Chapter 109 Worry

Ji Yue came out of the teahouse and happened to meet Lu Ran coming down from the building.

The boy's face only showed the excitement of having completed his homework. He

had no idea how rich he had become.

Ji Yue paused.

But in the end, he didn't say anything else.

The Ji family spared no effort in pursuing interests, but their minds were still clear.

Ji Min protected this kid like this, who would dare to cause trouble for him.

Ji Yue greeted Lu Ran and left.

Lu Ran paused on the steps because he was a little surprised by Ji Yue's attitude.

After a while, Ji Min also came out of the teahouse.

Lu Ran walked over, stretched, and subconsciously leaned on the back of the man's wheelchair.

He yawned and asked, "What were you talking about? Why did your aunt look at me a little strangely after she came out?"

"Nothing." Ji Min smiled, "A little thing."

But soon, Ji Min couldn't describe it as "a little thing".

Camilleri sent a message to inform him of the time of his surgery.

This surgery time is not a date, but a range.

Including preoperative care and preparation, surgery and subsequent recovery period.

Because Ji Min wanted to suppress the news of the surgery, once the preparations began, all relevant personnel would sign a confidentiality agreement and close the corresponding operating room.

The day when the news of the surgery was learned.

During dinner, Ji Min was thinking about how to tell Lu Ran the news.

The man ate slowly and leisurely.

During this time, he kept stopping his chopsticks and looked up at the boy opposite him struggling with a crab leg.

"Can I help you to peel it?" Ji Min stretched out his hand to the boy.

But Lu Ran stretched out his hand dripping with soup and refused decisively:

"No need! Of course, this kind of thing is more delicious if you make it yourself!"

He threw all the utensils for peeling the crab aside, and went straight to his teeth, gnawing.

Ji Min laughed.

He stared at the boy for a while, and inexplicably felt an appetite, so he peeled out some crab meat and ate it.

Looking up, he had to admit that the way he peeled it did seem to be more delicious.

Ji Min ate a crab and then stopped.

He wiped his hands and watched quietly as Lu Ran across from him cleaned up the remaining crabs.

Until the boy really filled his stomach, he collapsed on the chair and couldn't move.

Ji Min lowered his head and drank a sip of water in the glass, and pondered for a while.

Then he spoke slowly and nonchalantly: "I'm going to have surgery."

"Huh?"

Lu Ran raised his head, his eyes lit up, "Really?"

Ji Min nodded: "Yeah."

"That's a good thing."

Lu Ran took off his gloves, wiped his hands, and dragged a chair to sit next to Ji Min.

The boy's eyes were shining, simply because he was happy with his choice.

Seeing his heartless look, Ji Min was relieved.

"When are you going to have the surgery? It should take a long time to prepare for this surgery." Lu Ran asked.

Ji Min paused again, but still told him the upcoming date.

Hearing the time, Lu Ran was stunned for two seconds:

"So soon?"

The boy was obviously not prepared, and he was stunned for a while and didn't say anything.

After a long while.

He looked down at Ji Min's knees and whispered: "You will be fine after the surgery, right?"

"Yeah." Ji Min nodded at him, reached out and touched his hair, and whispered comfortingly, "Don't worry."

At night.

Lu Ran was tossing and turning in his room.

I don't know if it was because he ate too much dinner, he dawdled for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. No

wonder Ji Min was so busy during this period.

Lu Ran couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and took out his mobile phone to check the literature related to Ji Min's surgery.

But he was only a freshman after all, and he had not completed many professional courses.

This complex and professional surgery was difficult to read.

He tossed around in bed for a while.

Lu Ran thought about it and still felt a little uncomfortable.

He jumped off the bed with a somersault.

Da Huang, who was sleeping on the carpet, was startled by his action and raised his head to look at him strangely.

"Da Huang, you continue to sleep, I have something to do."

After Lu Ran finished speaking, he left the room in his slippers.

He walked into the corridor and stood for a while.

As if he had made up his mind, he turned his head and looked at another room at the end of the corridor.

He strode towards that room.

He crossed the elevator, crossed the center line that had never been crossed, and stepped into the territory on the other side of the second floor.

When he stood in front of Ji Min's door.

Lu Ran stared at the dark gray door that was exactly the same as his own room for a long time. He

bent down again and glanced at the crack at the bottom of the door.

The light was still on, which meant that the people inside were not asleep either.

Very good.

Lu Ran pushed the door open without thinking.

As soon as the door was opened, he saw the man in the wheelchair changing clothes.

The tie had been taken off and placed on the back of the sofa beside him.

The buttons of the white shirt had been unbuttoned to the last few buttons, from the collarbone to the abdomen.

The pale but extremely strong chest and abdominal muscles were completely exposed.

It seemed that he didn't expect someone to dare to barge in so carelessly.

The person in the wheelchair was also stunned and looked up at the door.

Lu Ran: "..."

"Sorry to bother you, boss."

Nervous, the title of "boss" came up again.

After speaking, Lu Ran quickly slammed the door.

Standing in the corridor, Lu Ran frowned and thought.

This was really a bad start.

But after a while, the door behind him opened again.

Ji Min stood behind the door and looked at him, sighed slightly: "Come in."

Lu Ran touched his nose silently.

He secretly glanced at Ji Min and found that the man had buttoned up his shirt.

Although it was not buttoned to the collar like during the day, it was also buttoned up.

Lu Ran then breathed a sigh of relief silently.

Ji Min followed his line of sight, looked down, raised his eyebrows and looked back, and asked:

"Who did you call boss just now?"

Lu Ran: "..."

He silently changed the address: "Ahem, boyfriend."

"Oh, then why are you running to see your boyfriend change his clothes?"

Ji Min teased him.

Lu Ran: "..."

He didn't reply, pushed the man back hard, put his hands on his waist and said: "I came here today to say something."

Halfway through the words, when he actually stepped into Ji Min's room, Lu Ran was slightly stunned.

Ji Min's office is completely normal and ordinary. It's

so ordinary that you can't see the man's leg injury. Only

when you go to Ji Min's house can you see some barrier-free facilities.

But now, standing in Ji Min's room, Lu Ran can see that there are places for arms to gain strength everywhere.

The floor was also covered with thick and soft cushions.

Lu Ran's gaze moved from the living room to the cloakroom, and then to the bedroom next to it.

Such dense barrier-free facilities can only prove that even when sitting in a wheelchair, a man does not like to leave his private affairs to others.

Lu Ran was stunned at the first sight.

He watched silently for a long time, and even forgot what he came here to say.

Finally, he retracted his gaze, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch Ji Min's arm.

Under his fingers was an extremely powerful muscle touch.

His gaze moved to the buttons that Ji Min buttoned.

But the question was: "Boss, do you do all this alone?"

"Why don't you do what one person can do?"

Ji Min raised his eyes to look at him.

He reached out and held the boy's hand again, letting him get closer.

Then he turned around and looked around the room. Seeing the suit jacket and tie scattered on the sofa, he coughed lightly and said,

"I haven't had time to clean it up yet, so it's a bit messy."

"I mean, I mean..." Lu Ran looked around, not sure if his words had crossed the line.

But after hesitating for a while, he still said, "But you can ask me to do these things. We are very close people, of course..."

Ji Min looked at the child's random eyes and couldn't help laughing.

He pinched the thin fingers in his palm and said, "But your boyfriend can't bear to let you do these things, what should you do?"

"But I'm very strong, you don't have to be reluctant." Lu Ran said.

Ji Min used a little force on his hands and pulled the person into his arms.

Lu Ran had been held like this by him many times, and he consciously changed to a more comfortable position and sat astride the man.

He hugged Ji Min's waist and rested his head on Ji Min's chest.

But after sitting for a while, he couldn't help it and looked up and asked:

"Will I make you uncomfortable when I sit like this?"

"No."

Ji Min rested his chin on the top of his head.

He whispered, "It's a weight that makes people feel very solid and comfortable."

Lu Ran nestled in his arms for a while.

Ji Min took him to the door and closed it.

He took him into the bedroom.

But the person nestled in his arms didn't even have the mood to look around.

He just said in a muffled voice: "But I still want to help you."

Ji Min chuckled in his ear:

"Help with what?"

"I can help a lot! For example..."

Lu Ran raised his head from Ji Min's arms, looked around for a long time, pointed at Ji Min's bed and said, "For example, I can carry you to the bed!"

"Carry?" Ji Min raised his eyebrows.

As if he wanted to prove that he could.

Lu Ran jumped out of his arms, stood in front of him, and stretched out his hands to hug him. He

tried a princess hug first.

But the size was completely different, and there was basically no possibility of operation.

Then he hugged Ji Min from the front. He

made his face red, but the effect was not great, and instead he rubbed the buttons that the man had just fastened open.

But Lu Ran didn't notice this detail at all, frowning and thinking:

"No, did you do it on purpose? I could walk a long way with your wheelchair before."

Ji Min: "..."

Is it possible? That's because the wheelchair has wheels.

"Then carry it on your back!"

Lu Ran bent down in front of Ji Min and grabbed the man's arms again.

This time, he finally carried the man on his back with great difficulty.

After finally moving to the bed, he was tripped by the bed legs and fell forward, his whole body pressed tightly on the bed.

Ji Min is very tall, and his shoulders are very broad.

At this moment, he covered the boy tightly.

"Hmm!" Lu Ran finally managed to get his head out.

He felt the weight on his back, was silent for a moment, and said: "Boyfriend, you must be about 200 pounds."

This scene is really quite funny.

Ji Min couldn't help it, he put his arms around the man, buried his head in the boy's neck and laughed softly.

The man didn't know what made him laugh.

He laughed for a long time.

His whole chest was shaking with laughter, and even Lu Ran's back was shaking.

"Stop laughing!" Lu Ran tried to speak loudly.

But because he was being held down so tightly, he seemed powerless.

"Do you know how serious this is?" Ji Min whispered in the boy's ear.

He could have let the man out by supporting himself with his arms and turning over, but the man refused.

He paid great attention to physical training, so the muscles on his body were very dense.

Even for his legs that could not move on their own, he was doing special training every day to keep the muscles active, so he was not weak.

Now he was completely relaxed, not using any strength, but he was not holding anyone down.

"Remember? Beg me." Ji Min teased him again.

Lu Ran didn't want to admit defeat, and he stretched his neck and crawled out with a red face.

He struggled to crawl for a while, but the teasing man's face changed slightly.

Ji Min held him down with his hand and whispered, "Don't crawl."

"No, I'm going to come out soon!"

Lu Ran was stubborn and continued to move forward.

This time, Ji Min's eyebrows suddenly frowned.

The man closed his eyes, made a light "tsk" sound, and clamped the man with both hands.

Lu Ran finally realized something was wrong.

He stretched out his hand and muttered, "Is your belt untied? Why are you standing up..."

As he spoke, he suddenly paused.

The room suddenly became quiet.

The funny atmosphere still remained, but some clear and unignorable changes were indeed happening.

Lu Ran's hand was still stretched behind his back.

Ji Min, who fell on him, let out a suppressed gasp in his ear.

Lu Ran: "...Fuck."

He was so shocked that he was extremely confused at the moment, without any messy thoughts.

The first thing that popped up was...

How big are the king oyster mushrooms in the supermarket?

The picture of king oyster mushrooms that he had seen before popped up, and was marked with a red cross.

Then pictures of various vegetables rotated in Lu Ran's mind like a slide show.

So he stayed there for too long.

The man leaned close to his ear and whispered, "What are you thinking about?"

Lu Ran answered obediently, "Eggplant, eggplant and zucchini?"

Ji Min: "..."

As expected of you.

After a stalemate for a while, Ji Min turned over.

All the buttons on his body had been rubbed open, and his collar was wide open.

Lu Ran got up in a flash.

He looked at Ji Min and felt a little guilty.

He was also a little curious and couldn't help but glance over.

Finally, he asked with a sense of responsibility: "Do you want me... to help?"

"Do you need my help?"

The words in his memory echoed again.

But this time it was obviously not Ji Min's overthinking.

He closed his eyes.

He had been calm for a long time, but now it was all in vain.

Ji Min was rarely angry, and glanced at the person next to him with his black eyes.

Lu Ran was now sitting obediently on the bed that belonged to him.

Because of the black hair just now, his clothes were wrinkled and his hair was a little messy.

His ears were even a little red.

"Oh, then you help." Ji Min said deliberately.

Who would have thought that this guy was so obedient, and upon hearing this, he actually slowly reached out his hand.

Get ready... to help.

Ji Min: "..."

He reached out and grabbed Lu Ran's wrist, and sighed.

Then Lu Ran saw the person he had just carried to the bed with great effort.

At this moment, he stretched out his long arms, lifted the wheelchair to the side of the bed, and then supported the armrest of the bed with his arms, and easily transferred himself to the wheelchair.

He threw another sentence at him: "Stay here honestly."

Then he went into the bathroom.

Wait for Ji Min to finish washing up.

He thought Lu Ran should have sneaked back a long time ago.

But when he opened the bathroom door, he found that the boy was still waiting obediently.

When Ji Min approached, he saw Lu Ran's expression.

I just realized that waiting is real, but being obedient is not necessarily.

This man sat on the bed with his arms folded across his chest, legs crossed, and his expression was extremely serious.

Seeing him coming out, he threw a sentence at him: "Ji Min, you lied to me."

Ji Min: "..."

He said wrongly: "It's obviously your misunderstanding, I can't..."

Ji Min thought about it, his expression was indescribable: "I can't chase you to prove that I am good, right?"

Lu Ran pointed at him and was angry for a long time.

Then he lowered his head again, was silent for a while, and whispered: "Forget about this matter, but why did you tell me now that you are going to have surgery?"

Ji Min was startled and hurriedly controlled the wheelchair to move closer.

He leaned on the armrest of the bed and transferred himself to the bed. He

held the boy's hand again, put it on his cheek and asked: "Are you angry?"

"No." Lu Ran said, "It's a good thing that you are willing to have surgery."

"It's just..."

After thinking for a while, the boy raised his head again and said seriously, "You are wrong to do this. We are already together, and other things are over. How can you hide such an important thing as surgery from me."

Lu Ran's voice was very serious and pure.

Ji Min was a little at a loss for a moment: "Sorry, I just..."

The boy usually looks heartless, but very smart.

The news of the surgery told him that even if he was just happy for him at first, he would inevitably worry again later.

Ji Min didn't want Lu Ran to face these.

Whether it was worrying about his health or being nervous about the possible separation from his lover.

If possible, he even wanted to put the boy in a tour group, or let their mentor take him to another city for an academic conference.

Come back when everything has settled.

Ji Min also knew that it was wrong for him to do so.

He shouldn't completely protect Lu Ran as a child.

But he couldn't help it.

"I'm not angry this time, but I will be angry if you do this again next time." Lu Ran said.

"Sorry."

Ji Min whispered.

Lu Ran slowly nestled into his arms.

The two hugged quietly for a while.

Lu Ran started to look around Ji Min's room again.

He pointed at the cushions on the floor and asked curiously, "Why are there so many cushions? Will you fall down?"

"No, it's normal." Ji Min said.

After that, the man showed an embarrassed expression on his face:

"Because... at first I couldn't believe the fact that I couldn't stand up, and I always wanted to stand up and try."

Ji Min rarely showed this expression on his face.

It's rare to be a little cute.

Lu Ran couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Laughing at me?" Ji Min raised his eyebrows.

"No!" Lu Ran shook his head, but the expression on his face clearly said "yes".

After a while of making a fuss.

Lu Ran couldn't help feeling sleepy and yawned.

He wanted to just sleep in Ji Min's room.

But the man looked at him quietly for a while, then reached out and patted his waist, saying:

"Go back to your room and sleep."

Lu Ran rubbed his eyes, reluctant to leave.

Ji Min gently persuaded him: "Da Huang will be scared if he sleeps alone."

"Da Huang won't." Lu Ran said.

Ji Min looked at the person lying beside him, sighed softly, hugged the person, and whispered:

"Please. Otherwise I will take you back."

The man's voice was low and deep.

Lu Ran silently rubbed his red ears, climbed out of bed, and went back to his room in slippers.

As the date of the operation approached.

Ji Min became a little abnormal.

He took the initiative to get close to Lu Ran more often.

But it was not excessive.

Only occasionally would he reach out and hold the boy's fingers, or take the initiative to speak, asking him to stay by his side.

The most intimate moment was just to pull him into his arms when no one was paying attention.

Quietly kissing in an empty corner.

But he kissed very fiercely.

It hurt Lu Ran a little from his teeth biting.

He couldn't help but complain: "I don't want to be your boyfriend anymore, I'd rather be your subordinate."

Ji Min didn't get annoyed, and nodded in agreement.

When he turned around and wanted to kiss, he said:

"Since you don't have an office romance, every time we kiss is a holiday."

Then, he raised his eyebrows and asked Lu Ran: "How about kissing?"

Lu Ran: "..."

Every kiss is a holiday, who doesn't want a holiday.

He really knows how to control office animals.

Until he accompanied Ji Min to see Dr. Camiller.

Dr. Camiller read out the precautions of the operation and informed him again of the several consequences of a failed operation.

The best consequence is probably to remain the same.

More seriously, there is the risk of total paralysis or even death.

Lu Ran had also checked these risks.

But now, after listening to the doctor's careful explanation, he suddenly realized that Ji Min's recent abnormality might be due to nervousness.

Lu Ran and Ji Min left the hospital together.

In the elevator, Lu Ran suddenly said:

"Actually... total paralysis is also paralysis. You have to sit in a wheelchair now anyway, so there is no difference."

Ji Min: "..."

This is really a magical comfort.

Even though the surgery was not made public, the people in Ji Min's team knew about it to some extent.

Recently, many people came to comfort him.

Lu Ran's words "You have to sit in a wheelchair anyway" are really unique in the world.

What's even more bizarre is that after hearing this, Ji Min's nervousness disappeared. He

was left speechless.

It was surprisingly effective.

Especially the person behind him came over and said to him with a smile:

"Don't worry, I will take care of people with full body paralysis. If the operation fails, I will also take good care of you!"

Ji Min didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "That's really reassuring."

Coming out of the hospital, he saw the crowds of people walking on the street outside.

The man hesitated for a moment, and then said: "What if..."

He only said two words, and the boy behind him grabbed his neck.

And threatened: "You are not allowed to say it!"

Lu Ran's voice was a little hoarse.

Ji Min had to pat his hand for mercy.

For such a major operation, the doctor will explain the possible consequences of the operation more than once.

The second time, Lu Ran accompanied Ji Min out of the hospital.

Counting the floors of the elevator, it became smaller and smaller.

He suddenly said, "Ji Min, why don't you... not have the surgery?"

Ji Min turned to look at him unexpectedly.

Lu Ran has always been supportive of his surgery. He

was mostly happy when he learned that he was going to schedule the surgery.

At the beginning, in order to motivate him to have the surgery, even some special groups were brought up.

But now, the child who has always been optimistic and cheerful, looked at him worriedly and said, "Why don't you have the surgery?"

Ji Min sighed slightly.

This is why he didn't want to tell Lu Ran.

"What are you talking about?"

He held Lu Ran's hand, "We've already made the decision, how can we change our mind at the last minute?"

Back in the car, Lu Ran snuggled into Ji Min's arms.

He put his arms around the man's waist and said in a muffled voice:

"But I think you are doing well now. You, you are so great. You have arranged your life very well."

The boy seemed to be in a state of panic and said: "And you are also very good, super good, you don't have to... um!"

Ji Min looked at the seat in front of him and covered the boy's mouth helplessly. He

lowered his eyes to meet the pair of worried eyes.

He lowered his head again and kissed the boy's eyelids gently.

"Don't be afraid."

Ji Min whispered to comfort, "You study hard and you will be fine soon. When I am discharged from the hospital, I will take you to the beach to play during the summer vacation, okay?"

"No." Lu Ran said.

He thought about it and said, "I will accompany you for the operation. I know it will be closed for a long time. I can take a leave to go there!"

Ji Min laughed.

"How can you do this? It will take so long and might even delay your exams. You've worked so hard to earn credits, how can you just give up at the last minute?"

"I don't care."

Lu Ran buried his head in his neck, "Please ask my counselor for leave for me, and say you're my family member..."

Before he could finish his words, he was lifted up on the chin and kissed lightly.

The kiss was light, yet exceptionally deep.

It was like a wordless comfort.

After the kiss, Ji Min smiled in his ear and said, "Your boyfriend is a family member too?"

They were going to the hospital the next day.

That night, Ji Min arranged some things.

But no matter how well he arranged it, he couldn't help but feel a little concerned when he thought of Lu Ran's appearance today.

When Ji Min came out of the study, the lights in the corridor had gone out.

Ji Min went to check Lu Ran's room.

The light was off and it looked like he was asleep.

Ji Min did not disturb him.

He returned to his room.

He reviewed the things he needed to pay attention to during the operation.

Then he went to the bathroom to wash up.

Back in the bedroom, Ji Min just moved himself to the bed.

The quilt beside him moved.

A furry head popped out from it.

The boy stared at him quietly with a pair of sleepless eyes.