Chapter 258

"Your time now belongs to me."

His deep voice was exceptionally sexy and seductive.

It was as if he wanted to lure her into falling into hell, regardless of the consequences.

Shu Xia swallowed hard, her gaze dropping from his damp, dripping hair to a face of his that was enough to make many women obsessed, "You..."

The rest of her words were swallowed by Qiao Muting before she could say them.

The phone she had been holding in her hand slipped away.

She didn't know what kind of madness had gotten into Qiao Muting, but he was especially intense tonight.

It was only after Shu Xia had called him husband with a crying tone an unknown number of times that Qiao Muting was finally satisfied enough to hold her and fall asleep.

As she drifted off in a daze, Shu Xia thought to herself that she hadn't replied to her Taobao customers yet, and she would have to tell them to come find her tomorrow.

However, she had absolutely no strength left; she didn't even know where her phone had fallen, and she had no energy to look for it.

Qiao Muting was too unrestrained...

She would wait until she woke up tomorrow to protest to him!

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Hospital.

Today, it was Lin Xu and Lin Miao who stayed at the hospital to take care of Chen Xiuyue.

Tomorrow, it would be Lin Bin and Lin Qi.

Lin Guanda had to handle all sorts of thorny issues at the company.

Originally, it was supposed to be Lin Qi staying behind with Lin Miao, but Lin Qi couldn't get time off today.

The hospital at night was very quiet.

However, Chen Xiuyue's ward was not quiet; Chen Xiuyue kept crying out in pain, sleeping very restlessly, and when she did fall asleep, it was as if she were having nightmares, crying and shouting that she couldn't live without her legs.

Lin Xu and Lin Miao were both mentally strained, exhausted by Chen Xiuyue's crying and fussing.

"Shu Xia is still not answering the phone, right?" Lin Xu asked.

Lin Miao nodded, "I found some friends and asked them to help call, but she didn't answer any of them. She probably knows we are looking for her, which is why she isn't picking up."

The hospital's attendant beds were really too small; although they were staying in a single room, the two attendant beds placed inside made the whole ward feel very cramped.

Added to the smell of disinfectant in the ward, the two of them were extremely uncomfortable.

"No, we must get her to come over. She hasn't fulfilled her filial duties all these years, and now that Mom is like this, how can she not come to take care of her? I originally thought what she said yesterday was just angry talk, but I didn't expect her to really be indifferent to Mom. I must make her come over." Lin Xu lay on the small attendant bed, his face full of anger.

This crappy little bed—he wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight.

Shu Xia should have been the one to come over.

Lin Miao's heart was in a chaotic mess, and she was also incredibly annoyed. Listening to the various sounds of Chen Xiuyue crying out in pain on the bed, she didn't just want Shu Xia to come and take care of her; she wanted even more for Shu Xia to delete the video.

And, if it wasn't the video Fu Chenyan gave, then who could it be?

She heard that Fu Chenyan had been doing quite well lately; he had lost his job but was squandering her money in all sorts of ways. Just thinking about it made her feel unsettled.

"Brother, I don't think she will come no matter how we look for her. She seems to have made up her mind not to have any ties with us. Now that Mom is in this situation, she will definitely hide far away and won't care about Mom like we do at all," Lin Miao sighed.

Lin Xu frowned tightly, "Is there something wrong with her brain? Knowing full well that family has no blood relation to her, she insists on being close to them."

He thought of something.

He immediately said to Lin Miao: "Brother isn't talking about you. You are different from Shu Xia; she can't compare to you in any way. You are the sister we have cherished and raised since childhood, and you aren't going anywhere."

"Mm, I know. In my eyes, you are my own brothers, and I have no feelings for that family," Lin Miao nodded obediently.

Lin Xu laughed: "You're right! Sigh, sleep now. I need to think of a way to force Shu Xia to step forward. She must come to take care of Mom. In the future, when we go home, Mom will need someone to take care of her by her side, so she must come back."