A Favor Done, A Husband Won-Chapter 515 - 509: Jing Jihan’s Arm Has Already Slipped Around Her

Shi Su was wearing hospital room slippers. She had been hunched over for a while and hadn’t quite straightened her back yet.

Their eyes met.

The man’s eyes were downcast, gazing at her, making Shi Su feel as if the night outside the window was boiling and burning.

For a moment, Shi Su felt like a puppet on stage, her mind halted all thinking, and her limbs seemed weighed down by the enormous contraption around her neck, rooted in place as if petrified.

She took a deep breath, using all her strength to control her emotions and voice, and said softly, "When... did you get here..."

Jing Jihan met her gaze, his lips curved slightly due to the comical sight of her earlier and the shock in her eyes as well as her forced restraint. In the dim light of the hospital room, his eyes held a deep, dark hue.

The clean presence of Jing Jihan was right in front of her, calmly saying, "I just arrived."

Although in the past few days, she had vaguely guessed that his condition might not be as serious as Lu Zhao said, and suspected it might just be a smokescreen for the outside world. However, Shi Su was merely speculating, her heart rising and falling without concrete assurance. Suddenly seeing the man appear so well, she couldn’t quite describe the feelings in her heart.

There were complaints, grievances, fear, and heartache. Various emotions mixed together, ultimately transforming into the sudden action of her raising her hand to stabilize the huge cervical collar around her neck and then hurriedly reaching out to support him, pulling him to sit by the bedside.

"Sit down first, sit down..." Shi Su muttered insistently, her eyes red but refusing to let him see, only focusing on making him sit down.

Jing Jihan hadn’t expected her to have such strength in this situation. Caught off guard by her sudden movement, he was forced to step back two paces, and when he realized, he didn’t resist her strength, allowing her to push and pull him to sit on her hospital bed.

In fact, from the day the Six Blessings Building caught fire to now, it hasn’t even been half a month. Even though Jing Jihan’s condition wasn’t as severe as the rumors suggested, he must have endured several days of danger. When precisely he pulled through and awoke seemed less important than the fact that the man was now truly standing alive in front of her.

Even though his condition now seemed not so severe, his complexion was obviously paler than before the incident at Six Blessings Building. This man’s naturally cool white skin still appeared a bit haggard, and a scar hidden under the bangs of his sleek dark short hair had not faded. From her angle just now, when she looked up, she saw that scar. Now, as he sat, she carefully parted his hair to look, she could still see it distinctly. As she lowered her head further, seeing the white bandage peeking from under his black sweater’s neckline, it was surely from jumping with her and getting cut by the glass window, plus the injuries from the fall—just over ten days, certainly not completely healed.

Shi Su took a deep breath, suddenly straightening up and stepping back, expressionless, she commanded, "Stand up."

Just forced to sit down by her, Jing Jihan: "?"

Shi Su stepped back again, still expressionless and repeated, "Stand up."

Originally expecting her to embrace him and cry her heart out or lament she almost became a widow, ready to comfort her, Jing Jihan: "..."

Jing Jihan obediently stood up.

He was so tall, Shi Su had to step back two more paces to avoid looking up, as her neck couldn’t tilt up with the contraption.

She said again, "Sit down."

Jing Jihan: "..."

He sat down.

"Stand up again."

Jing Jihan stood up again.

Shi Su suddenly pointed towards the farthest side of the room where the TV was, "Walk over there, then come back."

Luckily Lu Zhao hadn’t entered, if he saw this scene, he’d probably suspect Shi Su was shocked or that Mr. Jing was shocked. Jing Jihan didn’t ask anything, obediently walked to the TV, then walked back as she instructed.

Shi Su looked at him, even though he seemed leaner since before the Six Blessings Building incident, he was still handsome with broad shoulders, long legs, looking composedly elegant, like the distinguished Jing BOSS.

Truly a charming man with great appearance.

Much more real than the previous days, when he lay motionless in the ICU without even acknowledging her.

Jing Jihan slowly raised his brows, "Satisfied?" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"You can move, seems my husband isn’t disabled." Shi Su nodded in assessment, "Alright, sit down, don’t tire yourself."

Jing Jihan’s face held an indescribable expression: "..."

This time he didn’t sit again but walked over to her, "When did you suspect?"

"Shi Yuan mentioned Shi Wancheng specifically asked about your injuries the day she found out, because Shi Yuan is young, if she lied, she’d easily be caught. So it was better to let her speak the truth entirely, telling what she knew and saw. At that moment, I felt something was a little off."

Jing Jihan already reached her side, but because of the contraption around her neck, he couldn’t get closer, he looked down at her, "I thought you knew me too well, whether I was truly unconscious or just sleeping, you’d see through it."

Shi Su’s temples throbbed instantly, he dared to mention this to her!

Remembering the scene in the ICU, her nose suddenly felt sore from holding back the entire time, her pent-up emotions were finally provoked to surface, "I couldn’t enter that room, between the glass window and the bed was such a distance, and I could only see your silhouette among a heap of instruments. How could I tell if you were truly unconscious or feigning sleep? Besides, with such dense smoke, plus the height on the third floor, not just others believed you couldn’t pull through, even I almost thought I was losing..."

Before she could finish, Jing Jihan’s hand had already encircled her, clearly intending to pull her into his arms to console her. Yet the man frowned as he glanced down at the cervical collar around her neck, disdainfully said, "In the way."

While talking just now, Shi Su was almost crying, his sudden two words choked her, making her simultaneously sob and hiccup, raising her eyes, glaring at him in disbelief, as if what he saw in the way was not the device around her neck but herself.

As Shi Su’s expression dropped, Jing Jihan already took her hand, placed it in his palm and held it tightly, "With circumstances pressing, Shi Wancheng always took careful steps because of his connection to me, trying to catch loopholes, and could only respond in kind by releasing a valve."