No Bounds for the CEO’s Spoiling

Hearing that, Qin Muxuan got nervous right away. Then she bit her lips and asked,

“How’s it possible for Xiaobai to get sick? He was perfectly fine before I left.”

“He stopped eating and drinking for three days because you have left.”

After hearing Gu Zijin’s answer, Qin Muxuan felt a sharp pain in her heart. She got in the car right away and headed straightly for the hospital. After getting off the car in a hurry, she almost fell onto the ground due to her flustered steps. Luckily, Gu Zijin helped her quickly. Shortly afterwards, they arrived at the VIP floor. As Qin Muxuan pushed the door of a ward open, she saw Qin Xiaobai lying on the bed right away. Right now, he was still on a drip with his face seeming deadly pale. Qin Muxuan, eyes turning red, shed tears right away.

She had a strong sense of guilt and even felt that she didn’t deserve to be Qin Xiaobai’s mother. ‘I should have realized this. I should have said goodbye to him before I left instead of hiding my departure from him.’ She thought.

Having seen Qin Muxuan’s face, Elderly Lady Gu snorted. Then she walked out with her walking stick without saying anything.

After Elderly Lady Gu had left, Qin Muxuan sat by the bed right away and held Qin Xiaobai’s little hand. Gu Zijin stood on the side the whole time. His heart couldn’t help but ache when he saw Qin Muxuan’s look. ‘Is my heart aching for her?’ The moment Gu Zijin had that thought, he couldn’t believe it himself.

After Qin Muxuan sat there for a long while and stopped shedding tears, Gu Zijin said,

“I’ve discussed it with grandma. You can come back to the Gu’s house, considering you are doing this for Xiaobai.”

Qin Muxuan didn’t say anything, with her thin shoulders still shivering after the crying. Only after a long time did she finally get her own voice back. She said,

“Gu Zijin, I am really very useless, right?”

She was not able to raise Xiaobai, nor was she able to take good care of him. The only thing she could do was staying with Xiaobai under the permission of the Gu’s family.

Thinking of that, Qin Muxuan felt a distinctly sharp pain deep inside. Gu Zijin didn’t utter a word and only put his coat on Qin Muxuan’s body. Then, with a sullen look flashing in his eyes, he said,

“Only the weak cry. Qin Muxuan, if you want to be stronger, you need to retreat in order to advance and make concessions at the right time.”Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

Hearing his low and magnetic voice, Qin Muxuan felt it was like a noble person showing sympathy for a nobody. Then after a long time, with her heart shivering, she finally said,

“Thanks.”

Although Gu Zijin’s words sounded mean, he did make sense. She had to force herself to become more powerful and stronger. She couldn’t be a delicate girl who could only cry and escape every time she ran into difficulties. She dared not face her miserable life for five years, and she couldn’t keep doing this anymore.

Qin Xiaobai woke up in the second half of the night. Seeing Qin Muxuan sleeping beside him, he rubbed his eyes and thought that he must have an illusion because he hadn’t eaten anything for three days. Then he blinked his eyes and reached out his hand to touch Qin Muxuan’s hand gingerly while saying in a sobbing tone,

“Dabai, is that really you?”

Gu Zijin happened to get into the ward after he had finished making a phone call. Then he saw Qin Xiaobai looking at Qin Muxuan with a careful expression on his face as if he was looking at a peerless treasure. Gu Zijin was deeply touched by the scene. Next, he took a step back and closed the door gently. Now he realized that Qin Muxuan meant a whole world to Qin Xiaobai over the last five years.

The next day, Qin Xiaobai was fully recovered and able to leave hospital. After they all arrived at Gu’s house, Elderly Lady Gu who didn’t want to see Qin Muxuan went straight to her room and never got out. Qin Xiaobai kept his eyes glued to Qin Muxuan and held her tightly with his two chubby hands since he had to make sure that Qin Muxuan wasn’t his illusion. Qin Muxuan could sense how fragile and fearful Qin Xiaobai was, so she said tenderly,

“Xiaobai, mom won’t leave anymore.”

“Really?”

Qin Xiaobai looked at Qin Muxuan with his eyes brimming with tears. Suddenly he cried and said in a weeping tone,

“Dabai, don’t lie to me. My teacher said that adults should never lie to kids.”

He seemed to try to vent out all his grievance during the past three days. It was the first time Qin Muxuan saw him crying so bitterly like other kids. She always assumed Qin Xiaobai as a tough kid since he had never even told her about any of his bruises or cried in front of her. Thinking of that, Qin Muxuan felt even more grieved.

In the evening, Gu Zijin cooked the dinner by himself. Mrs. Gu still felt a bit guilty to Qin Muxuan because of what had happened a few days ago, so her attitude toward Qin Muxuan became gentler than before. Nanny Chen picked some dishes and brought them to Elderly Lady Gu upstairs. As Mrs. Gu saw Gu Zijin serving the dishes, she teased him,

“How come I never saw you being so active when I wanted you to cook for us! What a rare thing to see!”

Qin Xiaobai had starved for three days and only ate a little in the hospital. Now, as he saw all these delicious dishes, he just couldn’t stop putting everything in his bowl with his chubby hands,

“Wow, Dabai, the king crab is so delicious, you should have some.”

Seeing Qin Xiaobai’s hands which were covered with oil, Qin Muxuan ate the crab meat which was handed to her by him and then wiped his hand with a tissue. Then she asked Nanny Chen to bring them plastic gloves. The four dishes and a soup which had been made by Gu Zijin were all masterpieces. Qin Muxuan couldn’t help but eat a bit more than usual. Meanwhile, Gu Zijin shelled the shrimps with his long and beautiful hands and then put all the shrimp meat in Qin Muxuan’s bowl, which made her a bit dazed. However, this time she didn’t want to refuse this but actually felt good to rely on him.

Qin Xiaobai still stuck to Qin Muxuan like glue all the time and asked to sleep with her at night. Hearing that, Gu Zijin showed a sullen look in his eyes. As he saw Qin Muxuan packing up her clothes in the master bedroom and preparing to leave, he grabbed her hand and said,

“I’ll talk to Xiaobai later, you don’t have to go.”

“Gu Zijin, what if Xiaobai get scared being alone?”

Qin Muxuan frowned and tried to push Gu Zijin’s hand away. However, Gu Zijin stopped her in a cold voice,

“I will also get scared being alone.”

“…”

Qin Muxuan couldn’t help twitching her mouth, not daring to believe that Gu Zijin had just said that he would be scared of sleeping alone. At last, Qin Muxuan gave up sleeping in Xiaobai’s room because Gu Zijin kept staring at her with his icy cold eyes like a wolf. The look in his eyes was trying to say that if she dared to leave this room, he would eat her alive. Seeing his face, Qin Muxuan couldn’t help getting nervous. It was obvious that between the father and son, Gu Zijin was the scarier one.

As a result, after Qin Xiaobai had taken a shower, he lay on the bed right away but only learned that Qin Muxuan wouldn’t come to sleep with him tonight. Then he muttered with his mouth twitched,

“Dad is a bad person indeed. He took my Dabai away.”

After that, he held his Pikachu doll in his arms and rolled on the bed for a while before falling asleep.

The next morning, Qin Muxuan got up early. She didn’t tell Yin Youting that she had moved back to the Gu’s house. When she checked her phone, she saw a few missed calls from him. Yesterday, she only focused on Xiaobai and did not realize that her phone was out of battery.