Wow! My wife is beautiful and obedient, everyone envies her!

Qi Yuan almost coughed up a mouthful of blood.

The people around were also in a panic.

The butler acted decisively: "Quickly, fetch the family doctor! Check if Mr. Qi Yuan is injured! Go now!"

"Auntie, please don't cry, I was wrong... Waaah..."

Petty didn't finish his sentence.

Qi Yuan covered her mouth with one hand, gritting his teeth: "Stop spreading rumors, I didn't cry!"

Petty blinked, her round eyes fixed on Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan repeated, "I didn't cry!"

Petty nodded.

After recovering, Qi Yuan looked at everyone and said, "I didn't cry. That was water from the melting snowflakes."

Everyone looked at Qi Yuan's red nose and nodded.

The butler said, "Mr. Qi Yuan, I'll have a servant go and get you some new clothes."

"No, I'll do it myself."

Qi Yuan stood up from his wheelchair and hopped up to the second floor, holding onto the railing.

While on the second floor, he overheard the servants whispering.

"Mr. Qi Yuan must feel ashamed."

"Yes, Mr. Qi Yuan has such a strong sense of self-esteem, he must feel very embarrassed to have been made to cry by Miss Petty."

"Stop talking, let's just pretend Mr. Qi Yuan didn't cry."

Qi Yuan: "..."

He had no idea how pathetic he looked that everyone thought he was crying.

Return to the room.

Change out of your clothes that are covered in snowflakes.

After changing into clean and refreshing clothes, Qi Yuan finally felt completely alive again.

He lay in bed and rested for a while.

She raised her hand and looked at her fair and slender fingers.

My fingertips were icy cold and hadn't fully warmed up yet, but more importantly, my hand hadn't recovered enough to use its full strength.

Thinking back to the snowball fight, being hit by Petty like a target, I have to say it was really embarrassing.

Even in a snowball fight, I can't beat the kids.

He looked at his bandaged foot again, wishing it would be completely healed in the next second.

Qi Yuan didn't want everyone to think that he had really cried.

After composing myself, I went downstairs.

At this moment, Petty, along with the puppy who had done something wrong, looked at Qi Yuan with a somewhat fearful expression.

Qi Yuan patted her head. "Didn't you want lemon tea?"

Patty's eyes lit up, and she said admiringly, "Auntie, you are so strong. When Patty is sad, she cries for a long time before she can cheer up. You cheered up so quickly. Patty will learn from you in the future!"

The little girl genuinely admired him, but to Qi Yuan, those words were extremely grating.

He pinched the little girl's chubby cheeks. "If you say that again and I cry, I won't make you lemon tea!"

"Okay! Petty won't say anything more!"

The little girl had a docile expression that said "whatever my aunt says is right," clearly a sign of her being obedient after doing something wrong.

Qi Yuan was too exhausted to complain anymore.

He made lemon tea for the little girl as promised, and she drank it to her heart's content.

in the afternoon.

Had lunch.

Qi Yuan read a book with the little girl for a while, and then the little girl got sleepy and took a nap.

With the troublesome child asleep, Qi Yuan had time to return to his study and continue working on his grand restaurant plan.

Before I knew it, it was dark.

It was soon time for dinner.

Noah and Xiu hadn't returned yet. Qi Yuan knew the restaurant wouldn't close until 10 p.m., so they figured they probably wouldn't get home until 11 p.m.

After playing with little Patty for a while, I read to the little girl and coaxed her to sleep.

After Petty fell asleep, Noah and Xiu returned through the wind and snow.

Xiu, holding the heavy money box, happily said to Qi Yuan, "A Yuan, business is very good at the store today. Customers came in not long after we opened and ate from the moment we opened until we closed. The key thing is that the customers all said the food was delicious and they would come again next time."

Hearing that the restaurant was doing well, Qi Yuan's expression softened considerably. "Are you hungry?"

“I’m not hungry. We ate in the kitchen and came back. Ah Yuan, you should go and rest,” Noah said.

Qi Yuan had no intention of actually going back to sleep. He counted the money box Xiu had brought back. Business was indeed good today, with three thousand more than yesterday.

Although it's only an extra 3,000, you should know that yesterday's income of over 10,000 was fabricated, while today's income is real and without any cheating.

After counting the money, Qi Yuan returned to his room, took out his ledger, and wrote down the amount.

Just as he was about to go to sleep, Noah arrived after taking a bath.

He skillfully slipped into bed, put his arm around Qi Yuan's waist, and pulled him into his arms.

Qi Yuan is 1.8 meters tall, which is actually quite tall.

However, Noah was still considerably taller than him.

Furthermore, Noah's bones were larger, which made him appear much stronger than Qi Yuan.

He hugged Qi Yuan tightly, making Qi Yuan appear much smaller.

Qi Yuan was caught off guard by his action. He froze for a moment, then struggled to his feet and asked, "What are you doing?"

“I heard from Sebastian that you cried during your snowball fight with Petty today.”

"I'm not crying!"

Qi Yuan was feeling somewhat weary.

Despite his efforts to explain and prove he hadn't cried during the day, everyone still thought he had.

Did he really look like he was crying at that moment?

"You really didn't cry?"

"without!"

"Okay, if you didn't cry, then you didn't cry."

Noah hugged Qi Yuan and rubbed his cheek against Qi Yuan's face.

Upon hearing this, Qi Yuan disregarded the ambiguous nature of their actions and, wanting only to save face, said seriously, "What do you mean 'I didn't cry'? I didn't cry at all! Why do you think Petty would make me cry?!"

"Petti started practicing Taekwondo and boxing when she was three years old. She can hit people quite hard. In addition, her teacher said that she is very agile and will definitely have a bright future if she trains hard!"

The children of the Davis family are trained in martial arts from a young age to protect themselves and avoid being helpless if they are kidnapped.

After Noah became the head of the Davis family, he placed even higher demands on Petty's martial arts training. Qi Yuan could find other male concubines to help cover for him, but Petty could not find anyone to cover for him because those people knew that Petty was also very important to Noah.

"You think Petty is a martial arts prodigy, which is why I was beaten to tears by her?" Qi Yuan asked.

“Even if you didn’t cry from the beating, you must have felt really wronged. Asa said that you were beaten so badly by Patty that you couldn’t fight back, and you couldn’t run away or dodge while sitting in your wheelchair. Patty was also throwing snowballs at you without any restraint. How could you not feel wronged?”

Noah hugged Qi Yuan's waist and whispered gently in his ear, "Once your feet and hands are fully healed, I'll team up with you and throw snowballs at that crazy girl Petty until she cries."

Qi hadn't felt particularly wronged or upset by being hit by Petty, but after hearing Noah's words, he felt his eyes well up with tears for some reason, and for a moment he even had the urge to cry.

It turns out that the saying "when people think everything is fine, they are prone to emotional breakdown when they hear someone comforting them" is true.

Qi Yuan had never received any comfort from anyone. Even his adoptive father was strict and stern with him, and when he was beaten down, he would only say one thing: "Get up."

Noah was the first person to comfort him during this time.

However, Qi Yuan was still able to control his emotions. He tried hard to suppress the emotions that were about to surge up and asked, "Two grown men bullying a child, aren't you ashamed?"

“Then we’ll send her five bodyguards.” Noah smiled, his breath falling on Qi Yuan’s ear as he said softly, “Don’t worry, with me here, even if she has ten bodyguards, I can still win.”