing straight through the heart, spreading wildly through every limb and bone like an electric current.

"Hold me..."

He was like a child begging for candy, or a beggar wandering the streets.

Jiang Ciyou slowly raised her hand.

Right as she was about to wrap her arms around his waist.

Jiang Ciyou suddenly gave a fierce push, spun around, and flashed out through the gap in the rocks.

"Bo Jinxiu, how many times have you used this trick? This lady isn't falling for your schemes."

After speaking, Jiang Ciyou even stretched out a foot and gave Bo Jinxiu's lower leg a kick.

Having vented a little, Jiang Ciyou felt much better.

"If you go crazy again in the future, this lady will not show you any courtesy."

With that, Jiang Ciyou even squeezed her fingers into a fist as a threat.

Then she turned and walked away.

Bo Jinxiu was left feeling both exasperated and amused.

His hands hurt, his leg hurt, his heart hurt, his whole body hurt.

Soon, midday arrived.

The photos they had taken had long since been published online.

The voting rankings came out promptly.

The popularity of the photos featuring Jiang Ciyou and Shen Yibai took first place by a landslide.

In second place were Shen Qingqing and Bo Jinxiu, while Si Yufeng and Jiang Se came in third.

Coming in last were Wei Tingfang and Xu Yao.

In accordance with the rules, the production crew provided Shen Yibai and Jiang Ciyou with a lavish lunch.

Various fresh sashimi, lobsters, and top-tier quality beef.

As for the others, things were much simpler.

Just ordinary employee bento boxes.

Still, being able to eat such standard lunch boxes on an uninhabited island could be considered a kind of blessing.

Of course, the last-place pair had it rather miserably.

Wei Tingfang and Xu Yao had nothing to eat and had to fend for themselves.

Wei Tingfang went into the woods to pick wild fruits.

However, Xu Yao had gone without food for over twenty-four hours, and starvation had left her legs weak and devoid of any strength.

When she caught sight of the incomparably sumptuous food inside Jiang Ciyou's lunch box.

Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she lunged forward in the direction of Jiang Ciyou.

Bang—