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Xia Zhitang was rehearsing lines with Gu Zian when his cell phone rang and Cheng Shubai's name popped up on the phone.
"Has Lao Lin contacted you?" Cheng Shubai's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"No." Xia Zhitang suddenly had a bad feeling, "You can't contact him?"
"Yes, I haven't replied to any messages all day, and I haven't been filming."
"Do you know his address?"
Gu Zian looked at Xia Zhitang and saw that his expression was getting anxious, and he felt a little uneasy.
"Okay, send it to me and I'll be there now."
Xia Zhitang hung up the phone and said to Gu Zian, who was standing by and watching her quietly, "Zi'an, Mr. Cheng can't contact Lin Jingming. I want to go with him to check it out."
"I'll go with you."
"You're a public figure." Xia Zhitang took his hand and squeezed his palm. "I'll find you if I need anything."
She looked at the script in her hand and sighed, "I'm a little worried. He's a little paranoid right now."
Gu Zian opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Personally, he wanted to persuade Xia Zhitang to be more selfish, but he couldn't say such words.
Xia Zhitang looked at Gu Zian, who looked confused and didn't know where to start, and smiled gently: "Thank you, Zian."
She just confided her troubles to Gu Zian, and his reaction made Xia Zhitang feel warm.
Even if it is a love rival, this child will not hurt others with his words.
"Okay, I'm going to go now. I just want to have a clear conscience."
She hugged Gu Zian, turned around to change her shoes, took the car keys, and walked out the door in one go.
Gu Zian was left holding the script and looking at the empty house with a wry smile.
When Xia Zhitang arrived at Lin Jingming's door, Cheng Shubai was excitedly communicating with the property management.
Cheng Shubai saw Xia Zhitang coming and walked over with a bad expression: "The property management said they saw someone come back the day before yesterday, but they don't have the key to get in."
"No response from knocking on the door?"
"Yes, they also disagreed with accessing the surveillance footage, saying they didn't have the authority to do so."
Xia Zhitang thought for a moment: "Call the police and find a locksmith."
Cheng Shubai glanced at Xia Zhitang with a sullen face, and started making a phone call without asking any questions.
With the help of their connections, they finally opened the door of Lin Jingming's house an hour later.
Xia Zhitang turned on the light, walked through the messy living room, and followed everyone else to search for Lin Jingming.
"Here, I'm confused due to the fever." Cheng Shubai's voice sounded in the innermost room.
Xia Zhitang walked over quickly with a cold face. Cheng Shubai was making a phone call nearby. The man who had been missing for a day was lying on the bed unconscious.
She looked at Lin Jingming, whose face was pale from fever, for a long time before she suppressed the urge to slap him a few times.
The scene was chaotic and noisy, but with Cheng Shubai there, Xia Zhitang completely ignored what others were saying.
She rummaged around in Lin Jingming's house and helped him pack a bunch of hospital supplies.
"Where is your ID card?" Xia Zhitang patted Lin Jingming's face.
Lin Jingming opened his eyes slightly in a daze, saw Xia Zhitang's face, turned his back to her without saying a word.
Xia Zhitang frowned and searched his house again before he found his wallet and ID card in the drawer of the computer desk.
Amidst the chaos, Xia Zhitang once again followed Lin Jingming into the ambulance and rushed to the hospital.
Outside the emergency room, Cheng Shubai hurried over and saw Xia Zhitang sitting outside the door with his body tensed, his eyes fixed on the door of the operating room.
He sat down next to Xia Zhitang, looked at Xia Zhitang, and couldn't help asking, "Did you have a fight?"
Regarding Lin Jingming's abnormal loss of contact, Cheng Shubai thought about it and came up with only this possibility.
"I refused to work with him on the next documentary."
"Ah? That's it?" Cheng Shubai widened his eyes in surprise.
Xia Zhitang nodded awkwardly at Cheng Shubai's look that said, "Don't tease me."
"No, you guys..." Cheng Shubai thought for a long time and held back the word "bad fate".
"I think he has some psychological problems." Xia Zhitang finally found someone to talk to. "He keeps saying it's all fate."
"Do you remember where he is from? People over there really believe this." Cheng Shubai felt that the situation was very tricky.
"I don't know what to do with him." Xia Zhitang said with a wry smile, "I've said everything I need to say, but he seems to be stuck in a rut."
"Let's get through this first." Cheng Shubai decisively chose the latter over the sticky relationship between them and Lin Jingming's fate. "Don't stimulate him too much during this period."
"I don't think he loves me." Xia Zhitang whispered, looking at the dimly glowing green light at the door of the operating room. "What he wants is just his own fantasy."
"We all know it." Cheng Shubai sighed, "It's just that he doesn't want to see it clearly."
The two of them fell silent. This was the truth, but neither of them had the heart to ignore him.
When Lin Jingming woke up, Xia Zhitang was communicating with the doctor about his condition at the foot of the bed.
It was originally just a fever caused by a cold due to his weak constitution, but it became increasingly serious because he did not take his medicine properly and his lungs had not fully recovered.
"Luckily, we discovered it quickly. If it was any later, the consequences would be unimaginable."
After hearing the doctor's words, Xia Zhitang sighed and turned around to see Lin Jingming looking at him quietly.
She looked at him with a complicated expression, but finally, she couldn't stand his mocking look and looked away.
Yes, it was I who rejected him, but now he has lost contact and is in the hospital, and I am the one who stays with him.
At a certain moment, Xia Zhitang felt extremely powerless, as if there was a ruthless net with traps everywhere, forcing her close to Lin Jingming.
All attempts to escape seemed like futile struggles, locking her to him step by step.
Xia Zhitang hired a one-on-one nurse for Lin Jingming before returning to the bedside.
Lin Jingming saw her and turned his face away.
Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming's back and sighed again: "I'll come over at nine o'clock tomorrow and hire a nurse for you."
After waiting for a long time without seeing any response from him, Xia Zhitang nodded helplessly to the nurse, then got up and left.
When she returned home, Gu Zian had already prepared dinner.
"Is Director Lin okay?" Gu Zian asked Xia Zhitang.
"Rescued."
Xia Zhitang sat down tiredly and said hesitantly, "Zi'an, I have to take time out every day to go to the hospital to see him."
Gu Zian paused while spooning the soup: "Why?"
"There's no one left at home." Xia Zhitang sighed. "The person closest to him legally is Su Wen, but Su Wen is not in the country either."
"What about you?" Gu Zian looked at Xia Zhitang with a sad look in his eyes. "Sister, why are you so nice to him?"
Xia Zhitang looked at Gu Zian with some sadness: "Because he saved me, more than once."
She laughed bitterly at herself, "I can't bear to watch him die in front of me."
Gu Zian put the bowl back on the dining table, and a few drops of bright white soup spilled out and dripped onto the table.
"Sister, you are also very gentle to him."
He understood Xia Zhitang's difficulties and hardships, but he was still angry and jealous.
"I also wish I could be cruel enough." Xia Zhitang's penetrating eyes were like fragile glass, "But I can't do it."
"What about me?" Gu Zian's voice trembled. "What position do I hold in your heart?"
"You are my lover and my partner."
Xia Zhitang looked at Gu Zian, who looked aggrieved, and suddenly understood what he wanted to know. He continued, "Lin Jingming is my teacher and my savior. He is the one I couldn't bear to watch die in front of me while I did nothing."
She looked at Gu Zian's increasingly aggrieved expression and added firmly, "But he's not the one I love."
Gu Zian knelt on the ground with his furry head buried in Xia Zhitang's legs, which made her feel slightly itchy through her pants.
"He's so shameless." Gu Zian whispered, "Sister, don't fall in love with him."
Xia Zhitang thought that love was really a very troublesome thing.
She, Gu Zian and Lin Jingming all suffered for love. They suffered when they got it and they also suffered when they couldn't get it.
"What he loves is the person who is desperate to save him in his fantasy." Xia Zhitang stroked the ends of Gu Zian's hair.
I added silently in my heart: I am not the one who feels guilty about him.
Xia Zhitang had just finished his meal and washed up when the nurse called.
"Ms. Xia, Mr. Lin won't cooperate with his medication," the nurse said cautiously. "I've tried everything."
"Does he cooperate with the injections and nebulization?"
"Those are fine, but he just won't open his mouth to take the medicine. I can feed him water with a spoon and he'll drink a few sips, but he won't take the medicine. I even crushed it up and fed him with a spoon, but he still won't open his mouth."
The nurse kept nagging and emphasizing Lin Jingming's non-cooperation.
"Alright." Xia Zhitang interrupted him, "Explain the situation to the doctor and prescribe an IV if possible."
"Yeah, I might as well hang more IV drips. I really can't help him not taking medicine. I even feed him with a spoon."
"I understand. If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. Thank you for your hard work."
When Xia Zhitang answered the phone, Gu Zian looked at her uneasily repeatedly.
"Zi'an, I'm going to sleep for a while." Xia Zhitang yawned.
"You're not going over?" Gu Zian was a little surprised.
"No, he has to get used to facing it on his own." Xia Zhitang shook his head. "If he thinks that threatening his own life can force me to change my principles, then there will be a second and third time."
Gu Zian was slightly stunned: "Sister, did he do it on purpose?"
"I don't know." Although Xia Zhitang was determined to do it, she was not as calm as she appeared.
"It's not like he can't be saved in the hospital. Let him suffer. I want to sleep now."
She just knew that there was still a long battle to fight. If she didn't rest well and replenish her energy, what would she use to fight the next battle?
"Have a good rest, sister."
Gu Zian couldn't help but feel relieved that his sister didn't disrupt her pace because of Lin Jingming's misfortune.
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