withered lover

Du Zhinian slept for a long time, from Sunday afternoon until Monday morning when he was woken up by the alarm clock of his mobile phone.

The long sleep after staying up all night didn't make him more comfortable, but he felt indescribably tired and irritable, especially when he was woken up by the alarm clock, he almost didn't catch his breath.

The alarm that came with the mobile phone kept ringing. Du Zhinian put the quilt over his head to block out the noise that disturbed his dreams. The edge keeps echoing.

He covered his ears in pain, the mattress under him shook slightly, and the annoying alarm clock stopped.

Du Zhinian lifted the quilt, and saw a thin and pale arm lying in front of his eyes.

Shen Guiwan turned off the alarm clock and slowly withdrew his hand.

"Woke you up?" Du Zhinian noticed that the corners of his eyes were red, and raised his hand to touch them.

Shen Guiwan sat on the bed and shook his head listlessly after a while.

Du Zhinian thought that Shen Guiwan hadn't woken up, so he rubbed his head twice, got up and went to the bathroom.

After Du Zhinian finished washing, he went to the kitchen to make a cup of black coffee, then poured warm water for Shen Guiwan, and took the phone with the broken screen on the coffee table into the bedroom together with his spare phone.

"I'm going to work. If I'm tired, I'll sleep for a while." Du Zhinian changed Shen Guiwan's card to a spare phone, "Your phone is broken, use this first, and I'll buy you a new one when I get back from get off work."

He handed the phone to Shen Guiwan, Shen Guiwan glanced at it, but didn't answer it.

Sitting beside Shen Guiwan, Du Zhinian put his palm against his cheek and asked worriedly: "Will Shen Lu come to you? Do you need me to apply for a new card for you?"

When Shen Lu's name was mentioned, Shen Guiwan moved stiffly like a marionette being pulled by a string.

He shook his head dully, and took the phone from Du Zhinian.

Looking at Shen Guiwan's appearance, Du Zhinian sighed with a headache, "If you get hungry later, order takeaway, don't touch the wound with water, and leave anything to wash when I come back."

He urged, then lowered his head and clicked on his mobile phone a few times, "Call me if you have anything to do, and remember to accept the transfer."

"...Mmm." Shen Guiwan responded lightly.

He was in a bad state of mind, and his head was lowered listlessly.

Du Zhinian didn't know how much he had listened to, so he wrote a note and pasted it on the bedside table. Before leaving, he hesitated for a while, and checked the temperature of his forehead worriedly.

The temperature of Shen Guiwan's forehead was normal, but his hands were still a little cold. It should be due to lack of energy after the fever subsided. Du Zhinian didn't pay much attention to it.

He folded his palms together, trying to warm Shen Guiwan's left hand, but when his palm touched Shen Guiwan's fingers, Shen Guiwan struggled to withdraw his hand.

Du Zhinian keenly noticed the traces on his fingers, and wanted to grab Shen Guiwan's hand, but he dodged it.

"What happened to your hand?" Du Zhinian asked in a deep voice.

"It's okay." Shen Guiwan turned her head and lay down slowly, "I'm a little tired."

He refused to say, this state of refusal to talk made Du Zhinian dare not ask.

"Call me if you feel uncomfortable, and I'll take you to the hospital." Du Zhinian leaned over and kissed Shen Guiwan's forehead, raised his finger to rub his cheek a few times, and then went to work with his bag.

Sitting in the car, Du Zhinian kept thinking about the marks he saw on Shen Guiwan's fingers just now.

The marks are very new, slightly darker red, evenly distributed on the four fingers except the thumb, like a linear tattoo branded on Shen Guiwan's hand.

Du Zhinian speculated that it should be a bite mark, but he didn't know why Shen Guiwan bit him, and he couldn't figure out how someone who had just suffered a serious illness could be so cruel to him.

But Shen Guiwan resisted his questioning, and now it is impossible for him to go back upstairs, wake up Shen Guiwan, and get to the bottom of this row of injuries that are not serious.

Maybe the wound was too painful to bear.Du Zhinian made up a reason for Shen Guiwan to convince himself.

He took a deep breath, tapped the accelerator and drove the car out of the parking space.

Du Zhinian was delayed in the garage for a while, and when he arrived at the hospital, he was less than 5 minutes away from being late.

He hurried to his office, changed into a white coat, and started a new week of work.

Monday morning was a bit busy, and Du Zhinian was busy until one o'clock in the afternoon before finishing all the patients.

He didn't have time to go to the cafeteria, so the little nurse he knew packed a lunch for him, and told him about the patients received in the department during the weekend while he was eating.

"A patient's head was smashed with such a long cut." The little nurse gestured exaggeratedly, "The director asked him what happened, and he insisted that he accidentally knocked it on himself. It's really strange."

"Hmm." Du Zhinian chewed the rice and answered vaguely.

Seeing that he was absent-minded, the little nurse blinked and asked in a low voice, "Dr. Du, is the weekend appointment going well?"

It's okay if she didn't mention it, but as soon as he said "date", Shen Guiwan's wounded appearance instantly appeared in Du Zhinian's mind.

He was too busy in the morning, he completely forgot about Shen Guiwan staying at home alone, but he took out his mobile phone and opened the chat records between himself and Shen Guiwan, the money transferred to Shen Guiwan before going out still needs to be confirmed state.

Shen Guiwan was probably still asleep, but Du Zhinian sent him a message asking him to confirm the transfer after he woke up.

Seeing that Du Zhinian didn't answer, the little nurse bit her lip in embarrassment.

She was wondering if she accidentally poked Du Zhinian's sore spot, and lowered her head to cover her red and hot face.

After sending the message, Du Zhinian put down his phone, saw the little nurse's movements, and asked strangely, "Uncomfortable?"

"No!" The little nurse rubbed her face and stood up in a panic, "I just remembered that there is still work to be done, so I will go to work first."

Du Zhinian looked at her blankly, and waved his hands habitually, "Go."

Du Zhinian had finished his lunch, but Shen Guiwan hadn't replied yet.

He was probably still nestling in bed at this moment, even though Du Zhinian was thinking about it, he didn't do anything to call him to wake him up from his sleep.

Du Zhinian dialed his cell phone, squinted on the sofa for a while, then suddenly received a call a few minutes later, and hurried to the VIP ward of the inpatient department.

When he first received the call, Du Zhinian thought it was some picky "patient" making things difficult for innocent nurses and doctors, but when he rushed over, he saw a strange person in the ward where Shen Guiwan lived. Unexpected person——

Shen Lu.

The top of his head was covered with thick gauze. Before Du Zhinian came in, the nurse was helping him change his dressing. Shen Lu didn't know if he was really stupid or if he really regarded the hospital as some high-end club, so he kept yelling at the nurse.

After a while he called them to change the medicine and hurt himself, and after a while he called them dizzy and wanted to find a doctor, which caused the two female nurses a lot of headaches, so in the end they could only ask Du Zhinian to come over.

It was the first time Du Zhinian met Shen Guiwan, his blood-related father, and stared at him for a long time.

Shen Lu's face was full of flesh, almost the same as the nouveau riche Du Zhinian had seen, vulgar and ugly.

While Du Zhinian was thankful that Shen Guiwan didn't inherit his bad looks, he wondered if he was more like his mother.

Mother?After Du Zhinian found out, Shen Guiwan seemed to have never mentioned his mother, but then he thought that Shen Guiwan had never mentioned family matters, and even Shen Lu beat him because Du Zhinian saw him and speculated from.

Du Zhinian lowered his head in thought, Shen Lu over there was still shouting, and the nurse gave him helpless looks several times, but Du Zhinian accidentally ignored them.

"Doctor Du." The head nurse called Du Zhinian in a low voice.

Du Zhinian came back to his senses, quickly stabilized the expression on his face, and asked the nurse about Shen Lu's situation.

Shen Lu was hit on the head with a blunt object three nights ago, and a gash of nearly seven centimeters was opened on the back of his head, and he had six stitches. During the rounds this morning, the nurse found that his wound was inflamed and blood was oozing out continuously. Pus.

Counting the time, Du Zhinian sneered in his heart, and said slowly, "Mr. Shen."

Shen Lu turned his head angrily, Du Zhinian thought his impotent and furious appearance was very funny, he crossed his arms and asked with a half-smile, "The wound is quite deep, how did you do it?"

Du Zhinian had already matched him with the strange patient that the little nurse said.

Shen Guiwan was injured many times by this man, whether Du Zhinian felt sorry for him or was disturbed, he would intentionally take revenge and deliberately poke his sore spots.

Sure enough, when Du Zhinian asked about his injuries, Shen Lu was like an inflated balloon being punctured suddenly, with a "pop", his aura instantly weakened.

"No... I got it by accident." He hesitated to answer.

"Really?" Du Zhinian laughed meaningfully, "You are quite cruel to yourself."

Shen Lu seemed to think of something, his face turned blue and pale, and the corners of his mouth trembled.

Like most incompetent cowards, he is desperate for face and bullies the weak and fears the strong. He usually looks fierce in his methods, but as soon as he encounters fierce resistance, he will become timid and even run away in embarrassment.

Shen Lu was furious and had nowhere to vent, Du Zhinian was very unhappy watching it.

He lifted the gauze off Shen Lu's head not too gently, "Your wound is festered and infected, it's best to stay in the hospital for observation for a while, after all, it's not a trivial matter for an elderly person to get a head injury, and if you don't pay attention, you may be paralyzed by a stroke .”

Shen Lu has lingering fears now, and he dare not take revenge on Shen Guiwan for the time being, but the dog can't change eating shit, Shen Guiwan's ID card is still held by him, after a while the wound heals, the dirty thoughts in this man's heart will come back Will be revived.

Du Zhinian can only let Shen Lu stay in the hospital for a few more days, and suffer a little bit. It is best not to trouble Shen Guiwan so quickly after going out.

He slowly listed the diseases that may be caused by traumatic brain injury, and after finishing speaking, he asked lightly: "What do you think?"

Shen Lu was bluffed by Du Zhinian, and panicked: "Is it so serious!"

He subconsciously chose to trust the doctor, never thinking that this young man would dig a hole for himself.

"It's hard to say, so I suggest you stay in the hospital first, and then leave the hospital after the stitches are removed." Du Zhinian paused, then laughed, "The wound is already inflamed, let the nurse change your dressing first."

Shen Lu's face was ashen, but he couldn't find the reason for the attack, so he could only let the nurse remove the gauze from his head.

The gauze was stuck to the head with blood and pus, and when it was removed, the flesh was pulled, and Shen Lu wailed in pain.

He wanted to push away the nurse beside him, but when he thought of Du Zhinian's words, he stiffly withdrew his hand that was about to wave.

After the nurse changed Shen Lu's medicine, Du Zhinian staggered out of the ward.

He spent the last two hours in the department before leaving work, and bought a new mobile phone for Shen Guiwan on the way home.

When checking out, a message popped up on Du Zhinian's phone, which was an automatic reply confirming the transfer.

Shen Gui didn't wake up until now, so he probably didn't eat anything that day.

Du Zhinian went to a Cantonese restaurant to pack a dinner, and drove home directly.

"I'm back." Du Zhinian yelled at the door, and found that there was no movement in the room, so he went directly to the bedroom to find someone.

Hearing the opening of the bedroom door, Shen Guiwan, who was sitting on the bed with the quilt in his arms, raised his head and looked at Du Zhinian who was walking towards him.

Du Zhinian kissed his forehead and said with a teasing smile, "Guess who I saw in the hospital today?"

Shen Guiwan didn't respond, and Du Zhinian wasn't annoyed, he picked up the words himself: "Shen Lu."

"There was such a big cut in the back of the head, and I needed six stitches." He gestured at the wound on Shen Lu's head.

Seeing that Shen Guiwan remained silent, Du Zhinian paused for a while, and asked again: "Did you smash Shen Lu's head?"

Shen Guiwan's hands hidden under the quilt trembled, and it took a long time before he responded softly: "Mmm..."

"I didn't realize it at all before, you are so fierce—" Du Zhinian lengthened the end of his voice, with a slight smile in his voice.

"If you don't fight back, you will be beaten to death." Shen Guiwan looked at him, his black pupils trembling slightly, as if something was broken in two.

That day when Shen Lu made a deadly move, the force of the stick falling was much heavier than before, and Shen Guiwan thought several times that he was going to die.

He was unconscious from the pain, and he grabbed a hard object with his groping hand, and swung it down without thinking.

When the slack consciousness returned, Shen Lu had already covered his head and fell to the ground, and what he was holding in his hand was a half-broken glass ashtray.

The broken ashtray cut Shen Guiwan's memory into incoherent pieces.

He couldn't remember exactly what happened that night, and the broken memories floated before his eyes, but he couldn't even grasp the tail.

The icy and snowy rain washed away the blood on his body, but the sticky feeling of blood remained in his palm.

Shen Guiwan only vaguely remembered that he smashed Shen Lu's head and threatened Shen Lu with shards of glass. As for what happened halfway, he couldn't remember at all.

This unknown loss of control made Shen Guiwan terrified, the poison seeping into his blood slowly eroded his body, and merged with the violent blood inherited from Shen Luna, turning into the darkness that shrouded Shen Guiwan's heart.

Scarlet flashed before Shen Guiwan's eyes, and the viscous red liquid seemed to flow out of the gauze-wrapped palm and flow down the arm.

The rusty smell from the liquid diffused around the body, Shen Guiwan breathed hard with his mouth open, and a rapid breathing sound came out of his throat.

Du Zhinian originally wanted to tease Shen Guiwan, but when he realized that something was wrong with his reaction, he quickly comforted him: "I didn't mean to blame you, you did a good job, people like Shen Lu bully the weak and fear the tough, and he will get scared as soon as you strike back. .”

"Du Zhinian, can you..." Shen Guiwan's voice choked up, and his trembling fingertips grabbed Du Zhinian's sleeve, "Can you stop mentioning him?"

His body trembled violently, Du Zhinian was stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, he hurriedly hugged him into his arms and hugged him tightly.

"Shen Guiwan!" Du Zhinian shouted anxiously, but Shen Guiwan lay on his shoulder, neither sobbing nor answering, not even making a sound.

He cried silently, his whole body trembling from crying, and the surging tears soon wet Du Zhinian's shoulders.

Du Zhinian frantically patted Shen Guiwan's back to coax him. After a while, he realized that the touch of his hands was not right, and then realized that he had been repeatedly patting the wound on Shen Guiwan's back just now.

"I'm sorry, I won't mention him, I won't mention him anymore." Du Zhinian pressed Shen Guiwan's cold cheek tightly, and apologized loudly.

Shen Guiwan couldn't help sobbing at the moment Du Zhinian apologized.

The emotions he had suppressed for several days kept slipping towards the brink of collapse, and finally gradually lost control under repeated stimulation.