Part 3
Lu Xunye thought about it; the other party really seemed to have no family left. Unfortunately, he, the so-called “boyfriend,” was also fake.
He had schemed to get close to the youth only for the sake of the mission.
Why empathize with a paper character? Anyway, this world was fake to begin with.
Lu Xunye looked deeply at Shen Yunqian’s look of total dependence on him. Subconsciously, he ignored the fact that ever since Shen Yunqian knocked Si Jinyan out with a stick, the predetermined plot seemed to be developing in an uncontrollable direction.
“I’m a bit thirsty. Can you pour me a glass of water?”
Lu Xunye snapped back to reality, remembering he was still a patient. He bent down to lift the thermos bottle by his feet.
Then getting up, he paused as he opened the door. He turned back and said, “Out of water. I’ll go get some. Wait for me.”
Shen Yunqian half-leaned against the headboard, hands resting on the quilt. Hearing this, his eyes sparkled, and he nodded obediently. “Okay, I’ll wait for you.”
When the door closed, cutting off the hurried people in the corridor.
The innocence on Shen Yunqian’s face vanished instantly. He answered the phone casually, his tone flat: “Found it?”
The other side unleashed a torrent of complaints: “I’m telling you, are you cultivating immortality? So isolated from the world? Why didn’t you reply to my many messages?”
…
Shen Yunqian silently held the phone away. After he finished, he perfunctorily replied, “En, okay.”
Hearing this, the person on the other end knew he hadn’t listened seriously. Rolling his eyes, he started talking business.
“Your guess was right. Your brother is indeed not dead and is in the country, but I don’t know why he isn’t coming back.”
“Although our people found out after Si Jinyan did, what’s certain is that your brother wasn’t caught by him. You can rest assured on this point.”
“Since that fire at the Si family’s old residence nineteen years ago destroyed many confidential documents and the old family head died in the fire, plus internal corruption by the directors, the capital chain has always been tight. It only improved in recent years after Si Jinyan took over the company.”
“But judging from the board meeting they held recently, they want to bid for that piece of wasteland in the east city that was abandoned due to construction errors at the auction a week later. Do you think we should also…”
“What,” Shen Yunqian kept his eyes on the ward door, “Just fabricate a little public opinion about a piece of land abandoned for twenty years, and you believe it too?”
Su Zhuo’s voice on the phone went silent for a while. “Fabricate… You did it?”
The doorknob turned. Shen Yunqian whispered, “Don’t contact me recently.”
Then the call ended.
Lu Xunye opened the door and walked in. Seeing the youth still sitting on the bed in that posture, he poured him a glass of water and handed it over. “Do you want to sleep for a while? Are you hungry?”
Shen Yunqian held the cup and took a sip. The warm water flowed down his throat, warming his body as well. He tapped the cup wall lightly with his finger. “Can I be discharged?”
Lu Xunye put the thermos bottle in the corner of the cabinet. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the steaming tea cup wrapped in a pair of porcelain-white, slender hands, the fingertips a pale peach pink.
His Adam’s apple bobbed. “Tomorrow.”
Seeing the IV bag on the stand was almost empty, Lu Xunye prepared to go out and call the nurse to remove the needle.
Just as he was about to tell Shen Yunqian, he saw Shen Yunqian pull out the IV needle from his hand, his movements crisp and without a hint of hesitation.
Lu Xunye: “…” Is this Protagonist Shou reckless or what?
Shen Yunqian explained, “I just felt calling someone was too slow.”
Unexpectedly, as he spoke, a hand suddenly covered his forehead. Lu Xunye stood a bit closer, feeling carefully. “Are you running a fever?”
Shen Yunqian didn’t move. After a pause, he asked, “Can you feel it?”
Lu Xunye pushed his bangs up with his palm, almost forgetting there was a layer of gauze. After pondering for a long time, he suggested, “How about we do another brain CT?”
The Next Day
Shen Yunqian held the railing as he walked down the stairs.
Lu Xunye followed behind him, looking from his feet to his head, sighing to himself: Tsk, this abuse novel Protagonist Shou really possesses a constitution resistant to abuse.
Suddenly, a voice getting closer came from the corner behind them.
“Why are you so stubborn with your dad? Look at this mess now, falling down the stairs.”
“It’s not like your family doesn’t have a private doctor. Just to avoid seeing your dad, you insist on coming here with a lame leg. Why bother?”
“Get lost! Why do you talk so much trash? Did I ask you to follow me?”
The reply was an unruly male voice.
Lu Xunye pricked up his ears, feeling the voice was familiar. Just as he turned his head, he was bumped back two steps, almost missing a step. He simply jumped to the landing in the middle of this flight of stairs, landing right next to Shen Yunqian.
The commotion wasn’t small. It startled Shen Yunqian, who was about to turn and go downstairs. Seeing the two people appearing at the top of the stairs, an unnatural look flashed across his expression before quickly recovering.
Lu Xunye looked up and saw the two people on the upper stairs clearly. He frowned. Enemies really walk a narrow road!
Wait, no. Lu Xunye panicked: Crap, old acquaintances. My mission is going to be exposed!
The person on the other end of the stairs obviously spotted him too. Qin Zhuoyu’s face turned ashen.
Only the person next to him was still out of the loop, poking Qin Zhuoyu’s elbow in confusion. “Hey, you know him?”
The parties involved in the hot search were all present. Lu Xunye recalled Shen Yunqian’s questioning in the ward yesterday.
Because Qin Zhuoyu’s cosplay makeup was too heavy, he wasn’t sure if Shen Yunqian had recognized that Qin Zhuoyu was the person on the hot search yesterday.
Qin Zhuoyu pushed away the person at his hand and ran down thump thump thump, shocking the youth next to him into gaping wide, clutching the crutch that had been shoved into his arms. “Holy crap, miracle doctor.”
Seeing Qin Zhuoyu’s aggressive approach, Lu Xunye took half a step back. Suddenly, someone blocked him in front.
He lowered his eyes and saw Shen Yunqian, with bandages on his head, standing in front of him. Like a kitten showing its claws without any attack power, he said coldly to Qin Zhuoyu: “He is my boyfriend.”
At this time, a nurse passed by with a tray, looking at them weirdly.
Lu Xunye, being protected behind him, was clearly the target of public criticism. He half-covered his face, wanting to die on the spot.
The little person in his heart screamed: Don’t let this kind of awkward Shura Field happen to me!
Although the elevators are a bit crowded, Qin Zhuoyu, you’re lame, so don’t take the stairs!
Qin Zhuoyu didn’t expect Shen Yunqian to pull this stunt either. He was stunned for a full ten seconds or so before seeing the injury on his head.
He immediately found something different about Shen Yunqian compared to before. With this discovery, his anger instantly dissipated by half.
Qin Zhuoyu scanned Shen Yunqian with disdain, gloating: “…Amnesia?”
He lifted his chin, looking askance at Lu Xunye with a scoff: “Boyfriend?”
The youth who was out of the loop recognized Shen Yunqian and hurriedly went down to pull at Qin Zhuoyu, persuading in a whisper, “No, although you guys didn’t get along before, he’s so miserable now. Let it go.”
“You know sh*t.” After Qin Zhuoyu “politely declined” his suggestion, he raised an eyebrow upon realizing the reason why Shen Yunqian was still full of gunpowder towards him even after amnesia.
Because of Lu Xunye’s popularity, Qin Zhuoyu also got on the hot search.
Although it was suppressed in time, his dad still discovered his hobby and scolded him furiously for not doing honest work, which caused him to lose his footing and fall down the stairs.
Even worse, his mom found out he didn’t go to the cemetery to pay respects and nagged him all night.
Qin Zhuoyu was baffled how his mom found out. It was clearly seamless; he had sent the video Lu Xunye sent him to his mom immediately.
Qin Zhuoyu was certain Lu Xunye had tampered with that recording.
So, whether it was Lu Xunye or Shen Yunqian, he had to take some revenge.
Here.
Lu Xunye had just persuaded Shen Yunqian and was ready to take him away.
Suddenly, a provocative tone from behind stopped Shen Yunqian’s steps, and he wouldn’t walk with him anymore.
“Yo, do you know who your boyfriend was with yesterday?”
Seeing Shen Yunqian didn’t seem to believe it, Qin Zhuoyu hardened his heart. He took two steps forward, grabbed Lu Xunye’s collar, pulled him down, and enduring the nausea, tilted his head up to kiss his cheek.
!!!
Lu Xunye saw his intention and turned pale. He directly covered Qin Zhuoyu’s face with one hand and pushed him away forcefully, unable to hold back a curse: “F*ck, are you disgusting?”
Shen Yunqian voiced a question: “Are you very disgusted?”
Lu Xunye nodded halfway, then noticed the youth’s slightly off expression.
He stiffened his neck, not knowing if he should finish the nod: “…”
Wait? Aren’t they on the same side? Why is he questioning him instead!
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