Besides... His posture was the same as before she drew the curtain. He was still standing there with his chin up, looking in her direction!Ling Yiran suddenly had an indescribable feeling, and she rushed out of the room.Not knowing where to find an umbrella, Ling Yiran grabbed a blanket, put it on top of her head, and rushed out in the rain to the lotus pond.Even though the blanket covered the top of her head and parts of her body, the rain still hit her arms and the front of her body.The raindrops were icy.Ling Yiran quickly ran up to Yi Jinli, gasped slightly, and said, "What are you doing standing here? It's raining. Hurry back in."However, he did not budge and stood where he was. "Why did you come out?" His cold voice rang out on the rainy night.He was all wet. His hair and face were wet with rain, and his black eyes were looking at her through the rain."We'll talk about it after we get inside," she said and took his hand to pull him inside.However, he did not mov
Ling Yiran ended up waiting for Yi Jinli in his bedroom.Even if she did not want to wait, there was no place she could go. After all, she could only move within the confines of the mansion. She could not escape even if she wanted to.In that case, she might as well not bother about it.Yi Jinli's bedroom was about the same size as hers, and the furniture was all vintage Chinese style. The difference was that his room had a wall covered with heavy curtains.'Could this wall... have residual blood on the wall like Splashes of Blood?'Ling Yiran found it a little creepy as she thought of this. She went to the wall, looked at the curtains, and wondered what was on the wall behind it. Perhaps... the curtains were only for decoration?Just then, the bathroom door opened and Yi Jinli came out of the bathroom after taking a shower.He had only wrapped a towel around his waist, showing his lean yet firm upper body. His black eyes were staring straight at her. She immediately felt like a
'Even though she doesn’t love me, she's now with me, isn't she?'Ling Yiran only felt a heavy weight on one side of her shoulder. Part of his weight was now on her shoulder.He was like a man exhausted to the core, looking for some support—even if it was only temporary.She seemed to be his support, his only support in this world. If she pushed him away, it was as if he would fall off a precipice.'God, how could I have such an idea?' thought Ling Yiran as she laughed at herself. She could never be his only support. It was only a delusion given by his weariness."Well... You should rest. I'll go back to my room," said Ling Yiran as she tried to leave.However, with a spin, he had suddenly pinned her down on the bed before she could take a step."Let me go!" She tried to push him away in a panic, but he only held her tighter."I won't do anything to you. I'm just… going to hold you like this," he muttered as he buried his face against her shoulders, taking in her scent and tempe
Now that he was sleeping, he looked like a man who had lost his edge. He was no longer overwhelming, but rather, he looked like a beautiful angel one could not help approaching.However, the frown on his brows made him look somewhat vulnerable.'Vulnerable?'Ling Yiran laughed and was about to pull herself out of his arms when his hand seemed to grab her unconsciously. Then... he caught four fingers of her right hand.Ling Yiran was startled and tried to pull her fingers out of his hand, but instead, she made him hold on tighter! It was as if he was clinging to his treasure and could not let it go.Ling Yiran was speechless. She still could not leave after all her efforts. 'Do I have to sleep in this bed with him tonight?'She tried several more times, but she could not withdraw her hand from his. In the end, she wondered if he was actually asleep or not.However, his eyes never opened, nor did he do anything else.Therefore, she could only comfort herself that they had slept t
"Can I leave the mansion?" she asked.He smiled, but the smile seemed weak because of his fever. "No, you can't leave without my consent!"'Come on, is this the time to say that?'"Do you have any medicine? Your temperature isn't low. You need to quickly take some medicine!" she said. She reckoned he got the fever from being caught in the rain last night."No," he replied lightly."Where's your phone? Contact your secretary Gao Congming and ask him to take you to the hospital," she said.He frowned and said, "I don't need to go to the hospital. It's just a fever. I'll be alright in a couple of days.""Even if you don't go to the hospital, at least you can get Gao Congming to buy some fever-reducing medicine," she said.He pursed his thin lips and said nothing but pushed the covers off him to get out of bed."You're not afraid of taking medicine, are you?" she asked casually.However, he stiffened and looked at her uneasily. His already flushed face seemed to grow a little red
"Does it hurt?" she asked as her hand went to the back of his head. She heard a loud noise earlier. It must have been his head hitting the floor.All she wanted to do was check the back of his head, but she forgot about their situation now. She was on top of him while he was naked to the waist.Her hands reached over to touch the back of his head as she lay on top of him, so their bodies clung closer together.He grabbed her wrist, and his hoarse voice rang in her ears. "Would you care about me if I said it hurt?"Her body stiffened slightly, and she noticed how close they were. Her lips barely touched his cheek as soon as she lowered her head.She stared at him. "If it hurts, you should contact the outside world immediately and go to the hospital for a check-up instead of enduring it when you have a fever. Yi Jinli, you only live once!"He suddenly smiled. "You can't bear to let me die, can you?"His face that was flushing because of his fever looked so stunning with his smile,
"I was curious and took a few more pills once. As a result, I slept for three days and got my stomach pumped in the hospital. It was only then that they found out that the servant had changed the pills," he said, looking up at her with intense self-mockery in his eyes."You know what? That servant was the nicest person to me when I first got to the Yi family. She showed great concern for me. Every day, she would smile gently as she watched me take the ‘vitamin’ pills she had switched out." Anger welled up in Ling Yiran's heart. "How could someone do this to a child just to make life easier and go on a date? Didn’t she think about the consequences of a child taking too many sleeping pills?"In severe cases, it could even lead to mental distress in kids.Yi Jinli smiled lightly. "There are many people like that in the world. They can easily sacrifice others for small profits.""What happened afterward? What happened to the servant?" asked Ling Yiran."The Yi family fired her," he
'Why would he take the medicine I gave him? Is it because of trust?'If he trusts me, why could he trust the me who gave him medicine but not my feelings? If he had given me a little more trust, maybe we wouldn't have broken up at all.'Now, this trust seemed ironic.Even when he was asleep now, his brows were furrowed and a thin layer of sweat had broken out on his forehead.As such, Ling Yiran fetched a towel from the bathroom and gently wiped the sweat off his forehead."Mom... Mom..." he cried out in a stammer. His voice was so low it was almost a whisper. She had to be very close to hear what he was saying. 'Is he... dreaming? Is he dreaming of his mother?' Ling Yiran thought to herself.She remembered hearing him say that his mother had left him and her husband when he was young because she could not bear to live in poverty.All these years, his mother never showed up in front of him again.She remembered there was a wound on his chest that had nearly killed him, though