I Want To Move In Next Door-Chapter 1109 - 1106: Favored with a Smile (18)

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When Zhang Cheng arrived at the hospital, Xie Lin had just walked out of Han Yixiao’s ward. Without any hesitation, he rushed to Xie Lin, grabbed his arm, and urgently asked: "Han Yixiao, what happened to her?"

"She was overly frightened, and on top of that, she has been running a low fever lately without eating properly. She’s a bit hypoglycemic and is still unconscious right now..." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

As Xie Lin explained, Zhang Cheng glanced into the ward through the doorway that wasn’t fully closed.

The girl was lying deeply asleep on the bed, with a relatively thick needle inserted into the back of her pale, delicate hand.

Zhang Cheng pressed his lips together and asked, "What exactly happened?"

"It seems that the young miss went out to look for something and got entangled with a drunkard. The drunk wanted to..." Xie Lin didn’t go into too much detail, just broadly outlined the situation: "...something happened between them, there was a dispute... I think when the young miss couldn’t get away from the drunkard, she tried to call you for help, but maybe the drunkard noticed and she couldn’t complete the call... Fortunately, the young miss was smart enough to quietly and discreetly contact the police. They arrived in time..."

After hearing Xie Lin’s words, Zhang Cheng moved his lips as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing and just told him, "You go ahead with your work, I’ll stay here and watch over her."

"Okay, thank you for that."

Only after Xie Lin left did Zhang Cheng enter the ward, close the door, and stand at the doorway for a while before he finally walked to the bedside.

There was actually something wrong with what Xie Lin had just said. If the drunkard discovered her the first time she contacted him, how could she still have managed to call the police? It’s likely that her first instinctive reaction was to seek his help, but after dialing his number, she must have remembered what he said to her that day and hung up herself...

Zhang Cheng felt as if something was stuck in his throat, making his chest ache.

He stood by the bed, bent down, covered her with a blanket, and noticed her dress inside had a torn neckline. She must have fallen to the ground while being harassed by the drunkard, and there were many scrapes on her arm.

Zhang Cheng pursed his lips, sat down by the bed in the quiet ward, and stared at the sleeping girl for what seemed like ages before he finally looked at the IV bag and saw plenty of liquid still inside, which let him ease his worries a bit.

He turned his head and saw her other hand clenched tightly into a fist.

She was unconscious, why grip so tightly?

Zhang Cheng felt puzzled, reached out, pried open her fingers, and when he saw what she was holding, his heart felt as if it had been stabbed, a dull pain arose.

It was a button, a button from his own shirt... That shirt was one he wore frequently, and recently, the cuff had been torn accidentally, so he threw it in the changing room without a second thought... He didn’t know when one of the buttons ended up in her hands, but he guessed that after seeing him discard the shirt, when she was staying at his place, she must have secretly cut one off while he wasn’t home?

So, was the button what she went out to find tonight?

It was just a button from a discarded piece of clothing; if it’s lost, it’s lost. Why would a girl run out in the middle of the night to look for it?

The night was deep, and the room was silent, but Zhang Cheng felt a tumultuous storm inside his heart.