Chapter 32
Half a month later, Zhou Li had just finished checking the wards and passed by the nurses' station. The staff at the nurses' station were gathered together with smiles. Zhou Li took off his medical gloves and asked, "What are you doing together?"
"Doctor Zhou, look, someone sent you flowers!"
The people gathered together moved aside, and Zhou Li saw a huge bouquet of roses. Her heart beat faster: "For me? Who sent it?"
With an inexplicable suspicion in his mind and his cheeks burning, Zhou Li pushed up his glasses to cover it up.
The young nurses all shook their heads. They didn't say who sent the flowers, only that they were for Zhou Li.
The head nurse came over and yelled, "What are you all doing here? Aren't you working? This is disgraceful!" Everyone scattered like birds and beasts. The head nurse complained, "Director, take your flowers back now! Leave them here. Everyone who comes over has to ask about them. It's affecting our work."
Zhou Li begged for mercy. She picked up the bouquet and looked down to see a card sandwiched between the flowers.
Zhou Li returned to the office, opened the card, and found an address written on it.
"At 8pm, on the Champs-Élysées, there's a restaurant, table 08, waiting for you."
Zhou Li flipped the card left and right. There was no name on it. Could it be Chunshui?
She felt strange. Didn't Chunshui say she would be back at the end of the month? Why did she come back so soon?
Zhou Li wanted to call Chunshui, so she took out her cell phone from her white coat pocket and snorted proudly. She refused to call because she wanted to see what Chunshui was up to.
In the evening, Zhou Li got off work and hesitated in front of the closet for a long time.
The restaurant on the Champs-Élysées sounded very upscale, so should she change into a dress? Zhou Li took out her clothes and put them back. She thought, "It's better to wear something normal. This makes her seem too serious about this. It's not like she hasn't eaten with Chunshui before. It's just a different place."
At eight o'clock, Zhou Li drove to the appointment on time.
The plane trees on both sides of the Champs-Élysées are tall and straight, and the warm yellow lights make the straight avenue look very classy. Zhou Li parked the car and looked up at the building. It has a very historical feel, and there is a restaurant sign embedded in the white building.
As we approached the restaurant, the doorman opened the door and asked softly, "Do you have a reservation?"
Zhou Li told him the location and the waiter of the restaurant took Zhou Li over. There was already someone sitting at the seat. Zhou Li frowned as he looked at the tall and thin figure. It was not Chunshui.
"This way, ma'am."
As if hearing a sound, the person sitting in the seat turned around, and Zhou Li's brows suddenly furrowed.
It’s Li Xia.
Why did she ask her out?
Zhou Li resisted the urge to turn around and leave.
The waiter said softly, "Guest, we're here."
Zhou Li nodded politely at her, raised his chin, and sat opposite Li Xia.
Li Xia raised her hand and said to the waiter, "Serve the food."
The waiter poured the wine and she looked at Zhou Li, who remained calm.
She hadn't yet gone to settle the score with Li Xia, but Li Xia found her first. She didn't know what his intention was.
Waiter: "The meal is ready. Is there anything else you would like to order?"
"No more." Li Xia said.
After the waiter left, she looked at Zhou Li and said, "Doctor Zhou, are you curious about why I asked you to come here?"
Zhou Liwei raised her chin slightly, with a reserved look on her face: "Do you want to ask me for plastic surgery? Actually, it would be better if we talk in the hospital."
Li Xia chuckled, his pointed chin looked like it could kill someone.
"Doctor Zhou is really good at joking."
The two sisters even have similar tones of voice. It seems Lizhi learned that from her.
"Apart from the plastic surgery, I don't know why you invited me to dinner?" Zhou Li said lightly. She didn't look at Li Xia, but picked up the cutlery and elegantly cut the steak in front of her. Her every move was as precise as if she was performing surgery on someone on the stage.
Li Xia stared at Zhou Li's hands. She had a pair of very beautiful hands, slender and white. It was obvious that these hands must be very precious to a doctor because she took good care of them.
Li Xia: "It seems that Dr. Zhou knows me, so I don't need to introduce myself. Let's get straight to the point."
Zhou Li raised his eyebrows slightly. "Of course, the famous CEO of Pilot Entertainment. We met at the opening ceremony of "Guanyin."
"Then you haven't heard of me from someone?" Li Xia said meaningfully, "I know everything about someone."
Zhou Li's smile faded slightly, and he stared at Li Xia with cold eyes, sneering, "If you have something to say, just say it."
Li Xia picked up the fork and played with it. "Chun Shui and I have known each other for a long time." Her eyes were hazy, as if she was reminiscing about the past. "She used to be very good..."
"Let's not talk about those old things." Zhou Li interrupted Li Xia, "What do you want to talk to me about? I don't want to hear about old lady's foot binding."
Li Xia frowned and looked at Zhou Li deeply, her strong features full of displeasure: "Is this how Dr. Zhou is brought up?"
"That depends on who you're talking to." Zhou Li sneered, "I don't need to listen to someone I don't know talk about their journey."
"Okay." Li Xia also sneered: "Are you with Chunshui? I heard that she took care of you for a long time?"
"What does that have to do with you?" Zhou Li continued, "This is our business. Has Mr. Li been too idle lately?"
Li Xia gritted her teeth: "You are sharp-tongued. Are you like this to her as well?"
"This has nothing to do with Mr. Li."
Li Xia laughed angrily, like a snake spitting out its tongue: "Doctor Zhou, are all your skills just talk? You don't even dare to listen to our past. Don't you know what kind of person Chunshui was in the past? She begged the producer for a role and dared to appear naked in the play. If it weren't for me..."
"If it weren't for you, my movie wouldn't be blocked." Zhou Li turned around, and Chunshui suddenly appeared behind her, picked up the wine glass and splashed it directly on Li Xia's face, "I had no relationship with you before, and I won't have any relationship with you in the future!"
She grabbed Zhou Li's wrist and pulled him up.
Zhou Li staggered and was dragged out of the restaurant by Chunshui.
The lights in the restaurant were bright and bright. Li Xia sat in her seat, wiping the wine off her face with a napkin with an expressionless face, her eyes revealing deep hatred.
Throwing away the napkin, Li Xia sneered, "Chun Shui, you can't like anyone."
She won't let Chunshui be happy.
Outside the door, Zhou Li cried out, "It hurts, it hurts!"
Chunshui let go, she turned around and picked up Zhou Li's hand to check, and found that there was no red mark on Zhou Li's wrist.
Zhou Li retracted his hand and smiled foolishly: "Why are you so angry?"
Chunshui tapped her head in annoyance: "How dare you accept anyone's invitation? What if it's a bad guy?"
"I thought it was..." Zhou Li paused and changed the subject, not wanting Chunshui to know she had misunderstood. "Why did you come back so suddenly?"
"If I don't come back, what will happen if some little fool gets sold?" Chunshui's face was full of smiles. She took Zhou Li's wrist and said, "Where does it hurt? Let me rub it for you?"
Zhou Li was just pretending because Chunshui looked very angry. She muttered, "It's just the wrist."
Chunshui pinched her and asked, "Why did you leave your words half-sentenced? What did you think?"
Zhou Li's eyes rolled around, not wanting to answer: "Nothing."
Chunshui didn't force her. Seeing that she was no longer in pain, he held her hand and sighed, "I wanted to give Dr. Zhou a surprise."
Zhou Li whispered, "It's quite a surprise."
"What?" Chunshui didn't hear it because Zhou Li spoke too softly.
Zhou Li smiled: "I'm hungry."
"Weren't you full just now?" Chunshui snorted coldly.
"No, I just took a bite and you showed up."
"Then I'll treat Dr. Zhou to a delicious meal." Chunshui said with a smile, "We don't want to eat hers."
"Well, I don't care." Zhou Li imitated Chunshui's accent and made Chunshui laugh.
The two walked hand in hand across the street. Chunshui came here by taxi. She didn't inform anyone of her return and had to fly back tomorrow. They only saw each other briefly to see Dr. Zhou, whom she missed.
The two sat in the open-air restaurant, the rich night sky obscuring their surroundings. After Chunshui finished ordering, Zhou Li suddenly remembered something and asked, "We were in Spain at the time. Um, why wasn't this reported in the domestic news?"
She spoke vaguely, but Chunshui understood.
Chunshui suddenly realized, "Doctor Zhou, do you want to be reported? I can't bear to see them disturbing Doctor Zhou."
She was teasing again. Zhou Li glared at Chun Shui angrily, and Chun Shui coaxed her, "I'm telling you, don't be angry."
Humph! Zhou Li hummed: "I won't be angry, you can say it or not."
"I'll tell you." Chunshui covered the back of Zhou Li's hand. Her hand was slightly cold. She held Zhou Li's hand and said, "The domestic news was suppressed by Linghang Entertainment. Although I don't understand what Li Xia was thinking, I think this matter must be beneficial to her, so she suppressed it."
Zhou Li was puzzled: "How can this matter benefit her? It has nothing to do with her?"
Chunshui shook her head. "She used to chase me around. Her family should know that. When I called the police, it was her family who sent someone to take her back. Li Dong is a more established person. He might not be able to accept that Li Xia is an outlier."
Zhou Li frowned.
Chunshui pinched Zhou Li's hand and played with it, saying with a smile: "Doctor Zhou, don't think about other people's affairs. Think more about our affairs."
The back of Zhou Li's hand felt numb as if she had received an electric shock. She pulled her hand away and covered it up by saying, "Why hasn't the meal arrived yet? I'm starving."
Spring water smiles.
No rejection is a good start.
After dinner, Chunshui accompanied Zhou Li for a walk on the street. The night view of the river was beautiful.
When they reached the river, they stopped and looked at each other. Chunshui pulled down her mask. She had put on glasses to hide herself when she came over. She took Zhou Li's hand and tilted her head towards Zhou Li. Her glasses bumped against Zhou Li's glasses. She smiled and whispered, "Doctor Zhou looks great today."
The blazing lights were reflected on the river surface, and the melodious whistle of a freight ship came from the distance. Chunshui's head pressed on Zhou Li's shoulder, and Zhou Li felt her shoulder sink. She lowered her head, and Chunshui closed her eyes. Her long, curled eyelashes gently scratched Zhou Li's heart like a small brush, and her heart began to become unstable again.
Zhou Li looked away, not daring to look at Chunshui again. She whispered, "If you're so tired, don't come over."
Chunshui curled her lips: "Doctor Zhou is my energy station."
She rested her head on his head for a moment, then moved her head away and said to Zhou Li with great energy, "Look, Doctor Zhou has instantly filled me with energy!"
"I'm not a power bank." Zhou Li muttered.
Chunshui couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Li blushed at her laughter, coughed lightly and asked, "Where are you staying tonight?"
"Where does Doctor Zhou want to arrange me?" Chunshui asked back.
Zhou Li blushed: "If you have nowhere to stay, our hospital has plenty of beds."
"Didn't Doctor Zhou say I was discharged? Now he wants to personally check me in?"
"Hmph, are you staying here or not?" Zhou Li was helpless. Chunshui was such a teasing freak that she couldn't have a normal conversation with her anymore.
Chunshui sighed, "It's a shame I can't enjoy Dr. Zhou's personal care." She raised her hand and ruffled Zhou Li's hair. "I came back on a whim. My return ticket is already booked and I'll be taking off tomorrow morning. I'll have to sleep at the airport tonight."
Zhou Li's eyes were complicated. She lowered her head and her feet couldn't help but rub the ground twice.
"So urgent."
Chunshui smiled and pinched Zhou Li's ear and pulled it.
"I'm leaving. Is Dr. Zhou so unhappy?"
"Who's unhappy?" Zhou Li shook his head, shook off Chunshui's hand, and said stubbornly, "You should be shooting your first movie after your comeback seriously. Why are you running around all day? Director Zhang will probably be dissatisfied with you."
Chunshui watched as Zhou Li suddenly leaned forward and held her face. Their foreheads touched and their glasses frames bumped into each other. Zhou Li thought Chunshui was going to kiss her and her heart beat faster, but Chunshui just bumped into her.
"I'm leaving now. Doctor Zhou, take care of yourself and don't meet with strangers casually."
"I'm not a child." Zhou Li complained, tilted his head and pulled his collar awkwardly, feeling heat coming out of his body.
Chunshui looked at the blush on her face, and the smile on his lips deepened. He asked coquettishly, "I'm going to the airport. Can I have the honor of having Dr. Zhou give me a ride?"
Zhou Li didn't say anything to spoil the fun. He took out his car keys and said coolly, "Let's go."
Chunshui chased after her amusedly, took her hand and said, "Doctor Zhou, you forgot about me."
The two held hands, Chunshui pulled up the mask, and Zhou Li turned her head away, not daring to look to the side. Tonight, Chunshui seemed to have cast a spell on her. Every time she looked at him, her heartbeat would speed up for a moment.
After sending them to the airport, Zhou Li held the steering wheel with one hand and turned her head: "We're here."
There was no sound from the passenger seat. Chunshui had fallen asleep. She was leaning against the car seat and sleeping soundly. She seemed to be really tired, and the fatigue was clearly visible on her face.
Even though you are so tired, you still come back.
Seeing that she was sleeping uncomfortably, Zhou Li saw that it was still early, so she unbuckled her seat belt, took the pillow from the back seat, carefully unbuckled Chunshui's seat belt, and wanted to put the pillow under her neck. As soon as she moved her hand, Chunshui opened her eyes and held her wrist.
The two looked at each other, and Chunshui laughed: "Doctor Zhou, are you planning to do something bad to me while I'm asleep?"
The pillow in Zhou Li's hand fell, and her other hand was still on Chunshui's backrest. It looked like she wanted to hold Chunshui in her arms, or even more like she wanted to steal a kiss from Chunshui.
Her lips were very close to Chunshui, and Chunshui could touch them by just raising her chin. Zhou Li's heart was beating uncontrollably. Chunshui looked down and saw the pillow bounce twice and slide down from her legs.
Letting go of his hand, Zhou Li sat back.
Chunshui picked up the pillow and held it in his arms.
Zhou Li coughed and said, "We're at the airport."
Chunshui picked up the pillow, looked at it, and raised the corners of her lips. She turned her head, put her face next to the pink plush pillow, and asked Zhou Li: "Can you give this to me?"
Zhou Li turned his head and couldn't help but step back.
Malicious cuteness is against the law!
Chunshui's pretty face was pressed against the pillow, her big eyes seemed to be sending sparks to Zhou Li, the pink color made her face look even whiter. She blinked her left eye as if she had just woken up. Zhou Li put her hands on her legs and clenched them, trying hard to control her almost screaming mood.
"Take it if you like."
Chunshui sat back, buried his face in the pillow, and complained, "How come time flies so fast?"
Zhou Li also wanted to sigh.
Yeah, how time flies so fast.
Chunshui suddenly said bitterly, "It's all that Li's fault!" She counted on her fingers, "I had planned to spend eight hours with Dr. Zhou, but because she asked you out, I took a taxi to the hospital and then to the restaurant to meet you. It took me nearly two hours longer! All that time was spent on the road!"
Chunshui, who kept complaining like this, was too cute. Zhou Li's heart was already sinking because of Chunshui's ripples. The time was coming and Chunshui had to go. Zhou Li held the steering wheel tightly, with reluctance lingering in her heart. A decision flashed through her mind like an electric shock, and her body was one step faster than her brain. Zhou Li leaned over, held Chunshui's hand, kissed her lips, and left immediately.
However, after just a brief moment of contact, Zhou Li's face turned red all the way to her neck, and even her neck turned pink. She held the steering wheel with her hands, not daring to look at Chunshui, and buried her face in the steering wheel.
"Go quickly."
Chunshui touched his lips and was stunned for a moment.
The dream came true so suddenly.
She got out of the car in a daze, and only after watching Zhou Li's car drive away did she come to her senses and said in frustration, "Doctor Zhou kissed me!"
So why didn't she seize the opportunity to kiss him back? She had clearly been wanting to kiss Dr. Zhou for a long time...
Chunshui took out his phone and sent a message to Zhou Li: "What do you mean by kissing me?"
The airport began to broadcast the news of the flight she was on. She could not stay any longer, so Chunshui had to board the plane with regret. Until the plane taxied, she did not receive any news from Zhou Li.
After a long flight, Chunshui turned on his phone and saw Zhou Li had replied.
"When you finish filming this movie, let's be together."
Zhou Li lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. She asked the system, "When will the gate open?"
The system's formulaic answer: "After the mission is completed."
Zhou Li lay down again.
People in the strategy group can date freely and can even flirt with several people in their small world. Why is it so troublesome for them in the support group? They must report to the organization before they can date.
Zhou Li could only wait until the task was completed, go back and report to the bureau. Then he would have to find an excuse to leave. Thinking of Chunshui's eyes, Zhou Li started to get nervous before he even told the lie.
Pulling up the quilt, Zhou Li thought of an excuse in his mind and fell asleep in a daze.
I was woken up by a phone call early in the morning. Chunshui suppressed his excitement and said, "Good morning, Doctor Zhou!"
Zhou Li: "Hmm?"
"Is Dr. Zhou still sleeping?" Chunshui lowered his voice.
Zhou Li hummed again in a daze.
"Then Dr. Zhou, go to sleep."
Zhou Li turned over, her cell phone fell on the pillow, and she took a long breath. Chunshui listened to her breathing and couldn't stop smiling. Although she didn't know why Dr. Zhou wanted to wait for her to finish filming, Chunshui knew that Zhou Li was cautious about her filming. She thought that Dr. Zhou probably didn't want to be distracted by her comeback drama because of her.
Chunshui listened to Zhou Li's calls all the way until the phone ran out of battery and turned off automatically.
Huang Xiaoyun came to pick her up at the airport and rushed back to the set at lightning speed, just in time.
Zhou Li woke up at her usual time and found that her cell phone was out of battery. She charged it and found that she had received a call related to Chunshui in the morning, which lasted for an hour and a half.
Zhou Li was baffled. When did she answer the call? She had no recollection of it.
Zhou Li called, but the phone was turned off.
Zhou Li slapped his head and thought Chunshui should be filming.
She hummed a song and got herself ready for work in a good mood.
Everyone I met this morning asked in unison, "Doctor Zhou, you seem to be in a good mood. Any good news?"
Zhou Li couldn't help but smile: "You will know when the time comes."
Even when the head nurse yelled at her for making a mistake in issuing the order, Zhou Li revised it with a smile on her face. The head nurse was so confused by her smile that she went back to ask the nurse at the nurse station.
"What's wrong with Dr. Zhou today? Why are you so happy? Do you know what happened?"
The young nurses shook their heads, and one of them suddenly shouted, "Is Doctor Zhou about to fall in love? Someone sent such a huge bouquet of roses yesterday! Is there someone pursuing Doctor Zhou?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
The head nurse smiled broadly after hearing this: "It's time for our Doctor Zhou to find a partner, but I don't know what kind of person she'll be looking for."
Everyone was daydreaming that someone had come to the hospital and things were getting busy again.
The following days were calm.
Li Xia seemed to be really preoccupied with work and stopped harassing Chunshui. The last time he met Zhou Li for some unknown reason, he didn't take any action. It seemed like it was just a simple meeting.
Without Li Xia's harassment, the crew of "Guanyin" filmed smoothly, and the overseas part was successfully completed. Even the curse on Lizhi was never activated again. Director Zhang originally wanted to replace Lizhi, but except for the quarrel between him and Lizhi's agent at the beginning of filming, Lizhi had been staying honestly in the crew afterwards, and the issue of ranking was not mentioned. In addition, the actors of the film have been officially announced, and it would not be good to change them. Moreover, Linghang Entertainment is indeed powerful. Although Director Zhang thinks that this film will not make much money, he still wants to make money. It is really not good to offend Linghang Entertainment, which owns a large number of theaters.
There are very few domestic parts, and after compression, it can be finished in about half a month. After returning to China, Director Zhang announced that everyone should rest for three days and then regroup. Everyone cheered a few times and then dispersed. Chunshui held her breath and asked Huang Xiaoyun to go back and rest for a few days. She drove to the hospital. Dr. Zhou must be very surprised to know that she is back.
Chunshui deliberately didn't tell Zhou Li that she was back, wanting to give Zhou Li a surprise.
Zhou Li said to the system in the house: "The filming is almost over. What excuse should I find to leave Chunshui?"
Zhou Li accidentally checked the progress of the task earlier. She originally thought that the task could only be completed after the play Chun Shui won an award or triggered public discussion, but it was almost completed, and the progress was stuck at 95%. That means that Zhou Li's task can be completed as soon as Chun Shui finishes filming.
Zhou Li looked distressed. She hadn't found an excuse yet. If she suddenly disappeared for a few days, wouldn't it scare Chunshui? Sure enough, she shouldn't have agreed so quickly. She should have filed a report first and then agreed to Chunshui's request.
Zhou Li was still thinking when the door was suddenly pushed open. Chunshui stood at the door with a gloomy expression and asked, "Where do you want to go, Doctor Zhou?"
Aaaaa, I just finished renovating downstairs, and now I have to renovate upstairs. I am almost dying of the noise. I am woken up every day and my anger is rising. Once I adjust my sleep schedule, I will be sobbing.
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