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Chapter 38 Heart Trembling and Tears Falling
When Jiang Guier turned around, tears were already streaming down her fair cheeks like broken pearls.

She didn't cry out loud, but her shoulders trembled slightly.

Her eyes, which were usually bright as if they held stars, were now red and swollen, with a watery pink tinge at the corners. Her eyelashes were wet with tears and stuck together in a few strands, but this only made her eyes look more like crystal immersed in water, clear and pitiful.

Her nose was also bright red, like a rubbed cherry, and her lips were pressed tightly together.

Her lower lip trembled slightly, with a stubborn curve. Although she was crying, she was as beautiful as a painting filled with moisture.

She was carrying a takeout bag with the braised pork that had been left on the table inside, the spilled broth still inside.

She gripped the takeout bag so tightly that it left red marks on her palms, and then she turned away stubbornly and proudly.

"Gui'er! Where are you going?" Lin Wanwan called out, instinctively trying to chase after her, but Jiang Wumei grabbed her arm.

"let her go!"

Jiang Wumei's voice was firm and unyielding, her brows furrowed. "Let her calm down and think things through."

Lin Wan stamped her foot in frustration, but fearing that arguing would upset the old woman, she had no choice but to bow her head and apologize, "Grandma Jiang, I know what you mean, but Gui'er is only trying to do something because she means well. At her age, she wants to prove herself and let her family see her potential."

She tried her best to defend Jiang Guier.

"Lin Wan, you're someone I've watched grow up. This time, it was Jiang Yun who came to find you, right?" Jiang Wumei's expression was sharp, like a needle parting the clouds, piercing Lin Wan's heart.

"I do not……"

"Don't be so quick to deny it." Jiang Wumei sat down on the recliner by the bed with her hands behind her back, her aged fingers tapping the tabletop again and again.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

“You never do anything without a reason, but this time you’ve spent a lot of time by Gui’er’s side.”

Under such intense questioning, Lin Wan gradually lost her nerve and nodded resignedly. "Grandma Jiang, I admit that I had ulterior motives for staying by Gui'er's side this time. My aunt did ask me to do things for her, but I assure you that I have absolutely no ill intentions towards Gui'er. We have the same goal: to help her go further and make her more successful."

"Heh." Jiang Wumei sneered, her eyes filled with disdain. "Jiang Yun has become more and more hypocritical over the years. Now she treats even her own daughter like this. What do you mean by 'going the right way' and 'going further'? It's nothing but wanting to do things according to her own ideas. And what about openness and democracy? It's utterly ridiculous."

Lin Wan dared not respond to those words.

Her eyes darted around. "Grandma Jiang, do you think... I should go find Gui'er?"

Jiang Wumei waved her hand, and Lin Wan, as if granted a pardon, fled as if escaping.

I shouldn't have come! I shouldn't have come today!

It scared her to death!

The most urgent task at hand is to find Jiang Guier.

At that moment, a soft "thump" sound came from the corner of the hospital corridor.

Accompanied by Jiang Guier's suppressed gasps.

"It hurts! Waaaaah!"

"Are you OK."

Jiang Guier hadn't even looked up yet, she was only focused on crying, and her tears fell onto the other person's delivery uniform, leaving a small wet patch.

Shen Huaizhou frowned slightly as he looked down at the girl who had bumped into him. He had seen Jiang Guier crying earlier and had come over to greet her, but she had bumped right into him.

Holding her soft body in his arms, he looked down at her reddened eyes and her delicate face, made even more exquisite by her tears. His heart felt as if it had been gently struck. That strange feeling was hidden beneath his composed exterior, and he himself was not fully aware of it. He only felt that when this girl cried, it made him inexplicably feel sorry for her.

He reached out and steadied her shoulders, his voice lower than usual, with a hint of gentleness. Looking at the food container in the takeout bag, he said softly, "Miss Jiang, don't cry. The spilled braised pork is a small matter. If you keep crying, your eyes will swell up like walnuts, and then you won't look good."

"How... is it you?" Jiang Guier met his gaze through teary eyes, speaking haltingly through sobs.

As she spoke, Jiang Guier looked up and examined Shen Huaizhou. The man was wearing a blue delivery uniform with some dust on the cuffs and a bandage on his arm, which was obviously from a scrape.

She exclaimed in surprise, her eyes widening, "You're injured!"

Shen Huaizhou subtly concealed his injured hand beside his side, saying, "I'm fine."

"Was it... because you were in a rush while delivering food that the accident happened?" Jiang Guier asked, sobbing.

Shen Huaizhou nodded readily, "It was indeed my fault."

"You're working too hard!"

Jiang Guier tried hard to hold back her tears, but she had this strange habit since she was a child. Either she didn't cry at all, or once she started crying, the tears would just keep falling down and she couldn't stop them no matter what.

The tears won't stop until she gets over this emotional phase.

Sometimes it's really annoying!

She sniffed. "What I don't want to cry is... it's..."

"I know the tears will fall on their own, right?" Shen Huaizhou replied seriously.

Jiang Guier was amused by his seriousness. She raised her hand and wiped her face with the back of her hand, first wiping away the shameful tears that kept falling.

A string of tiny teardrops hung on her eyelashes, crystal clear, like morning dew, trembling. The small teardrops at the corner of her eye gathered into a large teardrop and fell down, sliding from her cheek to the corner of her mouth.

Shen Huaizhou pulled out a pack of tissues from his delivery jacket. These were Qingfeng tissues he had just bought from a vending machine at the hospital, and he had already used half of them. He looked a little embarrassed. "This, may I use it?"

It's no wonder he asked another question; although they had only met a few times, Jiang Guier had left a deep impression on him.

A girl raised in such a pampered manner will certainly have many demands regarding her quality of life.

"Thank you." Jiang Guier reached out and took it without thinking.

She pulled out a tissue and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Shen Huaizhou, a gentleman, took the takeout bag from her with his good hand and stood aside waiting for Jiang Guier to calm down.

This is what Lin Wan saw when she chased after them.

She abruptly stopped in her tracks, took out her phone, and turned on the video recording function. In the video, the boy stood tall and straight, wearing his delivery uniform as if it were custom-made. He held a delivery bag in his hand, and one of his hands was wrapped in gauze. He lowered his head slightly, as if coaxing the exquisitely made-up and pitiful girl in front of him.

it's beautiful!
She couldn't help but marvel that just one video could conjure up an entire romance novel of hundreds of thousands of words in people's minds.

Seeing that Jiang Guier was being comforted, Lin Wan did not go over there again.

Given Shen Huaizhou's character, you can rest assured that there won't be any unexpected situations when entrusting Jiang Guier to him.

Right now, she has more important things to deal with—

(End of this chapter)