Chapter 7 Darkness Swallows Dawn 05
The lights in the car were on, making his handsome face look extremely soft. The moment he looked at me, my eyes suddenly became wet, and the sound of my heartbeat was particularly clear in this night.
I didn't expect that he would come back to pick me up. I thought he would never come back after he left.
"What are you still standing there for? Get in the car." Seeing that I was still standing outside without moving, Ning Qiyuan yelled at me with a cold face and helped me open the car door.
I held onto the car door and got in, taking a deep breath to suppress the tears that were welling up in my eyes and my increasingly rapid heartbeat.
"Fasten your seat belts." His voice was still in my ears.
I tied it up obediently.
Ning Qiyuan glanced at me, then started the car. When he encountered a red light, he stopped the car and asked me, "Is Jiang Sijin back?"
"Yeah." I responded.
"It's so late, why doesn't she take you out? Aren't you best friends?" He said this with a hint of sarcasm.
I hurriedly explained: "I didn't ask her to send it."
"Heh." Ning Qiyuan snorted again and looked at me deeply. There was a feeling in his eyes that I couldn't understand. "If I don't come today, how are you going to go back?"
I sensed the anger in his words, but kept silent.
"Have you ever thought about calling me? Do you still consider me as your boyfriend?" Ning Qiyuan's voice suddenly became louder.
"Of course." I looked him in the eye and answered seriously, "It's just that my phone ran out of battery and turned off."
Ning Qiyuan didn't say anything and didn't look at me. There was silence in the car for a moment, and only the sound of the car moving could be heard.
Suddenly, my stomach growled.
I subconsciously covered my stomach with my hands, my face felt hot with embarrassment, and when I looked up again, I saw Ning Qiyuan giving me a faint look.
"Didn't you eat?" Ning Qiyuan asked me, his voice full of anger, "Are you stupid? Just waiting outside the emergency room?"
"I don't remember it at the moment." I answered honestly.
"You deserve it." Ning Qiyuan cursed angrily.
I pursed my lips and didn't reply to him. I just rubbed my stomach quietly. I realized that I was really hungry. I hadn't eaten anything since I arrived at the hospital in the afternoon.
Although Ning Qiyuan was cursing me, not long after the car drove out, when he saw the 24-hour McDonald's on the side of the road, he parked .
I saw him unbuckle his seatbelt and get out of the car, so I immediately followed him out.
There weren't many people in McDonald's at this time. When I went in, I only saw a few boys and girls in high school uniforms sitting together eating. Seeing this made me even hungrier.
Ning Qiyuan walked to the service counter, took a quick look, and ordered a bunch of food without asking me what I wanted to eat.
I listened to the names he called out and said hurriedly, "Don't order so much. We can't finish it."
Ning Qiyuan rolled his eyes at me, turned around and told the waiter who took the order to reduce some of the food. After paying, he turned around and walked towards the empty seat as if I didn't exist.
I waited at the service counter until everything I ordered was delivered, then I took the tray and sat down opposite him.
I opened the package and started eating. Maybe I was really hungry, so the burgers that I usually didn't like tasted delicious. Seeing him looking out the window calmly, I ate while mumbling, "Qi Yuan, I'm glad to see you come back to see me. Although I don't know why you were so angry when I came to help Jiang Sijin to check on Uncle Jiang's condition."
Ning Qiyuan didn't move, but I felt him glance at me out of the corner of his eye.
"I was sitting alone outside the emergency room, thinking about the day my dad died. When my dad died, I was still on my way back. I didn't even get to see him for the last time, and there was no one close to him to watch over him. And today, Uncle Jiang's condition is so similar to my dad's. Jiang Sijin is far away abroad, and it takes more than ten hours for her to come back. I always thought that if Uncle Jiang couldn't make it, at least I could see him for the last time and pass on what he wanted to say to Sijin. Sijin and I grew up together. Her father is in jail, her mother doesn't want her anymore, and Li Anran hurt her even more badly. I'm the only friend she has left. At a time like this, if I don't stay with Uncle Jiang on her behalf, who else will?" As I spoke, my eyes ached. When I thought of the two recent quarrels with Ning Qiyuan and his lack of understanding of me, I felt so aggrieved.
"The last time." Ning Qiyuan suddenly spoke.
I was stunned and looked at him in confusion.
"Promise me, this is the last time you'll care about Jiang Sijin's affairs." Ning Qiyuan was surprisingly serious. Suddenly, an idea came to my mind, and I asked him hurriedly, "Why did you tell me again and again not to care about Jiang Sijin's affairs? Do you want me to stop associating with her in the future? I know you don't like her very much, but you have never said such words before. Do you hate her to this extent now?"
"Just assume that I hate her and don't want you to have anything to do with her anymore." Ning Qiyuan said bluntly, his handsome face looking very tough under the light.
"Ning Qiyuan!" I suddenly didn't like the way he was.
Ning Qiyuan looked at me, his tone didn't seem to be softened at all: "I'm going to say this today. You can only choose one between me and her."
I inexplicably found it a little ridiculous. This question was like a girl asking her boyfriend, "If your mother and I fell into the water together, which one would you save?" I never thought that he would ask me to choose between him and Jiang Sijin without any warning.
He is the person I love, and Jiang Sijin is my best friend. These are obviously not contradictory things. Why do I have to make a choice?
As I thought about it, I lost all my appetite.
"It doesn't matter if you don't answer. I am your only choice." Ning Qiyuan said to himself, his tone leaving no room for doubt.
"How could you do this?" I was a little angry.
Ning Qiyuan raised the corners of his lips and asked me back, "Don't you know what I am like all along?"
"What if I must associate with Jiang Sijin?"
"Then you try it." Ning Qiyuan's voice was indescribably cold and domineering.
I was so angry that I felt a lump in my chest, feeling suffocated and unable to eat anything. I said angrily, "Then you should know what I am like."
On the way back, I didn't say a word to Ning Qiyuan. Ning Qiyuan drove the car in silence, speeding up silently. The air in the car seemed to become silent because of our atmosphere, making people feel suffocated.
It took just over ten minutes to reach the apartment building.
Ning Qiyuan pulled me out of the car, strode into the elevator, went upstairs, opened the door, and did a series of actions very quickly. After entering the door, I was suddenly pushed down on the sofa by him. Before I could come to my senses, his body had already pressed down, trapping me firmly on the sofa.
"Ning Qiyuan!" I called him, my voice a little panicked.
Ning Qiyuan ignored me. After looking at me with his dark eyes, he lowered his head and bit my neck very hard, full of revenge.
I gasped in pain and tears almost came out.
I knew he was angry with me, so he was punishing me in this way, just like that night three years ago when he bit my shoulder.
The biting turned into a kiss, falling on my neck, face, and lips like fierce raindrops. His hands held me tightly, and his hot body temperature almost burned my skin.
Realizing what he was going to do, I panicked and tried to push him away, but he asked me in my ear: "Tong Shuchen, don't you love me?"
Don't you love me?
There was doubt, uneasiness, and even more possession and dominance in that voice.
My heart suddenly softened and I gave up.
I was confused about what happened afterwards, only the pain was the clearest. Afterwards, he hugged me tightly, as if he had used up all his strength.
I buried my head in his arms, listening to his steady heartbeat, and gradually fell into a deep sleep. Only vaguely, I seemed to hear him whispering in my ear: "Shuchen, you have to believe me, there are some things I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to get hurt."
But isn’t concealing something sometimes another form of harm?
I wanted to open my eyes and ask him, but in the end I couldn't resist the fatigue and fell into a deep sleep.
