Mr. Rong's Lovelorn Diary

C13. Can't you just knock him out first?

Both men in the room, one standing and the other still lying in bed, were startled. The thief squatted down and picked up something from the floor.

When he stood up with that thing in hand and looked back at the place where Rong Yi was lying, Rong Yi was sitting up, his neck stretched and eyes wide open, trying to see what the thief had just picked up.

The air was instantly frozen.

Rong Yi saw a flash of cold reflection in the dim room.

Oh no. it was a 20-centimeter-long, pointy-headed kitchen knife that the guy had just dropped and picked up again from the floor. If he remembered correctly, Rong Yi had used it to cut vegetables that night. It was incredibly sharp.

In the midst of a sudden panic, Rong Yi's brain went blank completely. Lucky or not, the thief with the knife looked almost as flustered as he did.

But the fact that one had only two bare hands while the other had a lethal weapon was definitely giving them different levels of confidence.

After they had stared at each other for a while, the burglar suddenly raised up the knife at him just as Rong swallowed down his fear.

"You, you, you, you don't move!" The knife was shaking uncontrollably in the thief's hand. "You, you, you lie down!"

Rong Yi found the two orders somewhat contradictory, but under the circumstances he thought he'd better be wise enough not to express any opinion.

The thief then slowly backed toward the door. Tripped over by something unknown, he suddenly slipped at his feet, and his whole body stumbled backwards.

Rong Yi took the opportunity to throw back his duvet and jumped off the bed. He shot up a kick at the thief. However, he was after all slightly torpid due to lack of sleep, his kick only managed to push thief back a few steps, but didn't knock him down completely.

The thief was barely on his feet, but he had a very tight grip on the knife. After banging into the door because of Rong Yi's kick, he was probably so mad at Rong Yi that he flung himself at Rong Yi, waving the knife in a frenzy.

Completely panicked, Rong Yi grabbed the pillow and threw it at the thief, then quickly pulled the duvet over his own head.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Rong Yi?" from outside the door, there came that really nice, mellow and melodious baritone voice that he was so familiar with.

"Are you okay?"

Rong Yi, his head still covered under the duvet, took a deep breath and shouted out: "Burglar--!"

Rong Yi didn't see what happened within the few seconds after that.

The duvet had blocked out most of his view, and he could only hear the door being flung open and the thief in front of him cursing. It sounded like the two of them were grappling with each other, and Chen Keyao was calling his name.

When Rong Yi lifted up the duvet, another clanging sound came nearby.

The knife fell onto the floor again.

Now that the thief had lost his weapon, with the two-to-one situation and an ace teammate, Rong Yi was naturally fearless. But just when he was getting up to try and kick some more, he found thief down on the floor already.

In the darkness, Rong Yi could only vaguely see Chen Keyao had pinned the thief down underneath him. The thief was feeling rather indignant and kept cursing and attempting more jumps. Unfortunately, Chen Keyao was a pro, and his struggle was futile.