"I'll call an ambulance right now."
Seeing Bai Rongran take out her phone and get ready to make the call, Rong Lan, in her little fox form, almost choked.
No calling! She couldn't let others know that Bai Ronglan, the eldest daughter of the Bai family, was unconscious!
She wasn't seriously hurt. There was no need to make those who cared about her worry.
She could already imagine that if her mother saw her human body in this state, she'd be so worried that she couldn't sleep at night. And her brother would surely be heart - broken.
Si Mo seemed to hear the little fox's silent plea. Pretending to be worried, he said, "Isn't it a bit inappropriate to let too many people know that the boss is in this state?"
Bai Rongran's hand paused on the phone. She eyed the delicate - looking young boy suspiciously. "Why do you say so?"
"I heard from the boss that her lover and her younger sister are starting work at the family business for the first time today. If the boss is inexplicably unconscious on such a day, it's easy for those with ulterior motives to use it as a topic for rumors." Si Mo lowered his eyes.
Bai Rongran fell silent. She had to admit that this underage kid seemed to make sense.
The pressure of public opinion was terrifying. She was afraid that someone might take advantage of this incident and spread the word that she or Chu Hengyuan shouldn't be allowed into the family business, claiming that their presence would affect their loved ones' fates, and Rong Lan's unconscious state was the proof.
Rong Lan had finally dug a big pit for her to jump into. What she hoped most was that she could learn to manage the Bai Group well. If she lost people's trust because of this incident, Rong Lan would be furious when she woke up.
Si Mo noticed Bai Rongran's hesitation and continued, "Moreover, a lot of people will worry about the boss. The boss just had a fall and doesn't seem to be seriously hurt. Isn't it a bit of an over - reaction? How about keeping this a secret? I think the boss will wake up soon."
Bai Rongran was completely convinced. She silently deleted the half - dialed number and then contacted a private hospital with excellent confidentiality.
Rong Lan, who had been hiding secretly, let out a sigh of relief and shrank back to continue her self - isolation.
Less than half an hour later, the private hospital's special vehicle came to take Bai Ronglan's body away. Bai Rongran followed the vehicle, planning to arrange a full - body check - up for Rong Lan as soon as she arrived at the hospital to find out what was going on.
After Bai Rongran left, Si Mo called Chu Hengyuan and asked him to come and pick up the fox.
He could have delivered the fox himself, but he knew that Chu Hengyuan would surely guess that this fox was Rong Lan. If Chu Hengyuan saw him carrying Rong Lan to the door, he felt that Chu Hengyuan would be on guard against him, an innocent young boy, from then on.
"Little fox, do you want to practice in advance? Don't just open your mouth and talk. Chu Hengyuan doesn't know your identity. If you make a human voice, it'll easily scare him." Si Mo looked at the self - isolating little fox.
"Don't worry. I know what to do." Rong Lan sighed softly.
"That's good."
When Si Mo called Chu Hengyuan, Chu Hengyuan had just gotten out of the car and was walking towards the elevator, thinking about what dish to cook for his little girl that night.
However, before he could come up with a recipe, Si Mo's call came. He had to go back to the car and drive to the address Si Mo had given him.
The community they lived in wasn't far from Rong Lan's fortune - telling studio, but since Si Mo suggested he drive, he did.
In less than fifteen minutes from the time he received the call, Chu Hengyuan lifted the bamboo curtain of the fortune - telling studio.
Hearing the noise, Rong Lan lowered her head and buried her fox face in her legs, too ashamed to look at Chu Hengyuan.
Great. Not only had she let her brother see her in this ugly state, but she had also exposed the exact location of her workplace. When she woke up in her human body, her brother would surely ask her why she could tell fortunes.
The first thing Chu Hengyuan saw was the big fox lying on the sandalwood table. But the fox's ears and tail were wrapped in gauze, and its body looked dirty. His heart skipped a beat. He looked at Si Mo, silently asking what had happened.
Could this big fox be his Lan Lan?
But the gauze on the fox...
What had happened to his little girl? Was she seriously injured?
Seeing Chu Hengyuan's look, Si Mo knew that he had guessed the fox was Rong Lan. He coughed lightly. "Well, Rong Lan took an urgent job and needs to go on a business trip for a few days. This fox was left in Rong Lan's care by a customer. It's very, very important. Before Rong Lan left, she specifically told me to hand the fox over to Mr. Chu for care."
"Is this fox... seriously injured?" Chu Hengyuan took a few steps closer and saw the burn and scratch marks on the fox's body clearly. He frowned and said coldly, "Why are its ears and tail wrapped in gauze?"
Although one of the fox's ears was bandaged, he could see that the other intact one was exactly the same as his Lan Lan's fox ears.
Si Mo coughed again. "The little fox was stupid enough to go near a fire to keep warm and accidentally burned itself."
Chu Hengyuan was speechless. The injuries on the little fox didn't seem like simple burns.
Hearing the word "stupid", Rong Lan felt that Si Mo might have some personal grudges. She kicked out with her hind leg and scratched Si Mo.
After kicking Si Mo, she lifted her face, pretending to be an ordinary fox. She glanced at Chu Hengyuan haughtily, pretending not to know him at all.
Seeing the little fox's heterochromatic pupils, Chu Hengyuan was ninety percent sure that this was his little girl.
Was it that his little girl had exhausted her magic and turned back into her original form? But even if that was the case, where did the injuries on her body come from?
"Mr. Chu, please take the little fox home." Si Mo, who had been scratched, wasn't angry at all, but still couldn't help patting the part of his clothes that the little fox had kicked. "I'll clean up and get off work."
Chu Hengyuan raised his eyebrows and deliberately asked, "I have another question for Mr. Si. Did Rong Lan leave in a hurry? Why didn't I receive any message from Rong Lan?"
This question... Si Mo looked straight into the faint smile in Chu Hengyuan's eyes and understood that Chu Hengyuan had already determined that the fox was Rong Lan. In front of Rong Lan, he could only come up with an excuse. "Maybe she was afraid of disturbing your work, so she didn't send you a message right away."
Hearing her brother's words, Rong Lan just realized that she could have asked Si Mo to hold her phone and record her voice to send to Chu Hengyuan, telling him that she was going on a business trip for a few days. This would be more convincing than having Si Mo relay her words.
She learned. If there was such an unexpected situation in the future, she knew what to do to be the most reasonable.
Just as she was distracted, she suddenly felt her body being lifted by a pair of warm hands.
The little fox was startled. When she came to her senses and saw that it was Chu Hengyuan about to pick her up, she let out a sigh of relief. She cooperatively put her paws on his shoulders and didn't dare to hook his clothes with her claws.