Bonus chapters 5/5
Ye Rongxu regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. It would be better not to explain it. Especially when he saw Qin Chaoyan’s astonishment, he felt that his words were too provocative.
He couldn’t help but look away; his eyes wandered in embarrassment, and his body unconsciously shrank into the quilt.
But if he was asked to change his words, let Qin Chaoyan leave, and be by himself, he would be uneasy, and his mind would uncontrollably run wild. For example, when he was alone, he couldn’t help but think that someone would suddenly come out from under the bed, behind the curtains… or any corner that couldn’t be seen directly and kidnap him.
Or, when he closed his eyes, he couldn’t help but think that someone was approaching the bed…
It was really too frightening. Even if it was impossible, he would make unwarranted associations.
So even if he knew it was wrong, he still clutched Qin Chaoyan’s fingers tightly and kept quiet without correcting what he had just said.
Qin Chaoyan was stunned, speechless. After a long time, he finally seemed to regain his senses. His voice was tense: “I…”
He subconsciously curled his fingers, wanting to clench them, but Ye Rongxu was holding his fingers, and when he moved, they were suddenly clenched even tighter.
Ye Rongxu turned his head to look at him. His pallid countenance was still beautiful even if he was sickly. His glass-clear eyes looked at him eagerly as they were afraid that he would leave.
Qin Chaoyan’s Adam’s apple moved, and his throat was a little dry.
He turned his head to look at the door of the ward, then quickly moved his sight back and said in a low voice, “Uncle… grandpa and grandma are outside.”
His eyes were a bit blank, as if he wasn’t so confident.
Ye Rongxu coughed dryly, his words also lacking confidence: “If I don’t ring the bell, they shouldn’t come in…” right?
Qin Chaoyan: “…”
His eyes moved slightly. He turned his head to look at the door of the ward again and said hesitantly, “Then should I… go get change?”
His voice was very small.
“Ohhh, then you go quickly.” Ye Rongxu similarly whispered, his eyes fluttering about as if he didn’t dare to look at him.
Qin Chaoyan was still nervous at first, but seeing this, a little smile appeared in his eyes.
He tried to pull his hand back, but Ye Rongxu seemed to have forgotten, or was nervous, and still held it tightly.
Qin Chaoyan was stunned, tried again, but still couldn’t pull it out. He couldn’t help but say, “Xu Xu?”
“Hmm?” Ye Rongxu seemed to have just been called back to life.
Qin Chaoyan smiled helplessly at him: “Loosen your hand.”
Ye Rongxu was still in a trance. When he understood the meaning, his face immediately flushed, and he immediately let go of his hand and retracted it as if he had been electrocuted.
But after Qin Chaoyan gave him a placating look and turned toward the bathroom, he couldn’t help but twist his head again, his eyes following the other party’s back like a shadow, urging, “H-hurry up.”
After saying that, his face was hot again. It sounded like he couldn’t wait to sleep in the same bed with the other, but he didn’t. He just… Alas.
Qin Chaoyan heard the uneasiness in his tone and turned his head to soothe him again: “Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.”
Ye Rongxu: “…”
He shrank back into the quilt, his face getting hotter, but after a while, he couldn’t help sticking his head out and looking eagerly in the direction of the bathroom.
Qin Chaoyan changed his clothes very quickly and came out in a short while.
Ye Rongxu let out a faintly indiscernible sigh of relief. His tense nervous back relaxed slightly, his upper body moving to the side to make room for Qin Chaoyan.
But his calves were powerless, and he couldn’t move. So he sat up, trying to manually move his lower body.
Qin Chaoyan noticed his movement, pressed him down, and said, “I’ll do it.”
Then, before Ye Rongxu could react, he reached under the quilt with both hands, one hand on his thin waist and the other hand under his knees.
The slim waist seemed to tremble under his palm, and through the thin material of the garment, his fingers seemed to touch a small concave, as if it were… back dimple1I didn’t know that back dimples were a thing until now. You can google it.?
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes dimmed, as if he had been electrocuted, and through the clothes, his palms couldn’t help getting hot.
Ye Rongxu suddenly let out a soft gasp and stretched out his hand to stop him: “Okay, okay.”
Qin Chaoyan raised his head and saw that Ye Rongxu’s cheeks were slightly red, his eyelashes were trembling restlessly, and his pair of light-colored eyes were moist, like a frightened little animal.
His eyes darkened a little more, like a deep pool with no bottom.
After quite a while, he managed to place Ye Rongxu to the bedside and calmly withdrew his hands.
When he lay down on the bed, Young Master Ye next to him seemed to tremble and shifted to the side again, setting a clear boundary between them.
But after closing his eyes for a while, the young master opened his eyes again, looked around uneasily, hesitated, and quietly scooted back.
Even if he couldn’t touch anyone, as long as he closed his eyes, the anxiety would still come, and he would involuntarily imagine that there’s no one next to him or that there’s someone else lying there.
Ye Rongxu was so conflicted that his face wrinkled up, trying his best to get close to the other party without being too obvious.
Qin Chaoyan, who had closed his eyes, unconsciously curled up the corner of his lips, and when Ye Rongxu was still repeatedly testing the distance, he suddenly grabbed his hand.
Young Master Ye was obviously stunned and didn’t dare to breathe for a long time.
Qin Chaoyan opened his eyes and turned to look at him. “Do you want to continue holding my hand?”
After saying so, he noticed that Ye Rongxu struggled a bit, like he was embarrassed, so he added, “What you just went through was quite traumatizing. You can sleep more peacefully this way.”
Ye Rongxu: “…Oh, if you insist, then let’s hold hands.”
After saying that, he quickly closed his eyes and held Qin Chaoyan’s hand very smoothly.
Qin Chaoyan saw that after he closed his eyes, the eyeballs under his eyelids were still nervously moving around. His smile deepened, and after holding his hand tightly, he quickly closed his eyes as well.
*
Outside the ward, Ye Boxuan’s frown finally relaxed slightly after Ye Rongxu woke up.
He sent away the people who came to visit Ye Rongxu and turned his head to see his parents and his niece Lin Jiaojiao still sitting outside the hospital room with worried faces.
Thinking that the three of them hadn’t slept all night, especially his elderly parents, he hurried over and said, “Mom, Dad, Jiaojiao, all of you should go back and get some rest. I’ll stay here.”
The two elders and Lin Jiaojiao were obviously unwilling.
Ye Boxuan had no choice but to persuade them, “Xu Xu is asleep. There’s nothing we can do, even if we all wait here. Why don’t you go back and rest first? If you’re really worried about him, come back again at noon.”
The two old people still shook their heads. Grandpa Ye simply changed the subject and asked him, “What’s going on? I heard that Yao Bin was actually coming for you? And the cleaner, did the police say he confessed anything?”
When this matter was mentioned, Ye Boxuan pressed his eyebrows and nodded, saying, “He was indeed coming for me.”
Grandpa Ye frowned when he heard this, and the old lady was also puzzled, questioning her son: “Boxuan, have you ever offended him?”
Ye Boxuan shook his head and explained to them, “Yao Bin’s family was poor in his early years. His father died early. He and his little sister grew up relying on his mother’s odd jobs. He was a delinquent, and after becoming a gangster, his relationship with his family became worse. He was even kicked out of the house by his mother. He acted indifferent to the outside world, but he probably cared about his mother and sister in his heart.
“When he was sentenced for attempted kidnapping Xuxu, his mother went to the prison to see him once. I heard that she was so angry that she completely disowned him. After visiting the prison, she planned to leave Jiangcheng with his sister. But on the way home from prison, the mother and daughter had a car accident…”
At this point, he paused and then continued, “They didn’t make it to the hospital in time.”
Old Mrs. Ye was stunned for a moment and asked, “Both of them?”
Ye Boxuan nodded.
The old lady couldn’t help but sigh. She hated Yao Bin, but she couldn’t help feeling sad after hearing about such a tragic car accident.
Old Master Ye asked in a deep voice, “So Yao Bin thinks that you are taking revenge on him by orchestrating his mother and sister’s deaths?”
Ye Boxuan nodded again and frowned. “I don’t know who told him so, but what happened to them was indeed an accident.”
Old Master Ye thumped the ground heavily with his crutches and snorted coldly, “I think he was trying to escape from reality, unable to accept that his mother went to see him in prison before she died in a car accident. It may even be because of him that the mother and daughter were angered and weren’t careful, running into this accident.
“He can’t accept this possibility, so when someone tells him that you killed his mother and sister, he brainwashed himself into believing it. After all, this can alleviate his sense of guilt. What a coward!”
Ye Boxuan also thought so, but he felt that the person who instructed Yao Bin should have also forged some evidence to convince him.
The reason why he was sure that someone was instigating it was also related to the fact that Yao Bin was able to find a job in Bohai right after he was released from prison.
But who is the person behind this?
He thought about it and felt that in recent years, no, to be precise, since he took over the family business, he had never done anything that could cause deep hatred with others.
Old Mrs. Ye felt sorry for her grandson. After knowing that Ye Rongxu was implicated by his own family, she couldn’t help but wipe her tears with red eyes and said, “If it’s not you, then it must be your father. He didn’t know how to spare others when doing business, and now Xuxu is suffering.”
Old Master Ye’s face turned red, and he quickly denied, “How could I have done that kind of unethical thing? It can’t be me. Besides, I have retired for so many years. I think there’s something strange about this matter.”
Ye Boxuan shook his head and said, “Let’s wait for the results of the police investigation. They are still interrogating the cleaner.”
The two elders sighed at his words, filled with sorrow.
Ye Bo Xuan also looked tired.
Lin Jiaojiao, who had been listening for a while, nervously spoke up after seeing that they had finished talking, “Uncle, grandpa and grandma, you haven’t eaten yet; I’ll go get you some food.”
Ye Boxuan’s eyes became gentler when he looked at her: “Go ahead; take the bodyguard with you.”
“Speaking of which, Xuxu hasn’t eaten since yesterday.” Old Master Ye suddenly said.
“He got a nutritional injection,” Ye Boxuan said.
“What about Xiao Qin?” Old Mrs. Ye asked.
Ye Boxuan: “…It seems that he hasn’t eaten.”
“When the food is delivered later, ask him to eat something together.” Old Mrs. Ye said quickly.
*
E Country, Kerry Manor, Shooting Room.
Xie Yunming, wearing a shooting suit, stood beside the shooting platform, assembling the gun in his hand.
The man who appeared to be a butler next to him said respectfully, “There’s news from Country C that Yao Bin is dead.”
“Oh.” Xie Yunming asked indifferently, “What about Lin Xue’s son?”
“He’s still alive. He was a little frightened and was sent to the hospital in time.” The butler said respectfully.
“Tsk.” Xie Yunming sneered with an ambiguous meaning. He raised his hand to aim at the shooting target, fired a few shots, then put his hand down and changed the magazine carelessly.
Raising his gun again, he still aimed at the shooting target directly in front of him, but then he suddenly moved the muzzle of the gun and aimed at another shooting target at the other side.
There were no scoring rings on this target but a photo of a woman. She was undoubtedly very beautiful, and even the black and white image printed out could not hide her elegance, but if you look closely at the eyebrows and eyes of the person in the photo, you will find that Ye Rongxu is 70% similar to her.
“Yun Zhao is dead; the child is also missing, but Lin Xue’s son is alive and well. This is really unfair, isn’t it?” Xie Yunming pointed the gun at the smiling woman in the photo.
The butler bowed and stood solemnly without answering.
“Forget it; it doesn’t matter if it takes a while; let him live a little longer.” Xie Yunming suddenly moved the muzzle of the gun, aimed at another shooting target, and fired several shots.
There was also a portrait on this target, and it turned out to be Qin Qijiang.
After seven or eight shots were fired at the center of “Qin Qijiang’s” brow, Xie Yunming dropped his gun, turned around and took the cane beside him, leaned on it, and limped out, asking, “Where is that fake? How has he been doing recently?”
The butler hurried forward to support him and said respectfully, “Young Master Jingxu has returned to school. After coming back from C country this time, he suddenly became more diligent and rarely frequented bars, clubs, or any other entertainment venues.”
Xie Yunming laughed with an ambiguous meaning and said, “If he doesn’t go, can’t you have someone ask him to go? Am I really going to train an excellent heir for Qin Qijiang?”
“Everything has been arranged.” The butler hurriedly said, “You can rest assured. He’ll only be enthusiastic for a short while, probably because he was stimulated while in Country C, but it won’t last long.”
After all, Qin Jingxu has been spoiled by them in Country E for the past two years. He was accustomed to luxury and enjoyment, has little ability, and is still narrow-minded. He’s not going to make it.
Xie Yunming was well aware of this and sneered again: “It’s a pity that Lin Xue’s son was suddenly enlightened and dumped him; otherwise, it would have been a really good marriage.”
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