Chapter 40: Heartbeat Moment 12_1

She didn't know whether it was his shouting that had done the trick, but not long thereafter, the light in the elevator came on.

She had no time to sigh in relief before the elevator came to a stop at the seventeenth floor. With a ding, the elevator doors opened.

Xia Liyou was still in shock, maintaining the same pose she had in the elevator, and Ruan Xiangchen, who was still holding her, didn't alert her of the change in circumstance.

It was not until she had collected herself and taken a deep breath that she realized something was flashing.

She instinctively tried to shield herself from the uncomfortable glare, only to have her head covered by something.

Xia Liyou instinctively tried to remove whatever was obscuring her vision but heard a soft voice from above say, "Don't be scared, I'll get you out of here, trust me."

Something about the voice, its sincerity, convinced Xia Liyou to trust its owner, to follow his lead and make her way through the clicking sounds.