The next morning, Shen Yuechuan returned from the hotel to his apartment.
He was wearing the same clothes as yesterday, but his hairstyle had been meticulously arranged, and his shirt was not messy at all. He was still handsome and charming.
The moment he entered the living room, he saw the figure on the sofa.
Although Xiao Yunyun was thin, she was 1.68 meters tall. At this moment, she had shrunk into a small ball on the sofa, looking like a child, a wounded girl.
Shen Yuechuan went back to his room and took out a new set of clothes to change into. On the way to the bathroom, he stopped and glanced at Xiao Yunyun. He asked lightly, “Why did you get up so early?”
“I have been waiting for you.” Xiao Yunyun looked up at Shen Yuechuan. “You didn’t come back last night.”
She looked extremely haggard, and her eyes were bloodshot. It was obvious that she had not slept well.
Shen Yuechuan frowned. “Didn’t you sleep?”
“I can’t fall asleep.” Xiao Yunyun looked at Shen Yuechuan stubbornly. “Last night, you were with Lin Zhixia, right?”
“Is there something wrong with that?” Shen Yuechuan asked, “she is my girlfriend.”
Xiao Yunyun lowered her head and said, “No.”
Precisely because it was not strange that they were a couple and what they had done was justifiable, Xiao Yunyun was even more sad.
Xiao Yunyun lowered her head, her mind empty and her eyes red.
“It’s stupid to cry over such a thing, isn’t it?”
Xiao Yunyun didn’t want to be stupid anymore, so she could only persuade herself not to think about it. She tried to distract herself with something else. “Can you give the job back to that security guard?”
“No,” Shen Yuechuan said coldly, “he has gone back to his hometown.”
“…”
Xiao Yunyun didn’t know whether this job was important to the security guard or not. She didn’t know if he could find a better job after losing this one, either.
But she knew that Shen Yuechuan shouldn’t take out his anger on an innocent person.
“Shen Yuechuan, you jerk!” Xiao Yunyun couldn’t help crying. “Why did you do this?”
“It’s you who is being even more unreasonable,” Shen Yuechuan said, “you don’t have to pay the price for your willfulness, but someone else has to.”
“Nonsense! If you hadn’t complained, it would have all been fine. You did it on purpose!” Xiao Yunyun stood up and glared at Shen Yuechuan. “Do you think you can make me feel guilty and let me go?”
“…”
Xiao Yunyun was right. That was what Shen Yuechuan was really considering.
But at this moment, he suddenly had a bad feeling.
“You’re dreaming!” Sure enough, Xiao Yunyun emphasized his words with an unconvinced look, “Shen Yuechuan, the more you act like this, the more I won’t go. I can find the security guard and give him all the money you gave me, but I won’t go!”
Shen Yuechuan asked, “What if I tell you that I want to live with Zhixia?”
“…”
Xiao Yunyun was in a daze.
“Is Shen Yuechuan going to live with Lin Zhixia?
“Damn it, this is the most devastating blow!”
Xiao Yunyun was tossed into a bottomless abyss. After a long time, she came to her senses and struggled to resist. “I still won’t go. The worst thing is that Lin Zhixia knows that I like you.”
“You’re still working as an intern,” Shen Yuechuan threatened. “If your colleagues and patients know that you like your brother, do you think they will still trust you?”
Xiao Yunyun was not afraid of it. She laughed, walked over to Shen Yuechuan and said slowly, “If you’re willing to ruin my reputation, just let Lin Zhixia move in.”
Yes, not only was she not afraid of Shen Yuechuan’s threat, she had also turned to threaten him.
Shen Yuechuan had to admit that Xiao Yunyun had hit his sore spot.
His bottom line was Xiao Yunyun’s reputation and personal safety. He was trying to avoid all this. What he had just said was a threat to Xiao Yunyun, but Xiao Yunyun was smarter than he had imagined and knew that he would not be so cruel.
Shen Yuechuan shook his head. “Xiao Yunyun, you’re simply beyond redemption.”
But he was the only one who knew that in fact, he had already incurably fallen in love with her.
Xiao Yunyun said with a look of disagreement, “No, you’ll fix me! By the way, if you don’t come back tonight, I’ll come and find you.”
After that, Xiao Yunyun returned to her usual appearance and rushed into the bathroom to wash.
Shen Yuechuan threw the coat on the sofa and sat down with a headache.
He had to now admit that he couldn’t deal with Xiao Yunyun.
Because he could never bear to really hurt her.
Since it had been such a rough morning, Xiao Yunyun wasn’t expecting to have breakfast with Shen Yuechuan. She searched his coat pocket and found her domestic driver’s license, then took it away and left.
She didn’t go to the hospital. Instead, she took a taxi home. After looking through the information on her cell, she found the parking lot number sent by Luo Xiaoxi and searched for it. Sure enough, she saw the white Porsche Panamera on the parking lot.
She finally had her own car!
Xiao Yunyun got in the car without hesitation, and after getting familiar with the controls, she drove directly to the hospital.
At the same time, Shen Yuechuan was still at home.
After thinking about it for a long time, he called Lin Zhixia and invited her to lunch at noon.
At noon, Lin Zhixia arrived early at the restaurant that she had made an appointment at with Shen Yuechuan. To her surprise, Shen Yuechuan had already arrived.
Lin Zhixia was very confused. “Why don’t we meet in the afternoon? I only have two hours available at noon, so I can’t have a good chat with you.”
“I just need you to do something for me,” Shen Yuechuan answered.
“What is it?” Lin Zhixia asked in a soft voice, “tell me. As long as I can do it, I will help you.”
“Tell Yunyun that we were together last night.” After a pause, Shen Yuechuan added, “You can act like something’s happening between us. I will cooperate with you. You can even tell Yunyun that I want to get engaged to you.”
Lin Zhixia was stunned.
When Shen Yuechuan confessed to her that day, thinking of the photos she had received the day before, she had already guessed it.
It was really Xiao Yunyun.
She wisely pretended to be stunned and looked at Shen Yuechuan incredulously. “So, it is Yunyun, right? Aren’t you her half-brother?”
“She knew me for a long time before she knew that I was her brother, so she wrongly developed feelings for me,” Shen Yuechuan said, “I need you to let her know the truth.”
“You don’t have a solution?” Lin Zhixia pondered for a moment before saying very understandingly, “In terms of love, sometimes you can’t control yourself, let alone outsiders. Besides, this is between you and Yunyun. It will be better for you to deal with it. I don’t want to hurt Yunyun.”
Shen Yuechuan said helplessly, “I tried, but it was in vain.”
Lin Zhixia nodded. “I see. I… I’ll give it a try.”
“You can be excessive with her,” Shen Yuechuan said, “I just want her to give up.”
“I don’t think I should be too cruel.” Lin Zhixia shook her head. “You know, Yunyun is the kind of girl that people can’t bear to hurt. But, I want to ask you a question. Why do you dare to tell me?”
Shen Yuechuan just replied, “I believe you.”
Lin Zhixia smiled and pursed her lips. “Well, since you believe me, I’ll try my best to help Yunyun.” She looked at the time and said, “It’s getting late. I’ll first go back to the hospital.”
Shen Yuechuan sent Lin Zhixia back to the hospital. He watched her walk in and asked the driver to take him back to the company.
He sincerely believed that Lin Zhixia could make Xiao Yunyun give up.
An afternoon passed by smoothly.
Xiao Yunyun yawned as she took her bag and left the office.
Early that morning, she drank a cup of espresso while pinching her nose. In the afternoon, she drank a big cup of American coffee which was as effective as an espresso. Finally, she held on until she got off work.
Now she just wanted to return and sleep in bed until tomorrow.
When Xiao Yunyun yawned and walked out of the elevator, Lin Zhixia suddenly appeared in front of her. He called out to her, “Yunyun!”
Xiao Yunyun was caught off guard and therefore was scared out of her wits. “Zhixia…”
“Did I scare you?” Lin Zhixia took Xiao Yunyun’s hand and said, “I’m sorry.”
Xiao Yunyun felt lively enough to drive. She shook her head indifferently and said, “It’s okay. There’s nothing to apologize for.”
“As long as you don’t blame me.” Lin Zhixia smiled and said, “Yesterday morning, something unpleasant seemed to happen between you and your brother. I asked your brother, but he didn’t want to tell me about it. Have you reconciled with each other now?”
Xiao Yunyun curled her lips and said, “I won’t make peace with him.”
“I persuaded your brother this morning,” Lin Zhixia said, “and when he left, he promised me he would have a good talk with you today.”
A picture suddenly appeared in Xiao Yunyun’s mind: Shen Yuechuan and Lin Zhixia intimately snuggled up with each other, making everyone jealous.
She froze and refused to think about it. She also refused to let Lin Zhixia get close to her.
Lin Zhixia had once been intimate with Shen Yuechuan, and she was afraid that she would lose control of herself.
Xiao Yunyun shook her off unnaturally and said, “Thank you, but Shen Yuechuan and I… You can’t solve our problem.”
Lin Zhixia was stunned. “Yunyun, do you think I’m being nosy?”
“No, I didn’t mean that.” Xiao Yunyun was upset and didn’t want to get any closer to Lin Zhixia. “I’ll go first.”
She no longer cared about Lin Zhixia and turned to leave.
Lin Zhixia looked at Xiao Yunyun’s back, and the tenderness and smile on her face disappeared little by little, like the fading light of the setting sun reflected on a wall.
She was just wondering if she should go after Xiao Yunyun when her phone rang. It was a call from one of her friends.
The friend said in an anxious tone, “Zhixia, I want to ask you something. Aren’t you working in the Eighth People’s Hospital? I have a relative who is going to have an operation there soon. The main surgeon is Doctor Xu of the cardiac surgery department. Do you think I should…?”
Lin Zhixia was about to say something, when she turned on the iPad to have a check and saw that the assistant for the operation was Xiao Yunyun.
She replied. “You’d better do it. In this case, the doctor will do his best with the operation.”
“That’s what I said!” The friend smiled. “But I heard that doctors usually don’t accept it in person. What should I do?”
“You can give it to the assistant,” Lin Zhixia said, “tell the assistant to hand it over to the surgeon. The surgeon will understand.”
“That’s a good idea! Thank you. I knew it. I was right to ask someone working at the hospital!”
“You’re welcome.” Lin Zhixia then warned her friend: “However, it’s not proper to speak publicly about this kind of thing. So, don’t tell others that it was me who told you to do this.”
“Okay, okay. Don’t worry. Of course I understand this rule.” After a pause, her friend asked again, “But who should I hand it to since there are so many assistants?”
Lin Zhixia looked at the personnel list. Xiao Yunyun was the only intern.
She smiled and said, “Give it to one of the interns. They are not experienced, so it’s relatively easy for them to trust patients and their family members.”
