Chapter 85: Bright red or this high...
Still with this condescending attitude, every word of that number seemed extremely cold.
"Do you really think that you were forced to marry Qi Hanmu three years ago, and that you were forced to temporarily give up your career to marry him, because you had no other choice?"
Holding the phone in both hands, it looked like she still had room to move, but in fact, Xia Yiqing couldn't help but breathe a little lighter.
Xia Yiqing did not have any thoughts about the marriage three years ago.
The Qi family and the Xia family are so different, why did she, Xia Yiqing, choose to agree to a marriage with the head of the Qi family?
Moreover, the content of that agreement was not at all disadvantageous to the Xia family.
On the contrary, the above only roughly stated that as long as Xia Yiqing did not marry anyone else within three years and met Qi Hanmu's reasonable needs, the Qi family would be able to keep the Xia family safe.
It sounds a bit frowned upon. It seems that this is not a cost-effective deal for the Qi family. Why should this big family bow down to the Xia family, a little-known small family?
Moreover, why did they let her, Xia Yiqing, marry him instead of her cousin, Xia Jie?
Logically speaking, Xia Jie is the daughter of the uncle, and the uncle holds almost the same number of shares in the company as Xia Yiqing's father Xia Feng. The two families should have a discussion.
If you think about each of these things carefully, it seems a little incredible and absurd.
But it happened in reality.
“Dongdong——”
There was a knock on the door at this moment.
Perhaps out of guilt or subconscious fear, Xia Yiqing almost dropped her phone and quickly blocked the number. She wrapped herself in a coat, covering most of her pajamas, and then said to the door, "Come in."
Butler Qi is a very serious person with a square face. Even his speech is very methodical, with each word coming out one by one.
He bowed slightly in the direction of Xia Yiqing and said, "Madam, the Third Master wants to see you. Please come with me."
"Is he not feeling well?" Xia Yiqing tilted her head, feeling a little nervous.
Butler Qi didn't say much, just said "You will understand after you see it", and then led the way.
The road was not far. Xia Yiqing subconsciously picked at the outside of her clothes. When she thought that she was wearing pajamas underneath, her heart felt inexplicably tight.
The night outside was already completely dark. We were on the mountain here, and the noise outside Jiangcheng was completely isolated in Yiyuan.
Force yourself to relax, and you will easily smell the scent of disinfectant at the tip of your nose.
This was not very common in Yiyuan three years ago, but now this corridor seems to have been marinated.
When Xia Yiqing was led out by Butler Qi, she was a little confused and slowed down her pace. "This doesn't seem to be the direction to the Third Master's room."
Butler Qi had his back to him, like a silent statue. At that moment, Xia Yiqing had all sorts of guesses in mind.
The most likely scenario is that Butler Qi was impersonated by someone and came to assassinate her.
Perhaps some of the terrifying thoughts did not come true. Under the cover of clear sunlight, the corners of Butler Qi's mouth rose one centimeter.
"The Third Master is indeed not inviting you to his room, but to the back garden."
Xia Yiqing frowned unconsciously. How come she didn't know that Qi Hanmu had this kind of sentiment?
But Xia Yiqing had rarely been to the back mountain, for the simple reason that she was too busy with work.
Logically speaking, Qi Hanmu should be busier than her in that position, but except for the last time when he brought things back home to deal with, Qi Hanmu never left other work in Yiyuan for her to find out.
The back mountain is quite some distance away from the master bedroom of the main villa. As a normal person, Xia Yiqing felt her legs and feet numb after walking there.
She pinched her fingertips with her nails, and suddenly she was a little confused. "Isn't the Third Master feeling unwell tonight? Why did you let him do whatever he wanted?"
Perhaps because he adhered to the principle of not speaking ill of his master's family, Butler Qi's body froze and he did not respond.
Madam is really too naive. The Third Master has always been self-reliant. Even if he doesn't care about his health, who in Yi Garden can persuade him?
The only one who can persuade is the lady.
Unfortunately, the lady seems unaware of it.
The layout of the back mountain of Yiyuan Garden is quite romantic. There is a lotus pond with a small arch bridge on top and koi swimming around underneath. The surface of the pond just happens to reflect the moonlight, making the ripples sparkle and making the entire back mountain glow slightly.
However, the most eye-catching thing is a pavilion that can be reached by walking up a winding path of thirty steps after crossing the arch bridge.
The reason why this pavilion was eye-catching was that there was a person sitting inside, wearing a white cloak, with his head slightly tilted back, leaning against the wooden railing, waiting for her.
The distance between the two was not close, and Xia Yiqing did not notice the expression on his face, but she had a hunch.
The first time this man saw her, the corners of his lips curled up, and his face looked like melting ice and snow, slowly flowing with warm spring water.
He smiled.
Qi Hanmu's appearance is very eye-catching, with a high nose, deep eyebrows, cold white skin, a pair of sharp phoenix eyes, and delicate facial features, but his jawline is extremely sharp, which softens the femininity of his face.
In short, when viewed under the moon, she is a beauty from a distance, but when viewed up close, she becomes a superior whose aura of power cannot be concealed.
"Why are you outside?" The moment she saw Qi Hanmu, something in Xia Yiqing's heart began to shake and collide, squeezing her little heart and causing it to ache.
"It's a windy night, late at night, and the dew is heavy. Go back quickly."
Qi Hanmu's response was simply to straighten his plain cloak and said, "You don't want to look for me again."
The color of this cloak is already white enough, but Qi Hanmu's face is as white as frost and snow, which is far better than this thin cloak. It looks similar to the white lotus on the top of the snow mountain that cannot be desecrated.
But what he said was clearly very close to human nature.
Xia Yiqing opened her mouth and subconsciously wanted to touch her cell phone. Her fingertips touched the hard shell and she thought of the three inexplicable text messages.
It was a windy night, but Xia Yiqing felt sweat on her back.
She heard her voice tremble a little, "Your body needs rest, I don't want to disturb you any longer."
This was half true, but seeing Qi Hanmu's eyes filled with suspicion, even though Qi Hanmu didn't say anything, Xia Yiqing still felt that her words were being questioned.
In fact, she is not unfamiliar with this feeling.
When she was a child playing with her cousins, Xia Jie wronged her. When she explained to the elders, this was the look her parents and uncle gave Xia Yiqing.
It’s just that most of their mouth corners are turned down, while Qi Hanmu’s face is calm, and the corners of his mouth are neither up nor down, and there is no other trace of expression.
"I can't rest," Qi Hanmu's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he finally opened his mouth. His pair of dark eyes stared at Xia Yiqing,
"I'm not drunk, why did you go back to the second bedroom?"
Startled by this question, Xia Yiqing even forgot about the three text messages. Her pupils suddenly shrank. "Isn't this part of our agreement? The agreement has expired now."
Seeing the man getting heavier and heavier, almost like the eye of a black typhoon sky, Xia Yiqing took a step back, feeling that something was wrong.
Qi Hanmu is indeed not a simple person. He asked her to go to the back mountain tonight because he wanted to take advantage of her.
Seeing Xia Yiqing retreat, a look of astonishment flashed in his eyes, and Qi Hanmu felt a pain in his heart.
He placed his right hand, which had a faint purple hue, against his heart, gazing at his lover in the moonlight. There was a buzzing in his ears, and a mocking voice floated clearly past.
People don't care what you think.
They finally abandoned you, why are you coming back now?
“Hmm…”
A lot of sweat suddenly seeped out of his fair forehead. Qi Hanmu tried his best to control his instinct to fall forward, and used his toes to push his body backwards.
He knew very well that he was ill again.
While he was still conscious and his hands and feet were not restricted, Qi Hanmu bit his lips hard with his upper teeth, his canines pressing against his inner lips, forcing the smell of blood to spread between his lips and teeth, making himself more awake.
The feeling of shortness of breath became more and more obvious. Qi Hanmu tried his best to suppress the accumulation and falling of his tears, but in the end, when his left hand failed to reach the nitroglycerin lozenge in the inner bag, he almost lost control.
Crying is a normal reaction when people face various negative emotions.
Even when faced with normal and positive emotions, humans are likely to shed tears.
Logically speaking, these water droplets are like other pain reactions, common and nothing to be ashamed of, but Qi Hanmu just feels different.
In front of the nurses or Luo Miao and others, he looked like a tattered ornament, and no matter how others gave him IV drips or checked his vital signs, he didn't care, just like a broken doll, or how they turned him over and over.
However, in front of Xia Yiqing, he was like a child who had regained his sense of shame. He carefully huddled in a corner and observed, not daring to miss any of Xia Yiqing's tiny reactions, for fear of finding a hint of disgust on her face.
In the moonlight, the man's handsome features were slightly distorted, and the corners of his fair eyes had turned red, with faint traces of water droplets.
I don’t know if it’s sweat or tears.
When Xia Yiqing saw the pain in the man's eyes, the strong defense she had built up in her heart was like fire meeting water, and it melted away silently with a crackling sound.
Perhaps it was because the night was too beautiful, Xia Yiqing reached out and took out a nitroglycerin lozenge for Qi Hanmu. At the same time, she placed the back of her hand on his forehead and gently wiped away the sweat.
Maybe because of long-term illness, the man's body temperature is slightly cool.
But when Xia Yiqing and her skin touched, she felt a little hot for the first time in a long time.
The wind was merciless, trying hard to blow away the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere between the two. Xia Yiqing felt a little hot on her face, so she supported herself with her hands on the wooden railing beside her and prepared to get up.
But at this moment, the man who had just taken the nitroglycerin lozenge had a surprisingly bright look in his eyes. He clasped Xia Yiqing's wrist with his bony fingers, and the corners of his mouth were tightened into a line, as if he had something to say.
The words "Why weren't you waiting by my side when I rescued you last time" were on the tip of his tongue, but the moment they were about to come out, they were swallowed back by his owner.
What reason does he have to blame Xia Yiqing?
Not to mention that Xia Yiqing has her own job, even if Xia Yiqing does not have a stable source of income, he cannot force her to stay by his side.
In other words, if Xia Yiqing wanted to leave, he had no way to stop her.
His Adam's apple rolled, the curve was very obvious, but Qi Hanmu's eyes flashed with countless images of Xia Yiqing abandoning him.
It was too real, as if he had experienced all these things firsthand.
"What's wrong?" Seeing the man didn't speak for a long time, Xia Yiqing finally realized that something was wrong. She was about to pull her hand out, but the man's force of restraint increased. Gritting her teeth, Xia Yiqing frowned fiercely.
"let go!"
At this moment, a bright red mark suddenly appeared next to the corner of the man's pale mouth.
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