Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Luo Lixi covered her eyes with her hands hurriedly when the lights were turned on. The sudden brightness stung her eyes. Also she didn't forget to ask the thing she was concerned about.

"Did you put on the towel?" 

"Hmm."

"Really?"

"You can check if you don't believe me." He walked in front of her and took her hands from her face. 

First she slowly opened her left eye to see if it was true. Her line of sight fell on his lower abdomen. As she hurriedly lifted her head, she saw his gloomy face.

"Why are you making this face?" She was puzzled as to what could be the reason when she saw the controller beside her. It didn't take her a second to understand, she had been played by the man. 

"You…" In her anger, she stood up. As she dragged a pillow from the bed and angrily hit it on his head, it couldn't even make him change his expression a little.

"How could you play with me like that? You know I'm sick." She was hitting his face with the pillow while he was staring at her angry face. "Also, what was that? Do you have a fetish to remain naked in your room? What if it wasn't me but someone else?" When she thought till now, her anger rose to a new height. She gnashed her teeth while glaring at him.

"Nobody enters my room without my permission, not even the maids." He replied  in a firm voice as if to make her believe in him. "By the way, why did you come to my room? Also you were like a cockroach then; laying on the floor. So I thought of teasing that bug a bit."

Even if he had spoken out in a humorous tone to appease her, she felt utterly humiliated.

"Don't ever compare me with a cockroach. It's so disgusting!" Just talking about the brown insect made her feel like nausea. She turned her back towards him. 

"It was my fault. I shouldn't have come to see what you were doing. I was waiting for you for a long time at the dining table. I… I thought we would eat together. Forget it." When she spoke the last line she felt like crying.

"Wait. I was going to shower but fall asleep for a reason. You have waited for me till now so you should  wait a little longer." He gripped her retracting figure and forced her to sit down on the bed.

"Then, hurry up. I'm starving." She slapped away his hands and told him to go. This time, Sheng Ruming didn't forget to take a bathrobe first and entered the bathroom. 

When entering it, he turned towards her and said softly. "I will take just five minutes. Just bear a little more. I will feed you cough medicine then."

"Don't talk, just go." When she thought about the bitter medicines, her face became pale from crimson. This time he really went away and closed the door. 

Luo Lixi sat on his bed, waiting for him to come out quickly. When she was glancing around the room, she saw his phone on the bed from a little distance from her. Her mind drifted away while her hand inched in towards it.

As Luo Lixi was working in her family's company, the 'Luo Corporation', she had to keep in touch with many people all the time. That's why, she had to use her phone all the time with her. Now that in the past month, Sheng Ruming didn't allow her to touch a phone, she felt strange because it became a habit of her to keep her phone beside her all the time; like an addiction.

As the phone came under her reach, she took it in her hand sneakily. She peeped at the bathroom door and turned her back towards it. Even if she knew it wasn't a right thing to touch other's thing without permission, she couldn't help her mind against it.

As she touched the phone, there wasn't any screen lock. She heaved a sigh. 'At least there is no lock in to the phone.'

She surfed the apps and saw the Weibo app. Feeling tingling in her heart, she clicked on it. 

With a quivering hand, she searched her account name 'LiLi Xi'. The account had been inactive for nearly three months now. There were only a thousand people following her. 

At that very moment when she was surfing below, she saw a message in one of her posts. It was made by Kong Pipi.

'Grandma, why aren't you picking my phone (angry emoticon).' Luo Lixi smiled slightly when she saw it. 

That being said, she subconsciously wanted to reply like other times, but the app asked her to log in. 'I can't. People will know that I'm alive. Luo Lixiang, he…' Her mood became off when she thought about him. 

Thus she declined to log in as she was sliding the front page down and down. There she saw the last photo of the three of them. She, Luo Lixiang and their grandpa. It was a business gathering where they went together. The old man was smiling in the photo while his two grandchildren were standing on both of his sides. 

As she saw that picture, her eyes became misty while a teardrop fell on the phone without her notice. She wanted to call her grandpa right away but endured it down. 'Grandpa, please wait for me. I'll come back soon.' As she told the picture in her hand, a smile bloomed on her face.

But unexpectedly a phone call came that time. 

Yanli was written in English, she guessed it could be Ji Yanli. 

Sheng Ruming was in the bathroom so she didn't pick it up. After ringing one time, the call came again. This time she was hurriedly exiting the app but in her moment of distraction, she clicked on the receive button. The phone nearly dropped from her hand.