chapter 2

The whole farce ended with Zhou Mu getting knocked out and sent to the hospital.

Before I left, he grabbed my hand. In the end, he only called out in a low voice, “Xiao Jin…”

Aunt Song, standing to the side, said she’d explain everything when we got home and told me to go check on Zhou Mu first.

It was already evening.

When I arrived, Zhou Mu’s friend, Cheng Zhi, was standing in front of the ward door.

The moment he saw me, he was about to speak.

But I clamped down hard on his wrist.

He winced and shut his mouth.

The door to the ward was half open.

I heard it.

Inside, a girl’s voice was soft and coquettish:

“Just try a bite, okay? I learned to make this just for you~”

Zhou Mu’s eyes were lowered, his brows faintly drawn as he let out a quiet sigh. “Weiwei, you don’t have to-”

He didn’t finish.

The young girl’s eyes were already brimming with tears.

She looked fragile and pitiable.

Zhou Mu fell silent and obediently swallowed the spoonful of porridge she held up to his lips.

I didn’t miss the flash of pain on his face.

He’d burned his mouth.

Weiwei didn’t look like someone who knew how to take care of people.

With his free hand, Cheng Zhi tugged at the hem of my clothes, his brows and eyes drooping.

I let go of his wrist. The skin over his wrist bone was already flushed red.

“Sorry…”

“It’s fine, Sister-in-law. Uh, she’s Brother Mu’s…”

“I know.”

He froze for a second, wanting to say more.

But the voices inside the ward suddenly grew louder. Chen Wei sounded like she was crying.

“Because I can’t stop worrying about you!”

“You got hurt because of me. Do I not even have the right to care about you?”

“Ah Mu.”

“We clearly, clearly-”

“Love each other so much.”

There was a rustle of fabric from inside, as if Zhou Mu had pulled her into his arms.

Their voices dropped again, soft and intimate, like lovers whispering. “Sister-in-law.”

Cheng Zhi called me again, his voice trembling a little.

“Please don’t cry.”

When my hand touched my cheek, tears were already falling in big, heavy drops.

So humiliating.

I lowered my head, hiding my tear-filled eyes.

“I’m going now.”