"Xiaxia, you’re finally back!" The moment the hospital room door opened, Bi Xia heard Xia Shi’s worried voice. As expected, Xia Shi was looking at her with a face full of concern, holding a phone in her hand.
"Auntie, you’ve been waiting for a while, right? The Xu Family Banquet was so busy that it took some time." Qin Zhan patted Bi Xia’s head and said to Xia Shi, "On the way, Little Nine was even chattering about how we needed to hurry, or the food would get cold."
Xia Shi looked at Qin Zhan and smiled slightly at him, "It’s good that you’re back. I apologize for calling you abruptly earlier." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ NoveI-Fire.ɴet
Bi Xia looked at Qin Zhan in confusion.
With an unchanged expression, Qin Zhan smiled faintly, "It’s nothing. It was my fault for taking Little Nine out without permission."
"What’s the big deal? I was really scared and thought something had happened to Xiao Xia..." Saying this, Xia Shi looked at Bi Xia and sighed, "Xiaxia, you really scared your mom, you know?"
Back then, when Bi Xia had just come out of the bathroom, she said she was going to the Xu Family Banquet to buy dinner and ran out immediately, giving Xia Shi no time to react.
When Bi Xia left, Xia Shi noticed bloodstains on the floor where Bi Xia had been standing. She was startled at first, and then heard a scream. A nurse rushed out of the bathroom, trembling, and told her there was a bloody fist mark on the bathroom mirror.
Upon hearing this, Xia Shi quickly asked the nurse to bring her phone, but Bi Xia’s phone was turned off. She had no choice but to call Bi Xiaoyuan. Fortunately, she had given her old phone to Bi Xiaoyuan. Through Bi Xiaoyuan, she got in touch with Xu Renfei. When she heard that Xu Renfei wasn’t with Bi Xia, Xia Shi panicked completely.
Thankfully, Xu Renfei told her that Qin Zhan hadn’t returned home and was likely with Bi Xia. So Xia Shi got Qin Zhan’s number and called him to ask.
Maybe it was because Qin Zhan always had a trustworthy aura about him, but when he told her that Bi Xia’s phone had run out of battery and that he was on his way to pick her up, Xia Shi finally felt a sense of relief. She reminded Qin Zhan to inform her once he had picked up Bi Xia. After hanging up the phone, Xia Shi felt she might have been a bit abrupt.
Bi Xia turned to look at Qin Zhan’s calm face, not knowing what to say. Faced with this, Qin Zhan had not asked her where she had been, what she had done, why she was hurt, or why she had lied. He had only told her not to get hurt, not to be wronged...
Qin Zhan, do you trust me that much?
Suddenly, as if noticing the boy’s gaze, Qin Zhan slowly turned his head, his phoenix eyes meeting those complicated, starry ones.
His long, narrow phoenix eyes slightly lifted, looking at the boy with a faint smile. Seeing the boy’s furrowed brow, his thin lips curled up involuntarily, and he raised his hand to rub the boy’s head. The tolerance and doting in his phoenix eyes were clear as day.
Feeling the big hand gently stroking her head, Bi Xia’s rosy lips curled up slightly. She thought, maybe it is trust...
A soft cough echoed in the hospital room. Bi Xia snapped back to reality, only to see Xia Shi looking at her and Qin Zhan meaningfully. Bi Xia touched her nose, walked up to Xia Shi, and said, "Mom, where’s Auntie?"
"Oh, I thought I’d give you a good scolding when you came back, but it wouldn’t be convenient if she was here, so I sent her home for the night." Xia Shi looked at the stern young man standing behind Bi Xia, then at her daughter. She smiled, "I think, maybe I’ll let that scolding slide today and give you some face."
Bi Xia smiled lightly and took out the ’Eighteen Heroes’ one by one, placing them on the table that Qin Zhan had set up. "Thank you, Mom. Try these; they’re the most popular dishes at the Xu Family Banquet."
When Xia Shi saw the ’Eighteen Heroes’ being taken out one after another, her expression began to change. Indeed, when the very last dish dropped on the table, Xia Shi gritted her teeth and started to tremble.
Seeing Xia Shi’s reaction, Bi Xia knew her guess was correct. She sighed softly and was about to take the dishes back when she heard Xia Shi say slowly, "Xiaxia, you and A Zhan step outside. I want to be alone for a while."