Chapter 57
Xia Mao was too embarrassed to struggle anymore and could only stare at Li Jiyao's chin in shame and annoyance.
Li Ji Yao's face was filled with a vibrant smile as he walked out of the school building.
It was only when he reached the road leading to the infirmary that he looked down at Xia Mao in his arms and smiled, "Looking at your face, you've grown quite fat, but I didn't expect you to be so light."
"You put me down, I can walk by myself." Xia Mao struggled gently.
Li Jiyao not only did not let go, but also lurched upwards, "We're almost there, don't move, the blood is flowing all over the road, the heart will let you scrub the floor tomorrow. "
The first thing you need to do is to look back at the road behind you, isn't that right, there is so much blood flowing?
When we got to the infirmary, when Xia Mao lifted her skirt, she saw that the half-meter wide gauze was surprisingly soaked with blood, she rolled her eyes and fell backwards, Li Jiyao was quick to catch her in his arms, "Xia Mao! Xia Mao!"
The doctor was busy stepping forward to take a closer look, "It's fine, it could be blood fainting or it could be shock, you can carry her to the bed and lie down."
Li Ji Yao was busy carrying her to the bed and took off her shoes, calling anxiously to the doctor who was preparing something, "Third Aunt, come and see how she is?"
"It's fine, don't worry classmate." The doctor smiled as he walked over to the bed with the tray and lifted up Xia Mao's skirt.
He cut the gauze with scissors and looked at a large cut on her white jade-like leg that could be more than ten centimetres long, a seven to eight centimetre long wound on her thigh, and two bruises, the doctor couldn't help but frown, "How did this happen? It's a serious injury!"
"She said it was a fall." Li Ji Yao lowered his head and also frowned, "But the fall was too heavy, will it leave a scar?"
"It's hard to say with such a long wound," the doctor said as he began to clean the wound, "I can prescribe some cell regeneration fluid for her after the wound has scarred in a few days, we'll see then, just don't let the wound open up again, especially if it's covered with gauze. You have to be more careful, if you don't rub against the gauze, you will rub the whole skin off."
Li Ji Yao nodded as he listened attentively, "Then how often do you change the medicine?"
"Once a day, and be careful not to get wet." After the doctor had packed everything up, he told Li Ji Yao, "When she wakes up, if she's still confused, call me quickly."
"Mhm." Li Guiyao nodded.
"Stinky!" The doctor suddenly turned back to Li Jiyao and said, "You have a good eye!"
"He's my classmate!" Li Ji Yao giggled to himself as he finished rushing at her.
After watching the doctor leave, he took out a tissue from his trouser pocket and peeked at the door again, seeing that no one was there, before quickly and gently drying the sweat on Xia Mao's forehead.
The wound was so big that it hurt even when he looked at it, and she still said it was fine.
Ling Yichen was worried that Xia Mao would know about the news, so he followed the driver to the school early, but after more than half an hour, Xia Mao was still not out, so he picked up his phone and sent a text message to Xia Mao.
But after waiting for Xia Mao to come out, Ling Yichen finally couldn't resist taking out his phone and calling her.
The phone rang for a long time before it was picked up.
"Hello, how are you?" It was a strange boy who answered.
"Where's Xia Mao?" Ling Yichen's eyes went cold, his first feeling was that Xia Mao was angry and avoiding him.
The opposite side of the phone was silent for a moment before continuing, "Xia Mao is in the infirmary ......"
The phone was hung up before Li Ji Yao could finish his sentence, and in less than five minutes, the door to the infirmary was pushed open.
The doctor sitting in the outer room, looking at the man who suddenly entered, opened his mouth in surprise and asked, "Mr. Ling, what brings you here?"
"Where is Xia Mao?" Ling Yichen nodded politely at her and asked in a deep voice.
"Xia Mao?" The doctor remembered that Li Ji Yao had just called the unconscious girl's name as if it was Xia Mao, his face changed and he stood up, pointing towards the observation room, "She hasn't woken up yet."
Ling Yichen eagerly walked towards the observation room and saw only two people in the empty observation room when he entered.
One was Xia Mao lying on the bed, and the other was Li Ji Yao sitting on the edge of the bed.
Ling Yichen asked the doctor who was following him, "What happened to her?"
"The wound on her leg split open and a lot of blood came out, she was probably blood-sick and fainted as soon as she lifted her skirt and saw it herself." The doctor's eyes glanced at Li Ji Yao, "It was this student her heart sent her here."
Ling Yichen took two steps forward and extended his hand to Li Jiyao, "Ling Yichen."
"Li Ji Yao." Li Ji Yao also extended his hand.
He couldn't hide the shock in his heart, he didn't expect the person he had been checking out all day to appear in front of him so quickly, and it was because of Xia Mao.
"Thank you for sending her to the infirmary." Ling Yichen stepped forward and lifted the quilt off Xia Mao's body, picking her up gently.
"You wait." Li Jiyao suddenly blocked in front of him, "Xia Mao said that she doesn't know you."
"If there's anything, you can ask Xia Mo yourself tomorrow." Ling Yichen looked at the boy in front of him in a gentle manner, he could easily read the meaning in this boy's eyes, but he wasn't angry, because when Xia Mao said she wanted to go to school, he had already thought that there would be other boys who would fall for her, even when Xia Mao told others that she didn't know him, he wasn't angry because he knew the worry in Xia Mao's heart.
"So ...... are you sending her back to the dorm now?" Li Jiyao ghosted out the question.
"Xia Mao doesn't live at school, I'll send her home." Ling Yichen said and walked out with Xia Mao in his arms, Li Jiyao wanted to ask something more before the school nurse stopped him.
"Don't make a sound now, that's Mr. Ling." The school nurse pulled him tightly and did not let him go out, it was only when the sound of the door closing came from outside that the school nurse let go of Li Ji Yao, but still stood in front of him and did not let him go first, "Don't say anything outside about today's matter when you go out."
"What happened today?" Li Guiyao asked, not quite understanding.
"The school doctor's face cleared up and he patted Li Guiyao's shoulder with a smile, saying, "If you need anything in the future, just come to me."
"I want money, can I come to you?"
"Yes, I can issue you a psychiatric certificate and save it for your mother first." The school doctor reached out and slapped his hand on the back of Li Ji Yao's head, "Then you go out on the street and see which house has the money, you go in and get it straight away."
"Okay, then I'll go out on the street and step on it first."
Li Ji Yao ruffled his hair, drooped his head and was about to walk out, the doctor called out to him from behind, "Ji Yao, that Xia Mao is not something you can think about."
Chapter 58
Xia Mao woke up again having returned to her flat and opened her eyes to see Ling Yichen sitting by her bed.
"Awake?" Ling Yichen took her hand with one hand and touched her cheek with the other, "Why did you faint?"
"I'm blood-sick," her eyes flickered slightly, "and I'm afraid of pain."
"Why didn't you tell me when your leg was bleeding?" Ling Yichen heartily tucked all the broken hair from her face gently behind her ear, "I waited for you for half a day in front of your school before you finished school, so I waited there."
"Why did you go and wait for me so early?" Xia Mao looked him in the eyes, "Was it because of those rumours?"
"You saw those news too?" Ling Yichen took her hand up and placed it on his lips and kissed it lightly, "I'll have someone take care of those news."
Xia Mao's eyes darkened, even if she could seal the news, she could not seal the population, she gently closed her eyes.
Ling Yichen stayed by her bedside until after dinner, when he had to go to the study to have a video conference with abroad.
Xia Mao sat by herself on the sofa in the living room, picked up her mobile phone and opened her browser, and news about Ling Yichen's histrionics poured in.
The one that shocked her was a few pictures of Ling Yichen hugging Lu Wanqiu, different places, different times, different clothes, different angles, all in the same position, Ling Yichen lovingly and compassionately hugging the woman in his arms.
Xia Mao shuddered and her phone almost didn't fall to the ground.
She hurriedly threw the phone aside and sat down to watch the TV seriously, but the scene could not dissipate before her eyes no matter what.
When Ling Yichen came out of the study, he saw Xia Mao sitting in the same position as before, watching the TV, so he smiled and sat next to her, "What are you watching? What are you watching so seriously?"
"I'm watching One Dragon Playing Three Phoenixes." Xia Mao moved her legs and picked up the remote control to change the channel.
"One dragon playing three phoenixes?" Ling Yichen smiled and sat next to her, "How come I've never heard of this name? Is it good?"
"You don't need to watch it, aren't you acting it yourself?" Xia Mo put the remote control next to her and stood up from the sofa.
Ling Yichen was busy standing up too, reaching out to help her, "What do you want? I'll help you."
"I want to go to the toilet, can you help me?" Xia Mao gave him a sidelong glance and slowly headed in the direction of the bathroom.
Ling Yichen looked at the woman who was playing a childish temper, not only did he not get angry, he even felt funny in his heart.
He went up and half-hugged the woman, "Why can't you? Don't all children go to the toilet with the help of adults?"
Thinking of the child's urination, Xia Mao's face flushed and she gave him a blank look, letting him help her to the bathroom.
Xia Mao sat on the toilet, thinking nonsense for half a day, before standing up.
As soon as Ling Yichen heard the sound of flushing, he opened the door and walked in. Xia Mao, who was halfway through lifting her panties, froze and put her skirt down with a red face, looking at him with no good grace, "What are you doing? You didn't even say anything when you came in."
"What part of you did I not see?" Ling Yichen smiled and lifted up her skirt, lifted her panties, put her skirt down again and put his arm around her waist, "Do you still need to hide things like this with me?"
"How many women have you helped with their trousers?" Xia Mao asked out of the blue.
Ling Yichen's eyes stared at her and said seriously, "You are the only one."
Xia Mao lowered her eyelids and let him help her out of the bathroom, upstairs and back to the bedroom, where both of them lay quietly on the bed.
Half a long time later, Ling Yichen reached out and took Xia Mao's hand, "Don't think too much, go to bed early."
"Mm." Xia Mao closed her eyes, in her heart only she knew, no matter how good Ling Yichen was to her, and how much she liked him, she didn't want to be his lover.
She only wanted to live under the blue sky and white clouds on her own, to get what she deserved by her own efforts.
The next day, Ling Yichen did not allow Xia Mao to go to school and insisted that she stay home to recuperate from her injuries.
By the fourth day, when Xia Mao went to school again, she found herself completely isolated from her classmates.
She sat in the last row, not as comfortable as she had been at first, but a little on pins and needles.
When it was time for class to end, Xia Mao hurriedly got up and headed out, but with her legs and feet, she hadn't taken more than two steps before she was inadvertently knocked aside by a classmate behind her.
"I'm sorry." The student reached out to help her, but when she saw her face, her hand froze in mid-air.
"It's okay." Xia Mao ducked to the side and moved out of the way of the doorway, watching the students swarm out behind her, two more of them inadvertently bumped into her, and as she tried to quickly step aside, an arm pulled her aside and side-stepped her.
Xia Mao looked up and surprisingly it was Li Jiyao.
"Thanks." Xia Mao felt even more embarrassed when she saw him, she knew that Li Jiyao must have seen when Ling Yichen picked her up from home.
Li Jiyao looked at her and pointed to the other side where not many people were walking, "There are always a lot of people over here, let's go around from there."
Xia Mao nodded.
The two of them walked out of the corridor, turned out of the side door and arrived at the square behind the school building.
There weren't many people here now between classes, and it was instantly quiet around them.
"You should leave him!" Li Ji Yao suddenly stopped and looked down at her, "He has a wife, a lover, and two children."
Xia Mao's face instantly turned red and she didn't dare to look at him for a second, just staring at the ground.
"You are now a university student, just four more years and you can graduate and join the workforce, what kind of life can't you live by then if you want?" Li Ji Yao was a bit excited and held Xia Mao's shoulders, "Do you know what your classmates are saying about you now? Do you like living under the tinted glasses of others every day? Do you want this kind of evaluation to accompany you for the rest of your life? I see that you usually study so hard, you still have your own aspirations, don't you? Have you ever thought that if you don't leave him, you'll always live in his shadow, no matter what you achieve, others will say it's because of him, until one day you get old and someone new takes your place, you'll only find out then that you probably have nothing but money."
Xia Mao looked at Li Jiyao with her mouth open in some shock, she had thought about these things too, but there was no way she could leave Ling Yichen, because she knew, not only because she was reluctant and hesitant, but also because as Ling Yichen had said, if Ling Yichen did not let go, she could never escape.
"I know you didn't do it of your own free will, did you?" Li Ji Yao saw the wavering in her eyes and continued, "With his power, it might take some effort for you to leave now, but if you want to, there will be a way!"
Xia Mao looked into Li Ji Yao's sincere and excited eyes and murmured, "Is there really a way?"
"There will be." There was a brightness in his voice.