At first, she froze for quite a while. Then she suddenly reacted more strongly, instinctively backing away.
But after only two steps, An accidentally stepped on something on the floor—what seemed to be a rolling pin... This was a storage room, filled with all kinds of odds and ends.
An lost her balance after stepping on the round wooden stick. Her body immediately toppled backward, striking her lower back before finally falling to the ground.
At that moment, a large basin was knocked upward by the cabinet and was about to come crashing down directly on An. She instinctively raised both hands to protect her head... hoping it would not hurt too much.
But it did not.
An slowly opened her eyes and discovered that the old basin was being held by the young man who had emerged from the secret passage.
"Are you all right?"
"You—you—you, who are you?!" In her panic, An hastily gripped the rolling pin that had tripped her with both hands.
She had knocked David down, but that did not mean she possessed any great fighting skills—she had merely succeeded through a sneak attack!
After setting down the basin in his hands, Boss Luo naturally extended a hand toward An, who was lying on the floor. "Can you stand?"
He... did not seem like a bad person.
For some inexplicable reason, An could feel a sense of reassurance. She instinctively reached out to the unfamiliar young man and stood up with his help.
"Thank you..." She did not know why she had said that... but she soon replaced her expression with wariness. "You are?"
Boss Luo smiled faintly. "I couldn't sleep tonight, so I went out for a casual stroll. I happened to discover a passage in the place where I was staying. Out of