Chu Ge watched Mr. Nangong’s hearty laughter, and couldn’t help but recall his own grandfather.
His grandfather was as warm and hospitable as Mr. Nangong, but...
Chu Ge lowered his eyes slightly, his grandfather was no longer around.
Grandfather has been hospitalized for a week. The company accountant was sentenced to prison. Out of old affection, Grandfather allowed Chairman Li to continue working at the company, but Chairman Li resigned angrily and left, leaving Chu Ge in peace.
"Can you do it or not? Is that how you peel an apple?" Mu Bingtong amusedly watched Chu Ge clumsily holding a fruit knife, rcilessly mangling the apple.
Chu Ge’s actions amused his grandfather as well.
"You two aren’t getting any younger, it’s ti to think about the important things in life," Grandfather suddenly said.
Mu Bingtong looked at Chu Ge, waiting for his answer in embarrassnt.
"No rush," Chu Ge absentmindedly replied while continuing to peel the apple.
Mu Bingtong’s smile stiffened, and perhaps Grandfather noticed her discomfort.
"How can there be no rush? Look at , if sothing happens to this ti, and I can’t even attend my only grandson’s wedding, I’d die with my eyes open!"
"Grandfather, you shouldn’t say such ominous things."
"Look, even An Yang is on your side."
"Grandfather~"
Mu Bingtong, feeling uneasy, stood up calmly and left the room under the pretense of getting water. But she didn’t go far, instead leaning against the wall. The words of Chu Ge pierced her heart. Over the years, she truly beca more and more bewildered by Chu Ge. What was he thinking deep down?
After Mu Bingtong left, Grandfather looked at Chu Ge with a serious face.
"Are you still thinking about Lisa?"
"..."
"It’s not possible between you anymore! She left without a word years ago; if she really cared about you, she would have co back long ago. An Yang is a good girl, I like her very much. You can’t hurt her. Do you think because she’s always following your footsteps, you can take her for granted? If you don’t cherish her, you’ll regret it soday."
"No, Grandfather, here," Chu Ge handed the mangled apple to Grandfather.
"This kid can’t even peel an apple! It’s too ugly, I won’t eat it!"
Grandfather sotis acted childishly. Hearing his words from outside, Mu Bingtong’s heart was stabbed hard.
Her mind buzzed as she recalled Grandfather’s words. How she got to the hot water room, how she filled the water, how she got scalded, unbeknownst to her.
...
At this mont, Mu Bingtong sat at the nurse’s station, with the nurse wrapping her scalded hand casually. She answered all questions with a hum.
Lisa, the na is so familiar, as if seen sowhere.
But she couldn’t rember.
When Chu Ge realized Mu Bingtong hadn’t returned to the room for a long ti, he went out to find her and saw her sitting in the pavilion of the hospital garden.
"Why are you sitting here alone?" Chu Ge said from behind.
Mu Bingtong turned her head woodenly, glanced at him, then turned back and ignored him, holding back the unease and anger inside.
Chu Ge sat down opposite Mu Bingtong and noticed her hand, wrapped like a bun, and nervously lifted her hand to ask, "How did this happen?"
Seeing his nervousness, Mu Bingtong felt an unspeakable sensation in her heart. Her nose twitched as she took a deep breath and forced a calm expression, "Accidentally got scalded."
Mu Bingtong finally took a good look at her hand. No wonder the little nurse looked so embarrassed after bandaging it. At the ti, Mu Bingtong’s mind wasn’t on this, so she didn’t pay attention. This skill! It’s terrible! Looking at Mu Bingtong’s ’bun hand,’ she felt like crying.
Chu Ge gently held Mu Bingtong’s other hand, "How can you be so careless?!"
If it were before, Mu Bingtong would have been overjoyed, but now, she couldn’t muster any happiness at all.
Seeing Mu Bingtong in low spirits, he thought she hadn’t rested well, "Didn’t rest well? Want to go back and rest a bit?"
"No, why did you co out?"
"Seeing you hadn’t co back for so long, Grandfather asked to co check."
"If Grandfather hadn’t asked you to co check, would you not have co out?"
"What’s wrong?" Chu Ge was surprised at Mu Bingtong’s backtalk, looking at her in shock.
"Nothing, I want to go back, I’ll go say hi to Grandfather." She said, getting up ready to go.
"What happened again?" Chu Ge stood up to grab Mu Bingtong’s unbandaged hand.
What do you an ’again’! Mu Bingtong’s anger flared up instantly.
"What’s with ’again’! What do you an? What happened before? Now you’re using ’again’!"
"..." Chu Ge looked at her innocently, not saying a word and let go of my hand.
Is it because he doesn’t care that he doesn’t even bother arguing?
Mu Bingtong turned her head and walked into the hospital building.
Angrily, she walked to the ward door, took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions, and pushed the door open to enter the ward.
Chu Ge also followed her in shortly after; wow, that guy was pretty fast!
"Dad, you don’t need to worry about this anymore; it’s already taken care of. Uncle Li isn’t in China, so how are you going to tell him?" Chu Ge’s mother was sitting by the bed peeling an apple.
Seeing how beautifully Chu Ge’s mother peeled it, why didn’t Chu Ge inherit his mother’s genes?
"Auntie," she had to feign happiness despite her discontent.
"Oh, An Yang is back, great, I have sothing to discuss with you, co over."
"An Yang, what happened to your hand?"
"It’s nothing, Grandfather, the nurse was just being lodramatic."
"Here, take a look at this," Chu Ge’s mother handed a thick book to Mu Bingtong.
When Mu Bingtong took it, she was dumbfounded. Was this a book?! It was a thick transition plan!
Mu Bingtong’s mind was filled with a thousand crows flying by!
"What’s this?"
Chu Ge also walked over to take a look, and Mu Bingtong secretly noticed his face instantly turned sour.
"Mom, what are you doing with this?"
"It’s none of your business, this is between Mu Bingtong and !" Chu Ge’s mother said angrily, snatching the transition plan away.
Mu Bingtong sighed silently, her eyes sweeping over to Grandfather and finding him making a Ghost Face at her?!
Mu Bingtong felt deflated and looked dully at Chu Ge’s mother.
"I’ll go back and study it carefully." She almost forgot that Mu Bingtong ca to say goodbye.
"Alright, if you don’t understand, you can call ."
"Okay, goodbye Grandfather, goodbye Auntie."
"Chu Ge, see An Yang off."
"No need, Grandfather."
"Alright."
We spoke in unison, looked at each other, said nothing, and Mu Bingtong turned and left the ward, not waiting for Chu Ge to co out before heading straight downstairs.
By the ti Chu Ge ca out, Mu Bingtong was already gone. She thought he would co after her, but she was wrong; she deliberately slowed her pace, but even when she walked all the way ho, he never ca for her.
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