Ji Shuyu turned to look at the hospital bed. His hands were weak, but he seemed to be trying his best to grab her.
His lips, dry and chapped from the fever, moved slightly, as if to say: Don't go...
Ji Shuyu froze for a moment as she pulled her hand away. She tried her best to ignore the brief pain in her heart, but she finally pulled her hand away.
Gu Xiuyuan's hand fell weakly onto the bed. Seeing his frown, Ji Shuyu turned her face away, not wanting to see his embarrassed and uncomfortable look.
"Family members, please help change clothes!"
The person who walked in was a young nurse. There was some timidity in her eyes when she looked at Gu Xiuyuan. It was obvious that she had been severely abused before.
After all, he left the hospital yesterday because of her.
Ji Shuyu sighed softly and accepted the hospital gown resignedly.
When I raised my arm, I felt something wet in my palm. When I opened my palm and saw the red color, my head immediately buzzed.
"Gu Xiuyuan!" She called his name anxiously and then pressed the call button.
Why is there blood? When did he get injured?
The nurse rushed over and cut open his sleeve only to find that his arm was injured.
Inside the black shirt, gauze soaked in blood had already stained the wound.
Ji Shuyu's hands suddenly clenched. Seeing his brows furrowed in pain while he was treating the wound, he couldn't help but remind him: "Miss nurse, be gentle..."
The nurse looked at Ji Shuyu and asked, "How about you wait a moment?"
The wound looks serious, so it's bound to hurt.
Realizing that he had affected other people's work, Ji Shuyu apologized and walked to the side, but he still couldn't help looking over there...
Ji Shuyu finally breathed a sigh of relief when the gauze was removed.
"How is he, nurse?" she asked, her hands unconsciously curled up.
"The wound is quite deep. I'll ask the doctor to sew it up." The nurse glanced at Ji Shuyu and said, "Are you in trouble? Do you need to call the police?"
Ji Shuyu was confused for a moment until she saw the wound on his forearm.
Judging from the nurse's reaction, he shouldn't have been injured before. She suddenly thought of the knife robbery that the grandmother next door had mentioned, and... the footsteps that had followed her last night and then suddenly disappeared...
His body swayed slightly.
So, it wasn't her who was suspicious last night, it wasn't her who got away with it, but he was the one who stopped that person?
…
Gu Xiuyuan's forearm was scratched by a dagger and he had to get more than a dozen stitches. The wound became inflamed due to untimely treatment and he had a high fever that wouldn't go away.
Ji Shuyu stood beside the bed, looking at the thin and haggard man in front of her.
His eye sockets were a little sunken, and he had some blue stubble growing on him. She had never seen him look so disheveled...
She felt complicated, and finally forced herself to turn her face away, not looking or thinking about it, telling herself: It has nothing to do with you.
Gu Xiuyuan continued to have a high fever. When Zhou Rui came over, he said that he had been running a fever for several days. He stayed in the office every day and refused to come to the hospital. When he was found yesterday morning, he was already unconscious due to the fever.
"Miss Ji, I just had some things to take care of. Please take care of this here." He said and quickly left.
Ji Shuyu didn't even have time to call out to him...
In fact, she didn't know whether she should call him.
If things were as she thought, then he was injured because of her, and she shouldn't abandon him for both moral and logical reasons.
Ji Shuyu's thoughts were soon confirmed. The local police station called Gu Xiuyuan's phone and said that the person from last night had confessed to the crime and was staking out the area.
Because she was unfamiliar and lived alone, her daily routine was discovered, and that's why she was targeted.
So, it was really for her.
After hanging up the phone, she suddenly felt that the phone was too heavy to lift.
Looking at Gu Xiuyuan's flushed cheeks, her eyes suddenly felt a little sore.
Didn’t I say that it won’t matter in the future?
Why are you doing this...
…
Gu Xiuyuan had a high fever, which kept coming back. Ji Shuyu was worried. The IV drip had not yet ended, so she wet a towel to help him cool down.
Touching his thin cheek, Ji Shuyu's chest suddenly felt a little sore, and then she patted her face with her wet hands to prevent herself from being swayed by such emotions.
She told herself that once his fever subsided and his wounds healed, he would no longer have anything to do with her.
By the afternoon, Gu Xiuyuan's temperature had finally dropped. Although still a little hot, it was no longer high, and she finally felt relieved.
After struggling for several hours, Ji Shuyu was also tired.
She sat on the edge of the bed and used a cotton swab dipped in water to moisten his dry and chapped lips. He seemed to instinctively stick out his tongue to absorb the moisture.
She looked at it, and for a moment she couldn't tell what she felt.
This idiot dared to sit downstairs all night when he had a fever. What if he got a very high fever and no one noticed?
She didn't dare to think about it, and she felt a little scared at this moment.
If she hadn't gone over that day, hadn't paid attention, then the consequences...
Gu Xiuyuan felt as if he had had a very long and messy dream, but the dream was not clear.
Sometimes he felt that Xiaoyu was right beside him. He wanted to open his eyes and see her, but he was afraid that if he did, he would think that everything was just a dream.
Sometimes he dreamed that she shook off his hand and left without looking back. He also dreamed of that closed hair salon, the man with a knife holding Xiaoyu hostage, and the knife stabbing deep into her body...
He shuddered and woke up from his dream.
Looking at the blazing light in front of him, he gasped for breath and could even clearly feel the cold sweat flowing into his temples.
Thinking of that terrible dream, he turned over and wanted to find his cell phone to ask if anyone had figured out what happened last night. He had to get Xiaoyu to leave and not let her live there any longer.
As soon as I turned sideways, I saw Ji Shuyu sleeping on the side of the bed.
At that moment, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, and then began beating wildly.
He couldn't believe what he saw.
He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch her gently, wanting to see if this was a dream, wanting to touch her eyebrows, but he... didn't dare.
He was afraid that the beauty before him would break at the slightest touch, so he did a childish thing and pinched himself hard.
The pain from exerting force on his injured arm reached the bottom of his heart, making him more conscious, but he laughed.
It’s Xiaoyu, it’s really her…
But after confirming its authenticity, he was even more afraid to reach out.
If he woke her up, she would leave immediately, and he wouldn't even be able to take a look.
However, the person I think about day and night is right in front of me, and the feeling of being out of reach is really painful.
He used all his strength to turn over her limp body. At first, he just wanted to take a closer look, and then he wanted to kiss her eyes...
Thinking of this, he leaned closer, and at this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside the door...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com