A Villainous Childhood Sweetheart At Four And A Half - Chapter 16

Pei Hanying did not notice anything strange about Ning Song at this moment.

After the doctor left, Pei Hanying smiled and said to the little girl, “After drinking medicine for a few more days, you won’t have to drink it anymore.”

Every time she saw Ning Song swallow all kinds of fever medicine without even furrowing her brows, she felt it was frightening.

All those different medicinal tastes were far too strange to Pei Hanying. If it were her, one mouthful would make her whole face wrinkle up.

Ning Song barely managed to maintain the smile on her face.

She nodded lightly and answered a few sentences absentmindedly.

Pei Hanying soon noticed that she was distracted too, and thought that perhaps Ning Song also had not yet reacted to the fact that her illness was getting better.

After rubbing Ning Song’s hair, she said, “Go take today’s medicine, then let Sister Tingting apply medicine for you. Later, we’ll sleep together.”

She was already a little sleepy.

Ning Song nodded. Under Pei Hanying’s gaze, she drank today’s medicine, then returned to her room to let Xia Ting apply medicine.

Pei Hanying curled up sleepily on the sofa while waiting for Ning Song to finish applying medicine. After quite a while, even Xia Ting had come out, yet Ning Song still had not left the room.

She felt somewhat puzzled and instantly woke up a little more. Standing up, she walked toward Ning Song’s room.

After turning open the guest room door, Pei Hanying saw the figure sitting by the bed in a daze and asked,

“Ning Song, what are you doing?”

Noticing that after her words fell, Ning Song’s shoulders shrank, Pei Hanying silently complained in her heart that this little villain was really timid.

She could be scared even by someone speaking in a normal volume.

Although she thought this, Pei Hanying still lowered her voice a little.

She walked to Ning Song’s side and met her eyes. Looking at Ning Song’s pale lips, she was somewhat surprised.

“Why do you look so listless? Do your wounds hurt again?”

Ning Song looked at the concern for her in Pei Hanying’s eyes, her gaze flickering slightly. The hand clutching the corner of her clothes tightened even more.

The cloth, originally smooth and flat, became somewhat wrinkled in her grip.

She forced herself to stay calm, only she did not dare look at Pei Hanying’s dark eyes anymore. Lowering her head to look at the floor, she said softly,

“I don’t feel uncomfortable.”

Pei Hanying was afraid she was being stubborn, forcing herself to endure even though her body felt unwell, so she reached out, wanting to check the temperature of Ning Song’s forehead.

Ning Song’s body had already been tense. Now, sensing the shadow falling over her, her instincts took over, and she subconsciously raised her hand, blocking it in front of her face. Her posture was completely one of resistance.

Seeing her like this, Pei Hanying’s hand, which had reached halfway, paused. For some reason, she felt her heart clog for a moment.

She fell silent for a while. In the end, she withdrew her hand and said somewhat helplessly, “I only wanted to touch your forehead. I wasn’t going to hit you.”

Clearly, she had never hit Ning Song before. Ning Song suddenly showing this kind of reaction in front of her—truthfully, Pei Hanying felt a little hurt.

Ning Song looked at her somewhat flusteredly and opened her lips, wanting to explain, but after a long while, she still could not say anything.

Right now, her whole heart and mind were drowned by what the doctor had said. For a moment, she did not know how to explain her reaction just now to Pei Hanying.

In the end, after her lips trembled for a while, she only squeezed out three pale words: “I’m sorry.”

Pei Hanying pressed her lips together. Hearing Ning Song apologize to her again, she felt somewhat irritated for a moment.

Taking a deep breath, she barely suppressed the restlessness in her heart and replied, “You don’t need to say sorry to me.”

Seeing that Ning Song’s eyes were still damp, looking pitiful, Pei Hanying’s heart softened again.

She asked, “Do you still want to sleep with me tonight? If you do, come upstairs with me. I’m sleepy.”

Pei Hanying slowly yawned and was already preparing to pull Ning Song upstairs to rest later.

After all, in her expectations, Ning Song could not possibly reject her.

Besides, was Ning Song not scared to sleep alone?

So when she heard Ning Song say “No,” Pei Hanying’s first reaction was that she had misheard.

She rubbed her own ear, her tone somewhat incredulous as she asked again, “What did you say?”

Ning Song looked at her and nervously licked her lips. In the end, she repeated her answer from just now.

“I won’t sleep with you. I want to sleep by myself today.”

As she said this, her eyes became even wetter. Mist overflowed in her jade-green eyes, almost forming a flowing river.

Her heart felt somewhat sad, and she apologized to Pei Hanying again.

I’m sorry, Yingying. It’s not that I really don’t want to sleep with you.

It’s just that, it’s just that I really want the time we spend together to last a little longer. I want to stay at the Pei home a little longer.

Pei Hanying fell silent for a moment, then repeated her words. “Ning Song, you said you don’t want to sleep with me?”

Seeing Ning Song nod, she took a deep breath, and her expression gradually turned cold.

“Fine. Then I’m going upstairs to rest.”

As she spoke, she withdrew from the room and went up to the third floor somewhat angrily.

Pei Hanying did not understand.

Clearly, the previous few times when Ning Song had slept with her, she had not said she was unwilling. Yet today, her answer had suddenly changed.

And she was even pretending as if she was about to cry, like Pei Hanying had bullied her.

Pei Hanying thought viciously in her heart, As expected of the little villain. Even as a child, one could already see her unpredictable temperament.

Raise what? She had already opened her heart to Ning Song, but in the end, Ning Song still looked as if she had something to hide from her.

If she really raised her, would that not be disastrous? Would she not have to guess everything?

The more Pei Hanying thought about it, the angrier she became. After reaching upstairs, she took off her coat and rolled into the blanket.

The curtains had not been drawn. From Pei Hanying’s angle, she could see the snowman still standing stubbornly outside the window.

Pei Hanying ground her teeth, somewhat wanting to close the curtains and block out that annoying thing made by that annoying person.

But for some reason, in the end, she still did not have the smart assistant close the curtains.

Instead, she stared at that snowman for quite a while without speaking.

She stared until her eyes grew sore. Only then did she finally lower her eyes.

The anger from being refused gradually scattered. As she looked, she began thinking about the abnormal way Ning Song had behaved just now.

She had clearly looked like she was about to cry, so why had she still rejected Pei Hanying’s invitation to sleep together?

Was there some other reason?

In short, Ning Song tonight was especially strange.

When had it started? Pei Hanying furrowed her brows and thought.

…It seemed to be after the doctor finished examining her.

Once she thought of this, Pei Hanying could no longer sit still.

A faint, inexplicable bad premonition rose in her heart. She got out of bed, put on her clothes, and went downstairs.

When she turned the guest room door, the door was locked from the inside.

This was something Ning Song’s personality absolutely could not possibly do.

What the hell.

Pei Hanying went to get the guest room key and opened the door.

The room was completely dark. After she turned on the light, she did not see anyone on the bed. Instead, she heard the sound of water dripping from the bathroom.

Hadn’t she already bathed?

Thinking of one possibility, Pei Hanying’s expression turned rather ugly.

She walked to the bathroom door and knocked, her voice slightly cold.

“Ning Song, are you in there?”

“I’m giving you two minutes. Come out quickly.”