Passionate Devotion

Staying by His Side for the Entire Night?

The atmosphere in the study instantly became chillingly tense. Miniature Leng Yejin opened his eyes. A hint of nearly undetectable anguish flashed in his slightly misty eyes. He closed his eyes and refused to elaborate. “Stop asking about it.”

He then turned towards Ji Yiming and said, “Come over if you want to examine me.”

“Um… huh? Oh, of course!”

Ji Yiming quickly went out to grab his medical kit. He was afraid that Leng Yejin would change his mind and kick him away.

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That night, at twelve o’clock when the clock struck midnight, a patter of footsteps suddenly rang out in the hallway. The footsteps were slow, steady and menacing. In the silence of the night, it felt like a scene from a horror movie.

Tong Lu pulled open her bedroom door and saw a towering silhouette standing in front of the door to the bedroom next to hers. The figure looked like a ghost.

Startled, she blurted out, “Who’s that?”

Leng Yejin furrowed his brows and stared at her. “Who else could it be?”

Tong Lu turned on the hallway light and discerned Leng Yejin’s cold and handsome face. She patted herself on the chest. “Phew… it’s you, brother-in-law. I almost thought that the mansion was haunted.”

She strode towards him.

“Did you just come back from a business trip? By the way, did you leave someone else’s child in the bedroom inside your study? Let me tell you. Lucky for the child, I found him just in time. Eh, why is your face so pale? Your lips are slightly blue. Are you feeling cold?”

She raised a hand instinctively and put it on his forehead. She quickly withdrew her hand and screamed, “Why is it so hot? Are you having a fever?”

“It’s nothing!” He gave her a wave of dismissal. All he wanted to do was to return to his room and go to bed soon.

“It’s not nothing. You look really awful. Wait a moment. I’m getting a thermometer.”

Tong Lu hurried off. Leng Yejin let out a faint snort and strode into his bedroom without a word. He lay down in bed and did not feel like moving anymore. It did not matter that he had a fever. Every time he reverted to his adult self, he would have a fever for an entire night. The fever would be so high that he practically blacked out. But when he woke up the next day, he would feel alive again. He had already gotten used to that a long time ago.

His eyelids felt heavy. Fatigue washed over him. Leng Yejin was lying in bed on his back.

Tong Lu pushed open the door and hurried in with a first-aid kit. “Brother-in-law, let me take your body temperature.”

Leng Yejin did not want anyone to be around him. His voice was impassive and cold. “There’s no need for that. Go to sleep.”

“No way. There are only the two of us in the mansion tonight. Don’t you move. Let me take your body temperature.”

Leng Yejin did not respond. He was too lazy to do so. Deep down, he was still angry about how she had bullied him when he became a child. The resentment lingered within him.

He stared at her with a dark and vigilant look in his eyes.

Tong Lu lowered her head and pressed the digital thermometer to his face. A strand of her hair flopped down and touched his face. Leng Yejin picked it up with his slender fingers and tucked it behind her ear.

She measured his body temperature attentively and suddenly cried out, “Oh my god, 42 degree Celsius!”

“Why are you screaming?” Creases appeared between Leng Yejin’s eyebrows. Tong Lu’s scream was so loud that he thought his eardrums were about to shatter.

“Your fever is too high.” Tong Lu could not afford to hesitate. She immediately grabbed some fever medicine from the kit and poured him a glass of warm water. She put her lips near the rim of the cup and blew on the water to cool it down. She then opened her palm and held out the pills in her hand. “Brother-in-law, quick, take some fever medicine. Then, we’ll go to the hospital.”

Leng Yejin stared at the concerned and frantic look on her face. He did not take the fever medicine. It was absolutely useless. In the past, he just had to suffer for one night and the fever would simply go away in the next morning.

“Come on. What are you waiting for?”

Leng Yejin forced himself to stay awake. He shot her a glance. “Why are you so anxious? Am I your husband?”