Chapter 24 Part2 (2/2)
She wasn’t able to comfort him, really it seemed to have made things worse for him. She depressedly went back to her hotel room, dropping onto her bed listlessly to sleep till dark.
She ate random stuff for dinner, then started to pack her clothes, shoes, computer, and pa.s.sport…...into the suitcase, just like the time she ran away from home.
In the end, she pulled on the zipper on the suitcase with great effort, sat on top of it and became lost in thought.
She kept feeling that she was missing something.
Everytime, she packed her bag to go away, there were thousands of voices in her head shouting-- --you must have forgotten something, there must be something you missed!
Nevermind…...she would never remember before she left. She would only discover after she arrived at her destination and opened her suitcase that she had forgotten to bring this and that.
She could never make a perfect decision just like how she could never pack a perfect suitcase.
The next morning, Xu Zang was happy to see her at the airport.
A long flight with the accompanying jet lag and messed up sleep disturbed her immune system. Qianxi got a bad headache once she arrived back in China, which developed into a cold.
When Xu Zang brought Qianxi home, he didn’t even have to put in a good word for her in front of her parents. Her mother almost cried when she saw the sickly Qianxi with a burning forehead.
To her mother, her pampered daughter had suffered a lot since she left home. Therefore, there wasn’t a need to scold her. Qianxi was forced to have some dinner.
They treated her too much like a kid……
She protested, “Mom……”
Her mother place her in the bed, brought out the thermometer, “Don’t talk, sleep well. Don’t tell me you have jet lag. Just take a nap. Get well first before we talk.”
Before her mother pulled the blanket all the way up, Qianxi struggled to keep her chin out of the blanket, “Mom…...where’s dad?”
“You still remember to care about him?” Her mom got upset, “He’s gone on a business trip right after he got well. He just won’t listen to me. So don’t be like you dad! Sleep well!”
Qianxi watched her mom’s expression and…...gave up.
Alright, it was better to have a sweet mom than a mom who had eaten explosives.
She closed her eyes and focused on being a model patient.
Her mom backed out the room and closed the door for her. Qianxi, under the blanket, was finding it more and more difficult to fall asleep.
It was her own home, her own room, and her own bed. Why did they all feel so strange to her now? She kept missing the hotel in Seattle, the bed in the hotel room.
That bed in the hotel was a very ordinary bed. Unlike the bed at home, she had upgraded the mattress and all the beddings, using all the top quality materials she could find. It was so comfortable that her girl friends who had slept on it for just one night refused to get off.
But now she couldn’t fall asleep on this comfortable bed.
She stared at the ceiling and thought about that man. What was he doing at this moment…...was he still upset?
Translated by Team DHH at dhh-workshop.blogspot.com
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