I Don't Really Know What Love Is

The moment Xia Jiannan's body started to lean sideways, a white jade-like hand shot out and caught him before he completely fell down.

"Mr. Xia..."

Wang Rouxi glanced down at the vulnerable man in her arms, her usually cold eyes were now filled with worry.

Xia Jiannan had not been in good health since the first time they met yesterday. This even caused him to mistook her car as his!

Her sudden appearance at the Xia Family Old Residence in the middle of the night probably caused a great turbulence in his emotions.

With his unstable emotions and his prior feeble condition, it was no wonder that he would just collapse upon experiencing the might of the atomic bomb Wang Rouxi had dropped.

Wrapping her arm around his back, Wang Rouxi's other arm slid under Xia Jiannan's knees before she lifted him and carried him bridal style towards his bed.

From the contact of their bare skin, she could feel that he was slightly feverish, a frown slowly etched on her beautiful face.

Xia Jiannan was burning up!

Wang Rouxi immediately went into the bathroom to get a towel and a bowl of lukewarm water.

It was not actually advisable to use cold water or alcohol to lower the body's temperature as it might cause serious harm.

Afterwhich, she proceeded to wipe his exposed skin with the towel soaked with lukewarm water until his body temperature turned back to normal.

She had also helped Xia Jiannan change into another loose shirt as his previous one was now soaked in sweat.

After she was done with all these, Wang Rouxi cleaned up and put everything back to their places as though nothing was changed. She then went back to check on Xia Jiannan.

Looking back at how he had been unwell since yesterday that he was with her and until now that he was lying unconscious on his bed, Wang Rouxi did not have the heart to disturb him.

It was apparent that Xia Jiannan's body had not completely recovered yet.

Wang Rouxi could also see that compared to the pain-stricken expression of his earlier, he looked much more at peace now.

She sat on the bed beside him and just admired the peerless man who laid in bed like an inviolable divinity.

Unknowingly, Wang Rouxi's white jade-like fingers reached out and started to comb through Xia Jiannan's surprisingly soft hair.

The man had a perfectly sculpted face which God must have spent too much time in perfecting. Even when he was sick, he still looked as flawless as a carved jade.

"Do you know, Xia Jiannan..." Wang Rouxi's serene voice permeated through the silence inside the quiet room, "...I don't really know what love is."

When she said this, her eyes were glazed over as though reminiscing about a pleasant memory from a distance past.

"But even then, the first time I saw you, I just knew that I had to protect you."

At that moment, a slightly younger version of Xia Jiannan flashed in her mind.

A chilling coldness was then reflected on Wang Rouxi's eyes for a split second before it went back to its normal indifferent gaze.

"Be it in the past or in this present, or even in the distant future, I shall protect you."

No one can harm you as long as I'm still alive.

They did not succeed before.

I would also not let them succeed now that I have more power in my hands.

"I want to take responsibility for you." Wang Rouxi repeated these seven words with conviction.

"I am the one who took your innocence." She stole his first kiss.

"I brought you to my home." Without giving him a choice.

"I let you sleep on my bed." Against his will.

...

Wang Rouxi listed all the "despicable" deeds that she had done to Xia Jiannan and she became more resolute.

"I will not shirk my responsibility to you. Even if I don't understand what love is, I just know that you are the only one who can make my heart skip a beat. You are the only person whom I want to protect with my life wholeheartedly."

If I cannot even take responsibility for you, then my surname is not "Wang"!

Wang Rouxi seemed not to notice that the man next to her clenched his fist under the light blanket upon hearing her words.

All of a sudden, she stopped her actions and stood up from the bed abruptly.

She had been here for too long.

The guard stationed at Area 4 would soon wake up and she had to return the uniform that she "borrowed" from him.

With a last long look at Xia Jiannan's handsome face, Wang Rouxi grabbed the guard's uniform tossed at the foot of the bed before she headed out the way she came from, disappearing into the darkness of the night.