Into the Night, Jiao Jiao Gets Kissed by a Business Tycoon
Chapter 105: Cheng Yi Likes Xinan

Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Cheng Yi Likes Xinan

He actually kept it...

But Xinan quickly thought, such a valuable thing, if he didn’t keep it, would he have thrown it away? That would be too wasteful.

Xinan closed the drawer and rifled through the papers on the desk, but they were all things she couldn’t understand.

But just when she was about to put the documents back, a white A4 paper fluttered to the ground.

Xinan bent down to pick it up, giving it a casual glance, when she was struck with shock.

Cheng Yi, stomach cancer.

Cheng Yi had stomach cancer!

How could this be? Wasn’t Cheng Yi just suffering from a gastric ailment, how did it turn into stomach cancer, why would it be stomach cancer...?

Xinan held the test report in her hands, reading it over and over again, thinking she must have read it wrong, maybe her eyes were deceiving her, but the fact was, no matter how she looked at it, the words still read "stomach cancer."

Xinan’s tears fell without warning, dropping onto the report. She reached to wipe them away, but the tears fell incessantly like rain.

Eventually, she couldn’t hold back any longer and slumped over the desk, sobbing unrestrainedly.

She could never have imagined that Cheng Yi would contract this disease.

He was Cheng Yi, how could he be brought down by an illness?

Xinan didn’t know how to describe her feelings at that moment, only feeling as if there was a monster tearing inside her chest.

Where it turned into heartache and despair, along with disbelief and sorrow...

Crying and crying, Xinan seemed to realize something; in order to confirm it, she slowly lifted her head, wiped away the tears on her face, and glanced at the test date on the report.

That moment, a faint smile appeared on Xinan’s face, but it was filled with intense sadness and bitterness.

Just as she had thought, the test was performed a few days before she confessed her love to Cheng Yi.

No wonder Cheng Yi had come back from New York and seemed like a different person, so cold toward her. It had been because of this...

His rejection of her confession was likely related to this.

So it wasn’t that he didn’t love her anymore, it was because he was sick...

"You big dummy, Cheng Yi you big dummy!" Xinan felt incredibly distressed in her heart: "Cheng Yi, you really are the biggest fool I’ve ever known in this world..."

He had been pushing her away again and again. Had she not seen this report, was he planning to keep it from her for a lifetime?

But why wouldn’t he seek treatment?

Xinan remembered hearing Cheng Yi saying he needed to go for a checkup near the study door; did he actually go? What was the result? Had his condition worsened?

What if it had worsened? At this thought, Xinan’s face instantly turned pale, her fingers clutching the report so hard that her nails dug into her palm, the pain jolting her back to reality.

Finally, Xinan took a full two hours in the study to come to terms with the truth.

-

The company wasn’t very busy today, so Cheng Yi left work early.

Halfway through the drive, Cheng Yi suddenly thought of something and made a U-turn, heading to the cake shop that Xinan had always said had a good taste, and bought a strawberry cake.

He had previously feared that Xinan might not digest sweets well at night, so Cheng Yi had only bought her a few times.

Cheng Yi, carrying the cake, entered the gate’s passcode, picturing Xinan’s surprised smile when she saw the cake, making him unable to resist a grin.

After opening the door and stepping into the living room, seeing Xinan sitting on the couch, Cheng Yi smiled faintly, "I passed by a cake shop on the way home from work and picked this up for you."

Xinan glanced at the beautifully packaged cake on the table and tugged at the corner of her mouth: "Could you cut it for me?"

Cheng Yi, of course, wouldn’t refuse, elegantly unwrapping the cake box and slicing the cake inside into perfect shapes onto a plate.

Xinan took a small bite of the cake, but the strawberry cake that used to taste incredibly delicious now seemed bland and tasteless.

"Cheng Yi, how did you get the stomach disease?" Xinan suddenly asked.

Cheng Yi’s hand, holding the cake, abruptly paused, "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"I just thought of it."

"How else can you get a stomach disease? It must be due to irregular eating habits and an erratic schedule," said Cheng Yi.

"And... what about stomach cancer?"

Time seemed to freeze at that moment, and it was a long while before Xinan heard Cheng Yi’s voice, "How did you know?"

"I saw the medical report in your study," Xinan answered truthfully.

Cheng Yi let out a sigh, "I see."

He had gone through so much effort to keep this matter from Xinan.

And yet, after all the twists and turns, she still found out.

"Does it hurt?" Xinan had looked up online that cancer pain was severe and couldn’t be treated with medication; one could only endure it.

"I’ve been taking medicine to control it, so it’s not too bad."

Cheng Yi’s answer was very vague, not specifying whether it hurt or not, but Xinan knew that he only wanted to avoid worrying her.

"Did you get that examination you mentioned before?"

"Not yet."

Xinan wasn’t surprised to hear his answer; she thought back to that day in the hospital when Dr. Chen had talked with him outside for so long, probably about this issue.

"Why haven’t you gone?" Xinan stared into Cheng Yi’s eyes, "And why... why haven’t you sought treatment?"

"I’m afraid of pain." I’m afraid it will pain your heart.

"That’s a lie," Xinan called him out directly.

A man who hadn’t uttered a word when he fractured a bone playing basketball couldn’t possibly be afraid of pain.

Cheng Yi put down the cake he was holding and sat beside Xinan, touching her head gently, "Nannan, how could I lie to you?"

"But you did lie to me. You said you had a stomach ailment, and you even said you didn’t like me..." Xinan felt her nose starting to tingle again.

If you took what Xinan said as true, then he really did lie to her. Cheng Yi couldn’t dislike anyone, and he wouldn’t dislike Xinan.

"It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have lied to you. I shouldn’t have said those things to you. It’s all my fault. I was wrong," Cheng Yi coaxed Xinan as if consoling a child.

"Do you like me then?"

"Yes."

"Like who?"

"Xinan, Cheng Yi likes Xinan, likes her very much."

After so many years, Cheng Yi finally spoke those words.

The secret he had kept buried deep in his heart for nearly fifteen years.

Xinan finally showed a smile, but her expression quickly turned serious. She looked at Cheng Yi and said slowly, "Go get treatment... No matter what the outcome, I will stay by your side, and Uncle Cheng and Aunt Cheng definitely want you to get treated too. To live a good life, because, after all, nothing is more important than living."

Cheng Yi held Xinan’s hand and said softly, "Okay."

Xinan held back, "Then I’ll go to the hospital with you tomorrow."

"Okay," Cheng Yi nodded.