When Chi Cheng arrived at the hospital, he saw Wu Suowei buried his head in his hands and sat outside the ward.
"You knew?" Chi Cheng asked.
Wu Suowei's gazes were around Chi Cheng's pants level, he did not look up nor say anything.
Chi Cheng's big hand touched Wu Suowei's head, and the strength of his palm pressed down firmly. "Be a little stronger, or you might get sick."
Wu Suowei still didn't raise his head and said nothing.
Chi Cheng's deep and powerful voice could be heard again, "are you mad at me because of this matter? I'm afraid you might not be able to take it."
Wu Suowei's chaotic eyes raised to Chi Cheng's trouser belt, and he didn't raise it any further.
Chi Cheng firmly flicked Wu Suowei's head. "If you continue to be like this, your mother dotes on you for nothing."
After hearing this, Wu Suowei finally burst out and punched Chi Cheng hard.
Chi Cheng stood motionlessly, Wu Suowei was broken-hearted, he suddenly clung onto Chi Cheng's body, hit his head, tugged his ears, pulled his hair, and clawed his face.
"Didn't you fucking don't care about me anymore? Didn't you kick me out? Who asked you to come? Who asked you to come? Scram, scram..." Wu Suowei's voice trembled as he choked with tears, then he wailed, Chi Cheng felt like something sharp pierced into his heart, and it was piercing deeper and deeper, and the pain was becoming more unbearable.
As he was talking, Wu Suowei couldn't continue, and ended up biting on Chi Cheng's neck, snot, tears, and trace of blood mixed together, and grief filled the entire corridor.
Chi Cheng couldn't harden his heart to say anything harsh anymore, he held Wu Suowei and took him to a dark and secluded corner, he rubbed his hand softly against Wu Suowei's back and coaxed him, "Wei Wei is the strongest, and this is nothing too much for you to handle, and we have the financial stability to treat your mother. As long as your mother is in a good state, it is not a problem for her to live a few more years."
Gang Zi also encouraged him from the side, "yes, my mother was in her thirties when she was diagnosed with cancer, we don't have enough money, but we don't care about it, and she is still alive now and already in her 80s."
Wu Suowei cried and complained at Chi Cheng, "why didn't you tell me earlier? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Chi Cheng signalled Gang Zi to buy a face towel.
A while later, Gang Zi handed a packet of tissue to Chi Cheng, and Chi Cheng took two pieces and wiped away Wu Suowei's snot, and softly coax him, "[1] blow your nose...don't cry anymore, okay? Look, everyone is watching you, isn't it very unsightly for a young man to be crying like this?"
[T/N: [1] the word use is usually use with toddler or when coaxing just like the word guai.]
Wu Suowei's nose wasn't blocked anymore after he blew it, but his shoulders were still trembling, Chi Cheng told Gang Zi to soak the face towel with warm water and gave it to Wu Suowei to wipe his face.
After a while, Wu Suowei finally calmed down, but his eyes were still lifeless.
"Are you colour blind?" Chi Cheng finally asked.
Wu Suowei glanced at Chi Cheng with bleary eyes and said, "will you still come to me if you don't know this?"
"When I come to you depends on how long I can live without having you in my life."
Wu Suowei didn't speak, he tried his best to control his emotion, he wanted to wait until Mrs. Wu wakes up and letting her seeing him jumping around actively. Perhaps at this time, smiling happily in front of his parent is best way to show his filial piety.
"I want to give my mother the best doctor, the best ward, no matter how much it will cost me." Wu Suowei said.
Chi Cheng said, "alright." Wu Suowei took a deep breath and felt slightly better.
It was obvious how much impact Chi Cheng's words have on him, before he came, many people had advised Wu Suowei, including the head specialist, but he paid no heed to anyone. Chi Cheng's single word comforted him more than others who had spoken a lot more, even though it was simply an empty talk, but coming from Chi Cheng's mouth, it gave Wu Suowei spiritual encouragement that was much greater than others.
Chi Cheng took Wu Suowei's hands and said, "come home with me when your mother is slightly better."
"I won't go back with you." Wu Suowei looked calm.
Chi Cheng held the back of his neck firmly and asked, "why don't you tell me that you are colour blind?"
"Why should I tell you?" Wu Suowei was displeased, "based on your crooked heart, you definitely will trick me into something if I tell you, and you may not allow me to wear any coloured clothes."
Originally, Chi Cheng had never thought of it, but now that Wu Suowei had talked about it, Chi Cheng also couldn't help from thinking about it.
Wu Suowei glanced at Chi Cheng, and when he saw a mysterious smile on his face, he immediately punched his abdomen, "what kind of bad idea are you brewing?"
Chi Cheng held Wu Suowei's hands and smiled, he said, "if you don't have any rotten idea in your mind, how do you know what's in my mind?"
Wu Suowei was worried and didn't say anything. Soon, the nurse on duty came out and told Chi Cheng: "the old lady is awake."
Wu Suowei sprang up and walked hurriedly into the ward.
Chi Cheng grabbed him and warned, "if you dare to cry, I'll tell your mother about us."
Wu Suowei was really taken aback by his words, once he entered the room and saw Mrs. Wu's thin and haggard look, he was almost bursting in tears.
But with the presence of the almighty Chi [2] lǎoyé behind him, Wu Suowei didn't dare to act rashly, and he could only try his best to supress his emotion. "Mom, you are awake? Are you feeling better?"
[T/N: [2] master/lord]
Mrs. Wu smiled at Wu Suowei, "mom is fine."
Wu Suowei nodded, "my mom is such a strong woman! Will there be anything that can steal her thunder?"
Originally, Mrs. Wu was terribly worried, but she felt relieved upon hearing to Wu Suowei's tone.
Before leaving, Mrs. Wu tugged Chi Cheng's hand and said: "thank you for helping me to hide it from my third child, if he knows about it, I won't be able to feel at ease when recuperating."
Chi Cheng slightly gripped Mrs. Wu's hand and didn't said nothing.
......
"I finally caught you." Guo Cheng Yu told Wang Shuo.
Wang Shuo snorted coldly, "what are you talking about? It's like I really ran away from you."
"You know it better either you ran away from me or not." Guo Cheng Yu threw a stack of medical records in front of Wang Shuo, "give me an explanation, what's going on?"
Wang Shuo was still looking unbothered, "everyone has a demon in their heart, you haven't seen a psychologist, so you think you are fine. I have been eating medicine for autonomic dysfunction for so many years, but I forgot to take it today, you should mind your words or I might bite you once the symptom occur."
"Don't pretend in front of me." Guo Cheng Yu spoke as he was fiddling with a teacup, "I had tolerate you enough, I didn't do anything to you even after you slandered me for seven years, so don't overstep your boundary."
"Hei, why are you threatening me?" Wang Shuo acting pitiful, "I'm not a girl but if you ever hit me, who will be able to clean your name?"
Guo Cheng Yu looked mockingly at him, "where did you buy fake medicine for autonomic dysfunction? Don't eat it, you will be more confuse the more you eat it."
Wang Shuo looked gloomy, "since you know we didn't sleep together, why did you let me slander you for seven years? With your mind, won't you easily defeat me?"
"I'm not interested in beating your game." Guo Cheng Yu snorted, "didn't you leave so that Chi Cheng and I would be in a complicated relationship for all those seven years? Isn't there a phrase that goes 'love will lead to hate'? I'd like to try flipping it around, see if it is possible to make 'hate will lead to love'."
Wang Shuo's face changed suddenly, he clenched his teeth as he spoke ruthlessly. "So you really had an affair with Chi Cheng."
Guo Cheng Yu easily caught Wang Shuo's motive to "commit offense" all those years, and he simply said, "you simply slander me just because of this."
After a while, Wang Shuo realized that he was exposed by Guo Cheng Yu, and it was too late to deny it.
Guo Cheng Yu spoke without delay: "I'll tell you why I didn't expose you for the past seven years, it is because I'm more humane than you. I know you are using me, you used me to stimulate Chi Cheng, so that he won't be able to let you go. I have a stronger tolerance than you, so I let you do it. But I never expect that you really wanted to slander me, and it was all because of a [3] groundless accusation."
[T/N: [3] idiom literally mean 'chasing after wind and holding on to shadow' aka something that didn't exist.]
"Groundless accusation?" Wang Suo laughed, "then the momentum of the wind (rumour) is too strong until it blew me out of my mind in the past. You two were so close that it made me question the relationship, he went to bed with me but the one he called out was your name, and the night where he called out Guo Zi Guo Zi made me wanted to threw you into a cauldron."
Guo Cheng Yu threw the teacup and landed in the middle of a saucer.
"That's because he was dead drunk, both of you were always fighting every day at that time, he always came to drink with me, and I was the one who stayed by his side when he was drinking too much, whose name should he call if it wasn't mine?"
Wang Shuo loosened his grips, "there's only you in his eyes even when he wasn't drunk."
Guo Cheng Yu simply uttered a word, "nonsense."
"He can stand to be apart from me for seven years, but can't stand to really hurt you, Guo Cheng Yu, you still don't understand?" Wang Shuo stubbornly stood firm on his view.
Guo Cheng Yu raised his hand, "enough, I don't want to argue with you about this, I can't appreciate the wonderful mind and world of mental illness patient."
Wang Shuo raised an eyebrow, "go and learn about it in depth from your lover, Jiang Xiao Shuai."
"No need." Guo Cheng Yu said, "I already have a lot in my mind, don't add in more trouble for me, if one day your mind acting up and decided to slander me again then what should I do?"
Wang Shuo nonchalantly spoke, "what prove do you have that we never sleep together? Is your JB stamped with 'high integrity' on it?"
"Don't you love to disgrace yourself?" Guo Cheng Yu asked.
Wang Shuo said, "I just don't bother to let you clean my name."
Guo Cheng Yu didn't say anything.
"You don't hate me?" Wang Shuo asked.
"It doesn't even consider as a crime when a mental illness patient kills someone, so why should I care about such trifle issue?"
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Please note that some part might be incorrect. Mistakes are bound to happen, and corrections are very welcome.