Chapter 29. He was willing to be her chess piece.
The hotel corridor was quiet in the early morning.
Lu Qiaoyuan stood at the door of Ke Fan's room 307, looking at the black pattern on the door.
He would take the high-speed train back to Hai City in an hour and a half. This was the last chance for him and Ke Fan to talk face to face in the near future.
In the early morning, he packed his luggage.
Several questions clamoring in his heart pushed him to stand outside this black door.
He bent his knuckles slightly, raised them in the air, hesitated for a few seconds, and then put them down.
In the end, there was no knock on the door.
Maybe he should have come earlier.
Earlier than the tall figure last night.
Rooms 306 and 307 where he was were opposite each other.
Last night, when he heard footsteps stop near his door, he had subconsciously walked to the porch.
The moment he saw Yi Lingjia through the cat's eye, his heart skipped a beat.
Yi Lingjia walked to the door of 307 and started knocking regardless of anything.
Ke Fan opened the door, with a hint of surprise in her expression.
Lu Qiaoyuan couldn't hear clearly what they said.
He only felt that the aura emanating from the figure facing away from him was becoming more and more desperate.
Ke Fan raised his eyes, and the pair of clear black eyes on his rosy face seemed even gentler in the soft light of the porch, and seemed to carry a bit of pity...
She did not resist Yi Lingjia's arrival, and this realization made Lu Qiaoyuan's heart sink gradually.
Then Yi Lingjia seemed to have made a sudden decision, and his sense of oppression became stronger and stronger.
He slowly approached Ke Fan, and the two of them walked into the porch of 307.
He even grabbed Ke Fan's wrist and put it around his neck.
Ke Fan's figure disappeared behind the door, and Lu Qiaoyuan could no longer see her expression clearly.
But the slender fingers that gradually moved downwards and the closing of the black door indicated that she had acquiesced to this late-night visitor.
Standing in room 306, Lu Qiaoyuan's lips curled up into a bitter smile.
Maybe I should have stopped deceiving myself long ago, right?
He always thought that Ke Fan didn't like Yi Lingjia that much.
Yi Lingjia was too simple and straightforward when he was young.
On the basketball court, after scoring a three-pointer, she was so excited that almost the whole world knew about it. She hurried over to Ke Fan, snatched the water bottle from her hand, half drank and half poured it, and then shook her hair and body like a big golden retriever.
Lu Qiaoyuan stood not far away, frowning silently at such childish behavior.
He looked at Ke Fan again, and Ke Fan unconsciously took a step back. He suddenly felt as certain as if he had found evidence.
In the library, Ke Fan was reading a book quietly, and the man was sleeping beside him without any image. Until the ink from the pen stained the book black, Ke Fan woke him up with some disgust.
He secretly wrote down so much "evidence" that she didn't like him, but chose to forget it. In these scenes, Ke Fan's hand also gently stroked Yi Lingjia's sweaty hair and sleeping cheek.
In fact, he should have burst this bubble of self-deception long ago.
As early as when he saw Ji Hang's face that looked very similar to Yi Lingjia, he knew something was wrong.
Countless times, he wanted to ask the questions that were clamoring in his heart, but was suppressed by various concerns.
I'm just her fake boyfriend, am I really qualified to ask about her love life?
He was even more reluctant to add trouble to her life.
After accompanying her all these years, he knew how difficult it was for her.
As the saying goes, you have to work really hard to look effortless.
He knew how much suffering Ke Fan had endured behind the glamorous Dr. Ke.
In order to break the industry's prejudice that "girls are not suitable for business trips", she is always at the forefront and never complains of being tired.
After finishing the Tongshi case, she came back and fell seriously ill, but because the next case was imminent, she wrote the report while receiving an IV drip in the hospital.
What's more, in the workplace, there is inexplicable malice from people like Xing Xiao.
Most of those bad love affairs came from the introduction of this group of people, under the beautiful pretext of "letting Engineer Ke have a stable family", but they themselves know what their real intentions are.
It was at that time that Lu Qiaoyuan took the initiative to propose that they become each other's "boyfriend and girlfriend", avoiding those annoying introductions.
He wanted to help her, and also wanted to give himself a chance.
But in the past three years, Ke Fan has never crossed that line.
He thought she wouldn't cross that line for anyone.
Until last night's dinner, the subtle confrontation between her and Yi Lingjia, and the unclear meaning when she mentioned that she was her "boyfriend".
He suddenly remembered that Ke Fan had insisted on letting him have a video call with Lao Xie. He vaguely felt that Ke Fan was weaving a big net and everyone was a chess piece being manipulated in it.
Sure enough, the prey was caught last night.
The moment he saw her pitying look, Lu Qiaoyuan knew that she actually liked Yi Lingjia more than he imagined.
The illusion was broken, and Lu Qiaoyuan found himself in the net without any displeasure.
The corridor was quiet in the early morning, but he seemed to hear her bending down and talking to him in a disheveled state on the day they first met.
The girl took out a notebook from her backpack, tore off a piece of paper, wrote her cell phone number on it, and handed it to him.
"Ke is the Ke of Nan Ke's dream, and Fan is the sail of setting sail."
"And classmates, everyone experiences hard times like this. Don't worry too much. Just keep moving forward. Everything will get better."
Lu Qiaoyuan looked at the gate of 307 again.
He reached out and gently stroked the black pattern on the door.
It's okay.
He was willing to be her pawn.
*
In room 307, just across the door, Ke Fan was talking on the phone with Cao Xinyu.
Cao Xinyu had just finished her night shift last night and was walking on the street to go home.
At this time, apart from Ke Fan, who always went to bed early and got up early, there was no one else available to chat with her.
Cao Xinyu sighed, "Last night, there were two consecutive rectal perforations in the emergency room... I was busy all night, and I shouldn't have drunk that bottle of Wangzai milk that the patient handed me..."
Dragon fruit, Red Bull, mango, Wangzai milk - emergency curse.
Under the influence of Cao Xinyu, Ke Fan also heard a little about it.
She was a little amused: "This isn't the first time you've been greedy. Have you learned your lesson now?"
On the other end of the phone, even though Ke Fan couldn't see, Cao Xinyu nodded rapidly: "It's grown... If you keep asking for it next time, I'll be a real puppy."
Ke Fan was about to finish him off: "This isn't the first time you've done something stupid..."
Suddenly, a scream came from the phone: "Ah----"
Her heart tightened, and she hurriedly asked Cao Xinyu: "What's wrong? What happened? Are you okay?"
There was a mess on the other end of the phone, and Cao Xinyu's voice seemed to come from a very far distance:
"Someone fainted. Xiaofan, I'm hanging up first----beep----"
Cao Xinyu and Ke Fan were talking on the phone. It was very quiet in the early morning with almost no pedestrians on the street except for the breakfast stalls.
Therefore, the breakfast shop owner's scream was particularly obvious:
"Ah—help! Someone has fainted."
The scattered passers-by gathered around upon hearing the noise. When they saw the girl lying unconscious on the ground with a pale face, their panic instantly exploded in the slightly cool air.
"What should I do?"
"Oh my god, such a young girl"
"Is it staying up late again? That's why young people nowadays should stay up less late..."
There was constant discussion, but no one actually reached out.
Cao Xinyu's heart trembled, and she shouted loudly:
"I'm a doctor, I'm a doctor, I'm here."
She shouted as she walked quickly forward to the fainted girl and took a quick look at her.
The girl was in her early twenties, wearing a loose home nightgown that didn't reach her knees. She looked like she was out to buy breakfast, but for some reason she suddenly fainted on the side of the road.
Cao Xinyu squatted down, gently patted her face and shoulders with her left hand, and with her right hand pulled down her thin nightgown that was almost revealing, barely covering her thighs.
"Little girl, wake up, wake up."
The girl didn't react, so she used her hand to feel the girl's breath, and the breath was very faint and sprayed on her fingers.
Cao Xinyu no longer hesitated and asked the people around him to call 120 immediately, while he immediately began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
She faced the girl's chest with her shoulders vertical, pressing in a rhythmic manner.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation requires a lot of physical strength. She had just finished her night shift and was a little exhausted. She was sweating profusely after a while. She gritted her teeth and persevered, watching the little girl's complexion getting better and better.
However, the already loose nightgown flipped up uncontrollably due to the large movements, and it seemed that the girl was about to be exposed.
A loose black sports short-sleeved shirt with a scent fell down, completely covering the girl's lower body.
She didn't stop her hands and looked up. She saw a mature woman with a high ponytail. She was only wearing black sports underwear. In the eyes of the people around her who were a little surprised, she was open and honest, using a black short-sleeved shirt to protect the other girl's dignity.
Cao Xinyu no longer had any worries and concentrated on cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The little girl finally regained consciousness.
The ambulance arrived in time and carried the little girl into the car on a stretcher.
The emergency room attendant who followed the car was the colleague who had just handed over the shift to her. Cao Xinyu felt relieved, but she still explained the situation to her again and again. The emergency room attendant smiled and patted her shoulder:
"Leave it to me, Doctor Cao. You should really go back and rest this time."
The ambulance drove away and the crowd dispersed.
Cao Xinyu's clothes were soaked, and she stood there in a daze.
Suddenly, a fragrance lingered at the tip of my nose, and a hand handed me a tissue.
The nails are trimmed short and the fingers are clean and slender.
Cao Xinyu looked up and met a pair of eyes as gentle as the moon and full of smiles.
"Doctor Cao, can you wipe the sweat off your face?"
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