Chapter 39: Xia Yiqing's voice is not...

Xia Yiqing's voice was not loud and did not cause any echo in the ward.

But her words were so decisive and short that it was difficult to pretend not to hear them.

Glancing to the side, Xia Yiqing saw that Qi Hanmu had already gone to bed with his clothes on. She tiptoed out of the door and closed it behind her.

"Qingqing," the voice on the other side immediately sounded a little more guilty.

"Mom is incompetent, and you're my only child these years. Now that your sister is in trouble, you can't help her."

"I have no such obligation."

Outside, Qi Hanying just came back, wrapped in the cold black windbreaker.

Xia Yiqing pointed inside the ward, put her hand next to her ear, slightly bent it, made a sleeping gesture, and put her fingertips to her lips, signaling him to be quiet.

Qi Hanying nodded without hesitation and turned to leave.

There were only a few nurses and doctors in the long hospital corridor.

The lights flickered, and Xia Yiqing's shadow stretched out. When she lowered her eyes, the slender shadow cast a shadow in front of her. "Mom, you should ask others to do things for you in the future. I'm not your ATM."

"How can you be so unfilial, child?" a sobbing voice rang out from the other side.

"Mom didn't give birth to another child because of you, and you treat her like this?"

Xia Yiqing dug her fingertips into her palm. "This is your own choice. You are an adult and you must be responsible for your own choices."

"Qingqing, you've really changed. You weren't like this before..."

It was late at night, and Xia Yiqing, wearing a coat that was a little short, couldn't help shivering.

As autumn approaches, Jiangcheng starts to get cooler.

The sparse shadows of trees outside the window swayed in the moonlight, and Xia Yiqing hung up the phone with her mother.

She held her head and leaned against the wall, and all of a sudden everything came flooding back to her.

Scolded by his biological parents and inexplicably demoted, Qi Hanmu shared his story and his mother's endless requests for help.

These complicated events were like a huge dark net, which slowly expanded when Xia Yiqing was not paying attention, until it became as big as her, or even bigger, and finally surrounded her.

There are barriers on all sides.

I raised my hand to knock, but it was thick and broad. I stretched out my hand to push, but it didn't move at all. I shouted for help, but my voice couldn't be heard.

Silent suffocation permeated the walls, and all kinds of negative emotions surfaced at night, as if they had made an agreement to swallow Xia Yiqing whole.

"Hey, who are you? What are you doing up late at night?"

A somewhat serious voice came from behind. Xia Yiqing turned around and found that it was a nurse.

He looks very young, maybe an intern.

Xia Yiqing pushed her hands back, exerted a little force, and supported herself. She slowly raised her body to half the height, then slowly raised her legs and stood up straight.

"Excuse me, I'm the family member of this room."

Xia Yiqing pointed at Qi Hanmu's room which was clearly marked as a VIP room.

"Okay, then don't stay up late at night. The patients in this area are more dangerous at night, so as a family member, please pay more attention to them."

Xia Yiqing, who had never heard of this before, stopped the nurse and smiled just the right way. "I'm sorry, I haven't been able to visit before. This is my first day accompanying you. What should I pay attention to?"

Perhaps because the nurse saw that Qi Hanmu was a patient in the VIP ward, she did not show any impatience towards Xia Yiqing's questions.

"The patients who live here generally have poor heart and lung function, and are most susceptible to illness at night. There are also several paralyzed patients who need to be turned over regularly."

When Xia Yiqing heard the word "illness", her heart trembled.

The scene of Qi Hanmu's pale face and cyanosis at the corners of his mouth not long ago is still vivid in my mind.

Even though Xia Yiqing was not familiar with this disease before, after seeing Qi Hanmu suffer from it so many times, she found some symptoms that were easy to diagnose.

"So if they get sick, do they need to call a doctor?"

"Not necessarily. For those with milder symptoms, there are emergency medicines at the bedside. You can take them first to see if they can ease the symptoms. If the medicine doesn't give you relief, you have to press the call bell immediately."

"well."

Xia Yiqing took two steps at a time and half-trotted to the front of the ward. She gently held the door handle, lifted the door panel upwards, and created a larger gap before she squeezed in.

The lights in the ward were off and it was dark. Although it was not cramped, it was mostly occupied by medical equipment, making it seem a bit depressing.

The heart rate monitor was still there. Xia Yiqing walked over and found that the screen was dark and there was no reading.

Xia Yiqing: ...?

This shouldn't be the case. During the day, no, just before she went out, the equipment was working fine. The readings on the heart rate monitor were still fluctuating. How could it suddenly disappear?

A bad thought came to her mind. Xia Yiqing turned on the light and walked quickly to the man's bed.

The man looked even worse than before, his breathing was weak and his face was blue.

Xia Yiqing's pupils trembled, and she immediately reached out to pull the man's clothes twice, carefully tearing them open from the collar.

The man was thin, with obvious veins on his neck, but the electrodes that were supposed to be attached to his chest were long gone.

Perhaps it was the cold wind that came through the gap in the hospital gown, the man frowned and his breathing became heavier.

His eyelashes were very long and trembled slightly, as if he wanted to explore where the coldness in his body came from.

Xia Yiqing didn't bother to find out why this person had no tubes on his body. She looked up and glanced at the bedside and saw the medicine in a conspicuous place.

Xia Yiqing poured it out according to the dosage instructions above.

She said "I'm sorry" in her heart, and then she held the man's chin with one hand, and with the other hand she quickly and accurately pushed the nitroglycerin lozenge under the man's tongue, and gently pushed his chin back.

Seeing that the man's brows were furrowed even more deeply, almost turning into two vertical lines, Xia Yiqing thought that the medicine had no effect and turned around to press the bell.

The cold light stung Xia Yiqing's vision. Just before her finger was about to touch the call bell, the man's voice finally came over.

"No, cough cough, don't press it."

Even though she sounded weak, Xia Yiqing's heart, which had been silent due to fear, trembled and then began to beat wildly.

"How do you feel?" She turned around.

The man's eyes were still closed, with a faint dark blue tint under his eyes. Even after so many days of sleeping in the hospital, he still couldn't get better.

It was a long while, so long that Xia Yiqing thought the man had fainted again. She was about to ring the bell when the man replied, "It's okay."

Seeing that the purple color on his lips had faded a lot, Xia Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief, but she still didn't dare to be completely relieved.

"Okay, go to bed first. It's very late."

"Then where are you going?"

The man opened his eyes again, and there was no more confusion and fragility in his eyes. Instead, there was a calm and powerful aura.

Even though he was wearing a hospital gown, it did not affect the man's calmness as if he had everything under control.

"There's a recliner next to me, I can sleep there."

Qi Hanmu's eyes darkened and his eyelids drooped. "Thank you for your hard work." Then he dropped a bombshell, "I'll be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, and you won't have to sleep here anymore."

"oh."

Xia Yiqing was so sleepy that she didn't have time to figure out what the man meant. After quickly washing up, she lay down and fell asleep.

It was not until the next day when Luo Miao came with a serious face to help Qi Hanmu with the discharge procedures and the man lowered his head to tie his tie that Xia Yiqing got up from the recliner in a daze.

She rubbed her eyes. Qi Hanmu had changed out of his hospital gown into a well-tailored suit, which showed off his perfect manly figure: broad shoulders, narrow waist, and straight, slender legs.

"Oh, you're up," she rubbed her eyes, thinking she had seen it wrong.

"Why did you change your clothes? It's not convenient for me to accompany you."

"I told you last night that you'd be discharged today."

The man tied his tie and went into the bathroom. In less than ten minutes, he came out again with his hair combed and his pale face obviously covered up.

I don’t know if it was Xia Yiqing’s illusion, but the man’s outfit made the distance between them grow even further.

She was just an unfavored daughter of the Xia family in Jiangcheng.

And he was Mr. Qi San, standing at the top of Jiangcheng, looking down at all the people without any sadness or joy.

"Are you going to be discharged now? But is your condition suitable for discharge?"

Xia Yiqing actually wanted to ask the man where he would live after being discharged from the hospital, but she swallowed the words back when they came to her lips.

Mr. Qi Sanye has all kinds of houses, so she doesn't need to worry about it.

But those words about reconciliation yesterday, and Qi Hanmu's words that seemed to show that he liked her a little, popped up at this inappropriate time, playing in her mind over and over again.

"Luo Miao will take care of these," Qi Hanmu's eyes fell on her lightly, and then he slowly left.

"If you still want to sleep, you can go back to Yiyuan, if you like."

"I……"

Yiyuan is a good place to go.

However, she ultimately did not feel a sense of belonging there.

It was like she was occupying someone else's luxurious house and living there temporarily.

The garden is so big that it needs someone to manage it.

Xia Yiqing had to admit that it was tiring to maintain the appearance of a lady in front of those servants.

"I'm sorry, I..."

Qi Hanmu's voice was very calm, and no emotion could be heard. "Then when you have made up your mind, come to Yiyuan again."

The man took firm steps, one step at a time, towards the ward door.

His tall and agile back made Xia Yiqing realize that even though Qi Hanmu was ill, he was still the Third Master, a person that the entire Jiangcheng had to look up to.

It is impossible for such a person to be trapped in the hospital because of a mere illness.

Thinking of this, Xia Yiqing suddenly felt that her sleepiness disappeared.

She flipped over from the recliner, which creaked, and she almost sprained her waist.

Qi Hanmu, a patient, can be so determined, so what does she, a healthy person, have to complain about?

It's just a demotion.

Just surrender, what’s the big deal?

Wouldn't it be fine if she just understood her new position and new job well and tried her best to complete the project?

As for those annoying words and discussions, just think of them as flies buzzing around.

After taking the spare clothes she brought with her to the bathroom and changing, Xia Yiqing simply put on some light makeup in front of the glass.

Putting the lipstick back into her bag, she glanced to the side.

The man in the suit remained at the doorway, not moving.

“Ahem…”

A muffled cough slowly echoed in the room.

He coughed lightly, with long intervals between each cough.

Xia Yiqing felt as if her heart was being pricked by countless fine needles. She hesitated behind the wall for a long time. Only when she heard the man's cough gradually subsided did she come out.

"I'm fine here," she said, as if she didn't hear how painfully he coughed. She brushed her hair and passed by Qi Hanmu.

"Thank you for waiting for me for so long. I'll take a taxi to the company myself. Don't forget to rest after work."

Qi Hanmu didn't reply, but pursed his lips, revealing a hint of red.

Just as the two of them were sitting in silence, about to get into the elevator, the man suddenly spoke.

"On the way, I'll give you a ride."