"I wasn't talking about you," he explained. What was he explaining for? Yun Shunnian was clearly making excuses to leave him.
Why should he explain himself? They were going to divorce sooner or later anyway.
Yun Shunnian's movements paused. She turned her head, her crescent eyes filling with tears again. "Then why did you tell me to let go just now? You were angry with me! Mu Qi, you were angry with me, and you didn't call me 'baby.' Do you know how fierce you sound when you call me by my full name?"
Yun Shunnian pouted. The moment she started crying, Mu Qi began to panic again. In his haste, he forgot to consider whether Yun Shunnian was doing it intentionally or if she was truly upset, and instinctively tried to explain.
"I wasn't angry with you. I told you to let go because I was worried she was too close to you and might hurt you."
As for why he hadn't used the word "baby," it was because Mu Qi couldn't see through what Yun Shunnian was thinking now, or rather, Mu Qi found it difficult to believe in that overly beautiful possibility.
Because the more beautiful a dream is, the more painful it is when it shatters.
And Mu Qi had long lost the ability to trust Yun Shunnian due to her repeated lies.
Yet, Mu Qi desperately craved Yun Shunnian's response.
This was why Mu Qi oscillated between trusting and not trusting Yun Shunnian.
"But you still haven't called me 'baby'."
Yun Shunnian heard this, her crying gradually subsided, but she still pouted with dissatisfaction.
After the nightmare of her past life, how could Yun Shunnian still be as kind and easily bullied as she was before? Yet, in front of Mu Qi, Yun Shunnian always involuntarily turned into a little girl who cried and fussed.
This was simply because he was Mu Qi, the Mu Qi who would indulge Yun Shunnian no matter what she was like.
And Yun Shunnian, in this way, was constantly trying to confirm whether her position in Mu Qi's heart had changed, and Yun Shunnian was also anxious.
To the current Yun Shunnian, everything about Mu Qi was so perfect.
In this relationship, Yun Shunnian was also the one who wanted to try her best to hold onto Mu Qi.
"Mu Qi, you can't say it anymore?"
"Are you disgusted?"
"You don't want me anymore."
Yun Shunnian asked three questions in a row, and Mu Qi only needed two words to answer them all.
"Baby." Mu Qi looked at Yun Shunnian's teary crescent eyes and forgot all pretense, calling out the two words with extreme doting.
"Hug me." Yun Shunnian opened her arms to Mu Qi. The willful Yun Shunnian would also act spoiled with Mu Qi.
And Mu Qi would naturally cooperate.
But just as Mu Qi approached, Yun Shunnian suddenly took a step back.
Mu Qi's heart grew cold again.
However, the warmth that suddenly came from her hand immediately warmed Mu Qi's heart.
"Mu Qi, I'll change your dressing first." Yun Shunnian's gaze fell on Mu Qi's chest, remembering that Mu Qi hadn't changed his dressing yet. Yun Shunnian immediately took Mu Qi toward the hospital bed.
Mu Qi looked at Yun Shunnian's profile and felt that she didn't want him to disappear. These days, she always gave him this illusion, making him unable to resist lingering.
Mu Qi worried that if this continued, he would truly not want to disappear, and would not want to leave Yun Shunnian anymore.
At this moment, Yun Shunnian's mind was entirely focused on Mu Qi's wound.
Yun Shunnian had Mu Qi lie down on the bed, then skillfully untied his bandages, picked up the medicine left by the nurse on the table, and began to change Mu Qi's dressing.
The series of actions were smooth and fluid.
"How do you know how to do this?" Suddenly, Mu Qi's voice came. Yun Shunnian's movements paused, and then she continued with her task.
"I know how to do many things. You can discover them slowly after you recover."
Slowly discover? Would there ever be such a day?
Mu Qi didn't press further but silently noted it down.
*Bang bang.*
After Yun Shunnian finished changing Mu Qi's dressing, Diao Guan returned with food.
It wasn't out of consideration for Mu Qi, it was just... just...
Alright, Diao Guan admitted that he was worried Mu Qi would hold a grudge, so he bought another portion for Yun Shunnian.
After all, if nothing else, Mu Qi would remember everything related to Yun Shunnian very clearly.
"Yours." Diao Guan nodded at Yun Shunnian and placed the packed breakfast on the table.
Yun Shunnian looked at Diao Guan with surprise, then opened the outer packaging.
"Little Diao, not bad. You even know how to bring things back." Yun Shunnian looked at the box full of seafood dumplings and glanced at Diao Guan with relief.
"Yun Shunnian, if you don't know how to speak, don't speak. Believe it or not, I'll let you die next time you're sick!" Diao Guan gritted his back molars.
This was the first time someone had dared to make fun of his majestic name.
However, the fact was that if there was a first time, there would be countless times.
Yun Shunnian scorned in her heart, and holding the dumplings, she deliberately moved closer to Mu Qi.
Then she raised her eyebrows at Diao Guan, "Do you dare?"
Diao Guan was speechless.
He feared nothing, but he truly didn't dare to do this.
After all, there was someone by Yun Shunnian's side who would risk their life for her.
However, if it weren't for Mu Qi, Diao Guan wouldn't have met Yun Shunnian.
Diao Guan sighed silently in his heart, then quietly walked towards the door.
He shouldn't have come back. How could he compete with this combination of a tyrant and a temptress?
At this moment, Mu Qi watched Yun Shunnian's triumphant smile and rubbed his index finger and thumb together forcefully.
Baby seemed to get along well with Diao Guan too. Perhaps as long as she wasn't around him, Yun Shunnian would be happier than when she was with him.
Mu Qi's lips tightened. His already slightly pale lips were now even paler.
Yun Shunnian inadvertently saw Mu Qi like this and was startled.
"Mu Qi, what's wrong? Are you not feeling well?"
Yun Shunnian was now facing away from the sunlight, and couldn't clearly see where Mu Qi's gaze was directed.
Thinking Mu Qi wanted to eat dumplings, she took a step back.
"Mu Qi, you can't eat dumplings. You're currently..."
Mu Qi didn't wait for Yun Shunnian to finish before turning away.
"When you're better, you can eat them."
Yun Shunnian thought Mu Qi wanted to sleep, so she quietly took the food box and went out.
If Yun Shunnian had turned back at this moment, she would have seen Mu Qi's tightly clenched hands and the hope gradually disappearing from his eyes.
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"Mr. Mu, Mr. Mu?" Assistant Li waved his hand in front of Mu Qi.
However, his phoenix eyes remained vacant, as if still lost in his own world.
At this moment, Yun Shunnian, holding fresh flowers, walked in from outside the door and saw this scene.
The roses in Yun Shunnian's hand were clenched tightly. Yun Shunnian disliked seeing Mu Qi like this, as if he might leave and disappear at any moment.
Yun Shunnian quickened her pace, placed the roses into Mu Qi's arms, leaned close to him, and nuzzled him.
Using the touch of skin against skin, she made herself feel Mu Qi's presence, thus calming her heart.