Henry returned the five hundred to the female driver of the BMW. If she hadn't rushed over to argue
with the driver in the next lane, she wouldn't have had to give Kerry more than 200,000 for the repairs.
"Mr. Ye, Why are your clothes so wet?" Xuan looked at Kerry's wet clothes, puzzled.
The Kerry's shirt and pants were still wet, though they weren't dripping. Naturally, he couldn't tell the
facts, so he made up an excuse. "I was just passing by the flower shop, so I went in to buy a bouquet
for Yan. When I came out it happened to be raining, and I was far from where I parked,"
"Just let Henry go and order a bouquet of flowers. No need to bother you to buy it for Yan." Xuan joked.
"The flowers are for Yan, I'd rather buy them on my own." Kerry smiled.
At this time, the cars on the road began to move slowly. Kerry didn't want to stay any longer and was
about to say goodbye to Xuan, but Xuan said first, "I was going to meet you in the morning to discuss
the work. Since we ran into each other, I'll take your car to your office."
Kerry couldn’t let him get in the car, so he moved forward to block Xuan’s steps." "Why didn't you tell
me you were going to talk to me about work earlier? Yesterday the mayor informed me that I was to
attend an important meeting ceremony today at 9:30. So I'm not available right now.”
"I'll meet you at your office after the meeting, okay?"
"The city government is over there, why do you go in the opposite direction?” asked Yan.
Kerry laughed bitterly, "How am I supposed to meet city leaders in these clothes? I'm going to go to the
office to change and pick up some files on the way. I guess I'm late for a meeting." said he. Then he
also looked down at the watch on his wrist.
"I'll see you this afternoon then." said Xuan.
"Okay, see you later.” said Kerry. “I'll call you this afternoon.”
As he passed by Kerry's car, Xuan unconsciously looked in it. He always thought there was someone
else in the car.
After Xuan walked toward his car, Kerry walked toward the back door of his car.
Venus was now crouched on the ground and whispered, "Is he gone?"
Kerry sat in, smiling, "He's gone. You can stand up now."
"Wait a few minutes." Venus hugged her knees, still crouched on the ground.
As Henry restarted the car, he saw through his rearview mirror that the female BMW driver was arguing
with the guy again, and behind them came a barrage of honking voices urging them to hurry up.
Kerry watched as Xuan's car turned the corner, and then he said to Venus, "Okay, you can stand up
now. He's already turned the corner."
Venus relaxed and then sat on the seat. She looked a little pained.
"Are your legs numb?" Kerry asked with concern.
Venus nodded.
Kerry put one of her legs up on his. The move startled Venus and she asked with a raised eyebrow,
"What are you doing?"
"I'll help you rub your leg. Maybe you’ll feel better."
"Thank you," Venus said, “but can you rub it gently?”
"Actually, I rub it very gently. You’ll feel better soon."
Venus was slightly touched by the way he rubbed her legs. "You just immediately made up an excuse
to lie to Xuan, and he believed it. You're good at lying." Venus teased.
Kerry lowered his eyebrows and gave her a quick glance, "Are you referring to the meeting at City
Hall?"
Venus nodded.
"That’s true. I am supposed to go to a meeting at City Hall at nine thirty this morning." Kerry said
casually.
"It's almost nine o'clock. You might be late." said Venus.
“Yesterday, I was going to let the vice president to attend the meeting on my behalf, but I promised I'd
go with you to your parents' graves. I'm dropping by for this meeting."
When she felt her legs weren't numb anymore, she said, "My legs are much better."
Then Kerry put her legs down and looked at her, smiling.
......
Ever since Venus had been to Xiran Xiao's villa in S City, Tianye Mu had suddenly had consciousness.
His body got better slowly, but he never woke up.
Xiran was excited for the first few days, thinking that he was going to wake up. She went over to visit
him when she had time, but slowly she lost her patience.
This morning, after the private doctor came to give him a routine checkup, he said to Xian, "The
patient's vital signs are normal."
"You always say he's normal, so why won't he wake up?" Xiran asked angrily.
"There are many reasons, but the most important one is that his brain is damaged. Maybe he can't feel
the external stimuli, so he can't wake up." The doctor calmly said.
"Then what else can I do?"
The doctor didn't have a good idea what to do, but suggested, "You put him in a wheelchair and let him
out in the sun."
"Would that help?" Xiran doubted.
"There's no better way now. It's good for his health to get more sunlight." said the doctor.
"Alright, I'll try it then."
After the doctor left, she had someone go buy a wheelchair and then put Tianye into it. She strapped
his upper body and arms to each of the wheelchairs. Then she pushed Tianye out of the room where
he stayed for a year.
She just introduced her home to him. "Look at the maze. It has a story. When my family built this villa
back then, my mom said that this piece of land was good for a maze, but my dad didn't want it and
wanted to build a swimming pool. They fought and argued about it for days. Finally, the designer
suggested that both could be built. So now the maze has a swimming pool in it. When my dad waned
to do swimming, he had to walk through the maze. But he was always getting lost. Isn't that funny?"
"That big windmill over there is my favorite. It will spin when the wind blows. Today the wind was so
light that the windmill doesn’t turn."
Just like that for days on end, Xiran had said almost everything she could about the villa, even the
miniature botanical garden that Venus had visited. But Tianye just didn't wake up.
At night, Xiran sat on the swing, with a sky full of stars above her. Looking across the wheelchair at
Tianye, she sighed helplessly, "When the hell are you going to wake up? If you don't wake up, I'm
going to throw you back into the sea again. It's been a long time since I've traveled.”
Then Xiran got up and pushed him to the room.
Xiran felt that she could be elected S City's kindest person of the year for her kindness to this strange
man. Fortunately, she was wealthy. Otherwise she would have gone bankrupt from treating Tianye.
The day an earthquake hit the city, she was fishing by the lake, accompanied by the still unconscious
Tianye.
When the earthquake hit, a fish was biting her hook. The ground beneath her feet suddenly shook, and
she thought it was an illusion, so she didn't pay attention to it. But when she saw the locked wheelchair
moving towards the lake, she threw down her fishing rod and ran to grab it.
"There was an earthquake?" Xiran said to herself.
Then she pulled the wheelchair to a safe zone. The calm lake surface was now rippling with a layer of
waves.
Compared to other people's panic, Xiran was unusually calm. She had encountered many more
serious disasters during her travels, such as blizzards, sandstorms, avalanches. She had survived
every time. And this she was now outdoors in an empty space, so she had nothing to worry about at all.
Four bodyguards standing at a distance hurriedly ran over, and one of them asked, "Boss, are you
okay?"
"I'm fine." Xiran calmly said.
She didn't like to be called "Miss Xiao" because it was very uncharacteristic of her. Since she hired
them as bodyguards, she still liked to be called boss.
"Boss, are we going back?"
"There is an earthquake, so everyone should stay outdoors. Why go back?" Xiran said.
The bodyguard looked embarrassed.
Then she waved her hand at them, "I'm fine. You guys do your own things."
A few bodyguards knew that she had always been brave. She had more courage than a man
sometimes, so when they heard her say that, they went back to their posts.
Most animals are far more sensitive to nature than humans. By now, the fish in the lake were getting
restless. Even though the aftershocks stopped, the lake was no longer calm. There were constantly
large fish leaping out of the water and plunging back in.
"It would be nice to have fishing net now. Then I can catch a lot of fish." Xiran smiled and then turned
her head. She patted Tianye's shoulder and said, "You stay here. I'll go pack the fishing rods."
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