Chapter 4: Top Star Battle 3
"Isn't this Mingyang Mountain?" He turned around and looked at me in surprise, "Do you know the way?"
"I..." I looked around for a while and suddenly remembered that there seemed to be sycamore trees planted on Mingyang Mountain.
"Give me your phone." Zeng Chen took a deep breath and took my phone away.
"What are you going to do?" I looked at him in horror. Could he be so angry that he was going to smash my phone to vent his anger?
"I'll bind a positioning system to you. Otherwise, what if you get lost after getting off the bus?"
Zeng Chen shook his head and sighed repeatedly.
For a moment, although I felt that I was in the wrong, I also felt inexplicably unconvinced: "Oh, I'm really not a directionally challenged person, I just remembered the wrong way."
Zeng Chen returned the phone to me, but when I turned the car key, the car wouldn't start.
"Damn, the car broke down." His patience seemed to have reached its limit. He frowned and couldn't help but blame me, "See, I told you that something bad would happen if I met you."
"Then why do you insist on me being your guide?" When I heard him say that, a nameless anger immediately rose in my heart.
"Yuan Wan!" He widened his eyes.
"Since you are so dissatisfied with me, then go find someone else to lead the way for you! Goodbye!"
I don’t know why I was so irritable. Mi Lu’s false accusations and the accusations from netizens who didn’t know the truth could not cause any waves in my heart. But after Zeng Chen said that, all the grievances, anxieties, and depressions were like opening the floodgates and vented out all at once.
I really couldn't suppress my excitement, and was afraid that Zeng Chen would see me crying in the car, so I opened the door and got out.
"Yuan Wan!" I heard the sound of a car door closing behind me, and Zeng Chen's voice also came into my ears.
I knew Zeng Chen would catch up with me, but the more he did, the more I didn't want him to see my vulnerable side, so I quickened my pace and walked into the woods.
However, after walking a few steps, I felt something was wrong. I subconsciously touched my pocket: "Oh no! Where's my wallet?"
I searched all my pockets but couldn't find any trace of my wallet. In an instant, my mood dropped to the bottom.
I've been so unlucky lately, haven't I?
I was framed during the live broadcast and I haven’t dared to show up for several days. But my wallet is filled with medical expenses that I need to send to Xiao Nuo today!
When I thought of Xiao Nuo still in the hospital waiting for my money to save his life, my heart felt like it was rolling on an iron plate full of needle points. It hurt so much that it became difficult for me to breathe.
Yuanwan, you can't even protect your wallet, how dare you say you want to protect Xiaonuo?
"What's wrong? What are you looking for?" A familiar voice came from above my head. I looked up and saw Zeng Chen looking at me with concern.
I don't know when, he has followed silently. The moment I saw him, I couldn't hide my emotions any more, the grievance in my heart seemed to surge into my eyes, I lowered my head, and tears fell into the soil under my feet.
"Yuan Wan." Zeng Chen was scared by me.
"I lost my wallet, which contained the medical expenses for Xiaonuo." I lost control, crying and blaming myself, "I am so useless that I can't even protect such an important thing."
As soon as I finished speaking, I was hugged tightly by a pair of strong arms. My stiff body pressed against Zeng Chen's strong chest, and his hot body temperature seemed to melt me.
"Don't blame yourself, you didn't lose it on purpose." Zeng Chen's chin rested on the top of my head, and his magnetic voice tugged at my heartstrings.
In front of him, I didn't pretend or show off. He seemed to be able to see through me with just one glance, and I didn't reject his hug at all.
I leaned on his chest and hid in his arms, as if I had found my safe haven, and then burst into tears uncontrollably, as if all the uneasiness, worry, and confusion that had been accumulating for a long time had finally been vented.
I finally calmed down and went back to the car with Zeng Chen. As soon as I opened the door, I saw my small wallet lying quietly on the passenger seat.
"Phew... I was so scared!" I covered my chest and burst into laughter. "It turns out that my wallet was not lost, but just left on the bus."
"You scared me to death." Zeng Chen saw me smile, and his frown finally relaxed.
Although I found the wallet, unfortunately the car still wouldn't start. Just as I was at a loss, my cell phone rang and I answered the call: "Hello..."
"Sister, I want to see you." Xiao Nuo's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Then I'll come to see you now." I wiped the tears from my face and sniffed.
Zeng Chen mouthed to me, "I'll go with you."
I nodded and said to Xiao Nuo, "Just wait for me for a while, I'll be there soon."
After hanging up the phone, Zeng Chen held my hand and walked straight down the mountain: "I have called a tow truck to tow it away. When I came up just now, I saw a bus stop on the mountainside. Let's go down the mountain first."
"Yeah." I responded in a low voice. The atmosphere was inexplicably awkward.
I just felt my cheeks getting hot, and Zeng Chen wasn't much different. When he spoke, his eyes were wandering and he didn't dare to look at me.
When I arrived at the hospital, as soon as I opened the door of the ward, Xiao Nuo rushed out and gave me a big hug.
"Sister, you're here!"
However, before I could talk to him, Xiao Nuo pointed at me and Zeng Chen with curiosity and asked, "Why are you two wearing the same clothes?"
"I'm wearing girls' clothes and he's wearing boys' clothes, how are they the same?" I bent down and pinched Xiao Nuo's nose.
Xiao Nuo has been receiving chemotherapy. I was worried that he would be sad because of losing his hair, but I didn't expect that this boy would secretly go and shave off all his hair. He looks very good today, with a rosy face.
"Hey, tell me the truth, are you two in love?" Xiao Nuo started to snicker.
"Stop making trouble." I pulled Xiao Nuo to the hospital bed, but my heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
I couldn't help but secretly glance at Zeng Chen out of the corner of my eye, and found that a smile appeared on his face, with his little fangs slightly exposed, making him look more cute than usual.
"Oh, how come I haven't seen this handsome guy before?" At this time, the head nurse walked into the ward and her eyes lit up when she saw Zeng Chen.
After taking a closer look at Zeng Chen, she said in surprise, "Is he Xiao Nuo's biological brother? They look exactly like him, like twins."
"How is that possible? Xiao Nuo's brother died in the earthquake 10 years ago..." I almost lost my temper, so I quickly stopped talking and changed the subject, "Head nurse, what's the matter with Xiao Nuo?"
"It's nothing serious, we just need to take him for a routine check-up." The head nurse said as she transferred Xiao Nuo to a wheelchair and pushed him out.
When we got to the door, Xiao Nuo turned around, winked at me and Zeng Chen, and said, "You two should wait for me here obediently."
Zeng Chen and I smiled and nodded at the same time. As soon as the door of the ward closed, Zeng Chen turned around and asked me, "Xiao Nuo has a brother besides you as a sister?"
"Well, he has a biological brother."
Xiao Nuo was not in the ward, so I did not need to consider his feelings. After getting to know Zeng Chen, I felt that there was nothing I could not say about Xiao Nuo's life experience.
"I'm actually not his biological sister." I smiled, not noticing that Zeng Chen pursed his lips for a moment because of what I said.
I sat on the sofa and lost myself in memories.
"The year I met Xiao Nuo, I had just graduated from elementary school and he was only 4 years old. He ran away from the orphanage to find his parents, but got lost and sat in front of our convenience store... Later I took him to find his relatives, only to find out that they had died in the earthquake the year before. Later, we adopted Xiao Nuo. Although he knew his life experience, he was too young after all, so he didn't remember much about his childhood."
"I also experienced the earthquake 10 years ago. My parents died at that time, and my younger brother was also separated from me after the earthquake." Zeng Chen's expression became serious. "Do you think it will happen..."
"How could it be such a coincidence?" I answered without thinking.
Thinking back to what the head nurse had just said, I couldn't help but look at him carefully. Xiao Nuo had the same handsome facial features and cute little fangs as him... However, if you said that they were related based on this alone, I would never believe it.
"Coincidence? Who can say for sure?"
He lowered his head, covered his chin with his right hand, rested his lower lip on his knuckles, and stared motionlessly at something in front of him, lost in thought.
