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He saw me and only slightly frowned, then calmly said, "Let's go."
As he spoke, he had already stepped out the door and walked toward the end of the corridor.
I was completely stunned, watching him walk several steps before I reacted and hurriedly chased after him, asking, "What's going on? You clearly fainted, how come you just went in and came out? Isn't it supposed to be the doctor who comes out?"
Xiao Minxing turned to look at me, his expression as if to say, "Are you really that foolish?"
However, his gaze was too weak for him to actually say those words; I just understood it myself.
But I was genuinely quite frustrated. I had already called the Xiao Family, and now if we left, what would happen when his parents arrived? Would they think I tricked them into coming?
I forcibly grabbed him at the Hospital Entrance and asked, "What exactly is going on? Were you pretending just now?"
Xiao Minxing rolled his eyes upward with a look of impatience on his face, speaking with annoyance, "Don't you want to go back?"
"No, I was almost scared to death by you. I even called your family; now that you're like this, what am I supposed to say when they arrive?"
In my urgency, I couldn't care about anything else and blurted out all my worries.
Xiao Minxing stood silently for a moment before reaching out his hand toward me.
I couldn't figure out what he wanted to do and stared blankly at that hand.
He irritably said, "Phone."
Oh, okay. I hurriedly opened my bag and fished out my phone like searching for something in the deep sea, then handed it over to him.
Watching him call the Xiao Family, he said he was fine.
His tone and expression were just like usual—cold, impatient, and brief. After finishing his words, he hung up without even saying goodbye.
Then he handed me the phone and asked, "Can we leave now?"
I really suspected that he had been pretending before; now he looked lively and energetic, nothing like when he arrived, resembling a puddle of mud. If it weren't for the slight purplish hue on his lips, I would almost crown him with the title of "liar."
The rain outside was still pouring and showed no signs of stopping.
We returned home in the rain, and it was already past three in the morning. After a tense night, I felt both sleepy and exhausted, and I didn't want to talk to Xiao Minxing at all.
He looked unwell too, but still ordered me to run a tub of hot water for him to bathe in, then said, "Go to sleep. Wake up early tomorrow to make breakfast."
I replied with an "oh," and without thinking twice, I collapsed onto his bed.
He stood at the entrance of the bathroom watching me, but ultimately said nothing and went to take a shower.
In truth, I didn’t dare to fall asleep. Although I was dead tired, his condition that night was too frightening. Until I got some results, my heart remained unsettled.
As soon as he entered the bathroom, I hurriedly got up and pressed my ear against the bathroom door to listen inside.
I was afraid that if I fell asleep and he fainted again, what would happen if he collapsed in there and no one noticed?
There was no sound coming from inside at all. Aside from the faint sound of water when he first went in, it became completely quiet afterward.
I waited outside for over ten minutes, starting to feel anxious. I hesitated whether to knock on the door or call his name.
In the end, I decided to knock while calling his name.
Xiao Minxing's voice came from inside, sounding quite fierce: "What are you doing?"
At this moment, the stone in my heart finally settled. If he could speak to me like that, he must be fine. I was just worried about why he was so fierce. If it were someone else, I wouldn't care about their life or death.
I had always been kind to him, only to be met with his harshness, and I was used to it. Since he was okay, I decided to go to sleep.
I climbed into bed, not even pulling up the blanket, and fell into a deep sleep, completely unaware of when Xiao Minxing came out. Anyway, the next morning, he was lying beside me, both of us covered by the same blanket and sharing a pillow.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw his piercing gaze fixed on me, which startled me.
I didn't jump up; instead, his hand resting on my waist pressed me down.
Xiao Minxing closed his eyes for a moment, and his expression shifted to one of indifference and disdain as he pushed me away again and said, "Go make breakfast; I'm hungry."
Struggling to get out of bed, I picked up my phone and nearly fell back onto the bed in shock—it was already past ten in the morning.
"How did I sleep until this time?" I panicked while rushing to change clothes, muttering to myself.
When I came out, I saw that Xiao Minxing was already up and waiting leisurely at the entrance.
I had no idea what he wanted to do. In this house, he was the boss; everything he did was reasonable. I had no right to ask and wouldn’t dare provoke him, so I walked past him and headed downstairs.
Hearing his footsteps behind me, I didn’t turn around and went straight to the kitchen.
He followed me in and stood at the kitchen entrance. Suddenly he asked, "Did I scare you last night?"
His tone was a bit strange. I looked up at him but only saw him with his eyelids lowered, leaning slightly against the doorframe. The white morning robe he wore was slightly open at the chest, revealing a solid torso. He seemed less fierce than before and carried an unusual calmness.
After pondering for a long time, I finally spoke: "Not really; I've just never seen you like that before. Oh right, what happened last night? I didn't get a chance to ask the doctor..."
"I'm fine, just cook."
He interrupted with this sentence and turned to leave.
Watching his back, I was really puzzled. Being sick isn't a big deal; everyone gets sick sometimes. Plus, he was caught in the rain last night, so maybe the cold rain affected him. Why wouldn't he just say so?
But then I suddenly thought again and felt that something was off.
Why did he go out in the rain?
He had already been acting strange before he left last night, and for some time now, he has seemed odd. It’s like he has never mentioned feeling tired in front of me before. Of course, it's possible that we didn't communicate much back then; even if he was tired, he wouldn't tell me. But I should at least be able to notice, right?
What puzzled me even more was that we had been sleeping on the same bed for a long time, yet yesterday he actually asked me to go back to my own room. At that moment, I didn't think much of it; I just followed his usual request and went back.
Of course, later on, we still lived together, and he didn't say anything else. But that was after returning from the hospital.
In the chaos of those moments, I didn't pay attention to these details. Now that they were brought back to my mind, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it felt.
I have known Xiao Minxing since childhood, but we have been apart for many years. This marriage happened without us knowing each other well at all, and our relationship after marriage hasn't been good either. Strictly speaking, he feels like a stranger to me now.
There must be something going on with him that I don't know about, and he is deliberately hiding it from me.
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