Chapter 196 — An Agitated Kang **
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Lan Zhi had likely been frightened by the fall from such a height, or perhaps Kang ** had simply held her too tightly; either way, she had now lapsed into unconsciousness. Song Huiping felt for the breath beneath Lan Zhi's nose, found that she was still breathing, and only then let out a sigh of relief.
"Whew..." Seeing that Xiao Fen was unharmed and merely unconscious, Liu Xinlan shot Kang ** a thumbs-up. "Impressive, hero! From that height, and you actually caught her — amazing!"
At Liu Xinlan's words, Song Huiping too came to realize that the young man before her was her daughter's savior. Stroking her daughter's thin cheek, she thanked Kang ** profusely: "Young man, I truly can't thank you enough. If not for your quick hands, my Xiao Fen would have..."
Here she broke off, and tears of retrospective dread welled from Song Huiping's eyes. Yes — the very thought of what had just happened was terrifying. Her daughter had come falling out of the sky; had Kang ** not caught her, that fall... the consequences did not bear imagining!
"Auntie, it was the least I could do — really, it was nothing..." Kang **'s face flushed slightly. He had saved Lan Zhi purely out of his infatuation with her. With anyone else, he might not have been so agitated and frantic...
Kang ** was no saint. He was not a firefighter, not a police officer, and certainly not Ultraman. Had the person jumping not been Lan Zhi, he would never have rushed over so recklessly.
Never mind whether he could actually save her — the greater worry was that he might fail to catch her and instead be crushed or killed himself. That would be a loss with no gain. Such things had happened before: a man sees someone jump from a building, tries to catch them, fails, and is killed by the falling body.
"Nothing? Brother, you really are something — I, Liu Xinlan, salute you!" Liu Xinlan had not noticed Kang **'s expression and clapped him on the shoulder excitedly. "If you ever need anything, come to your sister here — I won't shirk it!"
"I just happened to be in the right place..." Kang ** was telling the truth. He himself was not entirely sure how he had caught Lan Zhi.
The right place? Tang Zhi glanced thoughtfully at Wei Zhao, who had by now slipped quietly to one side, and the corners of her mouth curved up faintly... What a strange person he was.
No one else had noticed anything, but the observant Tang Zhi had spotted a problem. When Kang ** had been saving Lan Zhi, Wei Zhao had rushed over with him — yet instead of going to catch the girl, he had been pushing and shoving at Kang **. That was what made Tang Zhi suspicious.
Did the rescue just now have anything to do with him? Tang Zhi did not know why she was paying Wei Zhao such attention. At this thought, her feelings grew complicated, and she shifted her gaze away from him, fixing her attention on Xiao Fen instead.
A shrill siren wailed from far to near — the alarms of ambulances, police cars, and fire engines mingled together as they sped toward the alley.
When the firefighters learned that the girl who had jumped had already fallen and been caught, they were rather astonished; but after clarifying the situation, they left.
The police did select a few people from the onlookers to take statements at the scene and learn the ins and outs of what had happened. Toward Lan Zhi's plight, they could only express sympathy. Once it was clear she had not jumped out of grievance over some injustice, the matter fell outside their jurisdiction. After all, though that Kang Jingming had treated Lan Zhi shabbily in abandoning her, it was merely a matter of romantic entanglement and did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.