I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With-Chapter 704: Drawing Lines as a Prison for You 2

Chapter 704: Chapter 704: Drawing Lines as a Prison for You 2
Ning Xixi may be blind, but she found him quite annoying. She turned in another direction, burying her little face into her knees, and continued to cry.
Qiao Nancheng had no experience in dealing with a crying girl. He opened his mouth but suddenly remembered his stutter and closed it again.
He used his own sleeve to wipe her tears and runny nose, patting her back with his hand, struggling to articulate clearly, "You, you crying like this, will, will choke..."
Perhaps knowing he meant no harm, Ning Xixi’s crying gradually subsided.
Hearing her voice hoarse from crying, Qiao Nancheng asked, "Do you want ice cream?"
Being young, despite all the sadness, the mention of food still made Ning Xixi blink and then she cautiously nodded her head.
"I’ll go buy it for you." Qiao Nancheng crawled out from under the bed, hesitated, and then said awkwardly, "I...I don’t have any money."
At that time, the cheapest ice cream cost fifty cents for two, but he didn’t even have fifty cents.
Ning Xixi rummaged through her pocket and pulled out a five-yuan note, placing it on the ground.
Qiao Nancheng exclaimed, "Wow, you’re so rich!"
He picked up the money and swore solemnly, "Wait for me, okay?"
Qiao Nancheng hurried to the convenience store beside the hospital, investing a significant amount to buy Ning Xixi the most expensive ice cream—costing 4 yuan!
Worried the ice cream might melt, he jogged all the way back, but couldn’t bring himself to spend the remaining one yuan on himself.
As he reached the hospital entrance, he heard sounds of a dispute from inside.
It seemed a new nurse was failing at inserting a needle, and a young, yet rather harsh male voice yelled, "Can you not administer it? If not, get someone else! Do you see you’ve turned her hand red?"
The nurse meekly exited the room.
The moment he opened the door, he saw Ji Yebai inside.
At that moment, Ji Yebai was an arrogant young master dressed in a dapper suit, looking both cool and charismatic.
"Who are you?" Ji Yebai raised an eyebrow at him.
Qiao Nancheng timidly held up the ice cream, "For, for her."
Ji Yebai looked at the ice cream in his hand, his eyes narrowing, "For her?" with a look of seeing a rival.
He snatched the ice cream from his hand, "Thanks, you can leave."
Ning Xixi vaguely reached out her little hand, "Give it to me."
Ji Yebai took a bite, "I’ll buy you Haagen-Dazs, I’ll eat this one!"
Ning Xixi pouted, her eyes filling with tears, "Big bully..."
Qiao Nancheng stood uneasily for a moment while Ji Yebai glared at him, "What are you looking at? Me or her?"
Flushing, Qiao Nancheng ran off without looking back.
On his way back to the casino, he passed a Haagen-Dazs shop and faintly saw the promotional poster inside.
So, there exists such expensive ice cream in the world, one scoop selling for dozens of yuan...
Qiao Nancheng’s dark eyes watched quietly, and in that moment, it seemed like he suddenly understood something.
...
The second time they met was in middle school.
He had become the bodyguard assigned by Ning Jingshen to protect Ning Xixi at school.
At that time, he still had nothing, and the coin was a gift he gave Ning Xixi for her birthday.
"Keep this, and I will definitely fulfill one of your wishes," he stammered out.
He was reluctant to admit that his heart had room for a girl named Ning Xixi.
From then on, I drew a prison for you.
I am slowly aging in that prison.