"Why are you here?" He stared at her and asked again.

"You haven’t answered my question. What happened to you? What illness do you have?"

"I’m fine."

Nangong Ruyue couldn’t help but raise her voice: "If you don’t tell me, you think I won’t be able to find out?!"

Xiao Zexin pursed his lips: "It’s really nothing. I just accidentally fell."

"Where did you fall?"

"There were glass shards on the ground at the time. When I fell, the shards happened to lodge in my leg."

Nangong Ruyue was about to lift the blanket: "Let me see."

"No need to look, I’m fine." Xiao Zexin held the blanket down.

"Let me see—"

"I’m really fine."

Nangong Ruyue reached to pull his hand, but before she could touch it, he retracted it quickly as if electrocuted.

Nangong Ruyue’s eyes darkened.

But her face remained calm.

She lifted the blanket and saw that his right thigh was wrapped in a bandage.

The wound seemed deep, as traces of blood seeped through the gauze.

Nangong Ruyue wanted to reach out and touch his wound but restrained herself.

She gently adjusted the thin blanket for him.

"Was it really an accident?" she tilted her head and asked him.

Xiao Zexin met her gaze: "Really."

"Why didn’t you tell me?"

"No need to." No need to worry her.

Nangong Ruyue sneered: "Are you rejecting me to this extent already?"

Xiao Zexin lowered his eyes: "You should go back, don’t come anymore."

Nangong Ruyue sat directly on the edge of the bed, Xiao Zexin’s body stiffened almost imperceptibly.

"I’ve always wanted to ask you, why are you avoiding me?"

"My illness hasn’t healed, I could lose my mind at any moment," Xiao Zexin said in a low voice.

"But you’re clear-headed now, and the doctor said your condition is improving, you won’t lose your mind again."

Xiao Zexin’s hand under the blanket clenched tightly: "Not necessarily, I almost harmed Yufei back then."

"At that time, you weren’t clear-headed."

"I’m not much clearer now! Who knows when I might hurt you? Please, just leave!"

Nangong Ruyue’s eyes trembled: "Just for a small possibility, you want to keep rejecting me? What if that possibility never happens?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Xiao Zexin stared straight at her.

"How do you know it won’t happen? What if it does?"

Nangong Ruyue smiled slightly: "So what if it happens? Even if it does, I believe you won’t hurt me."

No, he would...

In his dreams, he hurt her, he would in reality too.

Because at that time, he couldn’t control himself.

He didn’t even know what he was doing.

"No matter what, until my illness is cured, I can’t let you get close to me!" Xiao Zexin’s attitude was firm.

Nangong Ruyue didn’t understand.

Was he rejecting her just because he was worried he might lose control?

"Are you hiding something from me? Is your condition more serious than you’re letting on?" she asked sharply.

Xiao Zexin’s heart momentarily panicked.

He couldn’t let her know his thoughts—

They were dark and shameful.

If she found out, she would surely misunderstand him.

Misunderstand that he truly couldn’t accept Nangong Xu’s child.

Although he didn’t want her to have someone else’s child, the child already existed, and she wanted to keep it, so he had no intention of killing it.

Yet the dark side of him kept flashing those images.

Making him want to kill that child.

How could he explain this?