After the divorce, my ex-husband and son lined up to pursue me.

Chapter 56 Stealing the Show
"Keep the money."

Jiang Xia turned off her phone, her eyes filled with laughter as she looked up: "If it's not enough, you must tell me."

Ruan Muhuai's thin lips were pressed tightly together in silence.

Hearing his phone vibrate and seeing Jiang Xia's expectant gaze, he finally had no choice but to take out his phone and accept the 30,000 yuan transferred by Jiang Xia.

"That's enough." Ruan Muhuai put away his phone and stood up. "Are you hungry? It's time to eat."

Jiang Xia hesitated, feeling somewhat embarrassed and at a loss: "Mr. Ruan, if I may ask, have you been taking care of me these past few days...?"

In her current understanding, she is not married, has never even been in a relationship, and suddenly, because of a car accident, she is being taken care of by a grown man...

It wasn't shyness, it was that she felt uncomfortable all over!

"What's wrong?" Ruan Muhuai asked, but he quickly caught the evasive and shy look in Jiang Xia's eyes!

In that instant, he also realized a crucial point that had been overlooked for a long time!
He immediately leaned down, one hand slipped behind Jiang Xia's ear and rested on the pillow behind her head, while the other hand gently lifted her chin. The close proximity and the intertwined breaths created an instantly ambiguous and romantic atmosphere.

"Don't you like me? Then I'll take care of you. What's there to be shy about?"

Jiang Xia's mind went blank, and his whole body froze instantly.

Ruan Muhuai was quite pleased with the hesitant, awkward reaction on her face. He smiled and slowly, gently, traced his hand down her collarbone with the hand that was supporting him on the cushion...

"You think I took advantage of you, or that I saw something I shouldn't have seen?"

His thin lips curled slightly as he slowly moved closer to hers, his gentle breath mingling with his deep, mellow voice: "Then I'll take responsibility for you, how about we get married?"

Jiangxia's breathing became sluggish.

Not only was her hidden secret exposed, but... she was proposed to?
Her mind went blank for a moment, and she didn't realize how frivolous Ruan Muhuai's actions were. She had no dating experience and didn't know how men and women should interact in this situation...

Jiang Xia stared blankly at the face so close to hers. It was too beautiful, an otherworldly good-looking face with exquisite features. Indeed, during the academic conference, she had been unable to look away from that one casual glance on stage.

Just for that face...

"Let...let me think about it," she stammered, quickly averting her gaze.

It's quite fun.

Ruan Muhuai smiled and got up to release her, but as he turned to arrange the lunchbox, he asked with interest, "Have you thought it through?"

Jiang Xia: "..."

"This...this is too...too short." Her face flushed with embarrassment, and she kept fidgeting with her fingers.

Ruan Muhuai chuckled softly and set up the small dining table on the hospital bed. "No rush, take your time thinking. Let's eat first."

During her hospital stay, Jiang Xia has hardly had a proper meal.

She couldn't eat after the surgery, and when she could eat again, she had no appetite and was excessively sleepy all day. Now that her condition has improved, Ruan Muhuai has asked the restaurant to send her a very nutritious meal.

But he had used it before, so when the vice president called, he told Jiang Xia to eat well and went out to answer the phone.

When he returned, he found Jiang Xia tidying up the table, cleaning everything up one by one. But when Ruan Muhuai went over to take a look, he found that almost none of the dishes had been touched!

Even with that bowl of porridge, she only drank two or three mouthfuls at most! "Still no appetite?" he asked.

Jiang Xia frowned in confusion at the word "still" in his words, but replied with a smile, "It's alright, I guess it's because I haven't been exercising much and I'm not hungry."

Okay, Ruan Muhuai will believe it for now.

The next day, Jiangxia's situation had greatly improved.

She was less sleepy and her energy levels had improved. Although her appetite hadn't improved, her cognition and memory had improved a lot.

So the doctor told me to stay in the hospital for two more days for observation, and then I could be discharged.

Ruan Muhuai then transferred a servant from his ancestral home to temporarily take care of Jiang Xia in his place, and he also returned to Haicheng with Xin Rou.

To be precise, it was to send Xin Rou back to Haicheng, while Ruan Muhuai went back to the company to handle some matters.

But coincidentally, there was an academic conference, which Xin Rou was attending for the first time as a researcher in the Cortex-7 project group. She was a little nervous, so she begged Ruan Muhuai: "Will you come with me? Help me to be more courageous."

Ruan Muhuai smiled and said, "Are you kidding me?"

“No way! I’m serious.” Xin Rou refused to get out of the car and turned to the side, speaking softly, “I don’t need to explain the prospects of this project. Do you remember what I told you before? There’s a small molecule drug in the experimental testing, Zelenirs, which has targeted efficacy against a variety of cancers.”

Ruan Muhuai remembered this place.

Indeed, Cortex-7 was originally a medical research project, and an incredibly large one at that, involving the development of multiple drugs.

Xin Rou looked at him and said, "I've heard about it too. Jiang Xia's condition is still not very optimistic, but it hasn't deteriorated to a serious level yet. Maybe this medicine will be effective for her? Why don't you go and listen to her?"

Ruan Muhuai thought of Jiang Xia... and then of the things he had asked Tao He to investigate, since there was still no news. He immediately nodded and said, "Okay, you go first. I'll come find you after I finish my work at the company."

"It's settled then. I'll be waiting for you." Xin Rou smiled and patted his hand before getting out of the car and leaving.

The lively seminar also began in the lecture hall of Haicheng Medical University when Xin Rou arrived.

As the project leader, Xu Fei took the stage after Yan Guozhong finished speaking to introduce the entire restarted project. Then Lou Yushi and Ke Hetai took the stage one after another to present and explain the project's progress and elaborate on the results of multiple experiments.

Finally, Xin Rou brought all the data to the stage and listed them in detail.

The audience applauded continuously, and many senior professors and industry leaders nodded approvingly at Xin Rou as they watched the data presented on the big screen.

Lou Yushi looked at Xin Rou, who had stolen the spotlight like a grand finale, and scoffed disdainfully: "This is her achievement? The data was clearly done by Jiang Xia!"

"Jiang Xia is on sick leave, so shouldn't his credit be stolen?"

"One thing at a time. Xin Rou hasn't explained anything clearly, this is too much!"

Although Lou Yushi hadn't fully reconciled with Jiang Xia, she disliked Xin Rou's two-faced behavior. Feeling increasingly frustrated, she impulsively went back on stage.

"Excuse me for interrupting—"

She suddenly raised her voice and snatched the megaphone from Xin Rou's hand, "Everyone, don't misunderstand, these data weren't created by Xin Rou..."

(End of this chapter)