I Quit Being This Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 75

The next day.

Mang Ke arrived at the hospital early with a pot of congee. She had dragged Si Nan all over town just to buy the small cooking pot.

The emerald green container was round and cute, encircled by a silver stainless steel band, giving it a subtle air of quality.

—Knock, knock, knock—

Mang Ke came to the ward door and knocked.

Xun Fangyun was already awake and sitting on the hospital bed in a daze. The nanny heard the knock and turned around. Seeing it was Mang Ke, she said, “It’s you.”

Mang Ke had cared for Xun Fangyun at the villa for a period, so the nanny remembered her as a nice girl.

“I came to see Yun-Yun,” Mang Ke said, pointing to the person in the bed. “Has she eaten?”

“She has an examination today, and the doctor said no breakfast.”

“Oh, I see…”

Mang Ke quietly hid the small food container behind her back.

Xun Fangyun naturally saw her little movement and raised her hand helplessly to wave her over.

Mang Ke walked over and sat by the bed, placing the small food container on the adjacent table. “It looks like you can’t eat it. Auntie, have you eaten breakfast? This is for you.”

The nanny smiled, glanced at Xun Fangyun who didn’t object, and took the food box. “Thank you. Why don’t you two chat? I’ll step out for a bit.”

“Mhm.”

After the door closed, only Mang Ke and the person in the bed remained in the ward.

Mang Ke cleared her throat and said, “I’ll bring it for you next time. I didn’t know you couldn’t eat this morning.”

Xun Fangyun pursed her lips and shook her head. She pulled Mang Ke’s hand and wrote: 【Good】

Mang Ke smiled. “I think it’s pretty good that you can only write one word at a time like this. You won’t be able to talk back during an argument later.”

Xun Fangyun raised an eyebrow and opened her mouth to say, “Dream on.”

Mang Ke: “…The doctor told you not to talk too much! Does your throat hurt?”

Xun Fangyun thought for a moment and nodded earnestly.

In truth, after adapting, it wasn’t that painful, but it felt like sandpaper rubbing against her throat, which was both painful and numb.

“Use this instead.” Mang Ke pulled out a small tablet from her bag, opened the notepad, and said, “Write notes to me, like an elementary school student.”

Xun Fangyun couldn’t help but chuckle and nodded. She used her finger to write: 【Good】

After writing, Xun Fangyun thought for a moment and then typed: 【Help me push the wheelchair over. The doctor starts examinations at 8 o’clock】

For the entire morning, Mang Ke accompanied Xun Fangyun to collect reports. During this time, she also learned that Xun Fangyun’s mother was busy with work and hadn’t stayed with her for long before returning out of town, saying she would return after concluding her business.

At noon, the nanny brought food, which, as the doctor instructed, was light and easy on the stomach. Xun Fangyun had just woken up, and all her bodily indices were low. It would take some time for her to recover to a normal state.

After eating, Mang Ke pushed Xun Fangyun outside to bask in the sun.

Warm sunlight spilled onto the open area, where many other patients were also sunbathing. They half-closed their eyes, seeming to greatly enjoy the moment.

Mang Ke found a secluded spot, locked the wheelchair, and spread a blanket over Xun Fangyun’s knees.

“Sunbathe more; it helps with calcium,” Mang Ke said earnestly.

Xun Fangyun couldn’t help but smile. She felt that Mang Ke was completely treating her like a child now, but sunbathing did feel quite comfortable.

She had a soft, heavy cashmere blanket on her knees. The brown blanket looked particularly gentle in the winter sun. On her feet, she wore white fuzzy slippers that Mang Ke had bought at the adjacent store this afternoon. They were soft and clean, and they were Xun Fangyun’s favorite color.

Her short hair brushed past her ears. Xun Fangyun glanced at Mang Ke, who was sitting on a nearby stone stool, tilted her head, took her hand, and wrote a word on her palm: 【Cold?】

Mang Ke shook her head and laughed. “It’s very warm today. I feel like I haven’t seen such bright sunlight in a long time. Are you cold? If so, we’ll head back after a short while.”

Xun Fangyun shook her head. She pointed at Mang Ke, meaning: Are you cold?

Mang Ke couldn’t help but smile until her eyes curved. “I’m not cold at all~”

Just as the two were communicating through gestures and guesses, a tall woman walked in from the distant entrance.

Despite the deep winter, she wasn’t wearing much. Silver ornaments adorned her leather pants and boots, jangling as she walked. She wore a silver-white cropped fur coat that caught the wind as she moved. She glanced at the two in the corner and walked straight toward them.

“Do you want to hold my hand?”

“Mhm… What does this mean?”

“Kiss what?”

Before Xun Fangyun could raise her finger to touch Mang Ke’s lips, a sharp sound of footsteps approached, causing both of them to turn their heads.

The woman’s black hair flowed elegantly. Standing in front of them, she looked like a supermodel.

“I’ve been looking for you for a long time. I didn’t expect you to be sitting here.” The woman took off her sunglasses. The silver eyeshadow looked very high-end. Her red lips opened, and she said, “My mom heard you woke up and specifically asked me to come take a look.”

She shifted her gaze to Mang Ke beside her, pursing her lips into a slight smile. “Hi, ex-fiancée~”

Mang Ke: “…”

Xun Fangyun frowned and hugged Mang Ke tighter.

Jia Yun shook the sunglasses in her hand and said helplessly, “Don’t look at me like that. I was forced into marriage until I couldn’t bear it anymore. My mom heard you woke up yesterday and spoke to your mom about getting engaged again.”

Mang Ke: “!!!”

“Luckily,” Jia Yun smiled, “Auntie didn’t agree.”

Xun Fangyun grunted, rubbing Mang Ke’s hand as a sign of comfort.

Jia Yun looked at her expression with some confusion. “Didn’t you wake up? Why are you being so unresponsive? I did date you for a while; you should at least give me some face.”

Xun Fangyun glared at her and said nothing.

Mang Ke couldn’t help but speak up. “The doctor said her throat isn’t well, so she can’t talk right now.”

“Oh?” Jia Yun looked at her with interest, her eyes curving into a smile. “Then you can’t move or talk now. You really are like a disabled person.”

Xun Fangyun let out a muffled sound and turned her head away, refusing to look at her.

This woman is annoyingly smug.

Seeing that Jia Yun wasn’t an outsider, Mang Ke invited her to sit on the stone stool nearby and started explaining the current situation to her.

The winter sun shone warmly on them. Jia Yun rested her cheek on one hand, watching the endlessly chattering Mang Ke, finding her exceptionally amusing. This girl was just as cute as before.

Jia Yun smiled broadly at Mang Ke, while Xun Fangyun’s face grew increasingly unpleasant.

A small breeze blew, and Jia Yun sneezed loudly—

‘Achoo!!’

Mang Ke was startled by the loud sneeze and quickly pulled a tissue out of her bag to hand over. “Be careful not to catch a chill. You’re wearing so little and sitting in the wind. Don’t catch a cold later.”

Jia Yun took Mang Ke’s hand and rubbed it coquettishly. “If I get sick, will you take care of me?”

Mang Ke: “I…”

Before she could answer, Xun Fangyun pulled Mang Ke into her arms and kicked Jia Yun with her leg on the wheelchair. The kick landed exactly on the back of Jia Yun’s knee, making her yelp and collapse onto the stone table.

Jia Yun gritted her teeth. “Didn’t you say your legs can’t move!”

How could that kick still hurt so much!

Xun Fangyun puffed out her cheeks, hugged her little wife close, and glared fiercely at Jia Yun, trying to kill her with her eyes.

Jia Yun: “…”

Where did this childish ghost come from?!

Xun Fangyun continued to glare, making Jia Yun feel prickly all over. She rubbed her expensive fur coat, stood up, and said, “Stop glaring at me! I was your savior, how can you be so heartless?”

The revolution hadn’t even succeeded, and a teammate was already kicked out. This put Jia Yun in a difficult position.

Mang Ke looked at the fierce Xun Fangyun and couldn’t help but laugh into her shoulder. She had only known Xun Fangyun was prone to jealousy, but she never expected her jealousy to be so exceptionally cute.

“Alright, let me talk about serious business,” Jia Yun said.

Mang Ke wondered, “Wasn’t all that just now serious business?”

“Of course not,” Jia Yun said, looking at the two. “Xun Fangyun still has many things to handle after waking up, so for now, you should pretend to be mute and crippled, letting outsiders know you don’t pose a threat right now.”

Xun Fangyun looked at her curiously, picked up the writing pad, and wrote: 【Are you saying someone wants to harm me?】

Jia Yun glanced at it, shook her head, and said, “I can’t be sure, but it is a possibility.”

Xun Fangyun pondered for a moment, then wrote: 【I understand. Thank you for the reminder.】

“Be mindful of the people around you,” Jia Yun warned. “You are the sole heir to Auntie’s hundreds of billions in assets. The people who want your life have been watching you for a long time.”

Perhaps the accident that plunged Xun Fangyun into a coma was just the beginning.

Jia Yun glanced at Mang Ke, who had been excluded from the discussion, and then reverted to her previous smile. “Little Ke, are you free tonight? Let’s go shopping. I still haven’t had hot pot with you.”

“Hmm?” Mang Ke wondered. “Didn’t we eat it before?”

In the novel, they ate everything during the time they were dating. If it weren’t for this food partner’s good taste, Mang Ke wouldn’t have tried so many good things.

“That’s different,” Jia Yun said coquettishly. “I haven’t eaten with the current you. I want to try the taste.”

Mang Ke: “?”

What does that mean?

Jia Yun’s suggestive joke didn’t register with Mang Ke, but Xun Fangyun frowned and narrowed her eyes. She grabbed the handful of sunflower seeds placed on the stone table by an old man nearby and scattered them!

Pitter-patter, the seeds rained down onto the ground. Xun Fangyun bared her teeth, holding Mang Ke close like a protective parent guarding her cub.

Jia Yun patted her tens of thousands of dollars fur coat and said helplessly, “Fine, fine. You two are so boring, not having dinner with me and throwing seeds at me. Good deeds really go unrewarded.”

Mang Ke also felt that Xun Fangyun was a bit excessive. She looked at the genuinely wronged but unwilling to leave Jia Yun and reluctantly said, “Then I’ll go shopping with you tomorrow. We’ll go have hot pot.”

Xun Fangyun: “???”

Jia Yun: “Yay~”

She looked triumphantly at Xun Fangyun, smiled, and said, “I win. Wait for me to pick you up at your place tomorrow, darling~”

Mang Ke wondered, “Do you know where I live?”

Jia Yun: “Of course, I do. Just wait for me, sweetheart~”