"Honey, listen to me." Xiao Moran had no choice but to put her hands down from her face. "I didn't come to eavesdrop. I just wanted to see if Jiang Yi's injuries were any better. Also, he needs to go to the toilet after eating and drinking. You, as a woman, would probably feel embarrassed to help him go, so I came along."
"Cat crying for mercy, who would believe that?" Su Xiaonuan sneered. After the strange man beside her went in, she spread her arms to block Xiao Moran.
"Honey, there's something fishy about that guy," he whispered in close.
Su Xiaonuan thought he said that on purpose, but she suddenly felt a pair of eyes staring at her from behind. She turned around sharply and met the man's eyes. They were cold and suspicious eyes.
No wonder Xiao Moran felt there was something wrong with this person. Normal people's eyes don't look like that. She had seen many cold and sinister big boss eyes, but she had never seen one with such a bloodthirsty coldness that could make people tremble at a glance.
The suspicion in the other person's eyes was also complex and varied. The suspicion he showed was not only directed at strangers, but at all of humanity. Even the closest people seemed to be able to kill him if they got close.
At first glance, Su Xiaonuan agreed with Xiao Moran's point of view.
She immediately looked away, avoiding the man's gaze, and called out to the person on the hospital bed, "Jiang Yi, do you need to use the restroom? If you do, let Xiao Moran stay. If not, I'll kick him out right now."
"Let him stay!" Jiang Yi said, his words muffled as he wolfed down his food. "He might really need to use the restroom later."
Xiao Moran thought to himself, "Eating so much, it's no wonder you need to go to the bathroom."
The stranger stopped looking at them, walked to the bedside, took a basin and a towel, put them in the basin, carried the basin in one hand and the thermos in the other, and went out. When he got to the door, he turned back and gave them a cold look.
That one glance made Jiang Yi, who was wolfing down his food, stop in his tracks. He thought to himself, "I have no grudge against this person, so why is he staring at me like that?"
The woman in the hospital bed appeared to be asleep.
Su Xiaonuan tiptoed to the door, watching the man walk towards the boiler room. Making sure he wouldn't return immediately, she quickly went to the bedside and whispered, "Did you offend this person? Why does he look at us with such hatred?"
"No," Jiang Yi said softly. "I just saw him too. The nurses told me that the woman in the hospital bed is in a vegetative state and has been lying there for several years. They think she won't make it much longer. I heard that she has a wonderful husband who has been taking care of her day in and day out for years, which has moved the nurses at the hospital to tears. This man is probably her husband."
"A vegetable?" Xiao Moran breathed a sigh of relief. "No wonder he looked so fierce. He was probably on the verge of a breakdown. It seems he really loved this woman. Losing his love is like tearing his heart out."
"Why are you sharing a ward with someone in a vegetative state?" Su Xiaonuan asked. "And someone in a vegetative state who's about to die. What if she suddenly dies in the middle of the night? Wouldn't that scare you to death? Let's transfer her to a military hospital. The medical standards and environment there are much better than here."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Moran.
"This wasn't my idea!" Xiao Moran quickly clarified. "He requested to come to this hospital himself."
"Xiao Nuan, don't blame him. It was really my idea. I didn't want Mom and Dad to know about this."
"But you can't share a hospital room with a person who's about to die and is in a vegetative state, can you?" Su Xiaonuan raised her voice suddenly.
A sinister voice came from behind. "You're the one who's about to die in a vegetative state, your whole family are all about to die in a vegetative state."
Oh my, Xiao Nuan felt a chill run down her spine. This person's mouth was so vicious. She was just saying it casually, and it was the truth, but this person cursed her whole family to be dying vegetative patients. It was really too much.
She clenched her fist, then relaxed it.
Because they completely ignored their presence, they went straight to the bedside, put down the thermos, placed the washbasin filled with hot water on the bedside table, poured boiling water into a cup, poured a little white stuff into a jar, and swirled the cup around.
They all assumed he was putting in something like glucose or sugar, thinking he was going to feed it to a person in a vegetative state.
Instead, he took a cotton swab, sat down in front of the bed, dipped the swab in water, and gently inserted it into the woman's mouth, cleaning her oral cavity with extremely light and gentle movements.
Only then did they realize that the white substance they had just put in was salt.
She had been on the verge of exploding with anger, but now she was full of affection, and even her previous coldness had disappeared.
His eyes were gentle, and his face was full of doting affection.
Su Xiaonuan was so moved that she almost cried. This scene reminded her of the lyrics from "Princess Pearl": "Until the mountains crumble and the heavens and earth unite, I will never part from you..."
To be so loved and pampered when someone is in a vegetative state and on the verge of death—that is true love in this world.
After cleaning the pale-faced woman's mouth, the man skillfully took a towel from the basin, wrung it out, and gently washed her face, especially around her eyes and mouth. His movements were light and gentle, like a dragonfly skimming the water, as if afraid of hurting her. After washing her face, he also wiped her hands.
Each finger gap should be wiped with a damp towel.
Finally, he turned the woman's body over.
Seeing the two men staring at him, he looked up and roared, "What are you looking at? Turn your head away!"
Jiang Yi and Xiao Moran obediently turned their heads. The two, who were rivals in love, even gave each other a helpless expression.
He supported the woman's body with one hand, and reached into the basin with the other to get a towel.
"Let me help you!" Su Xiaonuan quickly stepped forward, wrung out the towel in the basin, and handed it to him.
"Thank you!" He glanced uneasily at Su Xiaonuan, then took the towel she offered and used it to wash the woman's body.
A man who had been in a vegetative state for several years still had smooth skin on his back, without any skin diseases or bedsores caused by lying in bed. It seemed that this man had taken good care of his woman.
"The water's a bit cold. Shall I go and get you a new basin?" Su Xiaonuan felt that he should wash the woman's lower body.
"Hmm." He nodded, but didn't say thank you again.
As Su Xiaonuan carried the washbasin out, she secretly glanced at the woman and thought to herself, "This person lying in a vegetative state on the bed must have saved the galaxy in her past life to meet a man who loves her so much in this life."
Even filial sons can become tiresome when their children are bedridden for a long time, let alone husband and wife.
The saying goes, "Husbands and wives are like birds in the same forest; when disaster strikes, they fly away separately." This is the version of love she has seen most often.
This couple gave her a new understanding of love.
It's truly touching that such a young man has cared for his ailing wife day after day for so many years.
As she walked out of the ward, tears welled up in her eyes.
These are tears of emotion, and also tears of sorrow. I thought to myself, if this woman really dies, wouldn't this man be heartbroken?
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