Chapter 489 - The Battered-Body Trick is Ineffective (1/2)

”Mr. Chu, I have said many times before that the wound needs to be nursed. If it cracks open once again, I would assume your battered-body trick has upgraded. However, no matter how battered your body becomes, she wouldn't feel sorry for you.”

Gao Yi said as he nimbly injected the anesthesia, cleaned the wound, and sewed it back together.

Chu Lui kept silent, but his mind was filled with the battered-body trick that Gao Yi was talking about instead of his injury.

Soon, his wound had been rewrapped in a new bandage. It was just that the shirt was completely destroyed. A shirt that cost tens of thousands was cut away with just a snip. The person who cut it didn't find it a pity, and so the person who wore it didn't either. Well, the person who was wearing it was rich and affluent, after all.

”Thank you.” Chu Lui stood up and pulled his shirt tight.

Gao Yi was surprised. This man knew how to thank people, and to him—his rival—at that.

”Will you treat her well?” Suddenly, Chu Lui turned around and asked Gao Yi in a serious manner.

Gao Yi said intently, too, ”Don't worry, I will. I'll treat her way better than you did at least.” This was a promise between men, a battle between men.

”I will treat her well like a gem.”

Chu Lui's gaze lowered as if he thought of something.

Treat her like a gem. Yes, if there was a man who could treat her like a gem, then he would be at ease. Others could give her what he couldn't give. Even if he could give it to her, she wouldn't need it anymore.

”Thank you.” He felt the need to say that to him.

”My treating her well has nothing to do with you.”

Gao Yi smoothened his short hair and strode out, leaving the patient Chu Lui sitting alone inside, his shirt in shreds. It was quite pitiful.

A nurse entered soon after to give him an injection. When the ice-cold needle pierced into his blood vessels, he sat there unmoving, not even blinking—almost as if he didn't feel anything.

After finishing the IV drop, it was already nighttime. Chu Lui put his blazer back on. This time, he didn't need to stay at the hospital; and of course, there was no need for any battered-body trick. For whom would it be for, anyway? Who would care, and who would worry over him?

He was just about to get into his car when he spotted a pair of mother and daughter enter the hospital. The young and beautiful mother was saying something to the child in her arms. He could almost hear the child's childish voice, like that of glutinous rice, and the woman's gentle laughter.

The man's hand was still resting on the car door, and then he slowly let go. He was about to take a step forward, but he stopped abruptly. A gentleman walked out of the hospital. Without his hospital gown, he looked as warm as jade as if he was the sunny sky.

He stretched his hand out, and the child in the woman's arms leaped into his arms naturally.

The man gave his daughter a peck on the lips and reached his hand out to the woman. The woman placed her hand on the man's palm, and the two of them left chatting happily.

Chu Lui felt a lump in his throat. Just now, he had almost instinctively called out 'Ruoxin'. In the end, he could only swallow it back down.