Chapter 95 -95 It’s Not the First Time I’ve Helped You Bathe
Yuan Xi was burning with a high fever, yet she also felt a chill arising from the depths of her heart.
“Don’t want the two kids anymore?”
Huo Shiyuan actually said so lightly that he didn’t want these two children?
Yuan Xi placed her hand on her lower abdomen, looking at Huo Shiyuan with eyes full of wariness.
“President Huo, if you dislike my children, you could’ve said so earlier. I will take the children away from you and your childhood sweetheart’s life. They will never know you’re their father, but I will never abort the children.”
Huo Shiyuan sighed helplessly, “You should read fewer romance novels in the future. I’m taking you to the hospital.”
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Huo Shiyuan carried Yuan Xi horizontally and had the driver take them to the nearest top-tier hospital.
During the peak of influenza season, there was at least an hour’s wait for emergency services at public hospitals.
Yuan Xi leaned on Huo Shiyuan’s shoulder. Right beside the emergency internal medicine department was the emergency pediatric department, full of the cries of infants in bundles.
Yuan Xi had a blood test and antibody check which confirmed it was the flu. The emergency doctor suggested taking antipyretics and to physically cool down if the temperature fell below 38 degrees Celsius.
Huo Shiyuan frowned, “Can she not take medicine and just endure it when she’s suffering so much?”
The doctor nodded, “Her condition isn’t very severe at the moment, so if she can endure it, it’s better to try.”
On the way back to the mansion, Yuan Xi said, “I told you it’s not a big problem, just a bit uncomfortable, achoo.”
When they got back to the mansion, Yuan Xi was torn between taking a bath and going straight to bed.
It was hard for Yuan Xi to not take a bath and wash her hair after visiting the hospital, but she was feeling extremely unwell and just wanted to lie down and rest.
Huo Shiyuan said softly, “How about I help you bathe?”
Yuan Xi’s groggy mind cleared up a lot, and she refused repeatedly, “No need!”
Yuan Xi entered the bathroom, and could still hear Huo Shiyuan’s chuckle from outside, “After all, it’s not the first time I’ve bathed you.”
Yuan Xi looked at herself in the mirror, her face very red. Huo Shiyuan had indeed bathed her before, after that time at Shiyi Hotel when she was exhausted to her limits, and Huo Shiyuan had carried her to the bathroom.
Back then, she should have realized Huo Shiyuan wasn’t drunk. If he had been drunk, he certainly wouldn’t have been able to help her bathe.
Yuan Xi shook off the thoughts in her mind.
After the bath, when Yuan Xi came out of the bathroom, Huo Shiyuan had already prepared a hairdryer to help dry her long hair.
Yuan Xi looked back at Huo Shiyuan, “You seem very skilled at blow-drying hair, have you done it for someone before?”
Huo Shiyuan replied, “I’ve only done it for you.”
Already feeling miserable, Yuan Xi gradually fell asleep in Huo Shiyuan’s arms under the sound of the hairdryer.
During the night, Yuan Xi broke out into bouts of sweat. When she occasionally woke up, she would see Huo Shiyuan wiping off her sweat for her and changing her silk pajamas to cotton ones.
When she woke up in the morning, Yuan Xi’s throat was severely dry and painful.
During the morning video conference with Gu Hanchen to follow up on the listing process, Yuan Xi was barely holding up.
After the video call with Gu Hanchen, Yuan Xi collapsed back on the bed, utterly drained. Thankfully, the fever had subsided.
Huo Shiyuan came in with a bowl of stewed rock sugar and pear, “I made this for you; it should soothe your throat a bit.”
Yuan Xi looked at Huo Shiyuan, “Thank you.”
After Yuan Xi ate a bowl of the pear soup, she broke out in another round of sweat. After falling asleep and waking up again, she saw that the person before her was not Huo Shiyuan.
Yuan Xi blinked, “Yuanzi?”
Chen Yuan chuckled, “It’s me. Your husband said he really couldn’t miss a meeting and asked if Liang Suisui and I were free to come and take care of you. I just happened to have time.”
Yuan Xi laughed lightly, “Do I look so delicate that I need care? Besides, there’s a housekeeper at home. Don’t let me infect you.”
Chen Yuan said, “No worries, if I get infected, I get to skip work. It’s impossible to get leave from Shitou’s workplace. They’re always pushing overtime with renovations and relocations. Honestly, I’d rather be sick and rest.”
Yuan Xi coughed and replied, “Being sick is not better than working overtime.”
Chen Yuan looked at the photo on the nightstand, “President Huo really does like you, huh? He even keeps your childhood photos by the bed.”
“That’s not a photo from my childhood,” Yuan Xi said.
Chen Yuan picked up the photo, “Isn’t this from your childhood? Please, it’s the splitting image of you as a child.”
Yuan Xi said, “Take a closer look at the dress and the logo on the belt that the little girl is wearing. That style, that fabric… a dress like that costs six figures. How could I have ever afforded Dior children’s clothes when I was little?”
Chen Yuan examined it closely and said, “True, then who is the little girl in the photo?”
Yuan Xi replied, “Huo Shiyan’s childhood sweetheart.”
Chen Yuan was surprised, “…He’s already married to you, and he still has a photo of his childhood sweetheart by the bed, and you’re okay with that?”
Yuan Xi said, “He pined for his childhood sweetheart but never got her. It’s just a part of his childhood memories, let it be.”
Chen Yuan scrutinized the photo again, “Xiao Xi, I still think this photo is of you.”
Yuan Xi said with a faint smile, “Our childhood friend could never have been Huo Shiyan. Back then, Shiyi Group was already a top stream giant in the country. Could we, ordinary folks, have the Crown Prince of the prestigious Huo Family as our childhood friend, growing up close and innocent?”
Chen Yuan thought about it and agreed.
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Someone like Huo Shiyan was definitely someone they could never have met when they were younger.
“Big sister!”
Xiao Shihuo entered from outside. He fell ill a few days before Yuan Xi and was almost recovered, except for a somewhat hoarse throat and a cough.
“Big sister, are you sick too? Make sure you obediently take your medicine and get your shots.”
Yuan Xi responded with a light laugh.
Chen Yuan looked at the little boy in front of her and squeezed Xiao Shihuo’s cheek, “So cute.”
“Big sister, you’re very pretty too!” Xiao Shihuo sweetly said.
Chen Yuan picked up Xiao Shihuo, “So adorable, it makes me want to have a child of my own.”
Yuan Xi said, “Go ahead and have one. After that, our child will have a playmate.”
Chen Yuan replied, “I still want to enjoy the single life. I’m not in a hurry to have kids. Look at how carefree Liang Suisui is. She’s not eager to go on blind dates and even ended up in the Maldives.”
Yuan Xi opened up Liang Suisui’s social media page and saw the photos posted. The décor of the plane in the photos was obviously that of a private jet.
Liang Suisui also had a Rolls-Royce umbrella as she boarded the plane.
“Did Suisui go there alone?”
Chen Yuan said, “No, she mentioned that someone invited her to join them and play cards with some clients.”
Yuan Xi, sick and not wanting to think too much, could nevertheless see from the photos the unintentional reveal of a man’s distinct knuckles and the watch on his wrist, which all pointed unmistakably to Chu Lin!
Yuan Xi did not have a favorable impression of Chu Lin, but it was her friend’s private affair, and she didn’t plan to ask further.
After all, she couldn’t be so childish as to restrict her best friend from associating with Chu Lin just because she personally disliked him.