Mrs Fox Heinous Revenge: Can You Love A Villainess like Me?
Chapter 159: Coldness Could Melt

Chapter 159: Coldness Could Melt

Walking out of the room, AiLin felt a great chunk of burden on her shoulders have left, leaving her much more comfortable than the time she had first entered the room. Upon looking at the chair, she found it odd that YanLan who had promised to be sitting here was nowhere to be found. She waited for a while when a nurse walked past by her and noticed her, "Oh you must be searching for the person who was here earlier. He told me to tell you that someone else will come in a quick minute."

"Oh, thank you for telling me," AiLin answered the kind nurse who smiled gently as she continued with her work. AiLin stayed in the room for a while, looking at her watch and then at her phone when she saw a familiar face from the corner of her eyes that caused for her heart to thump out loud.

She snapped her eyes open, her head darted toward the place she had just seen. There she found a man stood tall at the end of a hallway. Dressed in the long brown coat, his brown hair seemed to reach his neck, stopping before it could touch his shoulders. A prominent wound settled on his left eyebrow, like an old cut that could never disappear even after how long six years have passed.

She stared at him for a long time, unable to hold herself from whispering, "Bai HaiZe."

The other man didn’t hear her words, she was too far after all, but oddly his face turned softly toward her, his eyes at first looking around the hallway until it settled on her face and his brown orbs shook briefly. Gasped slipped from his mouth as he muttered out loud, "AiLin?"

He was standing with a few people around him who seemed eager to gain his attention but Bai HaiZe was quick to ignore his friends, pushing them aside by their shoulders and rushing toward AiLin.

"AiLin!" Bai HaiZe rushed toward her, stopping in front of his chair as he peered at her for a long time, he seemed to studying her face while she was still trying to comprehend if she was still inside Dr. Mei’s room and was still in that haze of trying to remember her past, meaning that this could just be a fragment of her imagination.

Surprisingly, Bai HaiZe immediately touched her hand that made her realized that she wasn’t dreaming. She softly pulled her hand away, shocked by how quick she had pulled her hands away from him either.

"Bai... HaiZe?" She asked him, curiously looking at his face. He was so familiar to her. That tall nose bridge, that cheeks that flushed slightly, his skin that was much paler than hers, he was often told sick and his fair skin was a complex of his. She also remembered his hair had always been groomed well, cut short but apart from those things, he looked completely the same as the past.

Then why does she feel so unfamiliar with him? It was odd, his facial features didn’t really changed but there was something that change profoundly about him, something she couldn’t seem to figure out herself what it was.

As if the "Bai HaiZe" she remembered during high school wasn’t particularly similar to the "Bai HaiZe" she was seeing now.

"Yes, I’m Bai HaiZe! AiLin," he whispered sincerely, "It’s been such a long time, isn’t it? I didn’t know how to contact you after high school, I tried so many many ways but I always find myself going to a dead end."

"Oh," AiLin found herself speechless. After seeing Bai HaiZe after such a long time, a bubble of nervousness settled on her throat. He had treated her so well back then in high school, the only person who would always run to save and protect her in times she needed, like the time when she was locked in the bathroom, when OuYang and his men tried to assault her, and.. eventually... the father of her child.

She found herself fiddling with her fingers anxiously as she recalled about her angel baby.

"How have you been?" She asked instead, trying to veer the conversation from talking about the past.

Bai HaiZe looked at her carefully and he softened the edges of his smile, looking very genuine as he responded, "I haven’t been well. I have been searching for you for a very long time. How could I ever be well when every time I searched for you, I only found nothing?"

"Oh surely your life isn’t centered around me," she joked while Bai HaiZe seemed smiling at her but he wasn’t laughing at her joke.

He then bent down his knees, surprising her as he lowered his height to be in a lower eyesight than her upon noticing that she didn’t want to crane her neck to look up at him.

Seeing that face closer made her heart race. But it wasn’t a race that she had felt with Li ZiChen. It was the type of heart race that she felt whenever she recalled about her past and the people who wronged her. This made her feel immensely guilty as like her, Bai HaiZe is a victim. But it seemed her past had scarred her far too deep that she couldn’t find anything in her past as anything peaceful and rather frightening.

She gulped as Bai HaiZe who had been staring at her face as if to carve down all her features went quiet before uttering in a saddened tone, "Did I do something terrible to you? Do you hate me now, AiLin?"

"What?" AiLin lifted her face, looking at his eyes that seemed darkened by gloominess of a heartbreak. She clenched her hands, guilt all over her guts. She smiled before she shook her head, "No, of course not. I don’t hate you, HaiZe. I just remembered a lot about the past looking at you."

"The bad things?" Bai HaiZe smiled again, "Please don’t remember only the bad things about the past, don’t you recall all the good things about us?"

AiLin looked at his face and smiled, "You’re right there’s a lot of good things that happened in the past too.." such as... such as what? What was it in her high school that was a good memory of hers?

The things she had done with Bai HaiZe must have been a good memory. Yeah? So why. Why is it that she can’t remember any of it?

AiLin grabbed her head, and a painful groan slipped from her mouth that made Bai HaiZe’s smile to drop. He gently pressed his hand on her head, questioning sincerely, "Are you alright? What’s wrong? Wait, is this the reason you’re in the hospital today? You’re sick?"

AiLin shook her head, she was still surprised by how much of her own memories that she had forgotten and she didn’t seem to realize until something try to hook it out of her. How odd, why does she feel as if she always remember everything so perfectly?

But whenever she tried to pull those memories, what came out of her head was a blank white slate.

She pushed her head slightly, trying to ease the sudden pain in the back of her head when she heard Li ZiChen’s voice that brought away all the gray clouds that had filled her heart. When she looked upward, she found herself surprised to see Li ZiChen walking out of the elevator.

"Put your filthy hands away from her." Li ZiChen demanded as he rushed toward AiLin. He snatched away AiLin’s head, bringing her gently behind him while he stood between him and Bai HaiZe. When the two eyes met, Bai HaiZe was the one who seemed the most surprised.

"You," Bai HaiZe said but he was already ignored by Li ZiChen who had rushed toward AiLin instead.

"Are you alright? Does your head hurt?" Li ZiChen was down on his knees, looking at her head, "Did he hit you?" He then asked, his tone threatening like a sharp blade that was going to get an eye for an eye.

AiLin snapped her eyes at him and shook her head quickly, knowing well that Li ZiChen’s hands had already turned into a tight fist.

"No," she quickly answered, "I just had a headache after the therapy session, it’s nothing big. Ah, this is Bai HaiZe. Bai HaiZe, this is my..." friend? Lover? She couldn’t find the right words and in the end settled with just the name, "Li ZiChen."

Li ZiChen looked at Bai HaiZe and when the two gaze clashed, a fierce threat caused the air to turn stagnant.

"It seems like you know AiLin," Li ZiChen stood up, "An old friend?"

"High school friends," Bai HaiZe answered, "What about you?"

"AiLin’s family," Li ZiChen answered simply but Bai HaiZe’s smile was gone instantly. Meanwhile Ailin was taken aback as Li ZiChen had introduced her as his family.

Family.

That weighed more than what she could ever expect.

Lover, partner, friend, they weren’t as important as family...

She found herself staring at him in startle while a wave of warmth wash over her heart, melting all the coldness that had settled in her heart about "family".