car.
Regardless of the inconvenience, she ran to their door and rang the doorbell.
Zhou Tianyi was quite kind, and knowing that Gu Xiyu had an accident, she put on her coat and drove him to the hospital without saying a word.

Zhou Tianyi’s expression gradually calmed down, and before Lu Ziqing went back to the room, she took the rare initiative to say, “Ziqing, let’s …… talk.”

Lu Ziqing was holding the doctor’s report tightly, but ultimately did not refuse.

When Gu Xiyu opened his eyes, a person was sitting by the bed.
To his surprise, that person was Xu Chengxuan.

On the single sofa in the corner, Lin Mianmian had her head down.
The hood on her jacket covered most of her face, and she seemed to have fallen asleep.

Gu Xiyu’s eyes flicked around the other corners of the ward before finally landing on Xu Chengxuan.
The latter knew who he was looking for and said bluntly, “I just saw my mother take him somewhere for a talk.”

Gu Xiyu pursed his lips slightly and simply asked, “You know about their relationship?”

Xu Chengxuan acquiesced and spoke only after a long time, “I was surprised and suddenly understood why Lu Ziqing hated me the moment I changed schools.”

“In his opinion, I was the villain who stole his mother, it was normal for him to loathe me.”

Gu Xiyu didn’t say anything, and Xu Chengxuan continued, “But ever since you appeared, his hatred seems to have slowly disappeared.
It’s not that he doesn’t hate anymore, I just feel that he doesn’t seem to be obsessed anymore.”

“That’s good.” Gu Xiyu said softly.

Xu Chengxuan was quite smart and could guess something based on his physical condition: “A big place like the Lu family is full of sinister people who eat people without spitting out bones.
It’s better to leave early while you still can.”

There was a light smile on his face.
“Thank you, you don’t have to worry, I have my own plans.”


In a corner of the hospital away from the ward, Zhou Tianyi and Lu Ziqing were having their first conversation.
She felt that she had a lot to say to her son, with whom she had little contact, but when the thousands of words came to her lips, they only converged into a feeble, “I’m sorry.”

Lu Ziqing was still looking down at the report, not paying any attention to her.

She didn’t mind either, mainly because ever since she met Lu Ziqing, her heart had been clogged with guilt from all these years: “I know that I have wronged you all these years.
I shouldn’t have taken out all those grudges and grievances against the Lu family on you, thinking that I would be able to put all the unpleasantness behind me by simply rejecting you.”

“I was too selfish, thinking only of myself, but I forgot that you, though very young, could be hurt.
I ……”

“There’s no need for that.” Lu Ziqing suddenly raised his head, interrupting her words.

The dark eyes were cold and indifferent, as if he were looking at a stranger, and Lu Ziqing, who was much taller than her, said in a soft voice, “I don’t care anymore.”

His tone was calm, and even the ripples in his eyes were barely visible.
The hostility that had been present when they first met was gone.
It was more like he had voluntarily put away the thorns that would have pierced him, rather than having his edges smoothed out.

For he had a new mentality and something to rely on, so he did not need to cling to things that would only hurt him.

“For me, having my brother is enough.”

Zhou Tianyi’s eyes widened slightly the moment she heard these words, and she soon realized the deep meaning hidden in them.
She grabbed Lu Ziqing before he left: “You …… Ziqing, I can understand that you have a grudge against me, but you can’t make an impulsive decision just to get revenge on me, or just because of some warmth you experienced for a moment—”

Just as her words fell, her hand was heavily thrown away.

Lu Ziqing’s expression was a bit incomprehensible: “Revenge on you?”

“You’re thinking too much, do you really think you’ll always be that important in my heart…?”

Lu Ziqing laughed lightly and said, “I know exactly what I want, don’t always impose your self-righteousness on me.
Just like when you thought leaving me and my father to pursue the new life you wanted, you should have thought that was the best outcome and decision.”

“In fact, was it really?”


Zhou Tianyi was a little stunned by Lu Ziqing’s words, and by the time she came back to her senses, she was the only one left in the secluded corner.

As Lu Ziqing went back to the ward, he passed by the chairs in the corridor, on which sat the perpetually indifferent Xu Chengxuan and the drowsy Lin Mianmian.
He glanced at them, pushed the door open, and walked in, surprised to find Gu Xiyu already awake.

When Gu Xiyu saw him, he asked, “Does my mother know about this?”

Lu Ziqing closed the door and replied, “We didn’t alert her when we came out.”

It was better not to let Xie Chunhua know about this matter first, to save her from worrying.

“Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Is it very uncomfortable?”

Gu Xiyu: “It’s fine, I’m fine.”

Lu Ziqing had a sullen face as he pulled a chair over to sit by his bed: “You’re not fine at all, you’re vomiting blood.”

“Well, it might be a case of the body’s mechanism rejecting the harmful substances,” Gu Xiyu said.

When Lu Ziqing saw how calm Gu Xiyu was, he became furious and asked in a stifled voice, “Are you that careless about your body? Didn’t you say you wanted to keep me company and come back to live with me and support my dreams when you finish your studies? If you can’t even take care of your basic health, how can you give me a future?”

Gu Xiyu was stunned by his question.

Lu Ziqing took his hand, slowly interlacing their fingers and clasping them together.
He grasped the hand hard, as if he wanted to really feel the warmth coming from his palm.

He whispered, “I’ll be obedient, I won’t stop you if you want to fulfill your dream, I respect your choice, and I’ll try to trust you and wait for you to come back.
You have to promise me one thing too, take care of your body and don’t let anything like this happen again, okay?”

“Brother, my life …… is only so long, and I want to spend more time with you in the limited days I have.”

Whether it was the previous mission target or the one after that, Lu Ziqing could not easily let go of it.
But looking at Gu Xiyu now, when he almost thought he would lose him, he suddenly figured everything out.

Since one was an interchangeable fact and the other was an established development, he only hoped that the period of time that Gu Xiyu belonged to him could be a little longer.

He didn’t want him to leave so quickly.

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