Chapter 122 Aren't you afraid of getting stabbed?

Chapter 122 Aren't you afraid of getting stabbed?

"So much food and you still can't shut up?" Gu Shixi noticed the atmosphere around him getting increasingly tense and quickly lowered his voice, "Aren't you afraid of getting stabbed?"

“He needs my help, so he wouldn’t dare do anything to me,” Si Ning said calmly.

Gu Shixi: "..."

Huo Zhizhou glanced at her.

The emotions in my heart were eventually suppressed.

"Why did he and Jiang Ruan divorce?" Si Ning was bored after dinner and couldn't help but gossip. "Didn't he love her to death, deeply, forever, until the seas dried up and the rocks crumbled, only to be tempted by someone else, heartbroken, and abandon the old for the new?"

"If you don't know how to use idioms, then don't use them." Gu Shixi's lips twitched.

"That's not important." Si Ning sat casually in the chair, raising her chin at Huo Zhizhou. "What's important is what exactly is going on between them."

"Can't you just search it online yourself?" Gu Shixi felt that coming along was a mistake. Who knew that after all these years this guy would still be so cheeky? "Do you really have to go and invite trouble?"

"We can't search." Si Ning said seriously.

Gu Shixi: "???"

Gu Shixi subconsciously looked at Huo Zhizhou.

Could it be that Huo Er gave some kind of death order?

“My computer doesn’t like him.” Si Ning took her computer out of her bag, her slender, fair fingers stroking the casing. “Searching on it will make me get a virus and vomit.”

"I suddenly remembered I have some things to take care of at home." Gu Shixi decided to slip away; if he stayed any longer, he figured he'd freeze to death from the air pressure. "You guys keep talking."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out.

Unexpectedly.

Um?

I can't walk.

Is your clothing caught on something?

Looking back, he saw that Huo Zhizhou's hand had somehow touched his clothes.

His gaze followed the hand upwards, landing on the calm and composed face devoid of any anger: "Never mind, Si Ning has finally come back, I'll stay and keep her company a little longer."

Si Ning glanced at the two of them, her disdain palpable.

Time passed slowly. Jiang Ruan was still in Jiang An's hospital room. Si Ning, who had no mission, simply collapsed on the sofa and fell asleep, completely disregarding her image.

"Is this person really a woman?" Gu Shixi's gaze fell on her sleeping posture. "Isn't this sleeping posture a little too unreserved?"

Huo Zhizhou glanced at him sideways.

Gu Shixi: "What's wrong?"

Huo Zhizhou said unhurriedly, "Who says a woman's sleeping posture has to be reserved?"

Gu Shixi paused for a moment, then realized that what he said seemed to make sense.

Just then.

Dr. Zhou sent a message: "Mr. Huo, Miss Jiang has left her mother's ward and gone upstairs to Young Master Huo's room."

Huo Zhizhou turned off his phone screen and kicked Si Ning's foot: "Get up, get to work."

Jiang Ruan was unaware that her phone was about to be tapped. With mixed feelings, she went upstairs and stood at the door for a while before going in.

Besides Huo Sinian, there was also a cousin in the ward whom Huo had met before when they had New Year's Eve dinner at the Huo family's house.

"You vixen!" The woman glared at her with disdain. "You're not content with just marrying your second cousin, you're also trying to seduce your eldest cousin. Don't you have any shame?"

Huo Sinian coldly rebuked her: "Huo Nuan!"

Huo Nuan snorted. Spoiled by her family, she had never liked Jiang Ruan: "I didn't say anything wrong. If it weren't for her, how could you be lying here injured?"

"I saved her of my own accord, it has nothing to do with her." Huo Sinian's tone turned colder towards her. "If you keep making trouble, you can forget about acknowledging me as your brother."

"Big cousin!" Huo Nuan said, dissatisfied.

She just couldn't understand what was so good about Jiang Ruan.

She's just a down-on-her-luck heiress. Why should she receive the favor of her second cousin and the preferential treatment of her eldest cousin? You should know that her second cousin has always disliked talking to people, and he's even cold-hearted towards his own family.

"Send her out." Huo Sinian said directly to the bodyguard, his attitude leaving no room for doubt. "She is not allowed to come here again without my permission."

"Yes." The bodyguards acknowledged the order and left.

Huo Nuan tried to struggle but to no avail, so she could only vent her anger on Jiang Ruan.

Soon after, her figure and voice disappeared from the ward.

“She’s been spoiled since she was little. I’ll teach her a lesson later.” Huo Sinian lay half-reclined on the bed, his brows furrowed with apology. “I’m very sorry about what happened today.”

"It's nothing," Jiang Ruan said, seemingly unconcerned.

She had run into Huo Zhizhou when she went back home for the New Year's dinner the year she married him, but Huo Zhizhou was angry then. Since then, every time Huo Nuan saw her, she only dared to snort and dared not say anything more.

In the past five years, they have only encountered it four or five times.

"Did you come here today simply to see me, your patient, or have you changed your mind about the matter I asked you to do?" Huo Sinian's expression returned to its usual gentleness, and he asked slowly.

Jiang Ruan's gaze fell on him: "Look at you, and let's have an open and honest talk."

Huo Sinian: "?"

A hint of doubt flashed across Huo Sinian's face: "What are you talking about?"

“I am neither you nor Huo Zhizhou, nor am I any of your friends in the industry.” Jiang Ruan only said this once, “I don’t understand your intricacies, and I don’t like talking about things in circles.”

Huo Sinian parted his thin lips slightly.

Before he could speak, Jiang Ruan said first, "I know you have an ulterior motive, and that motive isn't how much you care about Huo Zhizhou. I'm 100% sure of that."

"In your heart, am I, your older brother, really so unworthy of your trust?" Huo Sinian said unhurriedly.

Jiang Ruan simply replied with a single word: "Yes."

This moment.

Huo Sinian suddenly didn't know what to say.

He is adept at handling the complexities, conspiracies, and cunning of the business world.

But facing such a pure and direct heart for the first time, I felt a sense of loneliness, as if everything was being exposed to her without her noticing.

"I don't believe you would do anything for Huo Zhizhou's good." Jiang Ruan only said this once, because it would lose its effect if she did it too many times. "Since you chose to involve me in this, it means that I am part of your strategy to deal with Huo Zhizhou."

"I saved you really only because..." Huo Sinian tried to lie to her.

“I’ll only talk to you once.” Jiang Ruan said seriously, without a hint of joking. “If this talk doesn’t meet my expectations, I will erase what happened that night from now on, as if it never happened.”

Huo Sinian opened his mouth.

The prepared script lost its power under her gaze.

He saw her persistence in pursuing her true purpose, and he saw her self-judgment of the matter. He knew clearly that if he couldn't give her a convincing explanation of his purpose, she would really pretend that nothing had happened.

By then, his plan to use her would have been futile.

This is truly a troublesome situation...

“You don’t have to answer.” Jiang Ruan gave him time to think. “We can talk about it after you’ve made a decision.”

Looking into her unwavering gaze, Huo Sinian's usual way of doing things was slightly affected at this moment. He suddenly wanted to follow her lead and talk about the matter openly.