“No need.” Chu Yan lowered his eyes and turned his face to avoid Li Xi’s hand.
Li Xi didn’t force him either, looking at him and asking in a low voice, “Can you wipe it yourself?”
Chu Yan was silent for a while without answering, but the sadness on his face made Li Xi’s heart ache.
“I have something to tell my brother; can I trouble Mr. Li to go out first?” Liang Fangyuan picked up the ice pack from the tray of the stroller and looked at Li Xi, who was still standing aside, unceremoniously.
Her gaze was very unfriendly, and there was even a bit of indescribable resentment.
Li Xi turned his head and glanced at Chu Yan on the hospital bed, then finally walked out without saying anything.
Zhang Chengye was also waiting outside the ward. When Chu Yan was taken to the hospital, a nurse notified him first, but he was still eating breakfast at the time, so he arrived later than Li Xi, who found out later.
“Kicked out?” Zhang Chengye saw his look of disorientation and sighed, feeling a little uncomfortable.
“This slap was really hard, and it directly sent the person to the hospital.”
Li Xi didn’t look at the closed ward door for a long time and didn’t answer the phone. After a long time, he suddenly said with a wry smile, “I now can no longer believe what he says…”
At first, he said that he had been with him for so long for the sake of money, but he had never used the money after leaving him… Later, he learned the truth by himself, and he said that even if he got better, it would be impossible for the two of them to be together, so he let himself give up on him as soon as possible…
If someone else said it, Zhang Chengye would definitely laugh out loud, but Li Xi’s tone was too heavy, making people feel sad and depressed when they heard it.
Also, if you don’t really care, how can you be so swayed by considerations of gains and losses?
Zhang Chengye walked over and patted Li Xi on the back, saying, “You two are really, you like to hold everything in your heart; he is especially like this… Obviously everything may not be a dead end, but he blocked the road first.”
“Don’t you want to know what he thinks in his heart? Come with me…”
Zhang Chengye took Li Xi directly to the monitoring room, then said hello to the people guarding there and turned on the closed-circuit monitoring of Chu Yan’s ward.
In fact, the general ward will not install closed-circuit monitoring because it will infringe on the patient’s privacy. Only in the intensive care unit and special ward will it be installed, but even if the monitoring is installed, it is not allowed to be opened without the consent of the patient and his family.
“Zoom closer, to see the kind of expression.” Zhang Chengye sat in a chair and ordered.
The screen flashed and cut to the center of the room.
……
Liang Fangyuan raised her hand and gently applied the ice pack to Chu Yan’s injured right cheek. Her eyes were full of pain. This is her younger brother, whom she has loved for more than 20 years. He has been good since he was a child and has never made people angry. When did she ever beat him?
“I’m sorry, sister was wrong. Sister shouldn’t have hit you… Does it still hurt?”
Chu Yan shook his head quickly after hearing what she said, “It doesn’t hurt.”
Obviously, his face was swollen like this… Liang Fangyuan looked into his eyes and had mixed feelings in her heart. For a while, she didn’t even know when to start. He always said that the eldest sister was the mother, but she didn’t know how to persuade her brother of this kind of thing.
She hesitated for a long time before she thought about it and asked, “Is that child’s family situation very good?”
A trace of surprise flashed in Chu Yan’s eyes. He didn’t understand why his sister suddenly asked this question, but he obediently replied, “Well, his family is very good…”
Even if he didn’t answer Liang Fangyuan, she could guess that it might be generally good. From the clothes and conversation to the manners and upbringing, he was a child raised by a good and noble family.
“Does his family know? Did they agree?”
Chu Yan nodded, but his voice couldn’t help showing a pale sourness, “Their family is very good, and they are also very good to me…”
Liang Fangyuan sighed and interrupted him, saying, “You are different from him! There are so many other roads to take, but you don’t. Instead, you have to go this way that thousands of people scold? Have you ever thought about our parents? His family can agree; that is, they have received Western-style higher education and are open-minded, but if this matter is put on our family, then you are killing our parents…”
Chu Yan was silent. His sister’s successive questions were like sharp blades sticking straight into his heart, making him unable to breathe. He didn’t know how to answer, not to mention that his parents had given birth to him for so many years, and they had suffered all the hardships, even if it was his sister; she had paid a lot for him.
Liang Fangyuan saw that her brother kept his head down and didn’t talk. His eyes were full of guilt and self-reproach. His originally pale face had lost a trace of blood at the moment, so she had to soften his tone and ask, “You are still young. It doesn’t matter if you take a detour for a while; as long as you promise your sister that you can break up with that child, I will treat it as if I don’t know anything.”
Chu Yan raised his eyes, and the sadness and despair in his eyes made Liang Fangyuan tremble involuntarily.
Her younger brother has always been indifferent to everything; whether he is happy or sad, it will not appear on the surface… A terrible thought suddenly appeared in her heart.
Her fingers were trembling, and she couldn’t help but grab the hand Chu Yan put on the quilt with terrible strength.
“You tell your sister, can you break up with him?”
Chu Yan lowered his head, his lips trembled slightly, and he choked with difficulty, his brain completely blank.
Seeing his reaction, Liang Fangyuan had no hope left in her heart and asked in a trembling voice, “Do you really… love him?”
There was silence in the ward, and they didn’t know how long it took before Chu Yan finally nodded softly.
The movement was actually very small. When Zhang Chengye saw this, he subconsciously turned his face to look at Li Xi. Seeing that he had gone out at some point, he followed up with some anxiety, but saw him on the balcony at the end of the hospital corridor.
Zhang Chengye walked over and said with a smile, “This can be regarded as a live confession. You guessed it all the time. I think the one in your family really loves you badly. It’s just that this character is a bit… Not say anything in his heart.”
Li Xi looked at Zhang Chengye steadily for several seconds, his shoulders trembling, then raised his hand to cover his eyes.
He suddenly felt that he was not qualified to say that he loved that person at all. He had been suspicious for too long and had been angry for too long. His self-righteous love had never been considered for him from his perspective and position.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you? Are you so happy that you can’t speak anymore?” Zhang Chengye looked at Li Xi’s blood-stained face and asked worriedly.
Li Xi shook his head without saying a word.
Zhang Chengye originally wanted to ask something more, but saw Li Xi turn around and strode towards the ward.
—
Liang Fangyuan’s ticket was for the afternoon. Originally, she couldn’t let her brother go, but she was called from home and said that the shop was too busy, and she had no reason to stay any longer.
If her brother was just lost for a while, maybe she could wake him up, but she didn’t expect him to have real feelings for a man. What could she do in this situation?
“Think about it for yourself.” Liang Fangyuan looked at him sadly and disappointingly. She originally wanted to say something, but she looked at his pale face and moved her lips, but in the end she didn’t say anything.
“Sister…”
“I’m going back this afternoon. I won’t tell my parents about you, and I won’t open my mouth… When you’ve made up your mind and thought about it, call me again.”
After she finished speaking, she stopped looking at Chu Yan’s face, stood up, opened the door, and left.
An unbearable silence was restored in the room, and the ice packs on the bedside table all turned into water in the warm temperature of the hospital.
[Master host, your sister has already left.]
2333 was particularly worried that the Lord Host had too many mood swings, because this would have a bad impact on his body.
[Hmm.] Chu Yan pinched the bridge of his nose and leaned wearily on the head of the bed.
No need to pretend; his face should be very ugly now.
When Li Xi came in, he saw him watering the orchids at the head of the bed. His face was quiet, and he couldn’t find any extra emotion on it.
Li Xi stared at him for a long time, trying to find a trace of abnormality in it but failing, and then moved his gaze to his hand.
Because of the sharp weight loss during this period of time, his pajamas appeared to be a little bigger, and the exposed wrist, even the wrist bone, was obviously protruding.
He didn’t speak, and Li Xi sat in front of the bed, looking at him quietly all the time.
Support me on ko-fiʚ(*´꒳`*)ɞ
