Chapter 68:
Yan Qinghe dodged Mu Sixue’s touch, and immediately, she regretted it.
What are you doing? This is Senior, this is Mu Sixue. She’s concerned about you!
Yan Qinghe was extremely annoyed. Her cold had muddled her thoughts, and they had become chaotic. The corners of her eyes were red. She pulled down her mask and coughed. “Senior, I’m afraid of infecting you.”
That wasn’t it at all. It was just that she cared that her senior was an alpha. She despised herself inwardly, and this self-deprecation gradually turned into self-loathing.
So what if Senior is an alpha? As a friend, isn’t it natural for her to care about you? You’re the one with the guilty conscience, because you like Mu Sixue. Even if she’s an alpha, you can’t help but be attracted to her.
In a flash, Yan Qinghe’s thoughts were in a turmoil. In Mu Sixue’s eyes, it was just that Yan Qinghe’s illness was more serious than she had imagined.
Mu Sixue withdrew her fingertips. Her empty palm slowly clenched. Why had Summer been avoiding her since this morning?
Was it because she had met with Ji Qianqian yesterday, which had made her unhappy?
But she didn’t understand why Yan Qinghe was unhappy. But the thought of Summer being unhappy, avoiding her, and even in her weakness, refusing to accept her care and concern.
Mu Sixue’s willow-like brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.
In the past, she had never had such thoughts. Her care had been ignored, but she had never cared.
But this person was Yan Qinghe, and she cared a little. A small flame rose in her heart. The more she avoided her, the more she wanted to find out the reason.
“Summer, let me take you home, okay?” Mu Sixue was not at ease with her going back alone. Sick people always have a reason to be extra fragile. Mu Sixue’s tone was gentle, just hoping that Yan Qinghe would agree.
Yan Qinghe sighed inwardly. In front of her gentle and caring senior, she should have been happy, but she felt a layer of disappointment.
She wanted to always enjoy Mu Sixue’s special care, but she was an alpha, and Mu Sixue just treated her as a friend, with no other thoughts. And because Mu Sixue was an alpha, she shouldn’t have to be so guarded, but she always wanted to get close to her, yet also wanted to stay away from her.
Just like when she had secretly drawn Mu Sixue’s portrait during the meeting. In the car on the way back, Yan Qinghe would occasionally glance at Mu Sixue. She was beautiful no matter how she looked, and she still made her heart flutter.
If she weren’t an alpha, but a beta, or an omega, would Mu Sixue have fallen for her?
Yan Qinghe thought in a daze, until she fell into a soft bed. She didn’t realize that the furnishings in her room had been taken in by Mu Sixue.
The doll of her and Ji Qianqian was well-placed on the bookshelf. Mu Sixue glanced at it. The book she had recommended to Summer was under the doll. The pair of golden-boy-and-jade-girl-like dolls were obviously a miniature version of Yan Qinghe and Ji Qianqian. On the back of the doll’s clothes, it was written with fine needlework, “From Qianqian to Qinghe on her 17th birthday. May Qinghe always remember and be happy every day.”
The small words were like stitches still in front of her eyes. Mu Sixue’s eyes were pricked with a slight pain.
Summer, does she still have Ji Qianqian in her heart? That’s why she still keeps Ji Qianqian’s doll.
If Yan Qinghe were awake at this moment, she would have smiled bitterly. She had originally planned to throw away this pair of dolls, but she had found it troublesome and had let Housekeeper Zhou dispose of them as she pleased.
Housekeeper Zhou had thought the dolls were cute and, while cleaning up, had put them back in their original place for Yan Qinghe. It had just been put up the day before, and Yan Qinghe hadn’t noticed.
“Summer, can you tell me if you still like Ji Qianqian?” Mu Sixue sat by Yan Qinghe’s bed and, after taking care of her for a while, asked softly.
The sleeping Qinghe, hearing the three words Ji Qianqian, her eyelids trembled slightly. The pain in her neck came back from the long river of her distant memory.
The cold made it difficult for her to tell what day it was. The woman’s soft questioning made the piercing pain of her past life, after licking her wounds countless times, grow cold in her hot blood.
In her past life, after she and Ji Qianqian had returned from their honeymoon, they had been as sweet as honey at first. But the smile on Ji Qianqian’s face had become less and less.
This had made her very worried. Had she done something wrong? Thinking that Ji Qianqian was pregnant, Yan Qinghe would wake up early in the morning, make a loving breakfast, and take care of all of Ji Qianqian’s chores.
She was afraid of letting Qianqian suffer. But Ji Qianqian had gradually become absent-minded.
Yan Qinghe had just thought it was pregnancy syndrome and had silently taken care of her to the extreme. Even so, after returning from a half-day inspection at the company, the butler had told her breathlessly—the mistress was gone.
When she had reappeared, Ji Qianqian’s abdomen was flat, and their baby was gone—
Could it be that Ji Qianqian had aborted their child?!
[Every time I sleep with Qinghe, it makes me a little more disgusted.]
[How can she compare to Yan Qing? She’s not even worthy of a single strand of Yan Qing’s hair.]
[I just regret that I loved the wrong person. It’s not the child of my beloved, so of course I’m not willing to keep it.]
The resolute words, like hailstones, with a bomb, had bombarded her until she was black and blue.
She didn’t know under what circumstances Ji Qianqian had said these words, but when these words were clearly replayed in her ears, Qianqian’s resolute expression repeatedly whipped her soul. Her tears could no longer flow, and the whole world was spinning.
From then on, the long night was without light. The ridiculous thing was, during the long and difficult susceptibility period, her gland still crazily craved Ji Qianqian.
She had used a sharp needle to inject a blocking poison and had crippled her own gland. For the rest of her life, she would rather be unable to mark and be a disabled alpha. Who knew that it would cause other complications, and her organs were at risk of failure.
She did not regret it. She was also unwilling for her body to betray her heart and have a single trace of craving for Ji Qianqian.
The lost child was the last straw that broke her and Ji Qianqian’s relationship. A divorce paper was mailed, but it was returned.
While she was abroad for treatment for her complications, she had suddenly received an urgent order from the board of elders. There was a quality crisis with the Yan Corporation’s R7 inhibitor. An alpha had been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment after being injected. At the same time, all sorts of bionic products had entered the market, with a quality far superior to R7 and at a cheaper price.
The Yan Corporation was on the verge of collapse!
Yan Qinghe was anxious and wanted to return to the country immediately. Her assistant had called and said it had been resolved. It was the mistress who had come forward in the crisis and had resolved it with all sorts of thunderous means.
The mistress? Ji Qianqian!
Ji Qianqian had actually helped her. Could it be that she still…
Her heart was filled with doubt and a faint hope. Who knew that when she returned to the country, the Yan Corporation had become the Ji-Yan Corporation, had been swallowed up, and the new, larger corporation’s leader was Ji Qianqian.
It turned out that Ji Qianqian had secretly acquired the Yan Corporation’s shares…
What crisis? How ridiculous. This crisis was probably created by Ji Qianqian herself, so that she could win over the people and smoothly take over the Yan Corporation.
…
Perhaps it was because she had just seen Ji Qianqian the day before, or perhaps it was because of her sleepless nights, thinking of the Ji Qianqian of this life, who had acted so innocently, her voice soft and gentle, the Qianqian who was like the Sister Qianqian of her past life.
And now, the one who had revealed that Mu Sixue was an alpha, indirectly destroying her path to happiness, was also Ji Qianqian.
Her heart felt as if a huge stone were buried in it. In the midst of her cold, it all burst out.
Qianqian, what will it take for you to let me go!
In the drowsiness of her cold, under Mu Sixue’s questioning, Yan Qinghe fell into an abyss. She closed her eyes, tears in the corners. This made Mu Sixue’s heart ache as well.
“Summer, what’s wrong?” Mu Sixue leaned over Yan Qinghe and asked softly.
Hearing the familiar voice, Yan Qinghe felt a little better, as if she had returned to her childhood, when she had a bad cold and her Little Aunt had taken care of her without taking off her clothes. The grievances she had suppressed for many years could no longer be held back.
“Little Aunt…” Yan Qinghe murmured with affection. When she opened her eyes, it was her senior, Mu Sixue’s cool and clear face, as gentle as the moon, overlapping with the warmth she had been given in her childhood.
This tear finally fell. Yan Qinghe half-sat up and hugged the leaning Mu Sixue. “Will you always be good to me and not leave me?”
“I will.” She would always be good to her.
The tear fell on Mu Sixue’s shoulder. She gently patted the alpha’s head, just feeling that her heart, which was usually unmoved by the eight winds, was soaked by Summer’s tears.
An emotion called heartache, which had been dispelled by the sight of the twin dolls, began to ferment and flow into a river.
“I miss you so much,” she heard Summer say to her.