Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 597 - 463: Gunshot!

"So many eyes are watching, and yet you have such a stern face—it really does look awful..."

Chu Jiao wore the most beautiful smile, but with a voice only Eric could hear, she said mockingly.

Eric didn’t reply to her, just turned his face away a little, somewhat disgusted. As a result, his face turned away like that...

His gaze met Qin Hui’s, who was staring firmly at him. Her big, bright eyes looked straight at him, seemingly asking him...

Why?

The most foolish question, yet one he couldn’t possibly answer.

People aren’t machines; you can’t program them to run without faults or mistakes.

Humans...are controlled by emotions. A slight deviation in thought can lead to irreversible actions.

He was in distress, yet it was a mess of his own making.

Qin Hui’s eyes were filled with tears, and with the slightest blink of her eyelashes, the tears could fall...

To be honest, he hadn’t been in a relationship with Qin Hui for long. In the short time they were together, he had never seen her show any negative emotions.

Qin Hui... was like a little sun, very much like Su Xiaomeng, but seemed a bit more steady than Su Xiaomeng.

"You mean... you agreed to date me?!"

"Yes."

"But, I haven’t even asked you to date me yet...how come you agreed?"

She asked him foolishly, as if she thought she had misheard. But even if she thought she misheard, there was an unmistakable excitement in her words.

"There’s no need for you to say it; it’s written in your eyes!"

"Ah? That obvious..."

She hurriedly covered her eyes, like a girl whose secret had been discovered, and though her reaction was a little delayed, Eric found it adorable.

She cried, and Eric thought he could hear it, her heart crying out loudly!

His heart ached sharply, and his hands involuntarily clenched into fists.

His chest was filled with surging passion, and he suddenly felt an impulse, wanting to shake off the woman beside him, to pull Qin Hui out from the guest seats, to pull Qin Hui into his arms...

"I don’t want to marry her; I want to marry you!"

He wanted to say this, his heart full of impulsive shouting...

"You’re getting married... can’t I come?"

She sent him a text message, simply asking.

He didn’t want her to come, but she insisted on coming.

He clearly had said such harsh words back then, so why look at him with such a pained and bitter expression...

Qin Hui pressed her lips together, her heart also throbbing with pain, as they stepped on the red carpet step by step along with the music, as if stepping on her heart.

She wanted to cut open this man’s chest to see what color his heart really was.

She wanted to pry open this man’s brain to see what he was thinking at this moment...

Any guilt towards her? Any longing and reluctance?

"What are you doing?"

Chu Jiao noticed the arm she was holding onto exerted a force, an impulse to break free coming from this man...

Eric was pulled back to his senses by Chu Jiao’s voice.

Taking a deep breath, with level gaze, he had already wronged Qin Hui and couldn’t do more things against her.

Turning his face directly, this girl deserved someone much better than him.

Just as Eric was thinking this, suddenly—

"Boom!"

A loud explosion came from the guest seats!

In that instant, Eric’s mind went blank; he almost instinctively turned his head, body breaking free from Chu Jiao, looking towards Qin Hui!

This explosion sound was enough to cause the guests present to jump up in panic!

Xiao Meng quickly pulled Shuangshuang and Huang Huang firmly to her side, turning to look towards the direction the explosion sound came from!

A cloud of gray-black smoke dispersed at the far end of the guest seats!

The security guards and bodyguards maintaining order at the wedding, including the soldiers following the Prince and Princess, were on high alert!

The gray-black smoke looked truly terrifying, and the guests started to leave their seats, moving to a safer distance!

Upon closer inspection by attendants, it was discovered that the explosion was not something else, but the fireworks cannon planned for the wedding.

"How did this fireworks cannon end up here? Who put it here?"

The wedding site controllers hurried to have the security remove the exploded black fireworks cannon.

The emcee quickly stood at the front, offering simple reassurance to the guests present, and gave a vague explanation of the explosion’s cause.

The guests looked at each other in bewilderment; it was impossible not to panic relying solely on the host’s words.

However, Windsor Eric’s wedding was also quite an important occasion, and it wasn’t easy to leave immediately out of fear.

After a brief chaos, the wedding resumed...

Chu Jiao looked at Eric,

"Why did you come back, if you’re so reluctant..."

The words were still laced with sarcasm.

Just moments ago, when the explosion rang out, Eric almost immediately ran to the guest seats where Qin Hui was sitting, pulling her to a relatively safer place.

Chu Jiao stood at the center of the red carpet, in that instant, unable to grasp or rely on anything.

The Windsor family’s bodyguards escorted her away...

She stood dumbfounded at a distance, watching her husband, in the face of impending danger, unhesitantly choose to protect someone else.

Chu Jiao had no expectations for this marriage, and even entered it with resentment and the thought of revenge...

But as a woman...

She had no love, no marriage she desired, and even no freedom...

The only remaining bit of dignity and pride was also lost at the moment her husband turned unhesitantly for another woman’s safety.

Saying this, it seemed somewhat pathetic...

She didn’t know what Eric said to the young girl he liked, but eventually Eric came back.

They still had to walk the red carpet, and the music started again.

The gray-black smoke seemed to become an intentionally ignored interlude.

The distracted groom and bride, along with the guests who calmed down, ignored this interlude.

However, the Windsor family’s bodyguards and the guards around the Prince and Princess could not ignore this bizarre and strange interlude.

They began investigating this inexplicable explosion of black fireworks.

The fireworks couldn’t have been placed near the guest seats.

Moreover, only this box of fireworks was distinctively placed here.

Fireworks need fire to explode... How did it explode when no one ignited them?

Thus, the question arose: Who was seated in this empty position just now?

Puzzled guests could ignore this question, but the guards could not.

Because today, Prince Harry of the United Kingdom and Princess Sherry were present.

The head of the guard hurried to the Prince after understanding the situation, whispered something in the Prince’s ear, and for a moment, the Prince’s face went rigid and looked terrible!

The Princess sitting beside the Prince also heard the head guard’s words and showed concern in her eyes at this moment.

Eric and Cherry had already stood on the podium, proceeding with the sacred wedding ceremony.

The guests’ attention was mostly on the two involved in the ceremony, unconsciously ignoring the Prince and Princess slowly rising to leave.

However, the move the guests ignored became glaringly impactful to those attentive!

Just as the British Prince and Princess stood up and hadn’t had time to step forward under tight protection—

"Bang," a gunshot rang out!

The bullet pierced through the chest and back of the guard shielding Prince Harry, hitting and killing him instantly, piercing his heart from behind! He fell immediately!

Many people were scared pale by this second’s incident!

An instant of suffocating silence, then someone led a scream, and the entire wedding turned into chaos!

The British Prince, frightened, hugged his head crouching down with the Princess, the guards almost simultaneously enveloping them completely!

Each drew their pistols and swords, their brave defensive postures unable to stop the bullets!

After all, this wasn’t the British Imperial Palace, nor were there thousands of guards to call upon!

As soon as the gunshot rang, even the guests accustomed to high society fled frantically!

In this brief instant, the screams of the guests, the gunshots mingled with the panic and fear, turned the originally festive wedding into the most terrifying funeral.

The host, scared, hid behind the podium!

Eric and Chu Jiao also hurriedly crouched down, moving to a place where they could hide!

Nobody knew what happened!

The guests, fleeing in all directions, had minds blank, only fear visibly marked on their faces!

At this moment, someone with keen eyes would notice...

The area thick with bullets... was ultimately where Prince Harry and the Princess were located.

Was it an assassination attempt? Or a terrorist attack?

This wasn’t something for the fleeing guests to consider; all they could think of was escaping with their lives!