Chapter 244

Looking at her concerned little face, Ruan Lin hugged her fiercely, plundering every drop of nectar from her mouth, sucking dry the last trace of oxygen in her lungs, kissing her until her chest burned with pain like fire, pain that made her cry out, before he reluctantly let her go.

"I'm sorry... goodbye."

"Hmm?"

Kissing her red, swollen little mouth again, Ruan Lin pressed his forehead against hers. "I love you, don't hate me."

Before she could react, Ruan Lin turned and walked out, passing Ji Jie who was standing at the door.

He Lele walked out of the room, feeling confused, worried, and afraid...

"You guys..."

"Sorry, I can't do it." Qin Zhixiu also stood up and walked to He Lele's side. "Even if staying by her side by force will cause her pain, I will suffer with her, because... if I die because I left her, she won't be happy either."

He Lele was even more confused after hearing Qin Zhixiu's words! What did L tell them? What "leaving her"? What "dying"?

"Between people and people..."

The phone charging on the tea table in the corner suddenly rang. He Lele walked over and took a look; it was an unknown number.

"Hello, I am He Lele, may I ask—"

"He Lele? Hehe... He Huan sounds a bit better."

"..."

"What? You can't even recognize my voice? I am your—"

Screech—bang!

The ear-piercing sound of brakes and metal colliding came from downstairs. He Lele, who was already by the window, reflexively looked down—

"Ruan Lin!"

Writer's note:

Typing on a phone is exceptionally difficult...

☆, (11 Fresh Coins) Chapter 269: Life is Like a Play

He was wrong.

He had accurately gauged Ruan Lin's guilt and Ji Jie's lack of self-confidence, but he had miscalculated... the depth of their feelings for her. Faced with such feelings, she couldn't possibly—

Li Yiquan suppressed all his anger and looked at He Lele in Qin Zhixiu's arms.

She couldn't possibly be indifferent!

Damn it, it was impossible! Four months, four months of time; he had arrived three years earlier than them, had three extra years of time, yet he was still four months late!

"Girl, being cautious about cases is a good thing, but if you're too cautious about feelings... once you miss something, you might not have a chance to make amends!"

No one knows a child... like their mother.

Ruan Ling and Zong Jieran walked out of the hospital room, and He Lele immediately walked over from Qin Zhixiu's arms.

"How is Ruan Lin?"

"...If this continues, he'll be played to death by you sooner or later." Zong Jieran shook his head at He Lele and turned to leave.

"Dr. Zong!" What "played to death"? Wasn't there no external injury? Could it be—

"My brother is fine." Ruan Ling stopped He Lele and looked down at her—this woman who made his brother cry the first thing he did upon waking up. Even though he had a thousand theories in his brain, he couldn't say anything else.

"My brother has something to say to you."

Hearing that Ruan Lin was fine, He Lele finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Then I'll go in and see him."

Just as He Lele was about to open the door, Ji Jie, who was leaning against the door, grabbed her arm.

"What's wrong?" He Lele asked.

Ji Jie gazed deeply at her slightly sorrowful little face. "I... will wait for you to come out."

He Lele reached out and rubbed his furrowed brow, looked at him and Qin Zhixiu with some worry, and finally glanced at Li Yiquan and Shentu Mo, who were sitting silently by the wall not far away.

What on earth did L tell them?

"Wait for me." After saying this to Ji Jie and Qin Zhixiu, He Lele opened the door and entered the hospital room.

Shentu Mo frowned, and Li Yiquan gave a bitter smile.

Inside the room, the nurse was adjusting the hospital bed. Ruan Lin sat quietly with his eyes lowered; other than his face lacking color, there didn't seem to be any major problems.

"Are you okay?"

Ruan Lin shook his head.

"Why did you drive so fast just as you started? There are many children running around in the residential area." He Lele couldn't help but scold him. She had seen it very clearly from upstairs; a two- or three-year-old child was sitting on the ground next to the brake marks. It was obvious that Ruan Lin had rushed into the low flower bed and hit the wall to avoid the child.

Ruan Lin raised his eyes.

The moment he hit the wall, he had thought about death. If he died just like that, would she still hate him after knowing the truth? Would she hope he would come back to life so she could kill him again? Would she cry for him? Would she have even the slightest bit of lingering attachment to him?

Would she?

When he woke up with these questions, he only knew one thing—he didn't want to die. Even if he would be hated by her, even if he could never hold her or kiss her again, he wanted to live. Live to accept her hatred, and spend his whole life... doing everything he could for her.

"Nurse, please step out for a moment."

Seeing Ruan Lin ask the nurse to leave, He Lele hurriedly checked his body. "Is it okay? Don't you need the nurse to look after you?"

"Lele."

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

He Lele was slightly stunned, and gave his handsome face a shy and helpless look. "What's wrong with you? Did you become this cheesy after surviving a disaster? Rest well, where is the bed remote?"

"The apartment administrator... doesn't need to sell their body."

He Lele's body, which was looking for the remote, instantly stiffened. "...What do you mean?"

"I thought... I thought you were the 'concubine' Zhai Feiyun found for us."

"..." Wasn't she?

"'Concubine' was just a joke, and I..." Ruan Lin gave a self-deprecating, bitter smile. "I took it seriously, and they saw me touch you, so they also thought you were one."

A, a joke?

Hot, so hot. Blood seemed to surge from her chest to her limbs like boiling water, and her skin felt so hot that it seemed it would melt in the next second.

He Lele stiffened the corners of her mouth. "Y-you mean, I should have just been a normal apartment administrator, but, but because of a joke, I was a public prostitute for three months?"

Ruan Lin clenched his fists tightly.

"Heh... so, that's it... Hahaha... I, I was just saying, how could such a thing happen? Hahahaha..."

"Lele—"

"When did you find out?" He Lele's eyes suddenly turned cold.

"The day you, you were almost kidnapped."

"That day... outside the police station, after Mu Wei left you, he told you?" So he had disappeared since that day, and had been acting abnormally ever since?

"Yes."

"Mu Wei, Ji Jie... hehe..." Then what about Qin Zhixiu and Shentu Mo? Did they know too? And if they did, when did they find out?

He Lele frantically recalled, four months of memories flowing backward rapidly, everything returning to the first day she moved into the apartment!

"Do you think you have the right to refuse? Do you think money is that easy to earn?"

The second day:

"You say you want to resign? Sure—according to the contract, resigning before three months requires a penalty of 100,000 yuan."

"Do you know... how slaves who tried to escape were treated in ancient times?"

"There's a package of mine at the door, could you please help me get it?"

Shentu Mo!

He Lele turned and walked toward the door.

Ruan Lin loosened his right fist, covered his eyes, and let tears of regret and pain spill from his palms.

"Lele..."

He Lele closed the door, glanced at Ji Jie who was calling her, turned sideways to avoid his body, and walked in front of Shentu Mo.

"You knew from the beginning that I wasn't some 'concubine', right?"

Shentu Mo tilted his head slightly to look at the thin little woman in front of him, his closed thin lips showing no sign of opening.

"Heh..." He Lele turned her head. "Xiu, what about you? When did you find out?"

"Kai-xin!" Li Yiquan stepped forward to hug her shoulders, but was pushed away by her.