Chapter 29 - Abandoned Hospital (13) (1/2)
In the hospital in the middle of the night, everything was silent. The boys’ ward was completely dark with only faint moonlight entering the room through the window coating everything with a light silver glimmer.
“Mmm……”
The young boy let out a soft moan. His eyes were wet and coated in a layer of tears as he sat on Xie Yuan Huai’s lap and had his arms wrapped around the other persons neck. He did his best trying to keep up with the passionate and deep kiss.
Xie Yuan Huai may look cold but when he kissed the boy, it was like he wanted to eat him up and it was especially passionate. He held onto the boys’ waist and brought him down with him onto the bed. He rolled around and pressed him down onto the bed while continuing to kiss him for a very long time. It was only until the boy began to struggle weakly did he let him go.
“Huff, huff………..”
The boys face was flushed red and his lips were kissed to the point that there was a thin layer of moisture over it. He laid limply on the bed gasping for air.
Xie Yuan Huai’s eyes darkened a little and he once again moved in to kiss it. It made the boy shrink and gently push him away with a red face. With a small voice he said: “Please don’t………I can’t do it anymore……..”
“You don’t like it?” The handsome man murmured. “If you don’t want to, I won’t touch you like this anymore.”
“No……”
Hearing him say that, the boy couldn’t help but pull at his clothes. With a voice as soft as melted honey, he said shyly: “It’s not that I don’t like it………”
“Good boy.”
Xie Yuan Huai kissed his face and his lips curved up slightly to reveal a faint smile.
When he smiled, it was like ice and snow had melted and it looked extremely good. The boy looked at him in daze. When he returned to his senses, he found himself once again being pressed down and kissed. Mmm, brother Yuan Huai always seduces him like this but every time he can’t refuse it……
……….
“Like this, you won’t be afraid right?”
Xie Yuan Huai held the boy that had been kissed until his whole body had become weak in his arms. With his cold fingers, he gently touched the youth’s red ears and once again gently planted a soft kiss on his forehead.
“But……”
The youth’s face was completely red.
He clearly just wanted brother Yuan Huai to accompany him. With him here, he would not be afraid…….His intentions were very pure but brother Yuan Huai always, always……..
But he didn’t move to finish his words. He knew that if he refuted him, brother Yuan Huai would definitely ask him again if it’s because he doesn’t like it.
He couldn’t say that he didn’t like it. In fact, he actually likes to kiss brother Yuan Huai. He just didn’t want it to be so intense.
What’s more, he also didn’t want to reject brother Yuan Huai. After all, he had gone through the trouble to stay with him in the middle of the night because he heard that he would be too scared to sleep at night because of the ghost stories he had heard from the nurse sisters during the day.
However, he remembered that brother Yuan Huai was hospitalised because of a heart condition. If he didn’t sleep at night and accompanied him, would his body be alright……………?
“It’s okay.” Xie Yuan Huai gently ruffled his soft hair. He said, “I won’t force myself. You don’t have to worry.”
“Really? That’s good…..”
The youth blinked his eyes and asked curiously: “Brother Yuan Huai, you don’t get scared coming from your ward to mine?”
He recalled the ghost stories that the nurses had told him during the day. Things like the man-eating monster in the sewer, the red-clothed woman’s corpse in the mortuary…. He looked over at the door and couldn’t help but shrink. He felt like something would appear from behind that dark door. With a pair of bloody hands, it would gently push the door open……
He once again couldn’t help but shrink into Xie Yuan Huai’s arms.
“I don’t.” Xie Yuan Huai’s tone was very calm. “There are no such things in the hospital.”
“It would be great it that’s the case.” The boy muttered. “Brother Yuan Huai, do you think ghosts really exist in this world?”
“………..”
Xie Yuan Huai’s movement stiffened a little.
“What does Xiao Chu think?”
“I don’t know…….I hope it doesn’t. I’m scared.”
Xie Yuan Huai fell silent for a moment. He then said: “You can’t accept the existence of ghosts?”
“I probably can’t.” The youth thought about it and added. “But it might not necessarily be the case. After all, I have never seen a ghost before so I don’t know what kind of reaction I would have when I do see one.”
Xie Yuan Hua made a soft sound of acknowledgement, but he didn’t say anything. With his company, the boy felt a lot more relieved and he gradually fell asleep.
In a half-asleep state, he faintly felt a hand patting him softly and a gentle, low voice next to his ear.
“Sleep.”
The next day, the boy slowly woke up and opened his eyes in confusion.
The room was well illuminated with the bright sunlight coming in from the windows but Xie Yuan Huai could not be found.
………….
The boy held a bunch of snacks in his arms. With an excited expression, he hopped onto the elevator and went from the eight floor to the fourth floor where cardiology patients resided.
It had always been brother Yuan Huai going to his ward to visit him or them meeting at their usual place in the courtyard. Until now, he had not had the chance to go and visit brother Yuan Huai’s ward.
Today the nurse sister gave him some snacks that he felt was particularly delicious. He couldn’t wait to share it with brother Yuan Huai but he wasn’t sure if patients with heart conditions were allowed to have them, so he wanted to ask about it first……
The boy got off the elevator and went straight to the nurse station on the fourth floor. He didn’t know Xie Yuan Huai’s ward number. Even after asking him multiple times, Xie Yuan Huai never told him. Even the fact that he was hospitalised because of a heart condition was something that the boy had to elicit out from him with great difficulty.
“Hello nurse sister.”
The young boy’s eyes sparkled, and he smiled brightly: “I want to ask about a patient. He is called Xie Yuan Hai. Which ward does he live in?”
“Xie Yuan Huai? I’ll check for you.” The nurse’s attitude was very kind, “How do you write his name?”
“Thank you, sister.” The youth smiled. “It’s Xie in thanks, Yuan in far and Huai as in the Huai River.”
The nurse pulled up the registration list on the computer and searched through it. She shook her head and said to the boy: “Did you remember the name wrong or get the floor wrong? We don’t have anyone called Xie Yuan Huai here.”
“How can that be……” The boy blinked a few times. With some disbelief he said: “But he is called Xie Yuan Huai….”
“I just searched for the ‘Xie’ surname and no patient turned up.” The nurse said. “Maybe you can try the other floors.”
“Okay……..”
The boy nodded his head a little dejectedly. He went through all seven floors of the inpatient department and even checked the eight floor where he stayed but there was no one with the name “Xie Yuan Huai.” There weren’t even names with similar pronunciations.
“Could it be that brother Yuan Hua’s name is just a pseudonym?”
He was very confused. He couldn’t understand this: “But why would brother Yuan Huai lie to me. It doesn’t make sense…..”
“What does he look like?”
The nurse on the eight floor was close to him and enthusiastically wanted to help. She asked with concern: “Tell me and I’ll help you ask around.”
“He looks very good. He’s tall and thin, and his skin is very pale. The most handsome person in this hospital will definitely be him.”
The boy said calmly. He then suddenly thought of something. He smacked his head and said:
“That’s right. Brother Yuan Huai wears a different hospital gown. His one is white.” He looked down at his light blue hospital gown. “The style is also a little different. The hospital logo is on the right hand side, not the left.”
“Huh……..?” The nurse was very surprised. “That type of hospital gown was from many years ago and we have stopped using it for a long time already. All the patients now should be wearing the same gown that you are. How can there be someone wearing those clothes?”
She found it very strange. At this moment, a senior nurse walked by. She stopped the nurse and explained the situation first before asking:
“……..So are there still patients wearing the old style hospital gowns?”
The senior nurses’ expression changed slightly and she moved to ask the boy: “You’re saying that the person you’re looking for is called Xie Yuan Huai?”
“Yes…..” The boy was a little upset. “But it might just be a pseudonym.”
“……….I don’t know who you are looking for but there was a patient called Xie Yuan Huai that stayed at this hospital in the past who had a congenital heart disease.”
The senior nurse had a complicated expression.
“I used to take care of him but that was from many years ago.”
“He has been dead for a long time now.”
“………..”
The boy’s face went pale.
His gaze passed through the nurse and he saw a white figure appear in the corridor.
The handsome young man was watching him with a complicated look.
The boy recalled the man’s cold body temperature, the fact that people around him would ignore him, how he would appear in the middle of the night without making a single sound and that strange appearance of his——-
His pupils suddenly constricted.
………..A ghost.
His brother Yuan Huai is a ghost.
“Xiao Chu………..”
Xie Yuan Huai quietly whispered the boy’s name. He seemingly wanted to get closer, but the boy took a few steps back with a pale expression before suddenly turning around and fleeing.
“…………”