After Running Away With a Cub, I Became Everyone’s Favourite - Chapter 27

He is thinking of sleeping with me

The water level of the river rose in the summer, and the electric piles near the shore were somewhat old, because they were located in a remote area, it did not affect the city’s appearance, and did not enter the municipal rectification plan. The pole was in a state of disrepair and had cracks at the bottom, and now it was soaked in water and showed signs of loosening.

The ambulance arrived soon afterwards and Chen Zhiyu was carried on a stretcher to the ambulance, where he was given an IV. Xia Qing Shu sat on the benches on either side of the carriage, his eyes drooping as he watched Chen Zhiyu lying on the stretcher. His leg had been bandaged to stop the bleeding, and the white blanket covering them did not look too bad.

His face was pale and he lay there weakly, but he has a morbidly handsome air about him. In the process of pulling Xia Qinshu, two buttons had fallen off his shirt, and he fumbled with one hand to button it to the top one and retie the hem of the shirt into his trousers.

Xia Qing Shu did not have the heart to admire his sickly face, the pretty white face wrinkled into a ball, his voice trembling beyond words, “Brother Zhi Yu …..are you still in pain …… Let the nurse lady give you a shot if it hurts.”

He felt a little itch on his face and reached out to touch it, his cheeks were all wet.

The glistening white and translucent little face looked like it had been soaked in a stream of water, glistening with a surplus of moisture. Why was he crying?

By the time Xia Qing Shu realised as an afterthought that the tears could no longer be held up, he stubbornly held back his tears, his pretty eyes hazed. His lips were bitten by his teeth, half red and half white, so bright and shaky.

“It doesn’t hurt.”

Chen Zhiyu’s body froze, this scene, it seemed like he had seen it somewhere ……

The pain was definitely painful, Chen Zhiyu guessed that the seriousness could be a fracture, and the lightest condition was a bone fracture. But not knowing what was going on, he could not cry out in pain in front of Xia Qingshu. Even less could he get a shot in front of him. Even if he smashed his leg, he was still the same Chen Zhiyu who remained unchanged even in front of Mount Tai collapsed infront of him.

Chen Zhiyu secretly took a deep breath and said with a bland expression, “I’m fine, let Secretary Li take you back first later.”

“I’m not leaving, I’m waiting for you to do the surgery.” Xia Qing Shu’s eyes were watery and his hands were squeezed tightly.

“No, I really Fine.”

“You see, after your surgery, in case something happens in the middle of the night, I can also have a take care of you by your side.”

Although Xia Qingshu was pretty, he was usually stammering and silly, like a child who hadn’t grown up, and could speak in a way that could piss people off. Now, when things went wrong, he seems to have grown up overnight and understands things.

Unbelievably cute.

His voice was as soft as a clear stream, and his face was unusually determined despite his obedient appearance, “Brother Zhiyu, I still have to light your cigarette.”

The expression on his face was like that of a stubborn, pretty little goat. Just one look at him made people want to take him home and secretly hide him away. Chen Zhiyu also had such thoughts.

“Brother Zhiyu, are you smoking now? I’ll light it for you.”

Xia Qingshu clumsily took out a packet of cigarettes from Chen Zhiyu’s trouser pocket. Perhaps because he was too nervous and afraid of touching the other man’s injury, the cigarette case was pulled out and was squeezed by him to be absurdly flat, he managed to pull a cigarette out of it, and it broke.

“Brother Zhiyu, sorry, you’ll have to make do with it, I’ll buy you a new pack when we get to the hospital later.” Xia Qing Shu pinched half a cigarette round and stuffed it into Chen Zhiyu’s mouth.

Chen Zhiyu opened his mouth, and when he was holding the cigarette, he suddenly bit into Xia Qing Shu’s finger. The jade onion-like fingers were soft as if they were boneless and fragrant with milk. The touch was three points softer than milk candy. After watching his finger all night, he bit into it “accidentally”.

The cigarette fell out through the gap between his fingers and teeth. Xia Qing Shu was a bit confused, he cautiously reminded.

“Brother Zhiyu, you’ve bitten my finger.”

Chen Zhiyu was in a bit of a trance, he didn’t seem to hear what the other party said, instead he bit down even tighter. Xia Qing Shu froze, not moving.

Brother Zhiyu, did he go dumb with pain? He used to watch TV, when a pregnant woman gave birth, when the pain was unbearable, the husband would hold his hand for the pregnant woman to bite on to ease the pain.

Is Brother Zhiyu now confused by the pain? If Zhiyu brother wants to bite, just bite it.

Xia Qing Shu is somewhat afraid of pain, when the other party’s teeth touched it, his body couldn’t help but tremble, and his eyes that were filled with water filled even more. Only, the expected pain did not appear, his fingers were bitten and ground. Occasionally, he could feel the wet moist tip of the tongue approaching. It was itchy, just not painful.

Xia Qingshu looked over with a dumb face, naive, was Brother Zhiyu in so much pain that he had even lost his ability to bite?

The nurse lady next to him couldn’t stand to watch anymore and coughed several times before Chen Zhiyu came back to his senses and spat out the finger in his mouth. The round fingertips were bitten red, and the nail caps were pink and shiny covered with a layer of saliva, like they had just been painted with nail polish.

Xia Qingshu glanced at the wet finger and quietly wiped the saliva onto Chen Zhiyu’s clothes as he knelt down to pick up the cigarette. He picked up the dropped cigarette and the cigarette filter was stained with black ash. He wiped it with his hand, the ash did not get wiped off, and he blew the ash with his mouth again. His small, red mouth puckered up and he blew air into the mouthpiece of the cigarette. The ash was blown off and the yellow filter was tainted with a different aroma.

Almost clean, Xia Qingshu stuffed the cigarette back into Chen Zhiyu’s mouth. Chen Zhiyu opened his mouth and took the cigarette. This time, he did not bite his finger.

After holding the cigarette, the pain in Chen Zhiyu’s leg seemed to diminish by two points.

Qinshu carefully pried open the blanket covering Chen Zhiyu’s leg and reached into his trouser pocket again to find a lighter. As soon as he reached in, Chen Zhiyu let out a hiss and his face turned cold again.

“I’m sorry …… I didn’t mean to.” When Xia Qing Shu heard his “hiss”, he hurriedly retracted his hand and went to call the nurse with a red face, “Miss Nurse, please come and check.”

The nurse sat in front and gave them both a look.

Just now, you were sipping on fingers, showing nothing serious wrong.

“Hang in there, we’ll be at the hospital soon, no smoking in the car.”

Xia Qingshu whispered, “Miss nurse, my brother is like this, you can be accommodating.”

“It will stop hurting after a while, the leg is broken, why are you still smoking,” the nurse stared at the cigarette in Xia Qing Shu’s hand, “Also, you can’t smoke in the hospital.”

Xia Qing Shu was about to say more when Chen Zhi Yu took off half of the cigarette and put it in his hand, “Forget it, I can smoke it when you am well.”

“But you are so uncomfortable, smoke one to distract yourself ……” Xia Qingshu flung the cigarette with one hand and squeezed the lighter with the other, unknowingly using a honorifics.

After he crossed over, he had always lived his life with the game mentality of getting by and eating the melons, watching the show. He didn’t feel that deep about the identity he suddenly acquired. He felt that he was a bystander and would leave one day. Maybe one day he would read a few books and cross over again.

It was only at the moment when danger came that he became acutely aware of the reality of the world he was in. This is the world of living colour, where people are flesh and blood, good and bad, hurt and bleeding and hurting, crying and laughing. He has always thought of Chen Zhiyu as a violent villain, prejudiced against him and always on guard, but he was saved by the ‘bad guy’ in the book.

In their relationship, apart from the first time they met, when Chen Zhiyu showed hostility towards him, Chen Zhiyu was a normal person with clear likes and dislikes at all times. Just now he had the delusion of returning to the original world through death, so if he was hit, he would really be dead, right?

After thinking about it, Xia Qingshu felt ashamed of his foolish thoughts and at the same time was so moved by the other party’s actions that he unknowingly had his eyes reddened and two lines of tears flowed down the corners of his eyes. He rarely cried for real before, but he didn’t know what had happened recently, his tastes had changed, his sense of smell had become more acute, his emotions had become more plentiful, and he was particularly sleepy.

He wanted to turn his head and wipe the tears away secretly, Chen Zhiyu pulled his hand, “Why are you crying again, did the pole accidentally hit you? Let’s go to the hospital later for a detailed examination.”

“No, I didn’t cry ……” Xia Qing Shu stabilized his mind and forced the remaining tears to stay in his eyes. The white little face was stained with some ash, and his eyes were red and filled with tears that would not fall off. He was biting his lip in a feigned strength. However, such an expression had nothing to do with strength, and it set him off in a way that was particularly endearing.

Chen Zhiyu glanced at the beautiful, stubborn little cat in front of him and surprisingly did not realize that his voice was too gentle to be true, “Don’t cry, I’m fine.”

“Don’t cry, be good ……”

“I’m not crying.” Xia Qing Shu was so anxious that tears began to slide down uncontrollably. A glistening white and translucent tear slid down his cheek and neck, all the way to the collarbone, leaving it in a deep depression. There were some red marks on his face, presumably from wiping the tears, right on both cheeks, and her whole wet face looked like it had been powdered, delicate as a red and white hibiscus out of the water.

“I really am not crying ……”

Xia Qing Shu also does not know what the reason is, he tried hard to control, but the tears still could not stop falling down.

What is wrong with him?

Maybe it was the grievance of suddenly transmigrating into a book,  the grievance of being….on the first day crossing into the book… The grievancd of encountering extreme relatives …… The grievance of encountering school bullying ….. Finally he can’t help it ……

“I won’t cry ……” Xia Qing Shu had a tear-stained face and he let the tears flow down.

He looked bright, red-eyed and pursing his lips in tears, like a stubborn elf. Chen Zhiyu was stunned when he suddenly remembered where he had seen this scene before.

The night the two had met for the first time, Xia Qing Shu also cried. Not in silent tears like now, but in small whimpers. Every now and then, he even begged hoarsely for mercy. But now, Xia Qing Shu quietly weeping, obviously he did not make a sound, that annoying “whimpering” sound, seemed as if in his ears again.

“…… Please ……”

“…… Oooohhh ……”

“It hurts ……”

Missing memories intertwined with unfounded imaginations, Chen Zhiyu seemed to be hallucinating.

No one in the car spoke, only the whistling wind and the chirping of the ambulance siren. The self-control that once dominated the crowd was absent in this moment. To avoid embarrassment, Chen Zhiyu reached up and touched the injured leg.

A hard squeeze.

The bone-chilling pain spread throughout his body and his head was drenched in cold sweat, finally, he didn’t lose his composure.

Seeing Chen Zhiyu’s face turn blue and red for a while, Xia Qing Shu tensed up again, “Brother Zhiyu, what’s wrong, is it still hurting?”

He squatted down and put his hands on the hospital bed. Afraid of not hearing clearly, he turned his face sideways and sidled closer to Chen Zhiyu.

Chen Zhiyu raised his eyes and saw his small, delicate, white, clean ears.

“Brother Zhiyu, speak louder, I can’t hear too clearly ……”

Not hearing a reply from the other party, Xia Qing Shu twisted his face and looked at Chen Zhiyu in confusion.

Chen Zhiyu straightened up and met the pair of reddened teary eyes. Between the twinkling of his eyes, he hid his deep love.

The way the little one’s true feelings flowed out, it made people’s hearts soften to the core. A mountain of shock came over him. Aboy who is so beautiful and well-behaved was deeply in love with him……

Chen Zhiyu was suddenly lost in thought, he turned his head and closed his eyes before he felt his breathing smoothed out. But between one breath and the next, Xia Qing Shu’s crying appearance played like a revolving light on a loop under his eyes.

He gritted his teeth and squeezed on his injured leg again.

The little nurse next to him looked at him and secretly smacked her lips. She couldn’t imagine that the richest man in China was secretly an “M” He couldn’t be satisfied with his leg being smashed and cracked, and even he quietly had to pinch himself a few times as well.

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Finally, Xia Qing Shu’s tears stopped and asked tremblingly, “Brother Zhiyu, are you better?”

Chen Zhiyu sank back down after several pinches of hatred, and had no time to worry. The old wound had not yet healed, and a new one had been added.

He said calmly, “I know in my heart, I think it’s a bone fracture.”

“Bone fracture” come out of his mouth as easily as clipping a fingernail. He was Chen Zhiyu, and from the moment he was born, he was destined to ride the waves and overcome difficulties. A broken bone is nothing, even if it’s an amputation, it’s just a matter of smoking it off with a cigarette.

As he spoke, he inclined his head and tried to avoid Xia Qing Shu’s eyes.

“The bones are cracked, and you are still fine?” Xia Qing Shu strained his little pink face, eyes wide open.

“Why are you like a child, you can’t stop crying when you cry.” Chen Zhiyu said and was about to reach for the tissue on the stool to prove that he was not only fine, but also able to handle it with ease.

“Ugh, you don’t move, I’ll do it myself.” Xia Qingshu could not let the wounded man do it, and hastily picked up the tissue and wiped the tears from his face.

After wiping it clean, he stressed again, “I’m not crying.”

Chen Zhiyu lay back down again, “Why are you still using honorifics?”

“I just feel like I have to be respectful to you.”

Thinking about playing dumb in front of Zhiyu, Xia Qing Shu couldn’t help but blush, “If you want anything in the future, just give me an order.”

Xia Qing Shu originally wanted to say, “I will repay you for saving my life, you will be my new parent from now on but there was only a six-year difference between them, so treating him like a parent didn’t quite make sense. Putting aside what happened on the night of their first meeting, Xia Qingshu felt that Chen Zhiyu was a pretty nice person. Just think of him as a very respectful big brother.

“So you changed to calling me …. Brother Zhiyu now?”

“Mm-hmm.” Xia Qing Shu nodded his head.

“Call it out, I want to hear it.” Chen Zhiyu whispered.

His voice was a trifle muffled, and he deliberately controlled the volume so that only Xia Qingshu could hear it, and the nurse who was very close to them didn’t notice. In the small ambulance compartment, there was a sense of secrecy in whispering behind people’s backs, as if the two had an intimate relationship.

Xia Qing Shu: “…..”

Pretty eyes rolled and glanced round at Chen Zhiyu’s head. Make sure the other person didn’t hit his head. Why was there something strange in Brother Zhiyu’s eyes? Could the liquid infusion have a hallucinogenic effect? But the other party was a patient and had also saved his life, so Xia Qingshu did not hesitate and meekly shouted, “Brother Zhiyu.”

Unlike what he had acted in the past, Xia Qing Shu was truly well behaved, like a tame little sheep. He was beautiful looking, and when he looked down at people, his eyes were full of stars. His attitude serious and pious. Up close, his snow-white skin looks more like a milk toffee. A milky white, and pampered little sheep.

Chen Zhiyu’s hand hidden in the sheet squeezed, “Brother Zhiyu asks you to go home first and come back tomorrow to care after me.”

The child is stubborn and obstinate in dealing with his feelings, and even eight horses can’t pull him back from what he has decided.

He used to treat his suitors in a calm manner, and even avoided them deliberately. Xia Qing Shu was the only one. Somehow, he could tolerate Xia Qing Shu’s liking, and sometimes even had some peace of mind when he thought of it.

Chen Zhiyu tilted his face sideways and gave Xia Qing Shu a faint look. Xia Qing Shu’s eyes couldn’t hide anything, and eagerly showed his determination to stay with him and refusal to leave even if it killed him. Knowing that Xia Qing Shu liked him like crazy, but didn’t show it so obviously.

Tsk, this kid.

“I’m not leaving.” Xia Qingshu said, “In case you want to drink water at night or something, I’m here to take care of you.”

“There are nurses at the hospital.”

“The nurses aren’t careful, I’m afraid they’ll drop you.”

He had grown up in the hospital, and when his mother was filming, she was away for months at a time, and his father brought him to the hospital. Sometimes there was no time to take care of him when there were many operations, so he would run to the ward when he was bored. And some of the carers slept so much at night that they couldn’t wake up after half a day of shouting, and some patients were so thin-skinned that they endured pain all night.

In the book, the original body’s death had everything to do with Chen Zhiyu, but the reality is that Chen Zhiyu pulled him back from the brink of death. Perhaps because of the suspension bridge effect, Xia Qingshu’s emotions were a little stirred at the moment, but his heart was firm to repay the favour.

Chen Zhiyu was unaware of Xia Qingshu’s thoughts, but felt that this child was stubborn and would not even listen to him. He was almost at the hospital, the fluids were mostly infused, the pain in his legs was almost gone, his tense nerves were relaxed and his innate and proud self-control was restored.

He said, “There is no bed in the ward, where will you sleep then?”

Xia Qing Shu immediately replied, “There is a folding bed in the ward, I will sleep next to you, you can see me when you look down and wake me up when you shout.”

Now he is thinking of sleeping next to him.

Chen Zhiyu seriously asked, “You seem to be quite experienced, you haven’t done this…before, have you?”

Xia Qing Shu hurriedly shook his head, “Never slept with anyone else.”

Chen Zhiyu swept past the nurse, who was in contact with a colleague. They were almost at the hospital. He curled his lips and asked, “So tonight is your “first time” ?”

“Uh-huh, yes,” Xia Qingshu nodded. He intuited that there was something odd about Brother Zhiyu, and couldn’t quite put his finger on what it was. In the end, he came to the conclusion that any male virtue class scholarship winner must have a bedside companion who had to be a first-time bedside escort.

Well, it would fit the persona.

Xia Qingshu quickly explained, “When I was hospitalized last time, I didn’t know until I saw that there was an accompanying bed next door. That kind of folding bed is put away during the day and placed next to the hospital bed at night. It is very convenient to take care of patients. I have never been with others, you are the first.”

“In case you need water or something in the middle of the night, just call me.”

It was the first time Chen Zhiyu had seen him so obedient, “Then if I want to go to the toilet at night, I’ll call you too?”

Xia Qingshu nodded firmly, “Call me!”