Chapter 40: Live Streaming Late at Night in a Bathrobe

"I'm alone."

Lu Xining's voice was very soft, but each word landed on Ji Muye's heart as if it weighed a thousand pounds, as if something had viciously gripped his heart.

The man's brows and eyes were sharp as he leaned back in the chair in his study, his long and slender legs stretched out lazily, the top two buttons of his shirt undone.

When she mentioned being alone in the hospital earlier, her voice was more despondent than he had ever heard, a suffocating heat spreading from his chest that made him catch his breath, raising the temperature around him.

Ji Muye held his breath and asked her, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Xining bitter-smiled, "I called you many times, but you didn't answer."

He asked her, "Are you sick? Why are you hospitalized?"

After a pause, she said, "It's no longer important."

The man was silent for a long time.