Boyfriend's passive-aggressive behavior, she turns the tables and makes him her backup option.

Xie Jingyao frowned as he unfolded the crumpled paper. Upon seeing that it was a discarded version of the guarantee, his brows relaxed, and he chuckled softly.

"Explain what?"

Qin Miaoran's eyes betrayed her questioning intent. "Who is this woman?"

Xie Jingyao didn't answer immediately. He took out his cigarette case, put a cigarette to his lips, and was about to take out a lighter to light it when Qin Miaoran snatched it away.

She threw the cigarette into the trash can, her delicate eyebrows furrowed: "Don't you care about your health? You're already in the hospital, and you still dare to smoke."

"You're so nosy, what? You'd be heartbroken if I died?" Xie Jingyao casually tossed the lighter aside.

Qin Miaoran was so angry that she threw the lighter into the trash can as well.

"I don't care about you. Don't change the subject. What's going on between you and this woman named Si Nian?"

"Didn't you already investigate her? Don't you know what's going on between him and me? Why are you asking me?"

Qin Miaoran snorted coldly, "You two got back together?"

Xie Jingyao coughed several times, his lungs feeling painfully strained.

Qin Miaoran stomped her foot in anger and went to get a glass of warm water, which she handed to Xie Jingyao.

After taking a few sips, the other person said in a hoarse voice, "We didn't get back together."

"And this guarantee?"

"She's having an affair behind her husband's back."

Qin Miaoran's hand trembled, and she almost dropped the water glass she had just taken. "What did you say?"

"Isn't this guarantee written clearly? I'm forcing her to divorce her husband."

"You know she's married, she has a husband, so why are you still having an affair with her?"

"So what if you have a husband?" Xie Jingyao asked meaningfully.

Qin Miaoran swallowed back the words she was about to say.

Considering her special status at this time, she couldn't stand on a moral high ground to criticize anything.

She was silent for a moment, then looked at Xie Jingyao with slightly flushed eyes. "Ayao, are you getting revenge on me?"

"..."

"What happened back then was something I wronged you with, so when you went to see other women, I didn't say anything, and I didn't force you to break up..."

Qin Miaoran reached out and took Xie Jingyao's hand, saying to him, "But now that I'm by your side, why do you still look at other women?"

Xie Jingyao raised his eyes slightly. "So you think that as long as you come back, I'll always have to revolve around you?"

"That's not what I meant, I just..." Qin Miaoran's voice choked up a little, "I'm a little jealous. You've never treated me like this before."

"How did I treat you?"

"You know I'll be sad to see this, yet you're unmoved. You weren't like this before."

"You never schemed against me with other men before." Xie Jingyao pried Qin Miaoran's hands away. "I wasn't thinking of getting revenge on you, don't worry."

"I'd rather you say you were getting revenge on me, that you did this just to make me jealous!"

Xie Jingyao threw the discarded version of the guarantee into the trash can without responding to Qin Miaoran's words.

Qin Miaoran felt wronged for a moment, then she said to Xie Jingyao, "I know you're sentimental, which is why you reconnected with her. But her situation is different from mine. Her husband is Lin Tinghan, so you're destined to be enemies. She might not even be on your side."

"so?"

"I can guarantee that my heart will always be with you, but can she?"

"You're really good at bluffing."

"I'm not lying to you, I'm telling the truth." Qin Miaoran took Xie Jingyao's hand and pressed it against her heart. "You're the only one in my heart right now. Do you want to see?"

Xie Jingyao withdrew his hand and gave a faint "oh".

Qin Miaoran seemed to have not expected Xie Jingyao to react this way.

She paused for a moment, then asked, "Ah Yao, don't you like me anymore?"

Xie Jingyao kept his lips tightly pressed together and did not answer.

Qin Miaoran gritted her teeth, cupped Xie Jingyao's face, lifted his feet, and was about to kiss him.

But just as it was about to touch those lips, it was forcefully pried off.

"you!"

"Your husband is here."

Qin Miaoran froze, then quickly stood up and looked towards the door.

The group was led by a nurse to the door of the ward.

Qin Miaoran hurriedly straightened her clothes, and as she stood up, she said threateningly, "Don't contact her again, or I'll really get angry."

"What happens when you get angry?" Xie Jingyao asked dismissively.

"If we make our relationship public, neither of us will have an easy time."

Xie Jingyao chuckled, seemingly unconcerned by the threat she uttered.