“Moreover, if Lu Jinnan has to worry about you and the child, he wouldn’t be able to recuperate properly. After Lu Jinnan recovers, you can go home to your own place!”
In the end, Lin Nuan understood Bai Xiaonian well. The moment she spoke, she got to the main point. With Bai Xiaonian there… Lu Jinnan would indeed be worried, and he wouldn’t be able to recuperate properly.
Lin Nuan and Fu Huai’an had just come out of the ward when they saw Cai Jingyao sitting on the bench, lowering her head and sending messages.
Seeing Lin Nuan and Fu Huai’an, Cai Jingyao quickly got to her feet. She looked so pitiful.
“How is Brother Jinnan?” Cai Jingyao’s eyes were filled with tears, and she looked like she was about to crumble. Never mind men… even Lin Nuan, who was a woman, had to admit how pitiful the woman looked.
Lin Nuan’s lips curled up into a smile, and Cai Jingyao’s tears rolled down her cheeks as if she was frightened. She timidly looked into Lin Nuan’s eyes.
Although Lin Nuan knew that Lu Jinnan had plans for Cai Jingyao, she was still furious about how Cai Jingyao had tried to seduce Lu Jinnan while Bai Xiaonian was pregnant. Now… looking at Cai Jingyao’s attitude, it was obvious that Fu Huai’an was her end goal.
After all, they had given up their pretense in the elevator earlier, so there was no need for Cai Jingyao to act so pitifully in front of Lin Nuan.
Lin Nuan nudged Fu Huai’an with her elbow. “Look, she’s crying for you to see!”
Hearing Lin Nuan’s words, Cai Jingyao retreated two steps as if she was shocked. She looked at Lin Nuan with an aggrieved and pained expression. “Nuan Nuan… I know you blame me for what happened back then, but… we used to be friends!”
“Why is she crying for me to see?” Fu Huai’an lowered his gaze and looked at his little bride, a doting look in his eyes. “What has her tears got to do with me?”
“Don’t you feel pity for her when she cries?” Lin Nuan looked up at her husband, who was holding her hand, with a smile on her lips.
Cai Jingyao was dumbfounded.
They were talking about her in front of her as if she didn’t exist.
Fu Huai’an held Lin Nuan’s petite hand and walked past Cai Jingyao. “Don’t foul the word ‘pity’…”
Cai Jingyao was rendered speechless.
She had just been ignored by Fu Huai’an and Lin Nuan. It aggrieved her, but she didn’t dare to chase after them.
Lin Nuan had a good personality, so she wasn’t worried that Lin Nuan would slap her like a shrew. However, Fu Huai’an was dangerously crafty. He was different from all the men Cai Jingyao had met previously. She didn’t dare to play tricks in front of him.
But other than now, when else would she have the chance to get close to Fu Huai’an?
Even if she couldn’t get nearer to Fu Huai’an this time, she had to leave a vivid impression in front of him so that she, a sad little white flower, would have a chance in the future.
At the thought of this, Cai Jingyao gritted her teeth and charged towards Lin Nuan and Fu Huai’an.
The highly-alert Little Lu heard the sound of footsteps, so he turned around and raised a hand to stop Cai Jingyao. Cai Jingyao displayed her best acting skills and shouted, “Nuan Nuan, I know you’re angry at me. If you’re angry, you can give me two slaps. Don’t ignore me, okay? After returning to the country, I have no other friends other than you and Xiaonian!”
“Miss Cai, don’t flatter yourself!”
Cai Jingyao hadn’t expected that the one who turned around to speak was Fu Huai’an. The corners of his lips curled up slightly, forming a faint smile that made one’s heart beat wildly. “My wife never makes friends with low-level creatures.”
“…”
These two people lived up to their reputation of being alike; and their tongues were equally vicious.
However, Fu Huai’an remained calm and elegant. He held Lin Nuan’s hand and turned to enter the elevator.
When Cai Jingyao saw the teasing smile on Little Lu’s lips, she nearly ground her teeth again. She was so angry that she was trembling.
…
As soon as Lin Nuan and Fu Huai’an left the room, Bai Xiaonian sat down beside Lu Jinnan in his bed. “Let me stay tonight! If I can’t see you… I wouldn’t be able to sleep well tonight!”
If it were in the past, Lu Jinnan would definitely have let Bai Xiaonian stay. But now was a critical period…
“I want you to stay too, but look at the condition I’m in right now. If you stay, I won’t be able to recuperate in peace. I’ll still have to look after you!” Lu Jinnan pinched Bai Xiaonian’s petite hand. “Since that’s the case, why don’t you go back to the Fu residence tonight and stop making me worry? When I’m well again and no longer injured, we’ll go back to our own home, okay?”
Bai Xiaonian pursed her lips and didn’t say a word. Seeing her lowered gaze, Lu Jinnan knew that she was thinking of something.
Lu Jinnan had no choice but to say to Bai Xiaonian, “Xiaonian, Haicheng’s current situation isn’t like the past. I don’t know when a crazy dog like Cai Jingyao will make her move again. Now that you’re pregnant… the one I’m most worried about is you. Only when you’re at the Fu residence will I feel at ease. Don’t let me worry, okay?”
Lu Jinnan spoke very gently. After all, he didn’t tell Bai Xiaonian the truth. He borrowed Cai Jingyao as an excuse to convince Bai Xiaonian to go to the Fu residence obediently.
Outside, because Fu Huai’an was no longer there, Cai Jingyao, who couldn’t enter the ward to see Lu Jinnan, decided to leave the hospital with the thermos in her hand.
Who knew that the moment she stepped toward the exit, she would cross paths with Lu Jinbei, who was there with his father to visit Lu Jinnan. Cai Jingyao halted in her steps to look at Lu Jinbei, who was walking in her direction. Lu Jinbei was supporting his father, whose legs weren’t in good condition. Lu Jinbei was also holding a thermos with one hand.
Lu Jinbei and his father also noticed Cai Jingyao. Lu Jinbei’s gaze only trembled for a moment before he shifted it away from Cai Jingyao…
To be fooled by such a woman was a great humiliation for him.
But after Lu Jinbei spent some time at home with his father, he gradually came to understand…
He didn’t have enough brains in this lifetime and thought too highly of himself!
Actually, ever since they were in university, he already knew what kind of person Cai Jingyao was. However, when Cai Jingyao spoke to him pitifully… about how she’d given him her first time, and that she’d been waiting for him all these years, he felt like he was on cloud nine!
To think that he’d really thought of himself as an extraordinary person. To be wholeheartedly loved by a woman who could easily choose to be with other men!
He was so proud that he didn’t even listen to his older brother, Lu Jinnan, who had been protecting him since he was young.
When Lu Jinnan was talking to him nicely, he felt that Lu Jinnan was just jealous and egoistic.
Now that he’d seen through Cai Jingyao’s true intentions, he realized that he had indeed been such a fool!
Fool him once, shame on her. Fool him twice, shame on him!
Right, he was the ultimate fool!
Cai Jingyao looked pitiful as she stood there, looking lost and helpless.
On the other hand, Lu Jinbei’s father turned to look at Lu Jinbei and asked, “What a coincidence to meet her at the hospital. Xiao Bei, do you want to go and say hello to her?”