Chapter 125 He couldn't help but gasp for breath in pain.
Xie Chen picked up the remaining ring and put it on his finger with swift and decisive movements, quickly succeeding in putting it on.
The ring is understated and elegant, and it suits Xie Chen just as well.
Mu Yan had never really been interested in such ornaments, but for some reason, he just thought the ring was beautiful. After putting it on, he even raised his hand to look at it for a while.
For a moment, he didn't think too much about why Xie Chen knew his fingertips so clearly.
"Does Mr. Mu like it?" the designer asked with a smile. "Mr. Xie originally wanted to show you the design, but I'm used to hand-drawing designs, so it's not easy to depict the ring's shape."
Mu Yan nodded and said very seriously that the ring was beautiful.
Xie Chen helped Mu Yan to her feet and nodded slightly to the designer: "Qiao, we'll take our leave now."
The designer stood up: "Please take care, gentlemen. We won't see you off."
The driver was waiting downstairs. Xie Chen and Mu Yan sat in the back seat of the car together. Mu Yan had sat in the front seat when she arrived, and her pregnancy test report was placed in the passenger seat.
Xie Chen leaned forward slightly, picked up the file bag in front of him, and immediately opened it to read it.
Mu Yan felt a bit guilty, like a child having their homework checked by a teacher. Seeing his slightly furrowed brows, Mu Yan couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
"The baby is fine, and I feel okay too. The doctor said that those slightly abnormal indicators will not have a big impact on the child. As long as I feel okay, I don't need to worry."
Xie Chen looked up, finally shifting his gaze from the report to his face, and let out a soft sigh.
Two weeks later, Mu Yan took the language test for the first time. His score wasn't bad, but with plenty of time, he felt he could have scored even higher.
When he and Xie Chen discussed whether they should study for a while and then take the exam again, Xie Chen chuckled. If he didn't know Mu Yan well, he would have suspected that Mu Yan was just being coquettish and showing off, wanting his praise.
He smiled and said that he felt he had done enough and could rest at home for the rest of the time. However, whether or not to continue studying was up to Mu Yan himself.
Like a parent rewarding a child for doing well on a test, Xie Chen insisted on taking Mu Yan out to eat, saying it was to celebrate.
Looking down from the hotel on the 35th floor, the city lights of N were just coming on, and the view was breathtaking. The food was also delicious, and the restaurant even gave them a blueberry ice cream, although Xie Chen only allowed Mu Yan to have one bite.
It was already quite late when they got home after dinner. Mu Yan packed some roasted beef for Tang Yuan, who happily rubbed against him for a long time. Mu Yan held him and watched TV for a while before taking a shower.
Xie Chen's pheromones didn't match his very well. He was still sleepy and easily exhausted. Even though he had just gone out for a meal, he was still tired and sleepy on the way back.
The bathroom was filled with steam. Mu Yan leaned against the wall, his legs feeling weak again.
Fearing he might slip, there was a non-slip mat in the bathroom. Without thinking much about it, Mu Yan quickly rinsed off the foam.
Just as he was about to turn off the water, his knees suddenly buckled, and with a muffled thud, Mu Yan fell heavily onto the non-slip mat.
A sharp pain shot through his right elbow and knee. Hot water was poured directly onto his face, and Mu Yan choked on several mouthfuls of water. He tried to turn off the water, but his arm was too weak to move.
The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open, and Mu Yan vaguely heard Xie Chen call his name, his voice filled with an unusual panic.
The glass door to the bathroom, filled with steam, was pushed open. Mu Yan instinctively tried to hide his disheveled state, but only managed to curl up in vain.
The shower was turned off. In a daze, Mu Yan smelled Xie Chen's pheromones for the first time. It was hard to describe. Because of the intense emotional fluctuations, the pheromones were a bit pungent and bitter, like the smell of elm leaves.
The aura made him dizzy, and his body unconsciously wanted to get closer to the source, while his brain strongly advised him to stay away.
Xie Chen grabbed a bath towel from the shelf, wrapped him up like a rice dumpling, and then carried him out of the bathroom.
When Mu Yan woke up, he was already sitting on the bed. Xie Chen took a new bath towel and carefully dried the water droplets off his body.
Alpha's fingertips occasionally brushed against his skin, causing a slight shiver.
"I don't know why... I suddenly felt weak." Mu Yan gave a forced smile and said softly, "I'm sorry for troubling you..."
"Hmm, no trouble at all." Xie Chen didn't seem to care about appearances. After helping him clean up, he quickly returned to the bathroom and handed Mu Yan his loungewear to change into.
"Put these on, we're going to the hospital now," Xie Chen said, his tone leaving no room for argument.
"I... I'll just put some medicine on it and it'll be fine. My knees and elbows are a little scraped, but there's no bleeding, and my stomach doesn't hurt either," Mu Yan explained softly.
Xie Chen sometimes seemed unable to understand Chinese. He nodded in agreement, but continued, saying that he had the driver bring the car downstairs.
Mu Yan had gotten used to it. This was how Xie Chen would act whenever he didn't want to listen to her but didn't want to argue with her. Anyway, Mu Yan was soft-hearted and would basically listen to him no matter what.
Mu Yan knew this time would be the same, so he could only nod.
"The abrasions aren't serious and haven't affected the fetus, but why did you suddenly fall like that? Have you been in pain for a long time? Is your partner's pheromones insufficient during pregnancy?" The doctor in the hospital's emergency department was a middle-aged Beta woman. She looked up at Xie Chen with some reproach.
"It's my fault." Before Mu Yan could say anything, Xie Chen took the blame upon himself.
"Do you need an IV drip?" The doctor glanced at the couple's clothes and thought that they were well-off and didn't seem like they needed nutritional supplements. "I can prescribe some nutritional supplements."
"Do I need to get a shot?" Xie Chen asked.
“Yes,” the doctor replied, “blood injection is faster.”
"No need," Xie Chen said.
Mu Yan paused slightly. Actually, he wasn't so afraid of injections anymore; he had had his blood drawn once during a prenatal checkup.
Xie Chen pulled him up and left. On the way back, Mu Yan felt a little drowsy.
The car lurched slightly as it went over a speed bump, causing Mu Yan's head to sway and nearly hit the window.
Xie Chen's hand protected his forehead in advance. Mu Yan opened his eyes due to the jolt and subconsciously turned his head to look to his side, where he met Xie Chen's gaze.
Alpha's eyes appeared as a bottomless black in the dimly lit carriage, staring at him quietly for a long time before blinking.
Perhaps because Mu Yan was drowsy and somewhat disoriented, he felt that the gaze was somewhat naked, giving him the illusion of being stripped bare.
Mu Yan felt a little unfamiliar with Xie Chen, who wasn't smiling, even though this seemed to be his usual self.
Xie Chen quickly withdrew his gaze, gently pressing Mu Yan's head against his shoulder, indicating that he should lean against him to sleep.
"Go to sleep. We still have more than ten minutes to go before we get home."
The light and shadow of the streetlights flowed across Xie Chen's sharply defined face, sometimes bright and sometimes dim. Mu Yan suddenly felt that he had seen such a superior face somewhere before they first met.
Was it in the news or on a magazine cover? But before Xie Chengjun passed away, the media had very limited information about his children.
Is it because of He Fan? But Xie Chen doesn't look much like He Fan. He Fan's good looks are the kind that resemble those of Asian idol boy band members, making people want to get close to him at first glance. But when you first see Xie Chen, you just feel like he's someone you shouldn't approach.
Xie Chen noticed that Mu Yan was looking at him, so he turned his head slightly and asked Mu Yan with his eyes what was wrong.
"It's nothing," Mu Yan shook his head. "Have you ever been in a magazine or anything like that before?"
Xie Chen didn't understand why he suddenly asked this, but he still thought about it seriously for a moment and shook his head.
"Can't sleep?" he asked Mu Yan again. "Then go home and sleep."
“I’ve been thinking about this all the way here. This score is good enough. You can apply to the more prestigious universities. If you don’t have an obsession with getting exceptionally high scores or applying to a school with particularly high requirements, then there’s really no need to continue studying. Just rest at home for now, get your acceptance letter this year, and go to school next year.”
Mu Yan nodded. He wasn't actually dissatisfied with his performance, but he felt that he could have done better.
After Mu Juanhua recovered from her illness, she no longer had any major goals for her life. Just like wanting a promotion at work, she wanted to improve her language scores and apply to a better graduate school, but she just felt that this was what everyone else hoped for.
It's difficult for someone struggling to make a living to suddenly have a life value to pursue. But Mu Yan has recently come to terms with it a bit. There are so many people in this world who are just like him in the past, struggling to make a living. Being able to live a simple life, without worrying about making a living or having one's dignity trampled on, is actually a great blessing.
Mu Juanhua used to say that Mu Yan was academically gifted and felt that her illness had prevented Mu Yan from continuing his studies. Mu Yan himself did not dislike academic work, and in fact, continuing his studies would have been a good choice.
As the car entered the underground parking garage, the ambient lighting inside turned on, and Xie Chen reminded him that they had arrived.
Before going to sleep, Xie Chen helped him apply the medicine that had been prescribed by the hospital. Mu Yan was sitting on the bed wearing long sleeves and pants. To apply the medicine, he needed to roll up his sleeves and pants. As soon as Mu Yan finished rolling up his sleeves, Xie Chen had already rolled up his pants as well.
The purplish-red bruises on the fair skin were particularly glaring, resembling a dirty patch of snow under the soft light.
The ointment was a bit irritating when it was applied. His knee was badly bruised, and Mu Yan braced himself on the bed behind him. When the cold ointment was applied, he couldn't help but gasp in pain, and his fingers instinctively gripped the sheets tightly.
I don't know why, he wasn't this spoiled before.
Xie Chen seemed to notice his pain and gently blew on him a few times. Mu Yan felt even more embarrassed and quickly said that it didn't hurt anymore and told him not to blow on him anymore.
"...I hope my pheromones are useful to you." Xie Chen looked at him and suddenly said something out of the blue.
"I was tired today, and I felt really comfortable taking a hot shower, so I took a little longer. Next time I take a shower after I get up, I'll take a shorter one," Mu Yan said with a light smile, "and I definitely won't be so tired then."
Xie Chen turned off the light for him and urged him to go to sleep quickly. Mu Yan was already very sleepy, so he fell asleep soon.
The next day, when Mu Yan woke up and finished washing up, he heard the doorbell ring. He thought Xie Chen had forgotten his keys after walking the dog, so he went to the front door to open it for Xie Chen.
He walked to the door and found that Xie Chen had already opened it from the inside. Looking over Xie Chen's shoulder, he saw Shang Qiyue's familiar face.
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