Yin Shuiling’s boiling blood turned icy cold in an instant. She was in a blur and did not know what was happening.
She lowered her gaze to look at herself, and the buttons of her pyjamas were undone, exposing a large part of her exquisite collarbones. She only wanted to laugh; did she become a fool once again?
She turned her gaze to the side to look at the man, before calmly saying. “Get up; don’t sleep on my bed!”
Yin Muchen opened his eyes. It was still okay if he did not open his eyes. The moment he opened his eyes, she noticed how bloodshot they were. There was a layer of stubble on his lower jaw, and he looked extremely exhausted.
He looked at the woman. The woman’s expression was ice-cold. He lifted his hand up to support his forehead before easing his temper to coax her gently. “Shuiling, be good. Don’t continue to throw a tantrum. I am very tired right now. Let me sleep for a while, okay?”
“No way.” Yin Shuiling shook her head. She slowly curled the corners of her lips and let out a mocking smile as she said, “What were you doing outside on the first day of the New Year. Were you exhausted after being together with other women, so you came back here to sleep? What did you treat this place as — a stopover?”
Yin Muchen felt his headache. He stretched his hand out to hold her small hand. “Shuiling…”
He had yet to finish his words when she shook his large hand off before coldly spitting out two words: “Get lost!”
Yin Muchen’s entire face turned dark. He sat up to look at the woman before lifting the blankets up to get off of the bed. He walked over to the sofa to sleep.
He merely took two steps, and a gust of wind blew by his side. It was Yin Shuiling who jumped off of the bed, and she stretched her small hand out to tug the sleeves of his shirt. She pointed towards the door as she said, “Yin Muchen, you’d better get lost. I don’t want to see you right now!”
Yin Muchen raised his eyebrows. He saw that the small woman was not backing down at all, and he said, “Shuiling, I was in the hospital for the entire night yesterday. I haven’t slept. I am so exhausted. Can you let me sleep for a while, and I can coax you after I am awake?”
“I don’t want you to coax me, Yin Muchen. You also should not portray yourself so pitifully! Were you exhausted because of me? What does you being tired have to do with me? Whoever you got tired with, you should go over there to sleep. I am not going to serve you.” Yin Shuiling bent over to throw the thin coat from the sofa at his face.
Yin Muchen did not duck away. Slap! The thin material of the winter coat hit his face before landing on the carpet.
The atmosphere turned awkward in an instant.
The two faced one another as they stood in front of each other. Yin Shuiling’s eyes were red as she glared at him. Her emotions were raging, and he pursed his lips together in silence.
Yin Muchen looked at her with his dark gaze for a few seconds. “Okay…” He nodded his head and curled the corners of his lips up as he said, “I will get lost.” He bent over to pick up the coat before lifting his long legs to walk out of the door.
The sound of Aunty’s voice rang out from downstairs. “Sir, where are you going. It is already nighttime… Aiya, what are you fighting for? It is the New Year season right now.”
He left.
Yin Shuiling looked at the tightly shut door. He left once again.
Her legs did not have strength in them. She followed the side of the bed as she slid down slowly to sit down on the carpet. She curled both of her legs up, and she cupped her face. There was heat on her fingers from the tears that trickled down her face.
She did not know what she was trying to do.
She’d personally seen him walking out of the main lobby of SK with a woman. She should have questioned him outright.
She should have asked him why he lied and questioned him about who that woman was. More than anything, she should have asked him whether he was supporting another woman other than her outside.
But, she did not dare to do so.
The only thing she dared to do was to throw a tantrum with him and wage a cold war, and she would turn into a ridiculous woman who was getting angry for no valid reason like she was right now.
It was a childish joke.
He did not like her to behave like this, and even she looked down on this version of herself.
He left last night. She lost her soul for the entire day. She took the comic book and did not know what she was drawing. Her mind was full of him.
He came back today, and actually inside her heart, she was very happy, very nervous, and very anxious. Aunty had asked her to persuade him to stay. Aunty still said that there were many women outside who liked him… She also wanted to persuade him to stay behind herself.
But he did not talk to her, and he only slept. She could not control her own temper properly, and she was angry at him again.
Yin Shuiling buried her small face in her kneecaps as she cried out painfully. She also wanted to spend the days with him well, but why did she act in a way, one time after another, to push him further way?
Actually, in the past four years, she really did not grow up at all. She was stuck at 18.
Her heart became silent and lonely in the light of the day. She closed her own heart off and did not open her heart out to others, so when any gust of wind that blew over the grass outside, she would become very sensitive.
She loved Yin Muchen deeply, but she did not dare to love him at the same time. She felt both regret and guilt as she was tortured on a daily basis, and her world was extremely depressing.
Inside the SK skyscraper.
There was an urgent project in the company. Liu Caizhe and Hu Ya were working overtime, and both of them completed their tasks as they prepared to leave. At this moment, the elevator opened up, and Yin Muchen stepped out of the lift.
Liu Caizhe and Hu Ya looked at the man and froze. Hu Ya was even more alarmed as he opened his mouth wide, and he noticed that the man was dressed in a loose black robe. There was a pair of homely dark blue slippers, his hair was messy, and the collar of his robe was open as he walked over with large strides.
Liu Caizhe and Hu Ya could not regain their senses. Throughout these years, it was their first time seeing Yin Muchen in such a messy state — a President wearing his pyjamas and slippers as he appeared in the office.
“Pre…President…” Hu Ya was stuttering as he greeted him.
Yin Muchen did not worry about these two men who were looking at him as if they were looking at a beast. He went inside the President’s office. Bang! He slammed the door.
Hu Ya quickly used both of his hands to rub his eyes as he said, “Manager Liu, is that our President? I am thinking that I must’ve gone blind. It is the first day of the new year; why is President in this state?”
Liu Caizhe looked at the firmly shut door of the office. He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly as he said, “Aren’t you able to tell? No matter how I look at it, your President seems to have been chased out of the house.”
“What? Chased out of the house? Who has the guts to do so?” Hu Ya murmured inside his heart. No wonder President’s expression was so bad. His face was almost as dark as charcoal.
“Hah.” Liu Caizhe patted Hu Ya’s shoulders as he said, “In the entire world, other than Miss Yin, who would bully him?”
After he was done speaking, Liu Caizhe walked off.
“Ay, Manager Liu.” Hu Ya quickly stopped him and said, “We are leaving just like that? President is still inside…”
“Let’s go, Muchen is hiding here to sleep; he does not need us.”
Hu Ya was worried as he had a glance at Yin Muchen’s office before leaving together with Liu Caizhe. He walked while he emotionally thought, This Miss Yin is such a pro; she bullied President so badly that he is sleeping in the office.
In the morning, Xiao Qing and the nurses moved Liu Wanxin onto the wheelchair. Xiao Qing said, “Godma, I will push you downstairs to take a stroll. Have a breathe of fresh air.”
Liu Wanxin nodded her head and said, “Sure.” As she spoke, she touched her own hair as she said, “Xiao Qing, is my hair very messy? Go and take a comb first to help me tidy my hair.”
“Sure.” Xiao Qing turned around and went into the bathroom.
The windows inside the ward were not shut, and at this moment, there was a cold breeze of winter wind that blew inside. Liu Wanxin felt an itch in her throat, so she cupped her hand over her mouth to cough for a moment.
The moment she coughed, she felt there was a sticky moisture on her palm.
It was blood.
Her unfocused eyes froze for a moment.
At this moment, the sound of the doctor’s voice rang out from outside the room. “President Yin…”
Liu Wanxin quickly regained her senses. She felt for two pieces of paper by the bed stand and wiped her palm messily. Because she could not see where the rubbish bin was, she frantically stuffed the tissues underneath the bed.
After she was done, the door of the ward was pushed open. “Mum.” Yin Muchen walked inside.
Yin Muchen was dressed in a thin black and white striped v-neck sweater. He matched it with a pair of slim cut black trousers and a dark blue cotton jacket on the outside. The fatigue was gone, and this casual dress made him look extra young and handsome.
“Mum.” Yin Muchen walked over to the front of the wheelchair. He squatted down and held Liu Wanxin’s hand as he gently asked, “Mum, how is your health today?”
“Good.” Liu Wanxin nodded her head immediately as she said, “Mum feels that my body is getting so much better. I can be discharged today.”
“You cannot be discharged today. The doctor said that he would need to observe you for two more days. Mum has to listen to the doctor’s words. I will accompany you in the hospital for the next few days.”
Liu Wanxin snorted in her heart as she said, “You are here to accompany me? Wouldn’t the one in your home be unhappy with this?”
Yin Muchen smiled as he said, “How could it be? She is not someone who is spoiled and would throw a tantrum for nothing.”
Liu Wanxin was satisfied and let out a sigh before stretching her hand out to touch Yin Muchen’s head. She slowly said, “Ah Chen, when you have time, bring her over to let Mum have a look at her.”
Yin Muchen froze and said, “Mum, what is wrong with you? You are behaving so weird today.” He looked at Liu Wanxin carefully as he said, “Mum, are you not feeling well?”
“Ah Chen, you’d better not continue taking advantage of me after you get what you want! Didn’t you want this to happen?” Liu Wanxin was displeased as she spoke.
Yin Muchen did not say anything.
It was right. For the past year, he had been working so hard in front of his mother just to achieve this.
Mother knew it.
“Ah Chen, don’t think that Mum has accepted Yin Shuiling already and now likes Yin Shuiling. Mum will tell you right now: there is no chance of Mum liking her, and the moment I think of the fact of her being the daughter of Yin De and that you are together with her right now, I feel like my entire body is being stabbed with needles.”
“Mummy, then you…”
“Then why would I agree to this suddenly? That is because I suddenly thought of something: I cannot accompany you forever. There will be a day when I will leave your side. If you cannot do without her, what else can I do? If there is a day that I leave first, how could I let my only son to be alone in this world all by himself? Ah Chen, Mother is conceding to you.”
Yin Muchen lightly placed his head on Liu Wanxin’s lap. He stretched his hands out to hug his mother’s waist. The sunshine from outside the window streamed into the room and spewed onto this pair of mother and son, and it gave both of them a warm glow. Yin Muchen closed his eyes and murmured, “Mother, thank you for loving me so much and pampering me so much.”
In a blink of an eye, two weeks passed by. In those two weeks, Yin Shuiling did not see Yin Muchen because Yin Muchen did not return back to the villa even once, and of course, she did not take the initiative to look for him.
The fourteenth day of the new year, Yin Shuiling went over to the western restaurant, the western restaurant that Yin Muchen gifted her with. She sat down on the chair as she texted Ning Qing.