"..." Nuannuan blinked. "How could it be that serious?"

Yu Dou sat upright there, his expression somewhere between a smile and not.

He had his hands clasped, and when his gaze fell on Nuannuan, there was a few hints of amusement in that softness.

He said, "If it’s not serious, would I need to waste so much breath?"

Nuannuan lowered her head, not knowing what to say.

She wondered again if what Sister Zou said earlier about Yu Dou being in a bad mood was actually because of this.

Nuannuan said, "I’m sorry, Mr. Yu, I didn’t expect that just casually chatting with someone would cause such trouble. I’ll pay attention in the future... But now, can I go back to work?"

Yu Dou seemed like he still wanted to say something, but seeing her speak like this, he could only let it go.

Nuannuan returned to the project department and continued with the work at hand. Sister Zou came over, wanting to speak but stopping herself, and in the end said nothing and turned away.

Nuannuan saw it but didn’t respond.

In the afternoon after work, Song Yansheng came to pick Nuannuan up and went straight to see Qu Yuzuo about her foot.

Because Song Yansheng had called ahead, as soon as the two of them arrived, someone came out to welcome them.

It was two nurses. They didn’t see Yu Dou, probably because he was busy with something.

After that, a young middle‑aged woman came over to examine Nuannuan’s foot. She confirmed that the injury was no longer a big problem and there was nothing to worry about.

The two of them walked out together, and Nuannuan said, "Now you can finally stop worrying, right?"

Song Yansheng said, "Even so, you still can’t walk too much or overexert yourself!"

Nuannuan agreed to everything one by one, because not listening to Song Yansheng’s words had worse consequences than not listening to the doctor.

They were talking when a taxi drove out from inside the hospital, clearly in a hurry, seemingly something urgent.

Nuannuan glanced at it, her gaze pausing there for a moment.

Because it reminded her of her grandpa and her mother.

Especially her mother—she was still so young, she shouldn’t have just been gone like that.

Song Yansheng said, "Don’t worry. Just take good care of yourself. They’ll be able to rest easy watching over you from up there."

The two of them kept walking forward, just in time to run into two or three nurses chatting as they walked past them.

One of them said, "Do you know? There was a car accident over on Haining Road. I heard it’s quite serious, the ambulances from our side just went over..."

Nuannuan’s steps faltered, her gaze landing on the young nurses, and she didn’t speak for a long time.

A car accident, Haining Road...

If it had been somewhere else, or said in some other way, she wouldn’t have paid much attention.

But everyone knew that when Nuannuan was eighteen, she’d been in a car accident once.

And the place where the accident happened was on Han Ning Road...

"Forget it, let’s talk about something else. Nuannuan, how are you feeling this afternoon? Does your foot still hurt?"

Nuannuan blinked belatedly and hurriedly responded, "It’s fine..."

The two of them kept walking, but Nuannuan’s complexion was clearly a bit worse than before.

Especially because car accident and Haining Road were now tied together in her mind...

Fortunately they soon got into the car. Song Yansheng took a look at Nuannuan and said, "How about we eat out tonight?"

Nuannuan nodded. "...Okay!"

"The weather outside isn’t good; feels like it’s going to rain tonight!"

Nuannuan gave a brief response and didn’t say anything.

"If it does rain, it really will be like you said—each autumn rain brings another chill..."

Nuannuan answered again, but still didn’t say anything else.

Song Yansheng felt a little helpless, but he also knew nothing could be achieved overnight. What he needed most at this moment was patience.

...

That night, it did rain, just as Song Yansheng had said.

It was just that the rain wasn’t heavy. Nuannuan stood by the window watching the view outside, her mood slightly complicated.

All these years, when she went out she would occasionally make a point of avoiding Haining, because that place was her nightmare.

The car accident when she was eighteen—no matter how light and breezy she occasionally acted about it, it was still a pain in her heart.

Song Yansheng was a bit upset. Shen Zui said he was the person who understood Nuannuan best, but now it seemed that might not be the case.

Looking at the fine drizzle outside, Song Yansheng started to feel restless too.

But as someone who was good at controlling his emotions, he naturally wouldn’t vent his anger on Nuannuan.

Not only could he not vent, he also had to think of ways to coax Nuannuan into a better mood, at least to make her forget the earlier unpleasantness.

On the way back, Song Yansheng had thought up quite a few ways to ease things, but they weren’t very effective.

Later, he thought of Ye Mingmei. How to put it... that girl really was quite mischievous and troublesome, but with Nuannuan around, she would behave a lot more.

The main thing was, she would definitely, definitely be able to make Nuannuan laugh!

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