Ye Mingmei looked at the man who had snatched her phone, her eyes wide with shock.

She just wanted him to take a look, not to hang up!

"I’ve already resolved the photo issue, you don’t need to worry about anything else. Stay by my side and recuperate until the doctor says you’re well enough to be discharged."

Yu Xiuzhun pulled over a chair, his eyes glancing over her stomach with a slight flicker in his gaze.

"The doctor said I need more than a month of rest. You’re not expecting me to stay here for over a month, right? Yu Xiuzhun, that’s impossible!"

She couldn’t find a reason to disappear for more than a month. If news reached her mother’s ears, even the clarified reports wouldn’t save her.

"Not more than a month, just a week will do. Once... that is over, I’ll send you back to the Ye Family."

In a week, her bleeding should improve.

With careful rest and nourishment, the baby should be fine.

"...Oh."

Listening to Yu Xiuzhun, a grown man, remind her about her period made Ye Mingmei’s face flush red with embarrassment.

The key was he spoke so naturally, making her awkwardness seem overly sensitive.

But this kind of topic is really hard to discuss pleasantly!

"Give me back the phone, I want to call the senior and ask him to help keep it from my mom." Ye Mingmei hesitated for a moment and then reached out to him.

"Find someone else."

Yu Xiuzhun was taken aback, gritting his teeth with resentment.

Does she always first think of Jin Chenye when she needs help?

And she still dares to say there’s nothing between them, what nonsense!

"Don’t look at me like that. My mom only trusts the senior; it’s easiest to find him. Otherwise, I could call my sister. I guarantee she’d arrive at the hospital by the next second to take me home. It’s your choice, I don’t mind."

She would be more than happy if she could go home.

But unlike Yu Xiuzhun, who makes promises lightly, she tries to do her best with what she’s promised.

Staying in the hospital for a week would pass in the blink of an eye.

If she angers Yu Xiuzhun, he who can clear her name can also smear it.

"Bang—"

Yu Xiuzhun threw the phone into her hand and turned to walk to the balcony.

As if afraid he’d overhear her calling Jin Chenye, he might just strangle her!

"Such a bad temper, only I can put up with it." Ye Mingmei picked up her phone and glanced at Yu Xiuzhun’s cold silhouette, muttering to herself quietly.

She called Jin Chenye, using a business trip as an excuse, and got a week’s leave.

Then she enlisted Jin Chenye’s help to keep Qin Youxuan in the dark.

After handling everything, Ye Mingmei finally breathed a sigh of relief, collapsed onto the bed, too tired to move.

"Finished calling?"

Yu Xiuzhun, uncertain when he’d returned to her side, stood by the bed, looking down at her.

"Hmm, finished."

Owing him from a past life, she felt like a mouse seeing a cat whenever she saw him, unable to control her frequently trembling heart. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"It’s time to eat."

Yu Xiuzhun pressed the call button by the bedside, and immediately a nurse pushed a meal cart into the ward.

From Chinese to Western food, everything was prepared.

"I can’t eat this much!"

Ye Mingmei looked at the table full of dishes and then at Yu Xiuzhun, who was constantly putting food onto her plate, almost in tears.

The pleasure of eating was being turned into an ordeal!

"You’re too thin, you need to eat more so you have adequate nutrition." That’s how the baby can be healthy.

The last part, Yu Xiuzhun didn’t say out loud.

He looked at Ye Mingmei intensely.