She Lost Memory Before the Divorce

Chapter 90: Chapter 0090: The Slyness of Huo Tingxiao

Huo Tingxiao looked at her huffing and puffing, what had he said to make her so angry? Women, their tempers always seem to come from nowhere.

“That’s not what I meant.”

Mu Lan sneered coldly, her tone very impolite, even somewhat aggressive.

“Then what do you mean? You pamper and treat me well, but I can’t be loved. What do you think I am? Your pet dog?”

That was really harsh, and Huo Tingxiao didn’t know how to respond for a moment.

“Is it wrong for me to do what a husband should do? Don’t you women like to be pampered?”

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Ha! And he still asks if it’s wrong?

“No, Huo Tingxiao, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid with me? If you don’t like me, why are you nice to me, why do you pamper me?

What, are we half-siblings with different mothers or what?

Do you know what this kind of behavior is called?”

Huo Tingxiao shook his head, he really didn’t know.

“This is called ‘delusional disorder of feigning succession with no throne available at home’!”

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Mu Lan said each word he could recognize, but strung into a sentence, he couldn’t understand at all!

“What do you mean?”

“If you don’t understand, let me translate for you. Do you think you’re the Emperor or what? Have you been watching too many time-travel dramas? — ‘Women, I, the Emperor can grant you honor and favor, but you mustn’t expect love from an emperor.'”

After finishing, Mu Lan even felt like she was going crazy and uncontrollably shivered. It was the first time Huo Tingxiao felt there was a generational gap between him and Mu Lan; he truly didn’t know that emperors in TV dramas spoke like that.

Only now did it suddenly occur to him that he was thirty years old, while the girl in front of him was merely eighteen.

“Then what do you want me to do?”

“I want you to stay away from me!”

Huo Tingxiao’s expression turned very ugly. Mu Lan didn’t care about him, continuing to hit where it hurt:

“Since you don’t mean it, don’t pamper me or be nice or whatever. Isn’t it just a marriage in name? Who are you performing this act for?

If you ask me, we should clearly demarcate our territories, like the Chu River and Han boundary, and not be ambiguously entangled.”

“How do you want to make it clear?”

How to make it clear… Mu Lan thought for a bit.

“Ever heard of a nominal husband and wife? As long as we can get by in front of others, that’s good enough. Privately, we should not interfere with each other.”

Huo Tingxiao’s face turned completely dark, where had she learned such absurd ideas?

“Are you trying to pursue an open marriage?”

“What nonsense are you spouting? Do I look like the type to mess around? Please, I outright told Lin’s mother, who wanted to set me up with Yize, that I was married, okay?”

This self-exposure from Mu Lan made Huo Tingxiao feel like he was on the verge of a heart attack. So there was this thing between her and Lin Yize? The tone of his speech now also carried full-on danger signals.

“You’ve met his parents?”

“What meeting the parents? No… it’s not what you think. It was just that his aunt got hurt on her birthday, and Yize couldn’t drop me off at home first, so by a twist of fate, I met them. Anyway, I have a clear conscience!

Huo Tingxiao, don’t change the subject; we’re talking about how we will interact in the future.

The words have been said to this point; from now on, you don’t manage me, and I don’t manage you.

From now on, you’re not allowed one step over the line!

And rest assured, I, after running into a south wall once, that will be it — only a fool would do it a second time.

Like you? Hmph, you’re overthinking it; I absolutely won’t!”

Huo Tingxiao felt that women were truly incomprehensible creatures; she had been so rational before, how could she suddenly become so unreasonable.

“It seems we have a great divergence in our definitions of marriage; I think we… ”

“What you think is useless; from today on, I will move into the guest room to live.”

Mu Lan made up her mind. Since he had made things so clear, should she persist in refusing to be a pet dog?

Huo Tingxiao gnashed his teeth, so irritated by Mu Lan that smoke seemed to billow out of his seven orifices.

“Don’t even think I’ll agree to your demands!”

“If you don’t agree, I’m going back to my parents’ home. Yun Xi, take me back to Mu Mansion first.”

“Yun Xi, don’t you dare go!”

Yun Xi frowned slightly, feeling as if she was dealing with two three-year-olds.

“You two, rock-paper-scissors.”

No sooner had she spoken than the two of them, as if conditioned to do so, followed suit. The result was Huo Tingxiao’s victory.

Mu Lan stared dumbfounded at her own rock, very unwilling to accept the loss, but having made a bet, she couldn’t go back on her word.

Even though Huo Tingxiao had won, he wasn’t happy at all. Things had been going so smoothly between them lately, so why had they suddenly taken a step back?

When they returned to Maple Forest Garden, the housekeeper Li Sis could clearly sense that something was off between the two of them.

Mu Lan was stubborn and insisted on going to the guest room.

Huo Tingxiao watched her, not stopping her, but he had already thought of a countermeasure in his heart.

In the middle of the night, as Mu Lan slept soundly, Huo Tingxiao silently carried her from the guest room to the double bed in the master bedroom.

Come morning, when Mu Lan awoke to find herself clinging to Huo Tingxiao like an octopus, she nearly died of fright.

“How come you are in my bed?”

Huo Tingxiao put on an innocent face, looked down at a wet spot on his chest, as Mu Lan embarrassingly wiped the corner of her mouth. Oh my, she had actually drooled on him!

“Take a good look at where this is,” he said.

Early summer, Sea City.

Mu Lan clutching a document bag drove towards the Empire Building, it contained the drafted divorce agreement.

Throughout the journey, Mu Lan’s expression was calm, showing no signs that she was a woman about to get divorced.

At eighteen, Mu Lan had tried everything to marry Huo Tingxiao. Seven years had passed, and she thought even a stone would have warmed up by then.

Unfortunately, no matter what she did, Huo Tingxiao treated her as if she were air, just as he had said those years ago, “You will only get the title of Mrs. Huo, nothing more.”

Pale fingers gripped the steering wheel, and during the drive, she received a call. Whatever the other person said, Mu Lan got distracted. To avoid a pedestrian suddenly crossing the road, she instinctively made a sharp turn, causing her white Maserati to spin out of control and crash into the roadside railing.

With a “bang”, the airbag deployed instantly!

The huge impact buzzed in her head, the sudden car crash drew more and more onlookers.

“There’s someone in the car, call 120 quickly.”

“My gosh, she’s bleeding so much, the lady looks badly hurt.”

“Miss, miss, can you hear me speak? Can you tell me your family’s contact information?”

Mu Lan’s vision was blurry; she could only see the mouths of the people around her moving, but couldn’t hear their voices.

Her mind was filled with the words the person on the phone had said, continuously agitating Mu Lan.

Suddenly, her eyelids uncontrollably drooped, and the next second, she lost consciousness entirely.

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The next morning.

High-level surgical ward at the First People’s Hospital.

Standing beside the bed, the man frowned deeply at the still-unconscious Mu Lan.

Upon receiving the news of Mu Lan’s car accident and hospitalization, Huo Tingxiao did not rush back immediately but waited until he had finished all his work before arriving at the hospital.

His physique was tall and straight, wrapped in a dark shirt, and his features were sharp, especially his eyes, which, when looking at someone, resembled a black panther locking onto its prey, emitting an intimidating aura.

“Why hasn’t she woken up yet?”

The tone was as cold as an ice-pick, scaring the attending physician behind him into shivering.

“Huo… Mr. Huo, Mrs. Huo’s condition is somewhat special; the car accident caused a head impact, thus forming a clot, so…”

Before he could finish explaining, Mu Lan showed signs of response on the bed.

This made the attending physician sigh with relief; thank goodness, if she hadn’t woken up, he really feared that Huo Tingxiao would freeze him to death with his gaze.

However, before his heart could settle, a new crisis emerged.

Mu Lan moved slightly, and involuntarily let out a moan from her lips.

“Hiss…”

Headache!

She slowly opened her eyes, looking bewildered at the entirely unfamiliar surroundings. Mu Lan’s mind blanked for a moment.

The white ceiling, the faint smell of disinfectant in the air, and certain fragmented images momentarily flashed through her mind. Her gaze landed on the unfamiliar man before her, and instinctively, Mu Lan became somewhat defensive.

“This… Where is this?

Sir, you… who are you?”

Sir?!

This term made Huo Tingxiao’s already furrowed brow look even more twisted.

The doctor was also confused by the situation in front of him, a bad premonition swirling in his mind.

He held out two fingers in front of Mu Lan and waved them.

“What is this?”

Mu Lan couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

“2”

“What’s your name?”

“Mu Lan.”

“And him… who is he?”

“I don’t recognize him.”

Huo Tingxiao’s face completely darkened, already somewhat unapproachable, now he looked even more like King Yama.

The attending physician, on the verge of tears, wondered if this was some kind of stunt Mrs. Huo was pulling during an argument.

“Then do you remember what happened before?”

“Of course I remember. I felt awful with menstrual pain during the comprehensive science exam this morning, and I fainted right after I finished the answer sheet…”

Mu Lan sat up, her tone already somewhat impatient.

What was with this doctor, asking her all these unnecessary questions.

“Exam… Comprehensive science? Filling in an answer sheet?”

This answer baffled the attending physician.

Of course, seeing him like this, Mu Lan was even more confused.

“Yes, it’s the second day of college entrance exams today, the comprehensive science test in the morning. This… isn’t this the school infirmary?”

“Mu Lan, enough, this act is really boring.”

The tone of Huo Tingxiao’s voice made Mu Lan frown and retort sharply.

“Who are you, sir? Speaking so rudely. What’s this about boring or not boring?

Glancing at the wall clock, Mu Lan, in a rush, pulled out the IV needle from her hand and attempted to get out of bed.

“It’s already noon, and I still have an English exam at three. I don’t have time to dilly-dally with you all.”

But she had barely lifted the corner of the blanket when Huo Tingxiao restrained her, the difference in strength rendering her completely immobile, crouching on the hospital bed like a small quail.

Their distance suddenly so close they could feel each other’s breath, Mu Lan staring blankly at the handsome face before her, the complex emotions in Huo Tingxiao’s eyes deep as dark pools, almost seeming to suck her in completely, leaving her momentarily disoriented.

The situation was completely unexpected, frightening the attending physician into hastily arranging a series of tests for her.

But just after the CT scan, Mu Lan protested.

“What’s wrong with you people? I just have menstrual pain, I don’t need any tests. If you delay any longer, what if I’m late and can’t take the exam? Can you all just let me be?

Hey! Why are you carrying me?! Ah! Help! Kidnapping! Is there no law anymore?!”

The attending physician secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, pondering to himself — law? In Sea City, the law is Huo Tingxiao.

After the examination, Mu Lan was taken back to the ward by the bodyguards, while Huo Tingxiao was led to the consultation room, where five or six specialists and the dean surrounded the new CT and lab reports, discussing her condition.

The conclusion reached was — Mu Lan might have lost her memory.

“Memory loss?”

A tone full of skepticism.

Clearly, Huo Tingxiao did not accept this conclusion.

The awkward atmosphere finally eased a little. Mu Lan quickly tried to make small talk with Yun Xi, all the while convincing herself that nothing had happened yesterday.

Huo Tingxiao watched her act, amusement twinkling in his eyes, seemingly forgetting that the two of them were actually in a cold war.