Chapter 992 Peerless Gentlemen (4)
"..." Jiaojiao instinctively hid her left hand behind her.
The scar stretched across her entire palm. Although it had already healed, the pink lines left behind by the stitches made it look even more grotesque, like a fleshy centipede.
Jiaojiao had disliked this scar for quite a while now and naturally didn’t want Ruan Hao to see such an ugly blemish on her hand.
Back then, she had been hospitalized. It happened during a time when Ruan Hao hadn’t returned to the Shu Family, so he was completely unaware of Jiaojiao’s injury. He only noticed it himself just after arriving home, when Jiaojiao held his right hand. However, there were a lot of people present at the time, and he didn’t ask about it in detail—it merely etched itself into his memory.
"What is it, Jiaojiao? Could it be there’s something your big brother isn’t allowed to see?" Ruan Hao asked, feigning an expression of hurt.
Jiaojiao pressed her lips together. Even though she knew he was only pretending, she still couldn’t bear it and reluctantly stretched out her small hand.
From the end of her middle finger to her wrist, a five-to-six-centimeter pink mark came into view, revealing just how deep and severe the injury had been at the time.
"How did you get hurt?" he asked.
Jiaojiao swore she could hear traces of coldness in his voice, even though his face remained gentle as ever.
Feeling slightly embarrassed, Jiaojiao bit her lip. "I cut myself. I was drinking milk, and the bottle shattered, so it cut me."
It was probably impossible to find another person in the whole world who could injure themselves so severely just from drinking milk. Even Jiaojiao herself felt a bit mortified.