Qin's Mansion
When Su Ci Yi woke up, she saw an unfamiliar ceiling, a brightly colored curtain and a soft mattress where she was currently lying. The place was tinged with a luxurious vibe and high-class living. There's no way a simple room in the hospital rival this place.
She slowly rises from her bed and fragments of memories bombarded her mind. The first thing she did was to feel her spiritual qi. That moment, when she was releasing her qi, she realized that she used it excessively. Now, she had a small reserve left.
Su Ci Yi thought of doing upon waking up was to cultivate in a place where there was a sufficient flow of qi.
Later when she's been settled, she will get back to the person that pushed her on the pool.
She was so stupid to be lenient the moment she returned his knife to him. It was like she's a prey openly waiting for her predator. She didn't think that he will stabbed her on the back the moment she let her guard down.
As she was engrossed with her thought, someone knocked on the door. It was a woman fully dressed in a maid outfit. Behind him trotted the little Qin Tao.
"Master!!! You're awake!" The moment he laid her eyes on her, he immediately jumped on to her. The small hands that were hugging her touch her forehead and exclaimed, "Fever! Master has a fever!"
The maid follow up and touched her head confirming it.
"Young Master, please stay away from the madam. There will be a big chance that you could get her infection also." The maid politely bowed her head and inform him.
Qin Tao's glimmering eye look left and right from both of them, but he even snuggled himself within her arms when he heard the maid said it. "Never, I will cure my master!"
Acting like someone would have taken his most treasure, Qin Tao didn't break away from her.
The woman pretended like he didn't hear the child's tantrum and organize the tray of the meal she brought over, explaining, "After the meal, please take one of these capsule Madam. It's for your fever. I will leave this in here."
Su Ci Yi looked at the oval-shaped tablet and nodded.
"Please call me Ms. Su." Su Ci Yi felt like some big hotshot woman if she would be called by that. After all, she was just only a guest that was staying for a while.
"This is noted, Ms. Su. "The maid wave her goodbye as she went out the door.
Su Ci Yi's sight landed on the tray of the meal as she licked her lips. She had felt like she had fasted for a month and her tummy's grumbling.
The meal tray consisted of light soup and a piece of loaf bread with a suspicious brown liquid near it. She had guessed it was some liquid drink infused with medicinal herbs. The minted savory flavor wafted as she directly smelled it.
Su Ci Yi was eager to eat and would have held the spoon if not for Qin Tao's swift movements. He took the spoon from her, scoop the soup while grinning, "Master say ahhhh."
She was uncomfortable if a child would feed her, therefore she took the spoon from him but Qin Tao even made his grip stronger.
"This master has ordered you to put that spoon down." Su Ci Yi called in her stern voice.
The child's ears flop down as he pouted his lips in disapproval. His eyes moisten as if he was about to bawl in tears.
Su Ci Yi wanted to comfort him, but this is a matter of her being. She can't let a child spoon-feed a full-fledged adult, isn't she?
"Is it your father who saves me?" After a while, Su Ci Yi asked.
Qin Tao was still sulking on the side and nodded.
"Can you please tell him my gratitude for saving me? I owe him a lot this time."
The sulking Qi Tao, hearing his master, requested a very important mission, gasp in excitement as he carefully went down the bed. Su Ci Yi curiously asked him, "Wait, where are you going?"
Qin Tao giggled and run away while shouting, "I'll tell your gratitude to my father now, Master! He's just in the other room. I'll wake him up!"
Su Ci Yi's spoon fell on the bowl. What? Wait! It doesn't need to be now! Let your father rest!
However, even she would like to howl that words towards the child, Qin Tao was nowhere out of her sight.
Su Ci Yi blankly took her spoon and disinterestedly sip the soup.
As she was scooping the second spoon, Qin Yu came by the room and in his arms was the giggling Qin Tao. It was so obvious that the man had just woken up from his sleep.
Su Ci Yi felt bad that it was her fault why the man had woken up. Upon seeing him, she apologized immediately. "Mr. Qin, I am sorry, It was my fault that Qin Tao woke you up-"
"Ms. Su, it's alright. I have already woken up by the time he slid into my room."
A crumpled hairstyle yet looked dashingly fashionable. A plain white t-shirt and a gray pajama. He was still scratching his hair while half yawning. Only a newly woken person would look like that!
Qin Yu took the opportunity while she was daze and put the child beneath him. "Have you finish eating?" He looked over to the unfinished soup beside her and this answers his question.
"Pardon, I was just eating when you enter--"
Qin Yu took the spoon swiftly and before she could protest, it already had gone to her mouth. How could Su Ci Yi object but to let the watery liquid past through her mouth! These two... like father like son!
Qin Tao clapped his two hands while saying " Good girl. Master." and Qin Yu was rustling her head, grinning ear to ear.
Su Ci Yi "..."
Had she become a nursery kid?