Chapter 25

Qiao Muting tugged at his tie again and said in a deep voice, "Shu Xia, your fever is at 39 degrees, you must take fever-reducing medicine."

Hearing the word "medicine."

Shu Xia wanted to clench her teeth tightly.

She said groggily, "Fu Chenyan, I hate you!"

Hearing the name Fu Chenyan, and then seeing the tears on Shu Xia's cold, fair, delicate face, Qiao Muting already clearly understood why she was sad and shedding tears.

Seeing her teeth biting down hard on her lip, it seemed that if she used any more force, her lip would be bitten through.

He immediately frowned and reminded her, "Shu Xia, wake up."

Perhaps it was because she had bitten her lip, but the pain on her lip made Shu Xia wake up; however, her head still ached, and her body still felt very weak.

She opened her eyes and saw Qiao Muting.

The hazy, dream-like scene vanished.

Shu Xia's heart was still aching and trembling.

She reached out a hand toward Qiao Muting, "Thank you, is it fever-reducing medicine? Give it to me."

Qiao Muting looked at her with a deep gaze and handed the medicine over.

Then he handed over a glass of water.

After Shu Xia took the medicine, she said thank you.

"Once I take the medicine and the fever goes down, I'll be fine. Mr. Qiao, go and rest."

Qiao Muting's voice was cold and deep, "Can you manage on your own?"

Shu Xia smiled and nodded, "I can, it's just a cold and a fever, after all."

With such a simple illness, there was nothing she couldn't manage.

Looking at Shu Xia's current appearance of being very strong, Qiao Muting thought of how she had been shedding tears and looking somewhat delicate just a moment ago, and suddenly wondered if she intended to build a persona of being strong and independent in front of him?

Thinking of this possibility, added to his previous speculations about her, Qiao Muting gave a cold "hmph" and walked out of Shu Xia's room.

After Qiao Muting went out, Shu Xia lay back down.

Perhaps the dream just now had been too real, or it felt as if she had returned to her previous life, but she found she couldn't fall asleep.

Or perhaps it was because she had slept and taken medicine, but although Shu Xia still felt very weak, she didn't feel as miserable anymore.

Just then, a phone call came in.

Seeing it was Shu Xuan, she answered the call.

"Big Brother."

"Xia Xia, why does your voice sound so weak? Are you sick?" Shu Xuan asked hurriedly.

He had watched Xia Xia grow up since she was a child; if she was sick, she would always speak with that kind of weakness.

Shu Xia's eye sockets were a bit red, likely due to being sick, and she really missed her family, "I'm fine, Big Brother, it's just a small cold, I'll be fine after a sleep."

"Where are you living now? I'm not busy right now, I'll come over to take care of you." Shu Xuan was worried about Shu Xia living alone in a rented room.

"I'm sharing a place with someone, I have a roommate helping to take care of me, don't worry, Big Brother." Shu Xia hurriedly thought of an excuse.

She hadn't figured out how to tell them about the flash marriage yet.

Hearing that someone would be taking care of Shu Xia, Shu Xuan felt slightly relieved, "By the way, is there something going on between you and Fu Chenyan?"

"I've broken up with him. Did he look for you?" Shu Xia pursed her lips, which were somewhat dry from the fever; the pain from the dream seemed to crawl back up again.

"He called me just now, asking if I knew where you were. You should have broken up with him long ago! I've never found him very pleasing to the eye, and I've always felt that in these past two years, he's become increasingly crooked in his ways," Shu Xuan said.

Shu Xia said self-deprecatingly, "That's right."

Even Big Brother could see that Fu Chenyan was crooked in his ways, yet in her previous life, she had been so blind.

"Shu Xuan, come take a look, doesn't this paper look a lot like yours?"

A voice of someone else calling for Shu Xuan came from the other end of the phone.

Shu Xia heard it and asked with some concern, "Big Brother, has something happened?"