Personal matters

Feng Shu retrieved the film from the MRI room, just as Nurse Jin came over with a treatment tray to draw blood.

Lin Zhen patted Chen Xu on the shoulder, and said warmly, "I'll give you a physical examination after the blood is drawn, and an ophthalmologist will come to see you later."

"Physical examination again?" Chen Xu muttered, "Didn't you already have it when you came in?"

"Yesterday was a routine checkup by the bed doctor, so I have to take a look at it too." Lin Zhen explained patiently.

Nurse Jin took out the thong and needle tube, and rolled up Chen Xu's sleeves.

"Yo, what are you doing?!" Nurse Jin couldn't help exclaiming softly.

Lin Zhen heard the sound and looked, and saw a hideous scar on Chen Xu's left wrist. Mottled connective tissue pulled the skin around the wound abruptly, which looked shocking.It can be seen how cruel the person who started it was at the time.

Lin Zhen's heart twitched, and Chen Xu hurriedly put down his sleeve, "Change your hand, it's a little swollen from the IV drip yesterday."

Nurse Jin glanced at him, walked silently to the other side of the bed, and switched her right hand to draw blood.

After the nurse left, Lin Zhen couldn't help asking, "What's the matter with the hand?"

Chen Xu stuffed his left hand into the quilt subconsciously, "It's nothing, I got a little injury."

"It's a small injury! It almost killed me." Feng Shu snorted dissatisfiedly beside him.Chen Xu glared at him, and the latter obediently shut his mouth and remained silent.

It was not easy for Lin Zhen to ask too many questions, so he had to suppress his uneasiness and began to give Chen Xu a physical examination.

When it was time for the night break the next day, Lin Zhen found an excuse to invite Feng Shu to the office, asked some irrelevant questions, hesitated for a long time, and didn't know how to speak.

"Actually, you want to ask me about Chen Xu's injury?" Feng Shu asked straight to the point.

"Ah..." Lin Zhen blushed—since it was seen by others, there was no need to hide it anymore.

Feng Shu bowed his head and remained silent for a while.

"This is Chen Xu's private matter. Normally, you shouldn't tell outsiders. But since you are his good friend, it's okay to know..."

"When Chen Xu was in high school, he talked about a friend who was forced to separate after being discovered by his parents. He escaped from home and wanted to have a good talk with that boy, but he waited at the appointed place all night and no one came. He didn't think about it for a while, so he cut his wrist..."

Lin Zhen's heart was hit hard.

Feng Shu was still ignorant, and continued to speak angrily, "You said that man, even if it's a breakup, can't you explain it clearly? It made Chen Xu so miserable that he couldn't even play the violin."

"Can't play the violin...why?" Lin Zhen's voice trembled slightly.

"He cut too deeply and hurt his tendons, his left hand can't hold the piano properly," Feng Shu sighed.

Lin Zhen's face was pale, Feng Shu finally noticed his strangeness, and hurriedly asked what happened.Lin Zhen waved his hand and found an excuse to prevaricate.

After Feng Shu left, Lin Zhen got up and went to Lin Changmin's director's office.For the first time, he didn't even knock on the door, just turned the handle and went in.

Lin Changmin was on the phone, seeing Lin Zhen barging in so abruptly, he frowned unhappily.

"Dad, I have something to ask you." Lin Zhen stared straight at him.

Lin Changmin gave him a reproachful look, hurriedly answered a few words with the other end, and hung up the phone.

"There are no rules, why don't you knock when you come in?"

"Dad, I have something to ask you!" Lin Zhen raised his voice.

"What's the matter?" Lin Changmin was both angry and surprised. His son has always been restrained and polite. What happened today?

"Do you still remember Chen Xu?"

"Chen Xu?..."

"Fenghua High School." Lin Zhen reminded.

Lin Changmin lowered his head and thought for a while, and soon remembered that this name was an unforgettable shame for him.

"It's been so many years, and what did you mention this person?" Lin Changmin asked displeased.

"After we separated, did he come to me again?...Did you hide anything from me?"

"It's been so long, how can I remember?" Lin Changmin became angry, "If you don't walk the right path for me, do you still miss this man in your heart!"

"Dad, why did you hide it from me?" Lin Zhen was shaking violently, "You only said that he intended to commit suicide and was discovered by his family, but he just wanted to see me. If I had gone then, he would not ..."

"Bastard!" Lin Changmin shouted in a low voice, "I'm still thinking about these things in my mind, do you have any shame?!"

"But his hand..."

"This is a lesson for you two." Lin Changmin said coldly, "He should be glad he survived."

"Is there any life left?" Lin Zhen muttered to himself in a low voice, "It's almost gone..."

"What did you say?" Lin Changmin didn't hear clearly.

Lin Zhen turned around and walked out of the office in a daze.

Lin Changmin looked at his son's back suspiciously, his heart was in a mess, and in a rage, he knocked down the pen holder on the table with his hand.

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When he left the hospital, Lin Zhen didn't say hello to Chen Xu, he felt ashamed to see them.

All the previous things can be said to be young and ignorant, cowardly, or forced by his father's intimidation. However, the damage has been done and it is irreparable.

Lin Zhen felt a terrible pain in his heart.He stumbled into a tavern and stayed there until sunset.

Seeing his lonely eyes, the bartender was sitting there drinking without saying a word, knowing that he had something on his mind, he kindly persuaded him to go home.

Lin Zhen raised his wrist tremblingly, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening.He paid the bill, staggered out of the tavern, took a taxi at the door, and casually reported Liu Qitong's address to the driver.

Under the influence of alcohol, meeting that person became less stressful at all.

Lin Zhen rang the doorbell over and over willfully, yelling loudly: "Liu Qitong come out!"

The door opened.

Liu Qitong came out from inside, frowning and looking at him.

——I have seen this fool in the cat's eyes for a long time.He looked normal when he left the hospital in the morning, what do you want to be drunk now?

"Liu Qitong..." Lin Zhen looked at him with hazy eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Liu Qitong asked coldly.

Lin Zhen's eyes were filled with water, "Why have you been there for so many days?"

——You can say that, you are indeed drunk.

Liu Qitong's eyes were burning with flames, "What exactly are you looking for me for?"

"I do not know either……"

Lin Zhen couldn't stand still, so he had to lean his shoulders against the wall.He panted, lowered his head slightly, and his voice was soft and powerless.

"I probably... miss you a little bit."