Chapter 62: Trust between Husband and Wife
Gu Chuyue had already woken up and was sitting on the bed in a daze, looking at the empty room around him. The blood had drained from his face, as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.
It was not until he saw Qin Mu coming in that his eyes lit up instantly, and a huge sense of grievance and fear surged over him.
"Wife!" His voice was hoarse and panicked from just waking up, "Where have you been?! I thought..."
He was about to start falling into the cycle of anxiety again.
Gu Chuyue subconsciously called out "wife", hoping to remind himself to trust Qin Mu and to stay calm.
Qin Mu walked quickly to the bedside, enduring the pain of his wound, and reached out to hold the man tightly in his arms, interrupting his wandering thoughts: "It's okay, I just went next door to see the man I rescued yesterday, he woke up."
Before Gu Chuyue could speak, he took the initiative to tell him everything about Shen Qingyu in a concise and comprehensive manner, without hiding anything.
Gu Chuyue was stunned after hearing this, and the uneasiness on his face was gradually replaced by a complex and indescribable emotion.
My wife softened her heart because the other person called her "brother" and thought of her.
He felt a slight bitterness in his heart, but more of a sense of 'as expected' and a strange sense of comfort.
He suddenly remembered the countless little tricks he had used in front of Qin Mu, and remembered that he had also taken advantage of Qin Mu's softness and indulgence.
My wife is so nice.
My brother is so nice.
That's how we pulled him out of the mud back then.
Qin Mu carefully observed Gu Chuyue's expression, and felt a little relieved when he saw that he was not as extreme and stubborn as before.
Qin Mu decided to strike while the iron was hot and resolve all the remaining issues.
He gently stroked the back of Gu Chuyue's neck with his fingertips, and said in a slow voice, "Baby, let's talk about Xu Chi?"
Gu Chuyue's body stiffened almost imperceptibly, and he buried his face deeper into his neck, muttering, "...I don't want to."
He subconsciously resisted, afraid of hearing something he didn't want to hear.
"But you mind it a lot." Qin Mu pointed it out directly, and felt the person in his arms tense up instantly.
"Why did you think I treated him differently before? Even if you were jealous, it's wrong. You reacted so strongly."
He lifted Gu Chuyue's chin and kissed her, then raised his eyes and looked at Gu Chuyue seriously, his eyes frank and focused: "From the beginning to the end, my heart has only been able to hold a person named Gu Chuyue. It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future. Do you understand?"
Qin Mu originally thought that this would reassure the little villain completely and make him confess obediently.
As it turned out, he was the type who would just take advantage of others.
Gu Chuyue pursed her lips: "Kiss me again."
Apart from that, Gu Chuyue said nothing more.
Qin Mu sighed, his tone filled with a hint of helplessness and indulgence: "Do you know that there is another plot in family ethics dramas? Couples who are silent and speculate about each other will eventually divorce. Do you want that?"
Gu Chuyue looked at him blankly, "I don't want this!"
Gu Chuyue felt a pang of pain in his heart when Qin Mu said the word "divorce". He subconsciously clenched the collar of Qin Mu's hospital gown, and his knuckles turned white from the force.
He raised his head, and the hazy moisture in his eyes that had just woken up was instantly replaced by an almost ferocious stubbornness. His voice was hoarse but full of determination: "I don't want to! Just try to leave me!"
Qin Mu wanted to say that they had not reached this point yet.
This is just an example.
But this reaction was more like that of the cruel little lunatic he usually was.
Qin Mu tutted inwardly, but his expression remained calm. He patted his back soothingly, feeling the muscles tense underneath. "Then tell me, why do you react so strongly to Xu Chi? Hmm?"
Gu Chuyue's eyes flickered darkly, as if he was struggling over whether to speak or not.
Qin Mu secretly reminded that the lethality was too great.
Gu Chuyue finally turned his head away, avoiding Qin Mu's sight. His voice was muffled and a bit embarrassed with reluctance: "...I had a dream."
"In my dream... I was also in a hospital. White walls, the smell of disinfectant."
He spoke very slowly, as if he was struggling to recount a scene he didn't want to recall.
"I saw my brother take him into the operating room and then he fell to the ground, not caring about his image. Then the scene flashed, and I saw you caring about him. He was very thin and wearing a hospital gown. You couldn't see me, you only looked at him."
"You covered him with a blanket, fed him water, and even bent down to kiss him..."
His voice gradually lowered, mixed with a subtle hint of humiliation and pain. "I'm standing behind you. Even though I can't see you, I can feel that you care about him. You've been guarding him for a long, long time."
"Then I saw it again. He was receiving an IV drip and you were holding him and comforting him. Later, he was crying in your arms and you touched his head, very gently. I couldn't see the man's face clearly, only his back... But I didn't believe this dream until I saw the scene in the dream last time in the hospital."
"And then?" Qin Mu asked patiently, but he vaguely grasped something in his heart, "Is there anything else in the dream?"
"Then..." Gu Chuyue's Adam's apple rolled, and his voice was filled with a kind of cold self-mockery, "Oh, I just snatched my brother away."
"My brother found me and said I was a bad person. He looked at me with a cold gaze... Then I woke up." He took a deep breath, as if the emotions in his dream had seized him again. "My heart was empty and panicked. When I saw you and Xu Chi interacting, I couldn't control myself..."
The more Qin Mu listened, the more familiar it became.
After listening, he thought about it carefully and suddenly understood.
"Fool."
He sighed, reached out and rubbed Gu Chuyue's hair vigorously, with a bit of unpleasant intimacy, "You have been scared for so long because of this dream, you should have told me earlier."
"Last time you had an acute allergic reaction and a high fever, I stayed with you in this hospital the entire time. You were unconscious at the time, and your entire body was covered in rashes. I carried you all the way into the hospital."
"It was indeed me who went to see Xu Chi later. He had low blood sugar. How could you, Gu Chuyue, confuse the two of them when you were sick and still blame me?"
"You just don't believe me?"
Gu Chuyue suddenly raised his head, and the sinister and self-mockery in his eyes were replaced by astonishment. His dog-like eyes widened as he tried hard to search in his chaotic memories.
Is that so?
How could it be? How could it be him, Gu Chuyue?
"As for Xu Chi..." Qin Mu decided to completely extinguish this seed of doubt, his tone casual but firm, "He is my junior brother. We have known each other for a long time. I will explain it to you later."
"He's the apple of Xiao Jiangran's eye, the one he's hiding so well he can't wait to tie it to his belt. Xiao Jiangran looks gentle, but he's incredibly possessive. If I dare to have any inappropriate thoughts about Xu Chi, he'll be the first to kill me with a scalpel. Got it?"
Gu Chuyue pursed his lips and said nothing, but rested his forehead against Qin Mu's shoulder and rubbed it slightly, which was considered as submission.
But the strength of his arms around Qin Mu's waist did not loosen at all, but became tighter, with an unquestionable possession.
Although the misunderstanding was resolved and Qin Mu gave a reasonable explanation, for some reason, looking at Gu Chuyue who seemed to have settled down in his arms, the faint uneasiness in Qin Mu's heart did not completely dissipate.
He always felt that after Gu Chuyue woke up this time, his emotions were extremely unstable, and that bottomless sense of unease could not be easily soothed by a single explanation.
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