Chapter 49 Natural Disaster

"How can you be so stubborn? Emily really cares about you. She's just too proud; or else she would
not have asked me to call you inside. She's afraid that you'll get sick in the rain..."

Said Debby, when suddenly Jack sneezed loudly, "Ahchoo!"

Debby sympathized, as if she were speaking to her own son, "See? You've already caught a cold. Go
and take a hot bath, and I'll boil some ginger soup for you to dispel the cold."

Jack nodded politely and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Bai. But I would like to see Emily first..."

"You kids! I can feel that you really love Emily..."

Emily happened to see this when she walked out of her room.

Jack stood inside her house, pale-faced. He was soaking wet; his wet hair stuck to his head in an
unkept manner and the water dripped from his clothes to the floor. Jack looked like he had just been
fished out of the water.

While Emily's father and mother stood side by side and welcomed him in warmly.

"Mom, why did you bring him in?"

Debby winked at her and said, "Emily, it was you who asked me to bring Jacky in, right?

Emily sneered, "Ha, you're already calling him 'Jacky' now?"

Emily never thought that her own mother could be so double-faced. Out of sympathy, she asked her
mother to bring Jack an umbrella, but to her surprise, she went so far as to bring him in.

"Emily......" Jack looked at Emily with his deep, charcoal black eyes. His eyes were shining.



For some reason, he reminded Emily of the abandoned dogs she used to see near the dustbin when
she was a child. Jack looked at her with the same puppy dog eyes, as if begging her to hold and caress
him.

'Stop!'

Emily hurriedly interrupted her thoughts and returned to her room. "Bam", she shut the door behind her.

Jack's eyes were filled with disappointment, to which Debby hurriedly said, "This child is still at odds
with you. Anyway, don't just stand there. You are wet all over. Go and get a hot bath."

Indeed, It was uncomfortable to have wet clothes on. Hearing this, Jack dragged his soaking body to
the bathroom.

Besides, since he was already in Emily's home, he set aside his worries and decided to take it easy.

While Jack was taking a bath, and Emily's parents were busy elsewhere, Emily slipped out of the
house with an umbrella and her suitcase.

After a nice hot bath, Jack came out in Emily's father's new clothes. He started to feel warmer after a
nice cup of hot ginger soup.

Soon after, he quickly went and knocked on Emily's bedroom door. He knocked for a long time, but
there was no response. He grew suspicious, so he turned the doorknob, and found it unlocked.

Jack opened the door and went in carefully. His smile froze when he found out that there was no one in
the room. "Where is Emily?"

"Emily!"

Jack looked everywhere in her room. The noise he made soon drew Emily's parents in.



"This, this... Where is Emily?" Emily's father furrowed his eye-brows and shrugged, "How should I know
where Emily is?" Jack glanced at Emily's father coldly. The politeness and courtesy he had exhibited
when entering their house had suddenly disappeared. With raging fire in his eyes, Jack said, "Weren't
you outside Emily's room? How could you not see her get out of her room?"

The storm outside raged on relentlessly... Did she hate being in the same house with him?

Nonplussed, Emily's parents looked at each other. Neither of them dared to utter a word.

Jack ignored them both and rushed out without an umbrella in a hurry.

As soon as he had left, Emily's father locked the door. Immediately, his eyes fell upon the big bag which
Jack had brought with him when Emily's mother invited him in.

"At least, we've got the money."

Emily's parents promptly unsealed the bag to check the money. The bag was waterproof so the money
inside the bag was unaffected by the rain.

They looked at each other, and smiled greedily.

......

Jack spent the entire night searching for Emily, but he couldn't find her. By then, Jacob already noticed
that Jack had left D City. Jack couldn't stay in Haicheng City any longer, so he returned in haste.

Emily didn't know what happened later on. She rushed to the airport upon daybreak, and headed to the
last destination of her business trip, Yunshi City, to meet two of her colleagues.

She put all her attention to her work. That was the only way she knew to cope with all the problems and
worries in her head.



A week later, the business trip had come to an end.

Emily's two colleagues decided to stay for another day before returning home, which was fine with
Emily. Although they said that they needed the extra day to have a rest, they persuaded Emily to go
shopping with them.

While being serenaded by the musical fountain in the square, the three of them felt the ground shaking
violently.

"Earthquake! It's an earthquake!" Someone shouted from the crowd, which immediately triggered a
wave of panic.

Emily was comparatively calm as she ran towards the open space with her two panic-stricken
colleagues. When she looked back, she saw a little boy, about three or four years old, standing not so
far away, motionless and stunned, as if fear had gripped him firmly.

Right next to the boy was a stone statue, teetering, as if it would fall on him at any moment.

Despite the dissuasion of her colleagues, Emily rushed to the child without hesitation and pulled him to
the side, just before the statue fell down.

"Bang!" The statue fell down and broke into pieces.

The little boy finally burst out in tears, but Emily had no time to comfort him, for at that moment, all she
could do was to bring the child to a safe place first.

From the beginning until the end, the whole earthquake lasted for merely ten more seconds, and by
then the shopping mall in the square had collapsed to ruins. Seeing the devastation around them, the
people that had narrowly escaped were still shaken up.



When the boy's mother found them, she couldn't restrain herself from crying, relieved by the fact that
her son was safe and sound.

Emily and her colleagues quickly began to console the mother and the son, even though they were still
in shock themselves. The mother stopped crying and holding her child firmly while repeating her
gratitude.

"Emily, you are really brave!" Sue, her colleague, raised her thumb to Emily in appreciation.

Sue thought to herself, 'If it were up to me, I would have never been able to move at such speed with
such courage and boldness to save others.'

However, Emily was a little distracted. She smiled and said, "That's nothing."

At that critical moment, she didn't have much time to think. She acted out of instinct hoping that the boy
wouldn't get hurt. In retrospect, she didn't even know where the explosive force had come from at that
moment.

The damage caused by earthquake in Yunshi City was colossal. The traffic had paralyzed half the city.
After a brief discussion amongst themselves, Emily and her two colleagues decided to stay and do their
part in the rescue.

What she didn't know was that when the news of earthquake came to Jingshi City, Jacob was in his
office, as his usual emotionless facial expression changed suddenly and he even snapped his pen
without knowing it.


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