novelraw Chapter 546 - 247. [Dewy Summer] Wanxia smiled charmingly with eyes like silk,
Chapter 546 - 247. [Dewy Summer] Wanxia smiled charmingly with eyes like silk,
Xia Qian is Xu Qiubai’s fiancée.Mr. Xu paused for a moment, lowered his head to hide the moisture in his eyes, and his voice was a bit muddled, "It’s good you’re back, it’s good you’re back."
Looking at Xu Qiubai in the ward, he changed the topic, "The doctor your brother invited is busy every day figuring out ways to treat this brat, but he still sleeps from morning until night, it’s driving me crazy!"
Seeing Mr. Xu deliberately frowning in annoyance, Wanxia smiled, "Then when Qiu Bai wakes up, you can give him a good scolding."
Mr. Xu laughed and agreed several times.
How could Wanxia not know, within Mr. Xu’s forced relaxed smile, there lay many sleepless nights of worry, "Uncle Xu, I have something else to do, I won’t go in."
"Alright, after all, I’m here every day. By the way, where are you staying, Wanwan," Mr. Xu shifted his belongings to one hand and pulled out a set of keys from his pocket, handing them to Wanxia, "It’s not safe for a girl to stay in a hotel alone. My house is vacant, it’s cleaned daily, very tidy."
The house is vacant...
There were only three members of the Xu Family; Mr. Xu was at the hospital every day taking care of Qiu Bai, and Aunt Xu... when it was known that Xia Qian’s baby was gone, she fell ill and passed away two years ago.
Their home is, of course, empty.
It was as if a hand was gripping her heart tightly, the pain nearly made Wanxia unable to breathe. Her nails dug deeply into the tender flesh of her palm. It took her several seconds to not show any crack in front of Mr. Xu.
"Uncle, don’t worry. I’m staying at the Ji Family’s old house."
Four years ago, the old Ji Family villa was completely burned, the fire nearly dyed half the sky red.
Later, everyone in An City knew, Mr. Gu hired people to restore every brick and tile from the ruins to its original state, even the sycamore tree at the entrance looked remarkably similar to the old one.
Mr. Xu silently put the keys back into his pocket, "Be careful on the road, another day uncle will make your favorite pork rib soup."
Wanxia smiled, "...Okay."
After leaving the hospital, Wanxia hailed a taxi and the driver asked her, "Miss, where to?"
Where to?
At this time, how could she possibly go to the Ji Family villa...
"Drive straight," Wanxia leaned against the car window, her ink-wash brows and eyes as bland as water, her gaze fell quietly on the dazzling neon lights, "just stop at the first hotel."
The driver rolled his eyes.
This kind of customer he was encountering for the first time, now are all beautiful girls lacking brains? Aren’t they afraid of encountering some lustful pervert?
While driving, his peripheral vision subtly glanced at the rearview mirror, this face could almost outshine those in the entertainment industry who have had plastic surgery, even Shen Weiyi, who is currently all the rage, might not compare.
Looking at it this way, it seemed familiar, but no matter how hard he tried, the driver couldn’t recall where he’d seen her before.
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After taking a shower, Wanxia draped a thin silk robe over herself and stood on the balcony to cool off. From the 46th-floor high-rise, nearly half the city lay beneath her gaze.
The countless homes’ lights shrunk into tiny glows, like stars in the sky.
On the neighboring balcony, two or three young playboys sat lazily, occasionally whistling at her, the scent of red wine wafting in the wind toward her. She simply gazed lightly at the night view, her beautiful face betraying not a ripple.
The buzzing vibration of the phone on the table pulled her back to reality.
"Sister-in-law, why aren’t you asleep yet?"
On the phone, Nan Wan was in the kitchen boiling water, "Your brother just came back from the company, I’m making him some noodles."
Wanxia turned around, leaning on the railing, behind her stretched an endless night, her subtle brows and eyes softened, "So hard-working."
"Isn’t he," Nan Wan cradled the phone between her shoulder and ear, cracking two eggs into a bowl and stirring them, "By the way, tomorrow Mu Huan is going to An City for a cooperation meeting, I’ll bring An Ge and Jiu Jiu over to see you."
Actually, saying ’see’ isn’t quite right, it’s more like ’congratulate.’
But, Nan Wan knew, from the moment Ji Wanxia returned to An City, many things had already started; ’congratulate’ is just not the word.
Wanxia paused, then smiled and said, "Remember to bring a bouquet."
"No problem."
Seeing the frosty and delicate beauty end her call, Jin Sinan, who had already been eager, couldn’t wait for her to put down her phone before speaking up, "Beauty, the night is long, why not come over for a drink?"
Wanxia seemed to only now realize there were people on the neighboring balcony, she glanced over, the man leaned lazily on the railing, the bathrobe loosely draped on him, exposing his well-defined chest, a wicked curve at the corner of his mouth.