Incurable Pain IP Chapter 65

IP Chapter 65

Incurable Pain | Chapter 65

As the saying goes, an ugly daughter-in-law must also meet her parents-in-law, so of course, an unattractive son-in-law must also meet his prospective in-laws.

However, Yu Luoyin didn’t expect this day to come so quickly, so unexpectedly, and so embarra.s.singly, leaving him feeling extremely uncomfortable.

As Ji Huiying scanned him up and down with her eyes, Yu Luoyin’s expression remained unchanged, but in reality, his straight back had broken out in a thin layer of sweat.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of Ji Huiying, but rather… 

Yu Luoyin imagined that if one day, he suddenly saw his own daughter, whom he had raised with utmost care, being affectionate with another man, he would probably be extremely furious.

So at this moment, when Ji Huiying coldly told Yu Luoyin to “go wash your face” after turning pale, he didn’t mind her scowl.

At the same time, he also dared not mind.

The two of them were alone in the quiet living room, which inevitably felt a bit awkward.

“Auntie,” Yu Luoyin thought for a moment, then hurriedly offered his courtesy, “Can I pour you a cup of tea?”

“No need,” Ji Huiying, feeling embarra.s.sed by what she had just witnessed, didn’t want to look at the man in front of her, so she bluntly refused.

However, even though she didn’t want to, her gaze couldn’t help but linger on Yu Luoyin.

It was because this man, whether in appearance or temperament, was outstanding. Logically speaking, he was very compatible with their Yinyin. If it weren’t for what she had just witnessed, Ji Huiying felt that she would definitely treat him with courtesy.

As she pondered this and that in her mind, Ji Huiying accidentally met Yu Luoyin’s polite smiling eyes.

Ji Huiying was taken aback.

As they got closer, she felt that this young man looked familiar, as if… she had seen him somewhere before.

Frowning slightly, she racked her brains for a while, and eventually, a vague image of the teenager in school uniform appeared in Ji Huiying’s mind.

He had escorted Yinyin to the hospital and later followed her back home.

“You…” 

Ji Huiying was somewhat surprised and delighted, looking at Yu Luoyin with softer eyes. 

“Are you Yinyin’s high school cla.s.smate?”

Yu Luoyin was stunned for a moment, then a clear smile spread across his lips—a smile charming enough to captivate people of all ages and types, regardless of gender.

He was pleasantly surprised. “Auntie, you still remember me.”

“Of course I remember.” 

Seeing him admit it, Ji Huiying smiled pleasantly, “Aren’t you the one who once accompanied Yinyin to the hospital? I remember… your name is Luoyin, right? You were also the cla.s.s monitor in your cla.s.s.”

Yu Luoyin had once spoken as a student representative at the oath-taking ceremony, and parents always remembered the “good students” more vividly.

Yu Luoyin modestly smiled and showed a bit of “shame.” 

“Auntie, thank you for remembering me. Just now… I hope you won’t be angry.”

Ji Huiying couldn’t help but feel a bit embarra.s.sed, and she waved her hand, unable to resist asking, “Luoyin, you and our Yinyin… Are you dating?”

Although this question might seem a bit redundant, Ji Huiying couldn’t help but ask it.

Because she remembered the last time she talked on the phone with Bai Xunyin, she had been worried about her boyfriend. But Bai Xunyin had clearly said that she didn’t want to date anyone recently.

With various doubts in her mind, Ji Huiying saw the teenager in front of her give a reserved “yes.”

Suddenly, she had a clue.

“Um, Luoyin,” Ji Huiying smiled and stood up, took a towel, and went to the bathroom to wash her hands. 

She casually found an excuse to send him away, “You go to Yinyin’s room and wait for a while. Her place is small, Auntie will go to the bathroom to see why she hasn’t come out yet, it’s inconvenient.”

In fact, Ji Huiying had some doubts about what her daughter and the young man in front of her might have done. After all, the scene at the door was too shocking.

Actually, Ji Huiying wasn’t dissatisfied with Yu Luoyin, but there were some things she had to remind Bai Xunyin about.

Yu Luoyin understood that Ji Huiying had something private to discuss with Bai Xunyin, and it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to listen in or to leave on his own. So, he smiled and, being accommodating, entered Bai Xunyin’s room.

Originally, he had thought of simply taking his leave, but then he felt it wouldn’t be bad to “visit” the girl’s bedroom.

After Bai Xunyin came out after washing her face, she saw Ji Huiying sitting alone in the living room.

She blinked in surprise, her eyes still misty from the water vapor, “Where’s Yu Luoyin?”

“I sent him to your room.”

“To my room?” 

Bai Xunyin felt it was inappropriate and furrowed her brows as she walked towards the bedroom. 

“Why did he go…”

“Wait, don’t call him out yet.” 

Ji Huiying quickly grabbed her and, with a serious face, asked in a low voice, “I have a few words to say to you.”

Helpless, Bai Xunyin had to let her mother pull her onto the sofa.

“I’m asking you, is he your high school cla.s.smate?”

Bai Xunyin was taken aback, not expecting Ji Huiying to have recognized Yu Luoyin, and nodded.

“You little girl, when did you start dating? Last time I asked, you said you didn’t want a boyfriend.” 

Ji Huiying found it both funny and annoying and couldn’t help but flick Bai Xunyin’s forehead. 

“Why didn’t you tell me anything?”

“It’s only been a short while.” 

It wasn’t something to boast about, so Bai Xunyin smiled and changed the subject, turning to her. 

“Mom, why did you suddenly come over?”

Ji Huiying gave her a sideways glance. 

“Sudden? Didn’t I say I wanted to come over to see your house and spend a couple of days with you?”

…

Bai Xunyin was speechless.

Her mother had indeed said these things, but that was over a month ago!

“Yinyin, tell me the truth, you…” 

Ji Huiying glanced at the door of Bai Xunyin’s bedroom and lowered her voice as she asked, her ears reddening with embarra.s.sment, “You and this, Luoyin, have you… done it?”

As an elder, asking such a question was clearly a bit difficult, and she hesitated and stuttered several times, feeling embarra.s.sed.

Bai Xunyin was frank, leaning lazily against the back of the sofa, her legs crossed on the soft stool in front of her. 

She shook her head, “No.”

Originally, she had thought about it, but now it seemed that it wouldn’t happen for a while.

“That’s good.” 

Ji Huiying knew her daughter never lied, so she breathed a sigh of relief at the sincere response, and couldn’t help but smile. 

“It’s good that you haven’t done it yet. As a girl, you should still respect yourself.”

“Mom, we’re already at this day and age.” Bai Xunyin smiled, somewhat dismissive. 

“Why be so conservative?”

“Don’t talk about the times; this is about preserving your purity.” 

Ji Huiying frowned, sticking to her opinion. 

“Besides, as you said, you haven’t been dating for long.”

Bai Xunyin retorted, “But we’ve known each other for a long time.”

“No, you can’t do it unless you’ve been dating for more than six months.” 

Ji Huiying said seriously, “Yinyin, you must listen to me on this matter.”

…

“Okay, okay.” Bai Xunyin was a bit helpless. 

“I’ll listen to you.”

She just wanted to quickly end this topic.

After saying that, Bai Xunyin stood up and walked towards the bedroom, saying to Ji Huiying, “I’ll see him off first.”

Entering her own room naturally didn’t require knocking on the door. She pushed it open and walked in. In the creaking of the door, she saw Yu Luoyin standing with his back to the window.

The man seemed to be admiring the entire room, turning around only when he heard the sound.

Yu Luoyin, seemingly pensive, remarked, “The room is very simple.”

It hardly looked like a woman’s room, nor like Yu s.h.i.tian’s room, with its princess bed draped with curtains, pink dressing table, various cabinets, rocking chair, and countless messy dolls…

In Bai Xunyin’s bedroom, there was only a desk and a chair, a bed and a cabinet. The walls were spotlessly white, with a curtain provided by the window, giving a feeling of extreme simplicity and cleanliness at first glance.

Yu Luoyin felt like he had nowhere to sit when he entered. He had to stand, feeling as if he were in an operating room rather than Bai Xunyin’s bedroom, and even cleaner than a hospital operating room.

Bai Xunyin’s eyes subtly scanned her desk. Seeing that nothing had been touched, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She went in and pulled Yu Luoyin out, “Come on, I’ll see you off downstairs.”

Yu Luoyin obediently allowed himself to be pulled to the door. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to bid farewell to Ji Huiying several times. 

“Auntie, I’m leaving. See you next time.”

Ji Huiying smiled and watched him leave.

As the two of them entered the elevator and descended, their moods were completely different from when they had just come up – it had been less than an hour.

“To appear in front of your mom like that.” 

Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but sigh, “It’s really embarra.s.sing.”

Bai Xunyin couldn’t help but laugh. 

“It’s your fault for coming up.”

“Gloating, huh?” 

Yu Luoyin squinted, extending his arm to pull her into his embrace, as if he was about to lower his head to kiss her.

“Don’t.” 

Just as the elevator reached the ground floor, Bai Xunyin quickly pushed him away, suppressing her laughter as she shooed him away. 

“I have to go up right away.”

If she really let him kiss her, he would endlessly pester her.

Fortunately, Yu Luoyin didn’t seem that “persistent” at the moment. He sighed with some regret, lowered his head, and pinched Bai Xunyin’s tender face. 

“Alright, you go up first. I’ll see you off.”

A somewhat obscure emotion flashed through the man’s pitch-black eyes, but it was too fleeting for her to catch.

“Then I’ll go.” 

“Yinyin.” As the woman turned around, Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but call out to her.

Bai Xunyin turned back, a little puzzled. 

“Hmm?”

“If…” 

Yu Luoyin piled up many things he wanted to say on his tongue, but he couldn’t say them in the clear eyes of the woman.

He felt like he was exposed and vulnerable inside.

In the end, Yu Luoyin didn’t say anything, pursing his lips and smiling. 

“It’s okay. See you tomorrow.”

As he watched Bai Xunyin’s slender figure enter the elevator, the smile at the corner of Yu Luoyin’s mouth gradually faded away.

He regained his usual indifferent demeanor as if there was a vacuum around him, his clear brows furrowed, and he couldn’t help but laugh – a self-deprecating laugh.

Without even looking at his car parked on the side of the road, Yu Luoyin walked to the roadside and hailed a taxi, casually mentioning the name of a bar. He rubbed his temples with some weariness and took out his phone to arrange to meet someone for a drink.

However, as a doctor, he couldn’t drink recklessly anytime, so he always kept the word “restraint” in his mind.

When Li Yuan and the others arrived at the bar, they saw Yu Luoyin sitting in the booth, drinking one gla.s.s after another… of soda water, lemonade.

…

Li Yuan looked at Yu Luoyin’s somewhat gloomy expression, like a smoldering fire, and after thinking for a moment, he didn’t dare to joke. 

He leaned over and cautiously asked, “Brother Yu, are you relieving your worries with water?”

Lu Ye and Zhou Xinsui couldn’t help but laugh on the side.

Yu Luoyin didn’t answer, his gaze somewhat hollow as he stared at the transparent cup in front of him.

After a while, he asked without rhyme or reason, “How much of a b.a.s.t.a.r.d was I in high school?”

Everyone was taken aback.

“I went to Yinyin’s house today and saw a uniform from Third Middle High.” Yu Luoyin chuckled lightly, somewhat sarcastic. 

“What’s even more frustrating is that it was my uniform.”

The corner of a uniform was faintly visible in the open cabinet without being properly closed. He went over, and at a glance, he recognized the uniform he had “lost” during his senior year.

Yu Luoyin had forgotten that he had put it on Bai Xunyin, let alone that the girl had kept it until today.

Realizing that the uniform was his own, Yu Luoyin suddenly felt like he had been stabbed in the heart.

He could hardly breathe in the stuffy air.

Perhaps Bai Xunyin… liked him more than he had imagined. Yu Luoyin didn’t know whether to be happy or bitter for a moment, feeling sour.

In fact, the simple question he wanted to ask Bai Xunyin downstairs was very simple – 

if I propose to you, would you accept it?

That old uniform was like a glaring hammer, making Yu Luoyin unsure of how to make up for it, desperately wanting to marry her.

However, in the end, he didn’t dare to ask this sincere question in a half-joking manner.

Because Yu Luoyin knew she would definitely refuse.