The voice coming through the phone carried the faintest hint of a smile, making her ears tingle.
Was she imagining it? Why did that sound a little flirtatious?
Lu Xiaoxiao awkwardly moved the phone a little farther away. Her free hand picked helplessly at the bedsheet, as though that pointless gesture could distract her from the girlish fluttering that had appeared out of nowhere.
She suddenly remembered their conversation when she had fallen into the pit, so she tossed Ji Yunhuai's exact words back at him. "What, young master? Are you worried about me?"
The man on the other end chuckled. "I just wanted you to tell me so I could have a laugh."
Lu Xiaoxiao: "..."
Thanks. Those budding romantic feelings just died on the spot.
Ji Yunhuai really was Ji Yunhuai. She knew it-one person's misery meant nothing to someone else!
Still, after suppressing the urge to hang up, Lu Xiaoxiao patiently gave Ji Yunhuai a rundown of what had happened to Lu Bochen.
After all, if His Highness really wanted to know something, he could investigate it himself, and he would definitely find out. There was no point hiding anything from him.
"Sigh... Thank goodness my third brother pulled through in the end. But if he doesn't recover mentally, something like this could happen again. I'm really worried about him."
By the time she finished, Lu Xiaoxiao couldn't help sighing. Then she muttered, "Okay, I probably shouldn't be venting to you about this. You don't have any siblings, so you probably can't relate."
Ji Yunhuai fell silent for a moment before speaking quietly. "It's not that I can't relate at all. When my mother passed away a few years ago, I spent a long time waiting outside the emergency room too."
He paused, then continued with a