Sure enough, she had her own feelings for him.
However, she preferred to love the man she had spent the night with rather than fall in love with him, leaving him unsure whether to be sad or happy.
Although, both of them are him.
Although he had guessed it was her long ago, hearing it from her mouth felt completely different, as if fate had been confirmed, and that he and she were destined to be entangled together.
"It was just one night. What do you like about that man?" He looked down at her, his suffocating pressure palpable.
Xiang Jin didn't dare to look at him. Judging from his tone, he didn't seem angry. Did he... not hate her? Or did he not like her, so he didn't care that she was entangled with other men?
If she were to provoke him further, would he completely despise her and then agree to a divorce?
After thinking for a moment, Xiang Jin mustered her courage: "I like... I like many things about him, his gentleness, his voice, his skin..." Vivid images flooded her mind as she spoke, and Xiang Jin felt so embarrassed that she didn't say anything more.
She secretly looked up at Murong Xiao and found that his ears had miraculously turned red as well.
Huh?
Why did this person react so differently from what I expected? Instead of being furious, he seemed a little shy.
For some reason, even the atmosphere in the recovery room became somewhat romantic.
Xiang Jin coughed, turned her face away to keep her distance from Murong Xiao, and began to change the subject: "In short, our marriage was a farce, and it's time to end it. When will we..."
"Absolutely impossible."
"Xiang Jin, absolutely impossible."
"You want a divorce? I won't let you have your way. Even if it's a farce, it's up to me to decide whether to end it. You have no right to decide. And right now, I don't want it to end." He coldly gave the order and turned to leave the recovery room.
Before leaving, he tucked the blanket around her.
………………
Murong Xiao did not appear again for the following week.
Every day without fail, Aunt Yang would prepare various nutritious meals for Zhouzhou to take to the hospital, and instruct the doctor to take good care of her until she recovered and was discharged.
On the day of her discharge, Zhouzhou and Aunt Yang were busy with the procedures. Xiang Jin quietly changed her clothes and went downstairs. The environment in the sanatorium was very nice. There was a patch of red plum blossoms by the lake. She was wandering around aimlessly when she suddenly heard someone calling her. When she turned around, she didn't see anyone.
At this moment, Zhou Zhou called to say that everything had been taken care of. Xiang Jin didn't think much of it and turned to leave the sanatorium.
"See? I told you it was her, but you didn't believe me." Kelly and Fan Youwei walked out from behind Merlin.
Fan Youwei's older sister had a difficult childbirth and happened to give birth at this sanatorium. Kelly came to visit her today and happened to see Xiang Jin in the grove. To confirm if it was her, she called out and quietly hid.
"That's strange, what's she doing here?"
"What else could it be? Either visiting patients or coming to see a doctor themselves. The obstetrics and gynecology department here is the best in Huadu; many wealthy people give birth here."
Fan Youwei covered her mouth in surprise: "You mean, she's pregnant and came here... for an abortion?"
"What else could it be?"
“But I remember she’s unmarried, oh my god…” Fan Youwei looked at her with a “it’s really dirty” expression, so disdainful that she didn’t even want to speak. After a while, she realized something was wrong. “Wait, how does she have the money to come to a place like this? Even my sister had to pull all sorts of strings to get in here, she…”
"She certainly couldn't do it on her own, but if she really is a mistress, then those scumbag men will naturally foot the bill. Just think about the guy who sent her flowers in the office."
"Tsk tsk, how despicable."
"Yeah, who would have thought that the genius girl Mu Xin was actually a mistress?" Kelly looked at the secretly taken photos on her phone and smiled smugly.
………………
Unexpectedly, it was Su Ming who came to pick her up. Su Ming smiled apologetically and said that the young master was too busy to come, so he specially sent him to pick her up. Xiang Jin nodded without saying anything. Su Ming's guilty look had already revealed everything before she could even ask anything.
Murong Xiao didn't want to see her, that was all.
The car drove back to the villa. Xiang Jin silently picked up her things and went back to her room. She stopped in her tracks as soon as she reached the living room.
A couple stood by the floor-to-ceiling window. The man held a coffee in his hand, listening intently to the woman's soft voice. The woman was looking at a book carefully, asking the man a question. They were very close, their shoulders touching, and the woman blushed. A tender and ambiguous atmosphere flowed between them, making for a truly pleasing scene.
"Thud." The bag in Xiang Jin's hand fell to the ground.
The two people standing by the window turned around, and the woman's lips blossomed into a gentle smile: "Ah Jin is back. I'm sorry, I was going to pick you up from the hospital, but something came up so I couldn't go."
Xiang Jin's expression was somewhat cold: "No need to be so polite. I've been in the hospital for a week, and apart from the first visit, you haven't come to see me again. There's even less need for you to pick me up after I'm discharged." Her words were a veiled sarcasm towards Xiang Qi for her hypocrisy.
Xiang Qi was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I just felt that sisters don't need to be so polite."
"If you don't need to be so polite, why apologize to me?"
"I...I..." Xiang Qi choked for a long time and didn't know how to answer, so she could only look at Murong Xiao pitifully.
Against the backdrop of her innocent fragility, Xiang Jin's sharpness became even more apparent, as if Xiang Jin were the one who started the trouble and Xiang Qi were the victim.
Murong Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I'm bad with words, so if you get angry you can hit me or yell at me, just don't get too upset and hurt yourself," Xiang Qi said, sounding a little aggrieved.
"Okay, let me slap you twice, and I promise I won't be angry anymore. Are you willing?"
"Ah? Of...of course I'm willing." Xiang Qi chuckled dryly, maintaining her ladylike image on the surface, but her expression was slightly distorted.
Xiang Jin raised his hand without any hesitation.
In the instant Xiang Qi closed her eyes in fright, she calmly put down her things, picked them up, and went upstairs.
She didn't look at Murong Xiao once from beginning to end.
Back in her room, she hurriedly packed up her belongings from the master bedroom and dragged them all to the guest room in the far corner. No one stopped her during this time, and no one even came upstairs to ask her anything.
It's like everyone's pretending to be stupid about why Xiangqi is at the villa.
Although Li Shuhui coerced her into finding a reason to let Xiang Qi stay in the villa, she did not mention it to Murong Xiao. The villa was located in a very private place, and it was absolutely impossible for Xiang Qi and Li Shuhui to find it and get in on their own. The only explanation was that the owner of the villa brought her in.
Murong Xiao, are you so eager to let Xiang Qi into your home?
If that's the case, why not agree to a divorce?
Must it be a fight to the death before they'll stop?
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