Chapter 2 Don't chase me away

Lu Fangchi slept until he woke up naturally. He opened his eyes and cleared his mind for a few seconds. Then he slowly got up from the bed, ran a shower in the toilet, brushed his teeth and washed his face. When the warm water splashed on his face, the grogginess from just waking up was completely swept away.

Lu Fangchi opened the window curtains. It was dark outside, with dark clouds looming down, creating a strong sense of oppression. The branches and leaves of the trees on the roadside were blown in the same direction, and the freezing wind was visibly biting.

It looks like it's going to rain.

However, Lu Fangchi, who had just completed a milestone, could rest at home. This bad weather did not affect him at all. It could even be said to add to his fun. Lu Fangchi really enjoyed the feeling of staying at home listening to the sound of rain.

Let me make breakfast first, Lu Fangchi thought as he reached out to open the door and walked out. Unexpectedly, Zhou Zheng was standing at the door early in the morning, and the two of them bumped into each other head-on.

Before the alpha could stand firmly, his heel stumbled and he fell backwards with Lu Fangchi.

Before falling to the ground, Lu Fangchi remembered Zhou Zheng's head wrapped in gauze, and reached out to grab the back of his head to prevent him from falling even harder.

The result was that the back of Lu Fangchi's hand hit the tile floor and it hurt.

So why are you standing at the door without saying a word? Lu Fangchi looked up at Zhou Zheng with some annoyance, and saw his Adam's apple moving up and down as he swallowed, with a drop of sweat oozing out of the tip of his nose.

Broken? Lu Fangchi frowned slightly, but before he could say anything, the alpha coughed lightly, his eyes wandered, and his body tensed up like a string, shrinking back uncontrollably.

There was the floor behind him, and Zhou Zheng had no way to retreat. This movement even exposed him more completely.

Only then did Lu Fangchi notice their close posture and the other person's head looming somewhere.

Alpha explained uncomfortably: "I want to let the water go."

Lu Fangchi frowned and stood up and moved away without saying a word, while Zhou Zheng quickly turned over and fled towards the bathroom.

This feeling was so bad that Lu Fangchi turned back to the bedroom, picked up the phone on the bedside table and turned on the screen. At 9:20 fifteen minutes ago, there was a missed call from Zhou Zheng's assistant Xiao Liu.

He called back and heard "beep...beep...beep..." for a long time. Just when Lu Fangchi thought no one was answering the call, the call was connected.

"Hello, Mr. Lu, what's the matter with you calling me last night?" Assistant Liu spoke quickly and a little anxiously.

Lu Fangchi got straight to the point: "Your CEO Zhou is with me. Please come and pick him up. The address is 6th floor, Building 39, Lane 889, Qingfeng Road."

"Remember to bring him a pair of shoes and clothes."

Assistant Liu paused for a few seconds and quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, okay, I'll be there right away. It will probably take about a quarter of an hour."

Before Lu Fangchi could finish his words "Be careful", the other party quickly hung up the phone.

Putting the phone back in his pocket, Lu Fangchi pointed to the bathroom and reminded: "There is a new toothbrush in the drawer of the sink."

"Got it." Zhou Zheng replied.

Lu Fangchi went to the kitchen and took four eggs and put them in the egg steamer. He also made two cups of milk while he was at it.

When the eggs and milk were served on the table and Zhou Zheng had finished washing up, the two of them simultaneously ignored the incident.

He took the initiative to sit down and asked, "Is this for me?"

Lu Fangchi nodded and started to peel the egg. He heard a "thank you" in his ear.

Lu Fangchi looked up at Zhou Zheng with a little surprise. Compared with his previous arrogant look, he looked much more pleasing to the eye now that he was polite.

Lu Fangchi responded, "You're welcome."

Lu Fangchi ate slowly and elegantly, while Zhou Zheng was much more casual. He swallowed the egg in just a few bites and gulped down a glass of milk. The whole process took no more than five minutes.

After Lu Fangchi put down the milk cup, Zhou Zheng took the initiative to clean the egg shells on the table into the trash can, then picked up the two milk cups and went to the kitchen to wash them. He moved so quickly that Lu Fangchi had no time to refuse.

Zhou Zheng washed the milk cup, wiped it dry, and wiped off the water stains on the counter. He turned around and asked, "Can I put the cup here?" The alpha pointed to a shelf.

Lu Fangchi was still in the stage of brain crash and nodded randomly.

Even if he is a little different from before, it cannot erase the fact that their relationship is very bad. Why does he only remember this place? Is it because of hatred?

Lu Fangchi couldn't figure it out. Just when he opened his lips and was about to ask something, the doorbell rang.

Liu Zhu arrived in a daze, his glasses misting over. He greeted Lu Fangchi with a tired look on his face, then quickly walked to Zhou Zheng who was sitting at the dining table, as if relieved: "Ancestor, I finally found you."

"You guys take a rest, and just close the door when you leave. I still have something to do." Lu Fangchi walked away at the right time, leaving the space to them.

Lu Fangchi went to the study, opened the backlog and took a look. There was nothing too urgent, so he could still spend the day as planned.

If there hadn't been that knock on the door.

Lu Fangchi heard the sound and went over, "What's wrong?"

At the door, Liu Zhu looked embarrassed and seemed to be hesitant to speak. He opened and closed his mouth for a long time but no words came out.

"Um?"

"Well," Assistant Liu gritted his teeth, "Boss Zhou doesn't want to leave, how about you go and persuade him?"

Thinking of the scene last night, Lu Fangchi wanted to say that he had no choice, but under Liu Zhu's pleading eyes, he decided to give it a try.

Zhou Zheng was sitting upright on the sofa in the living room, staring straight towards the bedroom. When he saw Lu Fangchi coming out, his eyes lit up.

Lu Fangchi walked up to the alpha and stood in front of him, saying directly: "Go back with your assistant."

The light in those eyes instantly went out and turned dim. Zhou Zheng lowered his eyes, pursed his lips, and silently turned his head away.

Scoring twice, this is another attempt to cheat.

Lu Fangchi took a deep breath and prepared to scold him, but Zhou Zheng turned his gaze back, his eyes suddenly turned red and watery, and he said, "I only remember you."

Zhou Zheng looked so aggrieved, his eyes were filled with emotions that caught Lu Fangchi off guard. Given his current situation, it was right for him to want to stay in the only place he could remember.

He can understand this feeling and express respect, but the premise is that it does not affect himself.

Lu Fangchi looked at Assistant Liu with some embarrassment. Assistant Liu pushed the hem of his thin-framed glasses and answered, "Mr. Zhou had a car accident on the highway on his way back three days ago. He was hit on the back of his head. The doctor determined that he had brain damage and was likely to have amnesia. He has been in a coma since he was out of danger. The surveillance footage showed that he was awake last night. No one was around at the time. He had already run away when we found him. He hasn't had a detailed physical examination since he woke up, so I can't say exactly what the situation is now."

Lu Fangchi felt that Zhou Zheng’s most urgent task now was to go to the hospital and undergo a comprehensive and thorough examination to find out what the situation was.

He just opened his mouth to persuade her, but Zhou Zheng pursed his lips and repeated in a low voice: "I only remember you, don't chase me away." He lowered his attitude to the lowest level.

The alpha's appearance made Lu Fangchi feel a little bit sorry, but he had no obligation and no relationship to take him in.

Lu Fangchi opened his lips and was ready to refuse, but he saw that the bandage around Zhou Zheng's head was oozing blood and rapidly spreading outwards.

Lu Fangchi frowned, while assistant Liu stepped forward nervously and tried to check the wound, but he didn't know where to start. In the end, he could only wave his hands in the air and remind him, "Don't get excited. Calm down. Calm down."

Zhou Zheng said nothing, but stared at Lu Fangchi with his red eyes. The red color on the gauze on his forehead became more and more spread, which was shocking to see.

Assistant Liu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He paced back and forth for a few steps, and finally pleaded with Lu Fangchi: "Boss Lu, I know this request is quite abrupt, but I really have no choice. Please accompany our Boss Zhou to the hospital."

Now that things have come to this, Lu Fangchi can no longer refuse, nor can he really let Zhou Zheng do anything bad. He sighed and said to the alpha, "I'll go to the hospital with you, okay?"

Lu Fangchi's show of weakness calmed Zhou Zheng's excitement, and the alpha's emotions calmed down visibly. He decided to stop and nodded: "Okay."

The traffic conditions were complicated on a rainy day, and it was already eleven o'clock when they arrived at the hospital. Of course, Lu Fangchi's plan to sneak away did not work, because Zhou Zheng's eyes were sticky to him like a dog-skin plaster. As long as he was not around, he would look around and not do the examination properly.

We performed more than a dozen inspections, big and small, and many of them still required waiting for reports, which took a whole day.

The result was neither good nor bad. Apart from a few stitches on his head, Zhou Zheng only had some soft tissue abrasions on other parts of his body and no other problems. The only more troublesome thing was amnesia.

Lu Fangchi, who was accompanying him, couldn't help but ask, "Is it normal to not remember anything but a certain person?"

"Normal," the doctor pushed his glasses and said, "It may be that he has a deep memory of a certain person or place. Let him have more contact with the people and places he remembers. This will help him recover his memory."

oh……

After the doctor left, Lu Fangchi also followed him out. Zhou Zheng, who was lying on the bed, sat up suddenly and asked with a vigilant look on his face, "You want to leave?"

"No, go out and get some fresh air."

Zhou Zheng probably wanted to say no, but seeing Lu Fangchi's face full of exhaustion, he finally decided to do the next best thing: "Then you come back early, I'll wait for you."

Lu Fangchi walked to the outside of the ward and sat down. He put his hand in his pocket and touched the cigarette box. He took it out subconsciously, but then he remembered that he was in the hospital and could only hold it in his hands to play with it.

He looked at his watch and saw that it was five o'clock in the evening. This day was wasted, and he had a feeling that he would encounter more troubles.

Sure enough, after a while the door of the ward opened again, and it was Liu Zhu who came out.

He asked, "Want to go out and have a cigarette?"

Lu Fangchi nodded.

When they went to the smoking area outside, Assistant Liu took the initiative to light a cigarette for Lu Fangchi and then for himself. Between puffs of smoke, he said, "Zhou Zheng and I are schoolmates and even shared a dormitory. I've known him for eight or nine years."

After half a cigarette went into his lungs, Lu Fangchi felt much more energetic and nodded, indicating that he was willing to hear more details.

"I know a little about him. His father is a gambler and his mother is unreliable. Unfortunately, he is the only one in his family, otherwise he would have become the protagonist of a tragedy. When he was a freshman in college, his father died of lung cancer, leaving only his mother. But it's almost the same as not having her," Assistant Liu paused and said sarcastically, "Look, his mother hasn't come to see him since he got into a car accident."

Lu Fangchi didn't know all this, but they were not familiar with each other. At most, they were competitors, and neither of them was happy to see the other in the business world.

"Just say it straight." Lu Fangchi interrupted Liu Zhu.

Assistant Liu smiled when he heard that, took a deep puff of his cigarette, and put it out. "Okay, Mr. Lu, you are a straightforward person, so I won't beat around the bush with you and will just speak frankly."

"Look at Zhou Zheng's current situation. He doesn't want to stay in the hospital, and no one cares about him at home. He doesn't know anyone. I want to take care of him, but he doesn't want to." Assistant Liu shrugged. "He only remembers you now, and the doctor also said that staying with people who can remember him will help him recover his memory. So I want to be thick-skinned and ask Mr. Lu to take him in. It won't be for too long, at most three months. Then I will take him back whether he wants to or not."

Lu Fangchi guessed it.

But he did not agree immediately, and even frowned. To be honest, this was a bit embarrassing for him.

First, they were not familiar with each other; second, they did not have a good relationship; finally, even if they had a good relationship, he would not agree to live together.

Seeing that Lu Fangchi didn't reply, Assistant Liu didn't rush him to express his opinion. He just said, "I know this is a difficult thing to ask. No matter who it is, I don't want to do it. Not to mention that it's inconvenient to live together, he is still a patient. So if you want to refuse, I can completely understand."

"But I still hope you can consider it." Liu Zhu took a sudden turn, "I heard that Mr. Lu is recruiting planners recently?"

Lu Fangchi raised his eyebrows.

They are indeed recruiting a planner, and a chief planner at that. The previous chief planner was poached by another company not long ago, and he left so suddenly that no one could fill the vacancy for a while. In addition, it is not easy to recruit a senior chief planner. This is indeed a big worry for Lu Fangchi recently.

"Liang Shuang, what do you think?"

Lu Fangchi raised his eyebrows again. This was the core planner of Zhou Zheng Company, an all-round player, and very famous.

“It’s a huge investment.”

Seeing Lu Fangchi's expression, Assistant Liu knew that the matter had been settled, and said with a pained look on his face: "That's right, my heart is bleeding, but who says that Mr. Zhou is our pillar?"

"Deal." Lu Fangchi stretched out his hand and agreed.

【Author’s words】

Begging for a starfish