The Kitty Became a Cutie and Was Pampered in the 80s
Chapter 415 Unforgiven (2)_1

Chapter 415: Chapter 415 Unforgiven (2)_1

Xiu Xi’s wound was not serious, just a small cut that required only a bit of medicine. It didn’t even need to be bandaged, and it would soon scab over and heal.

After the doctor had finished treating Xiu Xi, he left.

As soon as the doctor had gone, Xiu Xi, touching the wound on his forehead, looked into Zhao Li’s eyes and asked her, "It won’t leave a scar, will it?"

"Huh?" Zhao Li didn’t quite understand what he meant for a moment.

When she realized what he was asking, she immediately nodded, "Right, right, it won’t leave a scar."

Xiu Xi nodded his head and then closed his eyes, finally at ease.

"..." Zhao Li.

Looking at Xiu Xi who had closed his eyes again to sleep, she had always felt that the little boy the Ruan Family was raising was very aloof. She had never imagined that he would care so much about his appearance—it was both amusing and exasperating.

Ruan Jianguo and Shu Jiao hurried over as soon as it got dark in the evening.

Zhao Li actually didn’t want to leave, but with the boy’s biological mother present, she really wasn’t in a position to care for him. She didn’t know what conflict there had been between Ruan Jiaojiao and her mother, but thinking about Ruan Jiaojiao’s earlier distress, she took Ruan Jianguo aside to give him some advice.

It was understood in the world that inborn affections didn’t exist, they were all cultivated over time.

She admonished Ruan Jianguo that if Ruan Jiaojiao still resisted Shu Jiao, he must not lose his patience with her. He had to take things slowly.

Ruan Jianguo nodded to indicate he understood. When he saw Lu Zhiwei, who had come to pick him up, he greeted him and then turned back toward the hospital.

Lu Zhiwei had been there for a while, waiting outside.

Watching Ruan Jianguo’s retreating figure, knowing they lived in town, he hadn’t driven but had walked there, Lu Zhiwei thought of Zhao Li’s solicitousness over the past few days and said somewhat helplessly, "You won’t have to come so often from now on. Their actual mother is back. If you keep coming every day like this, it’s going to be annoying."

"You don’t know a damn thing!" Zhao Li exploded immediately upon hearing this.

Staring fiercely at Lu Zhiwei, she said, "What do you think I am? Yes, I admit that I really like Jiaojiao, I wish she were my own flesh and blood. But I’m not the sinister person you’re making me out to be."

"Now, with Ruan family’s aunt having a stroke and Jiaojiao being injured, Wu Le and Du Qing both have jobs. Can you honestly say a bunch of men can handle everything by themselves? Besides, it’s her own mother, and I’m not trying to compete with her. But right now Jiaojiao doesn’t want her, and she can’t be left alone, so what’s the harm in my looking after her a bit more?"

"No harm, no harm. Just keep your voice down; I didn’t mean it that way," Lu Zhiwei quickly tried to soothe her when he saw his wife was angry, saying, "You’re running back and forth several times a day, and I’m just worried that you’ll get tired too."

"Then try not to annoy me so much every day!" Zhao Li retorted irritably, giving him a fierce glare, then turned and walked ahead. Lu Zhiwei hurriedly followed her.

Their figures gradually disappeared into the night, and neither of them noticed the person they were discussing standing in the shadows, her eyes filled with pain.

It was only at this moment.

That Shu Jiao truly understood what Du Qing had meant.

Having been away for more than a year, she seemed to have become completely unnecessary.

The Ruan Family didn’t need her anymore.

Her daughter didn’t need her either.

—

Ruan Jiaojiao awoke once in the middle of the night.

After waking up, she couldn’t fall back to sleep right away. She scanned the hospital room and saw Shu Jiao and Ruan Jianguo lying on another empty hospital bed in the room.

Shu Jiao was facing in her direction.

Ruan Jiaojiao, from a few meters away, scrutinized her.