Transmigrated to Another World and Doted on by Everyone!-Chapter 199: Encounter

"Huh?" Rong Xingyu had not expected the shop manager to ask him such a question and froze on the spot. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Every day, the moment he opened his eyes, he was thinking about how to earn a little more money to help support the family, so that his family could live a better life.

Where would he possibly find the spare energy to think about matters like that?

Under the shop manager’s burning gaze, Rong Xingyu felt his cheeks slowly heating up.

Rong Xingyu wanted to nod, but for some reason, his neck felt as if it had rusted over. It stiffened there and his head simply would not move no matter what.

Perhaps it was because the expression on Rong Xingyu’s face looked far too unnatural, or perhaps because he had stayed silent for too long. The shop manager widened her eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "So you’re not single?"

Carrying the mung bean soup that the shop manager had stuffed into his hands at the last moment, Rong Xingyu kept his head lowered and quickly come to home.

He had actually lied!

Rong Xingyu truly could not understand it.

Why was it that when the shop manager asked him, he had insisted on lying and saying that he was not single?

Good heavens, what on earth had he been thinking at the time?

As a result, after hearing that Rong Xingyu was not single, the shop manager became even more excited.

He keep tugging at him nonstop to gossip about his girlfriend.

But where did Rong Xingyu have any "girlfriend" at all?!

Rong Xingyu felt like crying but had no tears.

Only then did he truly experience firsthand what it meant when people said, "One lie requires countless lies to cover it up."

"You two are in an older woman and younger man relationship?" the shop manager cried out in surprise. "Wow, I really couldn’t tell!"

Rong Xingyu braced himself and nodded. "Mm... s-she’s a bit older than me. She’s already working."

"That’s impressive," the shop manager said while giving him a thumbs up. "Ahem, then what kind of work does she do?"

Rong Xingyu: "..."

Rong Xingyu desperately rummaged through his mind for an answer. Suddenly, inspiration struck. Thinking about how he had just come out of the hospital, he replied vaguely, "She... she works at a hospital."

"She’s a doctor?!" the shop manager exclaimed, her gossiping curiosity finally fully satisfied.

Rong Xingyu poked the straw into the mung bean soup the shop manager had packed for him and took a big sip.

He tried to use the icy sweetness of the soup to carry away the heat on his face.

He only hoped that the shop manager would not continue gossiping about this completely nonexistent "girlfriend" of his.

When Rong Xingyu finally returned home, he saw two small figures lying prone on the worn out sofa.

The expression on Rong Xingyu’s face immediately softened. He walked over and gently patted his younger brother’s and sister’s heads one by one.

"What book are you reading?" Rong Xingyu asked as he sat down beside them.

The little girl looked up when she saw Rong Xingyu and broke into a bright smile and sweetly calling out, "Big Brother."

"Second Brother is telling me the story of Pinocchio. Big Brother, have you heard it before?"

Rong Xingyu froze for a moment.

"Pinocchio’s nose grows longer whenever he lies. That’s so scary!" his little sister said while raising a hand to cover her own nose, as if afraid it might suddenly grow longer. "I’ll definitely never lie in the future. I want to be an honest good child!"

Rong Xingyu: "..."

Fortunately, Rong Xingyu’s nose did not grow longer.

That day, just like usual, he went to the hospital before noon to bring food to Mother Rong.

When he reached the ward and was about to push the door open, Rong Xingyu heard what sounded like people talking inside.

He stopped and looked through the glass window in the door.

He saw several medical staff wearing white coats standing with their backs to him in front of Mother Rong’s hospital bed as if they were asking her something.

The doctor standing in the very center appeared and judging by his build, he’s a tall man.

Yet he had long hair that was gathered and tied behind his head.

For some reason, the moment Rong Xingyu saw this man’s back, his heartbeat suddenly spiraled out of control and his eye sockets began to burn for no apparent reason.

Who was this person?

Rong Xingyu stood outside the ward while looking at the doctor inside.

He raised a hand and placed it over his chest, a trace of confusion appearing on his face.

Why was his heart suddenly beating so fast?

Rong Xingyu pressed his lips together and only knocked on the door and went in after the voices inside the ward had quieted down.

Hearing the door open, the medical staff standing by the hospital bed could not help but turn their heads to glance in Rong Xingyu’s direction.

Rong Xingyu: "..."

For some reason, he felt that among them, the doctor standing in the middle lingered the longest with his gaze on him.

Rong Xingyu looked back at him as well and their eyes happened to meet.

Because of the doctor turning around, his face was fully revealed in Rong Xingyu’s line of sight.

The man had his long hair tied back behind his head and a pair of abstinent looking gold rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his high nose.

The man’s brows and eyes were extremely deep set and his eye shape was that of captivating peach blossom eyes.

When such eyes focused on someone, it was very easy to make that person feel as if he were looking at them with deep affection.

But when Rong Xingyu looked again, the man’s gaze had already returned to normal, the earlier tenderness seeming as if it had only been Rong Xingyu’s momentary illusion.

So this is what he looks like.