Chapter 28: From Now On, I’ll Call You Cousin Too
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Huo Yanci had no idea where Pei Baoyuan’s temper had come from. The moment he entered, she had been fiercely hostile toward him, and before they had exchanged more than a few words, she had driven him out of the hospital room.
He sat on the bench outside, wondering why Pei Baoyuan seemed to have become an entirely different person lately.
Huo Yanci was feeling dejected when he saw Ke Xianbai hurrying out of the elevator.
When the chairman had called him, Huo Yanci had already learned that it was Ke Xianbai who had rescued her from the elevator.
Remembering the way Pei Baoyuan had just hurled a pillow at him, Huo Yanci rose and stopped Ke Xianbai as he was about to open the door.
“Brother, um... Yuanyuan isn’t in a very good mood right now. Maybe you should go in later.”
Ke Xianbai gave him an unreadable look. Ignoring his warning, he opened the door and walked in.
Pei Baoyuan was sitting on the bed in a daze. Hearing the sound, she assumed it was that damned Huo Yanci and looked up, only to see Ke Xianbai hurrying toward her. Her eyes instantly reddened.
Seeing Pei Baoyuan in that state, Ke Xianbai’s heart clenched painfully.
At that moment, Madam Song Xuanling sighed.
After waking up, Pei Baoyuan had sat there blankly, staring at the ceiling before suddenly bursting into tears and demanding to see Ke Xianbai.
Song Xuanling could not understand what her daughter was thinking, yet she did not dare ask, afraid of hurting Pei Baoyuan.
With tact, Song Xuanling said, “You two talk. I’ll give you some privacy.”
Madam Song Xuanling not only closed the door behind her but also dragged away Huo Yanci, who had been peering in from outside.
The room fell so silent that one could hear a pin drop.
The tears misting Pei Baoyuan’s eyes streamed down one after another, blurring Ke Xianbai’s face before her.
Silent sobs were the most heartbreaking of all.
Ke Xianbai stood at the foot of the bed and sighed. Then he walked to her side and reached out to wipe the tears from her face.
But she seemed unable to stop. Each time Ke Xianbai wiped one away, even more tears immediately took its place.
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He had no choice but to wipe her tears while gently stroking her back.
After a long while, Pei Baoyuan finally asked, “Why?”
We barely know each other. Why did you help me?
Returning to the instant Pei Baoyuan had opened her eyes, she had seen the comments before her surging wildly, all of them saying that Ke Xianbai had gone mad.
[Now I finally understand why no one dares provoke Ke Xianbai. He’s terrifying when he loses control—he actually went to someone’s home to threaten them.]
[Ke Xianbai did all this for Pei Baoyuan! Ahhh! Pei Baoyuan is still lying stupidly in that hospital bed, thinking only about Huo Yanci. She has no idea that Ke Xianbai has gone completely berserk for her.]
[Pei Baoyuan was trapped in the elevator, and Song Yiren was the one who did it?! The heroine’s image in my heart has completely collapsed.]
[All right, there’s no need to guess anymore. Ke Xianbai definitely likes Pei Baoyuan.]
[Why has so little been said about Pei Baoyuan’s childhood? My instincts tell me that Ke Xianbai and Pei Baoyuan must have shared some history back then.]
From the comments, Pei Baoyuan learned that Ke Xianbai had gone to threaten Zhang Xue. Her nose stung, and she could not stop herself from crying as she called Ke Xianbai.
Pei Baoyuan lifted her head and stared straight at him, trying to read something from his face.
Ke Xianbai pressed his lips together, forcing down the ache in his heart, and asked, “What is it?”
Pei Baoyuan was disappointed.
She had not found the answer she wanted on Ke Xianbai’s face.
“Why did you come?”
Ke Xianbai opened his mouth, but Pei Baoyuan spoke first.
“You rescued me, and I’m grateful. But you had no obligation to rush back to the hospital in the middle of the night just because of one phone call. Why?”
“Because of my eldest brother?”
Ke Xianbai’s expression did not change.
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“Because of my aunt? Or because our families are business partners?”
Ke Xianbai’s expression remained unchanged.
“Or because of Huo Yanci? Should I call you... cousin from now on?”
Tears blurred Pei Baoyuan’s vision once more. She failed to see that at the instant she uttered the word “cousin,” Ke Xianbai had clenched his teeth so hard that the veins on his forehead throbbed violently twice.
[I’ll never curse the supporting female character again. She’s crying so miserably, and Ke Xianbai, stop pretending you don’t care.]
[I hereby announce that the supporting female character is to be matched with Ke Xianbai, and Little Song with Huo Yanci. Can everyone please stop fighting?]
[Keep dreaming. After what the heroine has done, Pei Baoyuan and she will be completely at odds. And forget Pei Baoyuan—even whether Ke Xianbai will let her off is still unknown.]
Pei Baoyuan said, “Is there something you two are hiding from me, something I’m not allowed to know? Is it related to the memories I lost from my childhood?”
“The two of us... must have known each other back then, right?”
She wiped away the tears in her eyes and looked at Ke Xianbai, hoping he would give her a satisfactory answer.
The next moment.
In a daze, she saw Ke Xianbai move his lips and utter three words.
“Lie down and rest.”
Pei Baoyuan still could not believe what Ke Xianbai had said. She mechanically lay down in accordance with his movements.
Ke Xianbai tucked the blanket around her.
As he lowered his head, Ke Xianbai heard her give a short, hoarse laugh.
“Ke Xianbai, I hope you won’t regret this.”
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