Chapter 5 The most expensive scar cream.
"Why do you seem to be in a bad mood these days?"
When Chen Yu handed over the ice water, Zhou Ai was leaning against the mirror wall in the practice room with his head tilted back, his Adam's apple rolling up and down with his rapid breathing.
He looked like he'd just been pulled out of the water. His black sleeveless T-shirt clung to his body, highlighting the tense lines of his shoulders and back. Beads of sweat slid down his jawline, then fell to the ground as he raised his hand to wipe them away.
Zhou Ai took the water bottle. There was still silver glitter on her knuckles from rehearsal, which reflected slightly under the light.
As the water poured into his throat, the veins on his neck were clearly visible. A drop of sweat happened to slide down his temples, brushing against the unhealed wound on his brow.
The two had just finished a rehearsal, and Chen Yu was the special guest of the next tour.
For a full two hours, Zhou Ai hardly spoke a word and just followed the rhythm of the rehearsal.
Zhou Ai took out a mint candy from her bag and put it in her mouth before uttering the word "annoying".
"Is it okay for your wound to be soaked with sweat?" Shen Yu's eyes passed over his brow bone and he asked after taking a sip of water.
Speaking of this wound, Zhou Ai crunched the mint candy in his mouth, the cool sweetness exploding on his tongue. His eyelashes drooped, sweat condensing on their tips, and his head lowered, making it difficult to discern his true emotions.
Zhou Ai thought again of the situation when he went to the emergency department yesterday. He counted the time for changing the dressings on his fingers at home every day, but when he went there yesterday, he missed Chu Yi's working hours perfectly.
If I had known this earlier, I would have shamelessly asked Chu Yi for his contact information.
"Who cares? I don't make a living by my looks anyway." The mint candy in Zhou Ai's mouth made a "crunching" sound.
“That’s indeed…” Shen Yu’s gaze swept across Zhou Ai’s face. This face would be quite explosive in any section of the entertainment industry.
"By the way, I heard that Yingzhi is going back to China. We can get together then."
"If you hadn't mentioned him, I would have thought he had died abroad." Zhou Ai's mouth was still terribly poisonous.
"You say you sing so well, why are you so mean? I'm afraid you'll lick your lips and die here one day." Chen Yu rolled his eyes, took out his phone, glanced at the message, and his expression changed again, looking like he was in love.
"Could you please put away that shameless smile of yours?"
Now it was Zhou Ai's turn to roll his eyes.
"You don't understand. You'll know when you fall in love."
fall in love?
When Zhou Ai heard these three words, the first thing he thought of was Chu Yi's face.
He wiped the sweat off his handsome face in annoyance.
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When Chu Yi received Cheng Yingzhi's call, he was on his way to the airport. "Don't rush me. Traffic is terrible on Friday."
After saying that, he hung up Cheng Yingzhi's phone, leaving Cheng Yingzhi alone in the wind at the airport.
"What a bastard. How come he's just like that bastard Zhou Ai?"
Cheng Yingzhi looked at the hung up call. He originally wanted to remind Chu Yi to drive slower, but ended up being defeated.
"Do you want to go home directly or take you back to the old house?" Chu Yi moved Cheng Yingzhi's luggage swiftly, without forgetting his "identity" as a driver.
"Go home."
Chu Yi parked the car outside the international flight pick-up point. There were many people picking up passengers at this point. He waited until the cars in front of him had left one after another before he started the car and followed them out.
As a result, after taking a few steps, I saw a large group of people running towards me from the road.
"Zhou Ai!!! It's Zhou Ai!!!"
A huge crowd of people came from all directions like a tide, mobile phones, cameras, and light signs were shaking wildly in the air, and the dazzling flashes of lights were connected into one.
At the front of the crowd, a tall figure was walking quickly across the road. His black baseball cap was pulled down very low, and his mask covered most of his face, but Chu Yi still recognized those eyes at a glance.
"Fuck, isn't that Zhou Ai?" Cheng Yingzhi suddenly stood up and almost hit the roof of the car. "That's not right. Why is he at the airport?"
Cheng Yingzhi remembered that the WeChat message Shen Yu sent him that morning was a video of him and Zhou Ai rehearsing.
Zhou Ai ran very fast, but the fans chased him even more frantically. One girl almost jumped on his back, but he dodged sideways and stumbled a bit.
Chu Yi saw Zhou Ai subconsciously reach out to help, only for more hands to immediately grab his arms. The collar of his T-shirt was ripped askew, revealing half of his collarbone. His sweaty skin gleamed in the sunlight.
"Make way! Don't push!" Xu Yang tried his best to block the crowd from behind, and his voice became hoarse.
Chu Yi's car was forced to stop, and he looked through the windshield at Zhou Ai being surrounded by the crowd.
For a moment, Zhou Ai suddenly looked up, his gaze piercing through the chaotic crowd and directly into Chu Yi's eyes.
Chu Yi's breathing stagnated.
Zhou Ai's eyes were surprisingly bright, as if he had finally found something, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
He opened his mouth as if to say something, but the next second his view was blocked by the fans who squeezed over.
"Tsk, what a scene..." Cheng Yingzhi shook his head, "It's not easy to be a top star."
Chu Yi said nothing, simply watching the chaotic scene recede in the rearview mirror. Zhou Ai's figure had been lost in the sea of people, with only a few security guards struggling to clear the way.
The car restarted and merged into the traffic. Cheng Yingzhi suddenly noticed Chu Yi staring at the rearview mirror and raised an eyebrow: "Do you know him?"
"......"
Chu Yi retracted his gaze, "I just changed the medicine."
Cheng Yingzhi then remembered Zhou Ai's stage accident not long ago.
"He went to your hospital at that time? That was really a coincidence." Only Cheng Yingzhi's mumbling was left in the car.
Chu Yi absentmindedly turned on the turn signal and took a last look at the crowd of people walking away in the rearview mirror.
He vaguely recalled the message his colleague had sent him two days ago: "Zhou Ai came to change the dressing today, but you weren't there. She left disappointed."
In fact, he was at work that day, but because he had to go back home for the weekend, he had to change shifts and missed it completely.
Perhaps, true fate should be effortless.
The thin bond between him and Zhou Ai, as thin as a lotus root thread, would be broken without any effort.
After the car entered the main road, Chu Yi opened the window. The early autumn breeze brought in a cool air, but it couldn't blow away the pair of bright eyes in his mind.
"Hey, you're driving the wrong way." Cheng Yingzhi suddenly said, "My house turns left."
Chu Yi finally came to his senses and hurriedly turned on his turn signal. The tires scraped against the ground, making a harsh sound and attracting the honking of dissatisfaction from the car behind him.
"What's wrong with you today?" Cheng Yingzhi looked at him suspiciously, "Did you stay on duty all night again last night?"
"Yeah." Chu Yi responded vaguely, his fingers tapping the steering wheel unconsciously.
Cheng Yingzhi looked down at his phone for a moment, then swung the selfie Zhou Ai had recently posted in front of Chu Yi and suddenly laughed out loud, "If Zhou Ai had a scar on that face, his fans would cry to death."
Will it leave scars?
Chu Yi thought that probably wouldn’t happen.
He used the thinnest thread and chose the most time-consuming cosmetic suturing method. When changing the dressing, he would disinfect with iodine and then carefully scrub with saline to avoid leaving iodine-colored pigment deposits.
Even the scar removal cream I applied at the end was the most expensive one.
Of course, Zhou Ai thought that it was included in the normal medication during the dressing change.
In fact, it was the imported scar removal cream that Chu Yi bought with his own money.
"I'll introduce you two to each other sometime." Cheng Yingzhi said casually after turning off his phone.
Chu Yi paused while turning the steering wheel and said, "Let's talk about it later."
"You, you've been such a taciturn person since you were little. You should get more exposure to the outside world."
In fact, I have already come into contact with it.
Chu Yi added quietly in his heart.
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