Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 45: Chapter 45 When do you want to see me? Chapter 45: Chapter 45 When do you want to see me? Sheng Tingyuan looked at her bruised and swollen face and said to her, “You’re hurt, go home, let your parents take you to the hospital and while you’re at it, tell them about someone bullying you.”

The little girl shook her head, “I can’t tell, if I do, my mom will hit me.”

Sheng Tingyuan didn’t understand, “Why?”

“She says, why don’t they bully someone else and only bully you? It must be because you did something bad, and that’s why they hit you. Since I did something bad, she has to punish me too.”

Sheng Tingyuan was shocked, he thought his father was unreasonable enough, but he didn’t expect there to be someone even more detestable than his father!

The little girl got up from the ground and hobbled over to him, opening her small hand to present something like a treasure, “Brother, your forehead is bleeding, I still secretly kept a band-aid, here, use it.”

Sheng Tingyuan sighed, she was already injured and still offered her only band-aid to him, this child was really foolish.

“I’m fine, you use it!”

The little girl pulled anxiously at his clothes, “How can you be fine? You’re really bleeding! Brother, squat down, I’ll stick the band-aid on you, it’ll stop the bleeding. Don’t worry, I’m really good at it!”

Seeing that she was about to cry, Sheng Tingyuan reluctantly squatted down.

The little girl indeed skillfully tore open the band-aid and stuck it on his forehead.

Her fingers touched his skin, very cold, very cold, and it was then that he noticed, in the depth of autumn, she was only wearing a very thin long-sleeve shirt, and it was obviously ill-fitting, evidently not her own.

Sheng Tingyuan took off his jacket and draped it over her, “You gave me a band-aid, I give you a garment, we’re even now.”

The little girl blinked her beautiful big eyes at him, “Brother, we’re not even, you’re at a loss.”

Saying this, she rubbed her hands forcefully on her clothes, then carefully took off his jacket, holding it out to return it to him, “Brother, it’s raining, it’s very cold, you should put it on quickly!”

Sheng Tingyuan took the jacket, and once again draped it over her, “I said, it’s a gift for you. If you don’t want it, then I don’t want your band-aid either.”

After saying that, he was about to tear off the band-aid on his forehead.

The little girl hurriedly said, “I want it, I want it, brother, don’t tear off the band-aid!”

Sheng Tingyuan lowered his hand when he heard she wanted it.

The little girl put on his jacket, touching it joyously and carefully, “Brother, your jacket is so nice, so warm. Hey, brother, your jacket is Hermès!”

Sheng Tingyuan was surprised, “You know it?”

“Yeah, the young lady has a lot of Hermès clothes, she’s said it so many times, so I recognize it!”

“Young lady?”

“Oh, the one who threw my medicine into the lake just now, she is the young lady.”

The little girl, very pleased, began to stroke the jacket again, “The young lady said Hermès is very expensive, she wouldn’t let me touch her clothes, and now, I have Hermès too! Brother, thank you!”

For the first time, Sheng Tingyuan felt that Hermès was, perhaps, not bad.

He looked at the medicine drifting farther away in the lake and asked the little girl, “What medicine do you need? I will help you buy it.”

The little girl shook her head, “No need, brother, I’ve hidden some money, I can buy it myself. You’ve already given me such a nice jacket, I can’t let you buy medicine too, medicine is not cheap either!”

Sheng Tingyuan thought she really had money, so he didn’t insist further.

The heavy rain had stopped, and he looked at her increasingly swollen face, stepping out of the pavilion, “First, buy some medicine for yourself, then for others. I’m leaving.”

“Brother, will I be able to see you again?”

“When do you want to see me?”

“When it rains, I can only come out to play on rainy days.”

“All right, then on rainy days.”