Little wish

"The patient went into shock due to acute massive blood loss. Although he is out of danger after emergency treatment, he suffered severe ischemic-hypoxic brain injury because he missed the optimal time for rescue. The patient is currently in a deep coma and there is a high probability that he will enter a persistent vegetative state. It is currently impossible to predict when he will regain consciousness, and the prognosis is not optimistic. Our next focus is to maintain vital signs, prevent complications, and try to promote awakening."

Yu Sheng lay beside Lu Chenyang's hospital bed, the doctor's words echoing endlessly in his ears. He hadn't had a full night's sleep in a very long time. Every time he closed his eyes, he would see Lu Chenyang lying on the sofa, bleeding.

That bright red color was driving him crazy.

Yu Sheng held Lu Chenyang's hand and placed it on her face, guiding him to stroke her face. Those hands were still so large, with distinct knuckles, hands that had once embraced and comforted him powerfully, but now they were just passively being led by him, warm yet unresponsive, like a broken rag doll that had run out of power.

"Chenyang." Yu Sheng's voice was very soft and gentle, but she couldn't hide her hoarseness despite her efforts to control it. Every word was squeezed out from her dry throat. "I went to see Grandma today. Grandma's surgery was very successful, and the postoperative rejection reaction is within a controllable range. I didn't tell him that you were sick. I told him that you took on a big production and went abroad. It will be a long time before you come back."

After saying that, Yu Sheng rubbed against Lu Chenyang's palm.

Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably, dripping into Lu Chenyang's palm. He quickly wiped them away with the back of his hand. "Chenyang, I have good news for you. Do you want to know?"

“I bet you’re thinking about this.” Yu Sheng smiled, a smile that briefly illuminated his haggard face before being quickly swallowed up. He continued, “I not only sent Yang Tieshuan back in, but I also got Chen Yi back. Do you remember Chen Yi? Your former employer.”

He paused, as if waiting for a response that would never come, and his eyes dimmed.

"I think you should be able to guess that Yang Tieshuan was instructed by Chen Yi, and those attacks on you online were also done by Chen Yi. He's a crazy person, I should have thought of it sooner."

“I asked Sister Ciying to go to Y City to find Yang Tieshuan before, but she couldn’t find him. Chen Yi hid him beforehand and only let Yang Tieshuan show up after filming ‘Dark Fire’ was finished. His purpose was to strike back at us. The movie is finished, and the male lead has such a big problem. If the public relations fail, the movie cannot be released, and the loss will be not small. He wants to kill three birds with one stone and take revenge on you, me, and Xinghua.”

“Chen Yi did it very discreetly, leaving no evidence of collusion with Yang Tieshuan. I couldn’t prosecute him. But I still sent him in.” As he said this, Yu Sheng’s lips curled up, looking slightly smug, like a kitten waiting to be patted and praised. However, all around was silent, with only the regular beeping of the instruments responding to him. That smug look gradually froze on his face, turning into a deeper bitterness.

Yu Sheng held back the tears welling up in her eyes, lifted Lu Chenyang's hand, and buried her head under his large palm, seeking some false comfort and praise.

"Do you remember how Chen Yi got the position of CEO of Tianheng? It was because his older brother, Chen Yishan, was hit by a car and became a vegetable that he had the opportunity to take over. I have always suspected that Chen Yi did it, after all, Chen Yi is the biggest beneficiary."

“What I can think of, the Chen family can also think of. I guess it’s the old man of the Chen family who’s holding it back, after all, he can’t lose another son. But Chen Yishan left behind a son who’s in elementary school, and that child’s mother is no pushover, so I…” Yu Sheng leaned on Lu Chenyang’s arm, sniffed and chuckled.

“I orchestrated a car accident, almost involving Chen Yishan’s son. The child’s mother panicked immediately. She and Chen Yishan had an arranged marriage with no feelings for each other, but the son was her own. She thought Chen Yi was trying to harm her son, so without my intervention, the child’s mother turned the Chen family upside down, determined to destroy Chen Yi. I added fuel to the fire by bribing a local newspaper to write a report about Chen Yi’s rise to power after the car accident and investing in publicity. Now, even the old man of the Chen family can’t protect Chen Yi.”

"I'll treat him the way he treats you!" Yu Sheng said fiercely, her teeth grinding together. If Chen Yi were in front of her right now, Yu Sheng would definitely bite through his veins without hesitation and swallow him whole. "Believe me, he'll suffer in prison more than in hell."

Yu Sheng clenched her teeth so hard that her body trembled slightly. After a long while, she looked up and rubbed her hand against Lu Chenyang's.

Suddenly, as if realizing something, he looked up, grabbed Lu Chenyang's hand, and tears streamed down his face. He looked extremely flustered, all his previous ruthlessness gone, leaving only utter panic and unease.

His lips trembled, and he gripped Lu Chenyang's hand tightly with both hands, like a child who had done something wrong and was waiting for judgment. "Chenyang, do you... do you think I went too far? Do you think I'm a ruthless person who will do anything and scheme for everything..." His voice grew softer and softer as he began to doubt himself.

Slowly, Yu Sheng released Lu Chenyang's hand, as if her own hands were dirty and touching them would defile the gods.

He moved his chair backward, shaking his head as he went, tears streaming down his face. "You'll blame me. You hate people like me who are so calculating."

This realization tore his heart apart.

If Lu Chenyang knew that he was the culprit who had left him lying here half-dead, would he still choose to forgive him?

As she cried, Yu Sheng laughed again, swallowing her tears that mingled with bitterness. The laughter was even more unpleasant than her crying. "It's no use hating me, you can't live without me anyway."

These words seemed to be both an imprisonment of Lu Chenyang and a consolation to herself. Yu Sheng didn't know what she was doing.

He sighed deeply, lowered his head, and his voice became low and calm, yet it revealed a deeper pain. "You've seen my computer, I know that."

"You think you did it discreetly?" Yu Sheng laughed self-deprecatingly, her smile full of desolation. "I knew it when my sister asked you to send her the Shuye project information. I deliberately put that proposal and the Shuye project documents on the same hard drive so that you would see them and then help me report back to Yu Zhengcheng."

“Back when we were on the set of ‘Dark Fire,’ you would often secretly call Yu Huaihan behind my back. You thought I didn’t notice, but I knew everything. You were following my plan all along.”

"I started writing that plan when I was eighteen. It went through more than twenty revisions. I was always planning how to bring Yu Zhengcheng down, how to make him reap what he sowed, how to make him regret letting me be born, regret letting me grow up, and regret not electrocuting me back then!"

“Chenyang, the version you saw was tailor-made for you. I know that after you see it, you will definitely go to Yu Huaihan behind my back to help me fulfill this wish. After all, I wrote so much of my pain in it, and you must feel very sorry for me after reading it, right?” He murmured, as if recalling something, or as if questioning himself.

"Moreover, Yu Huaihan has been secretly consolidating the domestic market behind Yu Zhengcheng's back all these years. She has long harbored the idea of ​​replacing Yu Zhengcheng, so Yu Huaihan will definitely agree to cooperate with you."

"Look how well I planned this. You're so upright, so noble, and you love me so much. My sister has wronged me so much. So you should all be used by me, schemed against by me!!" Yu Sheng became more and more agitated as she spoke, unsure whether she was comforting herself or deceiving herself, her body trembling slightly with excitement.

Yu Sheng wiped away her tears. "My plan has been polished for six years. It's perfect, without any loopholes. But I didn't dare to execute it. I was terrified of being tormented by Yu Zhengcheng. So I schemed to have you do it, and I schemed to have Yu Huaihan do it. You succeeded. Yu Zhengcheng has already been sidelined by Yu Huaihan in the group. Chenyang, you deserve a lot of credit."

However, this "success" now tastes like nothing but bitter poison.

"You said you'd give me a special birthday present, so this is... your present, right? I received it, but I don't like it. Can you give me a different present?" he pleaded softly, as if making a wish to the void.

Just like the message Lu Chenyang sent back then, Yu Sheng received no reply. Only the beeping of the medical equipment and his own choked sobs.

“I calculated a lot, every step, every person, but…” Yu Sheng bent down, burying herself in her knees, her voice trembling and muffled, “I overlooked one step, I didn’t consider Yu Zhengcheng’s revenge, I forgot, I didn’t design a way out for you.”

"The medicine you were taking... it was switched... it was Yu Zhengcheng who did it. After Yu Huaihan sidelined him, he focused all his attention on revenge. He can't touch Yu Huaihan now that she's powerful enough. But he can touch you. He found out you were taking medicine, so he bribed that unscrupulous doctor to switch your medication..."

The day after Lu Chenyang's accident, Ajiang gave all of Lu Chenyang's medication to Yu Sheng, who then passed it on to Bai Hua. He still remembered what Bai Hua had told him after the tests.

"These medications do not match the names on the boxes at all. Long-term use of incorrect medications can have incalculable consequences for users, ranging from dizziness, loss of appetite, insomnia, and difficulty concentrating to severe mental illness, hallucinations, and even death!"

Lu Chenyang must have seen something in his hallucination to choose to cut his wrists so deeply that the bone was visible and even the tendons were severed.

In the forty minutes that he bled dry, he made thirty-seven phone calls.

Are you thinking of me again?

You will not forgive me; I am the culprit.

“If you’re going to sleep like this your whole life, then I’ll make Yu Zhengcheng sleep like you. Then I’ll come and keep you company.”

*

The autumn leaves outside the window were golden in the sunlight, blown up and falling in the wind. The temperature in the ward seemed a bit lower than it had been a few days ago.

After seeing off the visiting guests, Yu Sheng got up and closed the window, shutting out the autumn chill.

Yu Sheng turned on the TV and switched to the Hundred Flowers Awards live broadcast platform. Then she snuggled into Lu Chenyang's arms, lifted one of his arms and tucked it under her neck, wrapping her arms around him.

He had become incredibly adept at this action, as if they were simply embracing and watching TV on an ordinary evening.

The ward has now become a small home. Yu Sheng has specially set aside a corner in it for long-term office work, and even put two hospital beds together to make a double bed.

"Chenyang, the awards ceremony is about to start, aren't you going to get up and come see?"

Of course, Yu Sheng still didn't get a response, so he could only speak for himself, "Sigh, 'Shattered Light' was nominated, and Wu Luoyu even asked me if I was going. I said I had to stay home with Officer Lu, so I couldn't go."

"Chenyang." Yu Sheng propped himself up on his elbows, tilted his head to look at Lu Chenyang's peaceful sleeping profile, and gently brushed away a stray hair from his forehead. "If you win Best Actor this time, I'll grant you a small wish, okay?" He tried to make his tone seductive, but couldn't hide the bitterness in his voice.

After saying that, Yu Sheng lay back down on her own, holding Lu Chenyang's hand and playing with it, massaging his knuckles over and over again, "Let me think, what wish would you like me to grant you?"

He muttered to himself, imagining all sorts of possibilities, each one making him even more upset.

Time passed slowly, and the awards ceremony was already in its second half, with the best supporting actor and actress already announced. But Yu Sheng's mind was elsewhere.

Whether Lu Chenyang wins an award or not, his "little wish" is already prepared.

As the music played on the TV played, Yu Sheng sat up, pulled off the necklaces that had been hanging around her and Lu Chenyang's necks, and removed the two plain rings from them.

"Clang clang clang clang~ Clang clang clang~" Yu Sheng hummed the familiar wedding march softly, trying to lighten the atmosphere. She smiled and held the two rings in her hands, presenting them to Lu Chenyang. She tilted her head and smiled at Lu Chenyang, but tears welled up in her eyes. "Mr. Lu Chenyang, are you willing to marry the man in front of you and spend the rest of your life together?"

He stopped, listened intently, as if he could really hear Lu Chenyang's reply, "Oh~ you're willing."

“Then… Mr. Yu Sheng.” He changed his voice, imitating the tone of the officiant, and asked himself. Before he could finish speaking, tears that had been accumulating for a long time burst forth like a dam breaking, hitting the back of his hand and the ring. His voice changed, filled with heavy sobs, “Are you willing… to marry this gentleman in front of you, to never be separated again in this life?”

“…Of course I’m willing.” Yu Sheng choked back tears, nodding vigorously, his vision blurred by the tears. “Of course I’m willing.”

Even if you remain asleep forever, I'm willing.

The ring was slippery from his tears, and Yu Sheng's fingers trembled, making it difficult to hold. He took Lu Chenyang's hand and solemnly slipped the ring into the base of his ring finger. The size was perfect, as if it had always been there.

Just then, a loud announcement came from the television.

—'The Best Actor award goes to… Lu Chenyang for *Shattered Light*!'

A burst of enthusiastic applause and cheers came from the television. Yu Sheng leaned down and gently placed a kiss, tinged with the saltiness of tears and boundless love, on Lu Chenyang's pale lips.

Ignoring the host's explanation during the live broadcast that Lu Chenyang was absent from the awards ceremony due to illness, he whispered against her slightly cool lips, "Wake up, let's get married."