It was too late, and it was too warm to lean against each other, so the alarm didn't ring the next day. Li Xuan was awakened by Chu Tianheng's call.
"It's okay, I just overslept... Why, I can't oversleep..." Li Xuan pressed the corner of Sheng Min's quilt and lowered his voice, "Okay... Then don't worry about it, I'll take care of it later."
After hanging up the phone, I turned around and saw Sheng Min had also opened his eyes.
"Did it bother you?"
Sheng Min shook his head, pulled Li Xuan's wrist sleepily, and checked the time: "Are you going to the company?"
"Is it accurate?" Li Xuan smiled.
"If you don't allow me to go, then I won't go?"
"yes."
"That's not allowed." Sheng Min glanced at him, her attitude undetectable in her tone, she stood up and put on her clothes, and just after buttoning two buttons, she suddenly turned around and hugged him tightly, rubbing her forehead against his collarbone.
"Li Xuan."
"Um?"
Sheng Min stopped talking again.
Li Xuan rubbed his soft hair and tilted his head to kiss his earlobe: "I promise you, everything will be fine."
They deliberately did not advance the event by a day, but there were always people who were not tactful enough to come up to them. When they went out together, they saw Li Mingge and his secretary who had just been released on bail at the gate of the community.
It was obvious that he had come specially to wait for them. He was wearing the same clothes as yesterday. It was not known whether he had not gone back at all or had come back early in the morning. He also knew Li Xuan's license plate number and hurriedly came to greet them as soon as he saw them.
"Li Xuan..."
Li Mingge had completely lost all his dignity. He didn't care about the surprised looks from passers-by and directly stopped Li Xuan's car. The secretary beside him quickly pulled him back and said, "Mr. Li, Mr. Li, calm down."
Li Xuan frowned and paused for a moment unconsciously, then turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and drove past Li Mingge without any pause. After driving two streets, he stopped in front of a chain dessert shop that Sheng Min often bought from.
"Millet cake? Stop being dazed." He stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. "Chestnut or strawberry?"
"Matcha." Sheng Min's expression had darkened since Li Mingge appeared, but now he reluctantly softened and smiled at Li Xuan. Seeing that Li Xuan was about to get off the car, he suddenly changed his mind and unbuckled his seat belt, "I'll go."
He got out of the car wearing a hat and a mask, subconsciously looked around, and made sure that Li Mingge did not follow him before he lowered the brim of his hat and entered the dessert shop.
Li Xuan looked at his vigilant back in the car and sighed unconsciously. He lowered his head and took out his mobile phone. The text message notification sound kept ringing. Different strange numbers sent messages with similar content. Behind them were all the same person. He took a look and blocked them one by one.
Sheng Min bought a cake and picked out some salty sea salt biscuits for Li Xuan for breakfast.
The mille-feuille here is lightly sweet, which he always likes. However, he didn't have a very good appetite today. He picked and chose until he reached the theater entrance, but only ate a quarter of it.
"It tastes wrong?" Li Xuan stopped the car and took a bite with his spoon.
"I'm not hungry." Sheng Min said softly, "I'm leaving."
She said she was leaving, but she didn't move. Her black eyes just stared at him like a little animal. Li Xuan smiled, pinched his jaw and leaned over to kiss him. There was still a faint scent of matcha between his lips and teeth. After they separated, she tilted her head and rubbed his nose: "I'll pick you up tonight?"
"Aren't you working overtime today?"
"The Corner" will not be updated this week. It's not that busy."
Sheng Min hummed softly and held his waist tightly. Li Xuan understood his concerns: "It's okay, don't worry."
"You are mine." Sheng Min raised his eyes and said stubbornly.
Li Xuan hooked his finger and smiled: "Always."
He acted relaxed, but actually, knowing that Li Mingge had this idea, he would not give up so easily. So after the meeting, when he heard from the administration that someone was looking for him, he was not surprised.
"No." Li Xuan said, and then asked after a pause, "Where is he?"
"The reception room." The last time Li Mingge came, the administrator had seen him and knew that he was Li Xuan's father, but he also remembered that they had a bad quarrel in the office. He was in a dilemma and could only temporarily put him in the reception room.
"Let him go, tell him I'm not here, and don't let him into the company again." Li Xuan frowned and said coldly, "If he doesn't leave, just contact the security downstairs."
"Ah? This..." The administrator was stunned. It was the first time he faced such a situation. He was hesitant and at a loss.
"I'll go." Chu Tianheng said when he saw that the girl looked so stunned that she seemed a little pitiful.
Li Xuan said nothing, turned around and went into the office. After a while, he heard a quarrel coming from outside.
It was mainly Li Mingge's voice. Chu Tianheng was a good man and would never quarrel with others. He mixed his own name in it from time to time. He was polite at first, but when he found it was useless, he began to curse angrily and shouted at Li Xuan to get out.
Today, the employees of Yuanyi will probably have more topics to talk about while eating, but Li Mingge has completely lost his mind, and they had a falling out early in the morning. Even if Li Xuan goes there in person, there will inevitably be a scene, and it may be even worse and unavoidable.
He turned a deaf ear to it, calmly turned on the computer and started writing the program, but the quarrel lasted for a quarter of an hour and was not over yet. Li Xuan had even finished modifying a function and was getting a little impatient. He frowned and stood up to chase them away himself. Finally, it became quiet outside.
"Gone. Got a call. Finally left." Chu Tianheng pushed the door open. It was cold and he was sweating. "Are you okay?"
"What's wrong with me?" Li Xuan raised his eyes, and the next moment he frowned tightly, "Did he hit you?"
There was a coin-sized bump on Chu Tianheng's forehead. He raised his hand to touch it belatedly and took a deep breath: "Oh, no. Where is it? In public... I smashed a vase and it rubbed against me. It's okay. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it."
"Go take care of it. I remember there's a medicine box at the front desk."
"Okay, I'll go there later. It's nothing, the skin isn't broken, and it will go away in two days." Chu Tianheng said, and then asked him, "It's almost noon, should I ask the administration to order you food?"
He paused for a moment, and then said, "We were supposed to go downstairs to eat, but you better not go down for now."
Li Xuan responded with a "OK". As Chu Tianheng was about to leave, he couldn't help but call him.
"Anything else?"
"Nothing." He scratched his ear and sighed, "I just think you are quite..."
Chu Tianheng couldn't say whether it was miserable or pitiful. In fact, no matter which description was used, it seemed like an insult to Li Xuan. Finally, he chose a compromise word: "It's not easy."
Li Xuan smiled indifferently: "It's not easy for you to follow me."
"It's all worth it." Chu Tianheng said, looking at him like a kind brother, "It's okay, he left anyway... It was quite ugly just now, I guess he probably won't come."
This was certainly a comforting statement, but it was quickly disproven as Li Mingge appeared again.
Chu Tianheng had already told the security guards to stop him downstairs, but Li Mingge immediately used his connections to find the property management company's senior management to put pressure on him to go upstairs to meet Li Xuan, making the scene awkward and embarrassing...
"Mr. Li, Mr. Chu." The sturdy property manager came over to smooth things over, "This is making things difficult for us..."
"Manager Wang." Chu Tianheng reasoned with him, "How can this be a problem? We are the owners of this place, and we have always paid the property fees on time. Isn't it your duty and responsibility to protect the safety of the owners?"
"No, this... Mr. Chu, that's not how you say it..."
"Then how do you explain it?" Li Xuan raised his eyes coldly.
He didn't look as friendly and easy to talk to as Chu Tianheng. The property manager was a little afraid of him, but under the pressure of his boss's instructions, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Boss Li, you are making things difficult for me... I am just an official..."
"So this is how you do things? Sacrificing the interests of the owners to get by?" His two sentences made people blush and pale. "I won't make it difficult for you. If you feel it is difficult and don't know how to do it, then I will help you solve it..."
As he spoke, he snatched the property manager's phone and dialed 110 directly, "Hello, how are you..."
He quickly ended the call and threw the phone back: "Have you learned it? If you can't do it, ask the police for help."
“Oh, no…” The property manager stared at his series of actions in astonishment and slapped his forehead in regret. He was afraid that if the police really came, he would offend the person below again. He stomped his feet twice in an exaggerated manner and quickly went downstairs.
Li Xuan pressed his brows and sat down. Chu Tianheng walked to the window. The position was not very suitable, but he could still vaguely see a group of people standing downstairs.
"Don't watch it." Li Xuan leaned back in his chair. "We'll disperse when the police come."
Chu Tianheng turned around, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Li Xuan raised his eyebrows: "Why, do you think I'm going too far?"
"Not really." Chu Tianheng said, "Manager Wang is not a good guy either. When the company was in trouble, he was afraid that we would run away, so he came to me two months in advance to ask for the property management fee. He urged me several times a day and yelled at me..."
"Not really." Li Xuan smiled.
"I'm not talking about you." Chu Tianheng knew he was joking, "I'm talking about Li Mingge..." He glanced down again, hesitating for a moment, "Why don't you get out of the way first? He's making trouble like this..."
"Where to hide?" Li Xuan's fingers kept tapping on the keyboard. "Should I move for him?"
Chu Tianheng sighed, knowing in his heart that these were not solutions. Judging from Li Mingge's current attitude, even if Li Xuan ran to the moon, he would probably follow him.
In fact, he also has to deal with the lawsuit for plagiarism of "Nothingness Island". Even if Song Wen helps to keep an eye on it, Li Xuan still has to stay in the company to take charge of the overall situation and cannot leave... It would be another story if Qi Boyuan was here, but it's useless to say this now.
"What is this all about?" Chu Tianheng really couldn't figure it out. Li Xuan was just an adopted son, not his biological son, so why would he keep chasing after him like this
Li Xuan smiled coldly: "Don't worry about his thoughts, he probably won't come up today... Do a good job of appeasing the employees. If Li Mingge comes again, temporarily pull down the shutter... "Against the Tracks" will be launched in the first quarter, and time is tight. It is impossible for him to disrupt the current rhythm."
The next few days were basically like this. They would stop people in the community in the morning and evening, and arrest people in the software park during the day.
Li Xuan was stopped several times because of his perseverance. Originally, he had an appointment with Song Wen to discuss business with a partner. Li Mingge somehow found out about it and rushed directly to the coffee shop where they had agreed to meet.
With a third party present, Li Mingge had lost all face, and Li Xuan also had to go out and deal with it, so he had to go out and deal with it.
"Why bother?" He had stayed up all night the day before and wasn't in a very good mood. He asked the waiter to bring him a cup of Americano. "If you have the energy to look for me, you can go and look for someone else who is willing to take your money and who is a good match. You said it yourself, the HLA requirement for organ transplantation is not that high."
He made the suggestion sincerely, but Li Mingge thought he was mocking him. The veins on his wrinkled neck bulged: "How many times have I told you that I don't have time."
"Yes, because you spent all your time on me." Li Xuan said calmly, "But Mr. Li, have you ever thought about it? We all have experience in organ transplantation. In addition to HLA, there are other requirements. You were lucky to have a match back then. Now that the recipient has changed, can it still be the same?"
"You go and try it, go and try it." Li Mingge was totally deaf and dumb. He was completely crazy.
"Why should I take the test?" Li Xuan asked, "Do you still expect me to pass the test and donate a kidney? Why?" He shook his head and sneered, "Do you think I'm still fifteen years old?"
This sentence obviously stimulated Li Mingge. He looked at the young man in front of him and thought of the days when he could manipulate and torture him at will... How did it change? Is time such a ruthless thing
The few feelings of guilt he had were replaced by anger. His face turned pale, full of resentment and unwillingness. He panted heavily, looking crazy: "Why didn't you go? You promised, it was clearly what you promised... Don't you want to keep your word? You want to lie to a dead person? You want to make him unable to close his eyes even when he is lying in the ground!"
"There is no trust between us. As for whether he can close his eyes, what does it have to do with me? He is not my son. Do you think we have a deep personal relationship?" Li Xuan took the cup and took a sip, but he could not taste much bitterness on his tongue.
"You clearly promised to take care of Shu Xin for him!" Li Mingge shouted. The two female guests in the next compartment were frightened. They picked up their handbags and left in a hurry without finishing their snacks.
"Look, look..." He pressed the phone anxiously, but failed to click the right button several times. It took him a long time to play the photo. "She is so thin now that only bones are left. Her hair has fallen out and she can't eat anything... You are happy, you are proud... Save her, you can save her..."
On the screen, Shu Xin was lying on the sickbed, pale and thin, like a pile of bones covered with human skin.
The scene was quite shocking, but Li Xuan had seen many bloody scenes of disembowelment, so he frowned slightly and looked normal.
"Why didn't you save her? Why did you do that? We have raised you for so long... If you don't give her what she deserves, she won't be at peace even if she dies!"
When a person's life is unhappy, he will place his hopes on ghosts and gods, and this is true.
"What?" Li Xuan supported the table with one hand and leaned forward. "You don't mean to say that he wants to seek revenge on me? That's fine... I have seen living ghosts, but I have never seen dead ones. That's fine... I'm just afraid that he won't listen to you."
Li Mingge's cloudy eyes reflected that night many years ago. Someone said while drinking, "My dad hates me to death." Li Xuan didn't believe it at the time, and even thought it was extremely hypocritical... Now he believes it.
"If you really want your son to rest in peace, at least burn some paper money occasionally. The ash on the tombstone is two fingers thick. He had no worries about food and clothing when he was alive, but now he has to live a tight life after his death... Does he hate me or you? Do you still expect him to listen to you after he becomes a ghost? It's not that easy."
"Shut up!" Li Mingge suddenly exploded. Li Xuan had no doubt that he wanted to strangle himself at that moment, but the sudden ringing of the cell phone ended this tense moment.
“Hello…” Li Mingge’s hands were shaking as he answered the phone. He could vaguely hear words like “bleeding” and “rescue” from the other end.
"I'll be there right away, right away." He no longer cared about Li Xuan, turned around and almost fell down the stairs, then stumbled away holding onto the railing.
The coffee had gone completely cold and tasted even more bitter, but Li Xuan drank it without changing his expression.
A shadow was cast in front of him. Song Wen raised his hand and called the waiter: "A cup of monk fruit tea."
Li Xuan put down his cup. Song Wen was about to speak when he spoke first: "Did they send the person away?"
Song Wen was stunned for two seconds, then he came to his senses and asked the partner: "Let's go."
"How was the conversation?"
"Not bad, no impact. I said you had some personal matters to attend to. I know their boss well and he was quite interested in this cooperation. I gave them the information and arranged for them to come to my company next Tuesday for a formal discussion. Is your time okay?"
"No problem." Li Xuan said, "... What are you looking at me doing?"
Song Wen retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Nothing, I just really admire you... How could you talk to me about work in the first sentence?"
"Because when I saw you, I remembered that I had to give you dividends at the end of the year." Li Xuan said calmly, "I admire you very much. You stood at the stairs for a quarter of an hour without making any sound."
"You have a really sharp eye." Song Wen shook his head. The waiter brought the tea over. He took a sip and said, "I know a very reliable security company. You need... No, don't laugh. You have a really good attitude. I'm serious."
"Need not."
No one could convince him, Song Wen said helplessly: "I heard from Tianheng that it has been a week? I don't mean anything else... But his mental state seems a little abnormal."
Li Xuan did not comment on this. He leaned back on the sofa, flipping his phone around. Song Wen paused for a few seconds and said, "You should also control yourself and stop deliberately angering him... It's creepy to look at..."
The rotating phone suddenly stopped, and Li Xuan raised his sharp eyes. Song Wen said sincerely: "It's quite obvious."
He could intuitively feel that Li Xuan's attitude became a little different after he saw the photo, or to be more precise, after Li Mingge repeatedly mentioned a certain person.
"I couldn't control it." Li Xuan admitted, pressed his brows wearily, and was silent for a long time, "I was thinking... a lot of things, are they unavoidable, or I don't want to avoid them."
Song Wen didn't know the whole story, and didn't understand what he was saying. At this moment, he couldn't rashly express his opinion. Besides, Li Xuan obviously didn't want to get any answer from him. His voice was very low, just asking himself.
His eyes seemed to be looking at a wisp of smoke slowly rising from the teacup, but the smoke had already dissipated and his eyes did not move.
This situation made Song Wen feel a little uneasy, and he broke the silence by saying, "… Mainly, it's not a big deal to keep making such a fuss."
"It won't last much longer." Li Xuan finally spoke in a low voice.
How long can it last... Once Shu Xin dies, can Li Mingge still ask him to replace the dead
Death, he thought of this word, and then thought of the bones just now, and then associated it with the scent of pine and cypress in the cemetery and the words covered with dust on the tombstone... Suddenly, he had a sense of reality that Shu Xin was really about to die...
"What?" Song Wen didn't understand what was going on. He just came in the middle of the trip and didn't really understand what Li Mingge was arguing about. "Is his wife in a serious condition? What's the point of looking for you? You're not a doctor..."
Li Xuan was silent for a long time, then raised his eyes and suddenly asked him: "Do you know anyone reliable in the hospital?"
Li Mingge did not show up for the next two days. It was probably because Shu Xin was seriously ill and he had no time to spare.
But he didn't give up. Zhou Qi came every day, even more punctual than Yingmao. It was probably because Li Mingge's salary was really high, and it was worth it. But he didn't know whether he was a little afraid of Li Xuan or felt awkward because he was unfamiliar with him, unlike Li Mingge who was fierce and almost standing guard.
In fact, as long as it doesn't come to Sheng Min, Li Xuan doesn't care that much. But Sheng Min also thought of this and was very worried. She has been going in and out with him every day recently, so it is difficult for her to avoid him.
"Why don't we stay in a hotel for a while?"
Less than five minutes after driving out of the community gate, a familiar car followed behind. Li Xuan looked at Sheng Min's frown and spoke gently.
Sheng Min glanced back, not ignoring the deliberate ambiguity in his words: "Will you come with me, or will I go alone?"
Being exposed by him, Li Xuan smiled to cover up, stopped the car at the red light, and reached out to pinch his stern face. Sheng Min dodged for a moment, and waved away unhappily, just touching his arm. Li Xuan frowned unconsciously, and for a short moment, Sheng Min also noticed it.
"What's wrong?" He hurried to see, with a look of apology visible on his face, "Did it hurt?"
"Don't make trouble, the light is green." Li Xuan didn't let him touch him and started the car again. "It doesn't hurt. How much strength do you have?"
Sheng Min looked at him doubtfully: "Put up your sleeves so I can see..."
"It's okay." Li Xuan turned on the left turn signal, stepped on the accelerator to accelerate, turned onto the overpass and got rid of the following car. "It really doesn't hurt, but my arm is a little sore."
Sheng Min was stunned for a moment, then she saw Li Xuan's half-smile, then she reacted and pursed her lips: "Oh, that's perfect, you can go to a hotel by yourself. I have a membership in the star-rated chain hotel next to the software park, and I can give you a 20% discount."
"That won't do. I can't sleep without you using my pillow." Li Xuan said seriously. Seeing Sheng Min glanced at him and smiled again, "Well, it's not your fault. I've been writing programs for too long recently, so I'm a little stiff."
"You sit in front of the computer all day long..." Sheng Min sighed, "I got you a physiotherapy card but you don't go."
His words brought up another issue on Sheng Min's mind. Li Xuan secretly regretted that he had chosen a bad excuse: "I'll go after this period is over and the new game is online. You can accompany me then."
"Not with you."
"Okay, be good." He knew where Sheng Min's emotions came from. "If you don't want to go to the hotel, then don't go. I just asked you, isn't the drama rehearsal recently very busy? I don't want you to be bothered by these things every day."
"I want to be with you." After a long while, Sheng Min spoke, "I'm not annoyed by them, I just..." He didn't finish, leaning against the car window, whispering, "Anyway, I'm not going anywhere. In fact, I don't even want to go to the theater recently. I'm always worried when I can't see you during the day."
"That won't do. Yin Qianpin will hate me to death if he finds out." Li Xuan said easily, "Don't worry, times have changed. Now Li Mingge can't do anything to me, but he can disgust others."
In fact, Song Wen was right. He used to think Li Mingge was crazy, half out of disgust. But now, no matter from which aspect, Li Mingge's behavior was really abnormal.
Sometimes he would trip up Yuan Yi, arranging groups of people to attack the server of Yi Yu, and sometimes he would call Li Xuan with a different number, telling him over and over again how sick Shu Xin was. His language became increasingly confusing, sometimes he would say you owe us, you have to pay it back, and sometimes he seemed to not even be able to tell who Li Xuan was, saying your mother is so sick, why don't you come to see her? Sure enough, he was unfilial since childhood, and was born to seek Shu Xin's life... ...
During this period, Zhao Jizhe's case was also sentenced. He was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The whole process was very quick, the verdict was issued very quickly, and the sentence was objectively considered to be quite heavy, and Li Mingge must have contributed a lot to it. But Zhao Jizhe did not appeal.
This news was brought by Song Wen. Lawyer Liang didn't quite understand the relationship between Li Xuan and Zhao Jizhe, nor did he know whether this was the result he wanted to see, so he could only trouble Song Wen to tell him.
"By the way, I also brought this to you." Song Wen handed him a file bag.
Li Xuan took it and flipped through it quickly.
"How is it?" Song Wen observed his expression, but could not see anything.
"Didn't you see?"
"I swear to God, absolutely not."
Li Xuan didn't answer. He looked at it seriously for a few seconds and put it back into the drawer.
"I knew you..." Song Wen shrugged and didn't ask any more questions. "By the way, I just went upstairs. Why didn't the guy Li Mingge arranged for to be on duty come today?"
"Have you left?" Chu Tianheng happened to come in to get some materials and smiled bitterly. "Did you go to dinner? I saw you were still there this morning."
"It's four o'clock in the afternoon. What are you going to have for dinner?" Song Wen looked at his watch. "Now that you mention it, I'm a little hungry. I remember eating at the fish restaurant at the back door last time. It was delicious. Do you want to eat there? I'll book a table..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Xuan's phone suddenly rang again. It was an unfamiliar number.
"It's not that guy again..." Song Wen frowned. But he couldn't refuse the call. Besides Li Mingge, there were also people who came to discuss cooperation with the company. He couldn't refuse them all.
Li Xuan answered the call and heard Li Mingge's voice. Before he could hang up, the other end started shouting anxiously. He could feel the trembling voice through the receiver: "Your mother is missing. We can't find her anywhere..."
Where can she go... Shu Xin is so sick, can she still leave the hospital
Li Xuan went downstairs and drove out of the software park. He was a little confused about the direction. His cell phone rang again.
"Hello."
The moment the call was connected, Li Xuan actually didn't want to tell Sheng Min about this.
He could have said he had to work overtime, but when he heard Sheng Min softly ask him if he was busy, he felt that he couldn't lie to him. On the contrary, he missed him and needed him at this moment.
"Why aren't you talking?" Sheng Min asked, "Are you in a meeting?"
"I'm not in a meeting, and I'm not busy..." Li Xuan paused, "I want to tell you something."
He met Sheng Min at the theater entrance. Sheng Min opened the car door and got in, asking anxiously, "Where are we going now?"
The clear eyes are like a lake under the winter sun, penetrating into the clean and soft heart.
Li Xuan leaned over and kissed him: "I don't know either."
He didn't understand Shu Xin because there was no need to - even in Shu Xin's unclear mind, he was the most important person to her in the world.
"I haven't heard much about her. During the years I was at the Li family, I tried to avoid too much contact with her." Li Xuan flipped through the navigation aimlessly. "Her health is so poor, she probably can't go too far..."
"Is there anyone at Li Mingge's home?" Sheng Min thought for a moment and suddenly asked.
"Probably not."
The nanny also went to the hospital to take care of Shu Xin.
"You think she's home?"
"I've only seen her once." Sheng Min answered irrelevantly, "Go and see her."
On the way, Li Xuan called Li Mingge several times, but he was always on the phone. It seemed that he was using all his connections to find someone.
The villa area changes its vegetation throughout the year. Even in the deep winter, the scenery is still lush and green. The fountain pool is a little frozen, with a thin layer of ice crystals that are about to break.
"Have you got the key?"
"No." Li Xuan was about to get off the car, but when he heard Sheng Min asking, he turned around and took out a paper clip from the armrest box.
The lock picking skills were useless, the courtyard gate was not closed, and the main door was not closed. The two looked at each other and hurriedly pushed the door open.
"Aunt Shu?"
"Aunt?"
No one answered. In the dark and huge living room, there was only the echo of noise.
"Let's go to the second floor."
As Sheng Min spoke, he walked past Li Xuan and went upstairs. Without any hesitation, he stopped in front of the special storage room. Blood stains could be vaguely seen seeping out of the carpet in the gap of the door.
"It's locked inside."
Sheng Min tried it and turned to Li Xuandao.
He waited for Li Xuan to pick the lock, but the latter kicked the door open. Broken wood pieces flew everywhere, and in the darkness, Shu Xin lay on the ground, unconscious.
The celestial body models covering the entire wall are glowing with a faint light. Even without turning on the lights, it looks like the Milky Way flowing in the dark night.
The family portraits on the other wall year after year are a microcosm of mankind’s beautiful wishes in this mundane world.
As vast as the universe is, human beings are insignificant.
So many people have tried to explore the hand of God, but in the end they cannot even control their own destiny.
Li Xuan bent down and picked up Shu Xin from the ground. She was wearing a white coat over her hospital gown. The buttons were all buttoned incorrectly, and her bare hands fluttered in the cold wind.
Li Xuan was driving, Sheng Min was supporting Shu Xin in the back seat, resting her head on his legs.
Shu Xin woke up briefly in the middle of the process and groaned in pain. She opened her eyes weakly and looked at the blurry figure in front of her.
"Son..." He breathed weakly, "Why don't you come to see mom? Are you still blaming me..."
He looked listless and his eyesight seemed not to be very good. He called Li Xuan for a while, but then he held Sheng Min's hand tightly and asked him weakly.
"I don't blame you." Sheng Min coaxed her softly, "I have never blamed you..."
"You lied to me... If only I hadn't gone..." Shu Xin shook her head.
Sheng Min gently comforted her: "You should go. That's your career. You are more than just a mother. You don't have to sacrifice yourself..."
Unfortunately, Shu Xin soon fell asleep again and was unable to hear clearly.
The car drove all the way to the nearest hospital, and a phone call had been made in advance. As soon as Fu stopped, the medical staff immediately came over and sent the patient to the emergency room.
After almost an hour, the doctor finally came out.
"patient… "
Before Li Xuan finished asking, the doctor took off his mask and shook his head: "The patient survived today, but the situation is very bad. Which hospital were you originally in? You must have been prepared. You must contact a kidney source for surgery as soon as possible. If you delay any further, the surgery won't be possible..."
In the ward, Shu Xin lay quietly, frowning even in her sleep because of the pain. Under the light, her white hair was nowhere to hide. This was the second time Sheng Min saw her. The last time they met, although she was in a different mental state, she could still see her former beauty. Unfortunately, beauty is the most ephemeral after all.
"Should we wait for Li Mingge to come over?"
Li Xuan did not go in, but sat on the bench in the corridor. When he saw Sheng Min coming out, he patted the chair beside him.
"I called his secretary." Li Xuan raised his hand to push his hat down, "We'll leave when Zhou Qi arrives."
Sheng Min nodded, and it would be better for Li Xuan not to meet Li Mingge now. However, Li Mingge obviously didn't think so. He and Zhou Qi came here together.
Li Xuan didn't want to argue with Li Mingge here, so he pulled Sheng Min's wrist and tried to leave, but Li Mingge refused to let him go.
"You saw it, you saw it." He saw Li Xuan was like a dog that had been hungry for days and saw meat, and pounced on him and wouldn't let him go. "You saw how sick she was, and you didn't save her. What are you thinking!"
He rushed over and almost bumped into Sheng Min. Li Xuan frowned and blocked Sheng Min, and was no longer so polite. He pushed Li Mingge aside and continued to walk forward without saying a word.
He really had nothing to say to Li Mingge.
"Stop." Li Mingge was covered in mud from somewhere and looked miserable. He suddenly changed his tone to begging, "Save her. She's already in the hospital. Go and try. Go and try... You have two kidneys, why can't you give her one?"
"Sir, are you a relative of the patient?" The noise startled the nurse. "Please don't make noise in a public place. Other patients need to rest. Please control your emotions."
"Mr. Li." Sheng Min couldn't help but say, "Go in and see your wife first."
Li Mingge had already scratched bloody marks on Li Xuan's hand, and kept saying: "Go and try, try. It's just a kidney, you won't die, she's dying, you saw it, she's dying..."
The corridor was in chaos. Zhou Qi couldn't stop Li Mingge, let alone Li Xuan. He was so anxious that he didn't know where to ask for help. The nurse who didn't know the situation thought they were in the same group and advised Li Xuan to calm Li Mingge down first, otherwise they would have to ask security to clear them all out. So no one noticed when the door of the ward was opened.
Until Shu Xin couldn't hold on any longer and fell heavily.
"Shu Xin!" Li Mingge opened his eyes wide and crawled over to help his wife up. "How are you? How are you?"
Shu Xin looked at him resentfully: "Don't touch me! Get out of here!"
She pointed at Li Mingge's nose and cursed: "It's all your fault! Why did you force my son to give me his kidney? Why... No wonder my son didn't come to see me. It's all your fault. It's all your fault."
"I don't... ... .."
"I heard everything!" Her tears kept flowing, and she tried her best to break free from him and get to Li Xuan's side.
"Son." She called him hesitantly, "Don't be afraid. Mom doesn't want you. Look at mom, look at mom."
Even though Sheng Min disliked them, she couldn't bear to see such a scene and gently pulled Li Xuan's hand.
Shu Xin saw their intention to leave and became even more agitated. She beat and kicked Li Mingge, "How can there be a father like you? I would be blind to marry you! My son is in such poor health, he had an operation! He only has one kidney that is good. You are trying to kill him. If you want my son's life, you might as well kill me. I'll just die now!"
"Shu Xin, listen to me, listen to me." Li Mingge was so anxious that he couldn't speak clearly.
Shu Xin ignored him completely and really wanted to hit her head against the wall: "You want my son to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."
She was a patient, and when she really went crazy, Li Mingge couldn't stop her for a moment. He grabbed her sleeve tightly and stared: "He is not our son!"
No one expected that he would say these words, which he had always kept secret, under such circumstances.
Time seemed to be paused for one second. Li Xuan, who was about to stop Shu Xin, paused.
"What are you talking about?" Shu Xin suddenly became quiet.
"Are you crazy?" After a long while, she suddenly laughed out loud, pointed at Li Xuan, and asked Li Mingge, "Li Mingge, are you crazy? What are you talking about? If this isn't my son, then who is he?"
"He is not!"
After such a long period of suffering, Li Mingge's spirit was already on the verge of collapse. Once he opened his mouth, he could no longer hide many things.
"Shu Xin." Li Mingge's eyes were hollow. "Look at him, how does he look like our child? Take a good look at him..."
Hearing this, Shu Xin did not look at Li Xuan, not even willing to look at him. She just stared at Li Mingge blankly, like an unreasonable little girl: "How can he not be? You always say he is, and you always bring him back to see me..."
"I lied to you." Li Mingge said very tiredly.
"Lie to me?"
She was silent for a while, and then she spoke again as if she had suddenly accepted this fact. She pulled Li Mingge's sleeve and asked him, "What about my son? Where is my son? His health is so poor, he can't live without his mother to take care of him."
"Get up first, I'll take you to find him." Li Mingge went to help her, but Shu Xin backed away and pushed him away.
"I won't get up." She shook her head. "Let him come to see me! Let him come to see me!"
While dodging, she slapped Li Mingge in the face. There was a crisp sound, leaving a long bloody mark.
"He died a long time ago!" Li Mingge roared.
Li Xuan couldn't listen any more.
"Let's go." He said softly to Sheng Min, and without waiting for Sheng Min to answer, he grabbed his wrist and walked quickly to the elevator.
"Dead?"
After saying this, Li Mingge actually regretted it, but he also felt that the dust had settled.
He was like a balloon, constantly being filled and filled with a lie, becoming more and more transparent, on the verge of breaking every day, and should have burst long ago.
"Dead?" Shu Xin repeated it again. These two words seemed to be some miraculous elixir that suddenly woke her up. She looked at her husband in front of her, and then looked at the place where her "son" was just now. Why was there nothing there
"Dead." She murmured, and in an instant, countless fragments of memories flooded into her mind, but she could not remember anything clearly.
She supported herself against the wall and climbed up from the ground, but failed several times. Li Mingge reached out to hold her, and this time she was not pushed away. Shu Xin even obediently let him help her to the bedside, sat there for a long time, and said to Li Mingge.
"Then take me to see him too."
"Okay." Li Mingge was stunned for a moment, then understood. He breathed a sigh of relief. This reaction was much better than he expected.
"I'll go now." Shu Xin said, her expression was very calm, and her eyes suddenly became very clear, completely different from a few minutes ago. In the past nearly ten years, she had never been as clear-headed as she was now. "I'll go now."
"Okay, I'll arrange it. You sit down first." Li Mingge said as he helped Shu Xin lie down.
Of course, he didn't plan to take Shu Xin with him. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Shu Xin was quiet now and quickly ask the doctor to give her a dose of tranquilizer. He covered her with a blanket, walked to the door, and looked back at Shu Xin worriedly, "Then wait for me."
"Okay." Shu Xin said softly, and even smiled at him weakly, "Go ahead."
It was already dark, and the street lights were on in the garden in front of the hospital.
Li Xuan remained silent and walked hurriedly. Seeing that he almost bumped into the tree next to the flowerbed, Sheng Min grabbed him with his backhand: "Li Xuan!"
"Sorry." Li Xuan stopped and his Adam's apple moved. "I didn't notice."
Sheng Min sighed and pursed his lips gently: "Do you want to go back and take a look?"
"No." This time he answered firmly. He lowered his eyes and exhaled softly, "Sheng Min, I..."
"Um?"
He was about to say something before he could finish it because a loud muffled sound suddenly came from the direction of the hospital building behind him.
Sheng Min was startled and turned his head subconsciously, but he saw nothing. Li Xuan took the lead and covered his eyes.
It was a long time, as if it was a century.
The air was filled with terrified screams, people jumping off buildings, people dying, people talking, mixed with the terrified cries of children. Within a few seconds, the entire hospital seemed like a chaotic slaughterhouse.
The hand covering his eyes was shaking. Sheng Min raised his hand and covered it gently. Then he heard his own voice: "... Shu Xin?"
There was no answer, or perhaps there had already been an answer. Li Xuan hugged him tightly.