If You Are a Dodder Flower

Part 2

After a few days, Cheng Wan brought along her daughter and moved into Cao Xiong's place.

Just as what he said, it was an old building. Thankfully, the furniture is still there and usable. Cao Xiong have already get someone to tidy up the house and prepared new mattress and blankets, even the electronics have changed to a new one. When Cheng Wan comes, she can move in immediately.

Cao Xiong even hired the nurses from the hospital to take care of her. He went to visit her two or three times before, every time he would sit down for a while and remind her to rest well, after he finishes a cup of tea he would leave.

Even so, Cheng Wan was able to grasp his taste in short time, Cao Xiong doesn't like to drink green tea but he loves black tea. When he comes again, the tea she made suits his favor.

At the same time, Cao Xiong understood what Cheng Wan's ex-husband meant in their phone conversation. Cheng Wan...... really couldn't take care of herself properly.

She's not clever, sometimes blurry, the worse is she doesn't really pay attention, when anything happens, she doesn't have any idea on what to do. She only knows to be gentle and obedient.

Her ex-husband was only a middle class white collar, to that man, all of these characteristics were Cheng Wan's biggest shortcoming. Especially when she approached to her thirties, slowly she has lost her youth and turned older, her husband started to give her a cold-shoulder.

However, these characteristics were not considered as shortcomings to Cao Xiong, in precise, it was what he caught interested on her instead. A soft woman who is weak and helpless, it was a brand new experience for Cao Xiong.

As the number of times he visits Cheng Wan gradually increases, many times she wanted to talk but hesitated, then felt anxious. Cao Xiong pretended as if he didn't know.

When he visits her again, she has recovered to a healthy state, with a rosy cheek on her face. She looked much prettier now compared to when she was in the hospital.

"I have told the nurses not to come anymore." She served the tea and bitten her lips while she speaks.

"Your body have recovered?" The man asked. He sat on the sofa, took of his hat and simply unbuttoned a few from his black uniform, postured as if he was the owner.

Well, the owner of this house was originally his anyway.

Cheng Wan was always bewildered when she confronts Cao Xiong. When she heard his question, immediately she replied: "It's fine now."

Actually she had something to ask Cao Xiong while he's here now, such as, how long will she able to live in this house, but she's afraid that he would ask her to move out. To think that she needs to find a new place which she's unfamiliar to, and live along with her child, she couldn't help but to feel anxious.

Cao Xiong did not drink the tea but lighten up his cigarette. Obviously he knew what she was worried about.

He stood up and walked around the living room, then asked: "Where's the child?"

Cheng Wan softly replied: "She went to school."

In the end she still couldn't look through his eyes. This man, his aura is too dominant, sometimes it makes her feel scared.

What she afraid the most was...... his unfounded kindness towards her.

This old house doesn't have a French window, Cao Xiong leaned against the windowsill and started smoking, he squinted his eyes trying to take a good look on this woman.

So soft, and lost, yet nobody to rely on.

He didn't say a word; the room was pin drop silence. This man's scent is all over the place.