Chapter 299: Misunderstood as a Family of Three

I don't know if it was an illusion, or if the child really was a bit better.

Shi Youxuan felt that her breathing was steadier now than just a moment ago; the thought she'd had of making Sheng Hanyu get out of the car had to be put aside for the time being, so she sat in the driver's seat to drive herself.

Not a word was spoken along the way.

When the car reached the hospital's emergency building, Sheng Hanyu carried the child out of the car as soon as it came to a stop, registered, and found a doctor.

The doctor flipped up Shi Ran's eyelids and immediately had a nurse put the child on an IV drip.

"It's already forty degrees; you parents are too careless, how could you let the child get this feverish before bringing her in?" the doctor complained.

Sheng Hanyu kept the child in his arms the entire time; it wasn't that he didn't want to put her down, but that Shi Ran's little hand was clutching his arm tightly, refusing to let go even for a second.

The doctor asked Shi Youxuan: "How long has the child had a fever?"

She answered truthfully: "She was perfectly fine during the day, but she suddenly started burning up when it got dark. As soon as she had a fever, I brought her here; I didn't delay for even a moment."

"Are you sure?"

Although Shi Youxuan felt it was strange, she still answered honestly: "I'm sure, Doctor, is there something wrong?"

"The child didn't grow up in Jiangzhou, did she?"

The doctor suddenly asked a question completely unrelated to the illness.

"No, she was born in L Country and grew up in L Country; she only just returned to Jiangzhou recently." Sheng Hanyu interjected; Shi Youxuan glared at him, but he pretended not to see.

The doctor suggested doing a comprehensive check-up for the child tomorrow, because it was rare for a young child's fever to reach forty degrees so quickly, and he felt something wasn't quite right.

Shi Youxuan agreed, not thinking much of it at the time.

The doctor left the emergency room to rest in the specialist lounge; he told the nurse to keep a close eye on the little girl named Shi Ran in the emergency room, and if she still had a high fever after the fever-reducing injection, she must come to notify him, but if not, there was no need.

The nurse agreed and left, whispering to a colleague: "Strange, why did Specialist Jiang make such a grand appearance today?"

Another nurse said: "I don't know, but it must be the child of some big shot; who else could get him to come?"

"That's true."

Doctor Jiang was a famous Pediatrics doctor in Jiangzhou; it wasn't his shift today, but he had been sleeping soundly at home when he suddenly received a call from the hospital director, asking him to please come to the hospital to receive a small patient, and to pretend to be an ordinary doctor.

As a result, he discovered something abnormal after just one look at the child, but such things couldn't be spoken of recklessly; he would need to wait for the test results to come out before drawing any conclusions.

After the fever-reducing medication was administered, the child fell into a deep sleep; although her little face was still flushed, it wasn't because of the fever.

The heat had also subsided; Shi Youxuan had experience and knew that there was nothing to worry about now.

Sheng Hanyu kept Shi Ran in his arms the entire time, not moving for several hours.

She said to him: "Put the child down and go back to rest... um, thank you."

"This is what I should do, you don't need to thank me." He muttered, his voice displeased.

"No, you shouldn't."

Shi Youxuan was afraid that Sheng Hanyu would fight her for the child, and seeing Shi Ran still held in his arms, she felt even more uneasy.

"Put her down, did you hear me tell you to put her down?"

She came over to take the child, but Sheng Hanyu was afraid that Shi Ran, who had finally fallen asleep, would be startled awake by the two of them, so he gently placed the child on the hospital bed.

Shi Ran woke up immediately and looked at the two of them weakly: "Mommy, Uncle, don't go."

"I won't go, Mommy won't go."

"Uncle is here, I won't leave even a step."

The two of them said it almost simultaneously.

With that, the little one closed her eyes and fell back asleep, reassured.

"You go, you aren't needed here." Seeing her daughter asleep, Shi Youxuan immediately spoke up to drive him away.

He asked: "Are you sure you'll be fine alone?"

"No problem."

Shi Youxuan felt that this was a hospital; with doctors and nurses here, what kind of problem could there be?

So Sheng Hanyu stood up and left.

Not long after he left, he returned and handed the milk tea he was carrying to Shi Youxuan: "It's hot, drink some to replenish your energy."

"No need, I don't want to drink it; you should have just stayed gone, there was no need to come back." Shi Youxuan spoke coldly, not showing any appreciation.

But she had been sitting for a while, and her body felt stiff, so she prepared to stand up and move around.

As soon as she stood up, everything went black before her eyes, she saw stars, and couldn't even stand steadily.

Sheng Hanyu caught her: "Low blood sugar, right? I knew you were just trying to be tough."

He handed the milk tea over again, and this time she took it: "Thank you."

Sheng Hanyu frowned: "You don't need to thank me."

"I do."

She didn't just thank him; she also took several banknotes out of her bag and handed them over: "The child's medical expenses and the money for the milk tea, is this enough?"

Sheng Hanyu's brow furrowed even tighter; this woman was definitely doing this on purpose.

She was intentionally using money to distance the two of them, using this method to tell him: The daughter is mine, and has nothing to do with you!

Shi Youxuan was afraid that Sheng Hanyu would fight her for the child.

In fact, this worry of hers was completely unnecessary; Sheng Hanyu had never thought about letting the child leave her side; what he wanted wasn't just the child, but both her and the child.

"It's enough."

He suddenly reached out and took it, then stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

Taking the money was fine; if she gave it, he would take it, even if he didn't need it.

He was a businessman and understood one principle—if the deal doesn't go through, the goodwill remains!

Doing business with a "repeat customer" is much easier than the first transaction; having exchanges makes it easier to bring people closer, so he took the money.

Shi Youxuan wanted to distance their relationship, but she had fallen right into Sheng Hanyu's scheme.

The milk tea was blood glutinous rice with pudding and grass jelly, and the temperature was just right, not scalding the mouth.

The glutinous rice milk tea was soft, sticky, and smooth, the grass jelly melted in the mouth, the sweetness was just right; everything was the taste in Shi Youxuan's memory.

This was the taste of the Shanghai Auntie milk tea shop in the city center; Shi Youxuan had liked their milk tea very much in the past, and she hadn't expected that after so many years, the shop was still there.

It was just that the place selling milk tea was not close to the hospital; how did he manage to make a round trip in such a short time?

Shi Youxuan couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it.

The two of them each guarded one side of the hospital bed; the IV drip ended, Shi Ran's fever did not return, and the nurse came over to remove the needle and then left.

The little girl was asleep, sleeping very soundly and sweetly.

She propped her head up with her elbow, sleepiness gradually washed over her, and her eyelids grew heavy.

Sheng Hanyu touched her arm with his hand and pointed to the spot next to the hospital bed, signaling for her to lie down beside the child for a while.

"No need."

Shi Youxuan shook her head; it wasn't that she wasn't tired, but she was afraid that if she fell asleep, she wouldn't be able to discover it in time if something happened to the child.

"You sleep for a while, aren't I still here?" Sheng Hanyu insisted.

She still wanted to shake her head.

At this moment, the woman in the next bed said enviously: "Look at how good your husband is? He's so nervous when the child is sick; if my man didn't breathe, eat, and yell, I'd suspect I was a widow."

"He doesn't care about anything every day, can't earn money, only knows how to drink and play games; when the child is sick, uncomfortable, and cries a couple of times, he even complains that it disturbs his sleep..."

The woman rambled on, full of complaints.

Lying on the hospital bed were two males, one big and one small; the child also had a high fever and was only sent to the hospital after medicine at home didn't work.

The child's father occupied most of the hospital bed, fell asleep faster than the child, and snored louder than a pig.

"He is not my husband."

Shi Youxuan stood up to stretch her stiff body; that cup of blood glutinous rice milk tea was indeed effective, and her head was no longer dizzy.