Chapter 27
The next day was a work day and Cheng Lydia was awakened early by her alarm clock.
Dazed, she reached over and turned off the alarm on the phone sitting on the bedside table, intending to squint some more, only to turn around and find herself immobilized as if she were entangled in something.
She opened her eyes sulkily, and what met her lids were half-drawn light grey curtains and noisy floor-to-ceiling windows, and she was sleeping in her bed.
A bad feeling came over her, and she turned her head cautiously, then was startled by the familiar handsome face nestled behind her. shen Ron not only had his handsome face buried in the crook of her neck, but his long arms were wrapped around her waist like a snake.
Oh my God! They were clearly sleeping on each side last night, a full meter apart, so how …
In order not to let Shen Ron find out that she had snuck into bed, Cheng Lydia planned to slip from his arms back onto the couch, unnoticed. She squeezed Shen Ron’s wrist with her fingers and carefully moved his hand away from her waist, and was just about to get away when Shen Ron’s eyes suddenly opened at that moment.
Shen Ron looked at Cheng Lydia with a stunned expression, while Cheng Lydia, with her eyes slightly downcast, suppressed her weakness and got out of bed and put on her slippers as if nothing had happened.
Shen Ron quickly recovered from his dismay, and his handsome face was replaced with a mockery: “Aren’t you going to sleep on the couch? Why did you come to my bed? And deliberately climbed into my arms.”
Cheng Lydia originally did not want to pay attention to him, but this is too hard to say, as is can not help but turn back to look at him, gritting his teeth and said, “Young master Shen, look at the position you are now sleeping in, in the end who is crawling into whose arms.”
Shen Ron swept his head down and realized that he had slept on his left side and had moved to his right side at some point, so no wonder he had slept so warm and comfortable all night.
Through the bathroom door, Cheng Lydia heard Shen Ron sneezing incessantly, and wondered if she was infected by him and started sneezing herself.
After sneezing, Cheng Lydia felt a little dizzy in the head as well, thinking it couldn’t be the cold from last night, could it? It better not be true, she had an important surgery to perform today.
At the breakfast table, Old Mrs. Shen looked back and forth at Shen Ron and Cheng Lydia, who were almost taking turns sneezing, and asked with a concerned look on her face, “What’s wrong? How come the couple is still sneezing in unison?”
The young couple looked at each other and quickly avoided each other’s eyes again, looking down at their breakfast.
“It’s not a cold, is it?” The old lady continued to ask after.
“Probably some allergies in the nose.” Cheng Lydia smiled lightly.
If the old lady knew that she and Shen Ron were taking turns to freeze on the couch and both had a cold, she would surely command the maids to move the couch in the bedroom as well, right?
“How can you blush when you have an allergic nose? Zhang Jane, go get the thermometer.” Old lady.
“No need …” Before Cheng Lydia could finish her sentence, Zhang Jane had already gone to the living room cupboard to fetch the thermometer.
Zhang Jane brought the electronic thermometer and ‘ticked’ on Cheng Lydia’s forehead, 38. 8 degrees, and then on Shen Ron’s forehead, 38. 5 degrees.
“Look at that, you’ve got a fever and you’re saying it’s fine.” The old lady scanned the pair distressed, “What’s going on? Didn’t you cover up last night?”
Cheng Lydia played deaf and dumb and kept her head down to eat her own breakfast.
Shen Ron looked up at the old lady and said in a serious way, “Grandma, one quilt is not enough, so you should give us back the spare quilt.”
“The blanket wasn’t thick enough so you both froze and caught a cold?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Zhang Jane,” the old woman turned to Zhang Jane, “Remember to change the eldest young master’s quilt tonight with a thicker one.”
“Good.” Zhang Jane nodded with a smile.
Shen Ron rolled his eyes breathlessly.
Cheng Lydia, on the other hand, couldn’t help but snicker in her heart, what she liked most, was seeing Shen Ron’s breathless face when he was being suppressed by Old Lady Shen, that look was just adorable.
“I’m full.” Shen Ron got up from his chair.
“Both of you stay out of work today and get well first.” The old lady snapped.
“Grandma, we’re not kids, we’ll go to the doctor ourselves, so we don’t need to bother you.” Shen Ron patted Cheng Lydia’s shoulder, “Let’s go, dear.”
“Grandma we’ll go to work first.” Cheng Lydia got up after Shen Ron and walked out of the restaurant.
The old woman raised her voice behind her and reminded, “Remember to always go to the doctor.”
“Got it.” Shen Ron responded impatiently.
The two of them walked out of the main house together, Cheng Lydia saw at a glance the Ferrari that Shen Ron had sent for repair was parked next to the Bentley, Tom saw the two of them striding up and pulled out a set of car keys from his bag and handed them to Cheng Lydia, “Young lady, the car has been repaired, here are the keys.”
Cheng Lydia glanced at the keys in his hand and said with a calm face, “No, I’m not a good driver and I’m worried about crashing again someday.”
As she said this, Shen Ron’s eyes narrowed and he gave her a faint, cold look.
“That …” Tom looked back and forth at the two Shen: “The youngest took you to the hospital?”
“It’s better if you deliver, I have a meeting today.” Shen Ron put his arm around Cheng Lydia and motioned her toward Tom, smiling stiffly, “I’ll pick you up from work this afternoon.”
“Don’t anyone drive today.” The old lady’s voice came from the house, her voice arriving, standing in the doorway and saying to Tom, “You take them to Yarn for their appointments, then take the eldest to the office, and let Assistant Peng handle the meeting.”
When the old lady gave the word, Shen Ron had to meekly get into the Mercedes with Cheng Lydia.
It wasn’t that he didn’t dare to resist, but he knew very well his own grandmother’s personality, and any resistance in front of her was ineffective.
Inside the back seat of the Mercedes, Shen Ron and Cheng Lydia each occupy one side of the car, and nothing moves along the way except for a rehearsed round of sneezing.
Shen Ron didn’t say a word, and Cheng Lydia didn’t want to initiate a conversation, so she simply turned her face to the window and looked out at the street.
As the car drove into the city past a drugstore, Shen Ron suddenly spoke up, “Stop the car.”
Tom was taken aback and pulled over to the side of the road.
Shen Ron turned to Cheng Lydia: “You’re a doctor, you should know what medicine works better for both of our conditions, right?”
“You sure you don’t want to go for the shot.” Cheng Lydia looked at him askance and snickered mockingly, “How are you going to sleep on the couch at night if you don’t get cured?”
Shen Ron’s face changed and he snapped back, “Of course he’s following someone’s example of shamelessly getting into someone’s arms.”
“It was clearly you who got into my arms.”
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“Ahem …” Tom in the front seat couldn’t listen any longer and spoke apologetically, “Young lady, just tell me what medicine to buy and I’ll get it.”
Cheng Lydia then reacted to the fact that there was someone else in the front seat, blushing slightly, she pushed the door and got out of the car, bought two boxes of cold medicine from the pharmacy, leaned down and handed them to Shen Ron expressionlessly, “Take both at the same time, one of each, after meals.”
Seeing him looking at himself with a suspicious expression, Cheng Lydia raised an eyebrow, “What? Afraid I’ll poison you?”
“Expect you don’t have the guts to do that either.” Shen Ron slid the pill box into the locker, “Get in the car.”
“Yarn is just up ahead, I’ll just walk there myself, and by the way, I have surgery tonight, I can’t cooperate with your acting, so go back to yourself.” With that said, Cheng Lydia stood up straight and turned towards the sidewalk.
As soon as Cheng Lydia walked into the hospital, she was informed by Doctor Song that she was going to the emergency center to receive the patient.
As she walked into the emergency room, a familiar figure jumped into her eyelids and she asked after being stunned, “Teng, what are you doing here?”
The man named Vanten was Lim Toby’s assistant, whom she had met more than once.
Wan Teng said with an anxious face, “Young Madam, Young Master he suddenly fainted during the morning meeting, and it was me and my colleagues who brought him here.”
Lim Toby …
Cheng Lydia pushed her way into the crowd to see that the man lying motionless on the portable bed was indeed Lim Toby.
She quickly ran her hand over his carotid artery and checked his pupils again, while twisting her head to ask Wan Teng, “Was Mr. Lin uncomfortable before this?”
“Nothing unusual was found.” Wanten replied.
The young lady used to call the young master by his first name, but now she strangely called him Mr. Lin, and Wan Teng, who was the assistant, felt extraordinarily awkward hearing it.
A series of tests to measure blood sugar, blood pressure and temperature … did not reveal anything unusual.
Cheng Lydia held back her own discomfort and instructed the nurse to arrange further tests immediately, and was just about to transfer Lim Toby to the testing center when Lim Toby surreptitiously woke up.
“Eldest Young Master, you’re awake?” Wan Teng called out joyfully.
Lim Toby glanced around, sat up from his hospital bed and asked, “How did I get here?”
“You fainted in the conference room, young master, have you forgotten?”
“Well … it’s okay, let’s go back.” Lim Toby intended to get out of bed before he noticed Cheng Lydia standing in front of him in all white, he was stunned and then withdrew his gaze to continue his own movements.
Although she had hated him and resented him, when she arrived, he was her patient, and Cheng Lydia was able to keep her public and private affairs separate. She stared at Lim Toby with a straight face and said, “Mr. Lim, I think you still have to stay for a detailed examination before you leave.”
Mr. Lim … is still a strange title, Lim Toby thought to himself.
“No, I’m busy today.” He said blandly.
“The hospital has opened a green channel for you and everything has been arranged, it won’t waste much of your time.”
“Said no!” Lim Toby yelled at her impatiently.
Cheng Lydia stalled in her speech at his yell.
“Doctor Song, get him discharged.” She twisted her head and barked at Doctor Song, turning around and leaving.
She had just stepped out of the treatment room when she was suddenly blocked by someone running in the doorway, and in came Lim Edith and a loosely dressed Feng Ann, both with anxious faces. When she saw Cheng Lydia, Feng Ann grabbed her arm and asked urgently, “Where’s Toby? Is his life in danger? Where did you get him?”
Cheng Lydia looked at the frightened and crying Feng Ann, her heart was bitter, this woman who stole everything from her, and still dared to ask her for Lim Toby even at this point.
Didn’t she already have Lim Toby? Isn’t she already pregnant with twins and living happily ever after as a family of four?
“This lady, this is a hospital, please be quiet.” Cheng Lydia blandly yanked her hands off her arms, “Don’t worry, I’m not interested in your man, I’m not going to hide him.”
“Yeah, sis-in-law, how can she be interested in my big brother when she’s already hooked up with Ron?” Lim Edith glanced at Cheng Lydia mockingly and took Feng Ann’s arm to walk inside.
Seeing Lim Toby sitting on the bed intact, Lim Edith called out in relief, “Big brother.”
Feng Ann was instantly filled with joy, rushing up to hug him and cry and laugh, “Toby! Are you okay? I was almost scared to death by you, what will I do with the baby if something happens to you …”
“It’s okay, I won’t leave you and the kids behind.” Lim Toby put his arm around her with a gentle look on his face and patted her shoulder comfortingly.
Lim Toby was also charming when he was gentle, he had just never shown it to her in the past three years, Cheng Lydia smiled to herself and turned to leave the rescue room.