Chapter 89
You lied to me. How could you lie to me?
The young lady’s bent knuckles were pressed against Fang Yi’s long, slender neck.
In the past, she had been a piece of elm wood in the deep mountains, a stubborn stone that the wind and frost could not penetrate, always steady, calm, and nothing could shake her. Only when she looked back would she smile faintly at her, revealing a rare softness.
But now she was lying on a hospital bed, wearing a shirt that was so reserved it was a little old-fashioned. The warm touch under her fingers rose and fell slightly, so fragile, like the white of a rubber band that was about to break when stretched to its limit.
“I’m sorry…”
Fang Yi subconsciously apologized.
Lin Shuxing’s tears fell on her cheek, rolled down her trembling throat, and finally disappeared into the hair on the side of her neck.
Fang Yi raised her right hand to wipe the young lady’s tears and awkwardly comforted her, “I’m fine. Don’t cry. It’s just a small scratch.”
“I have a strong recovery ability. It will be fine soon.”
“You lied to me,” the young lady emphasized, her tears still rolling, but her eyes were filled with a dark anger. “Is this your gift to me?”
“…”
Fang Yi looked away guiltily. “I’m sorry. I just didn’t want you to worry. I didn’t mean to lie to you, but I’m really fine.”
As she spoke, she wanted to sit up from the bed.
Her left hand had also been bandaged while she was asleep, making it inconvenient to move. She could only use her injured right hand. With this press, a little red soon seeped through the gauze.
“Lie down!”
Lin Shuxing’s tone became cold. The hand that was hooked around Fang Yi’s neck slid to her shoulder and forcefully pressed her back onto the hospital bed.
Half of her body was almost completely pressed on her. The strong floral fragrance almost solidified, blocking her breath, making it a little difficult to breathe.
The young lady’s amber pupils were against the light, completely different from the gaze she had used to look at Fang Yi before. The smile was gone, and the sticky emotions that had been suppressed in her heart all surged up.
“Have I been too good to you, Fang Yi?”
“You accompanied He Shuanghua to the hospital for an abortion, fine. You got into a car accident, and you’d rather conspire with Wang Quan to hide it from me. You have so many friends.”
The figure peeking at the door quickly covered its mouth and shrank back behind the wall in a panic.
Wang Quan!
Her silence just now was not at all a promise to keep a secret, but a delaying tactic.
Fang Yi came to her senses. Just as her gaze shifted a little, Lin Shuxing’s hand had already pinched her, and a sharp pain came from her jaw, viciously forcing her to meet her gaze.
“Fang Yi, you don’t even know where you went wrong!”
Fang Yi blinked and sincerely admitted her mistake. “I know now. I really do.”
I shouldn’t have told Wang Quan. This big mouth.
Lin Shuxing was all too familiar with this kind of clear black and white gaze. She really wanted to bite her to death for this unyielding appearance.
“If I were the one lying on the hospital bed, and you still had to hide it—”
Before Lin Shuxing could finish, Fang Yi had already raised her head, trying to kiss that face that was so close, and said seriously, “Don’t say such unlucky things.”
Lin Shuxing sneered and pulled away. “You still know what’s unlucky? Please put yourself in my shoes!”
Not having been kissed, Fang Yi fell back onto the pillow in disappointment and said in a small voice, “That’s different…”
“What’s different? Are you not human?”
The young lady was clearly a little angry. A thin layer of red appeared on her face, and the diamond earrings hanging from her earlobes swayed gently in her red hair.
She was wearing a sky-blue dress today, and her soft, fair skin seemed to be also rippling with a watery light, sparkling.
So beautiful. She’s also very cute when she’s angry, even cuter.
Fang Yi was a little dazed and felt that it was a bit inappropriate to say such things at a time like this, so she could only secretly swallow them.
This unspoken thought became her secret. When she swallowed it, it was even a little sweet. Even the soreness and fatigue in her body were diluted by the sugar water.
It’s just different.
She didn’t want to use the term “flower in a greenhouse” to describe Lin Shuxing, but she was indeed frail and passionate. Her moist lips were softer than petals, and it always made one worry that a slight force would break her beauty and make tears flow from her roots.
Lin Shuxing was a flower, a midsummer, a treasure, a collection of all things fragile and beautiful. She was born to be the center of attention and to be carefully protected.
Even the dark thoughts hidden in her heart, Fang Yi also thought were very cute. Her bad thoughts were not that bad. Her open ambition and desire were scattered on the red velvet, which was even more of a fatal temptation.
Fang Yi had waded through countless muddy roads. When she looked up, she had finally seen a burning red rose in the long night.
It was just different. She could be injured and work hard. She had long been used to these things. It was no big deal. But Lin Shuxing was different.
She was still so young, so delicate. She was afraid of pain, and tears would seep from the corners of her eyes when she took medicine. She had to be coaxed with dessert to be okay.
Even in bed, she couldn’t bear to make her cry, but she had still cried for her many times.
Fang Yi lowered her head and tentatively caressed Lin Shuxing’s hand, and said in a low voice, “Don’t be angry. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.”
This time, it was her carelessness that had given those people an opportunity. If she had been a little more vigilant, she should have been able to discover it the moment she had stopped. Those sniper points were actually very obvious, and the residential area did not have very good camouflage.
Her left hand was bandaged too tightly, and she could only move her arm. But the gauze on her right hand was bleeding. If she touched it, it might get Lin Shuxing dirty…
The reddened fingertips had not yet touched the young lady, but they stopped in mid-air with a sudden brake. She curled her fingers awkwardly and pulled them back.
Seeing her careful and pitiful appearance, the young lady bit her lip and took the initiative to take that retreating hand, and asked coldly, “What are you hiding from? Take it off and let me see.”
She rang the bell, and a nurse soon came in.
Fang Yi, who had just been confidently saying it was just a scratch, now held her fist and didn’t want to show her.
“It’s too private. Can you avoid it for a moment?”
The young lady’s face was expressionless. “You still have privacy with me? What private place have I not seen?”
“That’s different,” there was a stranger on the side. Fang Yi’s earlobes became a little red, and her voice lowered. “If you’re here, I’ll become very weak and afraid of pain. These feelings will be magnified, and I might hum, but it’s actually just to get your sympathy.”
“…”
She said these self-deprecating words with a straight face, her long, slender fingers unconsciously curling, her long eyelashes lowered, making it impossible to tell if they were her true feelings or a part of a plan.
But the unchangeable fact was that she was injured now, and perhaps very seriously, like a wild animal that would hide and lick its wounds. No matter what, Lin Shuxing was very heartbroken.
Not sympathy, but pity.
The stronger Fang Yi acted, the more the young lady couldn’t help but think, was she always like this? Only when she has no sense of security and is in a dangerous environment will she hide like this.
Lin Shuxing’s breath hitched. Her palm gently pressed against Fang Yi’s cheek. She bent down and kissed her, and her tone softened. “I’ll allow you to be weak.”
The soft touch was fleeting. This reward came suddenly.
Fang Yi was silent for a while, held it in for a long time, and only spoke suddenly in the gap while the nurse was unwrapping the gauze. “…Thank you.”
The young lady was looking at the messages on her phone. The matter of the Li family had caused a big stir today and had had some impact on the stock market. Hearing this, she looked up in confusion. “What?”
“I don’t know, but, thank you…”
When a person is in pain, they are probably like a leaky balloon and will always say some strange things, a little mushy, a little hard to say. But Fang Yi still lowered her head and said, word by word, “Thank you for liking me.”
She subconsciously wanted to touch her nose again, but one hand was fixed by the nurse, and the other couldn’t move. She could only lie there stiffly.
“Fang Yi,” Lin Shuxing stood up. “You don’t need to thank me for this kind of thing. Your sense of worth is too low.”
“I don’t care what kind of life you lived before. Listen up. Now you are my private property. I won’t let you suffer any hardship. You must learn to accept that this world is ours.”
A sense of worth. A very new term. Fang Yi could understand it from a literal sense.
—This world is ours.
She didn’t know about the young lady’s achievements in the financial market, but every time she talked about the future, the world, Lin Shuxing’s expression was so confident and dazzling that it was impossible to look away.
Eighteen years old, the most youthful, high-spirited age.
Fang Yi unconsciously curled her lips. She believed that Lin Shuxing was also the “leader” type. This kind of confidence and flamboyance came from her bones and had nothing to do with her status.
She was not a fake young lady, not a poor and vicious supporting character. She was Lin Shuxing, her unique self.
And also… my fiancée.
Her thumb pressed on the ring, and she turned the smooth, round ring.
“You’ll come home with me tonight. I won’t let you go out alone in the future. I’ve already arranged for people for you.”
The young lady’s tone was very matter-of-fact. When she lowered her eyes, a hint of an unchallengeable coldness was revealed.
Fang Yi vaguely felt that Lin Shuxing’s presence seemed to have changed, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on the specific feeling.
But it was indeed her fault in the first place. It was normal for her to be worried.
The good news was, could they live together again?
“Then what about Auntie Lin Xinyou…” she asked tentatively.
The young lady lowered her eyes and said, “I’ll go and talk to my mom. This is my decision. She will agree.”
The nurse had already unwrapped the layers of gauze, revealing the gruesome wound beneath, and chimed in with a reminder, “Be careful during this period. Try to avoid the wound from splitting open, otherwise it will leave a scar.”
When the medicine was applied, Lin Shuxing stared at the blurry flesh and blood without blinking, as if she could feel the same pain. Her face turned pale even faster than Fang Yi’s.
“Don’t be afraid. It’s fine. It will be fine soon. The medical staff all like to exaggerate things, just to make the patient obedient.” Fang Yi comforted her.
It hurt even for her to look at it, let alone for Lin Shuxing to see.
“I’m not afraid. I’m… angry,” the young lady’s tone became very light, and was also tinged with a nasal sound. The gloom in her eyes grew stronger, and she gritted her teeth. “These damn trash.”
Fang Yi comforted her dryly, “Don’t be angry. I’m really fine.”
The nurse looked up at her in surprise, wondering if this person had no sense of feeling. She then turned her head to look at Lin Shuxing and smiled very subtly.
She finished the bandaging, neatly packed up the things, and before leaving, she said faintly, “Besides this side, there is also a slight fracture in the left hand, and a soft tissue contusion in the lower right limb. Both hands are injured~ The family members should pay attention during this period.”
“Try to avoid strenuous exercise to prevent further injury.”
The nurse turned to Lin Shuxing and said respectfully, “I will bring you the detailed report later. Please wait a moment. The patient was initially unwilling to cooperate and provide a phone number.”
This angel in white did not forget to close the door thoughtfully when she left, leaving behind a burning hell.
“Fang Yi, you try to lie to me one more time.”
A chilling coldness was squeezed out from between the young lady’s lips and teeth.
“There’s nothing else. This time, there’s really nothing else. Actually, I didn’t know either…” She had fallen asleep and hadn’t had time to look at the medical record. It was only after the nurse had said it that she had belatedly felt the pain.
No wonder it was tied so tightly. She had thought that the private hospital had tied her up like this to make more money, tying her up like an exquisite shrimp.
The young lady’s gloomy gaze fell on her hands, and she looked back and forth. Fang Yi even felt a faint killing intent. So she steeled her weak heart and decided to be honest, so that she wouldn’t find out herself and add fuel to the fire. She said with great guilt, “And then there’s that, the diamond is lost…”
The young lady frowned. “What diamond?”
The woman was a little dejected, her black hair hanging down obediently. “The diamond on the ring. It probably got knocked somewhere in the impact and fell in the car. It was still on my hand when I was buying fruit… I wanted to go back and pick it up, but others didn’t agree. I’ll go and look for it later. I’ll definitely be able to find it.”
Following her plain narration, the young lady’s anger, instead of being extinguished, burned even more fiercely. Her lowered fists were clenched, and the small high heels on the floor made a crisp clicking sound.
“I’m sorry.” Fang Yi apologized solemnly.
She had actually lost such an important love token.
“Who cares about that kind of thing!”
The young lady was furious and grabbed Fang Yi’s collar. She could almost see that dangerous scene replaying in front of her. “You still want to go and pick it up? Are you crazy! A broken ring, and you still treat it as a treasure?”
“I think you’re still too lightly injured. It would be best if your legs were broken. Only when you know the pain will you obediently stay by my side…”
In the gap while Fang Yi was stunned, Lin Shuxing had already leaned over and pressed down, her elbow grinding against the injured thigh, and she bit the woman’s slightly parted lips with full malice.
The taste of blood spread from the tip of her tongue, and her pale, thin lips were quickly dyed with a strange red, half from the young lady’s lipstick, and half from this almost plundering kiss.
