Chapter 216: I don’t want to hide it from you.
Translator: 549690339
“Yeah, I’ll be careful. However, you should beware of the outside world, Zhou
Mingfu’s cause of death hasn’t been cleared yet.”
Wen Jin advised worriedly, MO Xiuchen was injured, and Ranran was in City C, but nobody was there to protect her.
After hanging up the call, under MO Xiuchen’s coaxing, Wen Ran really fell asleep.
Last night, she had awakened from a dream while sleeping alone at home. Now, with MO Xiuchen by her side, she slept deeply and calmly, without dreaming at all.
MO Xiuchen stayed by her side, watching her. He remembered that Wen Jin once told him that Ranran was plagued by the same nightmare since she was a child, almost every Thursday, she would have that dream.
He remembered, once, when he returned home late at night, it happened to be when she was awakened by a nightmare. At that time, she said she dreamt of her parents.
Even more memorable, a decade ago, the very Thursday night when that little girl made him run away…
He initially planned to sleep late or set an alarm to call her at dawn. He didn’t expect he would get injured, and end up with no sleep at all.
When Wen Ran texted him, he was awake. He hesitated for a while, then called her back.
Unexpectedly, at that time, a patient next door had an issue. Wen Ran overheard the commotion on this side and guessed that he was in the hospital.
When he heard her choked voice on the phone, his heart wrenched – the pain felt more intense than the physical injury.
Since he found out about her past, and that she was the girl from his own past, perhaps all her encounters were a consequence of him letting himself go. His affection for her deepened a bit more.
In the middle of all this, the nurse came in to change the infusion. Before she spoke, he gestured for her to keep quiet, fearing it would wake up the sleeping woman on the bed next to his.
His infusion lasted over two hours.
Looking at the peacefully sleeping woman by his side, MO Xiuchen couldn’t help but smile subtly. He took out his phone, called Luo Haofeng in G City, then called Qin Mu to bring some lunch over.
Eventually, he called the person in charge of the local factory in City C.
When Wen Ran woke up, it was already past noon.
Qin Mu just brought lunch to the hospital, seeing Wen Ran asleep on the bed didn’t surprise him. He exchanged a glance with MO Xiuchen, not saying a word, and placed the food on the bedside table.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ran woke up.
“How long have I been asleep?”
Wen Ran just woke up, her mind somewhat blank. She glanced at MO Xiuchen and Qin Mu, her gaze lingered for a few seconds on the back of MO Xiuchen’s hand where the needle was inserted. Finally, she looked at the meal on the table, “Is it already noon?
MO Xiuchen chuckled lightly, his eyes filled with indulgence, “Yes, you woke up at the right time, it’s past twelve already.”
“Isn’t it already one fifteen?”
Qin Mu’s words were met with a sharp glare from MO Xiuchen.
Feeling indifferent, he arched an eyebrow and complained discontentedly, “Didn’t I tell the truth? It’s already one fifteen. You anticipated Wen Ran would wake up around this time and asked me to bring the lunch…”
He didn’t complete his sentence.
At this point, Qin Mu was severely dissatisfied with both MO Xiuchen and Wen Ran. They were always thinking of each other, but no one seemed to care about him.
He had been disturbed at 2 AM the previous night, accompanied Wen Ran to G City, worried about a possible argument between her and MO Xiuchen, and only thought about getting some sleep after seeing them OK.
However, just as he was about to close his eyes, MO Xiuchen woke him with a call, asking him to serve as his helper.
Now, he was not even allowed to be truthful, and he felt that MO Xiuchen was prioritizing romance over their friendship!
Upon hearing Qin Mu’s words, Wen Ran looked apologetic, “Why don’t you eat first? You’re the one who’s ill after all.”
MO Xiuchen’s expressions changed faster than the weather. He shot Qin Mu a “killing” look, but the moment he turned his head to Wen Ran, his eyes instantly softened, “I’m not hungry, don’t believe Ah Mu. He must have been corrupted by Ah Feng once again.”
Qin Mu twitched his lips and rolled his eyes, looking at the ceiling in disinterest, not bothering to pay attention to MO Xiuchen.
Luo Haofeng, all the way in G City, suddenly sneezed twice. Rubbing his nose, he muttered to himself, who’s badmouthing me?
When Wen Ran came out of the bathroom after washing her hands, Qin Mu was nowhere to be found. MO Xiuchen said simply, “Ah Mu had lunch before he came here. He had some affairs to attend to, so I asked him to leave first.”
After they finished lunch, Wen Ran cleared up the utensils, poured a cup of boiled water for MO Xiuchen, and finally settled down on the edge of the bed, and gently asked, “Does the wound hurt a lot?”
“It doesn’t hurt, really.”
MO Xiuchen knew that she cared for him, the warmth in his heart made him play with her soft slender hand, he explained proactively,” Yuanben, the deceased’s family did agree to our terms. We have already paid the compensation, but yesterday, I don’t know who influenced the deceased’s wife, but she felt the compensation was too low and demanded twice the amount.”
Wen Ran’s brows gently furrowed, she didn’t interrupt him.
MO Xiuchen paused for a moment before continuing, “The primary responsibility for the worker’s accident lies with him, as he didn’t follow the standard operating procedures. I agreed to give his family one million, which is more than enough, but that woman caused all the fuss, insisting we had killed her husband…”
Wen Ran silently soothed him by holding MO Xiuchen’s fingers.
MO Xiuchen wasn’t actually angry; his tone was cool and indifferent. He understood the grief of a woman who has just lost her husband, but he absolutely would not let her randomly raise the price.
He simply explained the situation to her, but that woman didn’t listen. MO Xiuchen didn’t anticipate that she would carry a dagger with her. At that moment, Shen Yuting came to see him, and he carelessly underestimated the fact that the woman could become desperate.
Just as he and Shen Yuting had started talking, they heard the woman’s shrill voice saying, “If you refuse to pay the money, then compensate with your life!”
Seeing the woman’s dagger headed their way, Shen Yuting blurted out, ‘Xiuchen, be careful’, instinctively trying to protect him.
Who knew, the woman cunningly changed the direction of the dagger and maliciously stabbed Shen Yuting. How could MO Xiuchen, being a man, let Shen Yuting get hurt… in the end, the dagger ended up in his abdomen.
The sound of the knife penetrating his flesh stunned everyone present. After seeing blood spurt out, the woman turned deathly pale, dropped her knife, and collapsed onto the floor.
Tears welled up in Shen Yuting’s eyes.
With a choked voice, she called out MO Xiuchen’s name, another woman crying for him. But unlike Wen Ran, MO Xiuchen could turn a deaf ear to Shen Yuting’s tears… the moment he heard Wen Ran crying over the phone, it felt as if an invisible hand had ruthlessly gripped his heart, it was suffocating him.
“…Ranran, that’s the whole truth, I don’t want to hide any details from you. Shen Yuting came to City C for a lecture this week, and she knew I was here for a business trip, so she came to see me….”