Chapter 84 [VIP] Best Friend's Shield (22)
After Nan Yan finished saying that, she staggered and fled from the hospital almost like a wolf. She didn't care about the reactions of the two people behind her or what they said. She just wanted to leave here quickly and walk far away, as if only in this way could the pain in her heart be slightly alleviated.
The two people in the hospital just watched her walk away.
Fu Qingzhou's eyes were gloomy. He stood there for a long time, staring at Nan Yan's thin and miserable back, which was covered with a layer of halo in the sunlight, and disappeared around the corner. Then he squatted down and carefully picked up the thermal box on the ground.
When the two returned to the ward, Fang Wanrou seemed to sense that something was wrong between them. She slowly moved over and wanted to hold his hand. "What's wrong?"
Fu Qingzhou dodged her finger directly, turned his head and stared into her eyes, and said coldly, "Don't do that again."
As soon as the words came out, Fang Wanrou's eyes immediately turned red, and a layer of mist quickly filled her eyes. Her emotions began to become unstable again, "What? Tell Nan Yan that we are getting married? But this is the fact. You promised me, why can't I tell it?"
As soon as the topic of marriage came up, Fu Qingzhou inevitably felt a little repulsive. He frowned and almost subconsciously retorted, "But you know that I..."
Before he could finish the rest of his words, he was interrupted by Fang Wanrou crying. She looked up at him, as if all the anger that had been accumulating in her heart was suddenly released.
"Yes, I know. I know you like her, but I still want to be with you regardless! I have thrown away all my self-esteem and face. I told myself that I can impress you, and I even gave up my dignity for this. You even stepped on me in the mud, but why can't you let go of who someone has been deceiving you?"
"I really don't understand. She's been deceiving you all along. Why won't you let her go?"
Fang Wanrou couldn't hold back her tears as she spoke, and even her voice trembled a little. "I don't want to, and I don't want to be like this."
"But do you know that the way you look at her really makes me feel that you might leave me one day? Qingzhou, I really have nothing left now. I only have you. Don't treat me like this, okay?"
Looking at Fang Wanrou, who was about to collapse emotionally, Fu Qingzhou suddenly felt extremely depressed. He felt as if he was stuck in a quagmire and could never get out of it. Wanrou was like his responsibility now, and he couldn't just abandon her. After all, she was injured because she saved him. How could he...
Fu Qingzhou took a deep breath and suddenly felt his brain was a little tired. He thought of what Wanrou said, and also thought that Nan Yan had been lying to him from beginning to end. Whenever he thought of this, the blood vessels in his head began to roar again, and all the impulses in his heart seemed to disappear in an instant.
It also made him suddenly feel like he should just compromise. Perhaps this was the best outcome, and perhaps Wanrou was the person he should love the most.
He shouldn't fall in love with a liar again, and he shouldn't be so upset just because she shed a few tears.
Thinking of this, Fu Qingzhou's mood recovered a lot. He reached out and held Wanrou's hand, soothing her in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to your feelings. I won't say such things again in the future. You should rest first. You still need to check your body later. I'll buy you some food."
After saying this, Fu Qingzhou let go of her hand, and without waiting for Fang Wanrou to say anything else, he picked up the phone on the table and opened the door to go out.
Fu Qingzhou left the ward and walked to the stairs. Thinking of the burns on Nan Yan's legs when she left and her pale face, he glanced at his cell phone and finally couldn't help but call her, but no one answered.
On the other side, Nan Yan had just walked out of the hospital gate when she felt a burning pain on her legs. This freshly cooked bone soup was no joke. Most of it spilled on her legs. Fortunately, she wore thick pants, otherwise she probably wouldn't be able to leave the hospital today. However, the show had to go on.
When Nan Yan stepped over the steps at the door, she felt her knees bend uncontrollably. If someone hadn't helped her in time, she would have fallen to the ground on the spot.
"careful!"
Jiang Shaoyan didn't know how long he had been following her, but seeing that she couldn't even stand steadily, he almost subconsciously rushed over, his tone filled with anxiety and concern.
"Why are you still walking around with your injured leg? You're already in the hospital, why don't you go see a doctor?"
Jiang Shaoyan didn't say much. He carried her to the stone bench next to him and sat her down. He didn't care about her resistance at this moment and directly opened her pants legs. Until he saw that her legs were burned red and there was even blood in some places, his expression suddenly became tense and his tone became much heavier.
"Are you crazy from the pain? Your legs are so burned and you still dare to move! Sit here and wait for me for a while. Sit still and don't move around. I will be back soon, understand?"
After Jiang Shaoyan finished explaining, he turned around and ran towards the hospital without waiting for her reply. Fortunately, the distance was not far and the round trip took less than ten minutes. He ran out of breath and bought two bottles of burn ointment. Without saying anything more, he squatted down and began to treat the burn on her leg.
There was no hesitation during the whole process. He moved very cautiously and carefully, fearing that he would hurt her if he used too much force. The expression on his face had not changed from the beginning until now. His brows were wrinkled. From time to time, he asked her if it hurt, and occasionally he lowered his head and blew gently on the wound on her leg.
Nan Yan's face turned pale. She pursed her lips, and her expression barely changed. Her eyes fell on his face, and her lips moved. After a long while, she asked, "Don't you hate me very much? Why do you still pretend to do these things?"
Maybe because she had just cried, her voice sounded a little hoarse, as if covered with a layer of sand.
Jiang Shaoyan paused, but did not look up. Instead, he continued to apply the last layer of ointment on her. Then he said with a trembling voice,
"I've never hated you..."
"Haha...really?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Nan Yan looked up at him. She couldn't help but chuckled at herself, "Didn't you give that recording to Fang Wanrou? If you didn't hate me, why did you do those things?"
Tears soon gathered in her eyes, and the smile she forced was extremely ugly, with big tears rolling down her cheeks.
"I really don't understand what you want to do. Why do you always destroy my happiness with your own hands when I am happiest and most expectant? It was like this the first time, and it was still like this the second time. When I loved you so much, you used me and then abandoned me. In your eyes, I am not even as good as a hair of Fang Wanrou. You loved her so much that you even pushed me to someone else for her..."
The more she spoke, the more she felt wronged. Her tears flowed even harder and she almost collapsed.
"Have you ever thought that I also have feelings? But when I came to my senses, gave up, and finally fell in love with someone else, why did you come and disturb the peace I had finally gotten?"
"I already regret it. I've obviously been very tactful and moved away. I don't dare to ask for anything anymore, and I don't dare to bother you anymore. But why don't you let me go?"
"Jiang Shaoyan, can't you see me happy?"
"Do you hate me so much?"
When Jiang Shaoyan heard these words, he even dared not breathe, and his throat felt dry as if he had swallowed a knife.
"I..."
He really couldn't say a word to defend himself. He knew that he was very selfish and would do anything to achieve his goals, but he really had never thought of hurting her, let alone thinking that leaving Fu Qingzhou would make her so painful.
He just hoped she would forgive him.
He just wished they could go back to the way they were before.
“…Don’t, don’t cry.”
Jiang Shaoyan was so anxious that his hands and feet became unresponsive.
He didn't even dare to touch her now. He just felt as if someone was tightening his heart. Every time he breathed, it was like being pricked by a needle. He finally couldn't hold back his tears and fell.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry... I really never wanted to hurt you... I just hope you can forgive me and go back to the way we were before, Nan Yan, can we leave here? Let's find a place where no one knows us and start over... Nan Yan, I really love you..."
He slowly moved closer to her and carefully reached out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face. "Nan Yan, please, can we start over?"
"I'll take you away, and we'll find a new city together. We'll stop caring about their disputes, just like before, with only the two of us. This time I'll love you well and never let you suffer any injustice again, okay?"
After Jiang Shaoyan finished speaking, he looked at her with eyes full of pleading and attachment, unwilling to miss any expression on her face.
Nan Yan took a step back.
She looked up at him and suddenly, tears dripping from her eyes. "If it were in the past, I would be really happy that you said this to me, and I would even wake up laughing in my dreams, but now... it's really too late. Jiang Shaoyan, please let me go, just like the way I left you. Don't pester me anymore, and don't show up in front of me again. Even if I beg you, okay?"
After she finished speaking, she pushed his hand away, refused to look at him again, turned around and left in the direction she came from.
Jiang Shaoyan was left alone at the spot, watching her leaving from behind. At that moment, it seemed as if even his heart had lost its warmth.
He seemed to have returned to his childhood when his parents remarried and started a new family. Neither of them wanted him. He felt as if he had returned to the bitter and helpless moment when he was abandoned by everyone...
There is nothing left, she doesn't want him anymore and will never forgive him again!
Nan Yan...
After returning, Nan Yan never went to the hospital again, nor did she call Fu Qingzhou again. It seemed that the two had completely cut off contact.
Two months later, Fang Wanrou was finally discharged from the hospital. Apart from the problem with her eyes, her injuries had basically recovered, and she was in much better spirits than before.
In the first week after being discharged from the hospital, Fang Wanrou began to prepare for the wedding. During this time, Fu Qingzhou changed his job and residence at Fang Wanrou's request. The small apartment he rented before had been vacant for a long time, but he did not move out and it just remained empty.
For a whole week, Fu Qingzhou accompanied Fang Wanrou in choosing wedding dresses, buying furniture and doing some other miscellaneous things. However, as the wedding date drew closer, the feeling of rejection in Fu Qingzhou's heart became more and more difficult to suppress.
Fang Wanrou didn't notice his abnormality. She hugged his arm and was completely immersed in the joy of choosing a wedding dress. "Qingzhou, what do you think of this wedding dress? Is it suitable for me? And this one, I really like the design of the big skirt. It will definitely be very beautiful in the photo!"
Fu Qingzhou smiled at her as usual, his eyes fell on the rhinestone-encrusted wedding dress she was pointing at in the showroom, and another girl's face unconsciously emerged in his mind. He still remembered that the light was not very good that night, and there was only a small warm yellow light left in the store. She was standing at the door of a closed wedding dress shop, looking through the window glass like a child, breathing on the glass, and smiling with her eyebrows curved as she described the pattern of the wedding dress, her eyes full of envy and expectation, and then she walked over to ask him if the dress was beautiful?
"very beautiful……"
She will look beautiful in it.
It's a pity that he didn't say this at the time, and it seems that he has no chance to say it now.
Fang Wanrou listened for a long time and only heard him say "beautiful". This suggestion was the same as not saying anything, which made her laugh. As expected, no man's vision is reliable. "I'm asking you which one is more beautiful. What's the point of just saying beautiful? I'm not going to buy them all."
Hearing her voice, Fu Qingzhou finally came back to his senses. He looked towards Fang Wanrou, his eyes lingering on the rhinestone-encrusted wedding dress for a long time, and then said, "Choose the one with a big skirt. It looks better."
"Really? But I saw you staring at this one for a long time, and I thought you also liked the rhinestone one, but do you really think that one looks better?"
Fang Wanrou was dazzled by the choices, but when she heard his suggestions, she couldn't help but stop and compare them twice. She felt that they all seemed okay.
Fu Qingzhou looked away indifferently, not seeming to be very interested, "Well, let's go with that one. You've been choosing for a long time, and that one suits you very well."
Fang Wanrou chuckled and readily agreed.
Fang Wanrou agreed, and the Fang family was naturally relieved. A grand wedding was being prepared intensively, and Fang Wanrou showed unprecedented enthusiasm for it.
In contrast, Fu Qingzhou did not have much enthusiasm for marriage. Instead, he put all his energy into his latest work and was rarely seen all day long.
During this period of time, Fu Qingzhou never saw Nan Yan again, which made him more certain that she was probably just acting to him.
Fu Qingzhou sneered lightly, and at the same time buried the slight pain in his heart deeply, thinking that maybe this was fate, and maybe he and Wanrou were the most suitable.
It happened that the night before the wedding, Fu Qingzhou received a call from Nan Yan. He was out buying supper for Wan Rou, and on his way back, he saw Nan Yan standing under the street light waiting for him.
It was already October, and the temperature at night was actually a bit cold. She stood under the street light, her nose slightly red from the cold. When she saw him, a glimmer of light suddenly burst out in her originally lonely eyes, and then she jogged all the way to him.
Fu Qingzhou didn't expect to see her at this time, and he didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment, because even he himself didn't know how to face her.
"What are you doing here?"
Seeing that she didn't say anything and just stared at him blankly, Fu Qingzhou couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter?"
Nan Yan pursed her lips. She did not answer him immediately. Instead, she suddenly opened the bag she had been holding in her arms and pulled out a bunch of messy ID cards, passports and other documents, as well as some cash. Then, as if she had used up all her strength, she said in a trembling voice, "Let's run away. Let's leave here together, okay? Let's ignore everything. Just the two of us, sneak away from here and start over, okay?"
Fu Qingzhou's expression froze.
He seemed... a little confused. What did she mean by what she was saying now?
You mean, just the two of them together, eloping?
"That's what you think! Fu Qingzhou, I don't want to care about anything anymore. Let's just let the past go, okay? Let's leave together, find a new city, and start over, okay?"
She was actually very scared when she said this, and her eyes were fixed on his face, not wanting to miss any expression on his face.
But Fu Qingzhou lowered his eyes.
He wondered if this was a new scam?
Moreover, if he really just walked away like this, would Wanrou be completely devastated? He had already caused her to lose an eye, and it was impossible for him to just abandon her like this. He had too many things to consider now, and he was no longer at the age of being irresponsible for love.
The more silent he was, the tighter Nan Yan's fingers clenched, as nervous as a prisoner facing trial, waiting for his final answer.
After a long silence, Fu Qingzhou looked up at her and said calmly, "I can't leave Wanrou now..."
Hear this answer.
Nan Yan suddenly laughed, as if trying to hide the last bit of her dignity, her laugh was sad and ugly.
Her face was pale, tears glistened in her eyes, and she hurriedly put the things away. "Fortunately, fortunately you didn't agree to my request so easily. In fact... I was just joking with you. Haha, you see, you almost fell for it? How could I... do such a stupid thing? This is just a joke. I'm just here to help Wanrou test you, so don't take it seriously."
Fu Qingzhou was silent for a moment. He heard himself asking, "Is this really just a joke?"
"What else?" Nan Yan forced a smile, and the mist in her eyes seemed to be getting thicker and thicker. She spoke softly, "Actually, I came here today to apologize to you. I lied to you for so long and caused you so much harm and trouble, but I never said sorry to you..."
She apologized to him solemnly.
Fu Qingzhou just felt uncomfortable in his chest, "There's no need to mention the past anymore."
"Then can you forgive me?"
Fu Qingzhou responded, "...well, I don't blame you anymore."
Hearing him say this, Nan Yan seemed to laugh again, but her voice became even hoarseer. She asked, "In that case, can you hug me again?"
Fu Qingzhou's eyes fell on her face, as if he couldn't understand what she was thinking. He neither agreed nor disagreed, just looked at her quietly.
Nan Yan didn't wait for his response. Although she was smiling, a tear slipped from her eye unconsciously. "You refused to agree to such a small request. Do you still dare to say that you don't blame me anymore? Fu Qingzhou, you are still so stingy."
Hearing this, Fu Qingzhou's mouth corners seemed to curl unconsciously, and before he could react, Nan Yan, who was originally standing there, suddenly rushed towards him, with some kind of reckless impulse, and threw herself directly into his arms, then hugged his waist tightly with both hands, refusing to let go at all.
Fu Qingzhou was stunned for a moment.
He just stood there quietly, not hugging her back, but not pushing her away either.
Because he heard her suddenly say,
"Fu Qingzhou, I'm planning to leave."
When Nan Yan said this, the strength of her hands became tighter, and even her voice was choked with sobs.
Fu Qingzhou subconsciously wanted to ask her where she was going, but when he thought of the current relationship between them, he swallowed the words in his throat and uttered a low "hmm".
Her eyes were tearing up and she continued, "I'm going to a very, very far place and I may never come back."
"It's good to get away from here..."
"Tell me, will I meet someone there who loves me as much as you do and is willing to accommodate me for the rest of my life?"
Fu Qingzhou's eyelashes trembled, and he clenched his fingers unconsciously, "Maybe."
Nan Yan chuckled and said, "Then you say, when I meet him, I will love him well just like he loves me, and I will never lie to him again. What do you say?"
"……good."
When Nan Yan heard him say yes, she couldn't hold back her tears and said, "Then hug me one last time, just once, okay?"
Fu Qingzhou's breathing paused slightly.
He slowly raised his hands and was about to hold her in his arms, but when he looked up, he saw Wanrou standing in the corner in front of him. He lowered his eyes and pulled the person in his arms away.
"Sorry... Wanrou can't stand the stimulation now..."
Nan Yan lowered her eyes to look at her wrist which was being held tightly.
He clearly wanted to push her away, but he still held her hand tightly, unwillingly. Nan Yan even saw a hint of begging and uneasiness in his eyes.
Then she chuckled, tears glistening in her eyes, "Don't worry, I won't leave for now. After all, I will be your bridesmaid tomorrow."
Then she opened his fingers one by one and blessed him softly, "Also, be happy, Fu Qingzhou."
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