I Am Rich

46

Parisian people call their city the "City of Light", their night is brightly lit, neon light flickering, more vibrant than the daytime. However, Guan Zhiyi had no desire to appreciate it, she looked at the receding street scene outside the car window, all she could feel now was uneasiness.

After returning to the hotel, Liu Yun sent someone to bring some food to her room. Guan Zhiyi ate a few bites, and asked, as if inadvertently, "Is he all right?"

Liu Yun didn't respond to what she said for a moment,"Hmm? Who?"

Guan Zhiyi lowered her eyes, picked up some dish,"Someone said that he's currently sick, does he have anyone that takes care of him?"

"Oh, you're talking about President Qi, I don't know, he should be resting now." Liu Yun said,"But he didn't bring his assistant who often followed him this time. Living alone in foreign country, I think it must be so inconvenient for him."

Guan Zhiyi wrinkled her eyebrows,"Didn't we bring the medicine box when we came here? Let's send him a thermometer and fever medicine."

"That's right." Liu Yun said, "Then you can go there later."

"Me?" she asked, stunned.

"You...don't want to go?"

Liu Yun didn't mean to instruct Guan Zhiyi to do something, she has been serving only her nowadays, and it can be regarded as relying on her for food, not anything like a superior-subordinate relationship. She simply felt that Guan Zhiyi would definitely visit him considering her relationship with Qi Chengyan.

"Why don't you send him the medicine box for me?"Guan Zhiyi recalled yesterday's awkward conversation between the two of them. At that time, she just said everything as she lost her temper. Let's not get too close with each other, won't cling to him anymore, we have to avoid suspicions….she burst like this in a single twist. She doesn't know how to face him normally now.

Liu Yun said,"No, Zhiyi ah, I think it's better if you're the one who go. He's the boss, I wouldn't dare to say anything when I'm there. You are familiar with him, it's only appropriate for you to be concerned about him." 

"Oh..."

"What's wrong, you guys aren't....having a fight, are you?" 

Guan Zhiyi waved her hand,"How can that be, I'll go see him later."

After all, she was still worried about him, no matter what she said on her lips, from the start her heart had truly wanted to go in spite of everything. 

Moreover... it's natural for her to visit when he's sick, isn't it?

Guan Zhiyi didn't continue eating her food, pulled out the medicine box from the suitcase and went to Qi Chengyan's room.

The room he lived in was on the floor above them. When she find his room number, she stood at the door hesitating for a while before knocking on the door.

After waiting for a minute, the door was pulled open from inside. Qi Chengyan, dressed in a bathrobe, stood quietly in the doorway.

Guan Zhiyi glanced at him and handed out the medicine box, "I heard you went out to the suburbs today...Did you catch a cold? This is the medicine box that I brought. Take and use it if you need."

Qi Chengyan lowered his eyes and looked at her, still did not say a word.

Guan Zhiyi: "...... you take it ah."

"Come in." Qi Chengyan turned around and walked into the room without responding.

She had no choice but to follow him.

When she entered the door, she saw Qi Chengyan sitting down on the sofa. She then put the medicine box on the table and took out the thermometer from it, "Check your temperature first."

Qi Chengyan hummed, not refusing her. Guan Zhiyi walked to his side, leaned slightly over him and took a measurement at his ear.

Beep--

"38 degrees, you really have a fever."Guan Zhiyi said hastily, "Have someone given you any medicine?"

Naturally, he already took the medicine.

But seeing the anxious little girl, the words he wanted to say rolled around on the tip of his tongue, and was swallowed back. He leaned and said lightly, "Not yet."

"Why didn't you ask someone bring the medicine over? I thought you had already taken it." Guan Zhiyi was a little angry.

Qi Chengyan glanced at her, "Since you already thought so, why did you still come here?"

Isn't it because I can't be at ease if I haven't seen you?

Guan Zhiyi choked and said, "I thought in case you haven't taken it ...... there's fever reducer and cold medicine, I will pour boiling water, you drink it."

Guan Zhiyi turned around, went to boil the water, Qi Chengyan looked at her back and pinched his eyebrows.

He was upset at what she said in the stairs yesterday, so he did not go to the shooting site this morning, and went to the factory instead. However, there was nothing to see at the factory, so he just randomly walked around and wandered outside.

The weather was very bad today, and there was also a gust of wind, but he was in such a bad mood at that time that he didn't care about it whatsoever. Who would have thought that he would caught a cold when he got back.

At first, he thought he'd been so unreasonable with such childish behavior, but when he saw Guan Zhiyi face filled with anxious looks, he suddenly felt that it was worth it, his pent-up feeling has dissipated considerably. He even thought helplessly, this little kid didn't know anything, why should he be upset with her.

"Take these, drink a glass of water with this cold medicine, and then take a good rest." Guan Zhiyi said,"Check your temperature again when you wake up from your nap."

"Um."

Guan Zhiyi stood by and watched him take the medicine, only when he was done did she say, "Then go to bed and get some sleep, I'll go first."

Just as she said that, her wrist was grabbed.

Perhaps because of his fever, his palm was burning, so hot that her pulse was racing for a few minutes.

"...What's the matter?"

"You're not worried about leaving a patient alone?"

Qi Chengyan raised his eyes to look at her, with a trace of fatigue and...... grievance under his eyes. In that fleeting moment, Guan Zhiyi was doubting her eyes.

Given that she was still liking him when she caught that glimpse. Qi Chengyan in her mind has always been a very dignified 'older' figure. He always looked like a grown-up to her, and it was obvious that this child-like aggravation because of sickness does not match with him.

It should be a mistake…

However, it suddenly occurred to her that when she was ill in the past, she had a high fever and he came to visit her at home. She cried very hard, and wouldn't let him go. He ended up staying with her all day long and missed his school.

In contrast with him now, she appeared to be really unconscionable then.

Guan Zhiyi self-reflected for a while and said, "But you need to rest, I'll disturb you by staying here."

"I won't be able to sleep for some time. accompany me to chat."

"Oh ......"

Seeing that she had agreed, Qi Chengyan hooked the corner of his mouth slightly, got up and walked to the bed,"I'll lie down for a while."

But he was still holding her, so Guan Zhiyi was forced to follow him to the bedside, watching him lie down under the blanket.

"…what about me?"

"Sit by the side." Qi Chengyan did not let go of her hand, saying, "Stay with me."

"......"

Guan Zhiyi sat on the edge of the bed and watched him lying on his side, his gaze faintly falling on her. No one spoke, the room was silent, she was enveloped by the weird atmosphere, leaving her somewhat at a loss. 

"Did the shooting go well today?" At the end, Qi Chengyan broke the silence.

Guan Zhiyi glanced at the wrist he was holding, sitting restlessy,"It's quite good."

"How many more days are you going to stay?"

"Three or four days, and I still have to shoot the advertisement pictures on the last day..."

"Hmm."

"What about you, when are you going back?"

"When do you want me to go back?"

Guan Zhiyi was taken aback, was this something she could decide?

Qi Chengyan looked at her puzzled expression, smiled softly, but didn't say anything, just added "It depends on the situation. I'll be back when I feel better."

"Well... this is fine too."

When Qi Chengyan talked to her, his sleepiness was already coming, the medicine he had taken before she came was already doing their job. Even so, looking at the person sitting next to his bed, he was a little reluctant to sleep.

"Xiao Wu."

"Um?"

"Do you remember what you said on the stairs yesterday?"

She did not expect him to suddenly bring this up, Guan Zhiyi was a little embarrassed, "That matter-"

"Brother feels a bit sad."

"......"

Huh?

Qi Chengyan stared with his eyes partly closed, his voice a bit hoarse because of the fever,"You've been hanging around by my side for so long, then you suddenly said that you don't want to be close with me to avoid suspicion...You young people are so cruel."

The heating in the room was very strong, and he was lying under the quilt, his face seemed to be smothered with a thin layer of red.

Guan Zhiyi stared at him blankly, thinking that there was something broken in his brain.

He was complaining?

"No need to avoid suspicion, no one will feel that there is something wrong with you being around me, even if there is...Do you think I will care about it?" Qi Chengyan's voice slowly faded, seemingly couldn't hold back his will to fall asleep.

Nevertheless, she still clearly heard his last words. He said, "Xiao Wu, no one is more important than you."

Bang, bang, bang--

He pulled her wrist and his eyes were already closed. She stared intently at his face, her heart beating wildly, as if they were about to burst out of her chest. She was under the illusion that she could hardly breathe.

He said, no one is more important than her.

Does she really have that kind of presence in his heart?

The sudden surge of emotion had made her somewhat confused, but in such chaos, she still inevitably felt happy. She had clearly already built a thick wall against him before, but he simply made that wall come crashing down with those few words, dust rose in all directions and she saw herself standing inside, bewildered and full of joy.

He said that she was the most important...Does that mean he actually had the same heart as her, or perhaps, he likes her?

Her face instantly reddened, Guan Zhiyi felt her heart palpitating and at the same time she also felt that it was impossible.

Such thoughts and speculations make her panic, because of him, she was always afraid of being wrong.

Maybe the most important didn't mean that way, maybe it just meant that......she was as important as his family?

"Brother?"

"Hmm..." He answered, with the haziness from his sleep.

Guan Zhiyi pursed her lips, not daring to ask, "Nothing......you, you sleep well."

She sat on the edge of the bed for a while, only when she felt Qi Chengyan had completely fallen asleep, did she secretly take her hand out of his palm.

Buzzing--

The cell phone in her pocket rang, Guan Zhiyi was afraid of disturbing him, so she hurriedly picked it up, "Xiao Ran?"

"Zhiyi, where are you? I brought some delicious food from outside today, I'll bring it to you." Xiao Ran said on the other end of the phone.

Guan Zhiyi walked a little towards the toilet and whispered, "No need, I have eaten."

"Why are you whispering? Where are you?"

Guan Zhiyi: "I'm with Brother Cheng Yan. He has a fever and is sleeping now."

Xiao Ran paused, "Is he okay?"

"The fever should be gone in a while."

"Well, then, I'll ask my assistant to send food to your room, your agent and assistant are there, right?"

"They're there, thanks."

_____

On one corner, Guan Zhiyi was talking on the phone with a suppressed voice. While inside the room, Qi Chengyan opened his eyes as she walked away, he stared at her back, the corners of his lips slightly raised.

Step by step....

You can't scare her away.