Ch. 173 - I'll Cry Before You Do When I See You Happy
"Good morning!"
Lu Xing entered the hospital room, refreshed.
The two old folks had already packed up early and were sitting in a row on the edge of the bed like primary school students, still talking to Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue glanced at Lu Xing, her eyes filled with heartache. She nodded.
"Morning."
Now, whenever she saw Lu Xing, she would think of Song Junzhu. And whenever she thought of Song Junzhu, she would think of the fun things she had sent her to spice things up.
Zhang Yue now wakes up in the middle of the night every day to slap herself.
What a sin!
"Good grandson, we've finally, finally..."
Zhao Zhenzhu held Lu Xing's hand. After saying a few words, she couldn't continue, lowered her head to secretly wipe her tears. On the other side, Zhao Henmei was also a tough guy with a soft heart, his eyes red.
This journey, they had walked for too long.
A person who is truly about to succeed cannot smile.
Because it's too tiring.
This journey has been too tiring.
Lu Xing lifted the corners of his mouth and comforted them, "Aiya, the road ahead is a good one. We should be smiling. Don't cry. If you cry again, I'll cry too."
Zhang Yue silently retreated to the hospital room door. The three family members inside needed their space.
Da da da.
A slender, cool figure appeared at the end of the corridor. Zhang Yue turned her head to look.
When she saw the person who had come, she rolled her eyes big time.
It was Chi Yueshan.
Zhang Yue was annoyed now whenever she saw Chi Yueshan.
She didn't know since when, but Chi Yueshan had been coming to the hospital room frequently. Sometimes she would just sit for a while and chat with Grandpa and Grandma, and sometimes she would even sing an aria.
She didn't come too often or too rarely, but it was enough for Zhang Yue to know this person.
She had specifically asked Grandpa and Grandma why Chi Yueshan would come.
At that time, Grandma's answer was that Chi Yueshan was Lu Xing's novel fan.
This answer had directly shocked Zhang Yue!
F*ck.
A popular opera actress can't be so bored as to come here and lie for Lu Xing, right?
So Zhang Yue believed eighty percent of it.
But now.
Zhang Yue collapsed.
A popular opera actress is really so bored as to come here and lie for Lu Xing!
After guessing that Chi Yueshan was also Lu Xing's client, Zhang Yue found Chi Yueshan more and more awkward to look at.
Thinking back...
She had even taken Song Junzhu to the Haicheng Grand Theater to watch a play, and at that time, Chi Yueshan was sitting right next to them.
Thinking of the scene where she had enthusiastically introduced Chi Yueshan to Song Junzhu, Zhang Yue wished she could travel back in time and slap herself.
No wonder.
No wonder at that time she always felt that the atmosphere between Chi Yueshan and Song Junzhu was a bit strange.
Could this be the special magnetic field of love rivals?
As she was thinking, Chi Yueshan and Chi Shui had already walked to the hospital room door. She smiled and nodded.
"Dr. Zhang."
Zhang Yue laughed awkwardly. "Mm, mm, Miss Chi, good morning."
'I'm numb.'
She really didn't know how to deal with her best friend's love rival.
But Chi Yueshan didn't care about Zhang Yue's thoughts.
From that day at the theater, she knew that Zhang Yue was Song Junzhu's good friend.
But when she found out that Zhang Yue was a doctor familiar with Grandpa and Grandma, she was indeed a little nervous for a while.
She was afraid that Song Junzhu would use Zhang Yue to get closer to the elders!
But it had been so long now, and Song Junzhu still hadn't appeared at the hospital.
Then there were only two possibilities.
Either, Zhang Yue didn't know about the relationship between Lu Xing and Song Junzhu.
Or, Zhang Yue was on Lu Xing's side.
After all.
From her observation, Zhang Yue was quite good to Lu Xing, her eyes filled with an unconscious maternal love.
No matter which possibility it was, for Chi Yueshan, the advantage was on her side.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Now that Grandpa and Grandma were going home, it was even more impossible for Song Junzhu to get closer to the water.
(TL: From the idiom "The pavilion closest to the water enjoys the moonlight first" (近水楼台先得月). It means being in a favorable position or having close connections to power/resources allows one to obtain advantages first.)
People just can't be slow.
Otherwise, you won't even get to eat the hot shit.
(TL: It means you are so late that even the "shit" you arrived to eat has already gone cold. It is used to insult someone who misses the "prime" timing for any opportunity. What are these idioms? Like what even... )
Watching Zhang Yue's departing back, Chi Shui followed behind Chi Yueshan, scratched his head, and asked.
"Sis, am I going in too?"
He was still a little scared. What if Lu Xing didn't like him?
Chi Yueshan glanced at Chi Shui. "Of course you're going in."
Chi Shui rubbed his hands together, greatly moved.
"Sis, are you trying to introduce me to my brother-in-law... ow ow ow."
The moment the word "in-law" came out, Chi Yueshan stamped on Chi Shui's foot, making him show a pained mask.
Chi Yueshan warned in a low voice.
"Be careful what you say. Lu Xing is your brother!"
"Don't call him brother-in-law before you're married!"
It had been so hard for her to be friends with Lu Xing. If it was ruined by Chi Shui, she would throw him into the Chi Shui.
(Chi Shui (池水): Pool water.)
"Hmph." Chi Shui let out a small, dissatisfied cry. "Then you could have just not brought me."
Chi Yueshan glanced at him, tidied up her appearance, and said lightly.
"If I don't bring you, who will carry the luggage?"
"Should I carry it, or should Lu Xing?"
Chi Shui: ???
Damn it.
You just brought me as a coolie?
I fucking thought you were going to introduce me to my brother-in-law!
Sad.
Really sad.
Chi Shui was still moping here, but Chi Yueshan didn't pay him any mind at all and directly went to knock on the door.
Knock, knock, knock.
"Come in."
The hospital room door was pushed open, and Lu Xing looked over.
Chi Yueshan's dark, straight hair was all tied up with a jade hairpin. The pendant on the hairpin swayed with every step she took.
She was wearing a light blue qipao, with a thin white shawl over it, looking cool and elegant.
Lu Xing glanced at Chi Yueshan's qipao.
Unlike the qipaos on short videos that were slit up to the stomach, the one Chi Yueshan was wearing was a traditional one.
'Mm, custom-made, very expensive.'
Noticing Lu Xing's gaze, the little person in Chi Yueshan's heart laughed out loud.
'Hmph, hmph, I've mesmerized you, haven't I?'
"Grandpa, Grandma, how's the packing going? I see the car is already ready downstairs."
Chi Yueshan gracefully walked to the hospital bed and asked softly.
Lu Xing glanced at Chi Yueshan but didn't say anything.
When Chi Shui and the hired workers came up to move the luggage, Lu Xing and Chi Yueshan found a stone bench to sit on.
Lu Xing squinted his eyes at Chi Shui, who was struggling with the luggage, and was the first to ask.
"What are you doing here?"
Chi Yueshan took out a small mirror and a lip gloss from somewhere, and said while applying it.
"I'm here to see Grandpa and Grandma off."
"What? You're jealous that Grandpa and Grandma are so welcoming to me?"
Lu Xing rolled his eyes.
Chi Yueshan added.
"Alright, actually, I was thinking, you're going home. Will it just be the three of you?"
"It's too quiet. There's no life in the house just after you get back. So I brought Chi Shui along."
There was nothing wrong with what she said.
Lu Xing looked at her with a heavy gaze. "Aren't you busy?"
"Busy, of course I'm busy."
Chi Yueshan looked at her sparkling lips in the mirror, extremely satisfied.
"Our troupe is going to the countryside in the next county the day after tomorrow. I'm going to sing. It's just a convenient trip to come today."
Lu Xing was dumbfounded. "You're still going to the countryside?"
He had thought that with Chi Yueshan being so famous now, she should be doing programs every day.
Chi Yueshan closed the mirror and turned to look at Lu Xing.
"You don't really think of me as just a celebrity, do you? I'm still in the system. This is what I should do."
Lu Xing stopped talking.
Chi Yueshan stood up gracefully and patted Lu Xing's shoulder.
"Did you see Chi Shui?"
"The reason I was able to see you at the theater that day was because Chi Shui bumped into you and tipped me off."
"He's always felt he owed you. This time, letting him do some labor is considered him paying it back."
Chi Yueshan was so frank that it made Lu Xing not know what to do.
Lu Xing had already rented a car to carry the luggage and people.
After everything was settled...
Lu Xing stood between his grandparents and said he wanted to take one last photo at the entrance of the inpatient department.
Looking at the smile in Lu Xing's eyes, Chi Yueshan's hand holding the camera trembled. So she handed the camera to Chi Shui and explained.
"Let him take it. I'm not good at it."
Chi Shui was quite enthusiastic and said with a grin.
"Come, I'll count to three... cheese!"
Chi Yueshan turned around and secretly wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye.
Lu Xing.
'Seeing you happy... my tears will fall before yours even have the chance.'
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