Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
In Zi Jing City, the crowd gradually dispersed.
Ji Nuan looked around. “When did Miss Shi leave?”
“The scene just now was enough to cut her heart into a thousand pieces. If she still doesn’t leave, could it be that she should stand here and wait for us to say a few hypocritical words of comfort to her?” Nanheng stood by the side, holding a bronze lighter in his hand and casually playing with it.
Shi Niange had indeed left.
Before the crowd dispersed, she saw Qin Siting turn around and walk out without hesitation. Ling Xuaner also followed closely behind him. She knew that there was no need for her to stay.
She had just walked to the parking lot and opened the car door when she suddenly heard a weak and slightly hoarse voice. “W-why were you here today? Aren’t you a doctor? I heard that you’re usually very busy. Why do you have time to come to such a place…”
It was Ling Xuaner’s voice.
Shi Niange placed her hand on the car door and looked back. She saw that there was a gray Porsche parked about seven to eight cars away. Qin Siting had already opened the car door. It seemed like he was planning to let Ling Xuaner sit in.
Ling Xuaner followed closely behind him, looking at him timidly and helplessly. She was still wrapped in his coat. Her hair was messy, and her eyes were red from crying. She looked pitiful.
Qin Siting did not answer. He only gave her a packet of wet wipes he found in the car. Ling Xuaner received it and quickly took out the wet wipes to wipe the tears and wine stains on her face. There were also various dirty and messy marks. As she wiped, she suddenly could not help but cry as though she had been wronged. She cried and sobbed.
Qin Siting stood there watching her cry. He did not impatiently tell her to stop crying, nor did he say anything else.
Ling Xuaner cried for a long time as though she was venting her feelings in front of the person she liked. She then sniffled and quickly took out a wet towel to wipe her tears. In the end, she looked at him with red eyes, embarrassed and helpless. “I’m sorry. I didn’t want you to see me in such a sorry state… but after the Ling family’s accident, I really didn’t expect myself to be reduced to such a state…”
Qin Siting did not answer her. He only looked at her and then at her legs.
When those people chased her, she seemed to have scratched her leg with the corner of a table, leaving behind a trail of blood and purple bruises.
“Can you still walk?” he asked.
Ling Xuaner nodded with reddened eyes. Then she suddenly shook her head and nodded again. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head again, as though her emotions were very complicated. She hoped that he could help her, but she was also afraid that he would hate her if she looked too miserable.
Only girls could understand a girl’s thoughts.
Shi Niange watched this scene. When she saw Ling Xuaner’s dependent gaze, she suddenly recalled her past self from more than four years ago.
If she hadn’t gritted her teeth and endured it alone…, if she had also stood helplessly in front of him and cried, would he not have been angry?
However, she walked in the opposite direction.
It was clearly summer in Hai City, but the cold air in the night wind made one especially awake.
Shi Niange was not in the mood to look anymore. She sat in the car and closed the door. The row in the parking lot was in the middle. The front and back could be driven out. She did not choose to drive the car away from the gray Porsche. Instead, she drove the car backward. After retreating to a wide area, she turned the car in another direction and drove into the road, joining the vast traffic.
Ling Xuaner was still standing in front of Qin Siting, watching him carefully.
Qin Siting said, “I will call someone to take you to the hospital so you can take a look at the wound on your leg. There will be people handling the matters there. Those people don’t have the ability or the guts to continue making things difficult for you.”
Ling Xuaner bit her lip and looked at him, then at his car, asking, “Can I take your car?”
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned to open the car door.
The moment her hand touched the door, she suddenly heard the sound of the car door being locked. She pressed her hand against the door and looked up at him.
Qin Siting played with the electronic car keys with one hand and picked up his phone with the other to make a call. After connecting, he said, “Old Zhou, get someone to drive to Zi Jing City to pick someone up. She has a wound on her leg, so bring her to the hospital and have a look. After settling it, find a place nearby to let her stay in. We’ll talk about the rest when I go to the hospital to work tomorrow.”
After speaking, he hung up the phone and looked at her. “Someone will come to pick you up soon. They’re my colleagues from the hospital. Go with them.”
Ling Xuaner looked at him in a daze. There was a car in front of her, and if they returned to the hospital, he could have directly driven her there, but he clearly did not plan on doing so.
Her hands trembled as she left his car. She bit her lip and answered, “Oh.”
“I know that something happened to the Ling family, but I haven’t gone to find out what exactly happened. If you need help, you can ask your father to talk to my father. After all, we used to be friends for many years. Since I’ve seen what happened to you today, bringing you out is just a small matter. You don’t have to thank me, and you don’t have to look for me in the future. I don’t have time to care too much.”
These words were neither too long nor too short, instantly extinguishing the little bit of hope that had been ignited in Ling Xuaner’s heart.
She clenched her fists with a pale expression. “Qin Siting… I…”
Qin Siting glanced at the time. “The car should arrive in about ten minutes.”
He stopped her from bringing up the topic again.
Ling Xuaner could only stop speaking. Her heart was filled with grievance and fear. Especially earlier, she had thought that his heart would soften because of her current state. She had thought that he would drive her home, that his heart would ache for her, and that he would take care of her…
However, it was clear that he was the same as when she had cried and wanted to look for him, wanting to ask him why he refused the marriage. He had never changed and had no interest in her.
He didn’t even allow her to sit in his car.
Ling Xuaner wanted to speak several times, but when she raised her eyes to look at him standing by the car, she found that his expression was especially cold. Usually, he didn’t seem like someone who was easily approached, but today he appeared especially cold. The atmosphere around him was ice-cold and oppressive, making people not dare to breathe heavily.
Sure enough, the car from Hai City Central Hospital arrived in ten minutes. A doctor in a white coat came down to greet him. After Qin Siting gave a few simple instructions, the doctor surnamed Zhou called her to get in.
Ling Xuaner walked in the direction of that car, turning back three times with every step.
After handing the person over to Old Zhou, Qin Siting drove the car away without any hesitation, without even greeting her, let alone looking at her again.
