Huo Ye's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Why are you suddenly asking this? Are my thoughts important to you?
Yun Lian nodded solemnly, her eyes even more resolute than when she was making an oath.
"It's very important, after all, your happiness is my happiness."
Huo Ye felt a sudden thud in his chest, followed by a rapid, pounding heartbeat.
He looked at Yun Lian with a hint of disbelief.
Is he really that important to her?
"Will you help me after I tell you?" Huo Ye asked tentatively.
Yun Lian smiled, her eyes crinkling, and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
"Of course I'll help, after all, I also hope you can find happiness."
"What if I ask you to cut off contact with me and pretend nothing happened that night?"
Yun Lian's smile gradually faded, the smile freezing on her lips.
"If that day caused you any trouble, then I can move out of the Huo family."
Yun Lian sincerely expressed her apologies on his behalf.
"Huo Ye, I was impulsive before and caused you inconvenience. I'm very sorry."
Yun Lian smiled with relief, but tears welled up in her eyes.
"Don't worry, breaking off contact... isn't difficult. I... I can do it. Anyway, I've never really married into the Huo family. Living in the Huo family is ultimately not proper and doesn't make sense."
Thanks for the reminder. I'll move as soon as I'm discharged from the hospital.
Huo Ye watched as she pretended to be strong, tears welling up in her eyes several times, only to be pulled back into her eyes by tilting her head back.
Huo Ye felt as if his heart was being pierced by countless thorns, each piercing a pain that went deep into his soul.
"I did not mean that."
I just want to end this improper relationship.
“I didn’t mean to kick you out of the Huo family. We can still afford to support you, Yun Lian. I just hope that we can live together as a family in the future.”
I don't want to have any further involvement with her besides our family relationship.
Yun Lian turned to look at Huo Ye and saw the apprehension in his eyes. Her mischievousness kicked in, and she wanted to tease him again.
Yun Lian was heartbroken, and the tear she had been holding back for so long finally slid down and landed on Huo Ye's hand.
Yun Lian choked out, "Huo Ye, are you—asking me for being dirty? Nothing happened between me and the old man..."
Huo Ye felt as if his hand had been struck by a boulder.
He made her cry.
"That's not what I meant!"
A woman's chastity is never hidden beneath her skirt.
“Yun Lian, I just hope we can have a purely family-like relationship. I don’t want that misunderstanding to change our feelings for each other. I absolutely didn’t mean to look down on you in the slightest, Yun Lian, don’t get stuck on this.”
Yun Lian wiped away her tears and gave him a bright smile.
"I understand. Don't worry, I will definitely keep my distance from you from now on."
Huo Ye felt that the more he explained, the more confused he became, and the more he tried to cover it up, the worse it got.
He sensed that Yun Lian didn't understand what he was trying to say, so he simply remained silent.
Huo Xi entered and saw this bizarre scene.
His brother stared silently at his stepmother's bedsheets.
The stepmother gazed out the window, lost in thought.
It's eerie, yet somehow harmonious.
"Brother, quickly set up the small table, the food is here."
Huo Ye seemed to wake from a dream and quickly set the table.
After Yun Lian finished using it, she looked on with curiosity.
"Huo Xi, how's your university?"
The original owner had just graduated from university, but before she could even go for an interview, her mother suddenly fell seriously ill, and her younger brother was in the middle of preparing for the college entrance examination. The pressure of the whole family was on her shoulders.
After hitting walls everywhere she looked for a job, the original owner of this body simply started staking out various places, hoping to meet a young, wealthy CEO who would take care of her, just like in TV dramas.
I did meet a CEO, but he's not young.
But as long as I can get medical expenses and my younger brother can continue his studies, I don't care.
I only regret that I spent all my spare time in college working part-time and didn't get to enjoy college life properly.
Huo Xi rubbed the stray hairs sticking up on his head, looking silly.
"It's alright. The food in the cafeteria is pretty good, unlike other schools where it's hard to swallow."
Yun Lian was in high spirits.
When are you going back to school? Why don't you take me with you? I want to try it out too.
"I'm leaving the day after tomorrow. Are you sure you want to come with me, stepmother? If you are, I'll book your tickets and take you to play around our school."
"The day after tomorrow... You go first, I'll tell you when I come."
Huo Ye lowered his eyes, concealing his emotions.
How come they have so much to say?
"Huo Xi, didn't you come back to do social research? How's it going?"
Huo Xi was abruptly interrupted, his smile vanished instantly, and he sat up straight, answering seriously.
"There's quite a bit of a gap. A few days ago I thought I had plenty of time, so I left it for later, but I didn't expect..."
A cold smile appeared on Huo Ye's lips.
"Then why don't you go out and do some research?"
Huo Xi was genuinely afraid of his brother, Huo Ye, as he felt the constant chill emanating from him.
I stood up instinctively.
"I'll be there right away!"
With a slam of the door, the ward fell silent once more.
Yun Lian glanced at Huo Ye without making a sound.
She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she always felt that Huo Ye had deliberately sent Huo Xi away.
But he didn't say anything.
Are CEOs all very free?
Yun Lian lay there for a while but still couldn't help but speak.
"Huo Ye, I want to be discharged from the hospital."
For no apparent reason, Huo Ye heard the phrase, "I'll move as soon as I'm discharged from the hospital."
"I'll go ask the doctor how you're recovering. If he agrees, we can be discharged."
"good."
After Huo Ye left, the system couldn't help but chatter on and on.
“Host, Huo Ye is telling the doctor that you shouldn’t be discharged.”
Yun Lian's lips curled slightly.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely be able to get it out."
Good heavens, where do you get your confidence? The hospital belongs to his family, how can the doctors not listen to him?
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