Chapter 5: That night, he couldn't resist messaging Li Xuan.

This night Su Xingchuan slept very uneasily.

The cut hurt so much that he couldn't close his eyes or move at all, and he could only take deep breaths every now and then to ease the pain.

He was ready to keep his eyes open until dawn, but the next bed's big brother found his movement, and enthusiastically talked to him: "Just after surgery these two days must be painful, pulling out the urinary catheter is even more painful, these two are not the most painful, the most painful is that you will go to the toilet tomorrow, that good guy, just like a razor blade of urine."

Su Xingchuan was pale.

The acidity was unimaginable.

"By the way, Su, why are you alone? Where's that guy this morning? Why didn't he come to keep you company?"

"He's a friend of mine who couldn't make it tonight with a social engagement."

"No one?"

Su Xingchuan smiled, "No."

"How can you be so handsome and not have a date? You have high expectations?"

Su Xingchuan thought of Li Xuan, "Still haven't gotten out of my last relationship, don't want to talk about it for now."

"So deep love ah," the elder brother said in a serious tone: "should talk about an object, not to say far away, let's say that this hospitalization to see a doctor, someone accompanied to help hand, is better than a person lying here alone."

Su Xingchuan gave a "hmmm" and didn't answer.

He wasn't short of helpers, and having the money to hire a caregiver was a trivial matter, it was just finding someone to fill the void in his heart, something that was harder than climbing up to the heavens, mainly because he couldn't forget about that person.

Still can't forget.

That night he slept and woke until dawn.

It felt like someone had come to his bedside during the night and leaned over to hold his hand, but when he woke up in the early hours of the morning, there was no one around him, only the snoring of his big brother in the next bed echoing through the room.

Probably dreaming again.

Li Xuan came by at 9:00 a.m. to remove his urinary catheter.

Despite having been honest with him countless times and having had a surgery yesterday, Su Xingchuan couldn't help but cough when Li Xuan lifted his covers and prepared to pull down his pants.

"So what, wait a minute."

Li Xuan, stop.

"I'll ask you something, just ......" Su Xingchuan was hesitant to speak, looked both ways, and whispered, "You work in a men's hospital, and you've seen so many men and done so many surgeries, will you lose interest in Will you lose interest in that kind of thing?"

"Will, I'm not interested in you."

"......" Su Xingchuan made a fool of himself.

Li Xuan was about to reach out again, and just as he touched the bottom, Su Xingchuan subconsciously stopped him and took hold of his wrist.

"Wait, you let me slow down."

The worst injury Su Xingchuan ever suffered was when he broke his arm playing basketball in junior high school. At that time, he was so young and focused on going back to school and playing with his friends that he didn't feel anything about the broken bone.

And he thought he wasn't afraid of pain.

He forgot he was still holding Li Xuan's wrist, rubbing his fingers together, unable to hide his panic: "Give me another half-minute's reprieve."

Li Xuan suddenly said, "Su Xingchuan, have you thought about me all these years?"

Su Xingchuan's head went blank, "What?"

Li Xuan stood beside the bed, he bent down slightly, Su Xingchuan clearly saw the side of his face, his straight nose.

What did he just say?

It was only at this moment that the long goodbye had a real sense of reality, so it was not a one-man show for him, so Li Xuan was not a spectator.

Before he could finish his thought, a momentary sharp pain came from his lower body.

Li Xuan has removed his urinary catheter.

The eye is quick and doesn't drag.

A squeeze, a draw.

Su Xingchuan was in so much pain that he screamed out outright, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

"Well, keep lying down." Li Xuan said.

"........."

Su Xingchuan couldn't help but call out to him, "Li Xuan, what did you just say, what do you mean?"

Both were on a first-name basis and didn't want to pretend.

Li Xuan stopped walking, "Just distracting you."

Su Xingchuan hated Li Xuan's ice-cold look and asked regardless, "Then do you want to know whether I have thought about you during the years of separation?"

Li Xuan is swaying slightly, not looking as calm as he was a second ago.

The little nurse suddenly ran in, "Sorry, Mr. Su, I was busy and forgot to come at nine o'clock to pull out your urinary catheter, hey? Dr. Li, why are you here in person--"

The little nurse stood by the bedside, Li Xuan's face remained indifferent as he said, "It's a matter of course, you go and get busy."

"Ah ...... oh ......" The little nurse froze and looked at Li Xuan.

The big brother in the next bed also returns, and the room suddenly becomes cluttered, with the first hints of baring one's heart cut off just as they emerge.

Li Xuan lingered at the end of Su Xingchuan's bed for a few seconds.

Neither man spoke.

The little nurse wanted to liven up the atmosphere and said with a smile, "Mr. Su, you can be discharged in the afternoon."

Su Xingchuan curled the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't be happy.

*

Su Xingchuan had not yet recovered from the pain of Li Xuan's knife attack when a new challenge arrived.

Two hours later, he was standing in the bathroom of his hospital room.

Experiencing what it means to have a piss blade.

He finally got it; Big Brother wasn't exaggerating at all.

What's the difference between that and a lynching?

Su Xingchuan staggered against the wall, sucking in cold breaths of pain, it was true that there was always strength in strength, and there was even more pain in pain.

A few minutes later.

Su Xingchuan found Li Xuan's office, where he was sitting alone, organizing his medical records, and Su Xingchuan knocked on the door.

Li Xuan froze for a moment when he saw him.

Before Li Xuan could ask, Su Xingchuan got right to the point: "I'm pissing blood."

"Normal." Li Xuan looks down and writes.

"I-" Su Xingchuan walked up to Li Xuan, irrationally, "I suspect you've broken it for me in a personal vendetta."

"You can complain about me."

"Li Xuan, can you talk to me properly?"

"I'm talking nicely."

In the past, Li Xuan wouldn't answer like this, when he was being weird and jealous, when Su Xingchuan asked "can you talk properly", he would just jump over and bite Su Xingchuan's neck, and what he used to say was "I'm going to bite you to death, and then martyr myself". I'm going to bite you to death, and then I'm going to die for my love.

Su Xingchuan has always felt that Li Xuan is not normal, but he likes him. Now that Li Xuan has become normal, Su Xingchuan is surprised to find it strange that he still likes the pampered little lunatic he used to be.

Li Xuan picked up the cup next to him and was about to drink it when Su Xingchuan rushed up to stop him, "What kind of coffee do you drink if your heart is not good?"

Li Xuan stiffened slightly.

Li Xuan was born prematurely, and his heart has been bad since he was a child, with premature expiration, arrhythmia, and iron-deficiency anemia....... Su Xingchuan remembers it better than he does, and what he can't eat, and what he has to eat more of, are all things that Su Xingchuan helps him remember. Otherwise, Su Xingchuan wouldn't have said that his relationship was the same as raising a child.

"Why do you look so pale?" Su Xingchuan suddenly saw Li Xuan's eyes dark blue, "Didn't sleep well last night?"

Li Xuan put down his cup and turned his head.

He didn't want to answer.

The atmosphere grew awkward, and Su Xingchuan withdrew his hand in frustration; he had tried too hard, and it was clear that Li Xuan was not buying it.

Su Xingchuan can't figure out, obviously Li Xuan was the one who broke up with him, how come after seven years, he is still coaxing Li Xuan, is this his destiny?

"I'll do the discharge later." Su Xingchuan said sullenly.

The nurse explained that those who were being discharged this afternoon were to have their discharge paperwork in order by 11:30 am.

"Uh-huh."

"Do you want a prescription for anti-inflammatories or something?"

"Uh-huh." Li Xuan helped Su Xingchuan with the bill, "Come back in a week and remove the indwelling tube."

"One more pluck?" Su Xingchuan's entire body wilted.

Li Xuan nodded calmly.

"When do I come in for a follow-up?"

"Four weeks later."

"Still have your number?"

"Uh-huh."

Su Xingchuan didn't know what else to ask and stood uncomfortably, then raised his hand and rubbed the back of his head.

Li Xuan never spoke up.

Su Xingchuan could only leave.

He was discharged with a stack of bills, and the procedure was quick, less than half an hour before and after combined.

Xie Liang sends him a message: [Do you want me to pick you up?]

Su Xingchuan: [No, I drove here.]

Xie Liang: [How's your ex-boyfriend?]

Su Xingchuan: [He can't wait for me to leave.]

Xie Liang: [So miserable, change it, brother, don't worry about the road ahead, there is another village in the dark.]

Su Xingchuan: [......]

Another village? Su Xingchuan thought: This village has not yet passed.

There are still two hours to go before discharge, Su Xingchuan can no longer sit still, he got up to pack up his things, next door to the big brother will also be discharged tomorrow, his wife is peeling oranges, and handed half a petal to Su Xingchuan. Su Xingchuan smiled and waved his hand, helplessly, "Thank you, sister, I don't dare to eat the fruits now. "

Big brother cackled with laughter, "Just get through these two days."

Su Xingchuan looked up at the clock in the hospital room.

With one hour left, Su Xingchuan received a call from his boss asking him to accompany him to Zhongjin Group the day after tomorrow.

"Good."

After taking a call from work, exhaustion hits instantly.

Watching Li Xuan in the hospital for the past few days, I thought I was back in my student days, full of love and affection, but the adult world is never only about love and affection, it's more about work.

If Li Xuan did not heed his overtures and insisted on being a stranger to him, there was no need for Su Xingchuan to be a stalker.

That's it, he thought.

Turns out a few minutes later, Li Xuan came.

Su Xingchuan had already packed her things and was sitting on the edge of her bed, checking her work email on her cell phone.

The big brother next door shouted, "Dr. Li, what brings you here?"

Li Xuan said, "Come and have a look."

Su Xingchuan just turned around, Li Xuan had already closed the curtain and walked to Su Xingchuan, Su Xingchuan was at a loss for words for a moment, put down his cell phone and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Does it still hurt?"

"Yes, sort of."

Li Xuan put on his gloves, "Lie down and I'll look at you again."

Su Xingchuan just changed into the pants again to take off, he always feel that something is not right, Li Xuan morning not come evening not come, go to his office he does not take care of people, but this time to run over.

Li Xuan's fingertips were still cold.

Su Xingchuan, quite unprofessional, is again in the palm of Li Xuan's hand.

"It still doesn't seem to hurt that much."

"......"

I don't blame Su Xingchuan for being single for seven years and having an ex who is still beautiful, what man can stand that?

"The pain is normal and will slowly subside after two days, if the blood in the urine persists, you will contact me."

Su Xingchuan prides himself on not wanting to get in touch, "How?"

He sat up and put on his pants.

Li Xuan took off his gloves and took out his cell phone, "WeChat it."

Su Xingchuan was overjoyed, but outwardly calm, he tapped on his cell phone while saying conspiratorially, "I thought you still remembered it, and yeah, it's been seven years."

Su Xingchuan found the QR code and Li Xuan scanned it.

Through friend verification, Li Xuan's WeChat name and avatar have not changed, and Su Xingchuan knows it.

The WeChat name is Li Xuan and the avatar is a kitten.

When he lost sleep late at night, he would search for Li Xuan's micro-signal to see if Li Xuan had changed his avatar to judge his new life.

In fact, his WeChat name and avatar haven't changed either.

Su Xingchuan hurriedly scanned Li Xuan's circle of friends, and found that there was nothing else in it other than retweeting the hospital's public tweets, so his heart was relieved and he put away his cell phone as if nothing had happened.

The check is also done, and the wechat is added.

Li Xuan seemed to have no reason to stay any longer, and Su Xingchuan, after much thought, finally came up with a topic that would allow him to spend a few more minutes together, "What else should I pay attention to when I go back?"

In fact, the nurse had already explained it to him.

Li Xuan says, "Have sex less often."

Su Xingchuan was puzzled for a moment, then rose to his feet and subconsciously explained, "I got this from the stress of my job."

Li Xuan's expression was indifferent, "Oh, then take it easy at work and have sex less frequently."

"......"

Su Xingchuan raised and lowered his hand.

There were a thousand things I wanted to say, but on the verge of saying them, I remembered the little nurse's words--

"He had a birthday last month, and a rather handsome man came over with a cake and helped him distribute it to the doctors and nurses in the department."

Li Xuan is different from Su Xingchuan in that his orientation has always been boyish, and he's very dependent and clingy.

Talking after a breakup is normal for Li Xuan.

Su Xingchuan should never have taken a chance.

He knew that Li Xuan misunderstood his relationship with Xie Liang, and he did it on purpose. He was not able to forget the fact, but after all, he was dumped for no reason, his self-esteem was deeply hit, and he always wanted to get back in front of Li Xuan, so he never explained it. But as he looked at Li Xuan's cold look, he suddenly felt that there was no point, and that he might be the only one who was stranded in the winter of seven years ago.

"I'll go back first then."

Su Xingchuan picked up his jacket.

Li Xuan stepped back to make room for him.

Su Xingchuan didn't have a lot of stuff, one handbag held it all, and he didn't stop when he passed Li Xuan.

Acting as suave as he expected.

I ended up regretting it just as I walked out to the parking lot.

He sat in the car and went through Li Xuan's circle of friends from beginning to end, but unfortunately Li Xuan had set a time limit of one year, so Su Xingchuan couldn't see all of it.

The more this happened, the more Su Xingchuan felt anxious.

That night, he couldn't resist messaging Li Xuan.

Su Xingchuan: [Dr. Li, what should I do if I have pain when I go to the toilet?]

Li Xuan: [Holding back.]

Su Xingchuan: [......]