late at night
Lu Xin cursed, "What the hell? Do you think I'd help you go against Professor Wu and the research team? Just leave your junior sister alone and get a divorce."
Lu Xin called Bai Yi after entering the house, but the call didn't go through.
Bai Yi stopped answering his calls.
Yu Shiyuan had previously said that he hadn't favored Bai Yi, and Bai Yi still felt wronged.
Zhong Yunxi got into the car and told the driver, "To the airport."
He checked the flights; the only flights to Xiangcheng, besides those in the morning, were at 8 PM, with an hour to spare. He called Xue Meng and immediately booked him a ticket to Xiangcheng.
The weather forecast predicted rain today. It was cloudy all day, and it's only just started raining now, but it's pouring down like a waterfall right from the start.
He persistently dialed Bai Yi's number.
Ren Xiao took Bai Yi to the airport and helped her check in.
After passing through security, Bai Yi sat down in the VIP lounge and felt somewhat exhausted, but she couldn't eat anything.
All day long, her mind was completely out of control, repeatedly replaying the people and things she didn't want to think about.
When she accepted Zhong Yunxi's marriage proposal, she was straightforward and nonchalant, asking for his medical report as if she didn't care about his past relationships at all. Now she's backing out; when people have double standards, they can't even empathize with their past selves.
She didn't want to admit that she had put in so much effort that when she was backfired, she found herself defenseless, without even a piece of armor left to protect herself.
My phone is overflowing with missed calls, so many that the exact numbers are no longer displayed.
When the call was suddenly connected, Zhong Yunxi was stunned for a good ten seconds.
He then asked, "Xiaoyi, it's raining so hard, where are you? I'll come pick you up."
Bai Yi listened to his voice, which was low and trembling slightly.
She remained silent, but the faint sound coming from the other end of the phone was an announcement from the airport that the flight was delayed by an hour. Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief; it was just a delay, not a cancellation.
Zhong Yunxi tried his best to keep his voice and breathing calm, maintaining the illusion that there was no rift between them: "At the airport?"
Bai Yi, like him, had a calm yet wooden gaze, a look of utter dejection, like a mirror with a thousand cracks but still unbroken. He gripped the plane ticket tightly: "There's a new research project. The lab is in Xiangcheng."
Zhong Yunxi pressed his temples; his migraine was like a torrential downpour outside the car window, overwhelming him.
"Why won't you let me see you off? How long are you going to stay there? When are you coming back?"
"I'm not sure. I'll go back to get a divorce when the engagement expires. If you want to get it done earlier, I'll try my best to make time to go."
No one lost control of their emotions.
It's like being suddenly shot through the heart and then silently plugging the wound to stop the bleeding, as if that's how you'll keep breathing.
Zhong Yunxi remained silent. He understood that Bai Yi's departure from Yuegang would last longer than the remainder of their marriage contract.
After he got out of the car, when he arrived at the departure hall, Ren Xiao saw Bai Yi through the security checkpoint and was walking downstairs from the hall.
She watched Zhong Yunxi stride towards the VIP lane. A staff member handed him his ticket, which he took and went straight through security to the boarding gate.
Zhong Yunxi found Bai Yi in the VIP lounge not far from the boarding gate.
Bai Yi closed her eyes, half asleep and half awake. She was too tired, but dared not sleep for fear of missing the time.
Zhong Yunxi sat down next to her. The sofa sank a little as someone added to it, and she woke up with a start, opening her eyes to see Zhong Yunxi.
He had nothing but a plane ticket.
Bai Yi reached out and took his plane ticket, tore it up, and returned it to him.
Zhong Yunxi's hand was brushed by her fingertips; it was very cold. He took off his coat and covered her with it, saying, "Take a nap if you're sleepy. I'll wake you when it's time to board."
Bai Yi lifted his coat, leaned against the sofa with her back to him, and desperately tried to stop herself from trembling.
Zhong Yunxi got up and asked a staff member in the lounge for a blanket, then came over and gently covered her with it.
When the boarding announcement was made for the first time, Bai Yi opened her eyes. She got up, pushed her small suitcase, and jogged towards the boarding gate.
Zhong Yunxi followed quickly, "Xiaoyi, I know there are some things you might not want to hear even if I explain them, but I will handle them all."
He was used to it; Bai Yi never said anything, she just got angry.
He used to ask her what he had done wrong, and she could point it out. But Bai Yi would say that he was a mature man and should know what to do himself, and couldn't just wait for her to tell him.
Last time at Qiwu Mountain Residence, she was willing to hit and scold him, but now she has no reaction at all. She doesn't even want to look at him.
The ticket inspector stopped him: "Sir, please show me your ticket."
Zhong Yunxi placed the handful of paper scraps from the plane ticket on the table, along with a sticky note: "Please give this to the flight attendant, thank you."
Ticket inspector: ...
He knew that Bai Yi didn't want to see him right now and wouldn't allow him to go to Xiangcheng with her. He hadn't planned to board the plane anyway; he just wanted to stay with her at the gate for a while.
He wrote a sticky note telling the flight attendants that Bai Yi was not feeling well and might have low blood sugar, asking them to take good care of her.
Back in the parking lot, I sat in the car and calmed myself down for a long time. His WeChat Moments was clean and uncluttered, except for a photo of his marriage certificate.
He denies all of the claims about the two-year engagement and the secret marriage.
Zhong Yunxi asked the driver to take him to the East Tower of Hong Kong Island. The entire focus of his work was to readjust and reorganize the plans around Bai Yi.
He called Xue Meng to book a flight to Beijing for the next morning and asked Xue Meng to send him a copy of the flight schedule for flights between Hong Kong and Hunan.
There are too many unforeseen events, and private airlines cannot apply for flights on the fly.
When Bai Yi landed in Xiangcheng, she could barely stand up from her seat. The flight attendant carefully helped her and pushed her in a wheelchair to the exit.
He Cheng and Yu Shiyuan came to pick her up. The moment He Cheng saw her huddled in her wheelchair, his eyes turned red.
His delicate junior sister went to Vietnam and Hong Kong for a few months and came back looking so aggrieved.
Yu Shiyuan acted faster than He Cheng. He picked up Bai Yi and said to He Cheng, "She has a bit of a fever. Let's go to the hospital first."
Even though Bai Yi was drowsy in Yu Shiyuan's arms, she wasn't very comfortable. It was a subconscious wariness that made her push away the approach of an unfamiliar person. Yu Shiyuan didn't let her sit down, but took out a wet wipe to wipe her forehead to cool her down.
After she was admitted to the hospital and put on an IV drip, Yu Shiyuan tried to feed her honey water, but she wouldn't drink a drop. He could only help her with glucose infusion. She didn't sleep well either, always feeling like she was dreaming. Yu Shiyuan played white noise for her, and her condition finally stabilized a lot in the latter half of the night.
He Cheng called Lu Xin to ask him what happened, and Lu Xin didn't hide anything and told him everything.
After hearing about Bai Yi's situation after returning to Xiangcheng, Lu Xin remained silent as He Cheng launched into a tirade.
Zhong Yunxi received a call from Lu Xin in the early hours of the morning; he had just dozed off for an hour on the sofa in his office.
"It's 7 a.m., the first flight from Yuegang to Xiangcheng. The tickets are booked. Come with me." Lu Xin looked like he had been up all night.
Zhong Yunxi asked, "What's wrong with Xiaoyi?"
If it weren't for Bai Yi, Lu Xin wouldn't have asked him to go to Xiangcheng.
"Thanks to you, he was sent to the hospital as soon as he got off the plane." Lu Xin wouldn't let go of any opportunity to torment Zhong Yunxi now. If he went to Xiangcheng alone, Teacher Wu and He Cheng might beat him to death. He could only use Zhong Yunxi as a human shield.
Zhong Yunxi tidied up a stack of documents, took a shower in the hotel suite on the top floor, packed two sets of clothes, and put Baiyi's companion doll, a Tombry Shepherd, into his suitcase.
Just before boarding the plane, he remembered to call Xue Meng and tell him that his trip to Beijing was canceled and to ask Xue Meng to arrange a hotel and driver for him in Xiangcheng.
This past day was the most chaotic one Xue Meng had witnessed in terms of his boss's schedule and state since he became Xue Meng's assistant. His boss kept changing decisions and schedules, meetings were canceled at the last minute, and flights were repeatedly rescheduled; he was like a headless fly. Xue Meng was also on tenterhooks.
When the two arrived at Xiangcheng Hospital, it was already past ten o'clock. In the corridor outside the VIP ward on the top floor, He Cheng was taken aback when he saw Lu Xin, and his eyes fell on the person next to Lu Xin.
When He Cheng first met Zhong Yunxi, even though he had already labeled him as trash and scum, Zhong Yunxi's demeanor and bearing instantly put He Cheng under pressure.
Yesterday, He Cheng called Lu Xin, not only to vent his anger by yelling at him, but also to try and get information out of him about how to break up his junior sister with that scumbag. Lu Xin told him it would be difficult; Zhong Yunxi had posted his marriage certificate on his WeChat Moments, basically meaning he would relentlessly pursue her and never let go.
Lu Xin was carrying roses and a doll, while Zhong Yunxi was carrying only a box of strawberries.
He Cheng sneered and said to Lu Xin, "You should ask Teacher Wu for permission first, and see if he approves your entry into the ward."
Lu Xin sighed: "Did Teacher Wu find out?"
"How could I not know? They arrived at 6:30 in the morning and stayed for almost two hours before leaving."
Lu Xin asked again, "Is Junior Sister awake yet?"
He Cheng glanced at Zhong Yunxi: "He's still unconscious. He hasn't had a drop of water in 12 hours since he was admitted to the hospital. He's only surviving on glucose. Lu Xin, you'd better wait until Teacher Wu kicks you out of his school."
Zhong Yunxi lowered his eyes slightly, obscuring his pupils, making it impossible to discern his emotions.
He took a step forward, bowed slightly, and shrugged his shoulders in an apologetic gesture. "Senior Brother He, I've often heard Xiaoyi mention you. I'm Zhong Yunxi, Xiaoyi's husband. I'm here to handle Xiaoyi's hospitalization matters. Please give me some instructions."
Lu Xin: ...
What a bastard, trying to stir up trouble right from the start?
He Cheng: ...
People can actually laugh when they're speechless.
He Cheng scoffed, "This isn't Yuegang, you don't need to handle this. Junior Sister has never mentioned to us that she has any cheap husband. Watch your words, and goodbye."
He Cheng shut the two of them out of the door. Lu Xin stared at him and said, "I didn't realize you were such a mad dog?"
The two sat on chairs next to the nurses' station.
Zhong Yunxi handed the strawberries in his hand to Lu Xin: "I'll help you attract hatred. When Senior Brother He comes out, you can curse me together with him. He might let you in to see Xiaoyi. Otherwise, neither of us can get in."
Lu Xin laughed in anger.
"You're a fucking bastard. You first acted as my cover, then made me your undercover agent."
Zhong Yunxi glanced at him: "Lu Xin, if you knew how willful Xiaoyi is in front of me, you wouldn't be stopping me like this. She hasn't even shown a tenth of her temper in front of you."
Lu Xin remained silent for a few minutes. Bai Yi was pampered everywhere, and with Zhong Yunxi, she was spoiled to the point of being unreasonable.
Zhong Yunxi frankly told him, "I was originally going to Beijing today to meet some friends and build some relationships. I plan to completely sever all ties between the Shi family and the Wen family within three years, and I will also send Shi Yan to the Northwest to swallow up half of the Wen family's wind power and energy storage market. The Wen family will make up for any projects that are lost by Xiao Yi a hundredfold."
Lu Xin: ...
Lu Xin bent over, resting his elbows on his knees: "We grew up together, how could you be so heartless..."
Zhong Yunxi continued, "I reminded Wen Ying when she first played cards with Xiao Yi at the dinner party. I gave her the Ning Ye project that she couldn't get, and I can't tolerate her overstepping her bounds again and again behind her back."
“I will explain and make amends for all the problems between Xiaoyi and me. Leading Capital will come into the Xiangcheng Chinese medicine industry sooner or later. Since she doesn’t want to go back to Yuegang, I will stay in Xiangcheng.”
Lu Xin ran a hand through his hair and scolded him, "All you do is try to turn me against you."
Zhong Yunxi paused for several minutes, then smiled and said, "Xiao Yi's temper is something others can't handle. But I can. I won't let her suffer."
Lu Xin said irritably, "So what if you have a few stinking bucks? Don't you even know that all of Junior Sister's grievances are caused by you?"
“But I can solve it, by any means necessary. And, most importantly, I love her.”
Zhong Yunxi knew very well that from the very beginning, it was this open and blatant love that attracted her and made her see him.
Lu Xin stood up and kicked the tip of his shoe: "You'd better pay me some compensation for emotional distress later. I give up, you bastard."
Zhong Yunxi pointed to the Kayla rose, sheepdog doll, and strawberries in his hand: "Xiaoyi knows I would buy these things. If she looks upset, just throw them out. Don't make her angry. I just saw He Cheng carrying an apple. Tell him that Xiaoyi doesn't like apples, she only likes this variety of strawberry."
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