28.
Shou-wife sat on the hospital bench just below the inpatient unit all afternoon. He only slowly went upstairs when it was close to the time he should be here after getting off work.
Bai Yueguang has left an hour ago, Shou-wife saw him leaving while he has been sitting there.
Just as Shou-wife went in, Broken-Leg Gong who was lying on the bed staring at his phone, saw him coming in and quickly hid his phone while saying, “I was not playing with my phone, I was resting well.”
Shou-wife was in a depressed mood, and was not amused as he usually would. He just asked Broken-Leg Gong if anyone had come to see him today.
Broken-Leg Gong froze for a second before saying no.
29.
A half-eaten meat loaf bun was placed at the table beside his hospital bed.
Broken-Leg Gong asked: “Did you order me take-out?”
Shou-wife nodded his head in agreement.
Broken-Leg Gong sweetly kissed his cheek while saying “My baby is the best.”
Shou-wife opened his mouth intending to ask him why he had to hide the fact that Bai Yueguang had visited him, but couldn’t get the words out of his mouth and just swallowed them back.
The two still slept holding hands together. Broken-Leg Gong quickly fell asleep, but Shou-wife was having a hard time sleeping and started recalling their past.
30.
After that incident, Shou-wife chose to leave the company even before the internship was over.
He deleted Broken Leg Attack’s contact information and his life returned to its usual course.
After graduating from college, he found this current job, a stable job with good pay.
His family arranged for him to go on a blind date, so he came out of the closet and was kicked out of the house.
He then moved out and started living alone.
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He also tried to find someone else to like, but never met the right one.
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This is when he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.
Two years have passed, that person looks more mature now, yet still remains as handsome as in his dreams.
Shou-Wife’s heart started beating wildly again.
32.
The man seemed to have sensed that someone was looking his way and turned his head to look.
When he saw the other party, he also felt stunned, and he straight away pushed his way through the crowd and approached him.
“Can you walk with me to the parking lot?” Broken-Leg Gong said while pointing to the umbrella in Shou-wife’s hand.
Shou-wife nodded and the two squeezed under the single umbrella and headed out.
Broken-Leg Gong was half a head taller than Shou-wife, and it was uncomfortable to bend over, so his hand reached for the umbrella handle and said “let me hold it.”
Their hands touched briefly but Shou-wife swiftly withdrew his.
33.
Shou-wife sent Broken-Leg Gong to his car and as he was about to leave the latter asked him where he was heading to after this.
Shou-wife told him the address of his place and Broken-Leg Gong said that it was on his way and offered to give him a lift.
Shou-wife hesitated for a bit but still got in the car.
34.
During the ride there was only silence and the atmosphere inside the car was getting awkward.
In an attempt to break the silence, Shou-wife found something to say: “How come Senior Bai didn’t come along?”
“He’s out of the country.”
“Oh.”
“He got his degree last year and got a job, so he may have to settle there.”
“Oh.”
Shou-wife did not ask any more questions, he could see that Broken-Leg Gong was very depressed when it came to this topic.
He was quite upset, not knowing whether to sympathize with the other person’s feelings, or his own.
35.
When the car arrived outside Shou-wife’s building, he tried to get out of the car, but suddenly heard Broken-Leg Gong ask:
“Did you delete my contact information from your phone?”
The tone of voice sounded quite resentful.
Shou-wife was caught off guard and felt a little embarrassed. He then pulled out his phone and added his contact again to his friends circle.
36.
After adding him back, the two still did not communicate with each other. They were as quiet as chickens, just being there, in each other’s lists.
One time Shou-wife sent an update to his social circle and Broken-Leg Gong liked it.
Shou-wife was delighted and felt that he should reciprocate, so he went into Broken-Leg Gong’s album and liked his latest photo.
After a while, he received a message, he opened it and saw that it was from Broken-Leg Gong.
Shou-wife’s hand shook while holding the phone.
Broken-Leg Gong had asked: “why did you like my photo from three months ago?”
Shou-wife did not have the heart to say that because of his eagerness to return the favor he did not pay attention to the time of posting. He did not want to appear insincere.
So he made something up: “I think it looks good.”
There was no more reply from Broken-Leg Gong.
Shou-wife felt that something was wrong and went back to look at the photo that he had just liked.
The picture was a selfie that showed a big forehead on full display and was captioned like this:
“Watch out for lightning at the barbershop across the street from the office. Mr. Tony shaved my hairline bald.”
Shou-wife smiled and stared at it for a moment before saving it.
37.
Broken-Leg Gong and Shou-wife became friends that would like each other’s posts.
Only the frequency of Broken-Leg Gong updating his socials was very low so it was mostly him liking Shou-wife’s posts.
However he has never missed a single one of them.
One night right before going to bed, Shou-wife noticed that Broken-Leg Gong has finally sent an update on his social circle.
So without even looking at the content of the update, he just straight away liked it.
After clicking on it, he found that it was an advertisement for an apartment for rent and it was located right across the hall from Broken-Leg Gong’s place.
That night Shou-wife kept tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep.
His heart had a tendency to probe those dusty little thoughts that have been sealed away for a long time.
The next morning, he called the landlord on the ad.
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