The next second, Huo Yuanchen spoke in a sarcastic tone, "Where were you when my mother had a car accident tonight?"

Huo Mingqi pursed his lips and said nothing.

Huo Yuanchen added, "From the moment I called you to inform you that my mother was in trouble, it took you a total of one hour and fifteen minutes to get to the hospital. However, it would take you no time to get to the hospital from home or from the company. It only took one hour and fifteen minutes to drive from Zhang Li's place. When my mother's life was hanging by a thread, you, as her husband, were having a tryst with your lover."

"Snapped."

A loud slapping sound.

Huo Yuanchen didn't move, with a red and swollen slap mark on his face.

Although Wen Li was exhausted, she screamed in shock. She took out a wet wipe from her bag and handed it to Huo Yuanchen, "Ice it."

Huo Yuanchen didn't answer. He looked at Huo Mingqi and said, "You taught me that no matter what you do, there must be a reason. So, why did you hit me just now?"

Huo Mingqi suppressed his anger and said, "Because you were disrespectful to Lili, is that reason enough?"

Huo Yuanchen said calmly, "I don't think it's necessary to continue to respect a woman who framed my mother and deliberately tried to kill her."

Huo Mingqi said, "Don't you forget who saved you when you were being cheated by a woman? You want to be ungrateful, but I won't allow it."

Wen Li was shocked. She subconsciously looked at Huo Yuanchen, but she only saw him standing there calmly, with no expression on his face, and his eyes looking at Huo Mingqi were a little gloomy.

She subconsciously wanted to hold his hand, and when she put her fingers on his arm, she found that his muscles were very tense.

"Huo Yuanchen." Wen Li called him.

He glanced at her lightly, as if she was a stranger, without any reaction.

After a long while, he finally said, "I'm going to the bathroom."

After saying this, he turned and left without waiting for anyone else to react.

Wen Li was worried about him, mainly because he looked so scary just now. She had been with him for so long, but this was the first time she saw him with such an expression.

She was afraid that something might happen to Huo Yuanchen.

Wen Li glanced at the sign that still showed "In Surgery" and became extremely anxious.

Huo Mingqi pursed his lips and said, "Go check on him and don't let him do anything rash. I'll stay here. If Meizhen comes out, I'll call you."

Wen Li hesitated for a moment, but still nodded and chased after him.

She met Huo Yuanchen who had just come out of the bathroom door. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, he was already walking out of the building at a fast pace.

Wen Li called him from behind, but he seemed not to hear her and walked very quickly.

Wen Li had to jog to barely keep up with his pace.

The two walked all the way to the small garden outside the building. Because it was night, there were not many people here, and there were occasional insects chirping. The night was quite beautiful, and the moonlight sprinkled generously on Huo Yuanchen, making him look like a character in a fairy tale.

Wen Li followed behind him, not daring to say anything.

He suddenly stopped and turned back to look at her, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes.

Wen Li didn't understand and just stared at him blankly.

After a long while, Huo Yuanchen suddenly uttered two words in a cold tone, "It's so ugly."

Wen Li was stunned for a moment before she realized that he was saying she was ugly.

She thought this was too weird. She didn't provoke him tonight. She saw him arguing with Huo Mingqi and was kind enough to follow him out to see what was going on. Why did she get these two words?

How had she offended him?

Wen Li turned around and was about to leave.

Huo Yuanchen suddenly reached out and picked her up by the waist. Just as she was about to struggle, he had already carried her to the bench.

The two looked at each other. Because they were standing on the bench, Wen Li experienced for the first time the feeling of looking down at Huo Yuanchen from a high position.

She looked at him, his head raised, staring at her without blinking. His eyes were like the sea before a storm, seemingly calm but hiding raging waves.

She leaned back subconsciously.

Huo Yuanchen put his hands on her waist and suddenly grinned, but the smile did not reach his eyes, and his gaze remained cold.

He asked her, "Why are you hiding? Didn't you come out here just to ask me about what my dad said?"

Wen Li pursed his lips.

She was indeed very curious. Huo Mingqi said that Huo Yuanchen had been deceived by a woman and even tried to commit suicide. She found it incredible and could not imagine who had such a great ability.

But now, she didn't want to ask. Compared with gossip, she was more afraid of Huo Yuanchen at this moment.

She lowered her head and said, "There's nothing to ask. It's just An Ran. I'm not interested in your love history."

There was no emotion on Huo Yuanchen's face at the moment. His biggest reaction was that when Wen Li said An Ran's name, the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh but didn't.

He looked into her eyes and said calmly, "We don't have any love history. Zhang Li did save me, and that's why I call her Aunt Li. But what she did to my mother this time has touched my bottom line, and I won't follow her anymore."

Wen Li hummed softly, thinking that Huo Yuanchen was explaining the second half of Huo Mingqi's previous sentence.

As for the incident where he was cheated by a woman, he simply skipped over it.

She couldn't help but become curious again. She didn't know what had happened between An Ran and Huo Yuanchen that made Huo Yuanchen miss her so much.

The moonlight was too bright. When Wen Li lowered his head, he saw that the slap mark on Huo Yuanchen's face had not disappeared yet, which showed how hard Huo Mingqi hit him.

She felt that Huo Yuanchen was a little inexplicably scary at this time, and he was emitting a low pressure all over his body . She was afraid that he would do something bad to her, so she tried to please him and reached out to touch the wound on his face.

"Does it hurt? Otherwise, I'll ask the nurse for some ice to cool you down."

When her hand just touched Huo Yuanchen's cheek, he subconsciously turned his head to the side, as if trying to avoid her.

This made Wen Li a little embarrassed, and he couldn't decide whether to continue performing.

Huo Yuanchen held her hand and rubbed his cheek against her palm.

Wen Li frowned uncomfortably and said, "This will touch the wound."

Huo Yuanchen hummed, still resting his face in her palm, and asked her, "Do you feel good when you see me getting beaten? It's especially refreshing?"

Wen Li touched his nose and said, "Although you are usually quite hateful and I really hate you, to be fair, you looked quite handsome when you contradicted your father just now for Aunt Qi."

After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "I was quite anxious when Uncle Huo hit you."

Huo Yuanchen didn't say anything, but his arms around her waist tightened even more, so tight that she couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Before she could say anything, he raised his head and kissed her lips, gently holding her lips again and again, tempting her to kiss him.

"Wen Li, don't leave me, okay?"

As their lips and tongues were entangled, he held her in his mouth and spoke almost beggingly.