Willing to do your house
Chen Chi paused for a few seconds, then decisively walked to the bathroom door.
A moment later, Chu Sinian, his face covered in sweat from the pain, came out holding onto the doorknob. Chen Chi gently took his wrist and said, "Walk slowly."
Chu Sinian glanced at him, then followed him to the hospital bed to lie down.
Chen Chi tidied up the blankets for him, and just as he straightened up, Yi Fan swiftly delivered the next contract to him.
Chen Chi accepted it without blinking, quickly signed his name, and only then did Yi Fan leave satisfied.
Witnessing everything, Chu Sinian chuckled, "He really is a person who can live well anywhere."
Chen Chi wiped the sweat from his face with a tissue and replied, "He's very smart."
Chu Sinian tilted his head slightly, "Besides Yi Fan and the others? I think their names are... Zhang Xiu and Li Liao."
"They're all at the company."
"Ha, you've run into so many talented people all at once," Chu Sinian said with a hint of envy.
Chen Chi himself is ruthless, and the people he values must also have a ruthless streak. There aren't many people who are smart, resourceful, and skilled in their work.
Chu Sinian remembered the first time he met Yi Fan and Li Liao. One looked somewhat green, while the other had a very confident and capable demeanor. Both were skilled at socializing and smoothing things over.
Judging from Ning Zicheng's performance in the national competition, these two are really strong. They've already picked up money before they even left the competition.
But wasn't Tianrui sold?
Chu Sinian touched the corner of his upturned lips. "You started a new company? Why did you sell Tianrui? It had such a good prospect and a great reputation."
Chen Chi said, "We lack money, we lack a large sum of money."
Chu Sinian was taken aback, his smile freezing on his lips. "You really didn't lie back then?"
Seriously? He really meant it when he said he had no money? I should have given him some money before I demolished Chu Village.
Seeing the change in his expression, Chen Chi's eyes shifted: "We don't lack it now, and we never will."
Chu Sinian asked, "Why?"
Chen Chi looked at him with his dark eyes, "Si Lian is mine."
In an instant, Kong Bo's words suddenly flooded into Chu Sinian's mind.
"A new company has recently emerged in the market with a huge appetite, taking advantage of market fluctuations to acquire many industries."
"This new thing that appeared has at least drawn some fire for you..."
Chu Sinian subconsciously gripped the bedsheet, forcing out a pale smile. "Si Lian is yours?" His tone was somewhat uncertain. "After you left that night, were you the one disrupting the market to help me?"
Chen Chi replied calmly, "Yes."
He added, "I regret it very much."
Chu Sinian suppressed the subtle throbbing in his heart, his pale fingertips revealing a few traces of emotional fluctuation.
"Regret what?"
"I should stay by your side every step of the way."
Chu Sinian chuckled dryly: "Aren't you one right now?"
Chen Chi's face was gloomy, revealing a sickly regret. "It's too late. I shouldn't have entrusted it to others, and I shouldn't have let my guard down."
He said, his voice lowering, "It's my fault for not keeping a good eye on you."
Chu Sinian felt a sour and soft air rush into his nostrils. He coughed a few times and said jokingly, "What does this have to do with you? You take all the blame."
Chen Chi lowered his eyes, recalling the afternoon when he had argued with Chen Chi after Chen Chi had just woken up.
He was so angry that he wanted to satisfy Chu Sinian, then simply and cleanly kill himself, so that the two of them could happily go to the underworld and never have to struggle with this again.
This thought lingered in his mind, constantly circling around him. He was abnormal; he lacked the joys and sorrows, the compassion of a normal person. He wished he could destroy the world.
That solves everything.
But as images of a neck with a shallow cut and a dying face kept flashing before Chen Chi's eyes, those crazy thoughts of destruction subsided.
He hated Chu Sinian, but he also hated himself.
He was put in a life-threatening situation, so what right do I have to blame him?
Chen Chi wished he could go back to the past and build an impregnable fortress for Chu Sinian, trapping him in an unbreakable city so he could live a peaceful and happy life.
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Before long, the truth could not be hidden.
Having somehow gotten wind of the news, Ning Zicheng arrived with Yu Shikongbo and his assistant, who was temporarily residing in Singapore.
The ward suddenly became lively. Chu Sinian chewed on the grapes that Chen Chi handed him while watching Ning Zicheng and Yu Shi each occupying one side of the bed and crying.
Kong Bo was also touched, and asked him with concern how his health was now.
The assistant secretly wiped away tears and muttered curses at the Xiao family.
Chu Sinian was getting deafened by the constant buzzing and shouting, yet he still had to find time to respond to Kong Bo.
He couldn't help but cover the lower half of his face and chuckle, trying his best to act nonchalant. "I'm not dead, why are you crying like I've passed away?"
With teary eyes, Yu Shi looked at him reproachfully, "Brother, come back to Germany with me."
Chen Chi suddenly looked up and said indifferently, "He can't leave."
Yu Shi stared at him blankly, the grief in her expression momentarily fading. "Mr. Chen, why do you say that?"
Ning Zicheng, still half-squatting on the bed with snot and tears streaming down her face, looked up at Chu Sinian and cried, "I fucking... fucking... fucking him... how dare he..."
Chu Sinian raised his knee and nudged him, "My ears are practically dirty."
Chen Chi stood up with a dark face, as if he could no longer bear it, and said stiffly, "The doctor wants him to rest. Everyone, get out."
There was a moment of silence in the room. Ning Zicheng wiped away her tears and looked at him. "Coach, what are you doing here?"
Chen Chi coldly replied, "I am not your coach."
Kong Bo was somewhat sensible; after calming down, he asked a few people to chat with Chu Sinian and didn't bother him anymore.
After a few days of this, they were sent back to school by their respective advisors. With final exams just around the corner, Chu Sinian was a little anxious.
After he was able to walk, he kept taking extra classes on his computer. He missed so many classes that he had to make up for it with his grades, otherwise he would fail.
Chu Sinian wasn't worried about not doing well on the exam, since he had always been an excellent student. He was just worried that his body wouldn't be able to keep up with the exam schedule.
With about ten days left until the final exams, his wounds were scabbing over, and the shallow scar on his neck had almost healed. It would soon be time for him to be discharged from the hospital.
As Chu Sinian walked out of the hospital under close guard, he took a deep breath of the fresh suburban air, which was mixed with a biting cold wind that swept over his face, and his nose and cheeks instantly turned red.
Chu Sinian immediately adopted a nasal tone, "It's so chilly outside, are you cold?"
Chen Chi looked down at him, then suddenly took out a scarf from his pocket and wrapped it around him tightly, not forgetting to pull the scarf up to cover his slightly red nose.
"It's not cold, let's go home first."
Chen Chi helped Chu Sinian into the car, acting as if he were some kind of celebrity.
Chu Sinian leaned against the car window, so embarrassed that he kept touching the end of his eyebrow, and managed a slight smile. "Now that no one wants to harm me, don't bring in bodyguards again."
Chen Chi closed the car door, and the driver started driving.
He looked at Chu Sinian as he pulled the scarf off the tip of his nose and said, "No."
The two sat on opposite sides, the sunlight occasionally leaping over Chu Sinian's shoulders and landing on Chen Chi's clothes, swaying and appearing and disappearing.
Chu Sinian gazed at the rapidly passing scenery outside the window, and with a slight turn of his head, he met a pair of deep eyes.
He instinctively flinched away, tugging uncomfortably at his scarf, only to discover that it wasn't even his own.
Chu Sinian pressed his lips down in resignation, realizing that someone was quietly invading his life.
The driver quickly took them home.
Chu Sinian walked ahead, while Chen Chi followed silently beside him.
The person beside him looked down and saw the two shadows overlapping. He silently moved closer and spread out one arm.
Judging from the shadow alone, it looks as if the person in front is being embraced.
A slight smile appeared on Chen Chi's lips as he followed the person home.
The apartment had been uninhabited for some time, and it was empty, quiet, and desolate, lacking any signs of life.
You can even see dust floating in the sunlight when you open the door.
Chu Sinian took a few steps forward, intending to sit on the sofa, but found that it was also covered with a thin layer of dust.
Chen Chi took out a few pieces of paper and placed them on the sofa. "Sit down, I'll go tidy up."
Chu Sinian sat down and saw Chen Chi find cleaning tools in the storage room and enter the master bedroom.
Chu Sinian was used to seeing others clean, but it was always on the basis of being paid. He had never seen anyone eagerly go to someone else's house to help clean.
Chu Sinian suddenly felt uneasy; he could have easily hired someone.
He still has some savings, so hiring someone to help clean the house is no problem at all.
Thinking this, he went to the master bedroom and saw Chen Chi examining a photo on the bedside table.
Chu Sinian was slightly nervous and stepped forward to take it, saying, "Aren't you cleaning?"
Chen Chi glanced at him, a strange tenderness appearing on his usually stern and indifferent face. "It's you when you were little. You were very handsome."
The photo shows a cute little boy being held in his mother's arms; this is the only photo of Chu Sinian and Zhong Lin together.
Chu Sinian reached out and took it, jokingly saying, "Don't you know whether I was good-looking when I was a child or not? You need to look at photos."
Chen Chi said, "I can't get enough of it."
Chu Sinian kicked him lightly, "You don't need to clean, I'll hire someone."
Chen Chi held the broom without moving. "I'll do it."
Chu Sinian raised an eyebrow. "You have masochistic tendencies, huh? You just like to do things yourself."
"Yeah, I'm willing to clean your house."
Chu Sinian slammed the door and returned to the living room. "Whatever."
So for the entire afternoon, Chu Sinian watched Chen Chi busy himself in the living room, and was even sent out of the house because cleaning the house would stir up dust, which was bad for his lungs.
Surprisingly, Chen Chi was very meticulous in his work, cleaning every nook and cranny so thoroughly that Chu Sinian couldn't find any fault with him. By evening, the room had been completely disinfected and was as clean as it could possibly be.
Chen Chi put the cleaning tools away and walked out of the storage room, taking off his only remaining tight sweater to reveal his well-defined and smooth upper body before heading to the bathroom.
He leaned back on the sofa, lowered his eyes, and asked, "Do you have any clothes? I'm going to take a shower."
Chu Sinian gave a vague reply, still writing his thesis, and got up to go to the dressing room to get him some clothes.
He found two pajamas that were a bit too big for him and went outside, only to bump into a naked upper body.
The lines from the neck down to the abdomen were extremely sharp and clean, somewhere between robust and lean, full of powerful beauty, with faintly visible blue veins running through them, exuding a burst of vitality.
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