The car slowly stopped and a man elegantly got out of the car. He was in white casual wear that looked like a prince, but his face was over handsome.
“Why are you looking at me? Don’t tell me that you can’t recognize me if I am glasses-free. Or… you have forgotten who I am?”
Le Yi smiled, but A Miao’s mouth twisted.
“Hello, Doctor Le,” she said, respectfully.
Her alienated face made Le Yi frown. He asked, “Don’t you welcome me?”
“What are you talking about?” A Miao also laughed. “This is not my home. You should be more familiar than me!”
Seeing that she was so courteous, Le Yi turned around helplessly and said to Shen I, “I will stay here for a few days and I just talked to Shen on the phone. He agreed.”
“Understood. I will clean up a room for you right away.” Shen I hurried to run away.
Seeing that Zhou Xiao had been staring at Le Yi, A Miao pushed her. “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing…” Zhou Xiao grabbed her hand and asked, “Is this your friend?”
A Miao was surprised when she found Zhou Xiao was blushed, even though it was not obvious. They had known each other for so many years and A Miao was sure that Zhou Xiao became shy.
“He is Shen Xinglan’s friend.” A Miao looked at Le Yi unhappily. Then she dragged Zhou Xiao back to the house and said, “It’s late. You should go and get your bag. I will send you home.”
Zhou Xiao was dragged upstairs, but when she entered the room, she threw away A Miao’s hand and shouted, “What are you doing? Do you think that I’ve embarrassed you?”
“What are you talking about?” A Miao felt that Zhou Xiao sounded so unreasonable.
“You know what I am saying.” Zhou Xiao huffed and sat down. “Why don’t you introduce your friend to me? How handsome that man is! What does he do?”
A Miao found her both funny and annoying because her attention shifted so quickly.
“He is a doctor.” She took out Zhou Xiao’s bag and stuffed it with some clothes that she never wore.
Zhou Xiao was still angry and asked, “Why don’t you introduce him to me? You said that he is a doctor? Why don’t you ask him to see my mother and examine her legs? You must be despising us.”
… A Miao put down the clothes in her hand and stared at Zhou Xiao.
Zhou Xiao was scared. “You… why are you looking at me?”
“Xiaoxiao, you must listen carefully, because I’ll only say it once. I won’t say it again in the future.” A Miao said seriously. Zhou Xiao’s words and behaviors had deeply hurt her in the past two days.
However, she could not lose her temper, and she could not scold Zhou Xiao. She suddenly realized that if she let things develop at its own pace, she was hurting Zhou Xiao instead of protecting her.
“You don’t know the relationship between me and Shen Xinglan. Because of his privacy, I can’t tell you the details.”
Seeing Zhou Xiao pouting again, A Miao ignored her and said, “So, I am still me and I am neither a rich person nor a young mistress.”
“You’re still lying to me!” Zhou Xiao clutched her ears. “You just feel that you have money and don’t need my mother and me anymore.”
“You……”
A Miao, who was going to talk to her in peace, had a stomachache of anger.
“Forget it, I will send you back.”
Zhou Xiao grabbed her bag and ran downstairs without looking back.
“Xiaoxiao!” A Miao hurriedly ran after her.
In the hall, Le Yi was talking on the phone when he saw them running down. He hung up the phone after saying something with a smile.
“What happened?” He looked at Zhou Xiao, who was running toward him.
Zhou Xiao’s grievances were melted in Le Yi’s gentle smile. She said shyly, “No… Nothing…”
Le Yi raised his eyebrow. “You are A Miao’s friend, aren’t you?”
“Yes… I am…” Zhou Xiao stuttered and looked up. “Hello, I heard that you are a friend of Shen Xinglan.”
“Yes, I am.” Le Yi nodded and looked at Zhou Xiao. Then he pursed his lips.
A Miao held her forehead and walked between the two of them. She said, “Are you tired, Doctor Le? Go back and have a rest in your room!”
“…” Le Yi shrugged. “Well, then I won’t bother you.”
Seeing Le Yi leave, Zhou Xiao immediately screamed at A Miao, “I haven’t known his name yet!”
“He is Le Yi.” Seeing Shen I enter the room from nowhere, A Miao hurriedly said, “Shen I, please drive us home!”
Shen I nodded and ran out. Zhou Xiao bit her lip and began to feel regret.
If she didn’t lose her temper, she could persuade A Miao to allow her to stay for another day. Then she could get to know the doctor named Le Yi.
“A Miao!”
A Miao looked at her strangely, “What’s wrong?”
“Hey, don’t be angry with me. I just joked!” Zhou Xiao smiled and approached her. “Can I go home tomorrow since I am going to school on Monday?”
“But Auntie Song asked you to go back today.” A Miao frowned. “If you don’t go back, she will be worried.”
Zhou Xiao rolled her eyes and said, “Well, then… Can I come here next weekend?”
“I won’t let you come.”
“You don’t like me to come?” Seeing that A Miao didn’t say anything, Zhou Xiao felt unhappy and asked, “Don’t you want me to come?”
A Miao was too tired to argue with her, so she nodded. “You can come if you like.”
“Okay, then. You don’t have to send me. I can go back on my own.” Zhou Xiao waved her hand.
“Don’t!” A Miao followed her and found that Shen I had already stopped the car to the door.
Zhou Xiao pushed her away. “I can go home by car. You don’t have to send me back. I am leaving now!” Then she closed the door and A Miao had to walk to the front of the car.
“Shen I, be careful.”
“Sure!” Shen I nodded to her and started the car.
Until she couldn’t see the car, A Miao turned into the villa.
“Your friend is unlike you,” Le Yi sat on the sofa and said.
A Miao stared at him. “When did you run out?”
“Oh, are you still holding the grudge?” Le Yi put down the coffee. “Well, it is not my decision to let you take the medicine. You should blame Shen! It was his idea.”
“Both of you are not good people.”
Seeing her eyes, he knew that she was still angry. Le Yi smiled helplessly and said, “I will stay here for a while. Are you sure you want to be like this all the time?”
“What are you doing here?” A Miao blurted out, but she felt regret at once. This was Shen Xinglan’s home and she could not stop his friend from living here.
“This is a long story…”
“Then you don’t have to tell me!” A Miao put on a false smile and said, “This is not my home. You can stay if you want.”
Le Yi raised his eyebrow. “You and Shen…”
“There’s nothing between us.” A Miao looked at him in shock, “I am going upstairs. Suit yourself.”
Shaking his head against A Miao’s back, Le Yi walked into the kitchen.
“Aunt Zhang, prepare more dishes tonight.”
Aunt Zhang nodded happily. “Mr. Le, trust me. I know your favorite!”
“Not for me. The host is coming back.”
If A Miao stayed to chat with the doctor, she would have known that Shen Xinglan would come back this evening. Unfortunately, she ran so hurriedly that she was extremely shocked when she went downstairs at night…
“You don’t want your eyes?”
Upon hearing this, A Miao immediately returned to normal. Yes, only the neuropathy would talk to her in this way.
“I don’t know you are back.” A Miao adjusted her expression and sat on the farthest chair from him.
Shen Xinglan glanced at Le Yi, who lifted his eyelids without speaking.
“The couple of you are so quiet.”
Five minutes later, Le Yi broke the silence. “It is not good for digestion.”
“Only if you don’t concentrate on eating will you have indigestion.” A Miao deliberately ignored the words of “the couple” that he just said.
Shen Xinglan looked at the big elbow in A Miao’s bowl and said, “The pigs focus on the food when they are eating.”
“Hehe…” A Miao inserted her chopsticks into the elbow, imagining it as Shen Xinglan’s face.
Le Yi shook his head without speaking. “We’d better eat quietly.”
A Miao quickly finished her dinner and then stood up. “I am full. You can take your time.”
“See, she is so rude.” Shen Xinglan snorted at her back, “What are you laughing at?” Turning his head, he saw that Le Yi was laughing.
Le Yi poured himself a glass of red wine and said, “Nothing, It’s the first time I saw your jealousy. It’s very interesting.”
“Me?” Shen Xinglan pointed at himself, “Jealousy?”
His face darkened. “Are you doing too many surgeries and get yourself blind? Which eye of yours saw me being jealous?”
“Both eyes!” Le Yi pointed at his own eyes.
Shen Xinglan snorted, “I am jealous of what? You?”
“No, you are jealous of this.” Le Yi pointed to the garbage on the table. They were the elbow bones which was just spat out by A Miao…
Crack! Shen Xinglan almost smashed the wine glass in his hand.
“Shen!” Le Yi completely ignored his anger and looked at him seriously. “When I called you in the afternoon, you hinted at me telling A Miao that you were coming back at night.”
So when Shen Xinglan found A Miao was surprised to see him, he glanced at Le Yi with a complaint. However, he did not notice that.
“Whether she is Shanshan or not, she is special to you…” Le Yi looked at him. “I hope you can figure it out. Don’t subconsciously think of her as Shanshan. It is not fair for both her and Shanshan.”
Shen Xinglan, who looked disdainful last second, was stunned and then slowly closed his eyes.
“Shanshan is a very important memory for you and us, but it should not affect your feelings.” Le Yi was a doctor, so he could analyze the problem calmly.
“Guilty and gratitude are not equal to love.”
Shen Xinglan suddenly opened his eyes. “Stop.”
After a moment of silence, Le Yi smiled and added, “You are the best among us, but obviously your EQ is not very high!”
“It’s better than you, who work with scalpels.” Shen Xinglan stood up and walked a few steps before he stopped. “I will think over your words.”
There was only Le Yi still sitting in the hall. He raised a toast at Shen Xinglan’s back and muttered,
“You are tempted, but you still refuse to admit it. I hope that by then… you won’t regret it!”