Tl: Hua
It was just past 9:30 in the evening. Ye Rongxu had finished washing and massaging his legs and feet and was lying on the bed.
There was still half an hour left before his bedtime. Having just finished reading a novel, he had nothing to do, so he decided to harass Qin Chaoyan and remind him of the benefits of a fake engagement with him.
Originally, he was just trying to disturb him. He was ready for a long-term battle. Unexpectedly, Qin Chaoyan called not long after the message was sent.
Ye Rongxu was a little surprised. He held the phone with his slender white fingers and slowly pressed the answer button. He thought to himself: Could it be that he calls to warn me not to send random messages again, or he’ll block me?
Just when he was thinking this, Qin Chaoyan’s low and hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.
“Ye Rongxu.” The other party’s voice seemed to be filled with dead silence. He said slowly, “I agree.”
Ye Rongxu couldn’t hear him clearly. He coughed and replied reservedly, “Oh, it’s okay if you don’t agree; you can reconsider….”
“I said, I agree.” Qin Chaoyan’s voice came again, accompanied by a few low coughs, and seemed a little weak.
Ye Rongxu was stunned, and then he realized that the other party said he agreed.
He suddenly felt uncomfortable, just like tug-of-war. He was ready to fight hard, but the other party suddenly let go, and he won.
Of course, it can’t be compared like this. After all, he was more than happy that Qin Chaoyan agreed to his proposal.
But the young master didn’t want Qin Chaoyan to notice that he was quite eager, so he said reservedly, “Really? But I’m going to sleep. Why don’t we meet tomorrow and talk…”
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden “dong” sound on the other end of the phone, as if someone fell down.
Ye Rongxu was stunned, and hurriedly clutched the phone hard: “Hello? Qin Chaoyan?”
There was no response on the other end of the phone; only the sound of rain and wind continued to be transmitted.
Ye Rongxu frowned with his delicate eyebrows and thought to himself: What’s the situation? Did the other party suddenly faint?
With this sound of wind and rain, could it be that he fainted on the roadside?
Ye Rongxu hurriedly called out a few more times, but still got no response. After thinking for a while, he immediately called Chen Jiang.
Ye Boxuan was working overtime tonight and was not at home. Grandpa Ye and Grandma Ye went to the hot spring villa two days ago, and now the only person he could find was Chen Jiang.
Chen Jiang lived in the villa and came very quickly. Thanks to his versatility, he quickly determined where Qin Chaoyan was through mobile phone positioning.
Ye Rongxu got in the family’s Maybach and rushed to the scene of the accident with Chen Jiang. They found that Qin Chaoyan had indeed fainted on the roadside.
Maybe the place where he fainted just happened to be more hidden, plus it was raining heavily tonight and there weren’t many pedestrians on the road. After a full twenty minutes had passed, surprisingly, no one had noticed and sent him to the hospital.
Ye Rongxu had no doubt that if he hadn’t come tonight, the other party might have lost half his life.
Chen Jiang frowned deeply when he saw Qin Chaoyan’s wretched state. After carrying him into the car, he asked Ye Rongxu, “Young Master, should we take him to the hospital first?”
Speaking of which, Qin Chaoyan was also unlucky. The place where he fainted was only a few minutes away from the hospital. If he had fainted in a conspicuous place, he might have been receiving an IV in the hospital by now.
Ye Rongxu didn’t like hospitals. He frowned when he heard this and asked: “Is his condition serious?”
Chen Jiang was a martial artist. He pressed Qin Chaoyan’s body and tried his forehead to make sure that he had no injuries and was just fainted in the rain. Then he said: “Nothing serious, just a little fever.”
Ye Rongxu breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Then take him home. We also have a doctor at home.”
Because he was in poor health, the Ye family’s family doctor was on call 24 hours a day, and the family was also equipped with various medical equipment. If it was just an ordinary fever, it would be okay to go home for treatment.
Chen Jiang nodded, turned the steering wheel, and drove the car back to the villa.
When he arrived home, the family doctor was already waiting in the living room.
The other party thought that it was Ye Rongxu who needed treatment and was stunned to see him come in in a wheelchair.
After Qin Chaoyan was carried in by Chen Jiang and settled in the guest room, the doctor reacted and hurriedly followed with the medicine box.
Ye Rongxu hesitated, turned the wheelchair, and followed into the guest room.
Perhaps because it was warmer in the room, Qin Chaoyan’s face was no longer pale but rather unnaturally red because of the fever.
His brow was furrowed, his lips a little dry, and when he was placed on the bed in the guest room, he curled his body up and fell asleep on his side.
Ye Rongxu didn’t know where he had read it, but he knew this was an insecure sleeping position.
He didn’t expect that the big devil, who would call the wind and rain in Jiangcheng in the future, would be so pitiful now.
As a villain, he decided to sympathize with him for a second, just a second, and resolutely not more.
While the doctor took the temperature and went out to prepare the medicine, and Uncle Chen went to get some clean clothes, Ye Rongxu tentatively reached out and tried Qin Chaoyan’s forehead with his white fingertips.
It was indeed scalding hot.
Because he had been in poor health since childhood, his body temperature was lower than that of ordinary people. When his slightly cool fingers touched Qin Chaoyan’s forehead, the other party’s frowning brows relaxed slightly.
Ye Rongxu was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, his hand was suddenly grabbed by Qin Chaoyan.
He thought Qin Chaoyan had woken up and subconsciously wanted to retract his hand. But Qin Chaoyan still had his eyes closed, like an insecure child, holding his hand tightly in his arms and pressing it against his heart.
Ye Rongxu was stunned, and after a while, he heard the other party’s inaudible mumbling.
“What?” Ye Rongxu didn’t hear clearly, so he controlled the wheelchair to get closer.
But Qin Chaoyan suddenly stopped talking.
He had to wait patiently for a while, and when he saw Qin Chaoyan’s lips moving again, he lowered his head and listened closely.
He wanted to hear what secrets the big devil would reveal when he was sick and delirious.
Then, an almost inaudible voice came into his ears.
“Mom…”
Ye Rongxu: “?!”
Because he wanted to hear more clearly, he leaned very close, his ear almost touching the other’s dry lips. Qin Chaoyan was sick, and his mumbling was almost spoken with airflow, brushing the tip of his ear with the fever heat.
Ye Rongxu’s ears turned red instantly. He hurriedly sat up, calmed down for a while, and glared at Qin Chaoyan angrily again.
As much as he wanted to take advantage of the male lead, calling him dad would be more appropriate.
At this time, Chen Jiang, who brought the change of clothes, was obviously stunned.
What he saw when he hurried in was Ye Rongxu sitting by the bed, his hand held in the arms of the unconscious Qin Chaoyan.
When did the young master and Qin Chaoyan develop so fast?
As soon as Ye Rongxu saw him, he immediately showed a pleading look: “Uncle, help me pull his hand away.”
Otherwise, he would be held by the other party for the whole night.
“Oh.” Uncle Chen reacted and hurried forward to help.
After his hand was finally rescued, Ye Rongxu breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Qin Chaoyan again, and left hesitantly.
He didn’t care about what happened afterwards.
After starting to take care of his health, he went to bed on time at 10 o’clock every night. Now he would feel sleepy if he didn’t go to bed on time every day.
So after asking Uncle Chen to take good care of Qin Chaoyan, he asked the nurse to take him back to his room to sleep first.
The next morning, Ye Rongxu got up on time at six o’clock.
Because his father and grandparents were not at home, there was only his cousin, who got up early to go to school in the dining room.
When Lin Jiaojiao saw him appear, she asked with a look of gossip: “Brother, I came back last night and saw Uncle Chen taking care of Qin Chaoyan. Why is he in our house?”
Ye Rongxu took the soup brought by the butler. After taking a small sip, he frowned slightly and said: “I picked him up.”
Picked up?
Lin Jiaojiao was stunned. Such a big living person, not a cat or a dog, can be picked up casually?
Then, without knowing what was on her mind, she mysteriously asked, “Brother, are you really… already together with Qin Chaoyan?”
Ye Rongxu didn’t swallow the medicine in time and almost choked, his face twisted with bitterness.
Lin Jiaojiao quickly brought him a glass of water and asked him to rinse his mouth.
Butler Lao Yang also hurriedly patted him on the back and kept reminding him, “Young Master, drink slowly.”
Ye Rongxu picked up the handkerchief and wiped the medicine soup from the corner of his lips, then put it down. His fingers were even prettier than the handkerchief embroidered with orchids.
He raised his beautiful eyes to Lin Jiaojiao and warned, “Who told you?”
Lin Jiaojiao said in an exaggerated tone, “No one? You have been to No. 1 High School these two days. You are in the same class and desk as Qin Chaoyan. I heard that he also sticks with you after class and even sends you to the toilet. We are in the same school, but I, your cousin, have never even seen your shadow.”
After saying that, she suddenly added, “By the way, brother, do you know? Yesterday, Qin Chaoyan beat Qin Jingxu inside the school, and the beating was particularly severe.”
Ye Rongxu was surprised to hear this and asked, “Really?”
“Yeah.” Lin Jiaojiao nodded vigorously and described: “I also went to the scene. Qin Jingxu was beaten with a swollen nose and face, even worse than Qin Jingrong that night. But it’s a pity that I didn’t get to take pictures. Otherwise, I could show you.”
Ever since knowing that Qin Jingxu was a scumbag, Lin Jiaojiao didn’t like this former future brother-in-law. When she heard that the other party was beaten, she felt relieved and couldn’t help but want to applaud Qin Chaoyan. She even had a good impression of Qin Chaoyan because of this.
But——
“But somehow the rich second generation in the circle knew about your visit to No. 1 High School these two days. Now they all say…”
She suddenly glanced at Ye Rongxu and said in a measured tone: “They all said that Qin Chaoyan was stealing Qin Jingxu’s lover and was caught by Qin Jingxu, so the two of them fought.”
In fact, what those people said was more straightforward. They directly said that Qin Chaoyan coveted his sister-in-law and had an affair with him behind his brother’s back. The brother was so angry that he went to him to settle the score, but unexpectedly, this guy was a ruthless character and beat his brother into the hospital.
As soon as Ye Rongxu saw Lin Jiaojiao’s expression, he knew that what those people said must not be very pleasant to hear.
Although he didn’t know how unpleasant it would be, he could think of roughly what those people would say—nothing more than Qin Chaoyan was already with him.
He snorted, put down the medicine bowl, and said, “Then they are right.”
Lin Jiaojiao was slightly stunned.
Ye Rongxu picked up the handkerchief and wiped the corner of his lips again, announcing, “Qin Chaoyan and I will be engaged soon.”
Lin Jiaojiao was rarely this stunned, speechless, only blinking at him.
Ye Rongxu frowned and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Jiaojiao blinks desperately again.
Ye Rongxu: “Do you have a cramp in your eyes?”
The tone was sincere and puzzled.
Lin Jiaojiao was helpless and signaled him to look behind him.
However, Butler Lao Yang reacted first, turned around, and saw Qin Chaoyan, who had walked out of the guest room at some point, and hurriedly said politely, “Mr. Qin, you are awake.”
Ye Rongxu turned his head immediately and saw Qin Chaoyan standing outside the dining room, with a slender figure like a green bamboo, looking at this side.
Unknown how much the other party had heard what he said just now, Ye Rongxu’s face suddenly blushed.
He coughed lightly, maintained his composure, and asked, “Are you awake?”
Qin Chaoyan was wearing Uncle Chen’s pajamas, which were a bit too big, but he had long arms and legs, so the length of the clothes was very suitable.
He slowly nodded his head and slowly walked to the dining table. He sat opposite Ye Rongxu, his black eyes looking at him, and then let out a soft “hmm.”
“Did you save me last night?” After a pause, he spoke again, his voice hoarse with the illness that had not yet healed.
Ye Rongxu nodded and said reservedly, “Who else?”
Then he emphasized, “If it weren’t for me, you might have died last night.”
Qin Chaoyan nodded lightly.
Butler Lao Yang promptly brought him a glass of milk. He stirred it with a spoon, didn’t drink it, and looked up at Ye Rongxu again.
Ye Rongxu was also looking at him. Perhaps they were both thinking about what happened last night. The atmosphere between the two was a bit weird.
Lin Jiaojiao ate steamed dumplings while looking between them with curious eyes.
“I…”
“You…”
They spoke and closed their mouths almost at the same time.
Lin Jiaojiao’s gaze became even more prominent, with the words “eating melons” all over her eyes.
Ye Rongxu finally realized that, with other people around, some things were not easy to say.
So he turned to look at Lin Jiaojiao and said, “Why don’t you go to school yet?”
Lin Jiaojiao said innocently, “It’s not too late for me to leave in ten minutes.”
Ye Rongxu urged: “Go quickly; can’t you get to the classroom earlier and study for a while longer?”
Lin Jiaojiao knew that he was determined not to let her listen, so she had to leave in a huff.
After “driving away” his cousin, Ye Rongxu did the same thing, and drove away Butler Lao Yang who was also listening to gossip.
When he and Qin Chaoyan were the only ones left in the dining room, he coughed and said, “Do you remember what you said last night?”
Qin Chaoyan nodded. He was silent for a moment, and then said, “Sorry, I was impulsive last night…”
At that moment last night, he did want to take revenge on Qin Jingxu, but after waking up and calming down for a long time, he felt that it was not advisable.
It’s okay to take revenge on Qin Jingxu, but it’s too immoral to involve Ye Rongxu, not to mention that the other party saved him last night.
Hearing this, Ye Rongxu opened his eyes wide and asked in disbelief, “What do you mean? Do you regret it again?”
Qin Chaoyan pursed his lips, raised his dark eyes, and looked at him, saying calmly, “Sorry, thank you very much for what happened last night, but for those words, just treat it as me being confused because of a fever.”
Ye Rongxu wasn’t a peaceful person to begin with. Hearing this, he began to get a little angry.
No, he needs to maintain good health, be as calm as a Buddha, and not be angry.
But why did this person go back on his word?
He didn’t hold back after all and grunted under his breath, “What words are you referring to? You said a lot of words last night.”
Qin Chaoyan was slightly stunned and asked: “What did I say last night?”
Ye Rongxu said with a stern face: “You called me dad last night.”
Qin Chaoyan: “…”
Ye Rongxu: “You even held my hand. Uncle Chen can prove it.”
Qin Chaoyan’s face was a little stiff, saying: “Impossible.”
Ye Rongxu: “…Forget it, forget it, I know you won’t admit it. But you have already denied one thing about last night, and you can’t deny the others.”
Qin Chaoyan frowned.
He knew that Ye Rongxu wanted to fake an engagement with him just to piss off Qin Jingxu and make him jealous.
But the other party didn’t know that once he really got engaged to him, he would not let go. He would use this relationship to retaliate against Qin Jingxu in a despicable and insidious way.
But he hadn’t made up his mind to be a bad guy. He wanted to give himself and Ye Rongxu another chance to let each other go.
He looked at Ye Rongxu quietly for a long time and slowly asked, “Are you sure?”
Ye Rongxu nodded and said, “Yes.”
Qin Chaoyan clenched his hands under the table, and the wildfire in his heart began to burn again.
“Will you regret it?” He asked in a low voice with gloomy eyes.
Ye Rongxu shook his head. “Of course not.”
Qin Chaoyan clenched and loosened his hands numerous times under the table before slowly uttering a word: “Okay.”
After a pause, as if to make up his mind, he added word by word: “We will be engaged.”
You started this yourself. It’s not my fault. I’m not a good person in the first place.
He lowered his eyelids and thought silently in his heart.
Ye Rongxu’s eyes lit up when he heard this. He couldn’t wait to call Ye Boxuan and beg him to arrange this matter. It would be best if he could negotiate with the Qin family as soon as possible.
But on second thought, he felt that doing so would make him look too anxious, as if he really needed this fake engagement relationship.
So he coughed lightly and pretended to be calm: “Then I’ll tell my dad when he comes back.”
Then he changed the subject and asked curiously: “By the way, why did you faint on the roadside last night? What happened?”
Qin Chaoyan looked up at him deeply and said, “Nothing.”
Ye Rongxu frowned and said, “I also heard from Lin Jiaojiao that you beat Qin Jingxu yesterday.”
Qin Chaoyan paused while stirring the milk and asked slowly, “Are you upset?”
Ye Rongxu: “???”
Why should I feel upset for that scumbag?
“I’m just a little curious about the feud between you two. If you don’t want to talk about it, then forget it.” Ye Rongxu pretended not to care.
But Qin Chaoyan didn’t mind discrediting Qin Jingxu in front of him.
What he wanted wasn’t really to maintain this fake engagement. When Young Master Ye had played enough and grown tired of this chasing game, he would break off this engagement and reconcile with Qin Jingxu, while he was just a tool and clown for the other party to stimulate Qin Jingxu.
Since he wanted to retaliate, he should be thorough and really snatch Ye Rongxu away, so that Qin Jingxu can no longer rely on the Ye family.
Moreover, he was just stating the facts, not blackening him.
Qin Chaoyan clenched the spoon and spoke slowly; his tone was particularly calm: “He moved my household registration and school registration, so that I can’t register for the college entrance examination here.”
Ye Rongxu: “Ah?”
He looked a little dazed, obviously not understanding this situation.
Qin Chaoyan explained: “I didn’t study in Jiangcheng for a year in high school, so I couldn’t register for the college entrance examination because my registered residence registration wasn’t here. The college entrance examination registration has ended at the place where my registered residence is now. Even if it hasn’t ended, I still can’t register because I didn’t actually study there.”
Ye Rongxu: “Oh, oh.”
He seems to understand it. Forget it; he’ll wait for his ad to come back and ask him: Dad, what should I do?
But——
“Your household registration and school registration have been moved. Why aren’t you aware of it?” The young master asked in confusion.
Qin Chaoyan suddenly turned his head and looked out the window, hiding a trace of coldness, and said in a light tone: “It’s normal for a rich second-generation like him who has both wealth and power to easily do things that ordinary people can’t do, so he can always act recklessly.”
Ye Rongxu: “Oh.”
He felt that he was indirectly getting shot at.
“Well, don’t be too sad; there must be a way to solve the problem. If it doesn’t work, just take the exam tomorr-… next year.” Ye Rongxu dryly comforted him.
For someone like him who studies for three days and rests for two days, it’s normal to repeat a grade.
But just after he finished speaking, Qin Chaoyan said lightly: “It’s useless. I still won’t get a chance next year.”
After a pause, he added: “During the annual college entrance examination in June this year, he had me locked in a warehouse for three whole days.”
Ye Rongxu’s beautiful eyes widened and his mouth slightly opened.
This… Qin Jingxu was too evil. No wonder Qin Chaoyan in the dream turned evil and came back to avenge them.
Ye Rongxu suddenly suspected that most of the hatred of the big devil was caused by Qin Jingxu, and he was actually a cannon fodder being implicated?
The more he thought about it, the more possible it was.
He thought Qin Jingxu was just a bit of a scumbag in terms of emotions, but he didn’t expect…
Ye Rongxu frowned slightly and suddenly found that he was no longer familiar with this childhood big brother.
When he was a child, Qin Jingxu was obviously still a good person and would save him when he was in danger. Why did he become like this when he grew up?
To say it was because of his family background isn’t quite right. He was also spoiled by his family, but he wasn’t… so bad, right?
“Have you… offended him?” Ye Rongxu looked confused and puzzled.
Qin Chaoyan seemed to have expected that he would not believe it, and said in a calm voice: “No.”
The next moment, he suddenly realized that such a tone would not make Ye Rongxu feel sympathy and goodwill.
Since he wanted to snatch the other party away…
Qin Chaoyan lowered his eyes, and his tone suddenly became a bit desolate. He whispered, “I don’t know why. Maybe he just doesn’t like me.”
After speaking, he looked up at Ye Rongxu. Because he had not recovered from his illness, his face was a little pale, and he seemed a little more fragile than usual. He asked softly: “Don’t you believe me?”
Without waiting for Ye Rongxu to answer, he looked away again, and said in an emotionless voice: “That’s right. You have a better relationship with him.”
Ye Rongxu: “???”
Why did she suddenly become Little Sister Qin? Even sicker than him? The other party is a big devil who can torture him all night in the future… cough.
Ye Rongxu hurriedly retracted his thoughts.
The door of the villa was pushed open at this time, and Ye Boxuan, who had worked overtime all night, came back tiredly.
Ye Rongxu’s eyes lit up because he could finally get out of this strange atmosphere. He turned his wheelchair outside and shouted, “Dad, you are back? By the way, Qin Chaoyan agreed to get engaged to me. When will we discuss it with the Qin family?”
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