The pink rubber band in the phone camera was not tied firmly, and it seemed to hold the hair loosely. The slight lift did reveal a wider field of view. If you ignore the circle of pink, there seems to be no problem.
Chen Qizhao stared at the circle of pink for a long time, and had the urge to reach out and pull it off immediately.
Just before he made his move, he caught a glimpse of Shen Yuhuai who was sitting next to him, and the other person's gaze also lingered on his head.
Chen Qizhao reluctantly said, "It doesn't look good."
So ugly.
Shen Yuhuai said: "Suitable for you."
Chen Qizhao: “…”
With a click.
Before Chen Qizhao could react, the sound of a cell phone camera being used nearby rang several times in succession. He tilted his head slightly and saw Zhang Yazhi standing next to him with a cell phone in her hand, taking a lot of photos of the hair on top of his head.
Chen Qizhao: “…”
He looked at Shen Yuhuai: “It’s really not good looking.”
Shen Yuhuai paused, "Then shall I tie it up for you again?"
After the photo shoot, Zhang Yazhi kept selecting photos. Looking at the photo of Chen Qizhao with a cold face and that little tuft of hair, her heart softened for some reason. Her eyes could not help but stay on the interaction between the two people beside the bed. The youngest son of the Shen family has helped them a lot during this period. In addition to the matters of the Gu family, the Shen and Chen families have been in contact more frequently recently.
As for Shen Yuhuai, her first impression was still that of the polite child when he was young. Every time he came to her house, he would bring Chen Qizhao, who was considered a friend, to play with him. The two had a good relationship since childhood. But later, the Shen family had more things to do and Shen Yuhuai went to study in City B, so their relationship gradually faded. However, it seemed that their relationship had returned to normal since last year.
Shen Yuhuai has never been a talkative person, and Zhang Yazhi had noticed it keenly when she came to the house before. For this reason, she specifically asked Shen Yuhuai's mother, and learned from her that Shen Yuhuai was an introverted and quiet child. The Shen family did have big problems during that period, and the Shen siblings may have felt that compared to the extroverted Shen Xuelan, Shen Yuhuai's mind would be more introverted, and his interactions with outsiders were limited to the level of politeness.
When Chen Shiming and Shen Xuelan went into the study to study, even though they didn't say much, he still stayed by the side of Chen Qizhao who was still playing around.
After all, there was an age gap, and Chen Qizhao was usually a playful person. Zhang Yazhi once thought that the two children would not get along well, but it seemed not as bad as she thought.
Zhang Yazhi lowered her head slightly and suddenly felt her eyes getting a little hot. She turned away from the child and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her little finger.
Shen Yuhuai was on leave on Saturday, so he stayed in the hospital with Chen Qizhao.
The two did not say much, and when Chen Qizhao was flipping through the magazine, Shen Yuhuai sat beside him and looked at the document on his phone.
There was a chair next to the bed. Shen Yuhuai casually spread his legs and read his mobile phone. From Chen Qizhao's perspective, he could see the English journals on the phone. The other party read a little fast. It didn't take long before his finger opened the next page.
Chen Qizhao had seen such scenes before. When he was hospitalized before, Shen Yuhuai also sat aside and played with his mobile phone when he came to the hospital to see him.
The atmosphere was no different from before, but Chen Qizhao always had a strange feeling.
When a person is clear-headed, he will always think about illogical things uncontrollably, just like yesterday in the bathroom not far away, he pressed Shen Yuhuaiqin for no reason. It seemed like a long time had passed since they confirmed their relationship, and dating seemed to have become some kind of implicit rule, tacitly becoming the norm in both of their hearts, so much so that at certain uncontrollable times, he only wanted to kiss Shen Yuhuai.
It’s hard to describe the feeling, but it’s different from the feeling I had in the hotel or the grilled fish restaurant at school.
It seemed as if Shen Yuhuai had never asked anything and only indulged him endlessly in all his actions.
Chen Qizhao couldn't explain the logic of his recent behavior.
Are he and Shen Yuhuai really dating?
What did Shen Yuhuai think of him?
Difficult problems popped up one after another, and it was difficult for Chen Qizhao to focus on the magazine. Even though it was talking about the algorithm he was interested in, it was not as vivid as the moving fingers in the distance. He half-lowered his eyes, his sight seemed to follow Shen Yuhuai's fingers, seeing him turn one page and then move on to the next.
My forehead felt chilly, and without the bangs to cover it, certain feelings were always too clear.
His eyes followed the finger, and intermittent words emerged in his empty mind. He began to examine his behavior during this period.
Chen Qizhao forced himself to look away and grabbed the phone next to him. However, just two minutes into playing Tetris, the battery-low notification popped up.
At this moment, he noticed the gaze from the side.
"What's wrong?" Shen Yuhuai looked over.
Chen Qizhao: "My phone is out of battery."
Hearing this, Shen Yuhuai stood up, took out a tablet from the backpack next to him, and handed it to him: “Password 0108.”
The tablet fell into Chen Qizhao's hands. When he opened it, he found that there were several apps on the desktop that he didn't recognize.
In addition to information, Shen Yuhuai's tablet only contained various practical apps, but no games. He even spent a long time searching the app store. Chen Qizhao had just scrolled past a page when he saw a Tetris icon that looked exactly like his phone app icon behind an app on the last page.
Chen Yuhuai uses his tablet frequently, and the game app appears on the last page.
He doesn’t play games, but he has added a gaming app to his work apps, which he downloaded recently.
Chen Qizhao couldn't help but glance at Shen Yuhuai. The other party was close, and everything on the phone was clearly visible.
The other party didn't seem to be reading those English journals. He had just opened a document, and when he scrolled over it, there were several chemical structures.
Chen Qizhao opened Tetris and the game sound was particularly loud.
Zhang Yazhi glanced over there and saw that it was Chen Qizhao playing games, then quickly lowered her eyes to look at the work draft.
Chen Qizhao turned off the sound of the game, and had already logged into Shen Yuhuai's WeChat account, with his profile picture being fireworks on the beach. He clicked on it and played a few games, but soon lost interest and quit. His eyes stayed on the tablet album app for a long time, without clicking in, and finally opened the browser next to it.
The room was quiet, without the sound of fingernails touching tablet pages.
The tablet in the distance seemed to have stopped at a certain browsing page for a long time. When Shen Yuhuai's hand swiped to the next page, he looked at the broken English annotations. His fingers moved slightly, scrolling to the previous page of the document and rereading this paragraph. When he was reading it for the third time, Shen Yuhuai raised his eyes slightly and noticed that the browsing page on the tablet seemed to be closed.
Someone wasn't looking at the web page, but was looking at him.
Shen Yuhuai raised his eyes and met those unobstructed eyes. Without the bangs, Chen Qizhao's eyes seemed to be a little brighter than yesterday.
The two stared at each other for a while, and Shen Yuhuai said, "Hand."
Chen Qizhao stretched out his hand.
Shen Yuhuai held his hand, and with the cover of his body, the two held hands unscrupulously.
Chen Qizhao glanced in Zhang Yazhi's direction and couldn't help but adjust his posture. He lowered his voice and said, "I don't want to hold hands."
"That's what I think." Shen Yuhuai pinched his fingers, lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the things on his phone, "Wait a moment, I'll finish reading this article quickly."
Chen Qizhao responded and hooked his little finger at Chen Yuhuai.
Sitting on the sofa in the room, Zhang Yazhi was still looking at the drawings. On the table were the design drawings accumulated during this period. She did not notice that the distance between the two people beside the bed not far away seemed to be getting closer and closer.
There were quite a lot of things Liu Sui sent, and when Shen Yuhuai finished reading them, he seemed to hear steady breathing next to him.
He looked to the side and saw that the boy had fallen asleep without him knowing when.
Shen Yuhuai was about to roll the bed down, and when he moved, his little finger was pulled by some force.
He stopped moving and saw that his little finger was circled by the other party.
"Xiao Zhao fell asleep?" Zhang Yazhi's voice came over, "He took those medicines and felt sleepy. He might be sleepy now."
Shen Yuhuai's eyes darkened slightly. When he heard Zhang Yazhi's footsteps approaching, he carefully pulled out his fingers.
Zhang Yazhi lowered her voice and asked, "Will Yu Huai stay here for lunch?"
Shen Yuhuai had just lowered the bed and was about to answer when he heard this, but the phone in his pocket vibrated at this moment.
Yan Kaiqi's name was displayed on the phone screen. He said, "I have something to do. I won't stay here for lunch."
Shen Yuhuai didn't answer the call and inadvertently opened the camera of his mobile phone.
Zhang Yazhi felt a little regretful, she went over to pull Chen Qizhao's quilt, and handed Shen Yuhuai's tablet to him, "Is this yours?"
Several VX reminders popped up on the phone, and Yan Kaiqi sent several greetings.
Shen Yuhuai turned off his phone: “Well, tell him when he wakes up.”
After leaving the hospital, Shen Yuhuai drove to a coffee shop. After a while, Yan Kaiqi came in from outside with a computer briefcase. After a round of inspection, he sat down next to Shen Yuhuai.
"Just came out of the hospital?" Yan Kaiqi sat down next to him and quickly pulled out something from the page. "I'll call you as soon as the information is restored. But why are you doing this? You should have more information than me. Why are you asking me this?"
Shen Yuhuai: “No, better confirm it again.”
Gu Shen had sent someone to hack into Yan Kaiqi's computer before, but later Shen Yuhuai had someone check the computer and found no malicious programs implanted inside. He was mainly curious about how Gu Shen discovered Yan Kaiqi. He originally thought it was due to connections in the capital, but he always felt that he was missing something.
Gu Shen’s social circle here is limited. Apart from Lin’s Medical, are there any potential contact networks?
"All the data that can be recovered is here." Yan Kaiqi suddenly remembered something when he said this, "Oh, yes, there was one thing we checked initially that we couldn't recover. Didn't you suspect the extraction of controlled substances at the beginning? When we checked the one before the extraction of controlled substances, we couldn't find the data of the institutions allowed by the market. It's been too long, so maybe I deleted it in advance."
Shen Yuhuai was looking at the information on the computer, and handed over the tablet from his bag, “It should be in there, save a copy, and then check if there is any information change at the agency.”
With the collapse of Lin’s Medical, there have been too many things happening in S City recently.
"I should have brought an extra computer." Yan Kaiqi found the document and took pictures of the names of several institutions. "I used your tablet to check it."
Shen Yuhuai stared at the computer intently: “Yeah.”
"Didn't we make sure there was no problem at the beginning? How come…"
Yan Kaiqi had just opened the browser when he suddenly stopped.
Shen Yuhuai noticed his silence and looked up: “What’s wrong?”
Yan Kaiqi turned the tablet over and found a few lines of words under the browser search box that were particularly eye-catching.
"How to interact after confirming the relationship? What is the cool-off period between lovers? Oh my god..." He was shocked: "Chen Yuhuai, are you in a relationship?"
Shen Yuhuai pulled away the tablet.
Several days passed in a flash, and there were fewer nurses in the hospital. After Chen Shiming finished reading the magazines he brought, Chen Qizhao picked up his textbook and discussed the final exam results with his classmates. He missed the final exam this semester. If he wanted to complete his degree, he couldn't fail any course. Chen Qizhao had no choice but to ask Yan Kailin to find someone to get the questions and outlines of their major's final exam.
Although the courses this semester were not difficult, he still went through the outline to be on the safe side.
He has been in the hospital for some time, but Zhang Yazhi has always been worried. Between going home to recuperate and recovering and staying in the hospital, she insisted on staying in the hospital. The situation seems to have improved in the past few days. Chen Qizhao found that the hallucinations caused by the drugs were gradually reduced, the initial reactions of the drugs were reduced, and other symptoms such as nausea were also becoming less and less.
When Zhang Yazhi was communicating with the doctor, Chen Qizhao heard a few words and heard that the adaptation period of the drug reaction had passed and his condition was improving.
Chen Qizhao didn't feel anything about it, but Zhang Yazhi smiled more often.
Xiao Zhou seldom comes to the hospital as he has a lot of things to do at the company.
When he came to the hospital that day, he brought the project that Feihong and Shen were working on together and showed it to Chen Qizhao.
"And this, Special Assistant Xu gave me, is the interim results of the Lin Medical case." Xiao Zhou brought a bunch of documents and gave them all to Chen Qizhao.
Lin Shizhong’s matter is a foregone conclusion, but Gu’s family’s matter is not. During this period, Chen Qizhao noticed that the cooperation between the Chen family and Gu Zhengxun was still ongoing. The Lin Medical case was going smoothly, but the progress on the Gu side was a bit slow.
Chen Qizhao looked around, then marked a few things on the non-macro projects and asked Xiao Zhou to go back and negotiate again: "The stage goals have been determined at the beginning. I want the actual effect, not the expected effect. Don't use the old framework to deal with it. Manual functions can be used, but manual functions cannot replace automatic functions."
Xiao Zhou received the order and rushed back to continue working overtime.
Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly, but finally took out his mobile phone and sent a message to an anonymous number.
There were already doubts about Chen Shiming's suicide in his previous life, but the circumstances at the time made it impossible to identify a third party, and the police classified the case as suicide. At that time, Chen's family had gone bankrupt and had only a handful of enemies. His attention was all on Lin Shizhong, but he ignored the Gu family lurking in the dark. Lin Shizhong was arrogant and thought highly of himself. As long as he was still alive, there was no need for him to attack Chen Shiming who had no ability to resist, let alone something as elaborate as faking suicide.
But when it comes to Gu Shen, the desperado will do anything.
Now he couldn't explore the final truth of his previous life. He had no way of finding out the reason why Chen Shiming was killed. The most likely conclusion was that Gu Shen had attacked Chen Shiming in his previous life. It could be that he had interfered too much with Lin's medical care, or it could be that Chen Shiming had found out something... The reason was still unknown. The most likely scenario was that Gu Shen wanted to wipe out the roots.
Now is different from a few years later. Gu Shen and Lin Shizhong's network of relationships outside is different from that in the future. Now that these two have been imprisoned, it does not mean that they will not have other backup plans outside. To be on the safe side, we still have to find out all other things, including some related people.
Only when everything is clear can some things stabilize.
In the hospital's consulting room, the doctor checked the medical records and finally said to the person in front of him, "The recent situation has indeed improved. Chen Qizhao himself is an independent person with strong ability to resolve problems. He can achieve a specific transformation in certain emotions. Many people will have various extreme reactions during anxiety, but he rarely has such a situation."
When Chen Qizhao was being treated earlier, his attitude was actually calm and casual. He said he was cooperating, but in fact, he didn't ask some of the questions that should have been asked.
But recently his mood seems to have stabilized. During daily inquiries, he can be heard cooperating in telling the number of times the auditory hallucinations occur, which has greatly promoted their treatment progress.
Chen Shiming said: "Does that mean he won't encounter this kind of situation in the future?"
"That's not necessarily true. Ordinary people can also experience anxiety or depression. The key is that they can quickly resolve these emotions and not let them develop into illnesses." The doctor continued, "But for people like them, if they have experienced it once, there is a possibility of relapse. He will probably have to take the medicine for another six months. He can currently regulate his condition. Apart from the medicine, the rest depends on you and your family."
To reassure Chen Shiming, the doctor added: "He has good personal adjustment ability and is not seriously ill yet. If it is based on the current situation, he should be able to adjust in one or two months. Your family members should not pay too much attention to it. Just get along naturally and don't put too much pressure on the child."
After Chen Shiming left the ward, the doctor looked at the medical record and sighed.
To be honest, this was the first time he had seen a patient like Chen Qizhao. The calmness during the previous period was a warning light to them. If the patient had a violent reaction, it would be fine, as they could adjust the plan based on the severity of the situation. However, when it came to Chen Qizhao, he had no idea where to start several times.
The other person's calmness is like a pool of black water, but that water is not necessarily dead, especially that pair of eyes, which are obviously very beautiful, but every time they look at people, they have a scrutinizing look.
It didn't look like an anxiety patient, but rather like a ferocious wolf that was alert to everything. This contradictory situation occurred several times in Chen Qizhao. The doctors originally thought that the situation would deteriorate to the point where it would be difficult to deal with. However, when such a person calmed down, the improvement was visible to the naked eye.
The nurse looked at him and asked, "Should the dose for bed 5 be reduced?"
"It can be reduced. His condition has stabilized."
The doctor thought about it carefully and said, "However, in his case, it is recommended that he be re-examined every six months after he is discharged from the hospital."
Outside the ward, Special Assistant Xu stood next to his boss. Seeing that his boss's attention was all on the paper report, he did not report his work, but asked, "Do you want to send the documents over tonight?"
During this period, whenever the boss came to the hospital, he would always ask him to bring some documents with him on the way at night.
But the situation is much better than the previous two weeks. At least there are no work calls in the middle of the night.
"No need." Chen Shiming handed the report to Special Assistant Xu, "Go back to the company and give this to Mr. Chen, then you can go home. You don't have to get off work overtime today."
Special Assistant Xu: “!”
Seeing his subordinate's joy revealed on his face, Chen Shiming glanced at him and said, "Why? Are you still staying here?"
Special Assistant Xu stood up straight: "I'll go and take it right away."
Chen Shiming and Chen Jianhong came to the hospital once a day, but they didn't stay for long and were often temporarily transferred due to work.
After the dosage was reduced, Chen Qizhao did not have nightmares for several days and his spirits recovered a lot. Finally, Zhang Yazhi was relieved and said that he would be discharged from the hospital the day after tomorrow.
"So you want to wait until the new semester to take the make-up exam?" Yan Kailin came here today and brought Cheng Rong and others with him. The quiet ward was filled with a little more noise. "This hospital stay is too long."
Chen Qizhao responded: "He should be discharged the day after tomorrow."
Yan Kailin said happily: "Okay, then Cheng Rong and I will set up a game for you to wash away your bad luck."
"You just want to eat and drink by yourself, right?" Liu Kai said again: "Come to my bar and I'll open some good wine for you."
But a group of people came and couldn’t go out for drinks and hang out, so Yan Kailin finally started a game.
Yan Kailin chirped: "Hey Liu Kai!! That's my soldier!"
Liu Kai said: "It's not a big deal to eat a few of your soldiers."
After finishing a game, Zhang Yazhi brought some fruit.
Yan Kailin wanted to start another game, but Cheng Rong casually said something else: "Won't Xiao Zhao's birthday be in a while? Why are you still celebrating your birthday in the hospital?"
Chen Qizhao raised his eyes slightly and remembered something: "Birthday?"
Oh yeah…it does seem like his birthday is coming up soon. He had no concept of time. He always felt like a long time had passed, but it seemed like only a short period of time had passed. Shen Yuhuai's birthday party seemed to be just around the corner, but in the blink of an eye, his birthday was almost here.
These days, Zhang Yazhi often uses her mobile phone to browse shopping websites, and occasionally asks about his interests.
He didn't take it to heart, but asked Xiao Zhou to go to the counter and buy two bags.
"Brother, what kind of candy is this?" Yan Kailin glanced at the glass bottle on the bedside table. Just as he reached out to take it, Chen Qizhao pushed his hand away and said, "It's in the drawer, take it yourself."
Yan Kailin felt very confused. He opened the drawer and saw a bag of unopened candy, but wasn’t the one in this bottle opened?
After a while, the cell phone that Chen Qizhao placed next to him rang, and an unfamiliar number popped up.
Liu Kai asked if he wanted to play again.
"You guys drive, I'm going to the bathroom." Chen Qizhao picked up his cell phone, got out of bed and went to the bathroom.
Once the bathroom door is closed, it is isolated from the sounds outside.
The phone continued to ring. Chen Qizhao opened an app and answered the call: "Go ahead."
The person on the other end of the line was none other than the intelligence dealer who had been helping him investigate the matter. Chen Qizhao was not in a good mental state some time ago, and the other party called him several times but he didn't respond. Later, Chen Qizhao called him back when he was free and settled the unsettled bills. He also asked him to check the people related to Gu Shen a few days ago.
"I checked all the people who went in with Gu Shen. Some of them are from City B. They should have been brought here when Gu Shen came. But two of them are from City S. The police have also been under martial law recently regarding matters related to Gu Shen. The people related to those two people should have been checked by the police. One of them is from a local black den and has committed many illegal and criminal acts."
Flowered Shirt didn't know why the boss was interested in people related to Gu Shen. "But don't worry, everyone who has contact with Gu Shen is being closely watched, and Gu Shen can't get out. Rather than talking about the situation in S City, it's better to talk about the situation in B City..."
Chen Qizhao paused for a moment and asked, "What's going on in City B?"
"Oh yeah, the boss doesn't know about this yet, right? It happened this morning."
Flowered shirt sat in front of the computer and pulled up a document. "Gu Zhengsong is out."
The light in the bathroom was a little dim, and the mirror reflected the figure of Chen Qizhao standing next to him.
Chen Qizhao's fingers moved inadvertently, and he turned on the sink switch on the washstand. "How did you get out?"
So many illegal and criminal activities have been directly pointed at Gu Zhengsong's faction. Recently, there has been a lot of movement in the capital. Several industries under Gu Zhengsong have been thoroughly investigated, and problems have been found in some of them. With so much evidence thrown at him, how could Gu Zhengsong get away with it?
“Gu Zhengsong is really cruel.” The man in the flowered shirt flipped through the information and continued, “He pushed all the blame onto Gu Shen.”
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