Chapter 358: Chapter 358: She has been taking care of him until now without taking a sip of water, she is dying of thirst.
Li Buyan’s cheek hurt a bit.
Although she couldn’t clearly see Li Xingle’s expression, she seemed to feel the hostility coming from him.
Why was he angry at her because of his own issues?
If she had known this bastard would be like this, she wouldn’t have bothered with him!
She had been taking care of him all this time without drinking a sip of water. She was so thirsty.
"Can you let go of my face?" Li Buyan’s mouth hurt when she spoke.
Li Xingle was too forceful.
He suddenly withdrew his hand, motioning hesitantly and getting up from her in a panic. His body swayed and he leaned against the nearby swing, gripping the rope adorned with green branches tightly with his right hand.
Li Xingle was panting heavily.
What was he just doing?
Li Buyan quickly got up. Seeing that he had been silent for a long time, she didn’t bother further. She wasn’t really interested in listening anyway.
Light footsteps slowly walked away.
Li Xingle’s tense body completely relaxed and collapsed.
Back in her room, Li Buyan raised her arm, and the strong smell of alcohol hit her.
She collapsed on the bed, trying to sleep but never able to. She tossed and turned, maybe because she was too thirsty.
She carefully left the room again. She hadn’t drunk any water yet, but her gaze involuntarily turned to where Li Xingle had been.
There he lay on the floor with his upper body bare, snoring lightly.
Li Buyan stood there for more than a minute before turning back inside, returning with a thick blanket which she gently draped over him.
She and Tang Suiyu were always the ones being taken care of, never having taken care of others.
"Lucky you, tonight I’ll let it slide since you got drunk," Li Buyan murmured as she tucked the blanket around him.
A flash of lightning lit up Li Xingle’s flushed cheeks, revealing the tear mole at the corner of his eye. It was really beautiful, beautiful enough to take one’s breath away, beautiful enough to cause heartache.
Others might never know that the president of the Xingshen Group, Li Xingle, appeared so glamorous on the outside but had such a tragic childhood.
He was so strong; all those past events were behind him now.
Carefully, Li Buyan got up, drank half a glass of water amid Li Xingle’s soft snores, and then turned to go back to her room.
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When Li Buyan woke up the next day, Ye Gushen and Tang Suiyu were sitting at the dining table.
She instinctively glanced at the floor-to-ceiling window, but there was no sign of Li Xingle. The blanket was neatly folded and placed on a nearby sofa.
"Did he leave so early?" Li Buyan sat down and asked casually.
"I don’t know! When Uncle Ye and I got up, he was already gone. But..." Tang Suiyu gripped the knife and fork, her lovely brown eyes staring intently at them, "Li Xingle drank again last night and vomited everywhere, didn’t clean up! In the end, Uncle Ye..."
She felt bad for her husband!
"Let him clean up next time!" Li Buyan said with a smile.
"Forget it, will there be a next time? I don’t know what he was thinking last night, next time he can get drunk at his own place!" Tang Suiyu was quite anxious now.
The press conference!
She had never attended one and would face many media outlets.
Ye Gushen noticed her look. "What’s wrong?"
"Nothing!" She turned away, fiercely poking the fried egg on the white plate, cutting forcefully.
Ye Gushen stared at her actions. "Can’t cut it?"
"Of course I can! If I couldn’t cut this, what use would I have?"
"You can still..." Ye Gushen paused, "Warm the bed."