detour

Zhuang Shaodong's car had just driven onto the highway when it had to pull over on the side of the road because of an unexpected phone call.He didn't want to answer this person's phone at all, but he couldn't help it.This made him more and more anxious. When he answered the phone, he even omitted the address.

"Has the agreement been delivered to the Li family?"

On the phone, Zhuang Shiwen's voice trembled slightly, "Shaodong, how could you do this? Where did you take them? They are..."

Zhuang Shaodong interrupted him, "Mr. Zhuang, you and I are very clear that your promise to divorce Ms. Li before was a perfunctory empty talk. All I did was urge you to pay for what you said."

Zhuang Shiwen's voice became louder, "I know you don't like them, but they are your younger brothers, they..."

"What are they mine?" Zhuang Shaodong almost burst out laughing, "Mr. Zhuang, are you kidding me? I'm just a child who grew up in a pseudo-single-parent family, and my unlucky mother didn't even have time to conceive a second one." The child was abandoned by her husband. Where did the brother you speak of... come from?"

"I know you hate me, but don't touch them," Zhuang Shiwen's voice seemed to calm down a bit, "I really haven't done what I promised you..."

"Then go and do it right away!" Zhuang Shaodong didn't want to talk nonsense with him at all, Xu You was still lying in the hospital and might wake up at any time.He didn't want Xu You to wake up, surrounded by so many hidden dangers that might threaten their safety.

"Shaodong," Zhuang Shiwen's tone became more gentle, "No matter what, we are both father and son..."

"No, we are not." Zhuang Shaodong interrupted him expressionlessly, "I am just a discarded sperm to you. I don't have a father, I didn't have one before, and I won't have one in the future. You still don't have to bother to follow him." I've negotiated terms, if Ms. Li doesn't receive the agreement you sent before twelve o'clock, I will send your son's finger to your office."

"Shaodong, how can you be so cold..."

"Cold?" This is the second time someone has used this word to accuse him today.Zhuang Shaodong stared at the cloudy sky outside the car window, the corner of his mouth slowly curved into a cold arc, "That's because the first thing I faced after I was born was your betrayal and abandonment."

When he was very young, when his heart was still very soft, he had hoped that a father who could satisfy all the boy's longings would come down from the sky, walk in the park with him on his shoulders, and go buy ice cream together... But Such a person has never appeared. More than 20 years later, when such a man who claimed to be his father finally appeared, Zhuang Shaodong no longer needed a mature and wise brain to guide him in the direction.

He had given this never-seen father many chances.He really gave...

Just never cherished.

At this moment of silence, Zhuang Shaodong almost had the urge to cry.

"I had an agreement with your mother," Zhuang Shiwen explained with difficulty, "I promised her..."

Zhuang Shaodong closed his eyes, and pressed back the hot flush at the corner of his eyes, "This has nothing to do with me. In my opinion, you have already reneged on countless contracts."

Zhuang Shiwen was silent again.

Zhuang Shaodong knew that he should hang up the phone decisively, but for some reason he just leaned stiffly on the driver's seat, unable to even move his little finger.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhuang Shiwen sighed softly, "Do you hate me?"

"I hated it before." Zhuang Shaodong's cold voice remained the same as before, but his eyes suddenly blurred, "But when I found out that no matter how much I hated, I would never get a father, so I stopped hating. No Father and I can also grow up, and we can also find a loving partner and form our own real family."

Zhuang Shiwen remained silent.

"So now I hope you can make a real break with us. Let Ms. Li go, and your own family." Zhuang Shaodong took a deep breath, "Don't let me continue...looking down on you."

After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Shaodong lay motionless on the steering wheel for a long time.Until the ringing of the mobile phone broke the eerie silence in the car again.The call was from Zhuang Yupei.In the past two days, whenever he left the hospital for something, Zhuang Yupei would stand guard outside the intensive care unit, watch over the sleeping young man on the other side of the glass cover for him, and then report the situation to his superior on time.

Seeing the words Zhuang Yupei flashing on the screen, Zhuang Shaodong's heartbeat became heavy again, and the suffocating feeling oppressed his chest again, "What's wrong? How's the situation?"

"Uh, I can't learn it if it's too professional. In short, XCMG's condition is relatively stable, the internal bleeding part is well absorbed, and the fractured part is also healing well."

"When will he wake up?"

"Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. But..."

"But what?"

"Don't be nervous. This is just added by myself. I think if he wakes up, the injured part will hurt a lot, so let him fall asleep..."

"Stop talking nonsense, you guard the intensive care unit for me."

"Of order." Zhuang Yupei hesitated for a moment, "Master Zhuang, Brother Fifth..."

"Let people stare, don't make any moves yet." Zhuang Shaodong's tone revealed a cold taste, "Perhaps Xu You would like to solve this matter by himself."

"understood."

When Xu You woke up, his mouth was filled with the delicious smell of beef.There was also a familiar voice whispering in his ear, "...don't you really think it's too much? I'm feeding you, think about it, such a delicious beef soup, you drank so much Many, I don't even know..."

Xu You wanted to laugh a little, but just as soon as he moved, he was choked by the liquid that got into his mouth, and he coughed loudly.The person sitting beside him hurriedly put down the things in his hands, carefully supported him and patted him on the back, and at the same time shouted loudly, "Doctor! Doctor!"

Xu You leaned on his shoulder, smelling the familiar smell of tobacco on his body, the feeling of drowsiness in his head gradually became clear, although he still didn't remember what happened, but he was obviously injured, And he was seriously injured, Zhuang Shaodong was taking care of him.Xu You felt that his whole body was numb, not only numb but also extremely heavy.It seems that coughing a few times also consumes a lot of energy.He lay back on the pillow in the direction of Zhuang Shaodong's force, only then did he notice that Zhuang Shaodong's eyes staring at him were full of red threads.

Xu You felt a little distressed, he raised his hand to touch his face, but just as he raised his hand, Zhuang Shaodong grabbed it.Zhuang Shaodong held his hand tightly, put it to his lips and kissed it, a gleam of water slowly appeared in his bloodshot eyes.

Xu You looked at him dully.He felt that Zhuang Shaodong looked a little silly like this, but...but he just looked at him like that, like an abandoned cub, thrown alone in the wilderness, so fragile that he couldn't bear a single blow.Xu You had never seen Zhuang Shaodong like this before. He blinked and wanted to laugh a little, but something sore and soft rose from the bottom of his heart little by little.

He suddenly felt himself moved.

In this ward full of disinfectant, in the unconscious gaze when he first woke up, something, like drizzle, quietly sneaked into the depths of his soul, slowly making the corner that was dry to barren. The air became moist, as if the first breath of spring had blown over the frozen wasteland.

It was a feeling that winter had finally passed, all the entanglements had been settled, and every detail began to gradually evolve towards a better direction.

Xu You looked at him, a weak smile slowly bloomed on his lips, "Shaodong?"

Zhuang Shaodong almost choked up, "I'm here."

"That's great." Xu You closed his eyes as if he was extremely tired, "It's great that you are here."

Doctors and nurses rushed in and drove out the idlers.

It wasn't until Zhuang Yu Peisai handed him a wet paper towel and motioned him to wipe off the soup on his hands that Zhuang Shaodong suddenly came back to his senses.He sat down on the row of chairs in the corridor with his head in his arms, and let out a long sigh of relief, "He woke up, he woke up, you know, the doctor told me that he might not be able to wake up. When I was mentally prepared, I really wanted to strangle him."

Zhuang Yupei glanced at the closed door, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.As far as Zhuang Shaodong's actions these days - he was kidnapped and blackmailed, he is obviously an assistant and not a gangster... Zhuang Yupei almost wants to cry when he thinks of this.He felt that Xu You would go crazy if he didn't wake up.

After the turbulent emotions gradually calmed down, Zhuang Shaodong asked Zhuang Yupei without raising his head, "Is there any news?"

Zhuang Yupei shook his head reluctantly, "Zhuang Shiwen is still in his office."

Zhuang Shaodong snorted.

Zhuang Yupei suddenly felt terrified, "I said, don't you really want to chop off the hands and paws of those two half-grown children? Huh? I advise you to calm down, you are treating minors crime..."

"Shut up!" Zhuang Shaodong became impatient.

The phone rang at the right time, and Zhuang Yupei quickly walked away a few steps to the stairwell at the corner of the corridor to answer the phone.

The medical staff in the ward were still busy checking on Xu You's injuries, while Zhuang Shaodong stood guard outside the door of the ward, not daring to take a step away.Occasionally glancing at Zhuang Yupei, seeing him holding up the phone with a strange expression of embarrassment and guilt, he couldn't help but want to frown.In any case, Xu You must take care of these bad things before leaving the hospital.He couldn't let these glaring security holes lurk in their lives.

Zhuang Shaodong was about to urge Zhuang Yupei to make another call, when he came back with a strange expression on his face, and after a few steps away, he couldn't hold back his surprise and yelled loudly, "Boss, guess what?" What's the matter?"

The veins on Zhuang Shaodong's forehead twitched twice.Why has he never discovered that his all-round assistant has the talent to tell storytelling stories?Fortunately, the universal assistant automatically adjusted back to the smart and capable mode, and reported the latest progress to him, "Zhuang Shiwen is still in his office, but Chen Muli has left Li's mansion with the documents and set off to find Zhuang Shiwen."

Zhuang Shaodong frowned, and asked back as if he didn't understand, "Why is he going?"

Zhuang Yupei laughed mysteriously, "He's gone to Shanghai Road."

Zhuang Shaodong's heart skipped a beat, "You mean..."

Zhuang Yupei nodded, "Mrs. Li has entrusted her personal lawyer to draft the divorce agreement. She sent Assistant Chen to Mr. Luzhuang's office in Shanghai 2 minutes ago."

"You mean her..." Zhuang Shaodong began to stammer, "She actually... unexpectedly..."

Zhuang Yupei nodded heavily with an expression of disbelief, "Yes, boss, she actually agreed."