Rebirth from the Ashes

Whenever Fu Qingli saw Shen Xi, whether she was smiling or frowning when she looked at him, she always had such wariness and aloofness in her eyes as if she was consciously trying to keep her distance from him.

She was like a little porcupine when she faced him with spikes all over her body. She was also very hostile towards him and hated him.

Shen Xi murmured in her sleep.

Fu Qingli quickly withdrew his gaze. The tenderness in his eyes disappeared and was once again covered by a sheet of ice. He returned to his unfriendly and ruthless self as he surveyed the room.

He was in a hospital and a multi-bed ward.

The environment was dirty, messy, and terrible.

The air was unbearable.

This was the first time the mighty Fu Qingli stayed in such a ward. As a germaphobe, he could not tolerate this environment and this hospital bed he was lying in. Fearing that he would wake the girl up, he lifted the covers from the other side and got out of bed.

It was not yet dawn.

The patient in the next bed got up to go to the bathroom and saw Fu Qingli looking for something. He then pointed to the cabinet across the room and whispered, “You’re Bed 18, so your things are in Cabinet 18.”

Fu Qingli nodded slightly. “Thank you.”

The patient did not see his face clearly and went to the bathroom in a daze.

Fu Qingli went out to the nurse’s station to borrow a phone so he could make a call. He wanted to just leave but he suddenly thought of the girl’s quiet sleeping face. He rubbed his brows and went back to the ward.

The girl was still sleeping next to the bed. He looked at the quilt and thought whether he should carry her onto the bed and cover her with the quilt.

In the end, he could not bear to touch those things when he was awake. He did not want her to sleep on it either, so he took off his jacket and bent down slightly to drape it over her.

Somehow, Shen Xi suddenly opened her eyes, so he casually flung the jacket and wore it with style. He looked at her. “You’re awake.”

Shen Xi frowned and was still half asleep. When she saw Fu Qingli’s face she became alert. “Why are you up?”

Fu Qingli’s handsome face did not show the slightest emotional fluctuation. His voice was as cold as usual. “I should go.”

Shen Xi heard him and wanted to punch him to knock some sense into him. He had acute gastric perforation, so how could he just leave? On the other hand, whatever happened to him was none of her business, so she snorted nonchalantly.

‘Go! Get lost! Why didn’t you just die from pain earlier?!’

Fu Qingli’s assistant, Xu Xu, rushed to the ward as fast as he could. He stopped for a moment at the door to regain composure and calm his breathing before he walked in with steady steps.

His boss had called to say that he was in the hospital and asked him to come with a bank card loaded with 100,000 yuan. Thus, Xu Xu came over as soon as possible.

“Sir.” Xu Xu looked at the man respectfully. After running too fast, he was still panting a little.

Fu Qingli heard his voice, turned to look at him, and said in a deep voice, “Card.”

Xu Xu only saw a girl standing opposite his boss when the man turned around because she was blocked by his tall figure. Xu Xu did not dare to look carefully at the girl.

When Fu Qingli turned back to Shen Xi, his tall figure once again blocked his view of Shen Xi. Fu Qingli gave her the card and said in his usual cold and heartless voice, “This is your payment.”

Shen Xi heard his usual apathetic voice and saw his poker face, which was obviously telling her that they were even now that he paid her. She instantly felt rage surging in her chest.

‘F*ck! Is he looking down on me?! What kind of person is he?!’

Fu Qingli saw that she did not take it and parted his thin lips slightly as his sharp words stabbed her straight in the heart. “Too little?”

Shen Xi reached out and took the card. She smiled stiffly and scornfully. “Thanks.”

At this moment, all she wanted to do was to take this card and throw it back at his face. She wanted to tell him that she helped him only because she would not just stand and watch if anyone fainted in front of her no matter who it was, even if it was a homeless man or a beggar.

‘Right. He’s just a stranger to me! Since he’s just a stranger, why should I get angry?’

“Do you want me to send you home?” Fu Qingli asked her.

The girl looked happy, but he could see the mockery in the depths of her eyes.

‘Yes, I’m that kind of person. I’ll solve whatever I can with money and definitely won’t involve feelings.’

“No need, this is enough.” Shen Xi held up the card in her hand. In a split second, she had convinced herself to not stoop to his level. She smiled brightly and continued, “But Mr. Fu, if this happens again, remember to faint in front of me!”

‘Get lost! It’s such a waste of time to look at him for another second!’

Shen Xi felt as if she was inhaling fire to breathe the same air in the same space as this man.

Fu Qingli nodded slightly at her before turning to leave.

When Fu Qingli left, Xu Xu finally saw the girl’s face, and his eyes almost popped out from shock before rubbing them in disbelief.

‘No way! Am I hallucinating?! This girl looks so much like Madam!’

Shen Xi raised her eyebrows and looked at him coldly and mockingly. “What, do you also want to pay me?”

Xu Xu finally calmed down after he heard the girl. He smiled and said, “Thank you for sending Mr. Fu to the hospital. Goodbye.”

‘Sigh… What a pity. This girl is certainly not the little princess we’ve been looking for…’

The boss had been looking for his younger sister for such a long time, so he definitely would not be so cold or ruthless to her.

That girl saved him and yet he just threw some money at her to send her away. This was the boss’s usual style and Xu Xu was used to it.

However, when Xu Xu saw the girl, he felt it was not very nice of his boss to treat this poor girl like that.

When Shen Xi went downstairs, she found an ATM to look at the card balance.

She told herself countless times not to get angry and to stay indifferent. Getting angry over that son of a b*tch Fu Qingli would just hurt herself.

Even so, she could not help but feel infuriated. When she walked out of the building, she kicked the stairs and yelled into the empty morning traffic because she could not hold back her emotions and needed to vent her dissatisfaction. “Fu Qingli! Are you looking down on me?! Do you think I’m a beggar that you can just throw 100,000 yuan at?! If you’re sincere, give me a hundred million!”

Not far away from her.

Xu Xu had a complicated expression as he tried to hold back a smile. He did not dare to turn around and respectfully asked, “Sir, should we still go and pick her up?”

As they drove a few miles away, the boss asked him to turn around, saying that it was not safe for a girl to go home alone and that they should send her home.

As a result, when they got here, they found her and heard what she said.

Through the rearview mirror, Xu Xu could clearly see the man in the back seat looking glum. His handsome face and deep eyes seemed to be surging with anger.

Xu Xu was sure the boss was angry because he suddenly felt a drop in the temperature. The man was exuding a suffocating and oppressive air.

He had been working for Fu Qingli for a long time, and this was the first time he saw such a big emotional fluctuation in him. ‘This girl is awesome!’