The whole office fell into an eerie silence.
Aaron lowered his eyes. He was silent for a long time before asking aloud, "Which ward is Li Mei in? I'll go take a look."
Shi Qinglan immediately told him the ward number.
After asking Aaron to help take care of Lan Chu, she continued to study the inspection report carefully, prepared the next response plan, and lowered her head on her desk to make the record.
…
The ward was filled with white silence.
The snow-white curtains were closed, and a gleam of moonlight could be seen through the exposed gap, which reflected very faintly on the ground. Lan Chu was lying on the white hospital bed, sleeping deeply.
Jiang Zhi sat beside her hospital bed, half asleep and half asleep with his head propped up. He was too sleepy to raise his eyes from watching her all night, but he didn't dare to sleep too deeply for fear of something happening, so he kept his head nodding.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-" A very light knock on the door sounded.
Jiang Zhi was awakened almost instantly. He suddenly raised his eyes and looked outside, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was Aaron.
Aaron walked into the ward quietly and asked in a low voice, "Li Mei is asleep? How is she?"
"Hmm." Jiang Zhi pursed his lower lip, "I don't know."
Aaron's brows and eyes were full of annoyance, "Fuck, if I had known I should not have let her go by herself. It's true that this little girl didn't even tell me such a big thing."
If he had known that Lan Chu had suffered from gastric cancer.
There is no way he would allow her to participate in this kind of entertainment by herself. Let alone a social event, he would follow her in ordinary activities.
Jiang Zhi licked the corners of his lips and said nothing. He didn't want Lan Chu to enter the entertainment industry in the first place, but this was her dream, and he really didn't have the heart to stop it...
"Buzz-" At this moment, the phone suddenly vibrated.
Jiang Zhi glanced down at the cell phone in his hand, and when he saw the caller ID, he frowned vaguely.
Aaron motioned to the corridor, "Don't make a fuss about leaving my sister."
Jiang Zhi immediately walked to the corridor with his cell phone, then slid open the screen and picked up the phone.
"What are you doing again?" There was some impatience in his voice.
There was a somewhat irritable voice on the other side of the phone, "Jiang Zhi, if you don't go home at night, where are you going to fool around! I'm warning you, no matter where you are, get back here right now!"
Hearing this, Jiang Zhi's brows furrowed tightly.
The caller was his father, a biological kind. Ever since he dropped out of Teito University and went to study abroad, there was a gap between him and his father. Especially when his father knew that he did all this for a woman, Jiang Zhi tried several times to ask him to come back from abroad, but Jiang Zhi refused to listen.
Jiang Zhi glanced at the ward behind him with his peripheral vision, "I'm a little busy, so if I can't go back, just tell me what happened."
"You..." Father Jiang was very angry at him, "Jiang Zhi, when you dropped out of Imperial University without authorization and went to study in country A, your mother and I didn't care about it because the school there was pretty good. But now that you have not graduated from country A and have returned to China, you tell me what you are busy with here! "
A hint of impatience flashed across Jiang Zhi's eyebrows.
His father, like this every time he called, would scold him without any explanation.
"I asked for leave from the professor. I will finish my studies. Is there anything else?" he said perfunctorily.
Lan Chu has graduated from Imperial Art in two years, but his undergraduate degree is three years, and this is his graduation year. Overseas graduation years are full of classes, so he is much busier than here in China.
Father Jiang took a deep breath and said, "Tell me, are you staying with that female star again?"
Jiang Zhi was very unhappy when he heard such a title.
His narrow eyes narrowed slightly, "What is that female star? She has a name, not just a female star."
But Jiang's father didn't care who she was.
His furious voice came, "Jiang Zhi! Do you know that she is divorced? You stay with a divorced woman every day, do you still plan to marry her home to me?"
"Now, get back home immediately."
"I won't go back." Jiang Zhi's answer was very cold. Lan Chu couldn't leave someone to take care of him when he was sick.
But Jiang's father's attitude was also very firm, "Not coming back? Okay, it's okay not to come back. That female star is in the hospital, right? If you can't come back within half an hour, you know what I'm going to do."
Hearing this, Jiang Zhi's pupils suddenly shrank.
He clutched the phone tightly and instantly understood what his father meant, "Dad, are you so funny? I like her and don't care if she is divorced. If you don't care about her marrying into our Jiang family, why don't you ask? She doesn’t care about marrying me!”
"You..." Jiang's father was so angry that his chest heaved, "I only give you half an hour. If I don't see you for half an hour, I will ask the Imperial Hospital to take her out immediately! Don't try to take advantage of your friends. My identity suppresses me, even if I can't invite her out, there are other ways to prevent you two from seeing each other again!"
As soon as the sound fell, he hung up the phone.
Jiang Zhi held the phone tightly, licking his back molars angrily, and after a while he squeezed out one word, "Fuck!"
He knew how extreme his father's methods were.
He is an only son, and the Jiang family has high hopes for him. When a father has high hopes for his only son, he can do anything.
Jiang Zhi wanted to smash his phone to the ground.
Aaron gently closed the door of the ward and walked out, "What happened? Why don't you go and get busy first? I'll take care of Sister Li here, and Sister Lan is still in the office."
Jiang Zhi pressed the tip of his tongue against the roof of his mouth and remained silent for a long time.
After all, he was still afraid that his father would do something extreme, so he responded gloomily, "Well, call me if you need anything, and let me know when the biopsy results come out."
"Okay." Aaron patted his shoulder.
Jiang Zhi immediately turned around and left the hospital. He looked at the time on his phone and counted half an hour to get back.
…
At the same time, the parking lot of Imperial Hospital.
In a black Bentley, a man wearing a white suit sat in the driver's seat. His clothes were slightly disheveled, his tie was loosened a little, and a few buttons on his collar were unbuttoned.
Bai Jingchen held a cigarette between his slender white fingers. The swirling smoke filled the driver's seat. He gently blew out white smoke rings from his lips. The whole atmosphere was extremely decadent...
He didn't leave.
I didn't leave the hospital so easily.
He was sitting in the car and smoking a cigarette. He could vaguely see Lan Chu's ward. Although he couldn't see any shadow with the lights out, he knew Lan Chu was there as long as he raised his head.
The mineral water bottle is soaked with many smoked cigarette butts.
The entire driver's seat was filled with the smell of cigarettes, which was extremely pungent, but the man didn't realize it.
Bai Jingchen squinted his eyes dejectedly and looked up through the car window, looking in the direction of Lan Chu's ward...
He doesn't want to leave.
He wanted to be by her side so much.
However, he is not qualified.
(End of chapter)