Reaching out suddenly, he took her hand in his.
Xi Sujie stiffened, only to feel his hand, so cool that it had no temperature. Heart, twisted pain. The hand tentatively struggled, but his grip got tighter and tighter.
“Stay with me …” His tone was soft, even a little pleading.
Between his eyebrows, it was all deep fatigue.
Xi Sujie was so heartbroken that she almost immediately agreed with him.
Can! At times like this, she too wanted to stay by his side! She also wished she could soothe the sadness and torment in his heart.
But …
Ultimately, reason was pulling at her nerves.
“I’m sorry, the hospital has been calling a lot. If I miss any more work, I’ll be fired.” Suje spoke to him in a business-like tone.
“I’ll take care of it!” Su Chen immediately said.
Su Jie took a deep breath, “Su Chen, we can’t be like this. What kind of person are you to me, and who are you to help me out? If I rely on you and breeze through like this, then what will the other employees think of you?”
Su Chen knows she has a point, but …
“Now, at the moment … I need you badly!” He looked at her steadily.
That look made Su Jie almost immediately nod her head and agree to him staying. However, in the next instant, a voice that crushed all her softness and hesitation …
“Su Chen!” The clear, ever-flinty voice suddenly rang out.
Su Jie stiffened and looked at Su Chen.
Su Chen looked at the source of the sound almost unbelievably, “Guo Chengxue, why are you here?!”
The voice was deep, almost gritted.
“I went to your house to look for you, and my aunt and uncle just realized that we hadn’t met for a few days, and immediately checked your passport for me and found your whereabouts. They asked me to come over to keep you company!”
Like being poured a bucket of ice-cold water over her head, Su Jie woke up at once. The hand was almost immediately pulled out of Su Chen’s palm.
Su Chen froze and raised his hand, but his hand only held a palm full of air.
“Sister Sujie! So you’re here too!” Guo Chengxue shouted in surprise and ran over with her bag slung over her back.
“Guo Chengxue, get the hell back!” Su Chen had an expression of having had enough. He looked sharply at Su Jie, but Su Jie no longer even looked at him for a second and just lowered her head to listen to Guo Chengxue.
“Sister Sujie, look, isn’t he really so graceless? To actually yell at a lady like that!”
Sujie very barely and grudgingly squeezed out a small smile. She felt that she must be ugly as hell at this moment!
“Are you a lady? Hm! This is the first time I’ve heard of it!” Su Chen shot back with absolutely no poise.
“Su Chen, do you believe me or not I’ll call my aunt and uncle right away and say that you bullied me! Hmph! They love me so much, if they knew you bullied me, they would never spare you!”
Heh …
That’s the kind of daughter-in-law that all the Su family elders favor.
With him, Su Chen is the real door-to-door match.
And she, Xi Sujie …
She had never been a self-hater, or ashamed of herself, but yet, she was never an insensitive person either.
Last time, the fact that the two elders had come out en masse to talk to her had said it all.
“You guys chat, I’m going to leave first.” Xi Sujie smiled at Guo Chengxue. She was about to turn around when the ward was suddenly pushed open. Zige came out from inside.
As soon as Sujie saw her face, she felt something was wrong. Busy stepping forward, she asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s fine.” Zige smiled and shook her head, greeted Su Chen, her eyes skimmed over the unfamiliar girl, and then she held onto the wall and walked towards the hospital room. When she realized that Su Jie was following her around, she said, “You don’t need to just look at me, I’m really fine … You go care for Su Chen, he looks like he’s tired.”
Xisu Jie sneered.
“Now, it’s not me who should care about him anymore.”
“What’s wrong?” Ziggy looked at her.
“That little girl, didn’t you see her too?” Sujie’s voice was dark, “His family picked out a new fiancée for him. Their family is very satisfied.”
“What’s another one?”
“If it’s not this, it will be that. I’ve always been sober enough to know that.”
A circle of bitterness rose in Zige’s heart. Her heart ached as she tightened her grip on Su Jie’s hand.
The thing about love is that it’s so far away from them, it seems. …
Are you sure you want to go?” Sujie looked at Zige and asked again.
Ziggy nodded, “Well, I want to go back and see the baby.”
Soojung mused and nodded, “That’s fine. It’s better to go back, home is better than anything.”
Zige laughed a little, “Luckily the passport is with me. Now you don’t need to take maternity leave, go back and recuperate your body, you can go straight to work. Just …”
On her lips, dark bitterness, “I really don’t know what to tell my parents.”
“The boat is naturally straight.” Xi Su Jie patted the back of her hand, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Zi Ge who was planning to go into the restroom to change her clothes, and pursed her lips before asking, “Are you willing to go … just like this?”
Zige’s body stiffened for a moment, and she sighed out in a light, ghostly voice, “… There’s nothing willing or unwilling about it. It’s something we all owe her.”
“But love is not a deficit.”
Zi Ge slowly turned around, her eyes looking at Su Jie, a light layer of mist at the bottom of her eyes, “But, in this world, it’s never just the two words ‘love’. When people live, they always have to be held back by other things to varying degrees.”
Suje smiled to herself, “You’re right. You are held back by ‘favors’ …”
She, on the other hand, was held back by pride; Su Chen was held back by affection.
“So you don’t blame him?” Suje looked to Zige.
Zi Ge shook his head, “It must be a lie to say that it is not difficult, but … I am qualified to blame him. The person who saved him, wasn’t me, so Su Xi’s pain is even more something I can’t personally experience. So, what qualifications do I have to blame for this kind of thing? If it were me, in that situation, perhaps, I would also choose so …”
Suje snorted and shook her head, “I can kind of see that, in a nutshell, love counts for nothing. In the end, everything comes after love. Affection, hatred, favor …”
Listening to Su Jie’s words of emotion, Zi Ge’s heart was saddened. Took the passport, the mind back and forth floating back and forth is this period of time since a picture.
“In the past, I must have kissed you like this …,” he said then, even his voice was heavy with bathing hope.
“Uh-huh.” She was as happy as a little girl who had just fallen in love for the first time.
“We used to be a couple?”
“Doesn’t count.”
“So, counting from now on …”
At that time, his eyes were full of determination. And back then she … seemed to have foreseen this day …
Now … they, sort of, broke up?
Ten days into a relationship, breaking up … for life …
The door to the hospital room was suddenly pushed open. It was Yan Nan.
He rested the large bag in his hand on the bedside, looked at Zige and said, “Miss Meng looks much better, Mr. Come over in a while and see that he’ll probably be able to breathe a sigh of relief.” .
“He got to the hospital?”
“Uh-huh.” Yan Nan nodded slightly and said, “I was supposed to come over here first, but there was another problem on Miss Su’s side, and she was just dragged away by Young Master Su.”
“Oh …,” Ziggy said, not missing a beat.
Yan Nan looked at Zi Ge, noticing her not-so-clear complexion, and wanted to say something to cheer her up. After a slight contemplation, he remembered, “Mister just went to pick out the diamond ring on purpose, so it seems that from now on, it’s time for me to change my title to ‘madam’ again.”
“A diamond … ring?” Ziggy’s breath hitched.
The five fingers gripping the passport tightened viciously.
Sujie’s face, too, didn’t look too good.
“What’s wrong? You don’t like diamond rings?” Yan Nan looked at her expression and was a little surprised. He thought that she would be overjoyed and her health would immediately improve, but …
Why is the situation completely different now?
“No, I love it.” Ziggy shook her head carelessly, her words shattering. Hanging her head, she hid her bleak look.
Su Jie’s face was just as grave as she pushed Yan Nan outward, “You go and stay over at Su Xi’s side as well, Zi Ge needs to change clothes, so don’t stand here.”
Upon hearing that she wanted to change her clothes, Yan Nan naturally did not dare to stay any longer. However, it was also felt that both of them looked strange. How could no one show a bit of a happy expression? Mister had picked for hours and asked and asked before he bought the ring he liked best.
It’s hard to believe that this is a sign that Mr. Proposal is going to be unsuccessful? GOD! That would be so tragic!
Yan Nan walked away. Zige didn’t say anything, just stuffed the passport into the bag silently, and after that, hugged the clothes and turned around again. Su Jie witnessed her hands, whitening and shaking. Su Jie also did not say anything, at a time like this, she did not know what words to say to comfort her.
Clutching her clothes, she leaned against the door panel, and that racking, throbbing sensation in her body surged up again. She bit her lip and forced herself to hold it back, unable to shed a single tear, only cold sweat beaded her eyes.
Changing her clothes back into place and looking at herself in the mirror, she barely managed to squeeze out a smile. Yet, it was so ugly that even she couldn’t bear to witness it.
“Zige, come out!” Su Jie suddenly called out from outside with a leap of faith.
Zige didn’t respond immediately, but merely sniffled to collect the soreness at the tip of her nose. He patted his cheeks again before asking, “What’s wrong?”
“Come and see who’s coming over!”
Hearing Su Jie’s tone like this, Zi Ge couldn’t help but be curious. Without slacking off any longer, she pulled open the door and walked out. Seeing the figure standing outside, Zi Ge’s jaw dropped in surprise, and in the next second, a joyful smile rippled out, “Heng Jun, how come it’s you? How did you know I was here?”
He spread his hands with an air of disbelief, “I happened to wander into Moscow and thought of you and came to visit.”
“Weren’t you in Africa? God, you’ve lost so much weight and gotten so much darker.” Zige looked him up and down. Even so, Ke Hengjun was still the same Ke Hengjun. Even after taking off the star’s aperture, he still had the same elegance.
“If I stay any longer, I’m going to turn into an African.” Ke Hengjun glanced at Zi Ge, her pale face and increasingly thin figure made him take a deep breath, and he couldn’t help but open his arms in pity, but still contained a smile, “Long time no see, my fiancée!”
Each other, embrace each other.
Touching that slender body, Ke Hengjun subconsciously tightened his arm. Opening his mouth, his tone was full of heartache, “You’ve lost weight …”
The tip of Zige’s nose was sore, and the tears she had held back for a long time almost exploded in front of him, “I’m sorry I didn’t protect your goddaughter …”
Ko Hang-jun was heartbroken.
Had he known, had he not, from the beginning, been so irresponsible in leaving? He could have stayed in Moscow along with him, in a corner where she couldn’t see but could guard her …
“Stupid woman! I should have known better, you can’t take care of yourself at all …”
Zi Ge smiled bitterly and was about to back away from his arms when the door to the ward was abruptly pushed open from the outside.
Seeing that familiar figure, Zi Ge stiffened, already able to feel a line of sight cast towards them. Dark, complicated.