Chapter 24

Qiao Muting initially thought Shu Xia was deliberately pretending to be unsteady on her feet to fall into his arms, and just as he felt a bit of impatience, he heard her explanation.

Her complexion was very pale, and there was some fine sweat on her forehead.

One look and it was clear she was sick.

"I'm fine, just send me back to Xinghai Villa. I'm afraid Qiao Nainai will worry, and I'm also afraid of passing my cold on to her," Shu Xia said to Qiao Muting again.

Qiao Muting gave a hum, took off his suit jacket and covered Shu Xia with it, then put his arm around her shoulders and walked quickly toward the outside.

Lin Guanda and Lin Miao had just managed to push through the crowd and were about to reach Qiao Muting when Qiao Muting took that woman and walked away quickly!

They wanted to chase after them, but were stopped by the staff.

They were told that Qiao Muting was using the VIP passage.

The father and daughter, having been stopped, were incredibly embarrassed.

They were just one step away!

Their luck was just too bad!

Before getting into the car, Shu Xia heard Qiao Muting call Qiao Nainai.

He also had Zhang Tezhu drive her car back to Xinghai Villa.

The diamond that had just been bid on would also be delivered to the Qiao Family Old Residence by the auction house staff.

Listening as they went, Shu Xia fell into a drowsy sleep in the car.

Qiao Muting looked at the sleeping Shu Xia sitting quietly in the corner, her head leaning gently against the car window; she was a head shorter than him, likely 170cm tall, but curled up in the corner of the car like this, she looked like a tiny little thing.

Whether it was because being sick was too uncomfortable or because she had thought of something, she was shedding tears in silence.

The teardrops, stained with the neon colors of the night, hung on her long eyelashes, just like a poor child who had been abandoned and bullied.

It made one feel curious about what exactly had happened to her.

Was it because of that boyfriend of hers?

Thinking that she might have agreed to marry him while acting out of spite toward her boyfriend, Qiao Muting's heart sank for no reason.

His tone was also somewhat cold and hard as he said to the driver, "Drive faster."

Half an hour later.

Inside Xinghai Villa, the family doctor came over to give Shu Xia a simple examination and, after confirming it was just a common cold, prescribed fever-reducing medicine.

After the family doctor left, Qiao Muting loosened his tie, walked to Shu Xia's bed, and used a forehead thermometer to check her temperature.

39 degrees.

"Shu Xia, get up and take your medicine."

Shu Xia was drowsy and couldn't hear clearly; she only heard the words "take medicine," and suddenly she didn't know if she was before her rebirth or in a dream.

When Fu Chenyan and Lin Miao were intimate in front of her, they had forcefully poured that kind of medicine down her throat, making her suffer immensely; that torture of being feverish all over with no way to find relief, along with the mental trauma inflicted upon her, surged over her like a tide in an instant.

"No, I won't take the medicine."

Her voice was hoarse from the fever, her eyes remained tightly shut, and two lines of tears hung on her cold, pale little face.

The tears flowed uncontrollably.

So delicate? Qiao Muting pressed his thin lips together.

Just as he was planning to forcefully feed Shu Xia the medicine, Qiao Nainai called.

"How is Xia Xia? Have you been taking good care of her? You brat, Xia Xia has already married you, she is your precious wife. She is sick now, you must behave well and take good care of Xia Xia!"

Listening to Qiao Nainai's words on the phone, Qiao Muting's already pressed lips tightened further, "She has a fever, I was just about to feed her medicine."

"What, she has a fever? She's very sick! Then why are you still talking nonsense? Why haven't you hung up the phone yet to go take care of Xia Xia?"

After Qiao Muting hung up the phone speechlessly, he looked at Shu Xia.

She had curled herself into a ball, her beautiful face flushed red from the fever, but for some reason, she kept crying.

The way she cried was inexplicably heart-wrenching.