Chapter 36 I love him very much
Luo Xin tucked in Luo Xue's blanket and said softly, "Mom's going to be out for a bit. Get some sleep." Luo Xue nodded drowsily, rolling over to hug the stuffed animal beside her pillow. She stared at her daughter quietly for a few seconds before turning off the desk lamp. She gently closed the door, and the voice-activated lights in the hallway lit up, casting a dim glow on her tense profile. She wrapped her down jacket tightly around her and hurried out of the village. The online taxi at the village entrance sat like a dormant beetle, its driver dozing over the steering wheel. She knocked on the window and gave her her phone number. The driver started the car, and Luo Xin got in the back seat, glancing awkwardly at him. The driver had an easygoing expression, like a panda, a hint of sleepiness etched across his chubby, tired face. Seeing someone like that, Luo Xin lowered her guard slightly. "Going to the hospital so late?" The driver yawned. "A friend's in the hospital." Luo Xin turned away, watching the streetlights pass by outside the window. "Oh," the driver clearly had no interest in asking further questions, staring listlessly ahead. The person Luo Xin was going to see was none other than Xiao Yan. Many years ago, the name "Xiao Yan" had been like countless thorns in her flesh, painless until touched, yet causing her entire internal organs to tighten. Now, she felt nothing. But reason told her she should go, not for herself, but for her daughter. This man was, after all, her daughter Luo Xue's biological father. She didn't want him to die. As long as he lived, her daughter would have a father. Even if they never met in this life, somewhere in this world, her daughter could still find her bloodline. The taxi stopped in front of the hospital's inpatient building, and the driver yawned. "We're here." Luo Xin regained consciousness and opened the door. "Oh, thank you." "Last order. Go home and sleep." The driver stretched, waited for Luo Xin to close the door, and sped away. Luo Xin took a deep breath, turned, and headed for the inpatient building. Pushing open the revolving door, she saw a nurse in the consultation office sleeping on the table. She walked over lightly and whispered, "Hello." The nurse slowly raised her head, an impatient expression on her face. It was obvious that Luo Xin had just disturbed her sweet dream. She looked at Luo Xin and saw that he was not the leader of the sudden inspection. She leaned back in her chair and asked, "What's the matter?" "Excuse me, which ward is Xiao... Yan in?" Luo Xin's voice was a little trembling. He didn't want to call out that name. "Who are you to her?" The nurse didn't even look at her and narrowed her eyes again. "I... am his colleague." "Visiting in the middle of the night, it seems that he is not an ordinary colleague." The nurse smiled...
Luo Xin tucked the quilt in for Luo Xue and said softly, "Mom is going out for a while, you sleep well."
Luo Xue nodded dazedly, turned over and hugged the stuffed doll beside her pillow. She looked at her daughter quietly for a few seconds, then turned off the desk lamp.
She closed the door gently, and the voice-activated light in the hallway came on, casting a dim glow on her tense face. She wrapped her down jacket tightly around her and hurried out of the village.
The online taxi at the entrance of the village was like a dormant beetle, with the driver dozing on the steering wheel.
She knocked on the car window and gave her cell phone number. The driver started the car. Luo Xin sat in the back seat and looked at the driver awkwardly.
The driver had an easygoing look, like a panda, but a hint of sleepiness appeared on his tired, fat face.
Seeing someone with this appearance, Luo Xin let down his guard a little.
"Going to the hospital so late?" The driver yawned.
"A friend is in the hospital." Luo Xin turned his head away and looked at the street lights passing by outside the window.
"Oh." The driver obviously had no interest in asking any more questions and looked ahead listlessly.
The person Luo Xin was going to see was Xiao Yan.
Many years ago, the two words "Xiao Yan" were like countless thorns stuck in the flesh. They didn't hurt if they weren't touched, but once touched, all the internal organs would tighten.
Now, she no longer felt anything, but her mind told her that she should go and see, not for herself, but for her daughter.
After all, this man is the biological father of her daughter Luo Xue. She doesn't want this man to die. As long as this man is still alive, her daughter has such a father.
Even if we never meet in this life, my daughter can still find her own bloodline in some corner of this world.
The taxi stopped in front of the hospital's inpatient building. The driver yawned and said, "We're here."
Luo Xin came to his senses and opened the car door, "Oh, thank you."
"This is the last order. Go home and sleep." The driver stretched, waited for Luo Xin to close the car door, and drove away quickly.
Luo Xin took a deep breath, turned around and walked towards the inpatient building.
Pushing open the revolving door, she saw a nurse in the consultation office sleeping on the table. She walked over lightly and whispered, "Hello."
The nurse slowly raised her head with an impatient expression on her face. It was obvious that Luo Xin had just disturbed her sweet dream.
She looked at Luo Xin, who was not the leader of the sudden inspection, and leaned back in her chair. "What's the matter?"
"Excuse me, which ward is Xiao...Yan in?" Luo Xin's voice was trembling a little, and he was reluctant to call out that name.
"Who are you to her?" The nurse didn't even look at her and narrowed her eyes again.
"I...his colleague."
"He comes to visit in the middle of the night. It seems that he is an extraordinary colleague." The nurse smiled.
Luo Xin couldn't help but take another look at the nurse. She was very thin, had a narrow face, and high collarbones. Luo Xin thought she looked like a skeleton.
Luo Xin did not answer, but just repeated the question.
The nurse opened her eyes and snorted softly, "Room 311. Your life is saved, but you'll be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life."
Luo Xin didn't ask any more questions and turned to walk into the corridor, but she still heard the nurse's gossiping voice, "Tsk, I've seen a lot of this kind of thing. This is another shameful one that ruined my sweet dream."
Luo Xin didn't care and quickened his pace.
Room 311 is a single room. Through the window on the door, you can see that there is no one taking care of Xiao Yan except him, who is covered in bandages and receiving an IV drip. The instrument shows his steady heartbeat.
Luo Xin did not push open the door, but just looked out the window for a few seconds and then walked out. At this time, her goal had been achieved.
This person is still alive.
Late at night, the corridors of the inpatient building were not quiet. From time to time, the painful cries of patients and the hurried footsteps of nurses and doctors could be heard.
Luo Xin's heart trembled a little. The image of the man lying on the hospital bed was still lingering in his mind, as if it had triggered the memory switch that he had wrapped up with great difficulty, and the past poured down like a waterfall.
All the things related to him and unrelated to him came flooding back to her. Her legs went weak and she fell directly onto the steps. She bent over and tears welled up in her eyes.
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I don't know how long I cried. Tears streamed down my cheeks, pooled at my chin, and finally dripped onto the cold tiled floor of the hospital, making a barely audible sound.
When she finally looked up, a pair of black leather boots suddenly appeared in front of her - shiny, neat, and without a trace of dust.
Looking up from the boots, there is a straight trouser line, slender legs, and finally a cool and delicate face.
"Wipe it off."
A tissue was handed to her, and Luo Xin finally realized her mistake. She hurriedly took it and said thank you. When she wiped her tears and looked up again, she recognized the face.
Sun Wei, a forensic doctor from the Criminal Investigation Brigade and Yu Hao's colleague.
Luo Xin had seen her several times before, each time only nodding in greeting from a distance. Now she was standing before him, her short hair neatly tucked behind her ears, revealing a sharply defined jawline.
"You..." Luo Xin's voice was hoarse, "Why are you here?"
Sun Wei looked at her, her eyes as calm as water: "I wanted to go to your house to find you." Her eyes swept across Luo Xin's red and swollen eyes, "I didn't expect you to follow me after you left the house."
Luo Xin clenched the tissue in her hand. She subconsciously looked towards the ward, then quickly averted her gaze. This small movement did not escape Sun Wei's eyes.
"Want to chat?" Sun Wei leaned slightly to the side, indicating the exit at the end of the corridor. "There's a small garden behind the hospital."
Luo Xin looked at her calm eyes behind her glasses and suddenly lost the energy to refuse. She nodded and followed Sun Wei out of the hospital building.
There was a layer of moisture on the bench in the garden. Sun Wei took out a tissue from her pocket, wiped it, and sat down first.
Luo Xin sat down next to her. She could smell the faint scent of disinfectant on Sun Wei, mixed with a crisp cedar aroma.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Luo Xin spoke first, his fingers unconsciously picking at the frayed edge of his down jacket cuffs. "Is it about Yu Hao?"
She was almost certain that at this time and place, apart from Yu Hao, there would be no intersection between them.
Sun Wei didn't answer directly, but turned to look at the lighted windows on the third floor of the inpatient department. Xiao Yan was lying in one of the rooms. "Who's in there?"
Luo Xin's heart skipped a beat. After a moment, her voice suddenly turned cold, with a defensive sharpness, "This has nothing to do with you."
Sun Wei ignored her hostility, her face remained calm, her gaze fixed on Luo Xin's face, "I came to you because of Yu Hao. I don't want to see him wasting time like this anymore."
"Wait?" Luo Xin smiled, a hint of bitterness in her voice. "Officer Sun, this is a matter between me and Yu Hao. Don't you think you're meddling too much?"
She recalled the respect Yu Hao used when he occasionally mentioned Sun Wei, saying she was the most reliable forensic doctor on the team. "Are you police officers really so unreasonable?"
"It's indeed your business." Sun Wei's voice remained calm, but Luo Xin noticed that her fingers tightened slightly, "But Yu Hao's business is my business."
These words were like a blunt knife, slowly and firmly piercing Luo Xin's heart.
The cold wind blew snow foam past. Luo Xin wrapped his down jacket tightly, but he still felt the cold penetrate through the bones. "So what do you want?"
"I want to know, what do you think of him?" Sun Wei's voice was soft, but every word was clear. "Twelve years, from the time you were pregnant with Luo Xue until she started elementary school. You've been together for so long, and you haven't fallen in love?" She paused, then added, "I mean love."
Luo Xin's fingertips suddenly tightened, his nails digging deep into his palms, and his body trembled uncontrollably. This question was like a heavy hammer, hitting Luo Xin so hard that he couldn't breathe.
She looked at the lights of the hospital in the distance. The lighted windows were like countless pairs of eyes, staring at them coldly.
"I don't know what you mean by love." Luo Xin lowered his head and looked at his blurry shadow on the snow. "Is it saying I love you every day, or is it as grand and passionate as in TV dramas?"
Sun Wei smiled. It was the first time Luo Xin had ever seen her smile. It wasn't a perfunctory gesture; she genuinely curled her lips. The fine lines around her eyes smoothed out, like a gentle crack in the ice. "Maybe... seeing him in pain makes you feel the pain too."
Luo Xin's heart trembled suddenly, as if it was being tightly grasped by something.
This blunt question caught Luo Xin off guard. She turned to look at Sun Wei, whose gaze was as clear as a pool of water, without the slightest evasion.
"What about you?" Luo Xin asked back, his voice trembling slightly, with the courage of a desperate gamble. "Do you love Yu Hao?"
The air seemed to freeze for a second. Sun Wei's expression relaxed for a moment, but she quickly regained her composure.
She took a deep breath, as if making up her mind. "Love," she said firmly. "Very much."
There was no hesitation, no evasion, just as natural as saying "It's very cold today".
Luo Xin was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled. She was a little jealous. Not because Sun Wei loved Yu Hao, but because she was so open about it. She was jealous that she could openly admit it, that she could fight for it with confidence. Unlike herself...
"What about you?" Sun Wei asked after a long time.
"I..." Luo Xin's voice choked. "I love him too." These words seemed to come from the deepest part of her heart. "Love goes deep into my bones, into my blood... I could even die for him."
Sun Wei's pupils contracted slightly, but she didn't say anything, just waited quietly for what was to come.
"But I can't be with him." Luo Xin finally raised her head, tears sparkling in the moonlight, "Never."
Sun Wei frowned. "You love him, why don't you stay with him?" Her voice was unusually anxious. "Can't you see? Yu Hao—"
"Officer Sun," Luo Xin suddenly interrupted her, his voice soft but firm. "Do you have time for a story?"
The night wind blew again, blowing away Luo Xin's hair. Her face still bore traces of the tears from before.
The sound of an ambulance siren was heard in the distance, getting closer and closer, and then gradually disappearing.
Sun Wei looked at Luo Xin deeply and slowly sat back on the bench: "I have plenty of time."
Luo Xin looked up at the night sky, which seemed to hold the memories she least wanted to mention. "Let me tell you a long story. After listening to it, you will understand who is lying in the hospital, and you will also understand why I can't be with Yu Hao."
Her voice was soft, but it was like a key that was about to open the door that had been closed for a long time.
Sun Wei sat up straight unconsciously, as if she had a premonition that some important moment was about to come.
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