KEIGHTY: We surpassed our ko-fi goal big big thanks to Gofa‘s ko-fi tips! 🎉 Thank you so much and enjoy reading <3 (Extra Chapter 1/3)
He Yu was waiting at the door of the detention center, a little restless. He opened the car door, wanting to get out. However, Li Tang next to him said, “Just wait in peace. What are you doing, moving around so much? Do you think you’re not hurt enough?”
He Yu said, “Brother Li, I’m just a little impatient.”
“Why are you impatient?” Li Tang said, “Qiao Mudong is coming out soon. No matter how impatient you are, you won’t be able to get in. Just sit in the car and don’t move around.”
He Yu couldn’t help but lower his head. He looked at his left arm, which was tightly fixed, and then looked at his forehead wrapped in gauze in the rearview mirror. He had just changed the medicine this morning, and the color of the iodine solution had come out of the gauze. He wasn’t sure if the way he did things would anger Qiao Mudong or not, nor did he know if Qiao Mudong suffered or not inside there and how he had been.
At this time, Li Tang suddenly said, “Qiao Mudong is out.”
He Yu raised his head and saw a policeman leading Qiao Mudong to show his release certificate to the guard at the gate of the detention center. Then the policeman said a few words to Qiao Mudong and watched Qiao Mudong walk out of the door.
Qiao Mudong was still wearing the same clothes as the day he was taken away by the police, but his hair had been shaved short, just a hairy layer close to his scalp. In this look, Qiao Mudong’s facial features became more obvious and three-dimensional. He exuded a bit of violence, like a felon who had just been released. He stood at the door of the detention center and looked forward, letting out a long breath.
He Yu pushed open the car door and got out. He still didn’t have much strength, so he held onto the car door and shouted, “Qiao Mudong!”
Qiao Mudong looked in his direction, and his facial features instantly relaxed. However, after taking two steps, his brows wrinkled again. He walked faster to He Yu and grabbed his head with one hand. Then he pulled him closer, making his face look up. “Fuck! How did you end up like this?”
He Yu said “Aiyo” and slapped Qiao Mudong’s hand away. “Let go of me!”
Following that, Qiao Mudong held his head and hugged him tightly in his arms. He then lowered his head and buried his face on top of He Yu’s head.
He Yu’s left arm hurt from the pressure, but he did not move and simply allowed Qiao Mudong to hold him. He put his right hand around Qiao Mudong’s lower back and patted him comfortingly.
When Qiao Mudong finally let him go, he asked again, “How did you turn out like this?”
Li Tang got out of the car and threw a cigarette to Qiao Mudong.
Qiao Mudong thanked him and hurriedly asked He Yu to light it for him. He had been craving tobacco already, but he couldn’t get any cigarettes inside. Now, he couldn’t wait to satisfy his craving.
Li Tang then said slowly, “He Yu rushed out to help you find the real culprit and was beaten by that person.”
Qiao Mudong pulled He Yu’s face and looked at him seriously. “Are you out of your mind?”
Li Tang smiled and said, “The man who injured Lu Jincong was a lunatic. You were just unlucky to have met him. Fortunately for He Yu, he was still muddle-headed when he smacked the person forward by chance. He was almost no different from the boy surnamed Lu, lying in the hospital and still not waking up.”
Qiao Mudong asked, “Where’s that person?”
Li Tang said with a smile, “He Yu was very cruel and sent that person to the hospital. I heard that he has not been discharged yet and that the police are still in control of him.”
“Fuck!” Qiao Mudong cursed angrily. “He’d better hide in prison for the rest of his life and never come out. Don’t let him come across me!”
He Yu smiled and comforted him, “I’m fine.”
“Bullshit!” Qiao Mudong scolded him. “Why don’t you go pee and check how you look in the urine puddle? I’m fine, my ass.”
He Yu raised his foot and kicked him. “Why don’t you go pee yourself so I can check how I look in your urine puddle?”
Li Tang stopped them, “Okay, stop flirting here. Firstly, Master Qiao just came out, so go back, take a shower, and have a good meal. Secondly, He Yu, why aren’t you still going back to the hospital lest the nurse catch you? Be careful. Tomorrow, the doctor might scold you to death!”
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“He’s not discharged yet?” Qiao Mudong asked.
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He Yu said, “Okay, I understand. Let’s go back to the hospital now.”
Li Tang first drove He Yu back to the hospital and then sent Qiao Mudong home.
Qiao Mudong took a shower and changed his clothes. Li Tang originally said to Qiao Mudong that once He Yu was discharged from the hospital, they were planning to have a good meal together. But He Yu was still lying in the hospital, and Qiao Mudong had no intention of eating or drinking, so he agreed to save the meal and eat again until after He Yu was discharged from the hospital.
At noon, Qiao Mudong accompanied He Yu in the hospital to eat the hospital’s food order. In the afternoon, the two of them went for a walk in the garden downstairs of the hospital. In the evening, because the patient in the ward next door to He Yu had just been discharged today, He Yu and Qiao Mudong were the only two people left in the ward that was originally a two-person room.
After the doctor on duty finished checking the room, Qiao Mudong climbed onto the bed and lay side by side with He Yu.
He was too big. The hospital bed was just a single bed, so the two of them could only lie on their sides, exposing He Yu’s injured arm. Qiao Mudong held He Yu with one arm and whispered in his ear, “Don’t do stupid things in the future.”
He Yu raised his right hand, touched Qiao Mudong’s furry head, and asked, “What stupid things?”
Qiao Mudong replied, “Aren’t you stupid enough to go looking for a lunatic all alone?”
He Yu gently rubbed the tips of his hair with his palm. “How would I know that he’s actually a lunatic? If I had known earlier, I would have asked Brother Li to accompany me.”
Qiao Mudong buried his head in his chest. “I’m scared even just thinking about it now.”
He Yu hugged him gently and said, “It’s okay. It won’t happen again in the future.”
Qiao Mudong said in a low voice, “Do you know what I was thinking about in the detention center?”
He Yu smiled slightly and asked, “What were you thinking about?”
Qiao Mudong answered, “I thought about what you said—that if I got myself in jail again, you wouldn’t wait for me. Then I thought, it’s over this time. If I was truly sentenced for a few more years, once I come back, He Yu might have long gone away. What should I do then?”
He Yu smiled when he heard this and said, “You weren’t sentenced, right? If you were truly sentenced, then I won’t wait for you.”
“Shit,” Qiao Mudong cursed. “Look at yourself right now. You desperately wanted to save me because you can’t live without me, right? Be honest, are you in love with me?”
He Yu answered softly, “Nn, I have fallen in love with you, and I can’t live without you.”
Qiao Mudong said, “Don’t speak nonsense with me.”
He Yu smiled. “Who’s speaking nonsense with you? I was just telling you what answer you wanted to hear.”
Qiao Mudong suddenly said, “Let’s get married.”
He Yu lowered his head and saw Qiao Mudong looking at him, his eyes unblinking.
He Yu then nodded. “Okay. Once I’m discharged from the hospital, we’ll find a place to get married.”
It didn’t matter where they were or whether they could be recognized by others. The two of them just wanted to commit to each other for a lifetime through a ceremony with the most pious attitude.
The next morning, Qiao Mudong was scolded by the nurse doing rounds.
The beautiful young nurse pointed at Qiao Mudong. “How can you sleep in one bed with the injured patient? The patient is almost squeezed into the bed by you!”
Qiao Mudong quickly got up and pulled He Yu, who was squeezed to the edge of the bed and was currently lying on his side, to the middle of the bed for him to lie flat on his back.
He Yu couldn’t help laughing.
Qiao Mudong put on his slippers and went to the bathroom to wash up while yawning.
Both of them had washed up. It was inconvenient for He Yu to leave, as he had to wait for the ward rounds in the morning, so Qiao Mudong went out to buy breakfast alone.
He asked He Yu what he wanted to eat, and He Yu said he wanted to eat beef noodles.
Qiao Mudong was stupefied for a moment before he replied, “I’m going to ask if it can be packed or not.”
Qiao Mudong took the elevator down to the lobby on the first floor of the surgical department building. As soon as he got out of the elevator, he saw Wen Guanghua standing outside. The two were left dumbfounded for a moment when they saw each other.
Wen Guanghua came to his senses first. He already knew about Qiao Mudong’s business here, and he had also heard a little about He Yu. However, he had no time to care about it recently, so he did not contact He Yu in time.
Qiao Mudong was still stunned. “Why are you here?”
Wen Guanghua looked at the people around him and asked Qiao Mudong to follow him to a corner where there were fewer people. “Something happened to Mrs. Ling.”
Qiao Mudong asked in surprise, “Zhou Xuelan? What’s wrong?”
Wen Guanghua sighed softly. “Mrs. Ling and Mr. Ling had a fight, and then she jumped off from the second floor. Both of her legs were broken.”
Qiao Mudong frowned slightly and asked, “Is she hospitalized here?”
Wen Guanghua shook his head. “It’s Mr. Ling. He fainted at home and is now in the ward on the seventh floor. He has woken up, but the doctor said it’s best to observe him for two more days.”
Qiao Mudong was silent for a moment.
Wen Guanghua said, “Young Master Qiao, if you have time, you should go and see Mr. Ling. After all, he is old. Seeing his wife doing this kind of thing once again, it was definitely hard for him to take.”
Qiao Mudong asked, “Do you know what they were arguing about so much?”
Wen Guanghua hesitated for a moment and said, “Actually, I don’t know that much. I only heard Aunt Xu from Mr. Ling’s house say that Mrs. Ling seemed to have been with someone outside, and Mr. Ling found out about it.”
Qiao Mudong nodded slightly. “I understand.”
Wen Guanghua asked him, “Master Qiao, I’ll go up and see Mr. Ling first.”
Qiao Mudong replied, “I’m going to buy breakfast for He Yu. Let’s talk about these things later.”
Qiao Mudong packed a bowl of beef noodles for He Yu and came back. The attending doctor on the ward round happened to see this and scolded him again, “His meals should be lighter.”
Qiao Mudong quickly apologized, “I’m sorry.”
After checking the meal and waiting for all the doctors to leave the ward, Qiao Mudong sat next to the hospital bed and said to He Yu, “Ling Qiang is hospitalized upstairs.”
“Mmn?” He Yu was surprised. “What happened to him?”
Qiao Mudong said, “He was probably so angry that he fainted at home.”
“He’s angry?” He Yu asked in repeat. “Is he angry at me?”
Qiao Mudong looked at him. “What do you mean?”
He Yu shrugged. “He came to see me when you were still in the detention center. I was in a bad mood at that time, so I had a few arguments with him. I noticed that he was very angry that time.”
Qiao Mudong asked, “What were you arguing about?”
He Yu answered, “He told me to stay away from you. I said no, I would never!”
Qiao Mudong smiled and raised his hand to caress He Yu’s head. “It’s not because of you, it’s because of Zhou Xuelan. The two of them had a fight and then Zhou Xuelan jumped from the second floor.”
He Yu’s eyes widened inexplicably.
Qiao Mudong was a little depressed because Zhou Xuelan’s jumping off the floor reminded him of his mother. He Yu also perceived Qiao Mudong’s mood and reached out to hold his hand. “What’s the reason? How did their quarrel end up like this?”
Qiao Mudong said, “Because Zhou Xuelan made him put on a green hat.”
He Yu was silent for a moment, and then he asked, “Is it He Wutong?”
Qiao Mudong raised his eyes to look at him. “You knew?”
He Yu said, “I have known about it for a long time. However, I’m very surprised. Where did that video on your computer come from?”
“Mmn?” Qiao Mudong hummed, a little shocked. “Have you seen the video on my computer?”
He Yu nodded. “I accidentally saw it.”
Qiao Mudong held on and patted the back of his hand. “That was after I saw Zhou Xuelan and He Wutong together before. I thought that it was quite unusual, so I asked someone to help me find out about this.”
He Yu did not doubt it but asked again, “Did you send it to Ling Qiang?”
Qiao Mudong shook his head. “I didn’t. I once thought about doing so, but I feel like I can’t bear to do it.”
He Yu looked at him, smiled slightly, and asked, “Why can’t you bear to do it?”
Qiao Mudong answered, “I don’t know why I can’t bear to do it. I probably thought that they’re too old now, so I shouldn’t bother them anymore. Anyway, whether or not there’s romantic love between them, they’ve been together for a lifetime.”
He Yu asked softly, “You won’t avenge your mother?”
Qiao Mudong said, “My mother has been dead for so many years. It was her own choice. In fact, if she’s still alive and well right now, she might not be that unhappy.”
He Yu nodded. “She still has a good son.”
Qiao Mudong said, “But she might still feel that her son is not important enough, ba.”
He Yu raised his hand and touched his furry head.
Qiao Mudong grabbed his hand and put it on his lap. “Stop touching it, it’s like you’re playing with a dog.”
He Yu smiled and said, “Go and take a look at Ling Qiang. I’ll go with you.”
Qiao Mudong asked him, “What are you planning to do? Are you looking for some scolding, ah?”
He Yu replied, “As it happens, this daye is in a good mood right now, so he can scold me as much as he wants to. I just want to accompany you, nothing more.”
there are many things that you can use as a mirror, but puddle of urine? Seriously? 😅 ugh the smell… 😷
Hmm hmm, they’re indeed good sons, both of them 😔 I’m not gonna rest happily until that jerk fu chenshan gets what he deserved for ruining he yu’s life like that