Chapter 1787: Pick It Up for Me
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“I’ll get you the chess.” After saying this, Qiao Nan turned around and ran.
As he basked in the warm sun, Zhai Sheng felt that his mood seemed to be better again. He turned and looked at Qiao Nan’s back view. He wanted to call Qiao Nan back. This was the first time Qiao Nan stepped foot into the Zhai family’s compound. There were quite a lot of rooms. Even Xiao Xu would be confused at times which was his study room, let alone Qiao Nan, who only came to take care of himself today. How could Qiao Nan find it?
When Zhai Sheng saw Qiao Nan running straight to his study room without any hesitation, his eyes flashed and he frowned.
“You can play chess for a while. I saw that your study room has some books on chess, so I brought them over for you as well. If you don’t mind, I’ll just cook up a casual meal to fill your stomach first. As for the rest, we can discuss it again. Or perhaps I can check with Xiao Xu to see if he has any good suggestions after asking the doctor.”
Qiao Nan didn’t know anything about Zhai Sheng’s illness or why he had to be in a wheelchair. She didn’t dare to cook anything casual for Zhai Sheng either. It wouldn’t be good if that further worsened Zhai Sheng’s illness.
Upon thinking about that always-motivated and high-spirited Zhai Sheng in her dreams and looking at this Zhai Sheng in a wheelchair before her, Qiao Nan’s eyes became slightly wet. Even if her dream was different from reality, there wasn’t a need to have something wrong with Zhai Sheng’s legs such that he couldn’t stand up in reality, right?
“Oh, okay.” Zhai Sheng became a little suspicious of Qiao Nan. However, upon seeing that Qiao Nan was looking at his legs with distressed eyes, Zhai Sheng couldn’t help but exhale. It was obvious Qiao Nan was persistent. However, he didn’t seem to be particularly willing to doubt this woman and think of her badly. “Oh right, what’s your name? How should I address you in the future?”
“I’m… I’m surnamed Qiao. I’m Qiao Nan.” They were children who belonged to the same quad once. Zhai Sheng was like his name, the most dazzling sun in the east. She? She was a mouse in the gutter at most. Zhai Sheng shouldn’t remember that there was a neighbor like her.
“Qiao Nan?” Zhai Sheng said in a slightly strange tone. “When you were in Ping Cheng, did you live in the quad as well?”
“Yes.”
“You’re the… younger one?” Zhai Sheng had an impression of Qiao Nan’s name due to ‘The Three Kingdoms’. In that book, there was a pair of renowned sisters, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao. Coincidentally, there was also a family surnamed Qiao in the Ping Cheng quad. There were two daughters, and they were called Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao as well.
The Qiao family was quite ‘active’ in the quad, even if there were some bad rumors. As someone who had lived in the quad in Ping Cheng for a long time, Zhai Sheng still had a little memory of the Qiao family.
Qiao Nan revealed a smile that was uglier than a cry. “Yes, I’m the younger one.” This wasn’t in a dream. In the quad, who didn’t know that Qiao Dongliang’s eldest daughter was pretty, sweet with words, and had high educational qualifications? Even if she was already divorced, she had married a husband with good qualifications before the divorce.
As for the younger daughter of the Qiao family, she was the complete opposite of her biological sister. She went to work at a young age without graduating from junior high school. Over the years, who had remembered that when Qiao Nan was still studying, her results were actually much better than Qiao Zijin’s?
As time passed, everyone only remembered that Qiao Nan started working when she hadn’t graduated from junior high school. Only those with poor grades would do that. Unlike Qiao Nan, Qiao Zijin attended junior high school, senior high school, and university.
When Zhai Sheng asked if she was the younger daughter from the Qiao family, Qiao Nan had the urge to cry. In reality, she was unlike her dream. She wasn’t the top student in the high school entrance examination, and neither was she the top student in the college entrance examination. Her reputation was too bad. She didn’t know if Zhai Sheng would still want her to continue taking care of him after knowing who she was.
Unlike Qiao Nan’s worries, not only did Zhai Sheng not look at Qiao Nan with disdain, but he even said meaningfully, “That was tough on you.”
Qiao Nan couldn’t recover herself after a long time. She dared not believe that Zhai Sheng had said such words to her. When Qiao Nan brought the egg porridge she cooked to Zhai Sheng and saw him eating three bowls of it, the expression on her face was still as confused as before.
Zhai Sheng knew that the internet was developing rapidly and there were a lot of internet terms. In the past, he couldn’t understand the description of dazed and cute. In the face of dazed individuals, he would always feel anxious and calmly kicked the other party out of his team. One had to know that a distracted moment could very likely affect the success of a mission or threaten the safety of comrades, let alone being in a daze.
However, when he saw Qiao Nan like this, Zhai Sheng realized that someone being in a daze might not be so irritating, after all.
“I’m done. You can clear the bowl.” Zhai Sheng reminded Qiao Nan kindly. Qiao Nan replied with an ‘oh’ like a robot. When her hand touched the cool water to wash the dishes, her mood changed.
Ring! Ring! Ring! The mobile Zhai Sheng placed on the table rang. Upon hearing this ringtone, Qiao Nan revealed an expression of wanting to faint. No one had helped Zhai Sheng change his mobile’s ringtone. As long as Zhai Sheng bought a mobile, he would only recognize this old ringtone.
Qiao Nan picked up the mobile and saw Zhai Yaohui’s name from the caller ID. Her hand trembled, and she nearly dropped the mobile to the ground. Qiao Nan wasn’t sure why she had such a reaction as well. It was as if she had a guilty conscience. Qiao Nan wiped her hands dry and ran toward Zhai Sheng with the mobile in her hands. “Ch-Chief Zhai… Your call.”
Zhai Sheng caught a glimpse of his biological father’s name. He could guess without answering the call what his father wanted to talk to him about. “There’s no need to call me Chief Zhai. We are considered to have grown up together in the same quad. I’m older than you by a few years. You can just call me Brother Zhai.”
“Brother… Brother Zhai?” Qiao Nan reminisced about these simple words for a long time. The more she reminisced, the more complicated she felt. Brother Zhai again?
“I’m reading the chess book now. Help me pick up the call.” After responding to Qiao Nan addressing him as Brother Zhai, Zhai Sheng didn’t reach out for his mobile. He only expressed that he was holding a book with one hand and the chess piece with the other, and didn’t have a third hand for the mobile.
“Oh, okay.” Qiao Nan didn’t hesitate. After pressing the answer button, Qiao Nan’s body froze. As she addressed him by Brother Zhai, she felt like she had returned to her dream and almost regarded herself as Zhai Sheng’s wife. As such, she felt it was right and proper to pick up this call. However, it wasn’t appropriate to pick up this call on behalf of Zhai Sheng!