Chapter 115 Why do I feel like a thief in my own home?
“You can give up now, but I won’t agree,” Sui Sui said very seriously.
"There was a bit of an accident at your mommy's company's anniversary celebration tonight. She was seriously injured." Huo Zhizhou didn't even spare his son just to get in. "She went straight home without any treatment."
Sui Sui's heart jumped: "Aren't you there?"
"The crystal chandelier fell from the ceiling, and I was too far away to catch it," Huo Zhizhou said in a serious voice.
Year after year, silence fell.
Normally, he could quickly spot the flaws here.
But at this moment, his mind was filled with the image of Jiang Ruan being injured, so his thoughts were not as clear as usual: "Really?"
Huo Zhizhou replied earnestly, "Really."
Sui Sui hung up on him and quickly called Jiang Ruan. The phone, which was on the sofa, buzzed, but Jiang Ruan, who was taking a shower in the bathroom, didn't hear it at all. However, Huo Zhizhou, who was standing at the door, heard it clearly.
His hand holding the phone tightened unconsciously.
I prayed that Jiang Ruan was washing up or drying her hair and didn't hear me.
This time, it seemed that fate was on his side. The phone rang for a while and then stopped. Immediately afterwards, he received a call from Sui Sui on his phone: "I can let you in, but you are not allowed to yell at Mommy."
"I'll listen to you," Huo Zhizhou said earnestly.
"Don't you dare touch Mommy!" Sui Sui said as she lifted the covers, got out of bed, and put on her shoes.
"If your mommy faints on the ground, how am I supposed to get her to the hospital if I don't help?" Huo Zhizhou was a cunning old fox. "And how do I bandage her wounds?"
Sui Sui paused in her steps as she went downstairs.
Huo Zhizhou: "If you hesitate any longer, what if your mother's life is in danger..."
Sui Sui: "!"
Sui Sui toddled downstairs on her short legs: "When you go in, you have to tell me about Mommy's condition, and it would be best to do a video call."
"Okay," Huo Zhizhou replied. "What's the password for the door?"
Ever since he used the key to open the door and go in last time, Jiang Ruan has changed the door lock to a combination lock.
Sui Sui really didn't want to tell him, but considering her mother's safety, she told him anyway. She figured she could just change the password after he left: "My birthday plus the last four digits of my mother's phone number".
Huo Zhizhou hummed in agreement and then hung up the phone.
To avoid being disturbed when they were discussing serious matters later, he deliberately put his phone on silent.
Sui Sui went downstairs as quickly as possible, told the housekeeper she was going to Fengyue Huating, and headed towards the parking garage in the courtyard. The housekeeper called Huo Zhizhou to ask about the situation, and Sui Sui directly opened her call log to show him: "Daddy is treating Mommy's wound, he's very busy."
The butler hesitated, but after Huo Zhizhou didn't answer the phone, he still drove him there.
After getting on the bus, Sui Sui, who was sitting in the back, called her dad.
It's impossible to believe him.
But just in case, we can only put him in temporarily.
Huo Zhizhou entered the password, opened the door, and went in. With a bang, he closed the door again.
Jiang Ruan, who was taking a shower, seemed to hear a sound, but when she listened carefully, she found nothing. Just in case, she locked the bathroom door and finished showering as quickly as possible.
In the living room.
Jiang Ruan's phone sat alone on the sofa.
Huo Zhizhou sat beside her, listening to the sounds from the bathroom, his eyes gradually darkening.
Five minutes later, the bathroom door opened, and Jiang Ruan, dressed in her pajamas, walked out with a hint of wariness, still holding the glass bottle she had taken from the sink.
"Why are you acting like a thief in your own home?" Huo Zhizhou said, looking at her furtive behavior.
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan's tense heart turned to disdain: "What are you doing here?"
As if remembering something, she subconsciously looked towards the door.
To prevent him from using the key to open the door, she specifically communicated with the landlord to replace the lock with a smart lock.
Did he crack it?
"Don't look at me like that. Sui Sui told me the password." Huo Zhizhou handed her her phone and said, word by word, "If you don't believe me, ask him."
Jiang Ruan took the phone with some skepticism.
There is indeed a missed call from Sui Sui above.
She dialed the number back, but her wariness and suspicion of Huo Zhizhou did not diminish in the slightest.
"Mommy!" Sui Sui called out as soon as the call connected, her voice filled with undisguised worry, "How are you?"
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan didn't know what Huo Zhizhou had said to her: "Hmm?"
“Dad said you were seriously injured. I called you but no one answered, so I gave him the password to let him in because I was worried something had happened to you.” Sui Sui explained the situation in one sentence. “How are you injured?”
"I'm fine, I'm not hurt." Jiang Ruan looked at Huo Zhizhou with even more disdain.
They even lie to children.
That's inhuman.
"Isn't that an injury?" Huo Zhizhou's gaze fell on her ankle, which was cut by shards of glass. The wound was about two or three centimeters long, and from this angle, you could see the tender flesh under the skin. "Come here and apply the medicine."
Sui Sui overheard this and said, "Mommy, you put on the medicine first, I'll be right there."
Jiang Ruan wanted to say something more, but Sui Sui hung up the phone.
To avoid worrying her, he texted her to say that he came with the housekeeper.
"Is this interesting?" Jiang Ruan looked at Huo Zhizhou. "They even use children."
Her response was Huo Zhizhou's hand gripping her wrist. He pulled her to sit on the sofa and, before she could move, whispered a warning: "Don't move!"
Jiang Ruan was about to speak.
He picked up a cotton swab to disinfect her, handling it with such care, as if he were dealing with some rare treasure.
She suppressed her emotions, quickly snatched the cotton swab from his hand to disinfect the wound, and then applied two band-aids to cover it as fast as she could.
The whole process was actually very painful.
The moment the alcohol came into contact with the wound, she felt a sharp pain and wanted to scream.
But she was angry and didn't want to show any weakness in front of Huo Zhizhou, so she forced herself to complete the series of procedures with a blank expression, adding, "With your disinfection method, the wound will have healed before you even apply the medicine."
Huo Zhizhou's gaze fell on her face.
Jiang Ruan felt uncomfortable under his gaze: "You can leave now."
"I didn't realize you were so good at holding back." Huo Zhizhou exposed her without hesitation.
Jiang Ruan: "..."
You'll die if you don't talk, huh?
Huo Zhizhou glanced at her wound covered with a bandage: "If you bandage it like this, it won't be long before the wound becomes infected and festering, and then we'll have to scrape off the outer layer."
Jiang Ruan imagined that scene.
I couldn't help but get goosebumps all over my body; I could feel the wound starting to hurt.
"Come here." Huo Zhizhou's eyes were extremely imposing, and his voice was calm and steady. "I've re-bandaged you."
Jiang Ruan didn't move.
She didn't want any physical contact with him, and she didn't want to accept his so-called gentleness and kindness.
"No need," she refused, picking up her phone and opening a Baidu search to find the correct way to disinfect and bandage a wound.
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