Chapter 179 - The Sudden Rain (2/2)

Mo Junyang was stunned when he touched Qingxue’s wet coat. Then he checked her other clothes, which were still wet. It meant that she sat there for so long but fell asleep in wet clothes, without planning to dry herself.

“You are so naughty!” Mo Junyang rebuked her angrily in a low voice and subconsciously reached out his hand to feel her cheek.

It was horribly burning.

Mo Junyang finally realized that Shi Qingxue’s red face didn’t result from the firelight, but her fever.

He hurriedly woke her up despite his anger and shouted anxiously, “Don’t sleep. You have a fever. Take off the wet clothes and dry them beside the fire.”

Shi Qingxue felt her head was heavy, as if there was a big stone inside. It was difficult to open her eyes, and she was even unwilling to move her finger. She just said unhappily, “Hmm.” Then she remained quiet and unmoved again.

“Get changed first. Sleep after changing your clothes.”

Mo Junyang persistently helped Shi Qingxue up and didn’t allow her to abuse herself.

“Don’t disturb me!”

Shi Qingxue furiously patted Mo Junyang’s hand away and then curled up, leaning against the wall.

Mo Junyang could do nothing to her but cautiously carry her to the fire’s side, comforting her softly. “Take off your coat and dry it, okay? In case you get a cold.”

Maybe because his voice was too soft this time, Shi Qingxue didn’t get mad although she still showed a resentful expression on her face. She just shrank in his arms and murmured, “No!”

“Fine! I will help you…” Mo Junyang sighed deeply and gently took off Qingxue’s coat. When her wet underwear was revealed, he didn’t dare to move.

He hugged her more closely and put his dry coat on her.

Shi Qingxue felt more comfortable and her tense face relaxed. She reached out her arms to embrace Mo Junyang’s waist and put her face close to his chest, like a kitten warming itself beside a stove.

Mo Junyang gazed at Shi Qingxue’s red sleeping face. After a long while, he finally couldn’t help but slowly caress her tender face with his rough thumb.

He felt bitter and showed deep pain in his dark eyes.

If Shi Qingxue were awake, she would be surprised at Mo Junyang’s strong emotional response.

But she closed her eyes and didn’t see that or hear the man’s murmur in a deep and hoarse voice.

“I once thought that it was fine no matter what happened, as long as you were Shi Qingxue.

“But do you know how happy I was when I knew that you ‘came back’, too? Even if you would hate me with the memory of the previous life, I felt happy.

“Not until then did I realize that I always looked forward to your ‘coming back’!

“Because only with you, my life will be meaningful.

“But now, you are here but you don’t remember me. I don’t know what to do.

“If I have never owned you, maybe I can endure losing you or getting a substitute. But…I lost you after I owned you…”

Mo Junyang didn’t go on but closed his eyes and concealed all his emotions.

It seemed as if nothing had happened.

When Shi Qingxue woke up again, it was the next morning.

She lay on the hay and was covered with Mo Junyang’s coat, but he was nowhere to be seen.

“Junyang…” She called in a low voice like a cat’s, as if talking to herself.

While Mo Junyang with sharp ears heard that and stiffened all of a sudden. With his back straight, He gazed at Shi Qingxue on the hay and blurted out, “Can you remember?”

Shi Qingxue looked at where the voice came from and her eyes lit up. She shouted in surprise, “Junyang!”

Her bright smile was gorgeous like the flowers in summer, as if they didn’t quarrel the previous day.

But after calling him, she was stunned again and looked at Mo Junyang in doubt, asking, “What can I remember?”

Mo Junyang felt nervous and awkwardly avoided Shi Qingxue’s eyes, pretending to be calm. “Nothing. I guessed wrong.”

Shi Qingxue was smart. Even though she didn’t have the memory of the previous life, she understood what Mo Junyang was asking after thinking for a second. And she recalled something, so she instantly got the answers to all the questions in her heart.

Her fair-skinned face turned red and pale occasionally, and she opened her eyes wide to goggle at Mo Junyang, asking anxiously, “So did you treat me like this because I forgot everything in the past one year?”

“No!” Mo Junyang denied hurriedly, but his face was stiff, so it seemed that he told a very poor lie which revealed the truth.

After Shi Qingxue understood it, she was more confused.

She knew that she had forgotten many things, but wasn’t she Shi Qingxue because she forgot those things?