Chapter 772: Chapter 772: No Match for One Qiao Xi
Zhong Yi uttered that sentence, and Qiao Xi pressed her lips tightly together.
She was hesitating.
Zhong Yi placed his hands on the sides of the wheelchair and softly said, “You used to do it like this before. Do you treat other patients the sa way? Am I… special to you?”
Qiao Xi was taken aback by his question.
She had no hesitation when treating other patients; she treated them straightforwardly as patients, with no distinction between n and won.
Why was Zhong Yi so special to her!
Zhong Yi lowered his eyes, looking sowhat disappointed and pitiful.
Qiao Xi’s heart softened.
He no longer had any true family in this world and was subjected to such humiliation. Even if it was part of the plan, the scars on his face were real.
Just such a small request, and yet she still…
“I’ll do it!”
Sun Weing snatched the ointnt from Qiao Xi’s hand and approached Zhong Yi with a fawning expression, “From now on, Huo Xingzhou is my leader, and you are second. I’ve learned quite a bit about dicine from Qiao Xi, and I can handle simple treatnts. Don’t worry, I guarantee most of your scars will disappear by tomorrow.”
He opened the ointnt, squeezed so onto his fingertip, rubbed it warm, and was about to apply it to Zhong Yi’s face.
Zhong Yi turned his head away.
Who made you second!
He took back his previous words; Sun Weing truly was annoying.
“Young Master Sun! Young Master Sun!” Wan Jiang blocked his way and said, “Let apply the ointnt. The young master doesn’t like being touched by outsiders. Please, let handle it instead.”
Sun Weing was a bit regretful, “Alright then, here you go.”
He handed the ointnt to Wan Jiang and took the opportunity, when no one was looking, to wink at Qiao Xi.
Qiao Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said to them, “It’s getting late, I should be heading back. Grandpa Cheng still needs my care. Ayi, you should get so good rest and not overthink things. After the New Year, I hope to see you reclaim everything bit by bit.”
“Alright.”
Zhong Yi responded.
“Wan Jiang, please see them off.”
“That’s not necessary, we know the way. Let Wan Jiang stay here to take care of you. Don’t move around too much. Keep more people around you; I’m afraid Zhong Lingxiao will harm you. In the city center, he doesn’t dare to kill you. But just in case…”
Qiao Xi looked worried, “Take good care of yourself.”
“Hmm, in a few days I would like to visit Grandpa Cheng.”
“I’ll let him know, goodbye.”
Qiao Xi walked out the door, glanced back, and found Zhong Yi still watching her, his eyes filled with emotions almost overflowing.
Qiao Xi felt like she was scalded and hurriedly walked away.
“Qiao Xi, walk slower, my laptop is still inside.” Sun Weing went back to grab Zhong Yi’s laptop, thanked him, and then quickly left the villa.
Wan Jiang, holding the ointnt, reminded, “Young Master, Doctor Qiao has left.”
“Doctor Qiao? Why aren’t you calling her Miss Qiao?”
“Uh, because I think you wouldn’t want to hear call her Young Madam Huo.”
Zhong Yi looked at him coldly and asked, “Young Madam Huo? Wan Jiang, do you have a death wish?”
He hated that title the most, as if Qiao Xi had beco just a part of Huo Xingzhou’s life.
Wan Jiang shrank his neck, “I just knew you wouldn’t like that title.”
“Did she tell you to call her that?”
“Yes, Qiao… she seed quite serious about it.” Wan Jiang looked helplessly at Young Master Zhong, “Actually… I think your conditions are excellent, you don’t need to be fixated on her. So many rich and famous ladies in the Imperial Capital…”
“None can surpass Qiao Xi.”
Zhong Yi, deep down, was incredibly firm and stubborn.
He could no longer tell if what he had for Qiao Xi was an obsession or a deep-rooted affection.
If possible, he still wanted to be with her.
Even just seeing her every day would bring him peace.
“Young Master Zhong, you really are…” Wan Jiang didn’t know what to say, “Let help you with the ointnt; it’s not good to have a slap mark on your face all the ti. Who knows what gossip people might start.”
“Give the ointnt. If you have nothing else to do, just leave. Don’t talk so much; no girl would like a chatty man.”
A personal attack!
Wan Jiang felt as if he had been shot in the heart, then handed over the ointnt and said, “I just rembered sothing I wanted to report to you. Lin Xifei has already gone to the hospital for a secret DNA test, and she wants to et you. She’s quite concerned about the bodyguard Ayao and has changed her mind.”
“What does she want to do?”
“She wants to renegotiate the terms of the deal. After it’s done, she’ll take two million to leave Imperial Capital with Ayao and the baby in her womb, never to appear again.”
This would be a family of three living happily ever after, even taking away the bodyguard he specifically found resembling Zhong Lingxiao.
“Fine, but there’s no need to et. She should just remain by Zhong Lingxiao’s side. Once the banquet on the ninth of the new year is over, she can live as she wishes.”
Zhong Yi didn’t care about Lin Xifei’s departure.
She hadn’t asked for the world, so he could agree to these terms.
“Alright, I’ll respond to her like that.”
Lin Xifei was an important pawn.
There should be no losses.
“I suddenly rembered sothing else that’s not too important!”
“Wan Jiang, with your mory, you’re making doubt whether I chose the wrong person. Or have you decided to join Zhong Lingxiao and are just placating ?”
Wan Jiang almost wanted to kneel, “Young Master Zhong, I’m innocent! I just rembered the recent movents of the Pei Family; it seems that the Feng Family has tead up with them. Feng Nanxi is going to have a blind date with the youngest son of the Pei Family.”
“That fool Pei Qian?”
“Yes. A family alliance is a way to unite forces quickly; perhaps the Pei Family wants to gain more influence in the selection among the four major families, they’re ambitious. Pei Qian is unlearned and can be used for marriage, even their collateral relative Pei Chun is being picked for a suitable marriage.”
The intention is obvious to everyone around.
Zhong Yi’s lips showed a slight hint of ridicule, Pei Family? Feng Family?
The Feng Family could once stand equally with the Zhong Family decades ago, but what was left now? Is there so hidden card, like a skinny cal being bigger than a horse?
So the Pei Family took notice?
Wan Jiang continued, “The eldest miss of the Feng Family is only eighteen, and she just started studying at Imperial Capital University after returning to the country. If you want to upset this marriage, you should act quickly.”
The image of the lively girl he t at the airport that day, with her vivacious and slightly innocent peach blossom eyes, flashed through Zhong Yi’s mind, leaving a deep impression.
“Investigate their date’s location and ti.”
“Yes!”
“Go out now.”
Zhong Yi ushered Wan Jiang out, leaving himself alone in the room.
He held the ointnt tightly, as if trying to draw so long-lost warmth from it.
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