Chapter 42 It's Not Our Fault

# Chapter 41 It's not our fault

Although I was reluctant to leave this place, it was time to say goodbye.

The next morning, Qiao Shuyan helped Wen Qingluo make drinks, Liang Yu sat in the booth to deal with his work emails, and Feng Zhi continued to be his slave. This peaceful time was fleeting, and at noon, after the four of them had something to eat together, Qiao Shuyan and Liang Yu had to embark on their journey home.

After getting his boarding pass at the airport and going through security, Qiao Shuyan looked back at Feng Zhi and Wen Qingluo who were not far away. He was very reluctant to leave, so he ran to hug Wen Qingluo and said, "I will miss you." Wen Qingluo was stunned for a moment, thinking that he was really like a child. She couldn't help but stroke his head and comforted him that maybe they would go to City B soon.

Because the airport was not big, they did not come early and were very tight on time. After saying goodbye in a hurry, Qiao Shuyan went through security with Liang Yu in a depressed mood to board the plane.

When they arrived in City B, it was just getting dark. After a long journey, they ate a few bites at the doorstep and went home.

When he got home, Qiao Shuyan relaxed again, as if the short holiday until noon today was just a dream.

After the holiday, they returned to the boring work routine that seemed endless day after day. I don't know why, the work that I used to think was insignificant now seems to be boring and unbearable. Qiao Shuyan was staring at the report on the computer, his mind wandering, thinking about the next holiday time, and recalling the happy and pleasant time they spent together in that short time.

"Section Chief Xiao Qiao."

Qiao Shuyan was startled when he suddenly heard someone calling him. He immediately came to his senses and looked to his side. The person calling him was a colleague in the department. He hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"Oh, the section chief asked you to go to his office. He said he has something to talk to you about." After saying this, the colleague returned to his workstation.

Qiao Shuyan keenly smelled some smoke on this colleague who usually didn't smoke. He frowned, saved the half-finished document, and while wondering what the section chief wanted to talk to him about, he stood up and walked towards the section chief's office.

The section chief's office was just across from them. He knocked on the door and pushed it open after hearing a response. The office was filled with a rare smoke, and the section chief was sitting behind his computer with a cigarette in his mouth. When he saw him coming, he motioned for him to sit down on the chair in front of the desk.

Qiao Shuyan suddenly felt uneasy for no reason.

Although their section chief was a bit arrogant, he was usually very friendly to him, and he was also acquainted with his mother in some way - he had asked the section chief for help when he found a job. But today he looked a little strange. His brows were furrowed, and the cigarette in his mouth was finished. He took it out and put it in the ashtray - there should be at least ten cigarette butts in the ashtray, and then he lit another one.

Qiao Shuyan's uneasiness grew stronger. The section chief was not a heavy smoker because there were regulations in the hospital. He did not often smoke in the office. Occasionally, when he had a lot of work to do, he would smoke one or two cigarettes, but that was obviously not the case today.

"Do you know why I want to talk to you about this?" the section chief asked him in between his breaths.

Qiao Shuyan shook his head honestly, "I don't know."

The section chief held the cigarette in his hand, sighed slightly, and took the mobile phone on the table with his other hand, scratched it a few times, and handed it to him, "Take a look for yourself."

There was a surveillance video playing in the phone. Qiao Shuyan looked down and his face turned pale in an instant. Soon, he looked up at the section chief, stunned, and didn't say a word for a long time.

Qiao Shuyan didn't know how he left the section chief's office, or even when he left the hospital. When he came to his senses, he found himself standing in the office building where Liang Yu's company was located. At this moment, he felt lost. Although he had arrived at Liang Yu's company, he didn't want to contact him, or he was instinctively afraid to tell him about this. He didn't know how to tell him what he was experiencing.

He paced back and forth in the lobby with a frown on his face.

The girl at the front desk of the office building watched him for a long time. Seeing that he didn't go to the front desk or make a phone call, she didn't know what kind of person he was. However, he was quite handsome and didn't look like a bad person. The girl hesitated for a long time before getting up from her chair and asked him, "Sir, do you need any help?"

Qiao Shuyan was startled when he heard this and said quickly, "No need, thank you."

"Then you..." The little girl hesitated.

Qiao Shuyan glanced at his phone. It was only a little after four in the afternoon. Liang Yu's normal working time was six, not to mention that he often worked overtime.

He thought about it and felt that it would be better not to tell Liang Yu about this matter, so as not to upset him, so he shook his head and said, "I'm fine, sorry, I'm just..."

"Shuyan?"

Qiao Shuyan was halfway through his words when he was interrupted by a familiar voice. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Liang Yu and several men in suits coming towards him.

Seeing this, the girl politely returned to the front desk.

Qiao Shuyan didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just curled the corners of his mouth.

Liang Yu asked his colleagues to go back to the company first, and walked up to Qiao Shuyan. Seeing that he looked unhappy, he frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I..." Qiao Shuyan hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything. Then he turned to ask him, "Why are you here?"

Liang Yu explained, "We just came back from Party A's place, and we saw you as soon as we came in. We didn't believe it at first, but when we got closer, we realized it was you."

The two walked to the coffee shop and sat down on the high stool by the window. Liang Yu bought two cups of coffee and gave one to Qiao Shuyan. "Are you in a bad mood?"

Qiao Shuyan nodded, still not wanting to say anything. However, Liang Yu did not urge him, but just looked at him gently, "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it."

Qiao Shuyan thought about it and realized that he and Liang Yu’s relationship should be the closest now. What couples fear most is mutual distrust, so he hesitated and told him what had just happened at the unit.

——The surveillance video that the section chief showed him just now has three people, him, Liang Yu, and the little girl who asked him for her WeChat some time ago. He has forgotten her name. The video is not long, and the content is the day when Liang Yu confessed to him. Originally, there was nothing special, but the camera captured the scene of the two kissing at the door of the main duty room clearly. Moreover, Liang Yu lived with him in the main duty room that day. The two events connected together make people imagine what happened in the room.

Although nothing actually happened in the duty room that night, any explanation in words seems so pale in the face of this video.

Moreover, Qiao Shuyan knew in his heart that what happened in the house was not important - that was just left for everyone's imagination - what happened outside the house and was faithfully recorded by the camera was what they actually wanted to express.

Therefore, when Qiao Shuyan saw the video, his expression changed, and the section chief’s meaning was crystal clear.

Liang Yu frowned after hearing this. The hospital's intention was self-evident. They called Qiao Shuyan to the office and showed him the surveillance video without saying anything. They just hoped that he would know better and resign on his own initiative, so as to avoid the hospital dismissing him.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Liang Yu believes that the hospital is actually in a "difficult situation". After this happened, they naturally wanted to dismiss Qiao Shuyan, but they did not have a legitimate reason, so they adopted this method to make him give up and resign voluntarily.

However, this problem is not Liang Yu's most concerned thing at the moment. He is more worried that the person in front of him who he cares about will retreat because of this and then choose to separate from him...

In his opinion, work is a two-way choice, so the worst consequence of this matter is that Qiao Shuyan will change jobs. Of course, this is not a result he would like to see anyway. However, this matter is always controllable, but emotional matters - especially when the other party has believed that he is a straight man for the past 26 years - are very difficult to talk about.

This made Liang Yu uneasy.

However, how to deal with this matter mainly depends on Qiao Shuyan's thoughts. No matter how Liang Yu's heart roared uncontrollably at this moment, he could not and would not make a decision for Qiao Shuyan.

"What do you think?" Liang Yu tried to ask.

Qiao Shuyan frowned and shook his head, "I don't know."

Liang Yu paused and asked, "Do you want to resign?"

Qiao Shuyan looked at him, and his clear eyes suddenly showed some pain. He knew what the section chief meant, and he knew this possibility, but he didn't expect Liang Yu to ask it without hesitation.

Liang Yu couldn't bear to see him in such pain, so he sighed slightly, let go of his obsession, and raised his hand to rub his head, "In other words, do you still want to work in this hospital?"

Hearing this, Qiao Shuyan shook his head in confusion.

In fact, he was a person without much of his own opinion. He filled out his college entrance examination application based on the advice of his mother and sister. He also took his family's ideas into consideration when choosing his major. Even his post-graduation job was decided for him by Sun Xumin.

Do you want to work in a hospital?

In fact, he had never considered this question, and no one had ever asked him about it, so he had never thought about it seriously. Even the thought of what kind of work to do had hardly crossed his mind.

You could say he just goes with the flow or just goes with the flow, but up to now, he hasn't felt there's anything wrong with this kind of life.

Although his family was not wealthy, there was absolutely no problem in ensuring his food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and he himself was not a person with many desires.

Therefore, Qiao Shuyan felt that the question Liang Yu asked him now actually had little to do with this incident. This question was more like pushing him to a fork in the road, with countless roads for him to choose from, and the future of each road was so unclear, including his current job, which should have been clear at a glance, but became unclear because of what happened this afternoon.

Seeing him like this, Liang Yu finally couldn't help but hold him in his arms and whispered, "This is my fault. I shouldn't have been so impulsive at the time, and I shouldn't have done it in public..."

"It's not your fault," Qiao Shuyan interrupted him eagerly, raised his head and looked at Liang Yu, his tone was particularly firm, "If anyone should take responsibility for this matter, it is definitely not you."

Liang Yu was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Liang Yu, despite what happened, everything that happened between you and me in the general duty room that day was a wonderful time for me, and I have never regretted it." Qiao Shuyan paused, and continued as if remembering something, "In fact, until just now I couldn't figure out why I wanted to find you but didn't want to contact you. Now I know, I was just afraid that you would blame yourself for it."

"I……"

"I'm sure you didn't choose to kiss me on that day and in that place just to make me lose my job or be gossiped about, so you don't have to bear any responsibility for it." Qiao Shuyan hugged Liang Yu back, brought him to her, and kissed his jaw. Then he said, "I don't know who sent this surveillance video to the section chief. Maybe the hospital leaders already know about it. But there is one thing that is beyond doubt - it's not our fault. We love each other and I don't think there is any problem."

Liang Yu just felt that his heart was so soft, and then it seemed as if something was surging up, and then, something called tears seemed to be about to come out.