Chapter 9
Su Xingyao has a fever.
During the repeated NGs and soaking in water, the medical plastic wrap he had wrapped himself in beforehand had long been soaked and fallen off, and the wounds on his body were contaminated by the river water, and are now infected and inflamed.
The crew sent him to medical treatment promptly, but several hours later, he still showed no signs of waking up.
The crew members had other things to do, so after learning from the doctor that Su Xingyao was safe, they left the hospital one after another.
In the end, Qin Mingchuan was the only one left in the ward.
Shen Huaixi was outside answering Jiang Zihang's call, while Xiaoyu was called by him to sleep on the sofa outside the VIP ward.
Xiaoyu was very worried about Su Xingyao and actually wanted to be by his side to take care of him.
But Qin Mingchuan is the investor of "Flowers Falling in Glass" and the boss of Su Xingyao's agency.
She was just a small worker, and no matter how worried she was about Su Xingyao, she didn't dare to say anything. She could only sit on the sofa anxiously and worriedly waiting for Su Xingyao to get up.
Another half an hour passed, and even Xiaoyu fell asleep. There was no sound in the ward, and it suddenly became deserted.
Qin Mingchuan walked to Su Xingyao's side and fell into deep thought after seeing his thin cheeks.
He and Su Xingyao were nominally engaged, but they had not seen each other for a very long time.
Strictly speaking, ever since he realized that Su Xingyao wanted to use the engagement that his parents had made as a joke when they were children to target Shen Huaixi, he has never spoken to him properly.
But at this moment, looking at the other person unconscious, the memories of the two of them in high school began to come back bit by bit.
At that time, the aristocratic school he attended was separated from the No. 1 Middle School where Su Xingyao attended by only a wall.
Every day he would put on the borrowed No. 1 Middle School uniform and student ID card and pretend to be a student of No. 1 Middle School. He would then swagger to the door of Su Xingyao's classroom and wait for him to finish his evening self-study.
When Su Xingyao was having physical education class, she would deliberately skip class and play basketball with him.
When the other person got first place in the grade and went up on stage to receive the award, he would be extremely proud and sit on the high wall of the playground with his brothers and lead the applause for him.
And every time I did something that seemed "out of line" to ordinary people, Su Xingyao always looked at me calmly with a faint smile and bright eyes.
Just like when he first saw this man at his cousin's house many years ago.
The handsome and slender boy was tutoring his cousin in a low voice in the afternoon. The warm sunlight stretched his slender shadow very long.
He was concentrating on helping his cousin with his homework at the time, and did not blame or feel surprised when he was suddenly interrupted by a stranger.
I just smiled to myself, and my smile was as soft as the warm April sun outside the window.
Qin Mingchuan's gaze fell on Su Xingyao's still pale face.
He found that the other person had lost a lot of weight after not seeing him for a while.
This morbid weight loss has made the boy in my memory, who always had a warm smile, become a completely different person.
Seeing Su Xingyao so weak now, Qin Mingchuan couldn't help but ask himself.
How did it become like this?
It seems that since returning to the Shen family, the smile on Su Xingyao's face has become less and less.
His brows are no longer relaxed, and he always looks like he is worried about something.
He no longer liked to talk or laugh, and inexplicably he suddenly built a wall around himself, isolating everyone from outside.
And since then, he found that the other party's thoughts were getting deeper and deeper, and his relationship with everyone was getting worse and worse.
If only I hadn't returned to the Shen family...
Qin Mingchuan looked at Su Xingyao with a sigh and questioned him in a low voice.
"Where did the old you go?"
…
When Qin Mingchuan said this, Shen Huaixi just came in.
He glanced at Su Xingyao who was still unconscious on the bed, and walked to Qin Mingchuan pretending to know nothing.
"Xingyao hasn't woken up yet?"
When Jiang Zihang called just now, he kept asking him about Su Xingyao's condition, and wondered if Su Xingyao deliberately pretended to faint in front of so many people to trick him.
He didn't know whether Su Xingyao wanted to make trouble for Jiang Zihang, but he now suspected that he was deliberately pretending to be pitiful in front of Qin Mingchuan.
I have to say that he did succeed. The look on Qin Mingchuan's face just now showed that he really felt pity for him.
Qin Mingchuan's attitude towards Su Xingyao made him very unhappy.
However, Shen Huaixi didn't dare to say such vicious guesses in his heart directly in front of Qin Mingchuan.
After all, it doesn't match the simple personality he usually shows in front of others.
So he spoke again, and what he said became, "Mingchuan, you go to the hotel and rest first, I will take care of Xingyao."
When Qin Mingchuan heard Shen Huaixi's words, he naturally felt very sorry for him and directly rejected his proposal.
"You go to bed, I'll wait for him here."
Shen Huaixi shook his head, "I'll accompany you."
He didn't want to give the two of them a chance to be alone, so he insisted on staying together.
Shen Huaixi insisted on staying, so Qin Mingchuan said nothing more and just looked at Shen Huaixi steadily, moved by his kindness and generosity.
"What did Aunt Wen and the others say?"
The two sat for a while, and Qin Mingchuan asked about Shen Huaixi's urgent phone call just now.
The other party had just gone out and made a long phone call, and he thought he was calling his family.
Shen Huaixi felt a little guilty when asked, and immediately tried to make amends for himself.
"I didn't fight. It was too late. I was afraid they would worry after knowing it."
Having said that, he actually never thought of telling his adoptive parents about Su Xingyao.
He knew very well that his family disliked him because of Su Xingyao's running away from home and the birthday party.
At this critical moment, he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to give Su Xingyao the opportunity to play the victim in front of his adoptive parents to ease the relationship between them.
After the explanation, Shen Huaixi was afraid that Qin Mingchuan would make the call himself, so he began to persuade him.
"Mingchuan, you'd better not tell my parents about this. They are still angry now."
Qin Mingchuan looked at Su Xingyao, who was obviously in a bad condition, and frowned slightly, "But I think it's better to tell them. Xingyao doesn't look very well."
Regarding Qin Mingchuan's concern for Su Xingyao, Shen Huaixi suppressed the discomfort in her heart and continued to stop him in a tone that was good for Su Xingyao.
"You saw what happened on my mom's birthday with your own eyes. Xingyao was so disrespectful to mom that she was so angry that she told us not to mention his name when we returned..."
After saying this, he was afraid that Qin Mingchuan would not believe it, so he emphasized it again.
"Actually... I'm worried that they won't come. After all, Xingyao isn't in a good state right now, and I'm afraid that this incident will make their relationship even more strained."
Thinking of the scene where Wen Ningshu was so angry at Su Xingyao that she left the birthday party, Qin Mingchuan felt that what Shen Huaixi said made sense, and finally agreed.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I'll ask him after Xingyao wakes up."
Shen Huaixi smiled and nodded, feeling relieved.
He knew that Su Xingyao would definitely not contact her parents after waking up.
However, because the concern Qin Mingchuan showed for Su Xingyao just now was beyond the normal range, Shen Huaixi, who felt uncomfortable, immediately started to lead the pace.
"I think Xingyao seems to be in a much better condition. Didn't the doctor say it was just a cold? Why hasn't she woken up in such a long time? A cold shouldn't cause her to be in a coma for so long."
Qin Mingchuan did not hear the hint in Shen Huaixi's words, but patiently explained to him, "It may be because the wound on his body became infected and inflamed."
Seeing that Qin Mingchuan didn't doubt Su Xingyao at all, Shen Huaixi could only force a smile and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"Indeed... Xingyao is really careless. He has so many injuries on his body that he hasn't recovered yet, but he dares to go into the water to film. If we hadn't come to visit him today, we don't know if he would have fainted..."
Qin Mingchuan felt that this sentence sounded a bit harsh, so he turned his head and glanced at Shen Huaixi.
But when he saw Shen Huaixi's worried look, he felt that he was too sensitive.
However, Shen Huaixi's words reminded him of another thing.
He immediately called his special assistant and asked him to call Su Xingyao's agent to ask about his injuries.
He had previously thought that he was injured during filming, and had asked Xiaoyu about it, but Xiaoyu said she didn’t know either.
Su Xingyao, who was sleeping, felt it was too noisy.
Especially in his dream, the voices of Shen Huaixi and Qin Mingchuan kept appearing, making it impossible for him to sleep peacefully.
So he, whose head was aching from the noise, fluttered his long eyelashes.
After sleeping for several hours, he finally woke up.
As soon as she opened her eyes, the glaring lights in the hospital made Su Xingyao's eyes hurt.
He stretched out his hand to block the light, but felt a catheter inserted into the back of his right hand.
"Xingyao."
Shen Huaixi was the first to discover that Su Xingyao had woken up.
He was sending WeChat messages to Jiang Zihang with a stern face in the previous second, but a standard smile appeared on his face in the next second.
Qin Mingchuan also looked at Su Xingyao.
He opened his mouth, but the three words "you wake up" were still stuck in his throat.
On the phone, he could still talk to the other party calmly.
But when they really met face to face, he didn't want to say anything.
Su Xingyao ignored Shen Huaixi.
Although he didn't wake up just now, he still heard some of what the two said.
He knew that Shen Huaixi's every word was meant to stab him in front of Qin Mingchuan.
In the past he would have tried to explain.
But now he no longer cared about Qin Mingchuan, and naturally he didn't care whether he understood Shen Huaixi's hint or whether he had any new bad opinions about him.
And compared to these boring little things, he had something more important to discuss with the other party.
"Boss Qin, it's a good thing you're here. I have something to tell you."
Su Xingyao's call of "Mr. Qin" made Qin Mingchuan stunned.
Not only Qin Mingchuan, but even Shen Huaixi forgot to manage his expression when listening.
Qin Mingchuan frowned and looked at Su Xingyao in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
In the past, Su Xingyao always called him Mingchuan.
Even though they later had some rifts over the engagement, the other party had never been so unfamiliar in addressing each other.
He didn't understand what was wrong with Su Xingyao. She was so weird as soon as she woke up.
Su Xingyao didn't care about the other party's misunderstanding, and didn't explain the reason. He just told the other party what he wanted to say directly.
"I want to terminate my contract with the movie star."
This sentence was like a bomb dropped into the lake, causing huge waves in Qin Mingchuan's heart.
His heart seemed to be stabbed by something, and he suddenly felt a little angry.
"What did you say?"
Qin Mingchuan spoke again, his face had darkened and his voice was cold without any warmth.
Seeing this, Shen Huaixi began to add fuel to the fire and immediately stepped forward to hold Su Xingyao's hand, looking very sad.
"Xingyao, don't be like this..."
He continued to talk to himself, "This matter has nothing to do with Mingchuan. He doesn't know that it's you who is paired with Zihang... If you are not satisfied with being paired with Zihang..."
Before Shen Huaixi finished speaking, Su Xingyao withdrew her hand that he was holding with disdain, and quickly wiped it gently on the bed sheet.
"I don't understand what you are saying. I'm talking to Qin Mingchuan. Can you please stop interrupting me?"
Su Xingyao was still very weak, and her voice was not loud, but she succeeded in making Shen Huaixi shut up.
Shen Huaixi walked behind Qin Mingchuan pitifully, stretched out his hand and pulled his sleeve to hint at his grievance.
Qin Mingchuan was already upset because Su Xingyao asked him to terminate the contract, and now seeing Shen Huaixi being bullied, he immediately became unhappy even though he originally felt guilty.
Seeing Qin Mingchuan's surprised expression, Su Xingyao immediately guessed that agent Liang Yifan must not have told the company about this matter before.
So he endured the discomfort in his body and spoke again patiently, "It has nothing to do with other people. This is my own decision."
"I have already contacted a lawyer about this matter. He will come to discuss the termination of the contract with you after I finish filming my scenes."
Su Xingyao had just woken up and was already in low spirits. He forced himself to endure the discomfort and said so many words in one breath, which had already consumed a huge amount of his physical strength.
After saying the last word, he closed his eyes and prepared to rest.
After he stopped talking, there was a strange silence in the room.
No one spoke for the next few minutes.
Su Xingyao enjoyed a few minutes of peace, which was rare for him. He was so tired that he felt a little drowsy.
However, when he was about to fall asleep, Qin Mingchuan suddenly spoke coldly.
"To be honest, I really don't understand what you are thinking."
"He ran away from home and disappeared, blocked everyone, embarrassed Aunt Wen, and today he's clamoring to terminate the contract..."
"Do you think everyone should let you do whatever you want, Su Xingyao?"
Qin Mingchuan questioned Su Xingyao again and again, accusing him of being irresponsible and willful.
However, Su Xingyao had a high fever again at this time, and the inflamed wounds on his body were very painful.
He just wanted to have a good sleep now and didn't want to listen to Qin Mingchuan scolding him.
But now he couldn't say a word because of his poor health, and he didn't even have the strength to ask the person to leave.
He tried hard to speak, but found that for some reason he couldn't even make a sound.
Qin Mingchuan didn't notice Su Xingyao's discomfort and continued to ask him.
"You're always like this, never saying anything and just figuring it out by yourself."
"You were obviously not like this before..."
Before Qin Mingchuan finished speaking, a deep male voice was heard outside the room.
"It seems I came at the wrong time."
The person who spoke had a casual tone, but his drawling voice seemed to be full of ridicule and sarcasm.
The sudden sound attracted everyone's attention.
Shen Huaixi and Qin Mingchuan turned and looked towards the door.
Even the sleeping little fish suddenly opened his eyes and vaguely saw a tall and slender figure.
The man who kept saying that he came at the wrong time did not apologize for disturbing others. Instead, he casually opened the door and walked in gracefully.
Qin Mingchuan frowned unhappily and looked at the man who suddenly broke in with a cold face.
The other person felt his gaze and his eagle-like narrow eyes narrowed slightly.
The two people's eyes met briefly for two seconds, and Lu Jiuxu showed a somewhat obscure smile on his face.
He ignored Qin Mingchuan and instead glanced at the man hiding behind him.
There was no emotion in Lu Jiuxu's eyes, but Shen Huaixi was a little frightened by his gaze.
This man looked extremely handsome, but his intuition told him that he was not someone to be trifled with.
After Lu Jiuxu looked at the two people who had been blaming Su Xingyao, he lowered his head and looked towards the hospital bed.
Su Xingyao, who was forced to endure the bombardment from the two men, now had a pale face and closed his eyes, without a trace of spirit between his brows.
Lu Jiuxu's dark eyes, like deep pools, suddenly sank.
But at this moment, Qin Mingchuan walked towards him, trying to block his view of Su Xingyao, and asked him in a bad tone, "Who are you?"
In response to Qin Mingchuan's question, Lu Jiuxu didn't even look at him this time and walked straight to Su Xingyao.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Su Xingyao for several seconds, then leaned over and spoke in a deep voice.
"I'm here to take you home."
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