Halfway through the drive, Ren Shang called Zuo Yueyao. Zuo Yueyao was sitting in the passenger seat and had turned on the speakerphone. The voice on the other end of the phone was a bit noisy. It was probably that guy was having some romantic affair somewhere again.
"Dude, I need some romance for two today. If it's not convenient, you may have to find a place to stay outside."
"Um."
"Hang up, buddy is going to go out and have fun."
After hanging up the phone, Ren Shang turned off the speaker. The noisy music stopped abruptly. He threw himself on the sofa, his mind full of unhappiness.
Not long ago, I called Lu Xiran on a whim, but the call was not picked up promptly like before. Instead, it was not answered until the third time I called. The person who answered the call was not Lu Xiran himself, but a man.
The man took the initiative to tell Ren Shang that Xiran was cooking in the kitchen and she asked him to help answer the phone.
Ren Shang was so angry at that time, and then Lu Xiran's soft voice came from the microphone: "Who calls me so late?"
Is it late? It's only 8pm!
Ren Shang was so angry that he yelled into the phone, "Boy, tell Lu Xiran to answer the phone right now, right now!"
The man opposite him politely asked him: "Who are you to her? Why are you talking to Xi Ran in this manner?"
Ren Shang was so shocked that he nearly passed out.
Yes, who is he to her? She is no longer the little girl who always comes at her beck and call and listens to whatever she says.
Su Xian's words echoed in his ears countless times that night, but in the end there was no clear answer.
Does he really like it
But that girl was still far from what he liked.
Su Xian was speechless. He stepped on the brake and parked the car on the side of the road. He saw a nice hotel in front of him and asked, "Stay in a hotel?"
"I didn't bring my ID card."
"Don't give me that. Who goes out without an ID?"
Zuo Yueyao raised his hands above his head: "I really didn't bring it. If you don't believe me, search me."
Su Xian ignored him.
Zuo Yueyao added: "You should search it first, so that you can prove that I am not lying."
Su Xian was thinking of a solution as he couldn't stay in the nearby hotel when he heard Zuo Yueyao sighing, "I didn't expect it would be like this in North City. I should have stayed in South City. Why did I have to endure this? No one would believe me if I told them that I would end up without a place to stay. I thought you wouldn't ignore me even if we were just friends. It seems I was overthinking."
It sounds quite miserable.
The result of Zuo Yueyao's sighing was that Su Xian took her back to his home. The moment she opened the door, she realized what it meant to lose both the wife and the army. She always felt that this guy was deliberately playing the victim, but she could not find any evidence. She couldn't do anything to him just to prove that he really didn't bring his ID card.
One of his words touched her. Of course, even as a friend, she couldn't leave him on the street overnight.
Because she hadn't bought a bed for the other room yet, Zuo Yueyao could only sleep on the sofa. She looked at the not-so-large sofa and then at Zuo Yueyao's long legs, and completely resigned herself to her fate.
"You sleep in my room, I'll sleep on the sofa."
Su Xian had originally thought that he would reject her out of sympathy or even give in, and she had even thought of the following lines. In the end, not only did he accept her, he also accepted her as if it was a matter of course.
After inspecting her bedroom, he gave a serious evaluation: "I didn't expect that a heroine like Manager Su actually has a girl's heart."
It is really shameless for a cuckoo to occupy the magpie's nest so confidently. Su Xian really did not want to use derogatory words like shameless and impudent to describe Zuo Yueyao, because this person was once an idol-level existence in her mind. So, time is really a butcher's knife. It did not kill Zuo Yueyao's appearance, but his face!
At night, Su Xian startled and almost fell off the sofa. He, who already had trouble sleeping, was trying to turn on the light on the low cabinet when he suddenly heard footsteps.
It belongs to Zuo Yueyao.
Su Xian closed his eyes immediately.
Soon, the footsteps reached her sofa, and she heard him softly call out "Girl."
Su Xian remained silent.
Her cheek was touched gently several times, and a deep sigh was heard in the darkness. Then her body flew into the air and fell into his arms. Zuo Yueyao's right hand passed under her armpit and almost touched her sensitive parts. Su Xian pursed her lips and pretended that she was fast asleep.
Zuo Yueyao carried her into the room, gently placed her on the bed, and covered her with a blanket. He said in a resounding voice, "If she still doesn't wake up, she's much more powerful than a pig."
"You are the pig! Dead pig!" Su Xian stretched out his hand from under the quilt and turned his back to him: "You are not sleeping in the middle of the night and you are touching me! Not only are you a pig, you are also a pig with ulterior motives!"
Her response did not make the other party feel unhappy at all. Instead, she replied seriously: "I thought about it and realized that it is really not good for me, a guest, to sleep in the host's room while letting the host sleep on the sofa."
Su Xian turned around, very pleased with his enlightenment, but saw him waving his hands: "Go sleep over there, make room for me."
Su Xian thought she was not a chaste woman, so there was no need to scream and call someone a pervert in a situation like this. She reminded someone earnestly, "Do you feel, even a little bit, that you have gone too far?"
So Zuo Yueyao answered her earnestly, "You said that I sleep on the bed and you sleep on the sofa. I didn't force you to do anything, but I am a man with a conscience and I think a woman shouldn't sleep on the sofa, so I gave you half of the bed out of kindness, so the problem can be solved perfectly. Why do you think I am going too far? Shouldn't you be grateful to me for my generosity?"
Su Xian rolled his eyes and reminded him hopefully, "If you sleep on the sofa in the living room now, I will really be grateful to you."
"Forget it, I don't need this gratitude." Zuo Yueyao walked around to the other side of the bed and got into the quilt. "What if I catch a cold? I'm a doctor, responsible for saving lives and healing the wounded. The body is the capital of the revolution. Even if you don't think about me, you should think about those patients. What will they do if their attending doctors fall ill?"
Wow.
Su Xian was almost standing up to perform the ceremony of submitting to him.
"You should have seen my self-control. If I wanted to touch you, I should have done it as soon as I entered this house. A man's animal desires don't have to be expressed only in bed. The living room or the sofa are also good choices."
Su Xian laughed angrily: "Zuo Yueyao, I'm curious if you've been stimulated in these years to make you lose your sense of shame?"
"If there's any excitement, it's only heartbreak."
She really wanted to kick him down.
"It's getting late, go to bed, I have surgery to perform tomorrow."
When she woke up, the person beside her had left without her knowing when. Su Xian slept well that night. She began to wonder whether it was the effect of the medicine or because there was a reassurance pill lying next to her.
Holding the pillow he had used in my arms, scenes from the past came to my mind, rippling the water.
Out of sight, out of mind. Every time they met, he could easily open her closed heart and let him do whatever he wanted in her heart, but she was helpless. She thought that the feelings from many years ago had become cold and shallow, but she didn't expect it was still so hot.
It turns out that some things have long been engraved in my heart.
After seven years, he became more handsome and more outstanding than before. He lived the life she had wanted him to live, wearing a white coat, achieving self-improvement in his favorite field, and saving lives.
But she has betrayed her ideals. Flattery and forced smiles are the norm in her life. Only in the dead of night can she take off the mask of disguise and be her true self, but she has to put the mask back on the next day. The cycle repeats over and over again, boring and depriving.
But she never regretted it, she just felt regretful, regretful that she and he were so close, yet so far away, just between their eyebrows, yet like a bottomless abyss.
From then on, Su Xian knew what it meant to be unable to be loved and what it meant to be mismatched.
The distance between them can probably only go this far in this life. There are so many regrets in this world, and she is just one of them.
A tear fell from her eyes. She reached out to touch it. The inexplicable sadness made her feel ridiculous. She looked up and found a note on the bedside table: Girl, I'm going to work, remember to eat breakfast.
Su Xian looked at it for a long time, finally crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can.
Zuo Yueyao's patient was an elderly man. The operation was not complicated, but because the old man was quite old, his son was a little worried. He went to Zuo Yueyao's office and secretly put an envelope in his drawer when no one was around.
"Doctor Zuo, I'm sorry to bother you with my dad's surgery."
Zuo Yueyao had been in a very good mood since he entered the office in the morning. He was not surprised by the visitor's behavior and just smiled: "The operation may take longer, don't worry."
"My dad, he's going to be alright, right?"
"have no idea."
Zuo Yueyao answered straightforwardly, turned around and walked a few steps, then looked back at the family members who were worried: "I will do my best."
Faced with a young doctor who was younger than his son and sounded so unkind, the family members did not feel unreliable or angry. Instead, they felt inexplicably at ease. This young man possessed a calmness that was incomparable to other young people, as well as an innate nobility. Coupled with the red envelope just now, the old man's son felt particularly at ease.
The operation went well.
After changing out of his surgical gown, Zuo Yueyao returned to the office and handed the envelope to the nurse in charge of the elderly man. "Give this back to the patient's family."
The nurse did not hide her admiration: "Doctor Zuo, you are such a careful and good doctor."
Zuo Yueyao smiled slightly: "Someone asked me to be a good doctor."
Before the nurse had the chance to ask who this man was, she saw Zuo Yueyao walk away. Even though she knew it was impossible, she still couldn't help but imagine how happy it would be for a woman to fall in love with a man like this.