Chapter 196 — The Excited Kang Xiaobo
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Lan Fen had likely been frightened out of her senses by the fall from such a height, or perhaps Kang Xiaobo had held her too tightly, for she had now slipped into unconsciousness. Song Huiping laid her fingers beneath Lan Fen's nose, felt breath still stirring there, and only then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Phew..." Seeing that Xiaofen was all right and had only fainted, Liu Xinwen gave Kang Xiaobo a thumbs-up. "Amazing, hero! From that high up, and you actually caught her! Impressive!"
Only at Liu Xinwen's words did Song Huiping realize that the young man before her was her daughter's lifesaver. Even as she stroked her daughter's gaunt cheek, she thanked Kang Xiaobo over and over. "Young man, thank you so much. If you had not been so quick-eyed and quick-handed, who knows what would have become of my Xiaofen..."
At this point, tears of belated fear rolled down Song Huiping's face! Yes, the mere thought of what had just happened was terrifying. Her daughter falling from the sky like that, if Kang Xiaobo had not caught her, the fall... the consequences did not bear imagining!
"Auntie, it was only what I should do. It is nothing..." Kang Xiaobo's face flushed slightly. He had saved Lan Fen entirely out of his admiration for her. Had it been anyone else, he would never have been so frantic and so desperate...
Kang Xiaobo was no saint. He was no firefighter, no policeman, and certainly no Ultraman. If the one jumping had not been Lan Fen, he would never have rushed forward so rashly!
Never mind whether he could have caught her at all. If he failed and ended up crushed or killed himself, the loss would outweigh any gain! Such things had happened before. Someone saw a person jumping and tried to catch them, only to miss and be smashed to death by the falling body instead!
"You call that nothing? Brother, you are the real deal. I, Liu Xinwen, admire you!" Liu Xinwen had paid no attention to Kang Xiaobo's expression and excitedly clapped him on the shoulder. "If you ever need anything, come find me. I will not refuse!"
"I just happened to be in the right place..." Kang Xiaobo was telling the honest truth. How he had caught Lan Fen, he himself scarcely knew.
Just luck? Tang Yun cast a thoughtful glance at Wei Zhao, who had by now slipped quietly to one side, and the corner of her mouth lifted faintly... What a strange man he really was?
No one else had noticed anything, but the observant Tang Yun had spotted something wrong! When Kang Xiaobo had gone to save her, Wei Zhao had rushed forward too, yet instead of trying to catch anyone, he had pushed and shoved at Kang Xiaobo. That left Tang Yun suspicious...
Did what had just happened have something to do with him? Tang Yun did not know why she paid such attention to Wei Zhao. At the thought, she shifted her gaze from him with complicated feelings and fixed her attention on Xiaofen instead.
A shrill chorus of sirens swelled from far to near, the alarms of ambulance, police car, and fire engine blurring together as they sped toward the alley.
When they learned, however, that the girl had already jumped and had been caught by someone, the firefighters were astonished, but once they had the facts straight, they left.
The police picked out several onlookers for statements at the scene and pieced together what had led up to it. For Lan Fen's plight, they could only offer sympathy. Since she had not jumped because of some unredressed wrong, there was nothing the police could do. Though Kang Zhaoming had acted shabbily in abandoning Lan Fen, it was only a matter of the heart, and did not rise to the level of a crime.
Several nurses from the ambulance took Lan Fen from Kang Xiaobo's arms, laid her on a stretcher, and lifted her into the vehicle. Then a middle-aged man who looked like the doctor on duty said to the crowd, "Who is the patient's family? Come with us to the hospital. Everyone else, disperse!"