I Want a Lifetime with You novel Chapter 403

For some reason, Fu Ling suddenly felt like crying. She snuck a furtive look at Su Shaoqing’s busy hands. After a long while, she turned her eyes away. Su Shaoqing looked up at that moment and gazed tenderly at her. “Do you feel okay? I’ll ice your wound for you in a bit. If it still hurts after that, let’s go down to the hospital.” However, Fu Ling didn’t reply. “Ling, you can get mad at me if you wish, but don’t throw your health out of the window like that!”

“That’s enough!” Fu Ling snapped. Pushing him aside, she said, “You know very well that I don’t need your care or your attention. I’m going upstairs!” She stood up to storm off, but the moment her foot touched the ground, a jolt of pain shot through her leg, and she fell back down on the sofa with a look of defeat.

Su Shaoqing acted quickly and steadied her immediately. “Fine. Can I at least help you upstairs?”

Su Shaoqing took a step backward and tried to compromise with her. Just as Fu Ling was about to reply, her phone started to ring—it was her food delivery driver. He had arrived at the door. Delivery drivers and other outsiders weren’t allowed to enter the premises without the permission of the owner because Su Shaoqing’s villa was located in an upscale neighborhood

Fu Ling picked up the phone and was about to speak when Su Shaoqing snatched the phone away from her. “We don’t want the food anymore.” He hung up on the call immediately.

“What the hell? Who are you to cancel my food delivery order like that? Su Shaoqing, you’re too much. That was the food I ordered!”

Fu Ling screamed at him and lunged for her phone. However, the delivery man called her back first. As soon as she picked up the call, she heard an angry bellow from the other end. “Do you think you’re all that just because you live in an upscale neighborhood? You ordered the food, and you’re canceling on it now? What am I supposed to do with it, then?”

“Oh, no, I want the food!” Fu Ling replied hastily. “A crazy person intercepted my call just now.”

“No, she doesn’t!” Su Shaoqing snatched the phone back and said, “You can enjoy the food. As for the money, I’ll transfer it to you right away.” He hung up the phone immediately after speaking and flung it far away into a corner. Looking solemnly at Fu Ling, he said, “Ling, I’ve told you before that you can get mad at me, but there’s no need for you to disregard your own health to spite me. You’re injured, so just sit down and rest for a bit. I’ll make dinner for you.”

“No, I want my food delivery!” Fu Ling was absolutely furious. Glaring angrily at him, she exploded, “Su Shaoqing, I only agreed to come and live at your place. That doesn’t mean I have to listen to everything you say! I’ll eat whatever the hell I want—what I eat has nothing to do with you. You have no right to restrict my personal freedom like this!”

Fu Ling stormed up to him, glowering. “If you keep doing these sort of things, I’ll move out right now. I never begged you to allow me to live here. Get your facts straight, you madman!”

Su Shaoqing frowned. “Ling, you were never like this before!”

“Before? Don’t talk to me about the past. Time changes everyone. Besides, how much did you really know about me back then? You think you know a lot about me, but you actually know nothing at all!” Fu Ling yelled, refusing to let Su Shaoqing get a word in. “Give me back my phone right now. If not, I’ll leave immediately!”

Su Shaoqing’s eyes narrowed. He couldn’t talk sense into Fu Ling when she was raging at him like this. He gazed at her, a conflicted look flashing in his eyes. Finally, he decided to compromise with her. “Do you really have to eat takeout?”

“Yes,” Fu Ling snapped. “I’d rather eat that greasy, MSG-filled stuff than eat whatever the hell you cook. Understand?”

“Alright. I’ll order some takeout for you. But can you please eat something instead of the one you just ordered?”

Fu Ling glared at him for a long time before nodding her head.

Su Shaoqing breathed a quiet sigh of relief. Immediately, he gave Yun Shui Jian a call and ordered a few dishes for her. “Do you want to stay in the living room or go upstairs to your room?” he asked Fu ling. “I’ll give you the TV remote control if you want. There’s even a laptop in my room. Do you want to play games on it?”

Su Shaoqing looked expectantly at her. Fu Ling felt extremely uncomfortable under his intense gaze and chose to remain on the sofa without another word.

As soon as she sat down, Su Shaoqing hurried over with a remote control. “You can take a look and see if there are any dramas or movies you’re interested in. I’ll go upstairs and get the laptop for you.”

“Su Shaoqing!” Fu Ling called after him. He stopped in his tracks a few meters away from her. With his back still turned to her, Su Shaoqing heard her ask, “Are you doing this out of guilt?”

Su Shaoqing froze at the question. He clenched his fists and remained silent for a long time. Behind him, Fu Ling continued, “There’s no need for you to feel guilty. If I think about it, you were a victim of your own circumstances back then too. You didn’t love me, but I continued hanging around you, didn’t I? I might have aborted our child, but I did that without consulting you. If I wanted to keep it, you wouldn’t have been able to talk me out of it anyway. I stopped blaming you for that a long time ago. If you still feel guilty and want to make it up to me somehow, you don’t have to do all this. If it weren’t for Bai, I would have never come back, so you can save it! I don’t need your apology.”

Fu Ling gazed at Su Shaoqing’s back. Back then, she believed that they were destined to be—after all, he had been the first person she noticed in the vast sea of people around her. No matter where he was, she was always able to find him in a blink of an eye.

His silhouette was a very familiar one to her; it was the most beautiful one. Every night, she continued to see his back view in her dreams. It was firm, solid, and handsome. However, he was slightly hunched over right now—the sight of a defeated-looking Su Shaoqing was one she never thought she would see.

Su Shaoqing took a deep breath and clenched her fists. “If you really want to make it up to me, then help me out with something. Help me save Bai’s life.”

“Okay!” Su Shaoqing mustered up all the willpower in his body to utter out that reply.

“Qin Yanzhi is Bai’s biological father. I know you can help us look for him.”

“Okay!”