It turns out that he… likes Mo Mo?
After knowing she was with other men, he likes her so much to feel that his heart is soaked in a vinegar jar. [1]
He likes her so much that his heart shattered with a pang that hurt like hell when he saw her making out with those men.
He likes her so much that when he finds out she is dying, it feels like the sky is falling; he is more afraid of not having her in this world and losing her forever than of her belonging to another man.
Qin Chu’s gaze fell on Xiang Yi Mo’s face.
For a moment, he was dumbfounded. For another moment, he came to a realisation. Then, he was fired with enthusiasm, and an indescribable sadness surged through him.
Does… he have a chance? Will it be too late… if he tells her that he has always liked her when she wakes up later, but he had just been too stupid to realise?
If it was before, Qin Chu dared to say that if he reached out to Mo Mo, Mo Mo would definitely run to him without a doubt.
But now, he suddenly wasn’t sure.
Qin Chu gazed at Xiang Yi Mo. The hurtful words Xiang Yi Mo had said to him in his face without caring about his feelings were as vivid as if she had just sarcastically said them to him the previous second.
Every word that formed those sentences returned to him as if a freshly sharpened knife had cut into his heart.
It was sharp and hot, slashing one after the other unrelentingly and leaving that heart bruised and bloodied.
Xiang Yi Mo was unconscious for longer than she had been before.
Although like her previous episodes, she did not appear to be in a life-threatening condition, Jing Qian was worried about her health and did not let Lu Wang Chen and Ji Heng Yu take her back. Instead, he transferred her to a VIP ward for observation.
At this moment, four men who used to be close were gathered together.
But now, the relationship between one person and the other three had shattered, leaving only an insignificant amount of superficiality in their behaviour.
Thus, the atmosphere in the ward was unspeakably awkward.
Qin Chu was still a little overwhelmed. It seemed like yesterday that he was best friends with them, but the next moment it could be as if he was an enemy born at the same time as them, yet they had a deep hatred for him.
Looking at Qin Chu, who had followed him up and never left, Jing Qian was slightly impatient. “Qin Chu, it’s been a long time since you suddenly left Shangcheng. There’s us here to keep watch of Mo Mo.”
The implication was: It is time for him, an unimportant person, to go back.
Qin Chu, however, played dumb. He met Jing Qian’s warm gaze and said, “It’s fine.”
Even though Jing Qian didn’t make his words clear, his intention to kick her out was so obvious that anyone who wasn’t a fool would understand.
They didn’t want Mo Mo to wake up and see Qin Chu later, even if Mo Mo had promised to be their girlfriend and had decided to give up on Qin Chu, forget about him and leave him.
If Qin Chu had remained deluded, they would have been able to tolerate it. But after Jing Qian talked to him, they discovered that Qin Chu had suddenly come to his senses and wanted to graze in the old pasture. <sup>[2]</sup>
Heh, how can such a good thing happen?
So this variable, Qin Chu, made them wary.
Jing Qian’s gaze was a few degrees colder as he remained silent.
Qin Chu suppressed his worries about Xiang Yi Mo, not forgetting to send messages to his subordinates while waiting. In a deliberately derisive tone, he asked, “So you guys can be scared too, huh?”
“I’m not going to hide from you guys that I already know about me being deceived by Qi Yan. Did you guys know about it already? Such great best friends of mine, going to all the trouble of stealing Mo Mo away.”
Ji Heng Yu’s mouth held a smile, which was still indifferent.
“Snatched away? So what if I did? Don’t forget, Qi Yan is your girlfriend, and you’re the one who told us that you only see Mo Mo as your sister. Now that Mo Mo is not pestering you and is together with us, it’s a situation with mutual consent and to everyone’s delight and satisfaction. So why are you angry?”
Qin Chu cursed, “Fuck the ‘to everyone’s delight and satisfaction’.”
[1] It is in reference to the Chinese words “吃醋(chīcù)- Eat/consume vinegar which means to feel jealous.”
[2] 吃回头草(chīhuítóucǎo)- Graze the old pasture came from the phrase “好马不吃回头草(hǎomǎbùchīhuítóucǎo)- A good horse doesn’t turn around and graze the same patch again. It means a smart person does not dwell on past actions.” Here, it means one wants to dwell on past actions/resume things he has given