Chapter 723

Yet she still had to force a smile to respond, "Mu Ting, there is no need to hold such great hostility toward me. After all these years, in my heart, you are like my own son."

Qiao Muting's brows and eyes turned suddenly sharp, as sinister and terrifying as a knife tip dripping with blood, "Get out."

"Mu Ting!" Qiao Guanqing was furious.

He had originally thought that once his son grew up, he would be able to understand him, but he hadn't expected that things would be even worse now.

Hua Qian's face also turned cold, "I'm leaving first."

"Just because some things aren't said doesn't mean I don't know them; I just don't want to dirty my wife's ears. While I still have my reason, you had best leave the hospital now." Qiao Muting's voice was chillingly terrifying.

Some old affairs from the past were like flies flying into one's mouth, churning and roiling in the stomach.

Utterly disgusting.

The two people before him were middle-aged, but the dirty events that had occurred in the past, one by one, lingered in Qiao Muting's heart, with evidence preserved for each.

Shu Xia sensed Qiao Muting's emotional fluctuations and gently squeezed Qiao Muting's hand back.

His palm exerted force without him even realizing it.

Qiao Muting came back to his senses, lowered his eyes to look at Shu Xia, and only then did he feel the nausea churning in his stomach suddenly subside.

Hua Qian's face turned pale, and she walked away quickly without saying a word.

Qiao Guanqing seemed to have some misgivings; he looked at Housekeeper Qin with some reluctance and urged, "Take good care of the old lady."

"I will," Housekeeper Qin replied.

After Qiao Guanqing and Hua Qian left, Qiao Muting's expression improved quite a bit.

Housekeeper Qin looked at Shu Xia with some concern, fearing that the scene just now might have frightened Shu Xia.

But seeing that Shu Xia's expression was normal, he sighed even more in his heart; the old lady was right, Old Lady Zhong's judgment would not be wrong.

"The doctor said the old lady's condition is stable now, so the young master and young mistress don't need to worry too much." Housekeeper Qin looked at the two young people and spoke gently.

If the old lady were awake now, she certainly wouldn't want to see them both worrying.

"What did he say to Grandma?" Qiao Muting asked Housekeeper Qin.

Housekeeper Qin glanced at Shu Xia, then shook his head and said, "I was busy at the time and didn't hear what the old lady and the master said."

Shu Xia had roughly guessed some of it.

"I'll just stay here and take care of Grandma, you two go back and rest first," Shu Xia said to Qiao Muting and Housekeeper Qin.

Housekeeper Qin was getting on in years and shouldn't be staying up all night at the hospital, and Qiao Muting had just had a conflict with his father, so his emotions were bound to be volatile.

And since she was emotionally stable now and also worried about Qiao Nainai's condition, staying behind to take care of Qiao Nainai was the most appropriate choice.

"I should be the one to stay; there are others and nurses here too. You two should go back to Xinghai Villa to rest and come back to the hospital tomorrow morning," Housekeeper Qin said.

Qiao Muting glanced at his wristwatch.

It was already midnight.

Going back and forth to the villa was not very realistic.

"That works too," Qiao Muting spoke first.

Then he took Shu Xia and walked out of the hospital.

He did not take Shu Xia back to Xinghai Villa, but instead checked into a hotel not far away.

After such a commotion in the middle of the night, the two had no sleepiness for a long time after arriving at the hotel.

Qiao Muting held Shu Xia in his arms and didn't speak for a long while.

It was only after sensing that Shu Xia also had no sleepiness that he spoke, "Were you frightened at the hospital just now?"

"No, I'm not that timid," Shu Xia said truthfully.

After seeing all kinds of human nature and betrayal, she was no longer afraid of anything.

"Don't take their attitude toward you today to heart," Qiao Muting's voice deepened.