C60 (2/2)
Gu Zhongshen was talking on the phone from outside, with smoke curling up between his index and middle finger, covering up the emotions on his face.
”It's me.”
Zhu Zinan heaved a sigh of relief, ”Is he alright? Lin Qinghuan was shouting about wanting to go see her, but I had to say more before I was able to stop her.
”It's my fault.”
He lowered his eyes as the powerless feeling in his heart gradually seeped out. Soon, it was as if his entire body was about to be strangled, and he could not even breathe. His mood was so astringent that he, as a man, could feel the wind blowing him to the point that he wanted to cry.
After pausing for a few seconds, Zhu Zinan muttered, ”The last time you went to the neighboring city with Lian Shuyan to treat him, what did the doctor say?”
Heart disease.
Gu Zhongshen raised his head and looked at the pitch black sky. His ailment had been formed since that year, and although he was ill in his heart, it had injured the woman he loved. ”Slowly treat it, he said that maybe my wife is a good medicine.”
He paused for a moment before smiling bitterly.
”But now, I've hurt her. Zennan, you don't know, but when she looked at me, her eyes were no longer as fervent as before. It was as if she was looking at a stranger …”
Zhu Zinan did not speak, and did not know where to start.
He stubbed out his cigarette, thinking of the little girl's wounds, of her stubbornness in refusing to see him, of her trembling little body, which clearly had no strength left in it, and yet still insisted on rejecting her.
”I'm so scared.”
”I'm afraid she doesn't have me in her heart anymore.”
The next day, when Lu Qinan woke up, the sunlight was shining straight into the room. She was startled as she looked at the familiar environment and the white light at the side.
The door opened as if sensing something. The man's tall body squeezed in, wearing a casual shirt and walking towards the bed with his slippers on.
”Wake up, go brush your teeth?”
He bent down and made a gesture to carry her over.
Lu Qinan frowned, and slapped the man's hand away, ”I have my own legs, I can walk.”
The man raised his hand again and placed it on her forehead. He stuck it to her forehead for a few seconds and frowned. ”It's still a little hot. Let's go to the hospital …”
”They're all saying that they won't go!”
Gu Zhongshen squinted his eyes, following the stubborn young lady out of the bathroom, she brushed her teeth expressionlessly, but from the beginning to the end, his gaze had not landed on.
”Why don't you want to go to the hospital?”
She had been rejecting him since last night. That was where she worked, why did she despise him so much?
Lu Qinan was silent like a mute, his eyes fixed on the mirror, he brushed his teeth hard, and looked at the two eyes that were swollen like walnuts, and the face that had become more haggard than usual.
She shouldn't be sad about someone who wasn't worth it.
The man didn't miss any of her facial expressions. His thick eyebrows unconsciously knitted together and any of her facial expressions were written on his face. It was obvious that he could see through it.
”Nanny Qian cooked some porridge, washed his face, and ate some.”
Afraid she wouldn't eat again, he urged again and again.
Lu Qinan wanted to turn around and leave, but in that instant, he stumbled and almost lost his footing.
The man who was about to leave immediately became gloomy. He quickly picked her up and put her back on the bed. He then anxiously made her lie down and covered her with a blanket. ”You can't even stand steadily.”
His face was ashen as he forcefully suppressed his struggling hands and took out his cell phone to make a call. ”Right, arrange for a ward …”
Only then did she react, turning her face away. ”I said I won't go.”
The man stared at her. He definitely needed a reason.
Lu Qinan's pale face finally had a trace of a smile, but it was actually grey.
”If there is no reason, then we must go.”
She could hate him for ignoring her, or she could pretend he didn't exist, but she couldn't hurt herself.
After a long while, Lu Qinan finally raised his eyes and swept over him indifferently.
”Do you really have to ask? People don't like places like hospitals. ”And I don't want to go. It's because I don't want to see that woman. I don't want to be in the same place as her. I don't even want to have anything to do with her breathing …”
She hated Qin Xuanman to death, and she hated the possibility of him being with Qin Xuanman at the hospital even more.
Even though she despised him to death, she subconsciously did not want to help them.
She pinched her palms, feeling conflicted.
Gu Zhongshen raised his eyebrows, and said into his phone, ”Yeah … ”There's no need to prepare. My wife really dislikes your hospital.”
Lian Shuyan, ”?”
Isn't this your hospital?!
”But Renhe is the closest in the neighborhood, or is he going out for love? I'll call the family doctor. ”
Seeing that he was patient, Lu Qinan felt that no matter how she disliked him, he would still keep a good attitude towards her. In between his brows, there was still a sense of exhaustion, he also seemed to have lost some weight, and was looking very tired.
Yet, she still stretched out her hand, her rough fingers resting on the back of her hand, as though she didn't feel the oppressive atmosphere at all.
However, her eyes were gentle.
”Sick to treat, eh?”