Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jiang Sui said, “Wait for me a moment.” She ran into the kitchen, took out the custard buns she had made in the evening and heated them up.
There were only two custard buns left, shaped like little pigs. She had planned to have them as a midnight snack, but Chi Yan had come home. The small custard buns smelled very fragrant after being heated. Jiang Sui took them out, just as Chi Yan opened his iPad on the sofa to send an email.
Seeing her come out, Chi Yan looked up at her.
He hadn’t been home for a long time, and the relationship between the two was very awkward. If Duan Ling hadn’t been causing trouble, Chi Yan hadn’t been planning to come back today as well. He had expected to see a pair of eyes that rejected and hated him, but he didn’t expect her smile to be obedient and gentle.
Jiang Sui blinked: “I made it before, do you want to try it?”
Chi Yan said, “Okay.” He picked up the custard bun and tasted one. It had just the right amount of sweetness and the aroma of milk spread in his mouth.
Jiang Sui asked him, “Is it delicious?”
Chi Yan said indifferently: “Not bad.”
Jiang Sui saw that he really didn’t look particularly fond of it, but he finished both of them. Because of the dream some time ago, Jiang Sui always had a strange feeling towards him. She actually hated Chi Yiming’s “brother” as his “girlfriend”.
But the way “brother” looked now, it seemed that he had some thoughts about her.
Seeing her looking at him eagerly, Chi Yan paused and asked, “Is there anything else?”
Jiang Sui did have something to do. She took out a bank card from her room and gave it to Chi Yan: “Now, that you are home, we can talk it over.” She touched her hot cheeks, “I always feel that you’re not that kind of person. I won’t use your money. I brought all the passbooks and bank cards from home, as well as the property certificate. If you need anything else, I’ll try my best to provide it, and I can also write an IOU. If you need my cooperation, you can tell me.”
Chi Yan: “Do you regret it?”
“No.” Jiang Sui whispered, “I don’t think you have that kind of intention towards me.”
Chi Yan looked at her: “How did you know that?”
“You haven’t been home yet.” She mustered up the courage to say that Chi Yan didn’t seem like the kind of person who needed her to do those things.
Chi Yan closed the iPad and glanced at her: “I will come back later.”
Jiang Sui was dumbfounded. No, that’s not what she meant.
Chi Yan’s mouth still had the sweet taste of the custard buns. Seeing her like this, he knew she really didn’t mean it. It was probably just a joke in her eyes. Chi Yan said calmly, “I do need your help with something. So, you have to stay here. I won’t force you to do anything, nor will it hinder your marriage in the future. It will take at most two years. After two years, you can go wherever you want.”
Jiang Sui gave a sweet smile: “Okay.” She felt relieved when the deal was made so clear.
Chi Yan was tired after a day of work and planned to take a shower and go to bed. It was windy outside in July and it was expected to rain heavily at night.
Chi Yan took a bath towel from the room and passed by the balcony. A drop of water blown in by the wind fell on the top of his head, and the coldness penetrated into his scalp. He frowned and looked up, and saw the wet cloth which was blown up by the wind outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
Jiang Sui had just collected her bank card as she looked in the direction Chi Yan was looking. Her face suddenly turned red.
Before, Chi Yan’s house was so deserted that it looked like no one lived there. He had hired a part-time worker to clean it regularly. But after Jiang Sui moved in, Chi Yan was afraid that she would not be able to adapt, so he temporarily stopped the part-time worker.
Jiang Sui was self-sufficient and felt much more relaxed.
After she finished her meal and took a shower, she hummed a song while washing her clothes. But she always had the good habit of washing her underwear by hand, and the only thing that was still dripping with water was her light blue underwear.
After all, clothes absorbed water, and it was impossible to wring it out manually in a short time. Her panties were also swaying in the wind.
The air was eerily silent for a moment, and the only sound that could be heard was the whistling wind outside the window.
The summer wind was not cool, it brought the summer heat and stuffiness which spread out before the rain came.
Jiang Sui buried her head in the sofa.
Chi Yan paused, and several more drops of water fell into the roots of his hair. He passed by the French window and seemed to smell the fragrance of roses in the garden. Chi Yan pursed his lips and walked into the bathroom.
As soon as he walked into the bathroom, Jiang Sui jumped up, ran to the balcony, and used the clothes rail to take down her bra and panties.
Jiang Sui really couldn’t find anywhere to hide them, so she could only take them all back to her room, open the window, and prop them up to dry.
Chi Yan took off her clothes and saw a bunch of bottles and jars in the bathroom, including facial cleansers and toners for girls, as well as the shower gel and shampoo she bought herself.
He closed his eyes but did not enter the bathtub. He stood under the shower and turned the shower head to the right side which showed the blue color.
The cold water fell, finally diluting the feeling of his hair roots being wet by the water.
He told himself that he didn’t miss her that much.
Men washed their hair and took a shower very quickly. When Chi Yan came out, he subconsciously glanced at the place where Jiang Sui had hung her clothes.
Gone.
….
In the middle of the night, it really started raining.
Shui Yang called in the middle of the night, his tone anxious: “Boss, something happened to Li Qingyun.”
Chi Yan buttoned his shirt and asked calmly, “What happened? Tell me slowly.”
Shui Yang was comforted by the calmness in his words. After sorting out his thoughts, he said, “Among the batch of pearls that Li Qingyun helped us make before, there was a batch of 19mm gold pearls. The samples had been made, but they are all gone.” Shui Yang said with difficulty, “And the ‘queen’ was also in the samples and disappeared together.”
Chi Yan asked, “What else?”
If it was just a loss of several million dollars, Shui Yang wouldn’t have acted like the sky was falling.
As expected, Shui Yang said dejectedly: “Li Qingyun was so anxious that he had a heart attack and is now in the hospital for emergency treatment.” Li Qingyun was an old jeweler with whom they had agreed to cooperate before, and he was a very capable person.
A string of pearls was not a serious problem for Chi Yan and his friends. After all, if something was gone, they could still cultivate it. In this world, anything that could be solved with money was not a problem, but Li Qingyun was already old. If his body collapsed after such a stimulus, things would become very difficult.
Shui Yang muttered, “Boss, you said that Li Qingyun was a man who had seen the world when he was young, so why did he become ill directly after losing several million when he was old?”
Chi Yan frowned and said, “Let’s go to the hospital first and save the person.”
With such a big thing happening, Chi Yan naturally couldn’t sleep anymore.
When he started the car, he saw a window open and the girl leaned her head out of the window to look at him with sleepy eyes.
“Chi Yan.” She was a little nervous. “What happened?”
For Jiang Sui, she could not sleep well after Jiang Shuisheng fell ill. Sometimes in her nightmares, Jiang Shuisheng’s illness suddenly got worse without her knowing it.
Chi Yan rolled down the car window. Under the streetlight, the man’s face was red in several spots, which did not look like mosquito bites. Jiang Sui looked at him in doubt: “Are you allergic to something?”
Chi Yan said: “It’s okay, you go to sleep.”
After he said that, he started the car and drove away.
When Chi Yan rushed to the hospital, he happened to meet Shui Yang who was depressed and anxious. This batch of goods was not Yue San’s, but Chi Yan’s own things. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was one of his capitals for starting a business independently. What’s more, the person lying in the hospital was a core figure in their network of relationships.
Chi Yan walked quickly: “What’s going on?”
Shui Yang: “Still trying to save him… Hey, boss, what happened to your face?”
Chi Yan said calmly: “Allergy.”
Shui Yang frowned: “You drank milk again?” Shui Yang remembered Chi Yan’s allergy to milk very clearly, but it was not a particularly good memory. When Chi Yan first went to Hengxia Island, he went out to sea once and encountered a storm. He almost died then. Chi Yan and Dai Youwei were locked up at the bottom floor and survived for three days by relying on a few expired boxes of milk in the corner.
When Shui Yang saw him at that time, he thought it was a swollen corpse. The horror of his whole body being red and swollen still made Shui Yang feel scared.
The incident left such a deep impression on Shui Yang that he always remembered that Chi Yan couldn’t drink milk. Seeing that Chi Yan didn’t want to say more, he felt puzzled. After that incident, Chi Yan didn’t want to touch anything with a milky taste, so why did it end up like this?
The two men waited outside for a while and the operation was finally completed.
Fortunately, the doctor said it was not serious and the patient was saved.
Shui Yang said quickly: “Boss, you should take some anti-allergic medicine. I guess this matter is not over yet. We have to find out what’s going on tomorrow.”
Chi Yan said: “No, I’ll take a nap.”
There had been too much going on these past few days, and he was exhausted. He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.
It was almost dawn by then.
They stayed up for the rest of the night.
Before the sun came out, Shui Yang received a call from Jiang Sui.
Jiang Sui was very worried: “Did something serious happen?”
Shui Yang saw Chi Yan had his eyes closed, his breathing was slightly heavy, and his skin was swollen. He thought for a while, then smiled and said, “Nothing, what did Boss eat last night?”
Jiang Sui said anxiously, “I gave him two custard buns.”
Shui Yang sighed inwardly.
Jiang Sui asked, “Is he allergic?”
Shui Yang glanced at his boss who had fallen asleep without saying anything, and said with a smile, “That’s not the case.”
Some men were willing to carry the burden on their own even if the sky fell.
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