Chapter 4: Thinking about their first meeting.

The surgery lasted less than two hours and was over.

When Li Xuan walked out, Xie Liang was sitting on a bench outside the operating room talking on the phone, a smile on his face.

Li Xuan took off his mask and looked him up and down.

Seeing him in a designer suit that didn't match him, and a Rolex watch on his wrist that showed his vanity and superiority from the inside out, Li Xuan scoffed.

Xie Liang had just hung up the phone when he glimpsed Li Xuan standing in the doorway wearing a blue-green surgical gown, he was startled and hurriedly got up and walked up, "Doctor, how's it going?"

Li Xuan didn't say a word, skipped over him and left.

"What a temper." Xie Liang muttered and turned his head to see Su Xingchuan being pushed out.

The nurse said, "Family members come over and give us a hand!"

"Coming Coming!"

Not far away, Li Xuan's footsteps stopped violently, and his face steeply sank.

The nurse added, "Are you Su Xingchuan's family? Please hold that side with two hands and push it straight back to the ward."

Family, family is a word that encompasses so much.

That man is a family member of Su Xingchuan.

A passing doctor asked him, "Dr. Lee, tired?"

Li Xuan shook his head and returned to his office alone.

Su Xingchuan slept until after 2pm.

Xie Liang probed, "Awake?"

"Uh-huh." Su Xingchuan rubbed his sore brow, his throat still dry as he asked, "How long have I been asleep?"

"It hasn't been long, how does it feel?"

The whole body is slowly recovering, the pain is a little bit materialized, Su Xingchuan habitually lifted his leg, the soreness and swelling instantly converge to the lower half of the body, the pain is so much that Su Xingchuan almost shouted for his mother.

"Shit-"

"It hurts that much?"

Su Xingchuan sucked in a breath of cold air, "What do you think?"

Xie Liang snorted out a laugh.

Su Xingchuan gouged him out and he shut his mouth.

"By the way, I originally thought that little boyfriend of yours was an ice beauty, but it turned out to be a little hot pepper ah, when you came out at noon I greeted him, he did not say a word, a twist of the head and left," Xie Liang thought about it and described, "that look ...... is just like that Zhongjin's Xu Zhengdong."

"He's just like that, he doesn't care for people."

"I'm a patient's family member anyhow."

Patient's family?

"Who said you were a patient's family?"

"Nurse, I was the one who pushed you back with the nurse today, before your ex-boyfriend left."

"He was there when the nurse called for your patient's family?"

"He just left, I don't know if he heard."

This piqued Su Xingchuan's curiosity, and Su Xingchuan asked, "You said he turned his head away when he saw you?"

"Yeah, fierce."

Still a little concerned, Su Xingchuan thought: only cared to act abnormally, if they did not care, then they were just the most ordinary doctor-patient relationship, what was there to be mean about?

I'm glad I care, Su Xingchuan said with a smile on his face.

*

Li Xuan never showed up, and Su Xingchuan lay up until evening to eat, ordering a nutritious meal and sitting up to eat it himself.

The little nurse asked him, "Mr. Su, are you alone?"

"Yeah."

"Can I help you?"

Su Xingchuan smiled, "No, I am quite well, thanks for your concern, Dr. Li ...... is he busy?"

The little nurse looked at the time, "Dr. Li should be off duty."

"Off duty." Su Xingchuan was slightly disappointed.

Also, 7:30, it's time to get off work.

When he sat up, he pulled his wound, and Su Xingchuan was in so much pain that he called the nurse to give him a painkilling injection. After the drug took effect, he lay on the bed, thinking about work, thinking about that damn Zhongjin Xu Zhengdong when to sign the contract, gradually, the thoughts spread, and began to think about Li Xuan.

Thinking about their first meeting.

In fact, Su Xingchuan doesn't think he was born gay, he clearly remembers that he liked girls in middle school, and he didn't find it offensive when some girls sent him love letters. Before he met Li Xuan, Su Xingchuan had never thought about his orientation.

Su Xingchuan firmly believed that Li Xuan had bent him.

The first meeting was in a narrow, dimly lit alley.

That evening, Li Xuan was surrounded by a few punks, the leader of which grabbed Li Xuan by the collar and questioned in a fierce voice: "Ungrateful thing, you bumped into our Lei, do you know that?"

Su Xingchuan was returning from a dinner party with some friends from the club and passed by the alley just in time to hear the punks.

"Let you apologize, don't you have a mouth? Do I have to slap you twice before you can speak?"

Su Xingchuan stopped walking and narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked into the deep alley.

It was dark by then.

The air was hot and humid on a midsummer night.

Su Xingchuan blocked the punches of the gangsters and pulled Li Xuan behind him. In the confusion, they fought, and Su Xingchuan, who had learned taekwondo and was tall and strong himself, plus had a few beers at the dinner party, saved Li Xuan with a few strokes of his fingers.

The thugs scatter and Su Xingchuan turns to Li Xuan.

In the dimly lit alley, Li Xuan's eyes are bright, her face is only the size of a palm, and her chin is pointed.

Su Xingchuan gasps, "Is everything okay?"

Li Xuan doesn't speak.

Su Xingchuan stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Li Xuan, "Classmate, are you alright? Are you scared?"

Li Xuan suddenly put his right hand in front of Su Xingchuan.

Su Xingchuan froze and looked down.

Unable to see, he took out his cell phone and took a picture.

There was a bright red bloody gash on the back of his white hand, and it looked creepy.

Su Xingchuan held up his cell phone and looked behind Li Xuan and saw a piece of broken glass next to the wall, the tip of which was stained with blood.

It should have been scratched by a punk when he was pushed and shoved.

Li Xuan naturally showed him the wound, and Su Xingchuan naturally took him to the hospital, and it was only when he was registering at the emergency room that Su Xingchuan remembered to ask, "What's your name?"

Li Xuan took out his ID card.

He still didn't say anything and just stared at Su Xingchuan with those beautiful black and white eyes.

Su Xingchuan's heart tightened, is he mute?

Good grief, Su Xingchuan thought.

He led Li Xuan to the treatment room for bandaging, and when sterilizing the wound, the nurse said to Li Xuan, "It's going to hurt a little, so bear with it."

Li Xuan did not show fear, but looked up at Su Xingchuan, who was still messaging his roommate, and when he caught a glimpse of Li Xuan's eyes, he was so distracted that his cell phone almost fell out of his fingers.

He pointed to himself, "You want me?"

This sounded ambiguous, and Su Xingchuan asked again, "Afraid of pain? How can I help you?"

The nurse instructed him, "Hold his head, cover his eyes, and then preferably grab his other hand."

"Huh?"

Su Xingchuan came up to him in a daze, and Li Xuan leaned against him, burying his face in the small of his back.

Su Xingchuan feels that the brain is slowing down.

Li Xuan's hair is very soft, not pure black, under the light it looks brownish-yellow, soft and fluffy, not like a boy.

The hot air from his breath burrowed into the thin T-shirt and sprayed on Su Xingchuan's belly, which was so hot that his brain completely stopped functioning and his whole body was about to evaporate.

He didn't even dare to hold Li Xuan's other hand.

Luckily the nurse operated very quickly, "There."

Su Xingchuan was like being pardoned.

He touched the back of his neck, all sweaty.

Li Xuan, on the other hand, was looking down at his hand, which was wrapped up like a pig's hoof.

Injured little mute, Su Xingchuan heart, deliberately squat down to comfort him: "Soon will be fine."

Li Xuan lifted the piglet's hoof in front of Su Xingchuan.

Su Xingchuan clenched his fist and touched him lightly, "You weren't scared today, were you?"

Li Xuan shook his head.

When Su Xingchuan left the hospital to go back to school, he was surprised to find out that Li Xuan was from the same school as him.

Li Xuan is a second year medical student and Su Xingchuan is a sophomore studying finance.

It was too much of a coincidence that Su Xingchuan saw Li Xuan enter the dormitory building.

I thought it was just a chance encounter, but the next day Su Xingchuan met Li Xuan on the basketball court.

Su Xingchuan was sweating on the basketball court and had just scored a goal, just in time for the halftime break, he lifted up his jersey and wiped off his sweat, and when he looked up, he saw Li Xuan sitting on the opposite side of the auditorium.

Li Xuan stared straight at him.

His abs, to be precise.

"......" Su Xingchuan walked over and asked, "What brings you here?"

The gauze on Li Xuan's right hand is oozing yellow medicine, and in his left hand he holds a bottle of Coke, which he hands to Su Xingchuan.

"That hand of yours--"

When Su Xingchuan was in the middle of his sentence, a tall girl suddenly came next to him, and she threw a bottle of mineral water over and said, "Xingchuan, do you want to have a barbecue tonight?"

"Who else?"

"Hui Zi, Hang Bin, or the Lobster House on the back street."

"Oh, got it."

Su Xingchuan unscrewed the mineral water, took a sip, and before he could swallow it, he heard Li Xuan ask coldly, "Is she your girlfriend?"

Su Xingchuan choked on a mouthful of water in his throat, he turned his back and coughed violently, his face reddening, Su Xingchuan raised his voice, "You-you can talk! I thought you were mute."

"Is she your girlfriend?" Li Xuan asked again.

"No."

"Then why don't you drink my water?"

It was then that Su Xingchuan noticed that Li Xuan was holding a Coke in his left hand, and had been holding it up since Su Xingchuan walked by.

Su Xingchuan Inexplicably gave birth to a few moments of guilt, he immediately took the coke, "I thought you asked me to help you twist the cap."

He was just about to say thank you when Li Xuan left.

He wore a white track suit, his body looking thin, his injured right hand hidden in the cuff.

Su Xingchuan kept looking at him until his friend came over and bumped his shoulder, "What are you looking at?" Su Xingchuan came back to his senses and couldn't help but look back again before going on stage, Li Xuan had already disappeared.

Very strange kid.

It's been weird until now.

Su Xingchuan wondered if Li Xuan's current boyfriend had any patience with Li Xuan, and whether he would find Li Xuan's weirdness as adorable as he did.

But if Li Xuan meets a nice boyfriend, will his and Li Xuan's story come to a complete end?

No way.

Su Xingchuan woke up from his dream.

He's still in the hospital.

With four white walls, the inpatient unit was relatively quiet, but there was still an occasional clutter of footsteps in the hallways.

When one is in the hospital, one will always have random thoughts.

Recently, I have been dreaming frequently, and when I wake up, I am even more tired, Su Xingchuan raised his hand and rubbed his brow, and his remaining light suddenly swept over a familiar figure.

He didn't dare to look steeply for a moment for fear of scaring off the other side.

The man sensed that Su Xingchuan had woken up, and moved slightly, but did not leave, so Su Xingchuan lowered his hand.

Li Xuan stood at the end of the bed for who knows how long.

"What brings you here?"

Li Xuan acted detached, "Look at your post-op."

"Ouch." Su Xingchuan said.

Su Xingchuan's intention was not to be petulant, but saying it to her ex-boyfriend gave it a bit of a petulant flavor. Li Xuan was silent for a few seconds and said, "It definitely hurts for two days."

In the old days, that would have been backwards.

Li Xuan should be the one saying it hurts, and he's whispering.

Thinking about it, Su Xingchuan suddenly realized that it was dark outside the window, and Li Xuan should have finished work by now, so he couldn't help but ask, "Why aren't you finished?"

"On duty today."

"Oh."

The two men looked at each other again.

Just then, Li Xuan's cell phone suddenly rang, he took it out and answered it, Su Xingchuan vaguely heard a young man's voice coming from the other end, I don't know what the other side said, Li Xuan replied, "Well, I know, I'll go back early tonight."

Such a nice tone.

Why were you bossing me around in the first place?

Su Xingchuan was upset and turned his head to look out the window.

The call was short, and Li Xuan put his cell phone in the pocket of his white coat as he told Su Xingchuan, "I'll come to pick up your urinary catheter tomorrow morning around 9:00 a.m."

"Oh."

Su Xingchuan deliberately picked up his cell phone and called Xie Liang.

Li Xuan turned around and left.

As she walked out of the ward, a young nurse passing by saw Li Xuan and asked suspiciously, "Dr. Li, isn't Dr. Wang on duty today?"

Li Xuan said, "I switched shifts with him."