Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Where to?” Li Shaobin was stunned.
“The hospital. To look for Xin Ziao,” Ruan Yang said slowly, “I’ll prove to you that I’ve already let go of him.”
“He… He’s already become an idiot. What’s there to see?” Li Shaobin’s heart stopped a little thinking about the fact that he had indirectly caused Xin Ziao to become like this so he didn’t want to see him at all. “Don’t tell me it’s because you just want to see him.”
“Have breakfast first. We’ll go after breakfast.” Ruan Yang turned around and removed her apron.
“I’m not going.” Li Shaobin turned to walk away.
“If you’re not going, I’ll go on my own.” Ruan Yang walked into the kitchen.
“Aye, how can you be like this?” Li Shaobin was frustrated. “What are you going there for?”
“To tell him that I don’t love him anymore then give him a few slaps.” Ruan Yang brought out breakfast and milk. Her beautiful face didn’t have much expression.
Li Shaobin looked at her in apparent disbelief. “Don’t lie to me. He’s already become a retard. Why do you still want to hit him? Besides, I don’t believe you would do that.”
“Then you can go over and have a look.” Ruan Yang went upstairs to grab her keys.
Li Shaobin looked at the sandwich and walked over frustratedly to take two angry bites. He gulped down the warm milk and filled his empty stomach.
…
Not long after, Ruan Yang came down. She was carrying a black bag and was wearing a mask and a cap. She walked straight to the door to change her shoes.
Li Shaobin quickly finished the milk in a huge gulp and chased over with the sandwich in his hand. He said with a frown, “Don’t go. The Xin family members won’t let you see him.”
“If I don’t say certain things to his face clearly, you’ll never believe me. Even if he’s a retard, I also want to make things clear with the retard.” Ruan Yang put on her shoes in a hurry and walked out.
Li Shaobin clenched his teeth and followed her. He wanted to change her mind but couldn’t.
Ruan Yang opened the door to the passenger’s seat of her sports car and motioned for him to go in.
Li Shaobin stood there without moving. Ruan Yang closed the door, got into the driver’s seat, and started the engine. Li Shaobin opened the door and quickly got in when he saw that she was really about to leave. His brows were locked tightly in a frown. “I know you just want to take this chance to see how Xin Ziao is recovering. You still care about him.”
“Then should I buy some firecrackers and set them off at his ward to celebrate him becoming a retard?” Ruan Yang turned the steering wheel to drive out of the villa.
Li Shaobin looked at her expressionless profile and really didn’t know what she was thinking.
He would of course be happy if she was going to set off firecrackers…
But that wasn’t something Ruan Yang would do.
But if she could really tell Xin Ziao to his face that she only loved Li Shaobin, Li Shaobinmight still feel a little moved. Although Xin Ziao was a retard, this retard was still someone she used to love a lot.
But he really wondered how she would feel after seeing Xin Ziao as a retard.
Upset?
Sorrowful?
Melancholic?
Would she cry?
Even if she were to reveal a little of those emotions, he wouldn’t let it be.
He bit into his sandwich gloomily. Somehow, he looked forward to seeing Xin Ziao as a retard a little. He wanted to humiliate Xin Ziao to his face.
The hospital was quite a distance from their house and on top of that, the traffic was bad so they only arrived at Bo Han Hospital 50 minutes later.
Ruan Yang parked the car and asked him, “You definitely know which ward he’s in.”
Li Shaobin touched his nose and hesitated for a while before saying, “Block B of the ward.”
Ruan Yang walked towards Block B when she got out of the car. There were many people walking around the hospital. Li Shaobin was still afraid she would be recognized, so he followed closely beside her and blocked her from public view.
After waiting for around three minutes, they followed the crowd into the elevator. The two of them were quickly pushed to the back corner of the elevator. The cleaner at the side was pushing a trolley of soiled bedsheets that were just changed. Li Shaobin covered his nose with one hand. He was a little germaphobic. With the number of patients going in and out of the hospital elevator, he thought it was a little dirty.
“Hold on, hold on.” Just as the elevator door was about to close, a woman with a heart-shaped face and long hair hurried in. She had a thermos flask in her left hand and a paper bag in her right hand.
Li Shaobin’s eyes almost popped out. Wasn’t this Zhou Shuyun?
Ruan Yang lifted her head and saw that he kept staring at the fair woman squeezed at the elevator door. Although she could tell at first glance that she had gone under the knife, she still had a face of standard beauty.
She frowned and turned Li Shaobin’s face to meet hers and glared at him.
Li Shaobin moved his body a little so that his back faced the door and he was facing her.
He moved her hand away and looked above her head distractedly.
Ruan Yang saw how distracted he had become and pinched his face angrily.
Is he doing it on purpose? Staring at other women in front of me and even drifting off.
Li Shaobin’s face twitched with pain. He pulled her hand away.
His mind was filled with Zhou Shuyun. Why was she here? Could it be because of Xin Ziao?
That was impossible. Weren’t they out of contact for a very long time? She even got him to help her find a job.
Perhaps her family member was also hospitalized?
People started to get out of the elevator subsequently. Zhou Shuyun seemed to have a lot on her mind. She kept standing by the elevator door. When the elevator stopped at the eighth floor, the doors opened and she walked out.
Li Shaobin quickly followed behind her. When Ruan Yang saw that he didn’t even pull her along but kept staring at that woman’s back, she clenched her teeth and kicked him. “Li…”
Li Shaobin quickly covered her mouth. “Don’t make a sound.”
Ruan Yang also felt something was amiss seeing how secretive he behaved and she followed his gaze to look over. She looked at the woman’s back closely. Her hair was straight and long.
She pulled his hand away forcefully and asked softly with a frown, “Do you know her?”
Li Shaobin nodded and said with a pout, “She’s … the classmate I had a crush on in high school.”
“Oh.” Ruan Yang was curious about what that high school classmate, who made Li Shaobin hate Xin Ziao for so many years, looked like. Ruan Yang thought she might not be pretty but should be cute. Now, when she saw her, she had a typical plastic face. Her features were flawless but her beauty was so standard that there wasn’t anything unique about it.
She looked at how distracted he was and laughed sarcastically. “Why? Are you afraid that your classmate knows about us? Then what about that chick last night?”
“Xin Ziao’s also on this floor.” It was the first time Li Shaobin saw her being so petty but right now, his foreboding feeling was stronger than before and he wasn’t in the mood to think about anything else.
Ruan Yang was stunned. She opened her mouth but couldn’t say anything for a long time.
Li Shaobin walked out of the elevator lobby and saw Zhou Shuyun turning into a ward.
He followed her and when he saw the door to the ward, his face sank.
He stood by the door quietly and looked in. She saw Wang Yuting but not Xin Ziao. However, he could still hear the conversation going on inside.
“Shuyun, you didn’t have to bring soup along. The nanny will handle this,” Wang Yuting said listlessly.
Ruan Yang arrived at his side and heard Zhou Shuyun say, “Auntie, it’s alright. I just wanted to make some soup for Ziao. I even bought him pajamas. If you’re tired, you can go back home and get some rest. I’ll take care of Ziao.”
“You child…” Wang Yuting wiped her tears. “Zhao Zhu caused Ziao to end up like this. Those women who liked Ziao in the past are nowhere to be seen. Ziao only had Ruan Yang in his heart but after this happened to him, Ruan Yang didn’t even come over to visit him. You’re the only one who hasn’t let go of him after more than 10 years. He’s already in this state but you still refuse to leave him. Let me tell you—Ziao is already a fool. His IQ is only that of a toddler’s. The doctor said there’s only a slim chance for him to recover. You shouldn’t waste your youth.”
“I’ve already wasted so many years. I’m not afraid of wasting more time,” Zhou Shuyun said hoarsely. “Ziao didn’t like me when he was fine. He only liked Ruan Yang, but I’m willing to do everything for him. I’ve never changed.”
Ruan Yang was stunned. She didn’t know there was a woman so deeply in love with Xin Ziao.
Although it was a short sentence, she could sense that this woman would be willing to give up everything for Xin Ziao willingly.
She had to admit that her love for him had died when she found out about his marriage with Zhao Zhu.
But this woman wasn’t the same. She still loved him silently.
But this person was the one Li Shaobin had a crush on in high school. How would he feel now that he heard that?
She turned to look at Li Shaobin. His teeth were tightly clenched and his handsome face was dim.
Is he jealous?
After all, every man’s first love was pure and unattainable as the moonlight. Ruan Yang wasn’t certain that she could win over this moonlight.
She was upset but the thought of this complicated relationship made her a little melancholic.
Just as she was absorbed in her thoughts, Li Shaobin suddenly walked in. “So is that why you threw that pair of underwear in my car to frame me?”
His sudden appearance and cold voice startled the women in the room. Even Ruan Yang got a fright.
“Li Shaobin, who allowed you to come?” Wang Yuting howled hysterically. “You’re not welcome here. Also, Ruan Yang, you still have the cheek to come? If it wasn’t because of you, would Zhao Zhu have been so angry that she poisoned Ziao? If it wasn’t because of you, Ziao wouldn’t have become like this. You b*tch.”
