Lin Yu woke up

Tao Xingye took his clothes and walked out of the police station. A familiar silver sports car stopped at the door. He looked around but saw no one.

"He's sentenced to one year." A voice came from the lower right. Turning to look, I saw Tao Xinghai standing up from the corner, holding onto the ground. Having not seen him for a few days, not only was his face darkened and his chin black, but even his hair was graying.

This look was very different from his previous lively and cheerful self. Tao Xingye suddenly realized that this person was not only Tao Xingguo's son, but also his younger brother.

But before Tao Xingye could speak, Tao Xinghai shrugged his shoulders and looked at him, "I'm not helping 'you'. From now on, this is how we are." He swayed and walked towards the car with his hands hanging weakly on both sides.

Tao Xingye's face froze, and he snorted coldly and let him leave.

"The bill given by Tao Xinghai can only prove that there was indeed an employment relationship between Tao Xingguo and the driver that day. As for the car accident... we can only wait for the court's decision." Chu Yan handed the information to Tao Xingye, but the man was reluctant to take it. He just looked at the place where the silver sports car disappeared.

"I've always known he could get evidence of the crime. He should have guessed my intention that night..." His eyes were filled with desolation and even more numbness. "Is he injured? Tao Xingguo should have arranged for someone to guard the company."

Tao Xingye always wanted to distance himself from Tao Xingguo, but in the end, he knew Tao Xingguo best. He didn't even need anyone to tell him anything; like a skilled chess player, he could already guess the outcome before the first piece was even in his hand.

In this game of chess, apart from irrelevant people, the only real chess piece left is Tao Xinghai.

"When I asked you to call the police to arrest me, I wasn't trying to force Tao Xingguo to surrender. I wanted the entire Tao family to join Lin Yu in the chaos. I wanted to scare Tao Xingguo so much that he would never dare to even think about touching Lin Yu again. I also wanted his youngest son, whom he values ​​the most, to personally send him to jail."

This was a psychological tactic. Tao Xingguo used Lin Yu's life and death to attack his heart, so of course he had to fight back. This was at least killing three birds with one stone.

"But Tao Xinghai will never be close to you again." Chu Yan couldn't understand.

"I never thought about getting close to him." Tao Xingye sneered, "Just because we're related by blood means we should be close? Who said that?"

But after not seeing him for a few days, he had changed a lot, not in his appearance, not in his temperament, but in his eyes. Even if Tao Xingye had a cold face before, his eyes still had warmth.

But today, even though he was smiling, his eyes were devoid of warmth, or emotion. They were like a sword left in the snow, its murderous venom ignited by the constant rain and snow.

Tao Xingye was sitting in the car, reading documents and talking on the phone with Mr. Wang. He arrived at the hospital just in time to finish all the matters.

"You go back, I'll drive myself tonight." He asked for the keys and went upstairs alone without taking any documents.

Following the medical staff to the professional disinfection room, he put on protective clothing and finally entered the ICU.

It was not bright inside. Lin Yu was lying alone in the ward, his hands and feet tied with restraints.

Tao Xingye's eyes were filled with tears. He tapped Lin Yu's finger and said, "You've lost a lot of weight." Before coming in, he had thought of many things to say to Lin Yu, but now he couldn't even say a word.

"I... the kitten is fine. She missed you very much. I will give her a bath. I just negotiated a big deal today. I..." Tao Xingye's throat was choked, and he turned and ran out of the ward.

In the empty isolation room, Tao Xingye crouched in a corner, sobbing uncontrollably. He hugged himself, his head buried in his arms. No one could see his expression. It was completely silent, and aside from the trembling of his shoulders, he showed no signs of abnormality.

What is Lin Yu to him? There are too many quarrels between them and too little intimacy. It seems that it cannot be called love.

What should he call it then? Lin Yu was like his air. He wanted to stay with Lin Yu, even if she didn't say a word to him for a whole day.

Lin Yu was like his moon, his own moon. Whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he would look at the bright moon hanging high above his head and calm down.

The year he went abroad, the Tao family's transportation system was fully upgraded, and their stock price skyrocketed overnight. He suddenly became the envied eldest son of the Tao family in Jincheng, and everyone treated him with respect.

He had been alone in Switzerland for six years, and it was ridiculous that he had never even called Tao Xingguo. He had an endless supply of living expenses, yet he seemed like an orphan.

No one understood that kind of loneliness, and he was too disdainful to talk about it with that mob. How could he tell them that he was lonely and isolated?

These words sound too pretentious, like a new way of fishing for a dandy boy. No one would believe them if they were told to others. They would just think that he wanted to talk about philosophy before going to bed with someone.

He was madly obsessed with skiing. Whenever he was in mid-air, the rapid and intense feeling of falling allowed him to temporarily forget all his worries. Many times, he even deliberately bent his skis before landing, hoping to die in the blizzard.

He had thought he could live the rest of his life in peace and numbness, so he could accept the marriage with the Xu family. His father, mother, brother, and all his blood relatives became empty shells.

Then it doesn’t matter who the wife is.

But the appearance of Lin Yu gave meaning to the word "wife". Tao Xingye wanted Lin Yu to be his wife as urgently as he was obsessed with skiing.

All the past events seemed to have become the carnival felt when sliding in mid-air, and now it was time to choose whether to land safely.

The choice of skiing means numbness or death. Tao Xingye stood up and touched the figure through the glass, "But without you, I can't continue to be numb."

Tao Xingye stayed at the hospital all afternoon. That evening, he drove home, fed the cat, showered, and went to sleep. The next morning, he went to the company, in the afternoon to attend to Grandma Lin's funeral, and in the evening, he went to see Lin Yu.

Tao Xingye spent countless days in this numb state, and just when he was about to give up, Lin Yu woke up.

When Tao Xingye received the call from the hospital, he was drinking with a boss. Someone had leaked the bet he made with Mr. Wang on the day they were discussing business. Now, whenever he went out to negotiate a deal, he had to drink three pots of wine in a row before he could get it.

"Where are you?" Lin Yu's soft voice came from the other end of the line. Tao Xingye was holding the bottle of wine, and everyone around him was urging him to drink quickly. He couldn't believe his ears until Lin Yu asked again, and then he finally "came to life".

Just like a stubborn believer who was suddenly enlightened by the Bodhisattva, Tao Xingye had never been so happy before. He drank the last bottle of wine in one breath, "Sorry, I have to go first." He ignored everyone's obstruction, threw down the wine glass and ran out of the box.

Along the way, he kept urging the driver, wishing he could ride a rocket to get to Lin Yu. When he opened the door of the ordinary ward, Tao Xingye's heart was pounding.

There was no light in the room, but for some reason, he had a hunch that Lin Yu was not asleep.

"How are you?" Tao Xingye closed the door. "Do you want to turn on the light?"

Lin Yu didn't answer, which meant she didn't want him to turn on the light. Tao Xingye rubbed his hands, "I'm going to take a shower first, I'm all drunk..."

"My grandma passed away." Lin Yu's voice was muffled and cold. "My mom came this afternoon."

"What did she say?"

"That I killed my grandmother."

Tao Xingye could clearly hear Lin Yu crying. Her cries were always silent, but her breathing would become long and short. Moonlight streamed into the ward, and he saw Lin Yu push herself up and try to get out of bed.

Tao Xingye hurried forward and Lin Yu threw himself into his arms.

"I wish you weren't to blame for this, but it seems like it's my fault. I insisted on getting wet in the rain, and I insisted on having you pick me up. I didn't know I would kill grandma. I really didn't know..." Her breathing became more and more rapid, and her body collapsed into Tao Xingye's arms.

She was so thin, her bones felt like sharp knives cutting into Tao Xingye's body. Tao Xingye rocked her back and forth like he was coaxing a child, gently patting her back, and she finally calmed down. He picked up Lin Yu horizontally and put her on the bed, then reached out to ring the bell.

Lin Yu grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, "Don't turn on the light."

Lin Yu uttered the three words half in a whisper, and she reached up to hold Tao Xingye's hand, "Can you hold me while I sleep?" Her voice sounded extremely aggrieved, and Tao Xingye's heart was broken.

He leaned over—

When her lips touched Lin Yu's forehead, she trembled.

"Silly child." Tao Xingye wiped away her tears. "I will be by your side. I will turn into a star, into the moon, and always be by your side. Xiaoyu, you must dream of me as a star in your dreams tonight."

Tao Xingye covered Lin Yu with the quilt and said, "You sleep, and I will stay by your side."

"Really?" Lin Yu's eyes lit up, and she could vaguely see that her cheeks were abnormally swollen. Tao Xingye pretended not to see it and nodded with a smile, "Of course it's true."

Lin Yu's breathing calmed down. She was in pain and slept restlessly, often suddenly squeezing Tao Xingye's hand hard. She was talking in her sleep, and Tao Xingye leaned over but couldn't make out a word.

As he got closer, the redness and swelling on Lin Yu's cheeks became more obvious.

He reached out and placed his hand on her cheek. There was a palm print that had begun to fade, a circle smaller than his hand. Tao Xingye's eyes flashed coldly, and he took out his phone and quickly sent a message.

Tao Xingye received a reply half an hour later. He never expected that Lin Yu's mother was also in Jincheng, and was actually in this hospital right now.

He got up and went to a general ward on the sixth floor.

In the brightly lit corridor, a woman was sleeping peacefully on a folding bed.

Tao Xingye held the phone to Mei Jinfeng's face, his eyes growing colder. The next second, he raised his hand and slapped the woman's cheek. The crisp sound of a slap instantly shattered the silence.

Mei Jinfeng sat up straight with her eyes wide open. "What are you doing? Didn't you see I was sleeping? How dare you hit your aunt? Pay me money!" She covered her face and lay down on the bed. "I can't take it anymore. My head hurts from being hit. Someone, come, someone."

Several nurses came over, and Tao Xingye stopped them with a faint smile, "This is my mother-in-law, she is joking with me." Tao Xingye said and sat on the iron chair next to him.

Mei Jinfeng's wailing stopped immediately. She lay on the bed and quietly looked at the young man's back, "Are you her husband?"

Mei Jinfeng got out of bed wearing sneakers, crossed her arms and looked at Tao Xingye back and forth, "Don't you know her brother is in the hospital? Give her money." She stretched out her hand to Tao Xingye shamelessly.

Tao Xingye felt sick. He suddenly felt that coming to Mei Jinfeng was a mistake. He was better off not having a mother like her. He pulled out his wallet, took out a card with 50,000 yuan on it, and threw it to the ground.

Mei Jinfeng hurried to take it, but Tao Xingye stepped on the card and said, "You are her mother, but not mine. I can even send my own father to jail. If you mess with her again, don't blame me for being rude."

He pulled out another card with 200,000 yuan on it and placed it on the folding bed. "This card is for Brother Lin Yu's medical treatment. If you don't have enough money, come to me. If you dare to use the money on this card for other things, I will not let you go either."

Mei Jinfeng immediately beamed with joy, not caring at all how stiff Tao Xingye's face was. She quickly covered the two cards like treasures, "How much money is in these? I think Lin Yu is still useful. She's found a rich husband for me..."

Tao Xingye didn't bother to pay attention to her and left in a few steps and went back upstairs. Lin Yu was sleeping peacefully, and he also felt sleepy, so he took off his coat and slept on the small bed next to her.