Chapter 252
Chapter 252
Zhong Ning: !
She had originally still been completely baffled, and hurried after her to look, only to see Xie Shiqing vomit up everything she had eaten at noon. Against the background sound of the automatic flushing, she weakly felt her way to the sink, turned on the tap, and cupped water in her hands to rinse her mouth.
Her face was even whiter than the tiles.
Zhong Ning: “Why are you vomiting all of a sudden? Do you want to go to the hospital and get checked?”
Xie Shiqing forced out a slight smile. “No need, I’ll be fine in a little while, I…”
Before she could finish speaking, she rushed back over and hugged the toilet again, unable to stop dry heaving.
Zhong Ning’s brows furrowed.
“I’m taking you to the hospital.”
“Really, there’s no need, this is… urgh!”
Zhong Ning’s expression grew increasingly ugly.
She had been raising her cat perfectly well, so how had she ended up vomiting nonstop? Wasn’t this just blatantly saying she had done a bad job?
Xie Shiqing threw up two more rounds, and only after there was truly nothing left to vomit did she finally settle down a little.
Without another word, Zhong Ning picked her up and stormed into the elevator. She did not care whether anyone saw them or not. The smile that was so often on her face was gone for once, leaving only a coldness like a sheet of ice, as though it could freeze someone to death.
They went to the nearest hospital and registered for emergency care. After waiting a short while, they entered the consultation room. The doctor pulled up her previous medical records, then sat there shaking his head and sighing before saying in exasperation, “Don’t you know your stomach can’t handle fried food? It’s more fragile than a bubble. You have to take good care of it.”
“Don’t you know your own physical condition? Yet you still insisted on eating greasy and irritating food. In the end, the only one who suffers is yourself. If you were really craving it, you could’ve just chewed it and spat it out. It would’ve been enough just to taste the flavor. Why did you swallow it?”
Xie Shiqing got scolded so badly that she looked utterly miserable. “I thought I could eat it.”
Zhong Ning could not bear to see her looking so pitiful and took the initiative to say, “I was the one who told her to eat it.”
Doctor: “So just because you told her to eat it, that makes it reasonable!? Don’t you know what condition she’s in? Staying alive every day is already hard enough for her, and you still dared let her eat this kind of thing?”
Zhong Ning had originally meant to keep Xie Shiqing from getting scolded, but she had not expected the fire to burn its way onto her own head. But she truly had no grounds to argue, so she endured a full round of scolding in a stifled, aggrieved silence. In the end, no medicine was prescribed, and they were only told to go back and drink more warm water.
There was really no medicine to prescribe. The doctor named several medicines, but they already had them all at home, and they were the ones Xie Shiqing usually took.
After paying the consultation fee once and getting scolded for nothing, Zhong Ning rubbed her face. When she got into the car, she could not help sighing. “If you can’t eat it, then don’t eat it. You could’ve told me.”
“Am I the kind of person who would force you no matter what?”
Xie Shiqing pressed her lips together. “I didn’t want Master to be unhappy.”
Zhong Ning said coldly, “When you’re like this, that’s when I’ll be unhappy. What I like is you alive, not half-dead, and certainly not dead.”
Chapter 85
She failed to make it to work again today.
Zhong Ning ordered Xie Shiqing to go home and recuperate.
“I don’t remember being some kind of tyrant, do I?” She let out an angry laugh. “Am I some beast who hits and curses people at the slightest provocation?”
“I did say I liked obedience, but that doesn’t mean you have to go against yourself in order to submit to me.”
Xie Shiqing sneered inwardly. Words were just words; she should not let them fool even herself. How had she ended up in her current state, humiliating her own true heart like this, if not because of this person? And now she was saying things like “you don’t have to go against yourself.” Wasn’t that ridiculous?
Zhong Ning pinched the bridge of her nose and said with complete frankness, “Of course, that’s not to say that if you express refusal, I’ll agree.”
Xie Shiqing: …
“Rather, it means you can say it. Say your reasons, say your cause. I’ll judge according to the situation and consider whether to continue.” Zhong Ning kissed her cheek, her words as lingering as the spring breeze. “You’re my person. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, anything that harms your body is not allowed, understood?”
“Be good.”
She held Xie Shiqing in her arms as if hugging an oversized doll, and said with a smile, “You’re not allowed to make those little probing moves. I’ll be unhappy.”
“Starting tomorrow, you’re not going to work anymore.”
“Who told you to make me worry?” Zhong Ning pinched the soft flesh of Xie Shiqing’s cheek, not letting go until it turned red, then lazily said, “This is punishment.”
“Come sleep.” She yawned. “I didn’t sleep well this morning.”
Xie Shiqing answered with a soft “Mm.”
She nestled further into the other woman’s arms and adjusted her position, docile to an unbelievable degree.
She closed her eyes and slowed her breathing, long and steady. She looked as though she had gradually fallen asleep, but in reality her mind was perfectly clear, and her thoughts were racing.
Xie family.
Xie Shiqing had once thought it was her obsession, everything in her life, her whole world. When she had been cornered with nowhere left to go, she had not minded selling her body if it meant winning it back.
But as the impulse and anxiety faded, and her reason gradually returned, she could not help but wonder whether she truly still needed the current Xie family.
It was no longer that company she had fought desperately for, carving out a path through a pack of wolves to preserve. It was no longer the company she had built up and expanded with her own hands. Instead, it had become something bestowed by someone else.
Something the other person did not even want.
Only now did Xie Shiqing realize that everything she had painstakingly managed and exhausted herself to obtain was nothing more than a little toy someone else casually used to pass the time.
She was far from being number one. She was not the best person in the entire industry.
Someone had left her far behind.
And Zhong Ning was not merely someone blessed with luck. Xie Shiqing had seen her handle affairs before. There were too many companies under this person’s name, and there were always situations where the agents could not make a decision and needed her, the chairwoman, to act personally.
Zhong Ning did not avoid letting her be present. After hearing the issue, she would give a decision in just a few sentences, and it would be an answer that took every aspect into account, an extremely perfect answer.
Xie Shiqing considered herself highly capable. She could also find such a path, but she would never be as fast as Zhong Ning. She absolutely needed a process of thought first; she could not do it with such effortless ease.