As he spoke, he squatted down and grasped Shu Nian's ankle with one hand.
She has a small frame and extremely thin ankles. She barely has any presence when held in the hand.
Shu Nian stared at him blankly, and did not struggle anymore, just letting him help her take off her shoes. She could feel that he was very careful, even considerate, and completely different from the arrogant boy in her memory.
Maybe, my past self was prejudiced against him!
"It's bleeding." Ye Yan squatted down, frowned slightly, and looked around again.
Shu Nian looked down at his heels, which were bleeding.
“There is no 24-hour pharmacy here.”
"It's okay." Shu Nian said, "I'll go to the hospital later and just tidy myself up there."
Ye Yan stood up, looked at her, raised his eyebrows, and there was a bit of inquiry in his eyes, "Going back to the hospital, not home?"
Shu Nian's eyes darkened, and she cast her gaze into the dark night, and after a long while she said "hmm". She estimated that Xiang Muyang would not go home tonight, and just now at the dinner party, she had seen his female secretary staring at him covetously.
—
As Ye Yan drove, he couldn't help but look at the woman sitting next to him. She was wearing a dress, sexy and pure. She always reminded him of the night when they were eighteen years old...
Looking at her gloomy expression again, he recalled what he had just said to his wife.
"Just now, Madam Xiang told you that you can't have children..." Ye Yan couldn't help asking. He clearly saw Shu Nian's face was in pain, but he still held back and finished the question: "Is it related to the incident five years ago?"
Shu Nian was silent for a long time.
Outside the window, the dim street lights swept across her face. Her face looked very pale, as if she was smiling slightly, but even that smile was bleak.
"It was an ectopic pregnancy. When I found out, it was too late. I had to have one of my fallopian tubes removed." She originally thought that she had become numb to this matter and could easily talk about everything in the past with an unrelated person. However, her voice was still trembling.
Light, as if floating in the air.
However, to Ye Yan, this was like a powerful punch that hit him so hard that he couldn't breathe.
He held the steering wheel tightly. His eyes were fixed on the road ahead, and his eye sockets gradually turned red. He couldn't find words to describe the pain of regret. It was like someone was pinching his throat in broad daylight, and he couldn't breathe.
Shu Nian noticed the difference in his emotions and smiled bitterly, "You don't have to pity me, I don't care anymore."
Ye Yan wanted to slap himself twice, but he just said sullenly, "Let me take a breath."
He rolled down the window.
The more this happened, the more he couldn't tell her the truth. For the first time, he realized that he was just as gutless as Tang Jifeng said!
——
When Ye Yan stopped the car at a shopping mall, he found Shu Nian leaning against the car window and had fallen asleep. The light outside the window cast a layer of silver light on her fair face, clearly showing the fatigue between her eyebrows.
Ye Yan turned his head and saw her sleeping face like this, and his heart was filled with indescribable emotions.
The last time I saw her sleeping face at such a close distance was five years ago...
That night, he watched her the entire night without closing his eyes. So much so that, in the past five years, when he closed his eyes, he would often see her sleeping.
However, at that time, she slept peacefully and contentedly, and did not look as tired as she does now.
Her cell phone vibrated in her handbag. Ye Yan came back to her senses and took the phone out of her bag without thinking too much. The word "向" was displayed on the phone.
Xiang Muyang
Ye Yan hung up without hesitation.
He glanced at Shu Nian, put his phone in his pocket, and got out of the car. The phone was still ringing, and he hung up again and again, feeling relieved every time he hung up.
—
Twenty minutes later, Ye Yan came back with a box in his hand.
He put the shoebox on the back seat and glanced at her in the passenger seat. She was still asleep and didn't seem to be waking up at all. Xiang Muyang finally calmed down, and Ye Yan put the phone back to Shu Nian.
Ye Yan drove very slowly along the way, but soon arrived at the hospital. After parking the car in the parking lot, he patted her gently, "Shu Nian."
Shu Nian was sleeping soundly. She woke up when Ye Yan called her. She didn't expect that she would fall asleep in his car. She looked out the window in a daze and found that she had arrived at the hospital.
"Thank you." Shu Nian held up her heavy skirt with one hand and placed the other on the door handle.
"Wait a minute." Ye Yan called her. Shu Nian looked at him suspiciously. He had already gotten out of the car, opened the door of the back seat, and took out a box. Then, he walked around to her side and opened the door for her.
Shu Nian watched him the whole time, and saw him bend down and open the box.
Under the moonlight, a pair of flat shoes was clearly visible. Although Shu Nian usually didn't use Xiang Muyang's money and didn't go to those luxury brands, he could recognize this brand.
"You..." Shu Nian looked at him in surprise as he squatted in front of him again.
"Put them on." Ye Yan placed the shoes in front of her. "Your heel is rubbed. Be careful."
Shu Nian did not refuse and put her foot in. It was just the right size for her.
"Is this what you bought for your girlfriend? I'll give it to you for how much it costs." Shu Nian felt quite embarrassed.
Ye Yan looked at her, "I don't have a girlfriend."
"Hmm? Then these shoes..."
"Couldn't it be bought specially for you?"
"…" Shu Nian looked at Ye Yan, not knowing whether what he said was true or not, but her heart still moved, as if a warm hand had touched the string that had been quiet for a long time. She finally got out of the car and stood in front of him, "I'll transfer the money to your card."
"What are you going to give me back?" Ye Yan put one hand on the car body behind her, and held her with his tall body. "You earn 3,500 a month, and this pair of shoes costs 9,300, which is almost three months' salary."
"…" When Shu Nian heard 9300, he immediately took off his shoes, "They are so expensive, you should keep them for yourself. I might as well walk back to the hospital barefoot."
You're a spendthrift! This is not the way to spend money!
Shu Nian cursed and attacked at the same time.
Seeing that she really started to take off her clothes, Ye Yan did not stop her. Instead, he encouraged her with a smile in his eyes, "Take it off. If you want to take it off, I will throw it in the trash can right away. Anyway, I don't have a girlfriend, so if no one wears it, I will just throw it away."
"It's your business if you want to throw it away. Just don't ask me to pay for the 9,300."
Ye Yan insulted her, "Why didn't I think you were so stingy before?"
"In the future, you will see a more stingy side of me."