He Cannot Marry You

After she said her piece, she quietly crept in. The lights were not turned on and so, she could only use the moonlight from the window to guide her to the bed.

She sat down at the bedside and listened to her son's gentle and orderly breathing and felt very satisfied. She had been missing him for five days and she finally could express it out.

Actually, she could only endure it for a few days. If she could not see her Dabai for another day, she might actually go crazy.

She carefully touched her son's forehead before realizing that it was not very hot and heaved a long sigh of relief. Doctor Fu's skills had always been good, so treating a small cold should definitely not be a problem for him.

Xia Xingchen hugged Dabai for a while. She then exited the room and went to her own to take a bath.

It had been days since she left and yet the maids tidied up her room very well. It was very clean and neat. As she cleaned herself in the bathtub, she suddenly remembered Bai Yeqing's injuries.

When she carried her on his shoulders earlier on, she was in a fit of rage. His wounds were still in the process of slow healing, but with her sudden forceful punches and kicks on his chest, she feared she might have made it worsen.

…

On this side.

Bai Yeqing was standing in front of the full-length mirror and when he took off his blouse, he could not help but furrow his eyebrows.

Indeed, there were bloodstains on his blouse.

He turned to his side to look at his back. He could only catch a glimpse of his wounds, which had then healed a little, open up with blood seeping out. The woman's punches were too harsh!

It was already so late and the wounds on his back were indeed not easy to handle.

Bai Yeqing had no other choice but to settle it himself. He took out a pair of scissors and bandages from his drawer. Just when he was about to bandage his wound, he heard someone knocking on his door.

"Who is it?"

"…Me." Xia Xingchen's voice could be heard from outside the door. Compared to when she was screaming and shouting at Chi Weiyang's place, her voice right now was unbelievably gentle and soft.

When it came to her, he did not have to hide his wounds from her.

Xia Xingchen waited at the door and once it was pulled open, the man's upright and muscular upper body entered her line of sight without a warning. She breathed harder and did not know where she should look.

Although she had taken care of him before, helped him clean his body, and had seen everything she should or should not have seen, it was still…

After the incident in which he had taken advantage of her, how could she still dare to look at him?

"It's already so late and you still dare to come. Aren't you afraid that I would do something to you?" Bai Yeqing narrowed his eyes and looked at her from head to toe. He did not ignore the discomfort in her facial expression.

This made Xia Xingchen feel even more pressured.

"Don't talk nonsense… I… I am here to ask you for money."

An inspiration suddenly hit her which made her come up with a righteous reason. Upon mentioning that, she suddenly became very confident. Her back was upright as she reached her hand towards him. "Give me my money."

"What money?" He looked down at her pinkish palm.

"Have you forgotten what you said on the last day of me taking care of you? You said that you would ask Leng Fei to pay me. These few days, both of us were busy so it got delayed. Now that I remembered it, you could give it to me first in case we forgot again."

This woman actually listened to his words which he had uttered in a fit of anger!

Bai Yeqing glared at her. "Come in with me!"

He turned around and walked inside.

It was only then that Xia Xingchen saw the wound on his back.

He had a perfect body proportion with no single fat anywhere. He was the perfect example of the body type where he would look sleek and slender with his clothes on, but look muscular with clothes off. With his upper body naked, she could see his sexy abs—ones that could make one squeal in excitement.

It was just that…

His back was filled with wounds now.

Luckily, this did not affect anything and only made him look even more manly.

"How much do you want?" Bai Yeqing took out a checkbook. For a woman who dared to blatantly come and ask him for money, this woman was a first.

Xia Xingchen kept staring at his back and was not able to hear him. He caught her staring in a daze at his body. He narrowed his eyes. "Does it look that nice?"

"Huh?" She snapped back to his senses and seemed to have realized something. She quickly looked away, and she explained, "Don't misunderstand. I am just looking at the wounds on your body."

"All thanks to you."

Xia Xingchen made a silent complaint in her heart. Who told him to shout at her and even carry her?

"Sit down, I will help you bandage your wounds."

"Didn't you already regret taking care of me back then?"

Xia Xingchen fell into melancholy. Why must he always use her words to piss her off?

Although he gave his utmost best to piss her off, Bai Yeqing still sat down and proceeded to point at the bandage and medicine. Until now, he was still worried about his wounds. What more with the thought of having to bandage his wounds alone? It was surely not an easy task.

She did not say anything and carefully helped him bandage his injuries with her skillful hands.

"How did you and Yu Zenan meet?" Bai Yeqing suddenly spoke.

"Huh?"

"Stay away from him!" This was not a negotiation. His tone sounded as if he was not giving her any room for negotiation.

"Why?"

"There is no why. People from the Yu Family are not one to be trifled with."

Xia Xingchen pouted. "He doesn't seem bad. Besides, even if he was not one to be trifled with, he was still more reliable than you…"

She said the last sentence very softly and Bai Yeqing could not hear it clearly. He turned around to give her a cold glare. "You better not turn a deaf ear to my words! Even if you want to go on a blind date, you must still see carefully. How could Yu Zenan possibly want to marry you?"

Once he had said his piece, her actions froze.

Her pride was hurt.

It was as if she was lowly. Be it Bai Yeqing or Yu Zenan, she could not even compare herself to them. It was as though if she got close to them, it would seem as if she did not know her place.

In other people's eyes, it was so. In his eyes, it was also so. But if it was somebody else such as Xu Yan who said it, she would not even be this sad…

"Yes, he would not marry me. For people like you who live in a different world from me and are always high up in the air, how could you guys ever like a person who lived at the bottom tier of the society like me?"

Her inferiority and anger could be clearly heard in her tone. This caused Bai Yeqing to furrow his eyebrows and turned his body over to look at her.

She had already finished bandaging his wounds and had put down the remaining bandage and medicine on the table. In a cold tone, she said, "If there's nothing else, I am going to sleep."

After that, she did not stay any longer and stood up to leave.

Looking at her departing figure, Bai Yeqing felt very bipolar and grabbed her hand without a second thought to stop her.

Xia Xingchen did not think that this would happen. She could clearly feel the man's breathing just above her head, and with that, her breathing suddenly became ragged. She nervously raised her head and immediately met his deep eyes. Her heart immediately raced.

The situation started to feel very dangerous and she wanted to take her leave; however, Bai Yeqing wrapped his arm around her waist. He only used a little of his strength, but that was enough to trap her. In his strong arms, her waist seemed incredibly small.

With such a short distance between them and with the flirty ambiance, Xia Xingchen was a little nervous. She wanted to say something but her mouth was already so parched that she could not utter a single word. As her hand instinctively tried to shake his hand away, the man had held it instead and placed it behind her back.

Both of them had their fingers clasped in each other's grasp.

"Bai… Bai Yeqing…" She wanted to scold him and push him away, but not only did her voice sound weak, but it also completely softened.

Her look right now made his heart flutter.