030 Chi Xiaoman is his heartache
In the ward, Huo Yanxi lay weakly on the hospital bed. He had just had his stomach pumped and his face was deathly pale.
His stomach was already weak, and the egg noodles last night and the egg pancake this morning had aggravated the burden on his stomach.
That one bite of stir-fried beef with yellow peppers at Xie Yaoyao's house was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Adding refrigerated yogurt only made matters worse.
He would leave the Xie family immediately because he didn't want to faint there and frighten the mother and child.
As soon as he went out and closed the door, he vomited blood.
Before he fell into a coma, he only had time to instruct the bodyguards who rushed out of the darkness not to disturb Xie Yaoyao and her son.
His body was indeed at its limit.
Pei Yan stood by the hospital bed, looking at Huo Yanxi, whose face was paler than the sheets and whose lips were completely bloodless.
"Huo Sheng, your stomach can only handle light and easily digestible food. Whose cooking is so delicious that you're eating beef and drinking yogurt?"
Huo Yanxi's attending physician told him that the contents washed out of his stomach included undigested beef and yogurt.
He knew he had stomach problems, yet he still dared to eat these things indiscriminately.
He really brought this on himself.
Huo Yanxi's eyelashes drooped, casting shadows in his eye sockets. His pale skin was so white that you could almost see the blue veins. He looked like a lifeless white porcelain doll.
Beautiful yet fragile.
You don't understand.
Five years have passed, and he has changed so many chefs. People think he is paranoid, fearing that if a chef stays with him for too long and gains his trust, he will poison him.
No.
He was simply searching for the flavors hidden in the boat houses of the small fishing village.
The taste he remembered.
Now that he has found that feeling in Xie Yaoyao and her son, how could he be willing to let it go?
Pei Yan: "I don't understand, but Mr. Huo, you must take care of your health. The Huo Group needs you, and we all need you."
What he didn't say was that if he kept torturing his stomach like this, he might die young in a few years.
Huo Yanxi pinched his ear. "Noisy."
"Can I not be noisy?" Pei Yan was like a mother hen, worrying endlessly.
"Do you know how many media outlets secretly photographed you when you were rushed to the hospital covered in blood? I spent a lot of time dealing with those media reports. Mr. Huo, please, have some compassion and take care of your own health."
Huo Yanxi scoffed softly, then closed his eyes and remained silent.
Pei Yan was about to complain again, but seeing his numb, world-weary face, he swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
well!
What's the point of saying more?
He won't listen.
"You should rest well. I'll be right outside. Call me if you need anything." Pei Yan glanced at the IV drip hanging there and manually adjusted the pulley to slow down the flow of the fluid.
He had just turned around when he heard Huo Yanxi's cold, deep voice come from behind him, "Still no news about her?"
Pei Yan knew who the "she" he was referring to was.
Chi Xiaoman is Huo Yanxi's biggest worry.
Back then, after Huo Yanxi was forcibly brought back from the small fishing village by Madam Huo, he was taken away by the police as soon as he arrived in Hong Kong.
For the next three months, he was imprisoned in Xiaojianshan Prison and suffered all kinds of humiliation.
No one knows how he emerged from that cannibalistic inferno.
But the first thing he did after leaving Xiaojianshan Prison was to go back to the small fishing village to find Chi Xiaoman.
He came up empty-handed; the houseboat was burned down; Chi Xiaoman disappeared; he was completely abandoned.
"not yet."
Pei Yan felt a little guilty. In fact, four years ago, Huo Yanxi had asked him to help find someone.
The private investigator he hired was unreliable, insisting that when the Chi family's boathouse burned down, villagers saw a person covered in flames run out of the boathouse and into the sea.
They said the person they were looking for had long since passed away.
At that time, Huo Yanxi was extremely obsessive, and it seemed that the belief in finding Chi Xiaoman was what kept him alive.
Pei Yan was Huo Yanxi's college classmate, and he knew Huo Yanxi's feelings for Chi Xiaoman better than anyone else.
He dared not tell him the truth.
So he fabricated a lie, saying that after the houseboat was burned down, someone saw Chi Xiaoman and a man go to the mainland.
The man looked very wealthy and handsome, and he was a perfect match for Chi Xiaoman.
After hearing these words, Huo Yanxi smashed everything in the villa and locked himself inside for three whole days.
Three days later, he reappeared before everyone as if he were a completely different person.
Pei Yan didn't notice the change in him at first, until he drove a competitor to jump off a high-rise building in Central, where he died on the spot.
He then realized that he was not a cold-blooded wolf, but a cold-faced demon without any emotion.
Huo Yanxi silently opened his eyes and stared intently at Pei Yan's straight back.
"Pei Yan, are you hiding something from me?"
Pei Yan felt a thorn in his side and turned around with an awkward smile, "How could that be?"
Huo Yanxi stared at him for a long time, until Pei Yan felt a chill run down his spine, before he finally looked away and said wearily, "It's better if there isn't. You know I hate being lied to the most."
A bead of cold sweat slid down Pei Yan's forehead. He quickly changed the subject, "Doubao's attending physician called me and said that its injuries have almost healed and we can go pick it up now."
Doubao is a dog that Huo Yanxi picked up from a small fishing village.
More precisely, Chi Xiaoman found the dog; it already had a broken leg when she found it.
To save it, Chi Xiaoman would go digging through trash cans to collect bottles after school to exchange for money.
She eventually managed to raise enough money for the dog's surgery. After its leg was set, she took the dog home, which upset Huo Yanxi for a long time.
He thought he would be the only living thing she took back.
Now there's another dog.
Moreover, this dog is particularly dramatic. Knowing that he doesn't like it, it always tries to play the victim and act pitiful in front of Chi Xiaoman.
When it was found in the small fishing village, its fur had been burned off by fire. It was unclear how it survived, but it lingered near the boathouse and refused to leave.
Huo Yanxi took it back to the port city and carefully treated it, and it slowly recovered and grew fur.
Occasionally, when Huo Yanxi was feeling depressed, he and his dog would sit under the eaves watching the sunset, looking incredibly desolate.
A deep weariness appeared on Huo Yanxi's handsome face. He closed his eyelids and said, "Go and take it back to No. 22 Taiping Mountain."
“Okay,” Pei Yan hesitated, “then what about here…”
"You won't die, go ahead." Huo Yanxi is the investor in this private hospital.
Whenever he comes to the hospital, he receives the highest level of treatment.
Pei Yan quickly slipped away.
As Pei Yan stepped out of the ward, his phone rang. Seeing the caller ID, he quickly answered it.
On the other end of the phone was the private investigator he had sent to investigate Chi Xiaoman's whereabouts.
“Mr. Pei, I found out that after Miss Chi’s house caught fire, she went to the police station to report the case.”
Pei Yan's eyes lit up. "So she's not dead?"
"According to the police officer who received her at the time, she was indeed in a very disheveled state, as if she had escaped from a fire, and was soaking wet."
Pei Yan thought to himself that the villager wasn't wrong; he did see someone rush out of the fire and jump into the sea.
The person just didn't die.
Pei Yan: "Go on."
Private investigator: "After filing the report with the police, I accompanied Ms. Chi back to the boathouse to collect evidence. For some reason, Ms. Chi suddenly changed her story, saying that she had accidentally knocked over the candles and burned down the boathouse, and demanded that the case be dropped."
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