In This Life, I Will Extremely Pamper My Short-Lived Husband-Chapter 169: She Subconsciously Protected Her Belly

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: She Subconsciously Protected Her Belly

Xie Yanchuan spoke in a gentle voice, "Jinzhi has forgotten something, so I’m bringing it over to her."

Assistant Chen was startled again and turned to glance in the direction of Xu Jinzhi’s office, confirming that the blinds had not been opened yet.

Assistant Chen turned back to look at Xie Yanchuan, "But Mr. Xu hasn’t arrived at the company yet?"

Hearing Assistant Chen’s words, Xie Yanchuan subconsciously also looked over at Xu Jinzhi’s office.

"Mr. Xu usually opens the blinds first thing when he arrives at work," Assistant Chen explained, adding that he had arrived earlier than usual and indeed hadn’t seen Mr. Xu arrive.

Xie Yanchuan’s heart gave a sudden throb, so much time had passed, even if Xu Jinzhi had taken the stairs, she should have arrived by now!

Yet she still hadn’t appeared in the office!

That sense of unease surged up once again. Xie Yanchuan turned swiftly, dialing Xu Jinzhi’s number on his phone while he strode quickly toward the elevator.

However, the call went through but nobody answered.

He reached the elevator entrance and pressed the button, intending to go downstairs. But at that moment, the elevator wasn’t on that floor and didn’t arrive as quickly as he hoped.

Seeing the change in Xie Yanchuan’s expression, Assistant Chen had already realized that something was wrong. So when Xie Yanchuan turned to leave, Assistant Chen hurriedly followed.

Seeing that the elevator was still a wait, he took out his work pass to access the service elevator, which his work pass allowed him to use.

"This way is faster, Professor Xie," Assistant Chen said as he walked over. But when he tried to swipe his card, he realized it had no effect.

First, he was stunned, then he immediately thought of something and raised his head to look at Professor Xie. In that moment of eye contact, both understood the implications.

Xu Jinzhi was pregnant, and she normally used the service elevator to go up and down!

Today, Xu Jinzhi must also have used the service elevator to come to work, but she hadn’t shown up for so long...

Given the malfunction of the elevator and Xu Jinzhi not answering her phone, there was almost only one possibility, that Xu Jinzhi had an accident in the elevator!

The bag in his hand dropped to the ground, spilling various snacks inside, but Xie Yanchuan had no time to care about it. He snatched Assistant Chen’s work pass.

Xie Yanchuan rushed forward to swipe the card to call the elevator, but then he suddenly remembered he couldn’t do this because he didn’t know which floor the elevator was stuck on!

If he kept pressing the elevator button, causing the elevator to start again, Xu Jinzhi inside could possibly sustain a second injury!

Xie Yanchuan had no choice but to stop. He slapped the elevator door with his hand, and then shouted loudly, "Jinzhi, are you in there?"

After shouting, Xie Yanchuan listened quietly, but after a few seconds, there was still no movement inside.

"Jinzhi, are you in there?" Xie Yanchuan shouted again, his voice trembling.

After shouting twice in a row to no response, Xie Yanchuan felt almost breathless, but this was not the time for him to collapse.

Xie Yanchuan gritted his teeth fiercely and then said to Assistant Chen behind him, "Contact the staff, tell them to hurry over here!"

Without waiting for Assistant Chen’s reaction, Xie Yanchuan had already turned and run toward the nearby safety passage.

Xie Yanchuan also called the bodyguard, instructing him to start from the basement level and search floor by floor, to see exactly where Xu Jinzhi was trapped.

The commotion was too great, and soon even Xu Zhen, who had been on a business trip, had received the news—the company was in complete disarray!

At this very moment, Xu Jinzhi was lying in the elevator.

As the elevator plummeted rapidly, she pressed all the buttons for the floors she could, but when the elevator stopped, it trembled violently, and she couldn’t keep her balance and fell.

She instinctively wanted to protect her belly, but she was already seven and a half months pregnant, and no matter how much she wanted to protect her belly, she couldn’t.

Xu Jinzhi lay there in the elevator, as if she had already been in so much pain that it numbed her, and it took a while for her to regain her senses.

She saw that the elevator had stopped, but the doors hadn’t opened—no one outside could discover her.

She could only attempt a self-rescue, but she was in so much pain, she could feel that she was bleeding.

Her phone was at the other end, and she couldn’t bear the pain at this very moment, she couldn’t reach her phone.

The severe pain almost made Xu Jinzhi lose consciousness, tears fell from the corners of her eyes, and she didn’t know if she was about to die.

Her memories began to blur together—those from her past life and those from this life.

When all the memories merged, Xu Jinzhi felt like her rebirth had just been a dream, that she was already in her eighties with a failing body, just waiting to die in the hospital.

But the persistent ringing of her phone kept waking Xu Jinzhi; the clear sensation of pain made her realize that her rebirth was real!

The continuous ringing also indicated that someone must have realized she was in trouble!

Someone had discovered she was in trouble!

Xu Jinzhi suddenly felt an intense desire to survive.

She couldn’t die; Tuantuan was still in her belly, Tuantuan couldn’t be harmed!

Xu Jinzhi bit down hard on her teeth, trying to force herself to sit up, to reach her phone and then tell the other person which floor she was on.

But Xu Jinzhi truly had no strength, she couldn’t get up, even if she used all her strength, she couldn’t.

Xu Jinzhi felt desperate, couldn’t control her emotions, and tears kept falling from her eyes, she started sobbing uncontrollably.

She knew that doing this was totally useless at such a time, but she really couldn’t get up, although the phone was not far away, she just couldn’t bring it to herself.

"Is there anybody there?" Xu Jinzhi cried out loud, using all her strength to yell.

"Is there anyone out there?"

Xu Jinzhi shouted for a while, and her voice gradually weakened—this time, she really couldn’t hold on any longer, her eyelids were very heavy, and she couldn’t help but close her eyes.

In a daze, Xu Jinzhi heard Xie Yanchuan’s voice, she instinctively wanted to follow Xie Yanchuan’s voice, but she didn’t know where he was.

In the darkness, she couldn’t see anyone.

Xie Yanchuan was searching floor by floor, constantly calling out, but no one responded to him, there was no sound at all.

Xie Yanchuan didn’t know what Xu Jinzhi’s condition was at this point, he could only keep calling her, trying to locate Xu Jinzhi’s position with the ringtone of her phone. ƒreewebɳovel.com

It wasn’t until he reached a certain floor that there was still no response to Xu Jinzhi’s cries for help, but he faintly heard a familiar ringtone from within the elevator.