The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 295

When Zion's phone rang, Nathaniel had just ended the call with Mango. However, Zion's phone rang as soon as Nathaniel wanted to speak to him.

"Who's calling?"

Nathaniel asked offhandedly.

Zion glanced at his phone before he replied faintly, "I'm entitled to my own privacy."

After that, he ran out with the phone in his hand. "Privacy? Why does a kid like him need privacy?" Nathaniel felt as if his son had looked down at him, but he shook his head helplessly as this was indeed a common occurrence.

Meanwhile, Zion found a quiet corner to answer the video call after he left the room. Then, Rita's aggrieved expression appeared on the screen.

"Brother Zion, you don't love me anymore."

"How can that be? I love you the most."

Zion noticed that Rita's face was pale, but she seemed more energetic and that reassured him greatly.

"Nonsense, you haven't visited me in such a long time. Brother Wisdom has always been with me, so are you especially busy with something? What's got you so busy?"

Frankly, Rita and Zion were always together ever since they were born. Hence, she was rather

annoyed when Zion had to accompany Mango to return home. Since Rita was already back home, why hadn't Zion come to see her?

Zion felt distressed at Rita's forlorn expression.

"I'm not busy, how about I come to visit you after a while?"

"You'd better keep your word! Mommy's in a bad mood and grandma told me that her face was irritated by her makeup. But, I remembered that mommy doesn't have sensitive skin."

Rita told Zion about everything that was going on.

Then, Zion narrowed his eyes slightly.

"She had an allergic reaction to the cosmetics? Is it serious?"

"Well, her face was very red and it looks pretty bad."

"I see. I'll be over there in a bit, so be good okay? Don't make Mommy angry."

After all, Zion was the eldest son and brother, so he was relatively more sensible than Rita.

On the other side of the phone, Rita smiled happily as she heard that Zion was coming to visit her.

"Okay. Brother Zion, I'd like to have some apples."

"Nope, your body hasn't recovered yet so you can't have them. After you're healed, I'll buy you apples every single day."

"I'm going to hold you to that. If you go back on your word, then you'll be turned into a toad, as a punishment to you!"

Rita took the opportunity to secure her apples.

Meanwhile, Zion couldn't help but laugh.

"All right, I'll turn into a toad if I don't fulfill my promise to you."

"Brother Zion is the best brother in the entire world!"

Rita had always been a sweet talker, and Zion found himself succumbing to her charm as well.

Then, Zion and Rita talked for a while longer before he hung up the video call.

He wanted to see Rita as promised, but what excuse was he going to give Nathaniel?

Zion returned to the ward in deep thought before he overheard Nathaniel's instructions for him.

"After Zion gets back, he mustn't step out of this room. More importantly, he can't go to Central Hospital."

"Why?"

Merle's voice rang out.

Then, Nathaniel sighed and said, "Mango had an allergic reaction, so I'm afraid that he'll be distressed if he sees his mom like this. Honestly, I reckon that he'd be even more worried than me. Furthermore, Mango has been quite exhausted recently so I fear that she wouldn't be able to keep up with his antics."

At this, Zion narrowed his eyes slightly.

He wasn't a disaster, so why did Nathaniel think he would cause trouble for Mango?

Zion complained silently as he walked into the ward.

"I want to go home."

Nathaniel was rather stunned at Zion's words.

"You want to go home?"

"Yep, I haven't changed out of these dirty clothes at all. Plus, it's way too noisy to sleep here, so I'd rather sleep at home. Since you're all right now, it should be enough if Merle accompanied you, right?"

In fact, Zion's requests were reasonable. Moreover, the dark eye circles he had from lack of rest greatly distressed Nathaniel.

"Well, then Uncle Merle will send you home."

Now that Nanny Zhang had been captured, Thomas had been working hard to purge her agents from the Ye Family. Although the process was slow, Merle had assigned a lot of his own men to guard the Ye's Mansion so Nathaniel wasn't too worried about letting Zion go home.

Then, Zion waved his hand and replied, "I'll just take the bus home myself."

"You're just a four-year-old kid!"

Nathaniel meant that Zion was too young to take public transport alone, but Zion wrinkled his nose and said, "A four- year- old saved both you and mommy."

Hence, Nathaniel was rendered speechless at that and he glared at Zion before he said, "It's either you let Merle send you home, or you'll have to stay here."

"Ugh fine, you win."

Zion did not argue further with his father and he turned to Merle and said, "Uncle Merle, let's go."

Then, Merle looked at Nathaniel.

Nathaniel nodded in reply.

He would still be able to manage on his own. If not, there were always nurses to assist him.

After Merle left the hospital with Zion, Nathaniel shook his head as his body was still quite weak. Soon, he was fast asleep on his bed.

After Zion got into the car, he became unusually quiet like a very obedient child.

Then, Merle looked at him strangely and asked, "Why are you suddenly so quiet?"

"I've always been a quiet and charming man."

After that, Zion's words made Merle laugh.