Taming The Hidden Bigshot By Kissing Him-Chapter 194 - He Came She Recoiled
Chapter 194: Chapter 194 He Came, She Recoiled
Chapter 194: Chapter 194 He Came, She Recoiled
Huo Xingzhou did not notice his subtle thoughts until the two of them reached the outside of the private hospital.
Old Chen drove the Rolls-Royce to the entrance, where Huo Xingzhou got into the car and gave instructions.
“Old Chen, go to the clinic.”
By his side was the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall he had packed from the Jinling Grand Hotel last night, already cold through.
Old Chen, seated in the driver’s seat with cold sweat on his palms, said, “Young Master, did you see today’s local news?”
While casually browsing on his phone, the news he saw nearly scared him to death. He then called the relevant departments to confirm, and it was true!
“What news?”
Huo Xingzhou asked with furrowed brows.
His thin lips were devoid of color, and his expression was distant and indifferent, making him seem even more unapproachable.
“It’s about the fire at the clinic.”
Old Chen said cautiously, “The Young Madam’s clinic had a fire yesterday. The reports say one person was injured, one died. I called the Young Madam, but no one has answered up to now.”
Huo Xingzhou’s pupils constricted, and his heart suddenly clenched in pain.
Last night, without his knowledge, how much hardship had Qiao Xi endured?
One dead, one injured.
Was Qiao Xi also on that list?
Was she injured, or…
Huo Xingzhou, anxious as a fire, grew even more resentful towards Xu Xingluo.
He took out his phone, his fingers trembling slightly as he dialed Qiao Xi’s number.
A busy signal.
No one answered.
He opened his call log and saw a landline number, which he called eleven times.
Huo Xingzhou’s heart felt as if it were bound by sharp, fine threads, steadily tightening and pressing in, embedding into his flesh. He redialed that landline number.
The person on the other end answered, “Hello, Hai City Municipal People’s Hospital Emergency Center.”
That phone number really was the hospital’s.
The person who had called him eleven times last night, was it Qiao Xi?
No one replied.
How desperate must she have felt?
In all of Haicheng, she had only him to rely on.
“May I ask…”
His voice was deeply hoarse when he began to speak, his throat tight.
Huo Xingzhou tightly shut his eyes, unable to ask that sentence.
“Hello, do you need anything? Are you still there?” After the nurse at the desk asked a few times, the call was disconnected by another incoming call.
Huo Xingzhou clenched his phone tightly.
He felt almost as if he were being submerged in icy cold seawater, suffocating.
“Old Chen, to Hai City Municipal People’s Hospital,” he said softly, his eyes bloodshot.
“Yes, Young Master.”
Old Chen stepped on the accelerator, speeding up. He took a shortcut directly to the hospital.
The car stopped at the entrance of Hai City Hospital, and Old Chen said, “Young Master, there are Madam and Miss, they’ve come too.”
Du Juan was hurriedly walking into the building, holding Huo Sijiao’s hand.
Huo Xingzhou said with a steady voice, “You go park first.”
He opened the car door and got out, following far behind the mother and daughter. Their destination was clear, heading straight for the inpatient department’s building.
With an anxious expression, Du Juan complained, “At a time like this, who knows where your brother has gone? I tried calling him this morning, and his phone was off.”
Huo Sijiao snorted coldly, “There was a celebration party last night, and Xu Xingluo was there too. I heard Dad say that brother got drunk, and they left together. I’m afraid in his confusion… Now there’s no word from him.”
“Your father really is irresponsible, how could he let Xu Xingluo get close to your brother? She has many tricks up her sleeve, she might have done something. Today she even said she had a hangover headache and didn’t come to the hospital.”
“Hmph.”
Huo Sijiao mockingly said, “I’m just afraid that today my brother and Xu Xingluo woke up in the same bed. My sister-in-law would go crazy.”
“Stop talking nonsense, let’s go see Qiao Xi first. Her grandma…”
Du Juan couldn’t bear it in her heart.
She didn’t know how to comfort Qiao Xi.
The two walked into the single-patient room and saw Shu Xue bandaging Qiao Xi’s fingers upon pushing open the door.
Qiao Xi’s expression was faint, her gaze fixed in one place.
Her eyes were red and swollen, and her fair arms had several minor burns. She sat there like a soulless rag doll.
Her delicate body was made to look even thinner by the ill-fitting hospital gown, like fragile porcelain that made one’s heart ache at the sight.
Shu Xue pricked the blisters on her fingers one by one, disinfecting and applying medicine.
They say the fingers are connected to the heart, yet she didn’t even frown, as if she felt no pain at all.
Du Juan called softly, “Qiao Xi?”
The mother and daughter entered, and Huo Sijiao’s eyes were red.
“Sister-in-law? How are you holding up?”
Qiao Xi slowly turned her head, and when she saw them and instinctively tried to speak, she pulled at her sore throat. Her voice had been injured last night and she had inhaled a lot of dust. Now her voice was very unpleasant to hear.
It was as if gravel had scraped past her throat.
“You’ve come.”
She said with difficulty, four words.
“Sister-in-law, your voice… How could it become like this overnight? How could a fire break out in the clinic? I can hardly think of any safety hazards there.”
Huo Sijiao knew that the clinic was a gift from her brother, and he must have done a thorough job.
Such a problem shouldn’t have arisen.
“I… cough cough…”
Shu Xue stopped Qiao Xi from speaking, “Please, focus on healing your injuries instead of talking. If your vocal cords don’t recover properly, there could be lasting damage. I’ll keep an eye on the fire investigation for you.
You need to take care of yourself, your grandma… she’s still waiting for you to take her home!”
As she spoke, tears involuntarily fell.
Shu Xue forcefully pushed the tears back: “Qiao Xi, I’ll be here to help you through all of this.”
Qiao Xi nodded slightly.
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Du Juan couldn’t help but wipe away her tears, “Child, focus on healing first. We’ll take care of the rest for you.”
“Sister-in-law, you have us. We’re family; please don’t hesitate to ask for anything.”
Qiao Xi looked at the mother and daughter, her lips curling into a faint smile.
A smile that was heart-wrenching.
Unable to contain herself, Huo Sijiao burst into tears in Du Juan’s arms.
They were all too aware of what Granny Qiao’s departure meant to Qiao Xi.
“I’m… fine; you guys… go back,” Qiao Xi uttered, bearing the pain of her voice tearing apart, word by word.
“Sister-in-law, don’t talk anymore. Sister Shu said you need to rest your voice, so no more talking!”
Huo Sijiao looked at her plaintively, “From now on, if sister-in-law wants to tell us anything, just type it out on the phone.” She looked down at the gauze wrapped around Qiao Xi’s fingers and cried even harder.
“Sister-in-law doesn’t need to type, I… I will translate for sister-in-law.”
Qiao Xi looked at her, pursing her lips and nodding.
She didn’t want to speak either, but forced herself to do so over and over again. She habitually displayed her strength, but found that grandma’s death had stripped away her last armor.
She didn’t ask why Huo Xingzhou had still not appeared!
Fearing that answer would make her feel even more embarrassed!
She wanted to play deaf and mute, retreating into her shell as if nothing had happened.
As if she hadn’t seen those photos from last night.
She no longer had the courage to dig deeper, to hysterically question why he was with Xu Xingluo last night.
Qiao Xi’s eyelashes fluttered shut, but she caught a glimpse of the tall figure standing at the entrance of the ward in her peripheral vision.
His stern face was hidden in the flickering light, like a beam of light with shadows that invaded her line of sight.
