Her hunched body subconsciously shrank back, her cloudy eyes filled with fear and helplessness, her lips trembled, but she couldn't utter a word.
Ye Qingliu's hand was suddenly exposed to the cool air. The remaining warmth on the back of his hand and the sudden loss of the feeling of being wrapped formed a sharp contrast.
His gray-blue eyes turned to his sister who rushed in through the door, and his gaze behind the lenses remained calm.
"Jin Yue." His voice was not loud, but it had a strange penetrating power that could instantly suppress the noise, and it sounded clearly in the ward.
There was no obvious reproach in the voice, but the calmness itself carried an invisible power.
"This is a hospital."
These five simple words were like a basin of ice-cold water, poured over Hua Jinyue's burning anger.
Hua Jinyue choked suddenly, as if her throat was being strangled. Her beautiful big eyes stared at Ye Qingliu, filled with strong grievances, resentment, and hurt.
My brother didn't even tell that old woman to get lost immediately! He even spoke to her in such a calm tone?! Was he...was he truly bewitched by this inexplicable old woman?!
"Brother!" Her voice was filled with tears, and her pink lips were pursed in grievance. The sharpness just now was replaced by a kind of fragility that made her want to cry.
"Who... who is she? She's so dirty! How could she touch you..."
She was like a child whose favorite toy was taken away. She was angry and anxious. Her eyes turned red in an instant and tears welled up in her beautiful big eyes.
Ye Qingliu looked at his sister like this, and the helplessness in the depths of his gray-blue eyes seemed to deepen a little.
He frowned slightly, but his eyes remained calm as he looked at Hua Jinyue. He didn't explain Sun Guixiang's identity, nor did he blame her for her misconduct. He just slowed down his voice and said with a strange soothing tone, "Come here."
These two words seem to carry magic power.
Hua Jinyue's grievances and anger seemed to have found an outlet, and seemed to be gently lifted by these two words.
She sniffed, glared at Sun Guixiang, who was trembling with fear and wanted to shrink into the corner, and then she walked a few steps to the bedside like a wronged cat that was finally called by its owner.
"Brother..." Her voice was muffled and nasal, and she sat down next to the bed.
She stretched out her hand, wanting to hold Ye Qingliu's hand as usual, but her eyes fell on her brother's hand that had just been "defiled", and her movements paused again. Her fingertips hung hesitantly in the air, and her face was full of entanglement and disgust.
Ye Qingliu seemed to see through her thoughts.
He naturally and proactively raised the hand that had just been held by Sun Guixiang. Instead of touching his sister's hanging hand, he reached for the top of her head - the carefully groomed pink twin ponytails.
His movements were gentle, with the weakness of someone who had just recovered from a serious illness. His fingertips avoided the intricate ribbon decorations on her hair and simply rubbed the hair on top of her head very gently and soothingly.
"Your hair is messy." His voice was still calm, but in that calmness, there was a hint of almost indulgent gentleness that only Hua Jinyue could capture.
His gray-blue eyes looked at her through the lenses, and the gaze behind the lenses was calm and focused, as if she was the only grumpy sister in the world at this moment.
Hua Jinyue's body stiffened slightly, and then the tense and aggressive posture softened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The familiar feeling of her brother rubbing her hair and the indulgence hidden in his calm words instantly smoothed out her frizzy hair.
The hand that was hanging in the air slowly dropped down. Although her little mouth was still slightly pouting, the tears in her eyes had mostly faded away, replaced by a soothed, mixed feeling of dependence that was a mixture of grievance and satisfaction.
Like a cat with its fur stroked, she tilted her head slightly, rubbed her brother's slightly cold fingers, and muttered something in a low voice. Her voice was unclear, but it was no longer as sharp as before.
Ye Qingliu withdrew his hand, and his eyes became calm again, as if the gentleness just now was just an illusion.
He tilted his head slightly, and his gray-blue eyes finally swept calmly towards Sun Guixiang in the corner.
Sun Guixiang remained huddled there stiffly, like a suddenly weathered stone sculpture.
Hua Jinyue's undisguised contemptuous look pierced her heart like an icicle.
Her skinny body was trembling slightly, and she was holding the blue calico package in her arms so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
She wanted to escape, but her legs and feet felt like they were filled with lead and she couldn't move.
When Ye Qingliu's calm gaze swept over, Sun Guixiang's body trembled violently, her head drooped even lower, and her withered back was hunched so much that it almost broke.
She expected the look to be one of reproach, or at least of distance.
Her actions just now, in the eyes of that fairy-like beautiful girl, were so unbearable and offensive... The child must have also felt that she...
"Mung bean cake," Ye Qingliu's clear and calm voice sounded, without any ripples, but it was clearly heard by Sun Guixiang.
“It’s delicious.”
His eyes fell on the blue printed cloth package she was holding tightly in her arms, and he seemed to see through the cloth the empty, washed-out old lunch box inside.
"Thanks."
There was no explanation, no comfort, not even a glance at Hua Jinyue. He just calmly stated a fact and thanked her.
Sun Guixiang suddenly raised her head, her cloudy eyes filled with disbelief and astonishment.
She looked at the calm profile of the young man on the hospital bed, and the deep gray-blue behind his glasses. There was no negative emotion in his eyes as she had expected, only a calmness as deep as a pool.
The words "delicious" and "thank you" were like a faint but warm light, penetrating the heavy shame and fear in her heart.
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