Chapter 224
Ji Yanshen held Zhou Youyou's shoulders, his eyes showing obvious worry and his face looking a little anxious, "How are you? Where are you hurt? I'll take you to the hospital."
At the moment, Ji Shenshen could no longer care about the gangsters who had just attacked people. In a hurry, he even forgot to inform Lin Shixu, especially when he saw that her face was pale with pain and she couldn't utter a word. He just helped her into the car.
During this time, Zhou Youyou's tears kept falling. Seeing that she was leaning half-way, Ji Shen guessed that she might have injured her shoulder blade. He actually didn't expect that the gangsters would come back for revenge. This was really an unprovoked disaster.
Ji Linshen drove to the hospital quickly. The doctor took an X-ray and found bone and muscle damage. The skin was obviously bruised, but fortunately there were no fractures.
Because the injury is to the shoulder, there is no need for a cast or hospitalization, but you need to rest for a while and apply medicated patches on time every day. It will take about two to three weeks to fully recover. In addition, it is best not to lift heavy objects during this period.
To be exact, I was quite lucky this time. Basically, there was no serious harm to my body. However, I suffered some physical pain.
Ji Yanshen was busy getting a number and queuing in the hospital. Two or three hours had passed. When he finished all the steps, Ji Yanshen looked up at the time display on the wall of the hospital. It was already past one in the morning. He took out his cell phone from his pocket, but it was already turned off due to lack of battery.
After leaving the hospital, Ji Shenshen turned around and looked at Zhou Youyou who was sleeping uneasily in the back seat of the car. For a moment, he felt troubled and had a headache, but there was no good way to solve it. She was injured now and had difficulty moving, and he couldn't just leave her there like that. He could only take her back to stay for one night and then send her home to rest tomorrow at noon.
Ji Shenshen turned around and drove away, thinking that he would not have time to go to work tomorrow, and he could not let Yanyan know about this, otherwise, with his girlfriend's jealous nature, she would probably quarrel with him again.
After the car arrived downstairs, Ji Lingshen woke up Zhou Youyou, who was already half asleep in the back seat, and took them upstairs. Zhou Youyou kept her head down and remained silent. Ji Lingshen saw that she looked a little uncomfortable and aggrieved, but he couldn't care less now and just wanted things to settle down as soon as possible.
He originally wanted to call Lin Shixu, but it was too late now, and Zhou Youyou refused to agree after hearing that he wanted to call Lin Shixu. Ji Lingshen then remembered that the two were still arguing about breaking up, and for a moment he felt that things were getting more troublesome.
After going upstairs, Ji Lingshen turned around and got some disposable toiletries for Zhou Youyou in the guest room. Seeing that it was getting late, Ji Lingshen didn't say much, just a few words of advice:
"You should have a good rest these two days. Take a leave from work for the time being. Just stay here tonight. I will take you home tomorrow morning. It's too late now."
Zhou Youyou responded. She had originally thought that she could spend more time with him, but now she was really not feeling well and it was getting late. Whenever she moved, her shoulder hurt. It was not so serious at first, but after applying the patch, the effect of the medicine took effect and the pain in the back of her shoulder became more and more severe, as if a needle was stuck in her bones.
After Ji Yanshen finished his explanation, he returned to his room. He charged his phone and turned it on again. Only then did he see that his girlfriend had called him several times and sent him many messages:
First she asked him if he had arrived home. Then she asked him if there was a jade Buddha in his room. It was something her grandmother had asked for at the Buddhist temple and she couldn't let it get lost.
Seeing that he hadn't replied, my tone went from questioning at first to gradually becoming unhappy. In the end, I was so angry that I sent him a bunch of head-smacking emojis.
Ji Shenshen couldn't help but lower his head and laughed. He quickly searched around the floor of the room, but didn't see any jade Buddha. He opened the bed, rummaged around, and then touched the white jade Buddha with a big belly under the pillow.
He couldn't help laughing this time, knowing that this person must have slept restlessly last night and the red rope around his neck was torn off.
Ji Shenshen quickly took a photo of his girlfriend across the street and sent it to her. He also replied to a few messages, saying that his phone was turned off and he had not seen the messages and was replying now.
After sending the message, there was no response from the other party. Ji Lingshen looked at the time and it was already past three in the morning. He rubbed his dizzy brows and almost forgot...
His girlfriend should have gone to bed at this time, so he sent her a love emoticon and then put the jade Buddha on the table, preparing to give it to her tomorrow.
The second half of the night went on peacefully, with no major noise coming from next door. Ji Shenshen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The next morning, perhaps because he slept too late the day before, Ji Shen woke up a little late. He took out the mobile phone beside the bed and took a look at it.
It's already past eleven o'clock.
He saw several messages from his girlfriend on his phone, so he got up and replied to the person on the other end.
After Ji Lingshen got up, there was no movement in the next room. After he finished washing up, he vaguely heard a few soft cries of pain coming from the room, like some kind of suppressed pain sound. After hearing it, Ji Lingshen walked over and knocked on the door.
"Zhou Youyou, what's wrong with you?"
In fact, he didn't have any extra emotions to express. After all, the man had injured his shoulder and it must be inconvenient for him to move. It was no big deal to just say a word of sympathy.
He heard a rustling sound coming from inside the house, probably the sound of someone tidying up clothes, so he asked again, "How's your shoulder? Do you feel better?"
Through the door, he heard a muffled response from inside the room, "Nothing... Wait a minute."
After a while, the door finally opened, and the person inside finally came out after a long delay.
Ji Linshen glanced down at her and saw that she was obviously not in good spirits. Perhaps she did not sleep well last night. Ji Linshen could clearly see that her face was a little pale, which made the two dark spots under her eyes look particularly eye-catching.
He frowned slightly, and perhaps out of some normal courtesy, he asked twice, "Did you not sleep well last night? Is your shoulder hurting?"
Zhou Youyou still held the box of medicine in her hand, and her expression was a little uncomfortable. "It's fine now. It hurt a lot at first, but it didn't hurt that much in the second half of the night."
"I wanted to change the patch this morning, but the injury was on my shoulder, and my right hand couldn't reach it, and if I used a little force it would easily tear the injured area, so I hesitated for a long time and didn't put it on."
The meaning of her words was actually very obvious, but Ji Lingshen didn't know what he was thinking and didn't respond to her for a while.
Zhou Youyou glanced at him, hesitated for a moment and said, "Can you help me change the patch? It's not convenient for me to use one hand, and I can't reach it."
Ji Shenshen finally came to his senses. He looked down at the girl in front of him. He didn't know why, but he had a very strange feeling. The attitude of this person towards him seemed to have changed a lot. She was not as casual as before, but more cautious. Could it be because it was too painful that her emotions became a little unstable?
He saw the box of medicine plasters in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out to take it. It was just a medicine plaster, why did she make it seem like something shameful? For such a small matter, couldn't she just say something?
He nodded casually, without much emotion, "Give it to me, I'll help you put it on and it'll be done."
After Ji Lingshen finished saying this, he himself did not react much, but Zhou Youyou looked a little uncomfortable, but she did not shy away, after all, their relationship when they were children was much closer than it is now.
Zhou Youyou let out a light breath, then turned her head to look at Ji Lingshen's face. When she found that there was no unnecessary emotion on his face, she felt a little lost in her heart.
She turned around and sat on the edge of the bed, gently pushing open her clothes at the collar with her fingers, carefully revealing half of her neck and shoulders. Zhou Youyou felt that she was a girl after all, and in this situation, even if the two of them were very familiar with each other in the past, she couldn't help blushing.
Ji Shenshen couldn't help frowning, but it wasn't because of her blushing face that he noticed her mood at the moment.
But when he looked down and saw the large red, swollen and bruised area on her shoulder, he was obviously surprised. He didn't expect that the blow last night was quite serious, at least more serious than he imagined.
After all, she had blocked the blow for him last night. Although he might not need her help, it was useless to say more now that things had come to this. No matter what, Ji Yanshen still felt a little guilty.
As for Zhou Youyou's behavior of exposing half of her shoulder, to be honest, Ji Shenshen didn't feel much in his heart. He was just applying a medical patch.
Nowadays it is quite normal for girls to wear clothes that show their shoulders and legs. It is not embarrassing at all. In other words, this person is not his girlfriend and he has no emotional fluctuations towards her, so this behavior makes no difference in his eyes.
Ji Shenshen's eyes were calm. While putting the pill on her, he said to her, "After breakfast, I'll take you back to rest." After all, it was not a good thing to stay with him all the time.
When Ji Lingshen said this, his tone was normal, without any unusual emotion.
But Zhou Youyou could clearly hear the unfamiliarity in his tone. She felt she could no longer hold back and a sour feeling rose up in her nose.
She suddenly turned around, stretched out her hand and grabbed his sleeve, then said what had been weighing on her mind:
"Can't I just rest here? I won't disturb you. We were always together when we were little. In the past, when I had a cold and felt sick, you always stayed by my side to take care of me."
Ji Yu frowned, shook his head and refused bluntly, "It's not convenient here, and we are not children anymore. Zhou Youyou, I have a girlfriend and you have your own boyfriend. This is not good for both of us. I don't want my girlfriend and I to have conflicts over these things again."
"I've broken up! Ji Yanshen."
Zhou Youyou looked at her childhood sweetheart, the one who had earnestly told her that he loved her in front of her hospital bed in her previous life. She looked at him with red eyes and even a hint of tears in her voice, "Ji Linshen, do you really not care about me at all?"
She couldn't hold back her emotions until now. At first she thought that they could get along slowly. He liked her so much. As long as she worked hard, their relationship would be restored to the same state sooner or later. But now she realized that it was impossible.
It seemed that everything had changed since her rebirth, and she had no idea how to recover or restore everything to its original state.
She had clearly broken up with Lin Shixu in advance, and she even went back to look for him, but why, why didn't he like her as much as he said in the ward in his previous life?
Every time she saw him and his girlfriend being so close to each other without paying attention to others, she would feel very sad. He had said that he liked her in his last life, why did he change in this life? She hadn't done anything to save the relationship yet, why did he already have no intention of giving up on her?
He was still trying to avoid suspicion with her, and just because his girlfriend would be unhappy, he insisted that she leave. Zhou Youyou really couldn't stand it anymore. Could it be that their relationship of more than ten years couldn't compare to the relationship between him and his girlfriend?
She shook her head, and tears began to roll back and forth in her eyes uncontrollably.
Ji Lingshen's expression became a little strange because of her sudden change of mood.
In fact, since the two reconciled, Zhou Youyou had not done anything too intimate except for saying some nonsense on the first day. After that, their mood had been relatively stable, and they got along like ordinary friends. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for him to say anything alienating to her.
After all, that would make people think that he was being sentimental, and everyone knew that she liked Lin Shixu. Even if there was a conflict for a while, it was impossible for her to give up.
But what she said now didn't seem to be the case, nor was it a joke, which made Ji Shenshen vaguely guess, but he was so sure that he could only calm down and ask, "What do you mean by saying this?"
Zhou Youyou took a breath while choking, her fingers tightly gripping his sleeve, as if trying to draw some courage from that little bit of strength.
"I know it may be a little late for me to say this now, but I still want to say, Ji Lingshen...I like you."
She finally spoke out what she had been hiding in her heart since her rebirth, and looked at him with red eyes, "This is what I mean when I say I regret it. I regret that I realized it too late. I broke up with Lin Shixu not because of anything else, but because I don't like him. The person I like is you."
"Ji Lingshen, do you understand now? Do you understand why I refuse to leave and why I always want to be close to you?"
This time it was Ji Shenshen who was stunned.
This was indeed a surprise. Who could have thought of this? She had been pursuing Lin Shixu for four or five years, and finally caught up with him. But now she said that the person she liked was him?
If he were Lin Shixu, he would think that Zhou Youyou was playing tricks on him on purpose. Does that make sense?
Ji Yan frowned deeply. It was different from what Zhou Youyou had expected at first. In fact, he refused without any hesitation. "Sorry, Youyou, I already have a girlfriend, and we have a good relationship now. I did like you in the past, that's a fact, but it's over now."
The two of them were so focused on this matter at the moment that they didn't notice the sound of the key turning in the door outside.
Ji Yanshen gently pulled away his sleeve and stood up. He probably felt that it was not appropriate for the two of them to stay together in this situation. "Calm down first. I'll go buy some breakfast and I'll take you home after you finish eating."
He turned around and tried to leave, but was grabbed by the man opposite him. Zhou Youyou's eyes were filled with tears almost instantly, "Don't go! Don't go. You were so nice to me before, and you said you liked me, why is everything different now?"
Ji Yan frowned deeply. He turned his head to look at her. He felt that this situation was a bit troublesome, especially seeing her crying like that. He just felt it was difficult to deal with. "No one will remain unchanged. What happened in the past is long gone. Zhou Youyou, you are not a child anymore. Don't you understand this simple truth?"
Zhou Youyou was still unwilling to let go, she held on tighter and tighter, just like when they were little and she would act like a spoiled brat every time she couldn't get a toy, holding his arm tightly.
"Don't say that, Senior...it wasn't like this before. What changed?"
Ji Lingshen listened to her nonsense again, and his brows furrowed even tighter. Because she held him too tightly, and because he was concerned about the wound on her shoulder, he didn't push her away for a moment, and could only helplessly call out her name:
"Zhou Youyou...let go."
However, before he could finish his words, he heard a cold and mocking voice, "Ji Lingshen, what are you doing?"
Nan Yan looked back and forth between the two of them. When she saw Zhou Youyou's disheveled appearance, the sarcasm in her eyes became more obvious. "What a story of childhood sweethearts getting back together. You two really seem to be in love now!"
"Do you need me to make room so you two can be less secretive with each other?"
Ji Lingshen turned around and saw his girlfriend standing at the door with red eyes. The look in her eyes was so cold that she almost felt cold. He was startled and his scalp suddenly felt cold.
At this time, he no longer cared about Zhou Youyou. He exerted a little force with his hands and pushed away the person who was pestering him.
He tried hard to calm himself and appear calm. Nothing had happened between him and Zhou Youyou, but for some reason, when he met his girlfriend's angry eyes, he felt an inexplicable panic in his heart.
"Yan Yan!"
He called her name softly.
"How did you get here?" He stretched out his hand towards Nan Yan, but his fingers were slapped away fiercely. He pursed his lips with some difficulty, "It's not what you think..."
However, he was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Shouldn't I be here?"
"If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have known that you didn't answer my calls or reply to my messages the whole night, and that you were hanging out in the room with your childhood sweetheart."
"Ji Yanshen, do you think I'm stupid?"
Nan Yan in front of him was obviously unable to control her emotions. Her face was slightly red due to her emotional fluctuations, tears were shining in her eyes, and she stared at him fiercely.
Ji Shenshen didn't dare to breathe, and rushed over to explain, "No, it's not what you think, Yanyan, she was accidentally hit by someone last night, so I brought her back."
Ji Shenshen immediately grasped Nan Yan's wrist, his throat feeling dry and uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a handful of sand.
Nan Yan's mood became increasingly unstable, and her words became increasingly harsh, like a sharp dagger stabbing straight into his heart. "Yes, she was injured, so she can't walk anymore, right? She needs you to take care of her in your arms, right? If I had come a little later, you two would have taken care of her directly in bed, right!"
After saying this, the mist that had accumulated in her eyes condensed into tears, and she finally couldn't help but let them fall.
Ji Shenshen called her name in a hoarse voice, "Yan Yan! Don't say such things. Nothing happened between Zhou Youyou and me... Don't think too much."
When he said this, he subconsciously turned around and glanced at Zhou Youyou. Seeing that her clothes were disheveled and her face was flushed, he probably found it a little hard to believe.
"Don't let your imagination run wild?" Nan Yan suddenly raised her head, staring at him with red eyes, her eyes seemed to contain some kind of resentment, "You guys can do this, are you still afraid of what others say?"
Ji Shenshen's expression changed slightly.
Nan Yan wanted to shake off his hand but failed.
"Don't you know that I've always minded this? Don't you know that I don't want you to have any contact with her? You're obviously my boyfriend, why can't you do it?"
"Why do you always have all kinds of reasons that can't be refused? Why do you just like to hang around her?"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but shed tears again, "Ji Lingshen, do you think everyone is a fool? Is it so difficult for me to ask you to keep your distance from her?"
"I, I'm not..."
Ji Yanshen gave a somewhat incoherent explanation, but as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that his throat was completely hoarse.
After Nan Yan finished speaking, she no longer wanted to listen to his explanation. She felt that there was no need for the two of them to continue the argument, so she turned her head and said in a cold voice:
"Let go, don't touch me."
Ji Yanshen suddenly felt a surge of panic in his heart, and an unprecedented sense of uneasiness was turning in his mind, "Yanyan, calm down and believe me, okay? I really..."
Nan Yan suddenly raised her hand and slapped him.
The slap was merciless, and a bright red palm print quickly appeared on the fair face.
Ji Lingshen's body suddenly froze, and he did not resist. His black eyes just looked at her quietly.
However, Zhou Youyou beside him subconsciously took a step forward, especially when she saw the slap mark on her childhood sweetheart's face, a look of heartache instantly flashed in her eyes.
She turned her head to look at Nan Yan, and when she saw her raised hand, she felt that the girl in front of her was extremely unreasonable. "You are too impulsive, Xia Nan Yan, nothing happened between Ji Yan Shen and me! Do you know that he just..."
"Shut up!" Nan Yan turned her head and looked at her, her eyes becoming more and more mocking. "This is between him and me. What does it have to do with you?"
"You are simply unreasonable!" Zhou Youyou obviously didn't expect her to be so unreasonable. She was so angry that her cheeks turned slightly red.
But looking at Ji Lingshen's expression, she felt that it was indeed her fault. "Can you calm down a little? You are just making false accusations based on the little you saw."
She just took a step forward and was about to explain it to her, but she was caught off guard and pushed hard by the other party. The push made her lose her balance and her whole body suddenly crashed into the cabinet behind her uncontrollably.
With this fall, her entire back and head hit the cabinet door behind her. The pain made her burst into tears instantly. Her face lost all color and even her lips trembled uncontrollably. She felt extremely uncomfortable.
Nan Yan didn't care anymore after pushing her. She turned around to leave, but someone behind her grabbed her wrist.
She turned her head to look, "Let go."
Ji Yanshen refused to let go, holding her wrist tightly, his eyes looking at her quietly, as if suppressing some gloomy emotions, and then he said something.
"You apologize."
Nan Yan probably didn't expect him to say such a thing, and there was a look of disbelief in her eyes.
She tugged at his wrists, tears suddenly flowing uncontrollably, "You're heartbroken, right? Just because I pushed your childhood sweetheart, you can't help it, right?"
"Ji Lingshen, you are very patient. During the time you have been with me, it has been very hard for you to endure, right? Well, you don't have to endure it now. It's over between us!"
Nan Yan completely exploded, "From now on, you can like whoever you want to like. It has nothing to do with me. I will not be a stumbling block that prevents you two from being together."
Nan Yan's tears flowed even harder. She pried his wrist apart with one hand and shouted at him, "Get out of here!"
She threw the purse in her hand and the key that was handed to her the night before at him. The key bounced to the ground with a slight "ding" sound.
After smashing those things, Nan Yan turned around and left.
Ji Shenshen, who stayed where he was, was completely frozen.
His face twitched slightly, and he endured a pain in his chest that felt like it was being torn apart, and a faint feeling of suffocation. He stood there as stiff as a sculpture.
He felt as if his throat was tightly blocked by something, and he couldn't utter any words to try to keep her.
In just a moment, he heard a "bang" from the living room and the door was slammed shut.
Ji Shenshen moved his fingers, and his originally stiff body seemed to be pricked by needles. A feeling of numbness instantly spread through his body.
It made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
This was obviously not his original intention. He really just wanted to bring Zhou Youyou back to stay for one night and would send her away soon. Why... just refused to believe him?
Zhou Youyou, who was behind him, finally supported herself and got up from the ground. She went forward to hold his arm and wanted to say a few words to comfort him, but was pushed away.
Ji Yanshen said expresslessly, "You can leave by yourself. I am not in the mood to take you home today."
Zhou Youyou pursed her lips and suddenly felt a little aggrieved. Obviously, nothing happened between them, right? Why was he angry with her?
But now that things have come to this, and the reason they were arguing was indeed because of her, Zhou Youyou felt somewhat guilty in her heart.
She had no choice now. She knew that the most important thing for him right now was to take some time to calm down, so she turned around and left without saying anything else.
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On the other side, after leaving the community, Nan Yan's tears slowly dried up. What was she still crying for? They finally broke up, and it would be a waste of her tears to cry for these two people.
She turned around and walked in the direction she came from. According to the subsequent plot development, she could finally bully others openly. Lin Shixu's girlfriend stole her boyfriend, and she finally had a reason to torment him.
Nan Yan jogged along, wiping the remaining tears from her face with the back of her hand, making her cheeks slightly red. She looked as if she had been devastated and distraught.
It was obvious that she was not planning to go back, and she had also asked for leave from the company, so she just stopped a car on the side of the road and went straight to a nearby bar.
She knew that Lin Shixu had made a small mistake in the morning when he was dealing with a problem related to their breakup. Although it didn't cause any big trouble in the end, it made him not want to continue, so he left work early.
After get off work, Lin Shixu did not go home. Instead, he drove directly to a nearby light bar, intending to have a drink to relax. He was not a big drinker, but what happened last week had some impact on him.
Unable to relieve the depressed mood in his heart, he just wanted to find something to do, a way to vent, and naturally he wanted to use alcohol to relieve stress.
So Lin Shixu went to a nearby bar.
There are almost no people here on weekdays. Lin Shixu has been here once or twice, and there are more people at night. But today is strange. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a familiar figure lying on the counter with his back to the drink.
The silhouette was so familiar that he recognized who it was at a glance. His eyelids suddenly twitched uncontrollably. Lin Shixu didn't know why, but he suddenly felt his scalp tingling and had the urge to turn around and leave.
However, he suppressed this strange emotion.
Lin Shixu thought calmly, there was no need, there was absolutely no need for that. They had only met a few times and were not familiar with each other at all. There was absolutely no need for him to stay away from this person because of what happened the last two times. He should just pretend he didn't see him.
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