Chapter 16: His Departure
A phone call only takes a minute or two.
Gu Tingchen went out for a while, but when he came back, his expression was full of worry.
He looked at me helplessly.
I asked him softly, "What's going on?"
He sighed and asked, "I'm going to leave later, are you with me?"
I asked him clearly, "Is it because of Wen Ruyan?"
Gu Tingchen closed his eyes and said, "She was injured in a car accident." β
I patiently asked, "So you're going back to take care of her?"
Gu Tingchen was silent, but his departure had already given me the answer.
Before he left, I reminded him, "We had a condition before, and you weren't allowed to see her during our relationship, do you remember?"
He muttered, "I remember, so I want to ......"
Want to ask my opinion?
But why would he think I'm going to let him go?
"Gu Tingchen, if you want to leave, I will terminate this game. β
I turned off the movie, got up and said with a smile: "I won't stop you from leaving, unless you want to break the contract, Gu Tingchen, I have never been as empathetic as you think." β
Gu Tingchen looked at me silently, and finally turned to leave.
He left, and I stood at the window and looked at the back downstairs with such determination.
I sighed, turned back to bed, and lay down to sleep.
It wasn't until the evening that Gu Tingchen's mother called me to eat, and I went downstairs dressed neatly, and stood in the hall with my suitcase in tow to find that the courtyard was covered with snow.
Seeing me like this, Gu Tingchen's mother asked gently, "You want to leave?"
"Well, the plane later, I'm bothering you this time. β
"It's okay, you're my daughter-in-law, why are you so polite?"
"Auntie, I have been divorced from Tingchen for a while. β
Gu Tingchen's mother: "......"
Her face was full of pity, and I smiled and asked, "Can I build a snowman?"
"Yes, do you want me to help you?"
"It's okay, I'll leave when I'm done. β
I found the thickest part of the snow and started to build a snowman, because I had built it with my parents when I was a child, so it is not difficult to build it now, and after the pile was formed, I took out the apricot-colored scarf in the suitcase and gently wrapped it around the snowman.
I turned around and went back to the hall and wanted to leave with my suitcase, but I saw a photo on the wall of Gu Tingchen playing the piano when he was young, wearing a simple white shirt.
Warm, clear and incomprehensible.
I found out about its existence before, and I often stared at this photo in a daze, and once I was discovered by Gu Tingchen, and he asked me in confusion, "What are you looking at so seriously?"
After all, I couldn't help it, I quietly tore off the photo and hid it in my pocket, and as soon as I walked to the door, Gu Tingchen's mother called me, I thought she found out about me stealing the photo, and pretended not to hear and left quickly.
So much so that I didn't hear her words, "How can you have Lan Zhi's scarf?"
......
I sat on the plane with a terrible headache, and after a good night's sleep, the flight attendant woke me up.
I got up in a daze and left to go back to Shi's house.
I felt exhausted all over my body, I guess I got cold when I was building a snowman, and my body was weak, so I was weak and had a high fever, so I left my house and took a taxi to the hospital.
When my attending doctor saw me, he was surprised and asked, "Why are you so weak?"
I nodded and said, "I'm cold, can I get some fluids?"
"Well, how are you feeling lately?" he asked.
"The pain was obvious, and there was a lot of blood underneath. β
The doctor advised, "I would still recommend that you have surgery." β
I smiled and refused: "As you said, I have terminal cancer, and even if I have surgery, I will not fully recover, but only prolong my life by a few months, in this case, what difference does it make if I have surgery or not?"
And I don't want to waste the rest of my time in the hospital.
The doctor sighed and said, "Miss Shi, I'll help you check your body first." β
After the examination, the doctor arranged me to the previous senior ward, I lay on the bed dizzy and fell asleep quickly, and when I woke up, I suddenly saw a tall figure in front of the window.
Wucheng was brightly lit, he turned his back to me and looked out the window at the neon, I lay on the bed and blinked and asked him, "Is Wen Ruyan also in this hospital?"
He turned around, looked at me with dark eyes, and said, "Well, she's next door to you, and I just passed by and saw your name written on the door of the ward." β
"The hospital belongs to the Shi family, and this is my exclusive ward. β
I wanted to tell him that I didn't show up here on purpose because Wen Ruyan was hospitalized here, it was just a coincidence.
Gu Tingchen suddenly walked towards me, and asked in a worried voice, "Why are you sick?"
I have called the doctor before and he will not divulge my cancer status to anyone.
Gu Tingchen only asked about my cold and fever.
"When you get cold, you don't feel well, so you come to get some fluids. β
Gu Tingchen frowned, "You were fine when I left during the day." β
I said gently, "It's because I'm in poor health." β
I will answer what he asks, it seems that the contradictions during the day do not exist, seeing me like this, Gu Tingchen asked inexplicably: "Don't you blame me at all?"
I shook my head and said frankly, "I can't complain, I'm too lazy to care." β
I will not complain, and I will not forgive.
Gu Tingchen and I will eventually return to the bridge and the road.
I am also grateful to him for taking care of him in the past few days, although it is hypocritical, but at least it makes me feel the feeling of being taken care of by someone, and that person is still loved by me.
Hearing me say no complaints, Gu Tingchen seemed to be difficult to accept, he stared at me with heavy eyes for a long time, and finally threw down a sentence, "As you wish." β
As I wish?!
He looked confused, not understanding what he meant.
I closed my eyes, I originally wanted to continue sleeping, but Ji Nuan suddenly called me, and her frightened voice came: "Sheng'er help me." β
I was surprised and asked, "What's going on?"
"I'm at the police station, and Gu Tingchen asked people to keep me in lockdown. β
When I arrived at the police station, I learned that Wen Ruyan's car accident was caused by Ji Nuan, I asked Ji Nuan what happened, and she said in panic: "It was Wen Ruyan who forced me, it was her, and she caused the car accident back then." β
I asked, "What do you mean?"
"The driver who drove and hit people back then was Wen Ruyan, she broke Chen Chusheng's legs, I don't know how it ended between them, I didn't care about it originally, but she found me today to ask about your whereabouts, and it wasn't until now that I didn't know that Gu Tingchen's predecessor was her!!"
I reassured her and said, "Don't be afraid, and then what?"
I hugged Ji Nuan, she cried and explained: "I don't want to hit her, but she said that you robbed her Gu Tingchen, and now you are still hiding him! She couldn't find him, so she came to me, because we are best friends, she thinks I must know your whereabouts, but I really don't know! Then she began to sarcastically mock me, sarcastically Chen Chusheng, saying that he was a cripple with a broken leg, saying that he didn't know anything, and he didn't even look like a man! I couldn't help it, so I drove into her, and in the end, I was also angry, if it weren't for her, Chen Chusheng and I wouldn't have gone through so many hardships like we have now! Her lawyer just told me that she was suspected of murder, and that she would have to go to prison for at least two years, Sheng'er, you can help me! I can't go to jail, I still have to go to Chen Chusheng, I want to be with him! I don't want to stay in prison. β
Ji Nuan's nerves were about to collapse, I hugged her and coaxed her to say that it was okay, and suddenly understood that to solve this matter, I still had to find Gu Tingchen, because Wen Ruyan's biggest reliance was on him.
I resisted and went to the hospital to find Gu Tingchen.
At that time, he was feeding Wen Ruyan porridge, and his movements were gentle, just like taking care of me in those days.
I closed my eyes and was about to knock on the door to enter, Wen Ruyan's sharp eyes were the first to find me standing at the door, she deliberately asked in front of me: "Tingchen, do you love me?"
Gu Tingchen responded lightly: "Why did you suddenly ask this?"
Wen Ruyan stubbornly asked, "Then do you love it?"
"Ruyan, you know what I think about you. β
His thoughts on Wen Ruyan ...... That's love.
I endured the knocking on the door, stood in the corridor and waited, it took about twenty minutes for Gu Tingchen to come out of it, he saw me stunned, and asked indifferently, "Why are you here?"
I pursed my lips and asked, "Can you let Ji Nuan go?"
"You ...... with her"
"That's my best friend. β
Gu Tingchen thought for a while, and told me clearly: "I have to give her an explanation, just like if you are injured, I also have to give you an explanation, otherwise she will keep messing with me, and she will always think about this in her heart, and she always feels that she trusts the man who should protect her but has done nothing." β
Gu Tingchen is right, if he helps me Wen Ruyan will make trouble with him, and he will also disappoint his own woman, he has no reason to favor me at all, because I am not his fiancΓ©e.
His words are very light, but they are cruel,
Because what he says is the truth.
Gu Tingchen bypassed me and wanted to leave, but I suddenly asked him indifferently, "Just because I haven't messed with you, don't you have to give me an explanation?"
He paused in his footsteps and looked at me calmly.
"Shi Sheng, what do you want to say?"
His tone was indifferent, for fear that Wen Ruyan in the ward would hear his tenderness towards me, and I asked with moist eyes: "Gu Tingchen, I didn't mess with you when you took away my child two years ago, even if the doctor said that I would no longer be qualified to be a mother, I didn't mess with you! You took away my qualification to be a mother, and now I let you let Ji Nuan go for one, is it okay?"
"Shi Sheng, what did you say?"