novelraw Chapter 349 - 327 He is a stranger to her
Chapter 349 - 327 He is a stranger to her
Dudu covered herself with the blanket and mumbled, "I don’t want to drink... I’ll throw up."Qiao Luchen sighed lightly, placed the cup on the bedside table, went outside to turn off all the lights, then soaked his hands in warm water, dried them, returned to the room she was sleeping in, turned off the bedside lamp, and, with the dim light from outside, lifted her blanket and got in.
The moment he embraced her, he clearly felt her body stiffen. Before Dudu could turn her head, she felt a warm hand resting on her lower abdomen, gently rubbing.
Dudu tried to avoid it uncomfortably, "What are you doing?"
Qiao Luchen held her in his arms, his hand gently massaging her stomach, "Close your eyes and sleep. You won’t feel so bad in a while."
Because of his presence, the bedding became much warmer. Combined with her shyness, Dudu felt her whole body heating up. She leaned against him, her gaze falling outside the window, and then slowly closed her eyes.
With the gentle rubbing, her stomach indeed felt less uncomfortable. She didn’t know how long he kept rubbing, but eventually, her stiff body slowly relaxed, and she fell asleep in that warm embrace.
In her dream, however, appeared another face; that man who once held her like this...
"Su Bao..."
She mumbled, causing Qiao Luchen’s hand to stop instantly. He slowly propped himself up, seeing that she was already asleep. Because of that name, he was suddenly wide awake.
He tucked the blanket around her, picked up the outer garment by the bedside, put it on, and left her room.
Sitting on the sofa in the living room, he casually flipped through the book she had been reading. The cigarette between his fingers gradually burnt out, and the ash fell onto the transparent glass of the coffee table.
Closing her book, he moved the ashtray closer, flicked the ash, and slowly leaned back against the sofa.
If he could, he would have taken care of her when she was still a little girl. Would the person deeply engraved in her memory be him then?
The first time they met, she was about ten years old, at her father’s hospital. He saw the cheerful and adorable her; the boy standing beside her that time must have been Su Bao.
It was clear she was very clingy to him, virtually inseparable from Su Bao. All he could do was watch from afar, not even knowing how to greet her.
The second time they met was at a hospital staff dinner. He went along with his father, and she was there too. That was the first time they greeted each other, but her mind wasn’t on him at all.
Later, he started frequenting the hospital more often and occasionally bumped into her. However, they hardly ever spoke, only acknowledging each other’s presence from afar, not even close enough to be called friends.
She always referred to him as her father’s colleague’s son.
The only thing he was thankful for was being able to watch her grow up bit by bit into a graceful young woman. The only thing that remained unchanged was her reliance on Su Bao.
Almost every time he saw her at the hospital, she was with Su Bao, except for one time when she cried, saying that Su Bao was ignoring her.
Her parents pampered her so much. That was the first time he saw her cry.
When he went to college, he chose to major in medicine, thinking of her father being such an outstanding doctor, and she had said she wanted to be an excellent doctor like her dad. He thought he could wait for her in medical school, but when she graduated from high school, he learned that she chose the computer science major because of Su Bao.
The efforts she made for Su Bao made him envious and heartbroken, but her stubbornness also made him feel somewhat helpless. Although he kept paying attention to her life, he felt he could never be a part of it...
To her, he used to be just a stranger.