Tao Zhiyan saw that Tao Zhixiang was not speaking, growing even more anxious.
"Xiangxiang, you’re acting recklessly, this is a matter of your lifeti! We can’t accept this money, whoever it belongs to, you need to return it to them!"
Tao Zhiyan was extrely distressed as this felt like a harsh slap on his face. How could he bear such indignity?
Tao Zhixiang knew her brother had misunderstood, but under the current circumstances, what difference did it really make to what her brother was thinking?
Suddenly, Tao Zhixiang laughed.
"Brother, you’re overthinking it. That money is borrowed from a friend, I didn’t expect it to co through so soon... Don’t worry, there’s no interest!"
Tao Zhixiang tried to make her voice sound light, but at this mont, her heart was ... so heavy and complicated.
Tao Zhiyan was skeptical, "Is what you’re saying true?"
Tao Zhixiang nodded her head.
"Hmm, truly. Nowadays, my salary is higher too, don’t worry, it won’t take too many years to pay it all back!"
*
That day, Tao Zhixiang stayed with her mother in the hospital for a long ti, and later, persuaded by Tao Zhiyan, she went back ho. Her presence in the hospital wouldn’t be much of a help anyway, and the doctor said that as soon as her mother got a bit better, they would prepare for surgery.
Tao Zhixiang took the bus back to the apartnt, wanting to call Chu Mucheng to thank him, but she didn’t have his phone number.
She did not know when Chu Mucheng had left, nor how he knew which hospital her mother was in... only that, for him to find out what he wanted, it probably wasn’t difficult.
Sitting in the back row of the bus, she turned her head to look at the night outside.
At this mont, the world was lit with thousands of ho lights, but what about her...
That apartnt wasn’t her ho...
All of a sudden, she felt the weather outside had ... truly turned cold.
When she got back to the apartnt and opened the door, she found that the lights were on. Tao Zhixiang was stunned.
Could it be... Chu Mucheng was still here?
For a mont, Tao Zhixiang froze there.
At that instant, she surprisingly didn’t know how to face Chu Mucheng.
While Tao Zhixiang was dazed, that tall figure walked out from the bedroom, his cool gaze landing on her face.
They looked at each other, yet no one spoke, the atmosphere a bit tense.
"I’m hungry!"
In the end, it was Chu Mucheng who broke the silence first, speaking these three words indifferently.
Tao Zhixiang was startled, had he not eaten dinner yet so late?
"Just a mont, I’ll cook!"
She said, setting her bag down and then heading into the kitchen.
Only once inside did Tao Zhixiang realize that she was actually... obediently following orders again!
She gave a bitter smile to herself. Yes, now that Chu Mucheng had paid all of her mother’s dical bills, she should thank him. So, a small request like making a al, could she refuse?
But a touch of desolation slowly grew inside her heart, becoming increasingly bitter.
After all, she had beco the kind of woman she never wanted to be.
Soon, the al was ready.
Tao Zhixiang brought the dishes out and set them on the dining table.
"You can eat now!"
Chu Mucheng sat down in the chair and picked up the chopsticks, glancing at her.
"Eat with !"
"I’m not hungry!"
"Hungry or not, you have to accompany !" Chu Mucheng’s tone carried an undeniable domineering air.
Tao Zhixiang had no choice but to take out another set of bowl and chopsticks and sit opposite him.
Tao Zhixiang’s eyelids drooped; she didn’t look into Chu Mucheng’s eyes but instead at his hands.
His hands were nice to look at, his fingers long and the knuckles prominent, his actions orderly, exuding elegance.
When she was younger, she had thought about inviting Chu Mucheng to a al one day to thank him for saving her.
But later, that wish gradually beca a luxury, and the events of that day remained only in her mory, long forgotten by Chu Mucheng.
Now, the two of them were sitting together for a al, but her feelings... were no longer the sa as before.
"Thank you for paying the dical bills for my mom. That money, I will repay you in the future, though it may take so ti!"
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