"What's wrong, wife?" Pei Yang sensed that Jia Yue seemed a bit off. He tried to lift her face to look at her, but she held him tightly. He could only stroke her back and asked worriedly, "What happened?"
"I'm not feeling well," Xu Jiayue said. Perhaps because she had drunk too much cold drink in the afternoon, her voice was nasal, making her sound genuinely unwell. She feigned a complaint: "Was working overtime that busy today? I called but she didn't answer."
He told her in the morning that he was working overtime on Saturday. He was indeed working overtime, but because of the photos Yan Yu sent, he didn't leave the company until the afternoon.
"I had a meeting this afternoon and turned off my phone. I called you back later." Pei Yang was referring to the time after he left Yan Yu's place, but she didn't answer his call.
When Xu Jiayue heard him say he was having a meeting, her heart sank even further. If he had nothing to hide, why didn't he just say so directly? Why was he holding a meeting at another woman's house?
"Where do you feel unwell? I'll call Dr. Chen over." Pei Yang was very worried. He felt that her body temperature seemed a little cold. In such hot weather, the air conditioner in her living room wasn't even turned on. How could she be so cold?
"It's all over now." Xu Jiayue had given him a chance to be honest, but he missed it.
She released his neck, her face cold and expressionless.
"It was so cold, how could you be alright?" Pei Yang held her hand and rubbed it, saying, "Did you eat too much ice cream because you wanted to cool off?"
Xu Jiayue looked down at him, her eyes instantly reddening. His concern seemed genuine, and she believed he loved her very much. But why did he lie to her?
"I'm sorry, it's all because I came back late." Pei Yang thought she felt wronged and her eyes reddened because she wasn't feeling well and he wasn't by her side.
Xu Jiayue lowered her head, looking at the hand he was holding, which bore the same wedding ring as hers. Her heart ached even more. Had she made him endure for too long, causing him to seek out other women?
“Pei Yang, you…”
Before she could finish speaking, he picked her up and carried her upstairs.
He put her on the bed, tucked her in, took an electronic thermometer to check her ear temperature, and frowned slightly. "You have a fever."
Her body was so cold, but her temperature had already reached thirty-eight degrees Celsius.
Xu Jiayue did feel unwell starting in the afternoon, but she thought it was because of the hot and humid weather and was preoccupied with Pei Yang's affairs, so she didn't think much of it.
"Have you had dinner yet?" Pei Yang could tell from her expression that she probably hadn't, so without waiting for her answer, he went downstairs to the kitchen to cook porridge.
Although he has a great appreciation for food, he is used to being waited on and is not very good at cooking.
He cooked a bowl of slightly thin porridge and brought it up, then helped Xu Jiayue up to feed her.
Xu Jiayue silently lowered her head, watching him slowly blow on the food to cool it down before feeding it to her spoonful by spoonful. She couldn't help but be moved. She felt that what she had witnessed that afternoon must be a misunderstanding, but why was he hiding it?
She disliked this feeling, as if there was a secret between him and Yan Yu.
"Why aren't you eating?" Pei Yang asked when he finished feeding her half a bowl and saw that she wasn't opening her mouth.
"It tastes awful." Xu Jiayue wasn't feeling well and was in a bad mood, so she spoke more bluntly.
Pei Yang was taken aback. Although it was a bit thin, he had tasted it before, and it tasted like ordinary white porridge. There was nothing particularly good or bad about it.
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