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Xia Yu still came the next day and stayed in the hospital for another afternoon. Lu Zhao worked and he also worked. The two did not disturb each other, but they were inseparable.
Lu Yuan came in several times for something and saw his brother, a patient, feeding fruit to Xia Yu. Xia Yu seemed to be the one who was focused on the multi-billion-dollar project and his eyes never left the screen.
Lu Yuan couldn't help but twitch his cheeks.
He had a lot of complaints in his heart, but he still obediently took the stack of documents and asked Lu Zhao to sign them.
Fortunately, on the third day, the doctor announced that Lu Zhao could be discharged from the hospital. He had an excellent physical condition. It was only because of the accumulated pressure and the delay that he had to be hospitalized, but he recovered well.
Xia Yu was standing next to Lu Zhao, and he always felt weird because the doctor was still telling him what to do after being discharged from the hospital, and he wanted to see him after a few words, as if he was treating him as a family member, but Lu Yuan, his cousin, was clearly standing next to him.
After leaving the hospital, Xia Yu will return to the gallery.
He had been delayed for two hours because of Lu Zhao, but he had an appointment with a client today.
Lu Zhao didn't stop him either.
But before Xia Yu left, he whispered, "Your birthday is in a few days. Can I celebrate it with you this year?"
Xia Yu was stunned.
His birthday is indeed coming soon.
He was born on New Year's Day, January 1st, the beginning of the year.
And now it is December 23rd, it is indeed almost here.
His family had already started to make arrangements and asked him about his birthday plans, but he never mentioned it to Lu Zhao.
Xia Yu looked at Lu Zhao with a complicated look. It was a little funny because he and Lu Zhao had never celebrated their birthdays together.
During his college years, his family still treated him like a child. Whenever they held a birthday party for him, he invited Lu Zhao, but Lu Zhao never showed up.
Even though they had just been intimate a few days ago and their bodies were as close as they could be, Lu Zhao was never there. Apart from sex, Lu Zhao refused to have anything to do with him, especially in public.
But now, Lu Zhao took the initiative to ask if he could celebrate his birthday with him.
Xia Yu pursed his lips.
"Not really," he said, "I've already made an agreement with my family that I will go back with Xu Zhan to celebrate my birthday, and I can't change my mind."
This time he really didn't want to provoke Lu Zhao, he had already talked to his family about it.
After thinking for a moment, he added, "It's just a family dinner together, not a birthday party like before."
So no outsiders would come, and Lu Zhao would not be allowed to come.
He didn't say this out loud, but Lu Zhao obviously understood it.
Lu Zhao blinked.
His gray-blue eyes carried a kind of melancholy, looking at people silently, like a slow motion frame in an old movie, waiting for a hopeless lover for hundreds of years.
It's easy for people to hesitate and feel soft-hearted, wondering if they have gone too far.
Xia Yu felt uncomfortable being stared at, he crossed his fingers in his pockets and some words almost appeared on the tip of his tongue, but he forced himself to swallow them back.
"I see."
Lu Zhao asked again, "Can't you leave me a little time?"
But Xia Yu still shook his head.
He would go home for dinner on the eve of his birthday and spend the whole day with his family.