Chapter 731 Is this considered a minor injury?
This question stumped Jiang Ruan.
Deep down, she's afraid. She can reconcile with him, she can date him, but marriage—
"I'm asking you this so you can stay rational." Su Zhu understands her. "If you two get carried away with your feelings later and he takes you to remarry, it will be too late for you to regret it."
Jiang Ruan did not deny it.
In the past, you could choose to divorce when your partner was in a bad mood.
Back then, you could get the marriage certificate just by bringing the divorce agreement.
But we can't do it now.
"Let's not think about this for now." Jiang Ruan didn't want to delve into this topic that made her feel depressed. "Right now, we're just trying to ease the tension; we can't even talk about making up."
Su Zhu nodded.
After chatting for a while longer, it was getting late.
Su Zhu was just thinking of asking her to sleep together when she heard a knock on the door.
Su Zhu: "?"
Jiang Ruan: "?"
The two were somewhat puzzled.
There shouldn't be any hotel staff coming at this hour. Considering that the hotel room is relatively quiet, Jiang Ruan got up and opened the door. She wasn't worried about bad people outside, since Mo Mo was here anyway.
As soon as I opened it, I made eye contact with Mo Mo.
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan asked with some doubt, "Mo Mo?"
Mo Mo glanced at her a few times, then moved away.
The next second.
Huo Zhizhou and Jiang Yu came into her sight.
"My ex-husband needs to see you," Mo Mo reported. "This hotel doesn't belong to us, so I couldn't stop him downstairs."
"It's alright, you go and rest first." Jiang Ruan said gently to Mo Mo before turning her gaze to Huo Zhizhou beside her. He must have been in a hurry to leave, because he was still wearing a hospital gown under his coat.
She looked at him, her usual calm and aloof expression returning to her eyes: "Is something the matter?"
Huo Zhizhou said with a serious face, "You didn't reply to my message, so I came to check on you in case something happened."
Jiang Ruan: "I just simply don't want to reply."
Huo Zhizhou: "Now I know."
Jiang Ruan: "Is there anything else?"
Huo Zhizhou: "That's all."
Jiang Ruan: "Then why aren't you leaving?"
"I missed you." Huo Zhizhou's gaze fell on her without any attempt to hide it, his dark eyes filled with longing and intense emotion. "I wanted to come and see you."
Su Zhu, who heard the conversation from inside, was speechless.
She glanced at the goosebumps on her arms.
The relationship has just eased and it's already like this. Will Ruan Ruan be able to handle it in another two days?
“I don’t…” Jiang Ruan began.
"Go and get some rest," Huo Zhizhou said. "It's getting late."
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan knew he would cause trouble.
But I didn't expect him to do it so quickly.
She didn't say anything more, and raised her hand to close the door, afraid that if she closed it too slowly, Huo Zhizhou would take advantage of her.
"hiss--"
Huo Zhizhou suddenly clutched the wound on his abdomen.
Jiang Ruan paused in her action of closing the door.
The next second.
Jiang Yu lifted Huo Zhizhou's coat and saw that the hospital gown was stained red with blood.
"It must have been because you ran too fast before getting in and after getting out of the car that the wound reopened," Jiang Yu said after the examination. Then he said goodbye to Jiang Ruan, "Miss Jiang, I'll take the BOSS back to the hospital first. You should get some rest."
Jiang Ruan opened her mouth.
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Yu had already left with Huo Zhizhou.
Su Zhu came out from behind the door and looked at their backs, saying, "Isn't this self-inflicted injury a bit too obvious?"
Jiang Ruan: "It's alright."
Su Zhu: "???"
Su Zhu looked at her with slight surprise: "Are you alright?"
“He wasn’t like this before. He would bear any pain or discomfort on his own and hide it.” Jiang Ruan’s perspective on the issue is different now. “It’s a good thing that he can express himself now.”
Apart from this one time, Huo Zhizhou has never used the self-inflicted injury tactic.
Last time, it was also Huo Sinian who orchestrated it, and he was unaware of it.
He never used it, not even when he stabbed himself in the chest.
She knew he was uncomfortable and that he must be in a lot of pain.
But when she went to ask him with a specific purpose in mind, he only told her that he was not in any danger and that she didn't need to worry.
Now it will.
Calculate growth.
“You…” Su Zhu stared at her in astonishment, unsure of what to say for a moment.
"Don't worry, I'm not love-struck." Jiang Ruan knew what she was thinking and explained, "It's just that Huo Zhizhou like this makes me feel like he's a real person."
"This is the first time I've seen someone use a self-inflicted injury ruse and still get praised," Su Zhu exclaimed.
Jiang Ruan didn't say anything more.
My gaze fell on the direction they had left in.
Relationships should be reciprocal, not one where one person depends on the other, but where both can rely on and support each other.
"Are you going to the hospital?" Su Zhu asked, seeing that she had been standing there for so long without moving.
“I’m not going. If he uses a self-inflicted injury ploy, I have to go. Then I’m the love-struck fool you imagine.” Jiang Ruan turned and went back to her room. “It’s his business if he uses it, and it’s my business if I see through it. Other than that, it has nothing to do with me.”
A hint of surprise flashed in Su Zhu's eyes.
Is this even possible?
"Was his self-inflicted injury futile?" Su Zhu wondered.
Jiang Ruan took the phone: "He won't do anything for nothing."
Su Zhu: "?"
Su Zhu: "You don't care about him at all?"
“He wants to see me, he wants to make his presence known.” Jiang Ruan understands him and naturally knows what he is thinking. “He’s afraid that what I said before was just an impulsive thing he did in the heat of the moment.”
"But didn't he confirm it repeatedly?" Su Zhu knew about their conversation. "Even if you acted impulsively, in his mind, you should be the one to take responsibility."
“Theoretically, that’s correct.” Jiang Ruan opened Huo Zhizhou’s chat box and typed a few words, “But now he’s more humane than before and will give me more chances to back out.”
"What will happen if you back out now?" Su Zhu asked curiously.
"I don't know." Jiang Ruan is not him, and ultimately cannot know all his thoughts. "He might be very angry, and after giving birth, he might draw a line and tell me not to give him hope again. He might also say that he gave me a chance, but I didn't cut it off myself."
Regardless of which one.
He was the one who suffered emotional pain, not her.
"What are you doing?" Su Zhu saw her typing and deleting on her phone, then typing again.
Jiang Ruan: "I'm thinking about what to post."
Su Zhu: "?"
Su Zhu took it.
The chat dialog box that came into view was Huo Zhizhou's.
She looked at the screen, then at her: "Is this what you mean by no connection?"
Jiang Ruan: "We can't pretend we didn't see it."
Su Zhu: "Didn't he bring this on himself?"
Jiang Ruan: "Mm."
Su Zhu: "Then why did you still post it?"
Jiang Ruan took the phone and typed a few words: "[Sui Sui doesn't need a self-abusive father.]"
"This is the one I typed."
Su Zhu looked at it and a hint of surprise flashed across her eyes: "Aren't you afraid he'll get upset?"
“That’s his business.” Jiang Ruan put away her phone, not caring what he replied. “I’m just stating the facts. Sui Sui is still young, and his parents’ words and actions have a great influence on him. I don’t want him to think that he can achieve his goals by playing the victim.”
“Then you…” Su Zhu coughed lightly.
"To be precise, it wasn't that my self-inflicted injury was effective," Jiang Ruan said, adept at defending herself. "It was more important to understand one's own heart."
Su Zhu thought for a moment.
That makes sense.
If the self-inflicted injury strategy were so effective on Ruan Ruan, Huo Zhizhou would have already succeeded by stabbing himself with a knife back then.
A "ding-dong" sound.
Jiang Ruan's phone rang.
It was sent by Huo Zhizhou.
He was on his way back to the hospital, his phone screen displaying a message from Jiang Ruan. As for his abdomen... the private doctor who had come with him was stopping the bleeding.
"Your wound has reopened, and you can still laugh?" the private doctor said bluntly.
Huo Zhizhou didn't seem to care: "It's nothing, just a minor injury."
Private doctor: "???"
Is this considered a minor injury?
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