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Tao Luobai was browsing his phone with one hand on the hospital bed for a while when he noticed someone coming into the ward.
He thought it was the nurse coming to apply medicine on him, so he raised his head and glanced at her, preparing to turn over and expose his back to her.
Unexpectedly, what I saw was Meng Yisheng's handsome face.
The owner of this handsome face is wearing a light blue sweatshirt and carrying an apple basket.
Meng Yisheng came to Tao Luobai's bed and placed the flower basket on the table beside him.
Meng Yisheng was getting closer to Tao Luobai, so Tao Luobai immediately stopped turning over. His phone fell onto the quilt because of his stiffness. Tao Luobai didn't know what to say at this moment, so he could only say the most ordinary words, "You came so early, have you eaten?"
Meng Yisheng nodded and shook his head. Although Tao Luobai was not sure what the meaning of his previous nod was, he knew that this kid must not have had breakfast.
Because Tao Luobai knew that Meng Yisheng had been here for less than half an hour and had bought a fruit basket for him. Even if he had dressed up early in the morning and waited for him to tell him to come over, it would still take a lot of time.
There is no time for breakfast at all.
Thinking of this, Tao Luobai stared at Meng Yisheng's clothes again.
It looked much more formal than his old clothes, which he had worn who knows how many years ago. Tao Luobai lowered his head and glanced at his balled cuffs, feeling inexplicably guilty.
At that time, Tao Luobai thought that since he would be lying in the hospital anyway, it didn't matter what he wore, so he specially found a set of clothes that didn't look that bright in the bottom of the closet. Unexpectedly, the difference was immediately apparent when he compared them with the clothes.
Tao Luobai changed the subject: "Why don't you go have breakfast first?"
Meng Yisheng shook his head and looked at Tao Luobai's face. "Have you lost weight?"
Lost weight? Not really. Tao Luobai thought that even though he had only eaten pork, cabbage and rice these days, he wouldn't be so thin that even Meng Yisheng could see it.
But since the topic has come to this, Tao Luobai changed his mind and decided to start the second round of probing from now on. He touched his face, as if measuring its fullness, and then said, complaining, "I do feel that I have lost weight. This illness has made it impossible for me to eat these past few days, and even the food I have been avoiding has no taste at all."
Meng Yisheng frowned slightly before saying, "I've checked your disease. You must avoid certain foods during the acute phase, otherwise it will relapse and become chronic, so."
Meng Yisheng paused here and said, "Those things that doctors say you can't eat are best not to be eaten. If you're really envious, then I'll eat with you every day. I'll eat exactly the same thing as you, and you won't feel so bad."
"You mean you have to eat with me every day?" This time it was Tao Luobai's turn to feel incredible.
Meng Yisheng is also a college student, right? He has classes too, and is about to start military training. Why is his daily routine so different from mine? Why can he even say such impossible things so easily?
Or perhaps Meng Yisheng knew that he couldn't do these things, so he just said them naturally.
Tao Luobai looked at Meng Yisheng and sighed, "You don't have to tell me this. I'm the one who's sick, not you. I'm already satisfied that you came to see me, and I won't ask you to do anything further."
What's more, the two of them are just a pair of familiar friends. Tao Luobai is not even sure whether the identity that is more than friends but less than lovers can exist.
"Do you understand what I mean? What you have done now is already very nice. If you take one step further, the relationship between us will be too ambiguous." Tao Luobai thought for a moment and said this.
Meng Yisheng had been staring at Tao Luobai intently from the moment he started speaking, his eyes meticulous. His expression did not change when he heard Tao Luobai's first sentence, but he frowned slightly when he heard the second sentence. However, his brows began to relax when he heard Tao Luobai's last sentence.
Meng Yisheng: "Aren't we already very ambiguous?" After saying that, he looked straight at Tao Luobai.
Tao Luobai didn't expect Meng Yisheng to repeat these words directly with such obvious aggressiveness. His heart was beating very fast in his chest. In order to reduce the discomfort, he turned his head slightly to avoid Meng Yisheng's sight.
"But you already have someone you like." Tao Luobai's voice was low in the ward. He didn't understand why, in such an extremely ambiguous atmosphere, he could still clearly grasp such a small detail and not give up. Perhaps, this was his subconscious unwillingness to be a mistress.
Although, he also understood that before Meng Yisheng was with the person he liked, he was not considered a mistress.
Meng Yisheng's brows, which had just relaxed, furrowed again. "What are you talking about? The person I like has always been..."
"Come, bed number 20, apply the medicine!" The nurse's cheerful voice suddenly appeared.
When the nurse entered the room and saw another handsome boy sitting next to Tao Luobai's bed, she almost couldn't close her mouth. "Do you have a friend to accompany you today?"
Tao Luobai nodded, and Meng Yisheng moved his chair slightly further away. He knew that Tao Luobai needed to apply the medicine, so they had to leave enough space.
The nurse pulled up most of the bed curtains in the room, forming a semi-enclosed and semi-closed space, and the side that was revealed was exactly where Meng Yisheng was sitting.
In order to apply medicine to the area with the most rashes on his back, Tao Luobai turned over, so he couldn't see directly what Meng Yisheng was doing at the moment.
He swallowed his saliva, thinking that Meng Yisheng would not take the opportunity to peek at his body. Although there was nothing interesting between boys, he was the person he liked after all. He would always be a little shy when he knew that he was being seen by others.
No matter how turbulent Tao Luobai's heart was and how lingering his thoughts were, he could not escape the fate of having his shirt lifted up by the nurse.
Tao Luobai shook his head left and right, but found that he could not turn his head behind him to look at Meng Yisheng no matter what. He completely accepted his fate and let his head fall into the soft pillow.
"Hey, your rash has subsided a lot today. I can't even tell where to apply it." The nurse's icy-cold liquid medicine hit Tao Luobai's back. Tao Luobai shuddered at the chill, but still said, "Are you feeling better now?"
"Yes." The nurse responded and continued applying the ointment.
The application of the medicine was completed quickly.
The nurse took the medicine bottle away. Before leaving, she saw something and joked to Meng Yisheng, "Since you are so interested, why don't you get a nursing certificate and come work here?"
The medicine on Tao Luobai's back had not dried yet, so he couldn't turn around to look at Meng Yisheng's expression. He could only get a glimpse of his thoughts from Meng Yisheng's voice coming from behind him.
"I'm not interested in applying the medicine. I'm interested in the person lying in bed."
Hearing this, Tao Luobai didn't know how the nurse should react. Anyway, he started coughing as if he had a sudden illness, which scared the nurse who was about to leave quickly.
"What's wrong with you? Are you suddenly unable to breathe due to your throat?"
"Luobai, are you okay?" Meng Yisheng also stood up from his seat and came to Tao Luobai.
Two figures instantly appeared in front of Tao Luobai. Tao Luobai was still coughing and had no time to speak. He could only make an OK gesture to them.
Then, after his coughing subsided for a while, he said, "I choked on my own saliva. I'm sorry I scared you."
The nurse stared at Tao Luobai for several times, and after confirming again and again that his series of coughs were not caused by an illness, she left with the medicine bottle.
Meng Yisheng and Tao Luobai were left staring at each other.
Tao Luobai breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "Why did you say that in front of the nurse? Do you know that you scared me just now?"
Meng Yisheng lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry."
Tao Luobai closed his eyes and apologized again. Did he know what he was saying just now? As a boy, saying that he was interested in another boy in front of an outsider, wasn't he making his sexual orientation public? What's more, this is a hospital, and there are nurses and colleagues. If the nurse is a gossip, then tomorrow, both of them will not escape the fate of being rumored to be a couple.
But the person who said this was unaware of the impact it would have, "So, is there something I shouldn't have said?"
Tao Luobai pursed his lips and said, "There's nothing that shouldn't be said." If you like someone, you can't hide it and you don't care about the consequences.
However, the prerequisite is that he has to really like someone, rather than just casually saying it.
Tao Luobai didn't want to try anymore. He wanted to get a result, even if this result was the result of his haste and would not produce the brilliant flowers he had imagined.
Tao Luobai: "You, you like——" Forget it, Tao Luobai remembered the boy Meng Yisheng once said he liked, and changed his words, "So, you have a good impression of me, right?"
Hearing this, Meng Yisheng became much more serious. He nodded and then looked into Tao Luobai's eyes more seriously.
Meng Yisheng had a premonition that Tao Luobai was going to say something very important, so important that it could end this ambiguous relationship that was more than friends but almost lovers.
Meng Yisheng looked straight at him, and Tao Luobai did not choose to avoid him as he did in the past, but looked back.
Tao Luobai: "I might have some feelings for you, so, we——"
The purpose of Tao Luobai's words was to give Meng Yisheng some time to think. He didn't rush him to give him an answer, and it was also to give both of them some time.
If it starts unclearly, it will end unclearly.
Unexpectedly, when Meng Yisheng heard Tao Luobai's words, he was stunned for almost a minute, then jumped up on the spot, looking left and right at Tao Luobai, his eyes full of joy.
Meng Yisheng cheered softly, "Then we are together!"
All of this fell into Tao Luobai's eyes.
No way. Why are you so excited?
"Can we hug each other?" Meng Yisheng asked, and he couldn't suppress the joy in his eyes even when he said this.
Tao Luobai nodded slowly and said, "Okay."
The broad shoulders moved closer to hers, and Tao Luobai fell into the arms of her new boyfriend.
Meng Yisheng hugged Tao Luobai tightly and firmly, making him feel safe.
In his arms, Tao Luobai lowered his eyes.
So, is he in a relationship now?
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