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The day after Ye Qingming and Lin Manshou's honeymoon, Ye Qingming quickly returned to work. When he arrived at the office early in the morning, he suddenly saw Xiao Chuxin there.

He was surprised for a moment and then asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Chu smiled to himself and took out an exquisite box from his bag and placed it on Ye Qingming's desk. "Chief Ye, Chief Zhao is waiting for you at the office. He wants you to come over right now."

Her voice was both charming and soft, and when it slowly entered Ye Qingming's ears, it was like a tiny bug, making his heart itch.

However, Ye Qingming suddenly felt impatient. He returned the box to Xiao Chuxin and said, "You can leave first. I'll go find Director Zhao myself later."

Xiao Chu did not mind Ye Qingming's attitude at all. She put the box on Ye Qingming's desk instead.

"There's a lot of surgery going on today, and since it's your first day at work, it's inevitable that you won't have time to eat lunch. Just treat it as thinking for the sake of the patient, so you shouldn't reject me!"

"Alright, then I'll accept it. You can leave first." Ye Qingming's face turned even uglier.

As for what kind of person Xiao Chuxin was, she naturally knew how to stop when she saw the good news, in case the both of them were unhappy.

Ye Qingming changed into a white coat and glanced at the box. Then, he casually threw it into the drawer under the chair.

Then he went to Director Zhao's office. The moment he sat down, he saw Xiao Chuxin gently placing a cup of coffee in front of him with a smile on her face.

Ye Qingming was already unhappy. He looked left and right to see that Director Zhao had not arrived yet, so he tried his best to hold back his impatience and said, "We are all colleagues, so I advise you not to go overboard."

Hearing this, Xiao Chu's eyes turned red and within a few seconds, a few tears began falling down.

Ye Qingming hated women crying for no reason the most, so he could not stand it any longer. He stood up and was about to leave, but he did not expect Chief Zhao to rush in.

Seeing Ye Qingming, Director Zhao immediately said to him, "You came today just in time. We have a quota for a seminar in Chongqing last week, so I think we should keep this quota for you. After all, it's related to surgery."

Ye Qingming nodded. He seemed to have forgotten the earlier conflict between him and Xiao Chuxin as he quickly threw himself into his work.

Xiao Chuxin left from Director Zhao's office. She hid behind the door in a corner and excitedly sent a message to Quan Wei: "Everything is done!"

At this time, Quan Wei had just woken up. She drowsily saw Xiao Chuxin's information and could not help but sneer, "Lin Qingrou, what I can't get, you can't either!"

"Archie!"

Lin Qingrou couldn't help but sneeze. She rubbed her nose and said to Liu Yuxi, "When you were learning to drive, were you scared?"

Liu Yuxi pulled out a tissue and handed it to her, smiling, "Why are you so nervous? At most, just slow down a bit."

Lin Qingrou shook her head, "But I still feel scared. I feel like I can't stop once I drive."

"Can't stop? "Then you have a big problem with this. To be honest, why did you suddenly remember to learn how to drive? Ye Qingming tried to persuade you not to learn anything."

"I don't have a reason. I just think it's better to learn a little. What if one day I can use it!"

The two chatted for a while, before Liu Yuxi explained in detail what he needed to pay attention to when driving.

"What happened to you?" Liu Yuxi asked inadvertently.

Lin Manshou was stunned for a moment. She said embarrassedly, "I still say that, because I forgot to brake."

Liu Yuxi couldn't help but laugh. She had to endure for a long time before she could finally switch to the front passenger seat. After fastening her seat belt, she accompanied Lin Qingrou as they practiced on the wide and deserted road for two hours.

In the end, Lin Manrou pulled the hand brake and sat down in the car. She felt pain in her legs and complained, "This is the first time I've found out that driving is also a manual labor."

"That's because you're too nervous. Don't worry, I'll guarantee you that you'll be able to smoothly travel in a week. You'll be able to cross S City in half a month's time."

"Keep bragging!"

The two of them drove back to the city center, where Lin Qingrou pointed at an intersection and said, "I'll get off there. I need to buy groceries later."

Liu Yuxi said in surprise, "Buying vegetables! Do you cook? "

Lin Qingrou nodded.

"Heavens! How rare! You actually gave Ye Qingming food! Even I didn't get such treatment!"

"Ye Qingming is on a business trip next week. Do you want to try out the 'Man-Han Banquet' I made for you?"

Liu Yuxi laughed out loud, "It's fine if you're all here, but if you don't want to come over, you can go over to your place."

Lin Manrou made an appointment with her, and then went to the supermarket by herself.

Lin Man and Liu Yuxi were two completely different girls. Even though Lin Qingrou looked weak and docile, she had a stubborn, fearless side to her. As for Liu Yuxi, he appeared to be impatient and impulsive, but he was actually a sensitive and weak person.

After Lin Qingrou returned home from the supermarket, she began to prepare dinner. She searched through the menu for a while, then searched through many materials before finally making three dishes and a soup. Although this was her first time cooking, it looked quite decent in the end. She looked at the delicious food on the table and returned to the living room with satisfaction, quietly waiting for Ye Qingming to come back.

At first, Lin Qingrou thought Ye Qingming had gotten stuck because of the hospital incident, but after a while, she looked out the window and saw that the sky was getting darker. The minute hand kept spinning again and again until she didn't see him again until nine in the evening. Her mind was in a mess. Then, she became a little anxious and picked up her phone to call him.

The first time, no one answered.

The second time, he was in the middle of a call.

The third time, he might as well shut down his phone.

Lin Manchu was upset, because this had never happened before. Ye Qingming wasn't the type of person who didn't know how to act. He should know that he was worried.

However, just as she was feeling extremely anxious, her phone suddenly rang. She took a look and sure enough, it was Ye Qingming.

She quickly picked up the call. Just as she was about to speak, an ambiguous moan came from the other side of the phone. The sounds came from far away, from close by, from soft to heavy. However, Lin Qingrou could hear them clearly. That was Ye Qingming's voice!

She only felt a buzzing sound in her head, as if countless bombs were exploding in front of her, causing her to feel dizzy.

Not long later, the phone suddenly stopped ringing. A busy tone came from the other side of the phone.

Lin Qingrou's hands couldn't help but tremble, but she had to do her best to calm down. She suddenly understood that this was Xiao Chuxin challenging her position. But even though she had thought of countless ways to destroy them, she still hadn't expected that she would use such a direct and despicable method. She instantly became dispirited and could not even clap. If Ye Qingming had not agreed, could Xiao Chuxin have forced him to do so?

Lin Qingrou turned off the phone and all the lights. She lay down on the sofa and stared at the patterns on the ceiling, lost in thought. The night seemed especially dark, and the wind outside the window suddenly became particularly noisy. Several tall tree branches whistled in the wind, as if many terrifying tentacles were reaching out and forcefully slamming into the balcony window. She became more and more sorrowful and tired under the terrifying wind, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

It was not until the morning of the next day when the sky had just begun to brighten when the sound of a lock being unlocked came from outside the door.

Lin Qingrou was taken aback. She instantly regained her senses. She raised her head and saw that it was indeed Ye Qingming.

Lin Qingrou sat up. She was still wearing the same clothes she had worn the day before, not even changing into her pajamas.

Ye Qingming held his coat in his hand. His eyes were glazed and there were two big dark circles under his eyes.

Lin Manrou thought for a moment, then asked, "Why did you come back so late? Where did you go last night?"

Ye Qingming looked at her before lowering his head and saying, "I've always been in the hospital. There was a patient who was in a rather urgent situation, so Dr. Liu and I had to operate temporarily. After that, we stayed in the hospital for the night."

"No need to go into such detail."

Ye Qingming's body stiffened. He then pushed open the door and walked into the study. After that, he didn't come out again for a long time.

Lin Qingrou walked into the kitchen. Looking at the cold dishes and rice on the table, she felt disgusted. She walked up to the trash can and threw the dish and plate into the trash without hesitation.

Ye Qingming came out of the study room. He looked at Lin Qingrou in confusion and asked, "What were you doing just now?"

Lin Qingrou turned her back to him, only to feel Weiwei trembling, her blood boiling in her body. She was hesitating about a showdown with him when his cell phone rang.

Ye Qingming looked at his phone and was shocked. He suddenly felt a bit helpless.

"Who is it? Why aren't you accepting it? " Lin Qingrou suddenly asked.

Ye Qingming subconsciously avoided her eyes. Then, he tremblingly asked, "What is it?"

"Hospital? "Alright, I'll be there shortly."

He picked up his coat and hastily told Lin Manrou, "I'll go to the hospital first to take care of some matters. I'll talk to you about other matters when I get home tonight."

After saying that, Ye Qingming left the house in a hurry, wanting to go to the hospital again.

Lin Qingrou stood alone in the dining hall. She couldn't help but hold onto a corner of the dining table, her heart pounding.

Forget it, she thought. She began to give up on this matter. If Xiao Chuxin truly loved Ye Qingming, she could just return him to Xiao Chuxin after her revenge.

However, reality was not that simple. Lin Qingrou didn't want to make herself feel bad, but there were people who wanted to make her feel bad.

Today, Xiao Chuxin continuously called her countless numbers of phone calls and messages. Even if she wanted to ignore them, she was powerless. In the end, Lin Qingrou impatiently set up her phone to call someone. This way, she could kill two birds with one stone and Xiao Chuxin's phone would be connected to Ye Qingming's phone.

Lin Qingrou spent the entire day in a busy state. She couldn't calm down, and she didn't want to. Because once she relaxed, the voice from last night that she would never forget would instantly ring out in her ears.

And because of this, her bad mood continued until Ye Qingming left work.

Ye Qingming's face was dark. His mood seemed to be extremely low. The two of them did not say a word, only doing their own thing and avoiding each other's appearance as much as possible to prevent embarrassment from occurring.

Before going to bed, Lin Qingrou went to the kitchen to boil some water. She had wanted to take some medicine to help her sleep, but she didn't expect the kettle in her hands to be unsteady. Suddenly, she poured a cup of hot water onto the back of her hand.

"Hiss …" She grimaced in pain, but did not make a sound. The water from the tap gently flowed past where she had been scalded. The heat rapidly faded and the pain was reduced. Not long later, she felt less pain. After cleaning up, Lin Qingrou dragged her tired body back to her bedroom. She looked at the empty bed, then at the closed door of the reading room, and could not help but sneer.

Early in the morning, Ye Qingming finally finished what he needed to do at the hospital. He quietly walked into the study to drink some water, but unexpectedly, he casually knocked off a plastic medicine bottle in the darkness. He turned on the night light and took a closer look, only to realize that the bottle of pills was actually a sleeping pill sold in the hospital.

Ye Qingming's heart sank. He got up and ran into his bedroom a second before his brain could react. Seeing Lin Qingrou lying on the bed with her back facing him, he felt like he was about to collapse. He nervously touched Lin Qingrou's shoulder. Seeing that she didn't react, his whole body seemed to be immersed in a cave of ice. His hands were numb, and his mind kept churning about Lin Manshui's face and what Xiao Chuxin had said to him.

"Pah!" With a sound, the bedside lamp was turned on.

Lin Qingrou sat up. She looked drowsily at Ye Qingming, who was kneeling on the bed, looking at her in terror.

"I was just sleeping when you woke me up." she complained.

Ye Qingming's breath quickened. He grabbed her shoulders and asked anxiously, "Just what did you eat?!" What was that bottle of medicine in the dining room!? "

"It's sleeping pills," she said. "I take one when I can't sleep. It's been a long time."

"Only one?"

"Un, one. Eating too much will result in my death. I'm not stupid."

Ye Qingming let out a sigh of relief. He lay paralyzed at the side, but he was still tightly grasping Lin Qingrou's hand.

This time, Lin Qingrou really couldn't sleep. She leaned against the headboard, leering at Ye Qingming as she asked, "Did it go well for you at work today?"

Ye Qingming raised his eyes to look at her, and said with an unclear meaning, "It was not too bad. It was just that there were a few small episodes in between that I had to resolve."

"Oh?"

Lin Qingrou's interest was piqued. She looked at Ye Qingming gloatingly, "I didn't expect you to cause such a commotion too. I'm curious as to how you resolved it." Did you give her money or someone else? "

Ye Qingming's expression froze on his face. He suddenly felt that it was a bit embarrassing and said in a vague voice, "It's nothing, don't think too much."

With that, he pretended to leave.

Lin Qingrou bit her lips, then sneered at him and said, "It's fine to play outside, but don't let them bother me. Also, don't come back with an illness. "

Her words were very open and not giving any face to Ye Qingming. It even belittled him to the point of being lustful and dispirited.

Ye Qingming had never heard someone say that to him before. He widened his eyes and said to Lin Qingrou, "What do you mean by that!? Am I that unbearable in your heart, such a dirty person!? "

Lin Qingrou raised her head and said sternly, "Isn't that so? If that's not the case, then why did you show me your spoils of war! "

Ye Qingming frowned. He suddenly felt a bit confused.

"What spoils of war?" What are you talking about! "Did Xiao Chu Xin send you some unclear things again?"

"No, she didn't send it over. She gave me a 'live broadcast'."

As she spoke, Lin Qingrou threw her phone in front of Ye Qingming.

"This is the recording of Xiao Chuxin calling me the night you didn't come back. Listen to it."

Ye Qingming knew that he had not done anything shameful, so why should he be afraid of something like this? He put the phone to his ear, but just as the sound rang out, he threw the phone back onto the bed with a whoosh.

"What is this!" He pointed at the phone in panic and asked.

Lin Qingrou was speechless. She didn't want to say anything more to Ye Qingming. She just hoped that he would stop pursuing the matter. Wait a minute. You said it was recorded when you called the night before yesterday? "That's impossible, I was in the ward the night before yesterday, how would I do such a thing!"

Ye Qingming suddenly felt that he was even more wronged than Dou Er.

"You said you were in the hospital, who can prove it? Besides, when you came back the next day, your words were evasive, and you didn't dare to look at me.

"First of all, I must be in the hospital. If you don't believe me, you can go to the surveillance cameras. Second, I didn't dare to tell you the truth because the girl we had surgery on didn't keep her right arm in the end, and I was afraid you'd feel bad about it, so I didn't dare to tell you. "

Lin Qingrou was stunned. She asked in disbelief, "What do you mean? Do you mean to say that she will only have her left hand now? She's only twenty years old! "

Ye Qingming couldn't do anything about it. This kind of thing happened countless times every day in the hospital, from catching cold to breaking limbs being paralyzed or even dying. As doctors, weren't they sad? Of course the answer was yes, but there was nothing they could do. They could only try their best to extricate themselves from their grief so that they could be more calm as they faced their next patient.

Lin Manshou did not understand, "Then can you explain why the voice on the phone sounded so similar to yours?"

Ye Qingming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "To be honest, even I couldn't tell what the voice sounded like. It would be hard for you to record them as evidence. "

"We'll talk about it later." He sat beside Lin Qingrou, "Don't tell me you still can't tell if the voice is real or fake? I'm afraid it was a moment of anxiety, and that's why the anger attacked you. "

Lin Qingrou looked at Ye Qingming doubtfully. Although she believed eighty percent of what he said, she was still a little nervous. She carefully listened to the recording, but her heart couldn't help but waver a little.

However, she still refused to let go. "I don't believe you. I still feel like you're hiding something from me."

Ye Qingming sighed and said helplessly, "I did meet Xiao Chuxin a few times recently, but that was in the hospital. Everyone was there. To be honest, I don't feel anything for her anymore. If I was ever determined to be at peace with her colleagues, I've disliked her ever since she started harassing you for no reason. "

Lin Manshui smiled, but didn't say anything. She simply didn't want to answer. At this moment, although she already believed in him by eighty percent, she could faintly feel that a tiny crack was quietly forming between the two of them as though they were treading on thin ice. If they were slightly careless and used force to destroy it, then they would both fall into the bottomless abyss.

Thus, she knew clearly in her heart that she could not give up on Ye Qingming because he was the most powerful and direct tool for her revenge on the Ye Clan.

"Alright, then I'll believe you this once." Lin Qingrou said gently.

However, there was a hint of truth in his words, perhaps only she herself knew.