Su Yanxi's hands, which were touching her lips, fell to her sides. She looked at the man in front of her and asked, "Senior, when did you get here?"
Lu Zhaoyan's eyes searched Su Yanxi's face and swept across her bright red lips. "Just arrived."
"You asked me to have dinner with you this morning. Since you haven't shown up yet, I came to the outpatient building to check on you in case you were being harassed by someone with bad intentions."
He asked, "Did you encounter anything unhappy just now?"
Su Yanxi: "No, I was very happy just now."
Under the hazy moonlight, Lu Zhaoyan's face looked even colder and darker.
Su Yanxi was thinking about getting a heart transplant for Grandpa Gu, and strode towards the office building. "Senior, I'm going to change my clothes, and then I'll treat you to dinner."
Lu Zhaoyan: "Okay, I'll wait for you here."
The elevator door closed and the red floor numbers kept changing.
Lu Zhaoyan withdrew his gaze, and the gentleness in his pupils disappeared instantly.
He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and smoked one after another. The smoke enveloped his face and concealed the gloom in his eyes.
He looked down at his watch to calculate the time. When he finished smoking his fifth cigarette, Lu Zhaoyan prepared to go to the bathroom to clean off the smell of cigarettes.
Turning around, he saw Su Yanxi looking at him in surprise, as if she was very surprised that he was smoking.
Lu Zhaoyan raised the cigarette in his hand and said, "Smoking is harmful to your health."
Su Yanxi: "Then you still smoke, senior?"
Lu Zhaoyan: "A doctor who cannot heal himself is like someone who can help others but cannot help himself."
I understand all the principles, but I just can't do it.
He pointed in the direction of the restroom, "I'll go clean it up."
After spraying the breath freshener he carried with him, the smell of cigarette smoke on his body was replaced by high-end men's cologne.
Lu Zhaoyan returned to Su Yanxi's side, gentle and kind, with a fresh breath.
Su Yanxi brought Lu Zhaoyan to a Japanese restaurant.
There are a wide variety of sashimi, including oysters, sea urchins, salmon, tuna, scallops, sea bream, sweet shrimp, etc.
Su Yanxi never eats raw food, but because Lu Zhaoyan loves sashimi, she chose this restaurant.
When Lu Zhaoyan saw the table full of sashimi, he was obviously in a good mood. "The ingredients here look very fresh. Thank you for your hospitality, junior sister."
Su Yanxi squeezed the green mustard sauce into the lotus-pink sauce dish and placed it next to Lu Zhaoyan. "This restaurant has a high rating, so it should taste good. Senior, give it a try."
Lu Zhaoyan picked up a piece of salmon, dipped it in mustard sauce, put it in his mouth, and said in amazement: "It tastes really good, you should try it too."
"Oh," Su Yanxi hesitated for a moment as she looked at the table full of fresh food, then said, "Okay."
The worst thing to do when eating is to spoil the mood. If others are eating with gusto and you say something like "I don't like it", you are unintentionally ruining their appetite.
Of course, you don’t have to care about these things with people close to you.
The current situation is that even though Su Yanxi doesn't like it, she still accompanies Lu Zhaoyan to eat some sashimi.
After Lu Zhaoyan finished eating, Su Yanxi felt uneasy. She rubbed off a layer of the paper towel with her fingers, and white residue fell all over the floor.
"Senior, I came to see you today because I actually have something to tell you."
Lu Zhaoyan took a sip of the sake in his glass and replied, "I know."
Su Yanxi felt embarrassed at having her thoughts exposed, but she buried her embarrassment for the sake of Grandpa Gu's quick recovery and continued, "Senior, my grandfather's heart disease is getting worse. We've been waiting for a long time, but we can't find a suitable ligand in China. You come from a medical family and have extensive connections, so I'd like to ask you to keep an eye out for cardiac ligands for me."
I finished the not-so-long speech in one breath, but my mouth was dry by the time I was done.
Finding cardiac ligands is a very difficult task, not to mention having to look for them abroad, which is really a lot of work.
She and Lu Zhaoyan are just senior and junior students and colleagues who attend the same university.
Helping her is a favor, not helping her is my duty.
This favor does Lu Zhaoyan no good, it is just one-sided effort. Who would do something that does not benefit themselves?
Su Yanxi lowered her head and drank tea, hiding her nervousness and uneasiness.
She has never been one to bother others. Living under someone else's roof since she was young taught her to read people's expressions early on, and she would never ask others for help if she could do something herself.
This suggestion had no sense of boundaries at all, but she still said it in order to ensure that her grandfather, who had loved her since childhood, could survive.
Even without looking up, Su Yanxi could feel Lu Zhaoyan staring at her. His silent gaze was like thorns piercing her, making her feel the idiom: like a thorn in the back.
Su Yanxi lowered her eyelids, as if a knife was hanging over her head, waiting for Lu Zhaoyan's verdict on whether to help her or not.
Finally, Lu Zhaoyan spoke: "Yanyan, Grandpa Gu is very important to you, right?"
Su Yanxi looked up at Lu Zhaoyan and replied clearly: "Yes!"
When she was nine years old, her grandfather passed away, which meant she became an orphan without parents and no one to rely on.
In the darkest and most fearful days, Grandpa Gu rushed all the way from northern Beijing to Yuncheng, brought her to the Gu family, and gave her a home.
How could such a favor not be important?
The grace is as heavy as a mountain.
Lu Zhaoyan asked again, "Yanyan, are you asking me for help today for Gu Yanze or for Grandpa Gu?"
Su Yanxi replied clearly: "It has nothing to do with Gu Yanze."
Lu Zhaoyan looked at Su Yanxi from behind his gold-rimmed glasses, his voice clear and sweet: "Yanyan, I want to tell you, whether it's for Gu Yanze or for Grandpa Gu, as long as you ask, I will help you no matter what."
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