Gentle to the Bone - Chapter 28

At twelve o’clock in the morning, Dr. Yang hurried to Lu’s house with the medicine box. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw Aunt Ping and asked, “Is President Lu ill?”

Aunt Ping said, “No, it’s Miss Sheng Sheng.”

She stepped forward to help take the medicine box from Dr. Yang’s hand and said, “Come with me.”

In the upstairs bedroom, Shen Yansheng was curled up in the bed with a pale face. He heard footsteps coming from the door. When he opened his eyes, he saw Aunt Ping came in with Dr. Yang.

She glanced behind Dr. Yang and Aunt Ping subconsciously, not sure what she was expecting, but when she saw that Lu Jingce didn’t come up, she still felt lost.

She got up and sat up from the bed. Dr. Yang walked to the bedside, sat on the stool beside the bed, took out the stethoscope, and asked, “Miss Shengsheng, what’s wrong? What symptoms do you have?”

Shen Yansheng was a little embarrassed, and said, “I have a headache, maybe I have a cold.”

Dr. Yang took out a thermometer and took Shen Yansheng’s temperature, looked at the temperature, and said, “I have a fever.”

Shen Yansheng let out a sullen “um” and looked at the door unconsciously.

Lu Jingce never appeared.

Because he hadn’t eaten all day, Yang Yue didn’t dare to rashly put water on Shen Yansheng, and said to Aunt Ping, “please go and prepare something to eat, just plain white rice porridge. You need to eat something first.”

Shen Yansheng frowned upon hearing this, and asked, “Can I not eat it? I have no appetite.”

“No.” Yang Yue replied, “I need to eat more or less. I already have a fever. If I don’t eat anything, my body can’t support it.”

Aunt Ping also persuaded and said, “Yeah, Miss Shengsheng, how much to eat. The porridge is still warm in the kitchen, so I’ll bring it up right away.”

After saying that, he turned around and went downstairs to prepare food for Shen Yansheng in the kitchen.

But Shen Yansheng really had no appetite. She had a fever and it was hard to feel it. In addition, she was in a bad mood, her chest was stuffy, and she frowned when she saw what she was eating.

He simply said to Yang Yue, “Just give me some antipyretic medicine, and I’ll take a nap after eating.”

Yang Yuedao: “Even if you just take antipyretics, you have to eat something. You haven’t eaten all day, and you are ill again. If you don’t make it, you will have problems with your body.”

Shen Yansheng glanced at the white rice porridge that Aunt Ping was holding, and wanted to force herself to eat a little bit, but just looking at it, her stomach started to feel sick, and finally she shook her head and said, “I won’t eat it.”

Maybe because of the quarrel with Lu Jingce, she was in a bad mood and said impatiently, “You guys go out, I want to rest.”

After speaking, he lay down again, turned around, and turned his back towards the door.

Yang Yue and Aunt Ping looked at each other, both of them were in trouble.

But he didn’t dare not to listen to Shen Yansheng. After all, he knew Shen Yansheng’s position in Lu Jingce’s heart. Even though the two were in the stage of quarreling in the Cold War, as long as Shen Yansheng stayed by Lu Jingce’s side, she would still be Lu Jingce’s woman.

The two had to temporarily withdraw from the room. Aunt Ping walked to the study and knocked on the door lightly outside.

Lu Jingce’s calm voice came from the room, “Come in.”

Aunt Ping gently twisted the door, stood at the door, looked at Lu Jingce who was sitting at the desk reading the documents, and said with difficulty, “Mr. Lu, the lady refuses to eat or hang water, do you want to go and have a look?”

Hearing this, Lu Jingce couldn’t help frowning. After a moment of silence, he dropped the document in his hand and got up and went straight out of the study.

When the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside, Shen Yansheng knew who it was.

After all, except for Lu Jingce, whoever entered this bedroom had to knock on the door first.

She was still lying on her side with her back to the direction of the door, her eyes closed and she didn’t move.

Lu Jingce walked to the bed, picked up the porridge bowl on the bedside table, and said coldly, “Get up and eat.”

Shen Yansheng pursed his lips, still not moving.

Lu Jingce sat on the edge of the bed, stared at her back for a while, and when he spoke again, his voice was so cold that the temperature in the room dropped a few degrees.

“When are you going to make trouble?”

Shen Yansheng suddenly felt aggrieved for a moment, she sat up abruptly from the bed and stared at Lu Jingce with gritted teeth.

She wanted to ask why he did this to her, why he used her as a substitute. But when the words reached his throat, he suddenly seemed to be blocked by sand.

Then she thought again, what qualifications does she have to question Lu Jingce?

From the beginning, their relationship was crystal clear. What does he take for her, she is not qualified to ask from the beginning to the end.

She couldn’t forget her identity just because the two of them got along well these days, delusional that Lu Jingce would really like her.

Thinking of this, she secretly took a deep breath and buried her grievance and sadness in her heart.

But what happened last night, she felt it was necessary to explain to Lu Jingce clearly, and said, “I didn’t lie to you. Last night at the pub, I met Fu Shiyu by chance. I really have nothing to do with him.”

Lu Jingce gave her a deep look and said, “You’d better never have anything with him, otherwise what I told you last night will definitely be fulfilled.”

Shen Yansheng looked at Lu Jingce quietly, and did not speak for a long time.

Lu Jingce handed her the porridge bowl in his hand, and said with a cold face, “After eating.”

Shen Yansheng looked down and frowned, “I really don’t want to eat it.”

Lu Jingce looked at her calmly, even if he didn’t speak, the pressure in his eyes made Shen Yansheng a little bit unbearable.

She held on for a few seconds, but in the end she was defeated. She took the porridge bowl from Lu Jingce’s hand, picked up the spoon, lowered her head and forced herself to take a bite.

But she didn’t eat all day.

To be exact, he hadn’t eaten since last night. So that she suddenly swallowed a mouthful of porridge, and before she could swallow it, her stomach turned upside down and felt nauseated. She couldn’t control it, she leaned forward, and vomited out with a wow.

Lu Jingce was sitting beside the bed, and she vomited all over Lu Jingce’s body.

When she realized it, it was too late to escape, so she raised her hand to cover her mouth.

Lu Jingce didn’t expect her to vomit, so he protected Shen Yansheng reflexively, frowning tightly, he pulled a tissue from the bed to wipe her mouth, and then brought a cup to her mouth.

Shen Yansheng felt uncomfortable in his stomach for a while, so Lu Jingce fed the cup beside his mouth and lowered his head to take a sip.

After a sip of warm water, the stomach is slightly better.

Lu Jingce frowned and looked at her, “Is it better? Do you still want to vomit?”

It was only then that Shen Yansheng noticed that she had vomited on Lu Jingce just now. Her face flushed red in an instant, and she hurriedly pulled a tissue by the bed to wipe Lu Jingce, and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”

Lu Jingce took the tissue from her hand, and let go of the hand protecting Shen Yansheng’s arm, and said softly, “I’ll do it myself.”

He took a tissue and wiped it briefly, then got up and left the bedroom to go outside.

Yang Yue and Aunt Ping were still waiting in the corridor, and when they saw Lu Jingce come out, they both waited for his instructions.

Lu Jingce said to Aunt Ping, “Go inside and clean up.”

Then he looked at Yang Yue again, “Give her nutrient solution, she can’t eat it.”

After speaking, he went straight to the next room, closed the door, unbuttoned his shirt, and walked towards the bathroom.

It was past three in the morning when Yang Yue finished hanging the water for Shen Yansheng. Shen Yansheng had been working hard recently in order to divert his attention. He was so tired last night that he fell asleep halfway through the water.

She didn’t know how long she had slept, but when it was almost dawn, she felt as if someone touched her forehead, and then she seemed to hear someone whispering something beside the bed.

But she slept too deeply, as if she had a dream. When she woke up, she opened her eyes and saw that the room was empty, and there was no one else except her.

She lay on the bed in a daze, and after a while, the bedroom was gently pushed open.

Aunt Ping entered the room softly with the tray in hand, only to find that Shen Yansheng was awake when she walked to the bedside. She put the tray on the bedside table and asked with a smile, “Awake? Do you feel better?”

Shen Yansheng just woke up with Lu Jingce’s figure in his mind, completely forgetting that he was still ill. After listening to Aunt Ping asking her, she subconsciously raised her hand and touched her forehead.

Maybe it was because of the water hanging last night that the forehead no longer burned and the headache no longer hurt.

I felt a little more comfortable, and finally felt hungry.

She propped herself up and tried to sit up from the bed, but perhaps because she hadn’t eaten for too long, she was so soft that she didn’t have any strength.

Aunt Ping quickly helped her up and said, “Slow down, Dr. Yang explained it when he left last night. When you wake up, you must have something to eat.”

Shen Yansheng sat up, leaned her back against the head of the bed, took the porridge bowl that Aunt Ping brought her, picked up the spoon and stirred it gently, clearly telling herself not to think about it, but she couldn’t help thinking of Lu Jingce.

She hesitated for a while, but she still couldn’t help raising her head, looked at Aunt Ping, and asked softly, “Aunt Ping, where is Lu Jingce?”

Aunt Ping replied, “Mr. Lu is on a business trip and left at six in the morning.”

Before going out, Lu Jingce went back to the bedroom and looked at Shen Yansheng. She was really relieved that she had no fever. Before going out, she specially told Aunt Ping to look at Shen Yansheng. If she felt uncomfortable, she immediately asked Yang Yue to come over and call him immediately if anything happened.

Thinking of this, Aunt Ping looked at Shen Yansheng and couldn’t help but say, “Miss Shengsheng, I’m not talking about you, a man like President Lu, you can’t find a second person in this world even with a lantern. The man outside. No matter how good it is, it would be good to have President Lu? Can a man outside give you in your current life? “

Hearing this, Shen Yansheng smiled bitterly.

Of course she knew that Lu Jingce was good. But no matter how good he is, in his eyes, she is just a substitute for his first love.

She really didn’t want this “honor” at all.

Lu Jingce had been gone for half a month, and the two had not been in contact during that time.

Shen Yansheng is a little nervous when she stays in the studio every day. She picks up her phone every now and then to check it out. Even her assistant sees that something is wrong with her, so she can’t help but ask her, “Sister Shengsheng, are you waiting for someone’s information?”

In the past two weeks, assistant Mengmeng has long discovered that something is wrong with her boss. She often sits in front of the workbench in a daze. After a while, she picks up her mobile phone to check WeChat, but does not send any messages.

Clearly waiting for someone’s information.

Shen Yansheng put down the phone and said, “No, just take a look.”

As soon as she finished speaking, another designer in the studio suddenly said, “Sister Shengsheng, come and see.”

Shen Yansheng turned around, “What’s wrong?”

Ruan Yuandao: “The Asian Gold Award of this International Design Competition has come out. It is a designer of Chinese nationality.”

“I’ll take a look.” Shen Yansheng didn’t participate in this competition, and didn’t pay attention to it. Hearing that, he was also a little curious.

Ruan Yuan handed her the phone and said, “It’s really well designed. I just saw it and it’s so bright, especially the skirt design, it’s amazing.”

Ruan Yuan is a very inspirational new designer selected by Shen Yansheng from a bunch of fresh graduates. She praised her like this, indicating that this design must have its own advantages.

However, when Shen Yansheng took the phone and saw the dress on the model on the screen, she was stunned.

She stared at the phone for a long time, her face sank a little and became very cold.

Mengmeng and Ruan Yuan both saw that something was wrong and asked, “Sister Shengsheng, what’s wrong?”

Shen Yansheng turned the photo to the next page and saw Zhang Siqi standing on the podium with a smile on her face, her face even colder.

She needed to take a deep breath to suppress the anger in her heart.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. After a while, she returned the phone to Ruan Yuan, then opened a folder on the computer and found a design draft from a few months ago, which was displayed in front of Ruan Yuan and Mengmeng.

Ruan Yuan understood at a glance, she was surprised: “This… This is exactly the same as the award-winning work on the news!”

Shen Yansheng made an “um” sound, only to feel the pain in his temples twitching.

Ruan Yuan understood, looked at Shen Yansheng, and asked in disbelief, “Sister Shengsheng, is this your design?”

Shen Yansheng nodded and said, “It was my work half a year ago. At that time, I gave it to the design director of my former company and it was rejected.”

Ruan Yuan was shocked. She grabbed her phone, read the news carefully, looked up at Shen Yansheng, and said in surprise, “Zhang Siqi, your previous design director was Zhang Siqi? Did she copy your design?”

Shen Yansheng’s face was very cold.

This is no longer a question of plagiarism, but stealing, taking her work as it is and entering the competition in her own name.

Shen Yansheng is not a person who takes everything seriously, but Zhang Siqi’s stealing her design has completely stepped on her bottom line.

She immediately found her design draft, source of inspiration, and design timeline, collected evidence, and called the Asian Regional Competition Organizing Committee.

The organizing committee was also shocked to learn this news, but after all, it was a big deal, and the other party was skeptical and asked, “How do you prove that this is your design? How do you prove that Miss Zhang Siqi copied you, not you? Copy her?”

Shen Yansheng is very fortunate at this time, she has always left evidence for the things she designed herself, and this is what she is afraid of.

“I still have work records in my mailbox. I have revised three versions of this design draft before and after, and each version was sent to Zhang Siqi’s work mailbox, and each design draft is attached with my design concept and description.”

As an internationally renowned design competition, the organizing committee also attached great importance to such a thing, and immediately set up an investigation team. Shen Yansheng personally sent the evidence to the organizing committee in the afternoon.

When Zhang Siqi received a call from the competition organizing committee, she was happily celebrating with her friends. When she learned that Shen Yansheng had sued her for plagiarism, her face changed, her teeth were clenched, and the hatred in her eyes almost wanted to kill Shen Yansheng.

But she has a strong psychological quality and smiled and said, “Isn’t this kind of unwarranted slander very common? This award-winning work was created by me working hard for many months. Every design step and every line has me. The painstaking efforts are in it. Regarding the design concept, the source of inspiration and the design timeline, I can also provide it.”

“This…”

“Teacher, to tell you the truth, this Miss Shen is having a bit of a holiday with me. She used to be a little designer under my team, and she was fired by me because of her poor design skills, so she has always held a grudge against me. Do you think I thought, if she is really so capable, how can she do things under my hands? If she really designs such good works, how could our company not adopt them? The company wants to make money, and it is impossible to keep such good works. Don’t you want the work?”

“This…” The other party listened and seemed to think it made sense.

Zhang Siqi continued: “Of course, I am willing to accept the investigation of the competition organizing committee, and I am also willing to confront Miss Shen face to face.”

“Okay, our organizing committee will definitely investigate this matter. If the final investigation result proves that you are innocent, we will retain the responsibility of investigating Miss Shen’s false accusation.”

“Thank you, teacher.”

Shen Yansheng did not expect that the road to rights protection would be so difficult. The evidence she provided was eventually rejected by the competition organizing committee. She believed that the email records could be falsified, and it could not prove that the work was designed by her, much less that Zhang Siqi plagiarized her design. .

As for design inspiration, Zhang Siqi also speaks the truth.

After a lot of tossing, Shen Yansheng was actually sued by Zhang Siqi, accusing her of falsely accusing her of violating her right to reputation.

On the day she was summoned by the court, Shen Yansheng was so angry that her face turned black.

After coming out of the court, looking at Zhang Siqi’s proud smile, she looked at her coldly, “Zhang Siqi, people are watching, it is an indisputable fact that you stole my design, I hope you can sleep well at night.”

Zhang Siqi looked innocent and said, “I really don’t understand what you are talking about. Shen Yansheng, aren’t you afraid of retribution?”

Shen Yansheng was really angry and had a stomachache. Looking at Zhang Siqi, she said coldly, “Zhang Siqi, you are really more shameless than I thought.”

After she finished speaking, she didn’t want to see the face of this person again, and turned around and strode away.

In the evening, at the Acacia Road Tavern, Zhou Wanying heard what Shen Yansheng said, and her stomach exploded with anger, “Then is this the case? Is there still a king’s law!”

Shen Yansheng had been so angry that his stomach hurt for a day, and after talking to Zhou Wanying, he didn’t feel much better, and poured a glass of wine into a glass.

Zhou Wanying saw that Shen Yansheng was unhappy, so she sacrificed her life to accompany the gentleman and drank with Shen Yansheng all night.

So much so that by the end of the drink, both of them were very drunk.

At ten o’clock in the evening, Xie Rin came home and found that Zhou Wanying hadn’t come back, so she called her and wanted to ask where she was.

As soon as the phone was connected, I heard Zhou Wanying’s drunken voice calling him, “Xie Rin, I love you!”

As soon as Xie Rin heard this voice, she knew she was drunk. She took the car key and went out, walking towards the elevator and asking, “Where is it?”

Shen Yansheng felt that she must be very drunk, otherwise how could she see Lu Jingce.

She was lying on the table, looking at the man who walked in from the outside with a sullen face, very suspicious that she was dreaming.

It must be that she hadn’t seen Lu Jingce for too long, she missed him a little.

Lu Jingce just came back from a business trip in the United States tonight, got off the plane, and before he had time to go home to rest, he received a call from Xie Rin, telling him that Shen Yansheng was drunk outside.

Seeing Shen Yansheng being so drunk at this moment, her handsome face sank even more, she walked up to her, looked down at her, and asked, “Can I go by myself?”

Shen Yansheng was drunk and looked at Lu Jingce, who was looking at her with a sullen face, thinking that he was dreaming, and muttered a little aggrievedly, “Why are you being so cruel to me?”

Seeing Shen Yansheng like this, Lu Jingce softened in an instant.

He stared at her for a while, and finally sighed silently, leaned over and hugged him, turned and walked out.

In the long corridor, Shen Yansheng wrapped his arms around Lu Jingce’s neck unconsciously, buried his face on the side of his neck, and murmured in a daze, “Lu Jingce, you don’t like me at all.”

Her voice sounded very sad, as if she was wronged by the sky.

Hearing this, Lu Jingce frowned and looked down at her, seeing Shen Yansheng closing his eyes as if he was talking in his sleep, he was also a little annoyed for a while, and said, “I don’t love you yet? Who has no conscience?”

Shen Yansheng was so drunk that he was unconscious, so naturally he didn’t hear this sentence.

When he got home, Lu Jingce took Shen Yansheng back to the bedroom, washed and changed her clothes, and finally had time to clean up.

He took his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower, washed away his tiredness, changed his clothes and came out of the bathroom, seeing that Shen Yansheng was already asleep, he didn’t bother her, turned off the lights in the bedroom, and only left a small night light for Shen Yansheng, and then Come out of the bedroom, close the door, and go to the study next door to deal with the work that has not been done today.

Aunt Ping made Lu Jingce a cup of coffee and brought it to the study. Seeing that Lu Jingce was dealing with work, she didn’t dare to disturb her. She put the coffee on the desk and was ready to leave.

Unexpectedly, before he could leave, Lu Jingce stopped him, “Aunt Ping, wait a minute.”

When Aunt Ping heard the words, she hurriedly stopped and stood in front of the desk, waiting for Lu Jingce’s orders.

After Lu Jingce finished processing the documents in his hand, he looked up at Aunt Ping and asked, “What happened at home?”

On the way back just now, Shen Yansheng kept talking nonsense in the car on and off. Lu Jingce listened to it for a long time and only listened to a general idea. Looking at Aunt Ping, he asked, “Did something go wrong at work? What reputation?”

Aunt Ping is at home every day. Recently, she has been listening to Shen Yansheng’s phone calls. She naturally knows what’s going on, so she won an award for Zhang Siqi’s stealing of Shen Yansheng’s design.

“Yesterday, the court came with a subpoena, and Miss Sheng Sheng went to answer the lawsuit this afternoon. She probably drank so much alcohol because she was in a bad mood.”

After hearing this, Lu Jingce’s face became visibly gloomy, and said, “I see, you can go down and rest.”

“Eh.” Aunt Ping responded, then turned around and stepped back.

The author says:

When it comes to protecting the short, who can compare to President Lu?

Double shift in one, no today, see you tomorrow~