Chapter 68: She is hiding
In the steamy bathroom, Xu Xiaoyue squatted down, covering her feet.
Yan Ye, who was outside the door, first thought that there was a thief in the house. The voice of a young woman should not appear in Yan's house.
Then he realized that the person inside was not Yan Shuli, but his fiancée.
A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. He hadn't seen the woman all day and almost forgot that there was such a person. It turned out that she was waiting for him here.
He subconsciously wanted to run away, but for some reason the unfinished voice sounded familiar.
The man frowned, rubbed his fingers, and said to the inside: "Don't move, I'll go call Aunt Wang."
After that, the footsteps seemed to go away.
Xu Xiaoyue covered her mouth. She almost couldn't help screaming when she fell down just now. If she was recognized in such a dishevelled state, to be honest, it would probably be faster for her to just bang her head against the wall.
The man moved quickly, and Wang Ma arrived soon. She knocked on the bathroom door and asked tentatively, "Xiaoyue, is that you?"
Xu Xiaoyue in the bathroom hummed, opened the door carefully, stuck her head out and looked around, as if looking for something.
"Xiaoyue, what are you doing?" Outside the bathroom, Aunt Wang looked at the person in front of her who was wrapped up tightly with no skin showing, and fell into deep thought.
Outside the door, Yan Ye's figure could no longer be seen, and Xu Xiaoyue's heart, which had been hanging in the air, relaxed.
"Auntie Wang, I just sprained my ankle, it's no big deal." She explained with a smile. It was already late at night, and Xu Xiaoyue didn't want to disturb others, let alone make any big noise.
How could Wang Ma not see what she was thinking? She sighed inwardly. Children of the same age who could cry were already lying in the hospital, while the girl in front of her was afraid of bothering others even after spraining her ankle while taking a bath.
Aunt Wang also has children of her own. She has worked as a nanny in the Yan family for five years. Every year, she only has a few days of free time during the Chinese New Year. She can afford to buy a train ticket and buy two feet of cloth from the state-owned supermarket.
I finally rushed back to meet her. Her daughter was always timid and didn't dare to communicate too much with me. But the moment she saw the new clothes, her tightly tense face was like an egg breaking its shell, and she carefully and cautiously revealed a smile.
In Xu Xiaoyue, Aunt Wang seemed to see the shadow of her own daughter, Daya, and she was very cautious for fear of getting into trouble.
"Come to my room. I have a bottle of medicinal wine there. It will heal faster if you rub it on."
Xu Xiaoyue subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when she saw Wang Ma's serious expression, she stopped talking.
After applying the medicine, it was already late at night. Xu Xiaoyue dragged her limping foot upstairs. When she passed the man's room, she paused and stopped.
An inexplicable thought made her stop and she stood at the man's door for thirty seconds before slowly returning to her room.
Perhaps it was the piercing pain in her feet that made her eyes inexplicably red. She knew that Yan Ye had always had good hearing, and he must have heard the sound of her going upstairs.
But so what? Now she is Xu Xiaoyue, Yan Shuli’s nominal “fiancée” and a stranger who has never met Yan Ye.
So, what reason do I have to ask Yan Ye to care about me?
It’s good like this now, Xu Xiaoyue said to herself silently.
Compared to the ending in the original book, she is already very content.
The next morning, Xu Xiaoyue was still wearing a silk scarf. She covered her face and said to Liu Ye in a somewhat annoyed voice, "Aunt Liu, I seem to have a cold. How about I stay in the hospital for a few days to avoid infecting you."
Liu Ye heard her voice was hoarse and her eyes were red like rabbit eyes, but she did not doubt Xu Xiaoyue's words.
"That's good. If you go to the hospital, you and Jiaojiao can take care of each other. The flu is coming on strong recently, so it's good to go to the hospital."
Without further ado, Xu Xiaoyue packed her clothes while Yan Ye was not at home and went straight to the hospital.
In the evening, when the man returned to the Yan family, it was already dinner time. He looked around at the people at the table, then looked towards the kitchen, and pretended to mention it casually: "Yan Shuli's fiancée, isn't she coming down for dinner?"
Yan Ye also wondered if he was crazy, otherwise how could he have had a dream that night just based on the sound he heard in the bathroom.
In the dream, he and the girl were in the steamy bathroom and they couldn't see each other's faces clearly.
Yan Ye still remembers that he kissed the woman's shoulder and ran his fingers through her black hair. He opened his mouth and asked her when she would be willing to give him a child.
The woman laughed twice with her hands covering her mouth as if she heard a joke, and whispered that she could not have children. She had been married to Yan Shuli a long time ago and was his legal wife. If she got pregnant with his child, wouldn't it be incest?
Yan Ye was so angry that he grabbed the man's waist and said viciously that he knew him first and if they were going to get married, they should follow the first come first served principle.
The woman's almond-shaped round eyes were exposed. She glared at him and protested that it was a childhood engagement that had been arranged long ago, and there was no question of who came first.
Just when Yan Ye was stunned, he saw the woman's face clearly, and it was Xu Xiaoyue.
The man woke up because of anger. His good wife inexplicably became his nephew's fiancée in his dream. It was simply absurd and illogical. Yan Ye was so angry that he didn't even eat breakfast and went straight to the army.
What’s even more bizarre is that he clearly knew that this was impossible, but he acted like he was possessed by a ghost the whole day, with a stern face and feeling very unhappy.
He came back on purpose just to see what his Yan Shuli's fiancée looked like so as to dispel his unhappiness.
Liu Ye didn't expect Yan Ye to ask about Xu Xiaoyue. She recalled that they had no other interactions yesterday. After pursing her lips, she said, "Xiaoyue got the flu and went to the hospital. She won't come back until she's well."
She thought the man was just asking casually, but Yan Ye frowned and asked again, "Which hospital?"
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