The Mysterious Heiress: Researcher In Disguise - Chapter 521

Chapter 521: From Now Onwards, I Will Be Your Sugar Mommy

Liu Mi’s voice reverberated in the room. Li Nanli had been looking at Fu Zhi since the moment he woke up.

He was lying on the bed and his face looked unwholesomely pale. His arm was half hanging on the side of the bed and the veins on the back of his hand were visible. His eyes were slightly red around the rims and his eyebrows were tilted up a little.

“Liu Mi,” he parted his lips as he pulled Fu Zhi towards him. He slowly got up from the bed and his shirt slid down his shoulders, exposing his collar bones to the air.

Liu Mi raised his head and looked at Li Nanli.

“Get out of the room,” Li Nanli ordered.

Liu Mi was stunned and the joyous feeling that kindled in his heart just now left him. On the other side of the door, Gu Yanqi and Jiang Jinshu heard Li Nanli’s voice. Just when both of them were about to go in, Liu Mi emerged from the room.

Jiang Jinshu tried to go into the room, but Liu Mi did not allow him to do so. After he closed the door, he stood in front of it and said, “Old Master Li has been wanting a grandson for a long time, so I think we should give them some time alone. Young Master Jiang, please understand our situation.”

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Jiang Jin Shu and Gu Yanqi looked at each other speechlessly after Liu Mi had left.

Inside the room, Li Nanli’s jaw was tightly set and his expression was dark after he heard what Liu Mi had said. He looked at Fu Zhi and asked, “You went to the mountain behind the Lucky Cloud Pavilion by yourself?”

Fu Zhi did not know why but it seemed to her that Li Nanli was angry right now. She looked away from the scar on his shoulder and replied, “Yeah.”

His face turned even darker. He ignored the wound on his body and jerked up from the bed. Pulling Fu Zhi to his side, he studied her from her head to her toe and asked, “Did you hurt yourself?”

“Nope.” Fu Zhi shook her head. “How are you feeling now? Did you feel any discomfort?”

Fu Zhi did not know what Li Nanli was angry at, and she figured that it might be because he was not feeling well right now.

Both of them did not say anything for a long while. They both looked at each other, and after what it felt like a century, Li Nanli gave in and let out a sigh. He raised his hand to cover her eyes and said, “Zhizhi, if something like this happens again in the future, you don’t have to risk your own life and come to save me. I will be fine by myself.”

Fu Zhi blinked her eyes and her eyelashes brushed against the man’s palm. She lowered her head slightly and looked at his pale, thin hand.

She did not know why but she suddenly thought of the year when she was on a mission at Country F as she looked at his hand. They were having a war at that time. Fire was raging everywhere, and corpses spread on the land as far as her eyes could see. During that time, there was also one such hand, stained with blood, that covered her eyes and said to her, “Don’t worry, I’ll get you out of here.”

She knew it was a long time ago, but for a second it felt just like yesterday, with Li Nanli covering her eyes with his hand. She raised her head up and looked at him through the slit of his fingers.

“The bite mark on your shoulder…” She set her jaw tight and asked, “Did you get it from…”

However, before she could finish her question, he pulled his hand away from her eyes and dissolved into a violent fit of coughing.

Fu Zhi looked at him and fell silent. She scanned around the room, rose to her feet, and went to close the window. After that, she fetched a cup of warm water from the desk before returning to him.

Carefully and gently, she held the cup of warm water near his lips.

Li Nanli was surprised. He licked his lips and asked, “What were you going to ask just now?”

“… It’s nothing,” Fu Zhi replied. Then, she took a look at her watch and continued, “Liu Mi said he’s going to get you a hot water bottle. , but he hasn’t come back after so long. I guess I should go and get you one instead.”

After that, she put her phone aside. Just as she was about to walk away, Li Nanli grabbed her wrist and pulled her back. He squinted his eyes a little and asked, “Something is not right with you, little one. Why are you so nice to me this time? I remember that you’re very cold to me when I was sick the last time.”

Something flashed across Fu Zhi’s eyes and she replied, “Nope.”

Li Nanli measured her with the help of the light. She had changed into a new set of clothes, her hair was a little disheveled, and she looked as gentle as a rabbit right now.

He looked at her for a long while before chuckling and said, “Are you worried that I might die?”

“Yeah.” She nodded firmly.

In retrospect, she did not have much time to consider at that time. Wang Rao had to send Xu Wei and Lu Jingqing back to Iris Time Villa and Shen Cizhou was not around. Since there was no one to go to the mountain with her, she decided to go alone.

When she arrived at the mountain, the first person she ran into was Gu Yanqi. Then, when she was tending to Li Nanli’s wound in the house, she saw the scar on his shoulder.

She sat down on the chair and looked at him. Li Nanli was too weak. This was the second time she had to save him, so she said, “From now onward, I will protect you.”

Then, she paused for a moment before saying, “I will be your sugar mommy.”

Li Nanli was stunned and the tips of his ears turned red. After a long while, he said, “Okay. If you want to be my sugar mommy, I will be your good son.”

Then, he paused for a few seconds and continued, “What do you think?”

Fu Zhi was dumbfounded.

“Thump!”

A loud thud came from the door, and both of them turned their heads to look at Liu Mi, who had returned with a hot water bottle in his hand.

Liu Mi felt a little embarrassed and hastily said, “Well, you guys continue. I will cast myself out of the room now.”

Then, he put the hot water bottle on the table and closed the door.

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Fu Zhi withdrew her gaze from the door and turned to Li Nanli’s finger. She pondered the thing he said just now for a while before replying, “Really?”