Chapter 377 - The More Beautiful Something Was, the More Poisonous It Was! (1/2)

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It was already the morning of the following day when Ning Shuqian woke up. Her wound didn’t hurt so much like the previous night anymore. Probably because the painkillers had worn off, she still felt that the wound was unbearably painful.

“Aunt Ning, you’re awake!” Xia Ruya’s pale face blushed slightly with wholesome joy.

Ning Shuqian looked pale and weak. Due to the blood loss, her real age showed up evidently. She looked at the Xia Ruya beside her and asked, “Silly child, why are you here?”

Xia Ruya bit her lips and said, “Uncle Wen called me in the morning and asked me to come over to accompany you. Only then did I know that something happened to you!”

“Where’s your Uncle Wen?” Ning Shuqian saw that her huge almond eyes were slightly puffy with faint traces of tears on her pale face, which looked worried and felt very touched.

Xia Ruya smiled and said, “Uncle Wen was by your side for the whole of last night and only went to the office this morning.”

Recalling how Wen Haowen had set his work aside yesterday, rushed to the hospital to accompany her, spoke to her gently, showered her with love and concern, Ning Shuqian felt a gush of joy in her heart.

“Aunt Ning, the doctor said that you can’t eat anything for the time being. Drink some water first.” Xia Ruya adjusted the hospital bed slightly, allowing Ning Shuqian to lean slightly on it, placed a cup of warm water by her lips, and fed her.

Once the warm water touched her lips, Ning Shuqian felt thirsty and couldn’t help but finish the entire cup of water.

After that, Xia Ruya gently rubbed a cotton bud dipped in olive oil on Ning Shuqian’s lips.

Ning Shuqian only felt her dry, chapped lips moisten up comfortably as she looked at Xia Ruya with an even softer gaze.

Perhaps due to drinking too quickly, Ning Shuqian felt a p.r.i.c.kling pain in her abdomen and asked anxiously, “How’s my wound?”

Xia Ruya helped her to straighten her blanket and gently brushed the hair stuck on her face back. “Don’t worry, the doctor said that as your wound is in the abdomen area, it’ll affect your daily life slightly. However, it’s okay—after a few days of observation in the hospital and taking care of it for a while after that, it will heal!”

Ning Shuqian couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief. Subconsciously, she recalled how Shen Mengting dashed towards her as if she had lost her mind, the “psst” sound of the scissors piercing into her flesh still reverberated clearly by her ears, and the feeling of her body gradually turning cold as warm blood flowed out of it made her extremely frightened.

Raising her head, she saw Shen Mengting—that pair of deep, black eyes glowing with hysterical hatred like the boundless black hole was enough to swallow her.

She still remembered the expression on Shen Mengting then—unearthly like a ghost, cruel like a demon, scary like a man-eating beast. Till now, thinking of it still made her heart flutter with fear.

At that moment, she almost thought that she was going to die.

“Where’s Shen Mengting that little b*tch?” Ning Shuqian’s eyeb.a.l.l.s suddenly popped out like those of a dead fish, the expression on her face twisted and vicious like she was about to swallow a person, and her voice, forced from the depths of her throat, sounded hoa.r.s.e and awful like a snapped zither.