Chapter 517 (1/2)

CHAPTER 517

Three years had passed

I orking at a growing translation coWe had a total of ten full time employees, and the rest were all contracted e, but it was considered high in KunI rented an apartment in a small residential area nearbyI donated five-hundred RMB to the disabled foundation and another five-hundred RMB to the cancer foundation; they were all anonyh, I was living in a so-so life and far from luxuryThe benefits fro or CGP, but the as just as challengingThere was no coht my own lunch sometimes or ate instant noodles to save money, and rarely went to restaurants

It was probably because I ate tootoo hard such thatand stayed in the hospital for twelve daysXiao Dong, as studying for his PhD at the medical university, came to visit and took care of me for five days before I kicked hi

I kept my promise, and never took the initiative to call Li ChuanLi Chuan on the other hand, would call me sometimes or send me emails once every two to three monthsWhen it was ivenew years and on holidaysNevertheless, ere still friends

He didn’t speak ood sometimes and bad sometimes

Two years after Li Chuan returned to Switzerland, he finally found a match and went to Aht awayBut it caused a bunch of cohtWhen I asked hoas later, he said he was better, but his condition was not stableAfter being ill for so long, he lost trust in his own body; no matter hoell he felt, he could suddenly collapseOther than acco to all kinds of treatments, he didn’t have much hope

Li Chuan was like a balloon in my hand; even if it flew all the way up into the clouds, or so far away that I couldn’t ht tugWe could become distant one minute, and very close the next, or we could be lukewar attached to us that could never be broken

Solish) moved on yet?Do you have a new boyfriend?”

I would answer vaguely, “Since I prolish)so et a kick out of it”

I loved this person for ten yearsMy heart was tossed over a cliff twice; I only wanted to live quietly for the rest of le was quite nice; I was free and unrestrained

I spent htcake; we cut out a small portion for ourselves, and shared the rest with other patients

Speaking of Xiao Dong, it was rather funnyWhen he visited me at the hospital, he was very dissatisfied withthe very next day and said, “Jie, you’re twenty-seven, so you should dress like a twenty-seven year old, okay?Don’t make yourself look like thirty-sevenYou should also at least fix your hair and not leave it looking like a bird’s nest, as if you’re a guyAnd…you’ve been s too ”

This hat you called fa was also overbearingHe was as broke as he could be, but he still stuffed two-thousand RMB intoful, but I still forced a seAfter just five days, I wanted him to leave so badly

When I left the hospital, I received a bunch of es from Li ChuanOne of them said, “Xiao Qiu, happy birthday!I mailed you a present, have you received it yet?I hope you’ll like it”There was another one that said, “Xiao Qiu, have you gone on a business trip?How come you haven’t answered my phone calls for seven days, or even replied my emails?”

My voice es; it was full already

I had just gotten better fro sick nonetheless, so I couldn’t control es

I returned to work the day after I left the hospitalI worked diligently in the English departmentA lot of our as paid based on quantity; the more translations you did, the more bonuses you would receive at the end of the year; so I worked hard today of workIt was raining outside and the building was dark insideI saw so there quietly; his silhouette looked faave hts turned onI took a good look at hi as he had always beenHe ell shaved, a little skinny, but healthier than he hen he left Kun with a pair of crutches, and a medium sized suitcase sat beside him

I stared at hiination or realityI felt o numbHe smiled at me, and I became completely lostAfter Li Chuan left,in a pri hoas stunned and lost without words, Li Chuan said, “I’m sorry I didn’t contact you firstI couldn’t find you, so I thought so may have happenedWhen I called your translation co and was at the hospital”

“Oh, I’ve recovered already,” I said

“When did you get out of the hospital?”

“Yesterday”

“You went back to work after leaving the hospital?You worked the entire day?”

“M from the rain

“Take off the raincoat,” he said softly while pulling the raincoat off froht switched off again, so I had to stomp my feet to turn them back on

I was more or less in a wreck; my hair was cut a bit too short and was messyLi Chuan stared at o inside?”

“Of course,” I said, “Hold on, I need to find , but I couldn’t fetch theot annoyed, so I squatted and poured out everything inmy wallet, coins, lipstick, lip bal of preserved pluhter, a small mirror, a bottle of water, two ballpoint pens, a pencil, hts went off againLi Chuan clapped his hands to turn the lights back on this tihts in the living room

“Please co his suitcaseHe stood in the middle of the room, looked around, and took a deep breath

The truth was, I only cleaned my place once every one to two months; dust covered the floor, table, and book shelfMy furniture was rey so that others could not tell how dusty they were at first glanceA few pieces of dirty clothing lay on top of the sofa, and it had been a long time since I hadpairs of slippers and a dirty sockI reached over the sofa and swept the dirty clothes to the side to make some roomI said to Li Chuan, “Please sit”

Li Chuan didn’t sit, instead he asked, “Do you ?”

“No”

He went intoI suddenly reain, he would likely need another a……real?”

He shook his head, “It’s not real”

“How ht as I dashed over to touch it

“I’”He caressed my head, “Of course it’s realI’m not that unlucky”

I let out a breath of relief and dropped down to sit on the floor

“Xiao Qiu, your place is too messyI must clean it up for youWhere’s the mop?Where’s the cloth?”He pulled me up from the floor to sit on the sofa

“Kitchen”

He went into the kitchen, but came back out quickly and almost screamed, “Xiao Qiu, there are cockroaches in the kitchen”

“You’re afraid?”

“Do you have a bug killer spray?”

“No”I then heard a bunch of thu noise, “We’ll have to kill it ourselves”

Li Chuan grew up in a Gerly German-influenced, and he loved cleanlinessHe spent an hour cleaning the living room; he used a cloth to wipe every cornerHe mopped the floor three ti, but he refusedHe sorted and threw my dirty clothes into two laundry baskets

Two cockroaches crawled out when he fetched the mop, but he killed them with his crutch

“What should I do then?”

He threw the remote at me, “Watch TV”

He went to clean up the kitchen and washed the dishes that I had left behind after breakfastAlthough the kitchen was small, it was the dirtiestHe spent two hours to finish cleaning it up

“Xiao Qiu, every ti with the pot, you should also wash the bottom of it, otherwise, it will turn black”

I wanted to faintThe bottoht even be ashes I was too lazy to argue with hiwould be returned to the way they were, so I brushed him off, “Okay, okay”

He didn’t co while, so I asked, “What are you doing?Why are you still not co the tilesYour tiles are not white enough”

“That’s a painful job, but benefits manyTake your time”

He used a knife to scrape and a stainless steel scourer to scrubHe was exhaustedWhen he seemed to have finished, he asked, “Have you eaten yet?”

“No, you?”

“NoI waited for you outside for a long time”

“Oh, have you booked a hotel room then?”

“Can I stay here?”

“What?” I ju Li Chuan, you think that you can come as you like and stay as you like atso mean?”He said, “Let me ask you, where did I let you stay when you caht?I don’telseYou haven’t fully recovered yet, so I’m just here to take care of you for a while”

“What does it have anything to do with you?Did I ask you to co, “I’ve already recovered!”