Chapter 41
When Xia Mao woke up again, she found herself lying in bed.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the man sitting on the edge of the bed, watching her without blinking.
Her mind was dizzy, her body was limp and her throat was dry. Realising that she was sick, she slowly sat up from the bed and the man was busy coming forward to reach out and help her, but she dodged extremely quickly and due to the violent movement, her head hit the head of the bed at once.
Luckily, the head of the bed was soft, so it didn't hurt, but the "thud" made Ling Yichen's heart flutter.
Ling Yichen's hand froze in mid-air, and only when he saw her sit up on her own did he put his hand down, pick up the glass of water next to him and hand it to her.
Xia Mao's throat was really sore, so she didn't pretend anymore and took it and drank most of the glass.
Only then did her throat feel more comfortable, she coughed lightly twice and looked at the worried man in front of her and couldn't help but sneer twice as the man's brow furrowed even more tightly.
"In a few days, I'll be moving out." She lowered her eyes in a mo-sighted manner and said in a dumb voice, "Ling Yichen, I've really decided this time."
When Ling Yichen came back Lu Wanqiu had already left, but Tian Ma had learnt everything in its original form to him.
He could not deny what Lu Wanqiu had said because it was the truth, but he was reluctant to let go like that.
"Didn't you say that you didn't want to force me, that you just wanted me to be happy? If I want to leave, I can just tell you? Then I'll tell you now that I'm leaving, and I'll take your bank card," Xia Mao said, looking up and smiling at him, "You can rest assured this time, right?"
Ling Yichen's eyes were sore and astringent, and he looked at her carefully for a couple of moments before standing up from the bed and saying "yes" in a deep voice.
Xia Mao watched him leave the room and lay back under the covers alone, she didn't listen to the commotion outside and didn't know whether the man had left or not.
She just wanted to get out of here and away from this man, so she had to think about where she was going to go next.
Back to Bowen's? There was no telling how Ling Yichen and Bowen would get in touch and what they would say.
Going out to work by herself? How can she work if she doesn't have a skill?
Going to school? What school would want me if I had no money and no one?
I don't know. Xia Mao's head hurt even more. She closed her eyes and wondered if she would go to her mother now, would she support her?
Two days later, Xia Mao was finally able to get out of bed, thanks to Tian Ma's meticulous care.
She charged her mobile phone, which she hadn't used for a long time, put her things back into the suitcase once again, and put Ling Yichen's bank card in the hidden compartment at the bottom of the suitcase.
After everything was packed up, she went to the bathroom for another soak and ate the dinner Tian's mother had so lovingly prepared before she lay back in bed, dazed and completely awake before dawn.
She carried her suitcase, placed a note thanking Tianma on the table, and left.
In the crisp morning light, she pulled her suitcase into a street park, found a long chair and sat down before turning on her mobile phone.
The old man who was boxing next to her immediately glared at her with displeasure, scaring Xia Mao into carrying her case and running to a deserted spot by the river.
There were over a hundred messages, except for three reminders from Tan Wei and a text message asking her "why didn't you answer the phone".
Sixty or so were call alerts and the remaining thirty or so were text messages.
From the initial exasperation of asking her "Why aren't you answering your phone" to the later concern of "Is something wrong with you? Why isn't your phone on? Where are you?" to the later "Are you with Ling Yichen again? You're not coming back?" But in the end it became, "Mamoru, I want to go to you, but my documents, driving licence and bank card have all been taken away, so I can't go to you. What can I do?"
Xia Mao was shocked and didn't know what had happened to him, so she called him on the phone, but the phone was switched off.
Xia Mo was busy calling Tan Wei again, and the phone was immediately picked up.
"Xia Mao?" Bo Wen's near-roaring voice came over the phone, "Where are you?"
"Bowen? Where are you?" Summer's End said, a little scared and a little agitated, "I don't know where I am, it's like a street park."
"You ...... you're an idiot!" He said, "You can give the phone to someone next to you right now, as long as they're alive."
Xia Mao looked around and walked towards a group of people practicing playing the fan next to him and chose a woman who looked to be in her forties, "Big sister, my brother can't find me, can you tell him the address of this place?"
The woman jumped back a step in fright before she seriously looked at Xia Mao and saw that she was really the only one around her before she said to some people playing tai chi fans not far away, "This girl is asking where this place is, can one of you tell me clearly and help her out."
"You're really good at this too, you've been here for two years and you still can't tell where it is?" An older woman next to her came forward and answered the phone, told her the address on the phone, and then pointed to the east and said to Xia Mao, "Follow this road and walk fifty meters to the entrance of the park, just stand there and wait for your brother."
Xia Mao hadn't gone far with her suitcase when she heard the women behind her guessing, "She looks like a high school student who ran away from home instead of studying properly."
"I don't think so, but it looks like ......"
The end of summer walked a few steps closer to avoid the sound of the back talk.
The car didn't wait to be parked, the long and robust, but eyebrows, like the Korean Opa's Bo Wen, jumped down from the car, to Xia Mao's heels, and at once hugged Xia Mao tightly in his arms.
"Are you trying to piss me off?" Bo Wen hated to beat up Xia Mao, but looking at her wailing and crying in his love, where else could he give up?
"I think you're the one who wants to die, don't you?" Tan Wei cursed as he jumped out of the driver's seat, "The car hasn't even stopped yet and you're jumping down, do you want to get me killed?"
"I asked you to come back to find your family, did I ask you to come to find Ling Yichen?" Bo Wen didn't listen to Tan Wei's words, he just gritted his teeth and questioned Xia Mao: "Do you know what happened to you before? Do you know Ling Yichen as a person? Even if you're a fool and you don't know anything, won't you ask me? How dare you play missing with me?"
Xia Mo just kept crying, "So you also know that he has a wife, a child, a lover and an illegitimate child ...... Didn't you say before that you didn't know about my past? If you had told me this earlier, would I have been cheated by him again?"
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Bowen's mouth fell open and he lost his voice.
In fact, in all seriousness, her sister was the one who had started it all in the first place.
"Can you guys get in the car first?!" Tan Wei said helplessly from the side, "This early in the morning crying in front of the park, it's bad if someone calls the police again, you're a person without ID."
Bo Wen pulled Xia Mao into the car and Tan Wei took them to a resort outside the city.
"This is run by my friend's family, 60% off." Tan Wei got out of the car and said to Bowen, "You remember to pay me back the bill when you have money."
A hint of disdain flashed across Bowen's showy face, "A few bucks, and it's worth it?"
"I'm not as rich as you, these few dollars are also my salary for several months," Tan Wei shrugged his shoulders, "Young master, you are now a hero who can be defeated by a penny, it's better to keep a low profile."
Bo Wen's face sank as he took down Xia Mao's suitcase from the car and comforted Xia Mao, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, it's not as mysterious as he said."
Xia Mao thought of the card in her suitcase and wondered if Bo Wen would beat her if she took it out and used it.
Tan Wei pushed open the room he had called to book first and looked out the floor-to-ceiling windows right across the valley and the lake and couldn't help but whistle, "This place is fantastic!"
"I'll pay you back, and double it!" Bowen wasn't interested in these elephants, he could have stayed anywhere for a while if it wasn't for Summer's words.
"Bowen, have you lost your mind with all the research you're doing now?" Tan Wei looked back at Bowen with concern, "I can see, you don't seem to be interested in anything except the drugs and experiments, no wonder your mother is forcing you to get married every day, I've heard that your mother has made it clear that it's fine if you don't get married, as long as you provide some sperm and do a test tube baby."
"Will you shut up?" Bowen glanced in the direction of where Natsume had gone to the bathroom.
"I'm keeping an eye on it when Xia Mao doesn't come out," Tan Wei then laughed, "Your mother is pinning all her hopes on your next generation."
"You shut up!" Bowen griped and whispered, "Can you stop gloating so much?"
"There's something else I didn't get a chance to ask you, what kind of family sister is Summer End to you? She's lost her memory, and even you can't find her home?" Tan Wei suddenly asked in a serious voice, "And isn't that Ling Yichen your eldest brother-in-law? Xia Mao is your sister, so isn't it normal for her to live in a flat under your brother-in-law's name? Why are you in a hurry like you're about to catch fire?"
"Tan Wei, you are my best friend, this matter is a family matter between our Lu family and Ling's family, I hope you won't interfere, Ling Yichen's nature even if you don't understand it, you should have heard about it, he is not a good man or woman." Bo Wen warned with a straight face.
"I know." Tan Wei shrugged, "I'm just curious to ask, in fact, if Xia Mao is not your sister, I think the two of you standing together would be quite a match."
A hint of unnaturalness immediately flashed across Bowen's face.
"You're still embarrassed?" Tan Wei laughed even louder, "In fact, you really need to find someone you know like this, if you are not familiar with you, they would have to think you are a medical freak, or maybe even say you are a psychopath ......"
"Tan Wei, will you shut up? Are you on dope?" Bowen really couldn't do anything about this detrimental friend.
Luckily, the bathroom door opened and Xia Mao, who had washed her hands and face, came towards them with a smile while wiping her hands and face with a paper towel.
"I haven't eaten breakfast yet." She looked at them shyly.
"Are you stupid?" Bowen glared at her without good humour and then said to Tan Wei, "Is there breakfast here?"
"There's a breakfast buffet." Tan Wei had woken up in the middle of the night to a sudden visit from Bowen, and was hungry.
After the three of them had breakfast, Tan Wei was called away by his flat.
"I took the car away, you do not have a driving licence, if you use a car, let the receptionist call you," Tan Wei took out a bank card and six hundred yuan from his bag, "the password is my birthday, there are more than 10,000 yuan in the card, you save money, not enough to call me again. "
He didn't wait to finish his sentence, he drew back another hundred, "I also have to buy a box of cigarettes later, whatever is available in the resort, you don't have to pay, you all just wait for the final check."
As he said this, he waved to the two men, and didn't let them see him off, so he hurried out.
The room in a blink of an eye, only Xia Mao and Bo Wen two people left, Xia Mao low standing in front of him, intentionally picking at his fingers, "Did I give you trouble? Did that ...... Ling Yichen threaten you?"
Bo Wen sighed, lightly embraced her, walked to the terrace outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, leaned on the balcony and looked at the distant scenery.
"Why don't we charter a car and go back? That way we don't need ID cards." Summers suggested.
"There's no rush, I haven't been here for a while, let's stay here for a few more days!" Bowen smiled at her, "I'll consider it a holiday for myself, someone else is paying for all the spending this time anyway."
"Brother Tan is going to ask you for double the money." Summer ended up smiling along with her.
"The money is all spent, so double or not, it's not up to me?" Bo Wen's roguish look amused Xia Mao.
"Come on, it's just not too hot now, let's go out and walk around?" Bo Wen looked out at the lake in the morning light and suddenly got excited.
"Sure." She was really afraid that Bo Wen would ask her where she had been and what she had done in the past few days, how could she answer then?
The resort has not only a hot spring, but also a water park and a forest adventure. Although it was not a weekend, there were many people coming to visit the resort.
The two of them had another buffet at noon, went back to their room and took a shower, then one slept on the sofa and one slept on the bed until 3:00 pm or so.
"Shall we go swimming?" Bowen said to a lazy Summer End.
"Yeah." Natsume nodded, she realised that after walking all morning she had not only slept well, she hadn't thought about the man again, "But we don't have swimming costumes."
"If there's a water park, there's a swimming costume vendor and it doesn't cost anything just the door number." Bowen winked at her, "Come on, I'll take you to pick out two that you like."
Xia Mao looked at him as if he had taken a big advantage and couldn't help but smile.
The two of them finished dressing and just looked for the door to open the room, when they saw four men in black standing at the door.
Xia Mao was startled and her first feeling was that Ling Yichen had sent someone to arrest her.
"Young master, big sister wants to see you."
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One of the men in black respectfully stepped forward and said, "Let you go see her now."
Xia Mao's raised heart fell back, she was really scared to death just now, afraid that these people would hurt Bo Wen.
"Tell Big Sister that I will see her tomorrow morning." Bo Wen looked at Xia Mao and said in a cold voice.
"Big Sister said that if you don't go to see her, she will have to come to see you personally." The man in black then said.
Bo Wen knew that his big sister had caught his soft spot, and he did not want Xia Mao to know who his big sister was.
"Mamoru, my big sister wants to see me urgently, I have to go and meet her first, do you want to go to the water park yourself or wait for me in the room?" Bo Wen pulled Xia Mao back into the room, closed the door and asked her, "Why don't you go to the hot spring first? It's beauty and relief, and you can have a massage on the way."
"Okay, you go about your business, don't worry about me." Xia Mao reassured him, "There's no need to rush back in the evening, I'll go to the restaurant when I'm hungry."
"That's good."
Bo Wen followed the man in black, left the resort and went to the Ling family.
The news was immediately reported to Ling Yichen.
"Have someone keep a close eye over there, don't let anyone hurt her." Ling Yichen left all the papers on the table, a copy of which had not been dealt with either, together.
He stood up and also went downstairs, he hadn't seen this uncle for a long time, so it was just right to meet with him today.
When Lu Wanru saw Bo Wen enter the courtyard, she took a few steps towards the door and said angrily, "You're really something, you can come to D City without anything, and you didn't come to me first when you arrived here, you don't recognize me as your sister?"
"Big sister -" Bo Wen called out, and ingratiatingly went forward to hug Lu Wanru, "I missed you so much."
"I think you're going to be mad at me, aren't you?" Lu Wanru wanted to give him a lecture, but when she looked at her brother, who was eight or nine years older than her, but more than a head taller than her, looking at her pleasingly, she couldn't let go of her words.
"How many days are you going to stay this time? Stay here tonight, tomorrow I'll take you out for a stroll around, then I'll call father and grandmother and have all your papers sent over."
"Sister, I'll stay at my friend's place later and come back to keep you company in a couple of days." Bo Wen had just sat down on the sofa with Lu Wanru's shoulder in his arms when he saw Ling Yuanqi who was sitting next to him in the middle of a pile of toys playing with them.
Bo Wen looked at that familiar face and his eyes almost didn't fall out, "He's ......"
"Hmm," Lu Wanru nodded, squatting down and taking the child in her arms so that he would face his brother squarely, "Yuanqi, this is your uncle, call him good uncle."
Yuan Qi blinked his big black and white eyes, looked at Bo Wen and grinned, showing a few teeth, "babbled" for a long time, saw that the person opposite did not pay attention to him, then looked at the toy in his hand, as if he was reluctant to give it up for a long time, before handing it to Bo Wen, and "babbled" again.
"Bo Wen, is Yuan Qi making you happy?" Lu Wanru looked at her brother's dazed look and smiled gently, "Look how good-looking and well-behaved he is, he is your nephew, your sister's son."
Bo Wen's eyes were instantly red, this child was born to Xia Mao then.
Such a good looking and lovely child, what would happen to Xia Mao if she saw it and knew she had given birth to it?
"Wu Ma, take the young master back to his room and play with him," Lu Wanru handed the baby over to Wu Ma, "Let Cui keep watch here, the rest of you go in the backyard."
"Yes." Wu Ma was busy taking the child, and Bo Wen's eyes were fixed on the child until it was far away.
"Bo Wen, you should also know that it was just a deal between Xia Mao and I. When the deal was over, I had nothing to do with her, and it was because I saw Xia Mao's pity that I sent her to you in the first place, hoping that you could save her life. Now that you're done saving her life, you shouldn't have anything to do with her anymore."
Lu Wanru poured a cup of tea for Bo Wen and placed it in front of him, "Xia Mao is indeed a good girl, but we have helped her as much as we should, so it's a kindness."
Bo Wen took a big sip from the cup of tea and almost didn't choke, coughing several times and tears coming out before he could stop.
Lu Wanru drew two tissues for him and scolded, "Don't be careful either."
"I'm fine." Bo Wen used the tissue to hold down the corner of his eyes and laughed, "I drank in a hurry."
"I've found a school for Xia Mao, there's still a month before school starts, so let her go straight over to the school tomorrow." Lu Wanru's attitude was gentle but firm, "From now on, you are not allowed to have the slightest contact with her again."
"Sis-" The light smile on the corner of Bo Wen's mouth froze on his face for a moment as he whispered, "I don't agree."
"You don't agree?" The tenderness on Lu Wanru's face was suddenly lost, "Do you know what father and grandmother mean?"
Bo Wen stared at them without speaking.
"They want Xia Mao to disappear! Is that the result you want?" Lu Wanru watched Bo Wen's face turn white all of a sudden, so she continued in a slightly slower tone, "Bo Wen, how important this child is to sister, do you know? Now that your brother-in-law has fallen for Xia Mao, what if she comes back to steal the baby from her? There is also Lu Wanqiu who is watching intently, if the child is really snatched away by Xia Mo, she can immediately think of ways to drive me out of the Ling family, then can our mother still stay in the Ling family?"
"Sister, I am now researching a medicine that can make a person's memory disappear and never come back," Bo Wen leaned in and took Lu Wanru's arm, "I will not let Xia Mo come back to steal the child from you, I will take her away from here and go abroad so that she will never come back. "
"Then if she one day knows that you drugged her, what if she hates you, what should you do?" Lu Wanru looked at her brother and said softly, "Never say anything, you won't let her know, there are no absolutes in the world, or how else would there be the word 'what if'?"
"Sis ...... I fell in love with her, back when you sent her to me a year ago and she woke up like a pretty doll." Bo Wen's voice was low with bitterness, making Lu Wanru's heart ache, "And still like it a lot."
"You ...... then why did you let her come to D City?" Lu Wanru's heart hurt and annoyed, "Do you know where she has been these days? Do you know where she has been ......"
"Sister, don't say, I beg you, don't say, I know everything, I regret it all now," Bo Wen clutched his head in pain, "I just let her come alone because I was afraid that my coming would draw attention to her, if I had known that, I wouldn't have let her come ......"
"Even if she didn't come, I would still be able to find her." Ling Yichen walked towards them with big strides.