Amnesiac Fiancé Married Another, So I Married His Brother - Chapter 51

“Sweetie!”

“Sweetie…”

Chi Qingche sat by the hospital bed, sniffling and crying.

Li Su glanced at her, then looked up at the IV drip. “You’re pressing on my IV tube.”

Startled, Chi Qingche raised both hands, her lively eyes darting around nervously.

“Brother Chen, I didn’t mean to! I swear I wasn’t trying to murder your sister. You have to believe me, don’t look at me like that…”

So scary.

Li Chen sat by the bed in a simple black T-shirt, his muscular arms on full display. In a suit, he was the epitome of a business elite, but dressed like this, he looked like a rough, burly man, the kind who could knock her out with one punch.

Half-jokingly, Li Chen said, “Be careful. I’ve been in a bad mood lately, I feel like punching everything I see.”

Huo Xuanye, who had just returned from taking a call outside, felt his face start to ache at those words.

He immediately started tattling: “Wife, I remember you promised me you’d talk to your brother, tell him he can hit me, but not my face. When you were in surgery, the first thing he did was punch me in the face.”

Li Chen was stunned into silence, his gaze following Huo Xuanye’s movements.

Seriously?

This brat actually snitched?

How shameless could he be?

Li Su leaned back against the headboard. “I forgot to mention it.”

“Oh, then I forgive Brother-in-law.” Huo Xuanye knew when to take the out.

Li Chen snorted coldly. “How dare you? You failed to protect my sister, and now she’s lying in a hospital bed. And you have the nerve to complain? You actually complained about me? Huo Xuanye, I-I really, really, really can’t stand the sight of you right now! Or anyone from your family!”

Chi Qingche could practically feel the murderous aura radiating off Li Chen.

A protective older brother was just too cool, too handsome!!!

Ahhh!

So manly.

She couldn’t take it.

Her eyes sparkled as she gazed at him.

When Li Chen turned his head, she quickly lowered hers, too shy to meet his eyes.

Li Su watched silently. This was her hospital room.

All she wanted was to rest and recover so she could be discharged as soon as possible.

But what were these people doing?!

What were they even doing?!

Huo Xuanye stood weakly and helplessly by the bed, pouting as he poked Li Su’s cheek with a finger.

“Don’t touch her!”

Huo Xuanye curled his finger back, looking even more pitiful.

“Brother, don’t be like this. Anger hurts your health, try to stay happy.” Li Su spoke gently. “Why don’t you go to work? Go handle your business. You don’t need to stay here with me. Since he failed to protect me, punish him by making him take care of me every day until I’m discharged. He can be my personal servant, I’ll order him around.”

“That’s more like it.” Li Chen was still fuming.

His precious little sister, the apple of his eye…

She had been perfectly fine for over twenty years in the Li family.

But less than two months after marrying Huo Xuanye, she ended up in a hospital bed.

Li Chen stood up to leave. Chi Qingche grabbed her bag, told Li Su to rest well, and followed him out.

They stepped into the elevator together.

Hospitals were always crowded, no matter the time, and the elevators were always packed.

Squeezed into a corner, their arms brushed against each other.

Chi Qingche’s heart raced… physical contact!

Ah!

She was going crazy.

When the elevator reached the first floor, they followed the crowd out.

Li Chen asked casually, “Where are you headed?”

Chi Qingche answered obediently, “I’m going home.”

“Need a ride?”

“Is it on your way? If not, it’s fine, I can manage…” Her voice grew quieter with each word.

Li Chen was extremely cold. “Address.”

Chi Qingche obediently gave the address.

After getting in the car, Li Chen entered the navigation and reminded her, “Fasten your seatbelt.”

Chi Qingche buckled up. Actually, this wasn’t the first time she had ridden in Li Chen’s car.

Last time, during Li Su’s wedding, she was the bridesmaid, and he was the groomsman, they had taken Li Chen’s car then too.

Sitting in the car of the person she secretly admired, Chi Qingche stayed silent as Li Chen focused on driving with a stern expression.

Knowing he was in a bad mood, she held back from speaking.

Being able to spend a little more time with Li Chen, today was still a happy day!

In the hospital room, after everyone else had left, Huo Xuanye sat by the bed. “I just got a call. My brother is divorcing her.”

Li Su leisurely ate grapes. “Oh.”

“You’re reacting so calmly?”

“What reaction are you expecting from me?” Li Su stared at her leg. “Right now, I can barely take care of myself. I just want to focus on recovering. I don’t care about anything else. Whether he divorces or not has nothing to do with me.”

“True. But my brother isn’t just divorcing because Zhou Motang’s father hurt you, it’s also because he was deceived by her.”

“That island where Zhou Motang was? People were sent there back then to look for my brother.”

“She always knew his identity. She knew we were searching for him. She even knew he had a fiancée…”

Huo Xuanye told Li Su all this because he didn’t want to keep secrets from her. He wanted to be completely honest.

Li Su sighed. “Life is unpredictable.”

If Huo Zhenzhou hadn’t lost his memory, none of the subsequent events would have happened.

But he did lose his memory, got injured, and just like her, was confined to a bed to recover.

“Wife.”

Li Su stuffed a grape into his mouth.

Huo Xuanye ate the grape she fed him. “So sweet.”

Li Su said calmly, “Zhou Motang probably doesn’t want to divorce, right?”

“You’re sharp, wife. She refuses. She tore up the divorce papers and even claimed she’s pregnant.”

Li Su thought of Zhou Motang’s previous eagerness to conceive, it wouldn’t be surprising if she really was pregnant now.

She asked, “Is she?”

“No. My mom made her take a test.”

“She said she’d test again in a few days, something about it being her ovulation period last time…”

Li Su fell silent.

A bit ridiculous.

But… then again, it wasn’t entirely unreasonable.

Fertilization and implantation do take time.

Li Su was genuinely curious, if Zhou Motang really was pregnant, would Huo Zhenzhou still divorce her?

Given Huo Zhenzhou’s personality, probably not.

He was a man with a strong sense of responsibility.

This time, Zhou Motang had deceived him too much, and Huo Zhenzhou couldn’t tolerate that level of betrayal, hence the decision to divorce.

Even if they divorced, Huo Zhenzhou wouldn’t mistreat Zhou Motang.

It was just that what Zhou Motang wanted far exceeded what Huo Zhenzhou was willing to give.

As the wife of the eldest Huo son, that title alone, if Zhou Motang had the nerve, could earn her a lot of money.

Plenty of people would rush to hand her cash just for a chance to meet Huo Zhenzhou, to secure a partnership or an introduction.

“You’re with me at the hospital every day. Don’t you need to go to the office?”

“Just now, in front of my brother, you said you’d punish me by making me take care of you, being your 24-hours nurse. You told me to serve you however you wanted. Now you’re kicking me out? What’s that supposed to mean?” Huo Xuanye narrowed his eyes. “Hearing my brother’s getting divorced, and now you want me gone?! Do you want him to take care of you instead?”

Li Su: “…”

Which part of what she said had made him misunderstand??

Did his imagination always have to run this wild?

Creating his own reasons to get upset again.

“That’s not what I meant. I’m worried the company needs you, and you’re not there,” Li Su explained.

“I don’t want to hear it! You’re just sick of me and want my brother to take care of you instead!”

Huo Xuanye stood up. “Fine, I’ll give you what you want. I’ll call him right now to take care of you!”

Li Su clutched the green grapes in her hand, too furious to speak.

Once she recovered from her injury, she was definitely going to slap Huo Xuanye twice, once on each cheek, to knock some sense into him.