Liang Suici glanced up at the visitor, took a sip of the water at hand, swallowed the food, and nodded at her, “Feel free.”
Chen Wanying was a typical Jiangnan woman with fair skin and beautiful eyebrows. She always had a shallow smile on her face. She was beautiful and easy to get along with. She was very popular in the hospital.
She seemed to really just come over for lunch, sat down quietly, and didn’t say a word.
But just after taking two sips, someone came over in a hurry, and they didn’t even have time to change their nurse’s overalls. “Dr. Liang, someone is looking for you and said it’s your fellow countryman. Now it’s at the door of the office. Go and have a look—”
Fellow countryman?
Liang Suici walked through the noisy hall, and before he arrived at his office, he heard a sharp noise. Several people gathered at the door, and there was a circle outside to watch the excitement.
“Dr. Liang…” The people around him saw him and quickly backed away to make way for him.
The man in front of him had a fleshy face, a big gold chain around his neck, blue construction site overalls on his body, and wet black mud on his trouser legs.
Liang Suici’s temples jumped “suddenly” when he saw this, “—what’s the matter?”
“Bastard—” As soon as the man saw him, he spit out the remaining cigarette butt from his mouth, raised his foot and crushed it, then spit in his hand twice. Without saying a word, he approached him two steps forward, grabbed Liang Suici’s collar with both hands, and pushed him back abruptly.
“You dared to seduce Laozi’s woman. I think you are tired of living—”
Liang Suici was staggered by his gravity, and before he could stand still, the man punched him again and slammed his lower abdomen fiercely.
With a muffled sound, Liang Suici was instantly knocked to the ground by this huge force.
The change was so sudden that the air at that time stagnated for almost a second. When the man saw Liang Suici fall to the ground after being beaten by him, he actually raised his foot to kick him again. Colleagues were shocked when they saw his posture. They hurriedly rushed up to stop him.
Liang Suici fell to the ground, his eyes turned black in an instant, and he couldn’t even feel the pain for a while. After a while, he covered his stomach and couldn’t help retching.
The obese middle-aged man was restrained and still struggling to kick Liang Suici with his feet, “Fuck me, don’t stop me, this dog thing—Laozi has to beat him to cry to his father and mother today.”
“Dr. Liang, are you okay—” The colleague on the side hurriedly came to help him, only to find a few drops of bright red blood dripping in front of him.
“Ah—you are bleeding. How are you?” Chen Wanying exclaimed, hurriedly pulling out a pack of paper towels from her pocket and handing it to him.
Liang Suici raised his hand and touched his nose, which revealed a dripping bright red blood. “It’s okay.”
Chen Wanying looked at him worriedly, “Are you really okay?”
Liang Suici shook his head, took a tissue from her hand and covered his nose to thank her, then stood up and looked up at the man in front of him.
The middle-aged man cursed and swore. When he saw Liang Suici’s frail appearance, he became even more unscrupulous in his heart, saying, “What the hell—just a little white man, dare to—”
He hadn’t finished speaking, but he saw Liang Suici, who had been beaten by him without the power to fight back, stand up and slowly approach him step by step. There was no other emotion on his clear and elegant face, and his complexion was very fair. In this way, the little scarlet blood between his fingers was even more obvious.
However, even though his temperament was very gentle, the middle-aged fat man still didn’t miss the hostility that couldn’t be hidden for a moment between his eyebrows. It was too cold and sharp, making him suddenly silent involuntarily. It was too fast, making him wonder if it was an illusion.
Liang Suici walked up to him with a hoarse voice, “What do you…mean?”
The middle-aged fat man saw more and more people gathered in the lobby of the hospital, and the security guard at the door also heard the sound. He was also a little worried about the trouble, and thought to himself that since he already knew the kid’s workplace, there would be opportunities to teach him in the future.
“Bah—” The middle-aged fat man casually spit out phlegm on the ground, “It’s still a college student with intellectual knowledge. What he does is simply worse than pigs and dogs!”
The onlookers looked at each other, especially the colleagues in the general surgery department who knew Liang Suici, and even began to talk in a low voice. When the relationship between Li Xi and Liang Suici was first known, they felt that maybe the relationship was not simple, but this kind of thing, even if others look down on it, they have no position to criticize it.
But what they didn’t expect was that today…according to this person’s words, he actually intervened in other people’s families.
If it’s true, it already involves ethics…
In the end, the security guard escorted the middle-aged obese man out, and the people next to him realized that there was nothing else to see, so they gradually dispersed by pushing and shoving.
The warm feeling quickly passed through the thin tissue, and Chu Yan hurriedly went to the bathroom to clean it up.
[Host, the person who hit you just now seems to be the lover of your previous fellow countryman, the contractor on the construction site, and your fellow countryman set you up.]
The blood color of the pool was getting lighter and lighter, and Chu Yan turned off the water: [Well, it’s okay, it’s just using each other.]
As soon as he came out, he met Chen Wanying’s concerned gaze at the door.
“Dr. Liang, are you really okay? Do you want to go and check for x-ray…” That moment just now was so scary, it was very scary just looking at it.
“It’s okay.” His hair was very dark and his facial features were deep. Looking at him with such a bloodless face, it was like looking at a beautiful marble statue without temperature.
“What that person said just now…are you really…” Chen Wanying asked hesitantly. Although she also knew some things, her intuition might not be as unbearable as they had rumored. After all, same-sex marriage was now legal, but this person’s target was Li Xi, and they were not from the same world.
But what the man said just now made her feel very uncomfortable. Did Dr. Liang really destroy other people’s families?
When Liang Suici heard the words, he moved his gaze to her, and then shook his head for a long time, frowning slightly, “I don’t know him.”
Chen Wanying breathed a sigh of relief, comforted and smiled, “It might be that he… admitted the wrong person.”
—
At the same time, Li Xi put away the documents in his hand and handed them to his assistant with a normal expression.
“Mr. Li, Madam said tonight that you and Dr. Liang will go home for dinner together. By the way, it’s been a long time since I saw Dr. Liang. Has he been very busy lately?”
Li Xi was silent for a long time before raising his head to look at him and then whispered softly for a long time, “I see.”
The assistant didn’t know why, and he was panicked by his gaze. Obviously, the boss was newly married, and he and Dr. Liang had finally come to fruition after their hardships. Why did he always look bitter and vengeful?
Approaching the New Year, it should be a season to make people happy, but he felt that every time he entered the boss’s office to report, the pressure was getting greater and greater, and he even wondered if the boss had some conflict with Dr. Liang.
However, how could their boss quarrel with Dr. Liang…?
Li Xi’s gaze flashed across the photo on the table. It was secretly taken by them when they went to the island for vacation in November last year while he was not paying attention.
The person in the photo had a relaxed expression, and there was a shallow smile on his face. The breeze from the sea blew his short hair messy. There was no trace of his usual coldness. The eyes that lined him were as gentle as the blue sea behind him.
Thinking of this, Li Xi suddenly felt a suffocating pain in his heart. He suddenly stretched out his hand to clasp the photo back on the table and clenched it tightly until the sharp edges and corners of the photo frame plunged into his palm. The suffocating pain seemed to be relieved.
He had imagined that he would retaliate against him fiercely, leaving him with nothing and letting him taste the taste of hopelessness and despair that he felt and had nowhere to go at the time.
Even if he came to beg hard and plead to let himself go, he would never be soft-hearted.
Li Xi closed his eyes in pain and put the photos on the table in the drawer.
He sat in a daze for a while, but there was a tone on his phone—
Mr. Zhang: [(Video link) I went to the hospital for an annual examination today. The doctor in this video seems to be the one in your family?]
Li Xi’s fingers trembled and touched the screen to turn on the video. Because of the shooting angle and image quality, the whole picture was shaking badly, and the environment was also very noisy. Only the exclamations of the onlookers could be heard mixed with the man’s scolding with a strong dialect accent. The video was not long, about three minutes.
When he saw the obese middle-aged man knocking the man to the ground hard, he felt his heart tighten uncontrollably for a while. At this time, more people surrounded them, and the entire video screen shook more seriously. The video was already finished.
Very heavy. The strength of that punch was very heavy.
Li Xi watched the video again, but the more he looked at it, the colder his expression became. Finally, he took a clear picture of the middle-aged man in the video and sent it to his assistant.
—”Check this person for me.”
After doing this, he put his mobile phone on the desktop, calmed down for a while, and suddenly was startled. What was he doing just now?
Shouldn’t he be happy to see that person in pain? Wasn’t this what he wanted to see? But why? There was not even a trace of pleasure in his heart, but instead, he couldn’t help it… a distressed feeling appeared as if his heart was tightly held…
Li Xi couldn’t help but stand up irritably and paced back and forth in the office for a few laps. What are you still distressed about the person who lied and used to deceive you from beginning to end?
He hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand, and opened the drawer on the left side of his desk. As soon as he opened it, a brown bear ornament came into view. He paused when his fingers passed, and opened a royal blue suede box next to him. Inside, there were a bunch of keys lying around awesomely.
He stared at the bear pendant next to him for a long time, but suddenly realized sadly that what he wanted most was actually not like this…
He wanted to go back to before all the ugliness and calculations were uncovered, and he wanted to see him wake up by his side every day. The two of them would have a simple breakfast together and a short and warm farewell. On a busy and fulfilling day of work, he would look forward to going home in the evening.
Li Xi took out the key, grabbed the coat on the table and walked out.
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