Chapter 259: Chapter 259

Speaking of this, Fu Yuling felt a surge of resentment. At noon, she brought the signature dish from a restaurant to Junshan Group Building to have lunch with Fu Jichen. They barely exchanged a few words before she was sent away. But in the evening, he personally went to the hospital to pick up Fu Feibai for dinner.

The difference was too obvious; how could she reconcile this in her heart.

Don’t even mention treating her like a normal woman; Fu Jichen didn’t even have the basic patience one should have for family when it came to her.

She even remembered what he said at noon, specifically taking time to go to the hospital for Fu Feibai, hoping he could rest a bit. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have come to endure Wei Ronghua’s cold demeanor.

Fu Feibai could hear from the receiver that Fu Yuling was unhappy, but he didn’t know why. He said honestly, "I just drove out of Yunding Palace, sis, did something happen to you?"

Fu Yuling almost passed out; she had never been to Fu Jichen’s private villa. The only time she went, she was stopped outside the villa by Shen Jianian.

"Did you ask your brother about his relationship with that woman?" Fu Yuling controlled her temper, trying to keep her voice steady.

Fu Feibai had just gotten some first-hand information and was feeling proud: "Are you so curious?"

"Do you think you’re the only one who cares about him? I care about him too." Fu Yuling rolled her eyes; anyway, Fu Feibai couldn’t see through the phone, "Stop stalling, just tell me."

Fu Feibai said, "To be honest, I don’t really understand what’s going on with them. I didn’t understand what he said. I wanted to ask him, but then it was dinner time, and I forgot."

Fu Jichen had initially said that he and Shen Jianian were boyfriend and girlfriend, but now Shen Jianian was refusing to acknowledge it, and he was trying to salvage the relationship.

If they are boyfriend and girlfriend, why wouldn’t Shen Jianian acknowledge it?

Since Fu Feibai didn’t understand it himself, he couldn’t possibly explain it to Fu Yuling: "If you want to know, ask him yourself. I can’t say. There’s one thing I can assure you of, though: he truly likes her. Otherwise, he wouldn’t allow her to live in the villa at Yunding Palace."

Fu Yuling was momentarily breathless, staying silent for quite some time.

"Sis, are you listening?" Fu Feibai suspected the call had dropped, so he brought the phone to his eyes to check, and it showed an ongoing call.

Fu Yuling was too shocked, like a broken record, repeating Fu Feibai’s words: "You said that woman is currently living in the villa at Yunding Palace?"

"Yes." Fu Feibai was genuinely happy for Fu Jichen, "He seems to be moving on. When I saw him today, I could feel he was different from before, like he was back to three years ago when he was dating Shen Jianian, becoming amiable and easygoing again. He even gave me a sports car."

Although Fu Jichen didn’t explicitly say it, he knew the car was gifted to him.

Fu Yuling forgot how she hung up the phone.

She couldn’t have imagined the progress between Fu Jichen and that woman was so fast that he actually brought her to Yunding Palace, a place even she had never set foot in.

Shen Jianian was once the only woman who stayed there, and now he brought another person in.

Had she spent three years, only to lose to a woman of unknown origins?

Did Fu Jichen really not give her a single chance?

At Yunding Palace, after dinner, Shen Jianian didn’t stay long in the living room. She greeted Cheng Jin and prepared to go upstairs.

Fu Jichen got up silently and followed her, squeezing into the elevator the second after she entered.

The same scenario unfolded; in the enclosed space, it was just the two of them. Even if they wanted to keep a distance, it wouldn’t be more than the width of the car.

Fu Jichen’s gaze fell on the top of her head: "Why did you take off the ring?"

"It’s not mine. Why should I wear it?" Shen Jianian gave him a sidelong glance, "It’s you who took off my ring without permission and lost it."

Aunt Cheng had looked for it all afternoon without finding it.

After just a few words, they arrived at the third floor. Shen Jianian exited first, with Fu Jichen close behind.

"Didn’t I compensate you with another one?" Fu Jichen said.

Shen Jianian paused, then quickly walked back to her room, closing the door behind her and leaning against it, taking deep breaths. Fu Jichen’s remark reminded her that he hadn’t forgotten what happened when he got drunk last night.

Damn, she’d deliberately buried those memories, hoping to pretend nothing happened, yet he always inadvertently awakened her memories.

Remembering that she had something important to discuss with Fu Jichen, Shen Jianian forced herself to face him. She turned around, her hands pulling open the door, finding Fu Jichen standing right outside, not having left.

"I need to go out on the 28th." Shen Jianian, worried he would refuse, brought up their agreement, "You promised me that when necessary, you’d let me go out."

Fu Jichen asked gently, "What do you need to do outside?" explaining, "I didn’t mean to say no, I’m just concerned about you."

Shen Jianian replied truthfully, "To get a vaccine."

She had been scratched by a stray dog in Jiang City. She had finished the first four vaccine doses, and only one was left, which she needed to complete by the 28th of this month.

Fu Jichen wasn’t aware of this: "What kind of vaccine?"

Fu Jichen was taken aback. He hadn’t meant to laugh, but seeing her earnest expression, he couldn’t resist and smiled: "Bitten by a dog again?"

"What do you mean by again?" Shen Jianian said irritatedly.

Fu Jichen coughed lightly, covering his smile with his fist: "I just remembered you were bitten before."

As Shen Jianian was about to retort, she suddenly remembered that when the doctor gave her the vaccine, he mentioned that she had gotten immunoglobulin before, but since it had been over three years, it was no longer effective, requiring a new course.

"When was the last time I was bitten by a dog?" Shen Jianian asked the person in front of her.

Fu Jichen remembered clearly: "Over three years ago, in Yicheng, it was Lai Fu’s doing. Back then, he was still a stray, came to Rose Manor looking for food at night, and you accidentally kicked him. He thought you were after his food, so he bit you on the foot. I initially did not support you adopting him, but it was your persistence that made me agree."

Initially always doubting the truth of Fu Jichen’s words, Shen Jianian had now become conditioned to believe everything he said.

Fu Jichen said, "The 28th, right? Got it, I’ll take you then."

"Just let the driver take me. You’re busy with work."

Shen Jianian knew he was busy with work; when she was sick, he spent half a day at home with her each day, causing his work to pile up, and he had clearly become busier these days.

He sensed her change in attitude, and it made him smile: "Afraid of wasting my time? I have time to accompany you for a vaccine."

"It’s up to you." Shen Jianian said, turning back to her room.

Fu Jichen called after her, pausing for a few seconds, looking at her back, and brought up the ring: "You should keep the ring; it’s yours. Even if you don’t want it, it won’t belong to anyone else."

On the 28th, a weekday, Fu Jichen cleared his schedule to take Shen Jianian to the CDC in the morning for her vaccination.

At the vaccination office, the doctor checked the brand of vaccine she had previously received, picked the same for this dose, and soon they were done: "Stay in the observation room for thirty minutes; if there’s no issue, you can leave."

Shen Jianian sat on a public bench, pressing a cotton swab on her arm, and said to Fu Jichen, who was accompanying her: "I’m all set here; you can head to the office."

Fu Jichen suggested, "Since we’re already out, don’t you want to go somewhere else?"

Recollecting the last time they went out and ended up at a bar causing a series of awkward events, she wasn’t too keen to go out with Fu Jichen. Check latest chapters at ɴovelfire.net

Seeing through her thought process, Fu Jichen smiled: "It’s daytime now; I’m not taking you to a bar."

Shen Jianian didn’t rush to respond. She checked the swab and found no bleeding at the needle site. She got up to discard the cotton swab in a trash can, but Fu Jichen took it from her, walked to the hallway, and disposed of it in the bin outside.

A woman from the neighboring clinic glanced at Fu Jichen several times. She was about to call him when he couldn’t see her and turned back into the observation room.

The curious woman retraced her steps to peek inside, seeing Fu Jichen seated beside a woman, handing her a light cardigan from the chair’s arm, suggesting she puts it on.

She walked to the lobby, joined a queue at the payment window, and took out her phone due to the boredom of waiting. She made a call: "Hey, Yuling, it’s Erin. I’m at the CDC with Qianqian getting her vaccine. She got scratched by my teddy. Guess whom I saw at the CDC? Your brother! He’s here with a woman getting her vaccine."

Fu Yuling asked, "Are you sure you didn’t see wrong?"

"Mistake anyone but your brother; a man like him is hard to miss in Beicheng," replied Erin, sounding eager for gossip, "Are you having a new sister-in-law soon? A few days ago, I heard from Lu Lu saying she saw your brother very close with a woman at a bar. Could it have been her? I only got a glimpse, but she’s quite pretty."

Fu Yuling responded perfunctorily, "Possibly. I have to go; I’m busy right now."