The overwhelming news outside was about the Mu family's statement and the fire. Public opinion was suppressed and the Liang family was under investigation. Anyone with a discerning eye could immediately understand that those who supported the Liang family no longer dared to accuse Mu Li with words like immoral, extravagant and debauched. However, no one knew how much pain was hidden behind these two things.
Lin Qing didn't say anything. Mu Li stretched out his arms, held her in his arms, and kissed the top of her head.
How long can you keep it a secret
"Lin Qing, there is one thing..."
"Senior, are you okay?" Lin Qing interrupted him and stayed motionless in his arms.
Mu Li's face darkened: "You still care about him now?"
"No," Lin Qing shook her head. She couldn't forget what Liang Ruoyi said that day. "I want to hear him apologize to Lu Xiao in person."
But the damage has been done, and no amount of apologies can make up for it.
Mu Li was silent for a while, then hugged her tighter: "I'll leave him to Liang Ruoyi."
Lin Qing said "oh", it might not be so easy to meet him in this situation.
"Are you hungry?" Mu Li's voice pulled her back and he gently ruffled her hair. Her hair was of good quality and slid softly through his fingers.
After asking this, Lin Qing really felt hungry. She hadn't eaten properly for several days. Now she felt weak all over and didn't even have the energy to make a fuss.
So Lin Qing nodded weakly.
In fact, as soon as she woke up, she could have questioned Mu Li, gotten angry with him and acted like a scoundrel, or grabbed him and asked him why he did that, but she didn't.
Maybe, I'm just holding on to an impossible hope.
This is their home, the apartment at Coast One. Lin Qing still remembers the first time she woke up here. At that time, Mu Li said, Lin Qing, we can give it a try.
Lin Qing suddenly realized that she was really in love, which was why she was hurt so deeply.
She has always been passive when it comes to relationships, but she loves this man wholeheartedly, waiting for him, accompanying him, and guarding this home. She doesn't ask for much.
But now, can she keep this home
She really wanted to keep it.
"What are you thinking about?" Mu Li's voice sounded from above her head. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that the voice was so low and hoarse that it was unrecognizable. "Lie down for a while. I'll go cook."
Mu Li was about to get up, but the moment her arm left her body, Lin Qing grabbed it. Lin Qing then sat up, her body swaying as she felt dizzy. Mu Li frowned and quickly hugged her.
"Are you dizzy? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere else?" Mu Li was frightened when he thought of the lifeless girl he held last night. He turned her face and stared at her closely, "Lin Qing, if you feel uncomfortable, don't hide it from me."
"I'm not feeling unwell, I'm just a little dizzy because I'm too hungry." Lin Qing raised his eyes and looked at him, and there was finally some light in his eyes.
Mu Li pursed his lips into a line, hugged her in his arms, and rested his knife-like chin on her shoulder: "Lin Qing, don't scare me again."
Lin Qing's eyes were slightly moist, and the familiar scent of him filled her heart and lungs. Her shoulder was a little painful from his chin resting on it, and she realized that he had lost weight in the past few days.
Thinking about what happened just now, his face didn't look good.
Lin Qing was held by him like this, and he held her so tightly that even if Lin Qing was not dizzy at first, she would have fainted due to lack of oxygen.
Lin Qing couldn't push him away, so she had no choice but to stretch out her arms and climb onto his shoulders. Her slender fingers clasped his shoulders, and her voice became distorted as she lay in his arms: "Mu Li, I'm really hungry."
Mu Li groaned, and Lin Qing could clearly feel the place where her fingers were clasping tremble slightly.
Mu Li let her go calmly and pressed her back on the bed: "Since you are dizzy, don't move around. Lie down. I'll call you when the meal is ready."
Lin Qing had no choice but to lie on his back on the bed, his fingers soft and weak, pulling at his shirt on his chest: "What's wrong with your shoulder?"
Mu Li's lips curled slightly: "It's okay, just lie down obediently."
Lin Qing didn't have the strength to resist him at this moment. She was silenced by the kiss before she could speak. The kiss was not deep. He just lightly touched her lips and then pulled away.
Mu Li didn't give her a chance to speak again. He pulled the quilt over her and patted her on the waist: "Rest for a while."
Lin Qing had no choice but to nod and wait until he was full before asking him again.
Mu Li walked out of the master bedroom and closed the door, then he pressed the shoulder that Lin Qing was holding. He had just casually treated the knife wound after he came back, and had forgotten about it while he was guarding Lin Qing.
Fortunately, he changed his clothes and the wound could not be seen after the bleeding stopped.
Mu Li hadn't cooked for a long time. After they got married, Lin Qing had been cooking. When he went to the kitchen, his face suddenly darkened and his eyes twitched.
No one has been at home these days, and there is no food left at home.
Just at this time, the adjutant called and spoke in a very cautious tone: "Commander, those people confessed. The Liang family has indeed conducted a lot of transactions on the black market in recent years. They gave us clues, and we will be able to reveal all those things in the next few days."
"Okay." Mu Li tightened his fingers around the refrigerator door, and his dark eyes lit up instantly. "Find out everything. Remember, don't give the Liang family a chance to turn things around."
"Yes." The adjutant thought about what happened last night and the recent news, and hesitated, "My lady..."
Mu Li was looking at the empty refrigerator in frustration. Hearing this, he interrupted coldly, "When did you become so nosy?"
Oh, I stepped on a bomb again.
The adjutant waited tactfully for the other party to hang up the phone, but heard Mu Li pause for two seconds and then spoke again: "Go to Chuanxiang Pavilion to buy some vegetables. I want to see you in half an hour."
half an hour
The adjutant hung up the phone before he could react. He just felt the cold wind raging. It was so cold even before winter came. His heart sank.
Mu Li looked at the empty refrigerator, rubbed his temples, and slammed the door shut.
"What's wrong? Aren't you going to cook?" Lin Qing's voice came from behind. She had been standing there since some time ago.
Mu Li's face darkened and he turned around to see her standing in front of him weakly. The light-colored nightgown she was wearing almost covered her ankles, making her look even thinner.
Lin Qing looked listless, but her face was not that pale. It seemed that she was really hungry. She almost didn't even notice the hunger.
"Who told you to come out?" Mu Li stepped forward and pressed her into his arms, taking her back to the room without any explanation. I don't know how long she has been standing here. Is she strong enough to come down from upstairs
Lin Qing struggled to get free but didn't want to go back to her room. Seeing that Mu Li had no intention of letting go, she pointed to the living room and said, "I want to sit on the sofa for a while."
Mu Li paused with his hand around her waist, tightened it slightly, and looked down at her: "You have never been obedient."
Lin Qing bit her lip and said nothing. In fact, when it came to being obedient, Lin Qing felt that she was doing quite well, except that she would occasionally make him angry.
Mu Li hugged her to the living room and sat down on the sofa. Lin Qing's nightgown was not thick. The window of the living room was open and the temperature was not high. She sneezed not long after she sat down.
"Mu Li, I'm a little cold." Lin Qing knew that he would not let her move, so she looked at the window over there, "The wind is so strong."
The cold wind blew in, and the curtains fluttered in the wind, rising and falling occasionally.
Mu Li held her little hand, frowning: "You still feel cold?"
Lin Qing sniffed. She was cold and hungry. She spoke even more quietly without looking at Mu Li: "I know."
Mu Li almost threw her back into the room.
Mu Li grabbed the coat thrown on the sofa and draped it over Lin Qing's shoulders. He stood up to close the window, walked to the window and overlooked the city, feeling an indescribable sense of security.
Maybe it’s just because Lin Qing is here.
Seeing that he closed the window but did not come back, Lin Qing stared at his back for a long time. After a long time, she retracted her gaze and lowered her head to fiddle with the sleeves of the clothes draped over her shoulders.
As soon as she held it in her hand, she smelled a fishy smell.
Lin Qing suddenly looked up. She knew what the smell was. She pulled her clothes off her shoulders and held them in front of her, looking for bloodstains bit by bit.
Mu Li's suit was very dark in color, so it was not easy to spot the bloodstain, but Lin Qing still found it on the back shoulder.
Lin Qing's delicate body trembled and she almost dropped her clothes to the ground. She tightly grasped the place where she was cut by the knife and felt that the blood in her body was flowing backwards.
Thinking of his reaction when she touched Mu Li's shoulder in the room just now, Lin Qing almost trembled and asked, "Mu Li?"
Mu Li withdrew his gaze, put his hands in his trouser pockets, turned around, and saw the woman's red eyes at a glance.
"Why are you crying?" Mu Li frowned, walked back to the sofa in three or two steps, and lowered his head to see where Lin Qing's hands were clenched.
He was so busy finding clothes for her to put on that he forgot that these were the clothes she wore last night.
Mu Li took the clothes from her hand, threw them on the other side of the sofa, and raised his eyebrows: "It's nothing, don't worry about it."
"I didn't cry." Lin Qing replied a little slowly without asking any more questions. When Mu Li sat down, he suddenly turned around and pulled his shirt.
Mu Li didn't expect her to do this. Just when he was about to cover his chest with the buttons, they were torn open. Lin Qing didn't know where she got the strength from, but she managed to tear off half of his shirt, revealing his injured shoulder.
Lin Qing took a breath, and his fingertips trembled slightly.
The wound looked horrific because it was not treated seriously.
Lin Qing's head exploded with a bang. Was this the injury he suffered when he rescued her yesterday
She thought of the man who took her away from the ninth floor yesterday, but she couldn't remember his face: "Was it that man from yesterday?"
Mu Li did not answer, but held her with his backhand, leaning closer with his handsome face: "What do you want to do by taking off my clothes so anxiously?"
Lin Qing pushed his face away, his mind full of the wound on his shoulder: "I don't want to do anything, turn around."
Mu Li actually turned around.
Lin Qing went to find the medicine box, which still contained the medicine that Mu Li bought for her wound last time. Lin Qing bit her lip tightly. She seldom came into contact with these things, so she just disinfected and bandaged him based on the steps she remembered.
When the treatment was almost finished, Lin Qing frowned and said, "No, you still have to go to the hospital for treatment. I am too unprofessional."
Her hands are still shaking, and just looking at the wound on her heart causes her to feel a sharp pain.
This injury was nothing to Mu Li. Before he could even open his mouth, he felt cold and soft fingers covering his shoulder.
Lin Qing held his shoulder and carefully avoided the wound. Her nose was soaked with tiny beads of sweat because of her anxiety. Her voice was very nasal, as if she had been enduring for a long time before she said: "Mu Li, can we still be together?"
She didn't want to think about it, but she would have to face it sooner or later.
She couldn't bear to see Mu Li's injuries. Was she a trouble to him