She ran away from him and was not to be offended by her sickly brother.

"..."

Huo Xibai was startled, the panic in his eyes flashed away, but he still curled his lips calmly on his face, "Of course I checked all the people and things related to you, otherwise you would think that the things I showed you Where did the photo come from?”

Hearing this, Meng Xia remembered that Huo Xibai had indeed thrown her a stack of intimate photos of Ning Youran and Song Zhihuai in the hotel before, and then nodded without saying anything else.

Huo Xibai glanced at the woman with his peripheral vision and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she didn't ask any more questions. What he told Ning Youran was simply that he knew that the incident of Meng Xia being drugged was actually Ning Youran's fault— —

But he didn't plan to tell Meng Xia this, so it would be good to just let her continue to misunderstand Song Zhihuai.

But this didn't mean that the matter was over. He would not let anyone bully Meng Xia, whether it was Ning Youran, Song Zhihuai or the old woman from the Song family.

-

Not long after the two arrived home, the staff of the shopping mall delivered clothes. Except for the two sets that Huo Xibai picked for himself, almost all of them were clothes that Meng Xia had just seen or touched.

When Huo Xibai went to knock on the door with his clothes in his arms, Meng Xia just glanced lightly and was about to close the door, but Huo Xibai raised his hand to block it, "I was in the mall just now, and I helped you to save it. Now let you accept it." Is my gift not too much?"

What is the logic?Since he helped her, logically she shouldn't be the one to give him anything...

Her eyes glazed over, realizing that Huo Xibai was waiting for her to say this. Meng Xia pursed her lips and retorted in a low voice, "I didn't ask you to help me..."

"If I didn't ask to help you, wouldn't you be eaten alive by that woman?"

When he thought that Meng Xia would only be sharp-tongued in front of him and not know how to keep silent when being bullied outside, Huo Xibai became angry for no reason, and even his tone was tinged with sarcasm.

Meng Xia choked for a moment. How afraid was she of Huo Xibai before that she left him with the stereotype of being weak and bullied and capable of being stepped on by anyone?

Besides, even if she really can't argue with Ning Youran, she's not stupid and can't argue with her. Is it possible that she still won't leave?

"You're overthinking this. Even without you, this wouldn't have happened."

The sentence blurted out. Before Meng Xia noticed the ambiguity, Huo Xibai's expression changed first and he immediately sneered, "Huh, really? You mean that I am meddling in other people's business and doing something unnecessary?"

No.

Meng Xia subconsciously wanted to deny that although without Huo Xibai, she would not have been affected by Ning Youran. But seeing Huo Xibai being so angry that Ning Youran couldn't say a word today, it is undeniable that she still felt an inexplicable revenge. Pleasure——

It has nothing to do with love, more like a way to vent.

But when her mouth moved, she felt that she didn't need to explain to Huo Xibai.

Seeing that she lowered her head and said nothing, Huo Xibai's face became even colder. He clenched his big hands hard for a moment, and a hint of sinisterness flashed across his eyes. He asked coldly, "Is it because everything I have done since I moved here has been... In your eyes, everything is just wishful thinking and self-centeredness? So now you won’t even accept a piece of clothing from you?”

"..."

Facing the man's frightening gaze, Meng Xia's hand on the doorknob tightened uneasily, but she still mustered up the courage to speak, "I never asked you to do this, and I never asked you... to please me."

The woman's voice was not loud, and even contained a subtle tremor, but because the surroundings were quiet enough, every word fell into Huo Xibai's ears.

The moment the words fell, Meng Xia felt that the temperature around her dropped a few degrees. Huo Xibai's gaze almost penetrated her. She did not dare to raise her head at all, and even subconsciously held her breath——

(End of this chapter)