Lu Qianzhou suddenly turned his head and stared at him sharply.
Mou Rui raised his hands and shrugged. "OK, pretend I didn't say anything. Do as you like."
All the way, Yan Xia was carried steadily in Fang Jiangyi's arms. He carried nearly a hundred - pound her for a long distance, and his breathing remained steady from start to finish.
Hot and cold waves assailed her. Yan Xia now felt as if there was a fire burning inside her body. She was so hot.
Instinctively, she reached out to pull off the coat wrapped around her, but Fang Jiangyi stopped her.
"Don't move around. I'll take you to the hospital."
Yan Xia was in such agony that she couldn't even open her eyes. She kept shaking her head. "I don't want to go to the hospital. I don't want to... "
Fang Jiangyi looked at her with a complex expression. Being afraid of the dark and afraid of going to the hospital, these two traits were exactly the same as that little girl, Cheng Yanxia.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Yan Xia grabbed the coat on Fang Jiangyi even tighter and pleaded in a low voice. "Please, I don't want to go to the hospital..."
The hospital was a terrifying place.
When she was a child, she had a weak constitution. It was common for her to go to the hospital for injections and take medicine. So she had an instinctive fear of hospitals. If it wasn't her own illness, it was okay. But if she was sick, she would put it off as long as possible and was absolutely reluctant to go to the hospital.
Because of her poor health as a child, her family ordered two servings of milk for her every day, one in the morning and one in the evening. So she always had a milky fragrance on her body. Her sister always affectionately joked that she was a milk - drinking kid and said she was like a little dairy cow...
Fang Jiangyi felt her body temperature gradually rising. Suddenly, he thought of Cheng Yanxia, and his emotions wavered for a moment.
"Okay, then we won't go." He instructed the bodyguards. "Tell them to call the doctor to the house in advance."
Hearing this, she affectionately grabbed his collar and fell into a drowsy sleep.
Fang Jiangyi sat in the back seat with her in his arms. Her upper body slumped on his lap. The lake water had soaked through Lu Qianzhou's coat and wet his clothes.
Before they even got home, she had already started to run a fever. The temperature was very low in the early winter, and it was the season of changing weather. If one caught a cold and had a fever, it would be very difficult to recover.
All the way, he felt her forehead temperature and kept urging the driver to drive faster and faster.
When he just rushed to the lakeside, he saw her soaking in the water. She flapped her hands twice and then lost her strength, allowing herself to sink into the deep abyss of the water.
The feeling at that moment was indescribable and very strange. The last time he had such a feeling seemed to be when the Fang family went bankrupt and he learned that his younger brother had fallen from a building. His heart seemed to be instantly emptied and exposed to the cold winter. It exploded with a whoosh, and even the pain was numbed.
His heart just raced, his breathing became difficult, and he felt a lingering fear in his heart. He was almost unable to control his emotions and limbs.
Lu Sheng.
When did he start to have such feelings for her when her life was in danger...
Maybe it was because of guilt. Clearly, it was the joint act of the two of them, but she had to bear the consequences alone.
Good and evil, right and wrong. In this game, who could claim to be completely innocent?
He remained silent throughout the journey, holding Yan Xia in his arms. There was a fine layer of cold sweat on his face.
When they got home, the female doctor had been waiting in the mansion for a long time.
She efficiently changed Yan Xia into a clean set of clothes, gave her an injection and hung a drip, and then prescribed some Western medicine according to her symptoms. After finishing all this, she finally had time to report the situation to Fang Jiangyi.
"Mr. Fang, Miss Lu will have a persistent high fever tonight. I've prescribed some emergency antipyretic medicine, but I'm not sure if it will achieve the expected effect. It's best that someone stays with Miss Lu all night. Notify me immediately if there's any change so that I can adjust the treatment."
Fang Jiangyi nodded tiredly and motioned for her to leave first.
Without even having time to change his own wet clothes, he sat down on the bedside and voluntarily took on the role of the overnight caregiver.
That night, Yan Xia didn't sleep well. Her whole body was burning hot, and she was sweating under the quilt. Fang Jiangyi wiped her arms, neck, and cheeks with a wet towel beside her and paid close attention to her condition at all times.
She always instinctively tried to kick off the quilt. Fang Jiangyi leaned over and tucked the quilt tightly on both sides so that she couldn't break free.
She frowned and struggled for a while. As her temperature gradually went down, she stopped struggling.
Fang Jiangyi propped himself up and looked down at her.
He had never observed her so closely before. There were many strange and inexplicable emotions in his heart, and he couldn't put his finger on what they were. He only knew that he had to stay with her that night and make sure she was okay before he could feel at ease.
In the middle of the night, Yan Xia woke up faintly. After the acute high fever, her tongue was numb, and her eyes were like being covered with a thin layer of fog. She couldn't see clearly.
But she remembered Fang Jiangyi's smell. Vaguely, she saw his familiar outline. Thinking of all that had happened in the past, a sudden indescribable loneliness welled up in her heart, and she couldn't help but shed tears.
The hot tears slid down her cheeks and into her ears. She cried uncontrollably.
"Don't cry." Fang Jiangyi gently wiped the tears from her face, his eyes deep.
Yan Xia still shed tears. Maybe his gentle gesture reminded her of the past. Suddenly, she vaguely called out, "Brother - in - law..."
The call was vague yet full of longing.
Her tongue was numb, and she couldn't speak clearly. Fang Jiangyi didn't quite catch what she said. He just instinctively reached out and patted her back, patiently comforting her.
"Don't be afraid. It's okay. It's okay..."
He gradually tightened his thin lips, and his face was as pale as a ghost.
In fact, he had never truly had anything. Even if he had had it briefly, he had personally strangled it in the cradle, leaving no chance for it to germinate.
It wasn't just them who had a hard time that night. Lu Qianzhou also had a tough time.
In the silent night, he couldn't fall asleep at all. Even after taking sleeping pills, his head still felt like it was about to explode. Unconsciously, the image of Fang Jiangyi giving Yan Xia artificial respiration kept playing in his mind. He fantasized about the two of them together, their intimate and ambiguous scenes.
As a result, his mood kept exploding, which made it impossible for him to fall asleep or calm down. He smoked one cigarette after another.
Yan Xia felt like she had had a very long dream.
This long dream lasted for a long time. When she opened her eyes, it was already late in the morning. Her eyelids were sore, her tongue was numb, she was extremely thirsty, and her whole body felt sore and limp as if it had fallen apart.
Her eyes slowly scanned the room, and she saw a photo of Fang Jiangyi and several other people on the table not far away.
There was an elegant - looking woman, an honest and simple - looking man, a shy - smiling boy wearing glasses, and Fang Jiangyi with a serious expression.
Was it his... family photo?
She got up from the bed and remembered everything that had happened yesterday. She suddenly slapped her head, which was throbbing with pain as if it was about to explode.
The quilt slid down from her chin, and only then did she notice that she was wearing a very loose men's pajamas. The long hem of the pajamas barely covered the top of her thighs, looking like a nightgown.
"Are you awake?" Fang Jiangyi's voice came from the door.
Yan Xia turned her head towards the source of the sound and saw Fang Jiangyi, looking exhausted, wearing the same style of pajamas with his short hair damp.