Chapter 94 Hemophilia: Do you really want me to have an incurable disease? ...
At one in the morning, as soon as Shen Qianshu's plane landed in Shenzhen, he rushed to the hospital at lightning speed.
The corridor of the ward was completely silent in the middle of the night, but the sound of keyboard tapping could be heard from the room at the end from time to time.
Shen Qianfan finished catching up on the mail he had dropped, took off his glasses, rubbed his brows, closed his eyes and leaned against the headboard, not even noticing someone coming in.
When he opened his eyes again, Shen Qianshu was already standing at the end of the bed, his hands hanging down at his sides, clutching his trouser pockets helplessly, exactly the same as the night he was brought back to the Shen family.
He forced a faint smile and said, "Why did you come back early? Didn't you go out to play with your friends?"
Looking at Shen Qianfan lying on the bed in a hospital gown, Shen Qianshu's eyes flickered. He had planned to find Luo Shu to tell her the truth about that year, but he didn't expect to receive the bad news that Shen Qianfan was hospitalized, so he had to return home overnight.
"What else can I do? I have to go home when I'm tired of playing. But you, you're fine, why are you in the hospital?"
Shen Qianfan turned on the computer: "What hospitalization? Don't curse me, it's just a routine physical examination."
For a physical examination, it was necessary to wear a hospital gown and lie in bed for overnight observation. Shen Qianshu was not stupid. He took two steps forward and sat on the edge of the bed, wanting to say something but stopping himself: "Brother, are you hiding something from me?"
"What can I hide from you? It's a good opportunity to avoid facing those old guys and have some free time." Shen Qianfan patted his arm. "It's late, go home and rest first. We can talk tomorrow."
"No." Shen Qianshu refused to leave.
"Don't talk too much, I'll call a taxi for you." As he said that, Shen Qianfan reached for his phone on the bedside table.
Not getting what he wanted, Shen Qianshu simply fell back, lying on the patient's legs and shaking his head: "No."
Shen Qianfan shook the leg that was pressed down: "Then what do you want?"
"I'll sleep next to you tonight." Shen Qianshu replied.
Seeing that he was determined, Shen Qianfan stopped talking. If he kept refusing, it would only make people suspicious: "It's up to you."
Shen Qianshu stretched out his body with satisfaction, loosened his stiff neck, and turned to Shen Qianfan on his left and asked unusually: "Does the injury on your back still hurt?"
Shen Qianfan calmly clenched his fist hidden under the quilt: “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”
After getting the answer, Shen Qianshu turned off the lights and walked towards another accompanying room.
The evening breeze blew the gradually thickening moonlight into the window, dividing the two beds separated by a wall into one bright and one dark. The former accepted his fate under the constraints of the moonlight, while the latter struggled in the dimness. In a moment, the moonlight was sent to Shen Qianshu's room, illuminating half of his face, until day and night changed.
Early in the morning, Xuan Qing came with a thermos bucket to deliver a document for signature. He lingered at the door of the ward for a long time, and only dared to go in after he had prepared himself mentally. As soon as he opened the door, he saw the scene of Shen Qianfan sitting by the bed, facing the window and reflecting on his mistakes. When he got closer, he found that he was still holding a syringe in his hand.
"Boss Shen, I'm sorry." She tilted her head and handed over the thermos in her hand, "I know you need everything. This is the soup I made early in the morning. It's still hot."
Shen Qianfan slowly raised his eyes, his gaze moving back and forth between her and the thermos. Finally, he took the thermos and placed it on the bedside table: "You're pushing me into the hospital, and you're planning to give me a bucket of soup as compensation?"
Xuan Qing lowered his head guiltily and buried his face deeper.
That night, Shen Qianfan, who was supposed to be on a business trip, suddenly appeared in the office. As the footsteps behind her became clearer and clearer, she was horrified. Her first reaction was to run away. As soon as she spread her legs, someone grabbed her wrist.
In the darkness, she couldn't see Shen Qianfan's expression, but she could feel the burning heat on her wrist. In a moment of desperation, she didn't know where she found the courage to resist, and pushed him towards the bookcase behind her. Unexpectedly, this push brought her into big trouble.
"I didn't know you were so fragile."
It's so fragile that it will bleed profusely if it's scratched.
Shen Qianfan didn't waste any words: "I didn't know in advance that Secretary Xuan would abscond for fear of crime."
Xuan Qing's heart finally exploded after spinning 360 degrees in the air. "So, you gave me the promotion and the access card to your office on purpose, just to test me?"
Shen Qianfan was silent for two seconds, then stood up and looked down at her condescendingly: “You can understand it that way.”
At this moment, Xuan Qing had nowhere to hide, and she accepted the exposure graciously. She was alone anyway, so why should she be afraid of the wind and rain?
She cast aside all her disguises, revealing her true self. She raised her chin, holding up the last bit of pride she had left, and stared back at Shen Qianfan: "I am convinced that I lost to President Shen."
After a brief standoff, Shen Qianfan blinked, his tone unchanged as usual: "Guess, what should I do with you next?"
Xuan Qing smiled indifferently: "Rather than guessing, I'd rather take a gamble."
"What a pity. Mr. Shen never likes gambling." Shen Qianfan sat down again and looked out the window. "Let's not be frank. I won't call the police, nor will I..."
As he spoke, a glaring red liquid gushed out of his nostrils.
At the same time, the sound of a lock being opened was heard outside the house.
Shen Qianfan quickly covered his bloody mouth and nose, panicking like a headless fly.
The sudden change interrupted their negotiation. Xuan Qing didn't even need to think about it. Apart from Shen Qianshu, Shen Qianfan had never been so flustered before. Adding to the current embarrassing situation, she immediately put her arms around Shen Qianfan's neck and pulled him into her arms.
This was the scene Shen Qianshu saw when he came back with breakfast.
Shen Qianfan, who always kept his public and private life separate, snuggled into his secretary's arms intimately, his face invisible, and the woman's hug back was even more intimate, with her arms around his neck, inseparable.
Realizing his presumptuous behavior, Shen Qianshu took a half step back: "Excuse me, please continue."
He even closed the door thoughtfully before leaving.
As soon as Shen Qianshu left, Shen Qianfan immediately broke free from Xuan Qing's arms, raised his head and ran straight to the bathroom. The sound of water rushed for at least ten minutes before the small door of the bathroom was opened from the inside.
Shen Qianfan's shirt was mostly wet, and his forehead was also wet with cold water. He felt a faint sense of powerlessness all over his body, until he caught a glimpse of a bag of clothes hanging on the door handle. His eyes slowly turned and fixed on it. The area on his left chest felt wet and warm, and he realized that this was a bag of clothes specially prepared for him by someone.
Two minutes later, Shen Qianfan appeared in the simple reception room separated from the suite, holding the unknown medicine that he had not had time to inject before, and inserted it into the vein on the back of his left hand.
Xuan Qing paused in his drinking motion, and his eyebrows twisted slightly as the needle entered his blood vessel. For some reason, his movements were so skillful that it was heartbreaking.
Noticing her unnatural attention, Shen Qianfan explained: "This is a coagulation factor, not something illegal."
After he finished speaking, he realized that it was like he was trying to cover up something.
Xuan Qing said "Oh" and put down the cup. "What did you mean by not calling the police?"
After one needle went in, Shen Qianfan didn’t even frown: “Literally.”
Xuan Qing lowered his head in guilt and said, "I leaked company secrets, so I should..."
"It doesn't count if it doesn't cause huge losses." Shen Qianfan threw the syringe into the medical waste bin and interrupted her in disagreement, "Besides, you've been forced into a corner, haven't you?"
Xuan Qing's fingertips were stroking a wrinkle on her skirt. When she heard this, her heart skipped a beat. She raised her face in surprise: "You don't blame me?"
Chen Qianfan stared at her firmly. "Should I blame you or Zou Jing? I know clearly. Looking back, we were the first to reject the Zou family's request for help. The Zou family's funding chain was broken, and they tried to use the invalid engagement they had verbally agreed to over a decade ago as a threat to fill the funding gap. To be honest, the Zou family is no longer what it was back then. Bankruptcy and liquidation are the inevitable trend. We are not an asylum, nor do we have the obligation to do so. As for our purpose in arranging you to enter Jiangrun, everyone knows it."
Xuan Qing was inexplicably confused by the man in front of her: "Since you already knew everything, why did you bother to go to such great lengths to act this out for us?"
"I must have some ulterior motive." Shen Qianfan answered as a matter of course.
Xuan Qing asked immediately, "What's the purpose?"
"I hope you can stay in Jiangrun, stay in Shen's, stay in..." Shen Qianfan paused and changed his words, "work hard for Shen's."
"In exchange, I'll pretend that what you did never happened. You can rest assured that the Zou family, young and old, will never be able to threaten you again."
Even the worries were taken care of for her. Xuan Qing was skeptical: "Is it that simple?"
Shen Qianfan repeated: “It’s that simple.”
After staring at him for a long while, Xuan Qing's eyes once again showed a complex and inexplicable emotion: "I can agree, but I always feel uneasy when you hold such a big handle on me."
Shen Qianfan leaned on the sofa and looked at her: "How do you want me to prove it?"
Xuan Qingshi opened his mouth and said, "You must answer my three questions truthfully, as if we were exchanging secrets."
Glancing at the bloodstains on her shirt, Shen Qianfan retracted his gaze and picked up the water glass on the table: "As you wish."
"Why have you never wanted to fall in love?"
As soon as the words fell, the boiled water in Shen Qianfan's mouth choked on his throat. He covered his lips and coughed twice, then put down the glass and joked: "I didn't expect Secretary Xuan to be so gossipy. I thought you would first ask when you suspected you, or what reason you had to keep you."
Xuan Qing straightened his back upon hearing this. "Suspicion about me is a thing of the past. I won't dwell on it. As for why you kept me, it must be because there was something worth keeping me for."
Chen Qianfan gave a subtle smile. "Yes, I was attracted by some of your qualities. The Zou family's income-generating projects were all created by you, which shows that you are resourceful. You dared to come to Jiangrun and fight alone, which shows that you are brave and loyal. The most important thing is your inherent kindness. Mandy, and the strange number you deliberately showed me at the birthday party, you saved yourself."
Xuan Qing suddenly became serious: "Then Sister Mandy..."
Shen Qianfan replied: “She was just temporarily transferred to an out-of-town branch.”
"Okay, you haven't answered my question yet." Xuan Qing reminded.
"There is no word for love in my life."
"Because of your illness?"
Shen Qianshu looked at her and thought that sometimes being too smart is not good.
"Is it leukemia?" Xuan Qing opened his mouth and realized that his voice was trembling, which was due to his indescribable nervousness.
"Do you really hope that I will get an incurable disease?" Shen Qianfan asked back with narrowed eyes.
Xuan Qing bit her lower lip and shook her head in denial.
After being caught in such an embarrassing situation by her three times in a row, Shen Qianfan did not intend to hide it.
"I am ill." He seemed to laugh at his own words mid-sentence, the self-mockery evident in his laughter. "But it's not leukemia. It's hemophilia, a hereditary disease."
"I don't want to date because, firstly, I don't have the heart for it, and secondly, I'm busy planning to take back everything that was taken away from me."
It turns out that it is so easy to tell the shameful secret hidden in your heart.
Shen Qianfan struck while the iron was hot: “Second question?”
Xuan Qing stammered, "The wound on your back?"
Shen Qianfan raised his eyelids and looked at her. He felt as if he was sitting naked in front of her. Every question he asked was beyond his expectations and was too sensitive to his expectations.
"If it's too difficult, forget it." Xuan Qing said understandingly.
"He is my biological father." After saying that, Shen Qianfan immediately returned to his icy expression, his tone without any fluctuation, "The third one?"
"Can I save the third question for later?"
"good."
Having satisfied all his needs, Xuan Qing didn't hesitate: "What do you need me to do next? The Zou family has done me a favor. Even though I have nothing to do with them now, I can't report their despicable behavior for the time being."
Shen Qianfan answered without hesitation, as if he had planned it for a long time: "I plan to hand over the power in my hands to Qian Shu reasonably without any dispute. You have to help me."
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