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Captivated by You - Chapter 16




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Chapter 16

WHO’S BEHIND ME INQUIRING
INDEED IT TURNED OUT TO BE YOU

Today, Mo Lan got up early in the morning, she felt a little bored after breakfast, and temporarily planned to start cleaning. Just as Mo Lan was carefully and meticulously mopping the kitchen floor, she suddenly heard someone opening the front door with a key.

Mo Lan moved and before she barely walked into the living room, she straightaway saw An Xiaoluo carried a huge suitcase that appeared travel-worn*.

(风尘仆仆 fēng chén pú pú – lit. covered in dust (idiom))

“Xiao Lan Xiao Lan, quickly come over and help me carry it, my exhausted hand nearly wanted to break on the way back.”

Mo Lian 囧ed, while she helped An Xiaoluo bring in the suitcase, she grumbled: “Then why didn’t you call me and let me pick you up from the airport?”

“Aiya, I just couldn’t bear to shock* you ma.” An Xiaoluo replied radiant with delight, afterwards she changed to a pair of slippers at the entrance and walked in.

(雷 léi – thunder/ mine (weapon)/ internet slang for terrifying or shock)

En… looking at her like this, this time meeting Su Shen, should have gone quite pleasantly. Mo Lan thought for a bit, and still quietly asked and probed: “The problem have been resolved successfully?”

An Xiaoluo dazed for a while, while she took off her woolen coat and hanged it in the closet, she attempted to speak calmly, “Should be considered as solved I guess, Su Shen has already applied to his company, he’ll be transferred to Nanjing’s branch in the second half of the year.”

“Really?” Mo Lan was surprised, and also immediately felt very happy, “I did say right, when a relationship comes across difficulties one should properly face it and talk it out, blindly avoiding it would merely make the situation more and more severe.”

On this side Mo Lan was right in the middle of emphasising this set of principles, and over there An Xiaoluo’s mysterious delusional eyes looked at her probingly, the probing look carried a sense of gratification.

After she looked for a while, An Xiaoluo finally opened her mouth unhurriedly: “En, according to what you said, shouldn’t you also go face somebody and talk it out?”

Mo Lan went silent, her eyes couldn’t help started somewhat looking fleetingly to the left and and to the right: “Cousin, what are you saying, I don’t have a boyfriend anyway.”

“Come on, you don’t have to hide it from me, during the short time I was in Shanghai I would sometimes go online, most of the people in the circle are all talking about the thing between you and Secretly Captivated. I heard, he took you to the concert, and even held hands with you in front of Qi Yue? Tsk tsk, wasn’t this just declaring his ownership with the rest of the world.” An Xiaoluo uttered word by word, her eyes stared at her without blinking, she straightforwardly gazed at Mo Lan until a guilty conscience appeared.

Even though, what An Xiaoluo mentioned was true, but… but these actions, what Gu Ye Mi did made one felt that it was all particularly logical, so logical that she couldn’t even asked a “why” out loud.

Here Mo Lan was hemming and hawing as she didn’t know how should she explained it all to An Xiaoluo, over there, her mobile rang suddenly. Mo Lan opened and glanced at it, it was actually her mum’s phone call.

Mo Lan promptly answered the phone, as soon as she called out a “Ma”, in the next second, don’t know what the other party said on the phone, An Xiaoluo saw Mo Lan’s complexion changed all of a sudden, Mo Lan originally had a fair skin tone, and now it was deathly white, and even the last bit of blood faded completely.

Her hands were shaking, her nails clutched firmly into her flesh, suddenly, a “bang”, Mo Lan’s mobile phone which was still in her hand a moment ago fell straight to the ground.

An Xiaoluo was frightened by her behaviour: “Xiao Lan, what’s wrong with you? What happened? Don’t scare your cousin…”

Mo Lan did not speak, and stood fixed at where she was, after about half a minute, she turned around, and looked at An Xiaoluo somewhat frantically, then she spoke, her voice so soft that it almost shattered into the air.

She said: “Cousin… my mum just told me, pa was in a car accident a few days ago, she was afraid I would worry so she didn’t tell me, so she herself sent him to the hospital, he ended up in the hospital for a few days, now his situation suddenly worsen, wanting to transfer to Nanjing…”

Mo Lan’s voice trembled, her body also trembled, she looked at An Xiaoluo, her eyes were very confused, the pair of eyes that were always so gentle and composed was murky, it appeared to have been covered with a layer of dejection, so empty it was terrifying.

Mo Lan sat in the front passenger seat without saying a word, An Xiaoluo frowned and drove at lightning speed towards Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital.

“Damn, why is there still traffic at this hour?” An Xiaoluo complained while pressing on her horn, and thumped the steering wheel a little fidgetly.

But Mo Lan simply sat quietly by the side, in a daze without a word.

She lowered her head, and looked at the faded braided bracelet which she had been reluctant to remove from her hand, suddenly she felt a little tart in her eyes.

Memories

In high school, there was a time when this kind of braided bracelet was particularly popular in school, hence Mo Lan also joined in the fun and went to buy a pile of colourful hemp rope, on the night before her monthly test, when her parents had already fallen asleep, Mo Lan secretly switched on a small night light by the headboard, and sneakily hid in her bedroom to braid the bracelet, as a result as she braided, her bedroom door suddenly pushed open, then Mo Lan saw her dad stood by the door, a blanket in his hand, he looked at her motionless, with his eyes full of anger.

That night, without a doubt, Mo Lan was scolded heartily and solidly for a spell, then all of the disorganised hemp rope was confiscated.

After a few more days, Mo Lan’s grades for that month’s test came out, it somewhat was unexpectedly pretty good results, as she ranked eighth in the class. That evening after the night self-study, when Mo Lan arrived home, she could see at a glance that her dad wore a pair of reading glasses, and he was right in the middle of braiding the hemp rope somewhat at a loss in the dim light of the living room.

That was the first time Mo Lan discovered, the omnipotent hero whom she once thought was able to support both heaven and earth, have now passed his prime.

Mo Lan stood by the door and looked at the flustered figure, she didn’t know why, she suddenly just burst out crying.

Afterwards, this shapeless bracelet have always been worn by her right up until now. Even though the colours had already faded really badly, she was still reluctant to remove it.

Mo Lan sat in the car, looked up, and closed her eyes somewhat disconcertedly. Not sure why but in her mind, her father’s image all appeared outdoing one another.



In the song of cicadas in the summer night, he sat by the bedside, he fanned her one stroke at a time. At that time, he said: “Baobao, papa don’t expect you to have such big prospects in the future, as long as you’re strong and healthy, safe and sound, that’s enough.”

(宝宝 bǎo bǎo — darling/ baby – it’s a very common term of endearment for a child (or at times a wife) – I contemplated using darling or sweetheart but it didn’t sound very Chinese)

Mo Lan bit her lower lip, her fingers unconsciously grasped her phone tightly, don’t know much strength she exerted, even her fingertips were slightly white.

An Xiaoluo next to her looked at her current condition, and somewhat grudgingly sighed a little.

When Mo Lan and An Xiaoluo rushed to the front of Drum Tower Hospital’s emergency room, at a glance they saw Xie Wan stood by the door with very red eyes and a haggard face.

“Ma… how’s pa?” Mo Lan spoke softly, and tried hard to keep herself calmed.

Xie Wan turned her head, and saw Mo Lan and An Xiaoluo came over, her eyes couldn’t help turned a bit red again: “When he was sent to our hometown’s hospital, the doctor definitely said it wasn’t a big problem… but he started being feverish last night, and vomitted his guts out, afterwards there was no choice but to transfer him to Nanjing.” She paused then continued, “Xiao Lan, you’re usually busy at work, mama at first didn’t want to tell you, but… just now your pa went into the emergency room for surgery, I went through the hospital formalities, in the end the doctor suddenly told me there were no wards available, Xiao Lan… your father is in bad shape, in a while after he finishes surgery and if there’s no ward, I really don’t know what to do…”

Before Mo Lan could speak, An Xiaoluo had already started to feel indignant: “This hospital is also too irresponsible isn’t it? Even if there weren’t any wards, uncle is already this sick, they should also just free up a bed and transfer some other patient with milder sympthoms. Aunty you don’t worry first, I will go and talk to them.”

“Cousin, I’ll go with you.”

Mo Lan opened her mouth, but was immediately refuted by An Xiaoluo: “You don’t run around all over the place, stay here and wait with aunty.”

After An Xiaoluo energetically left, Xie Wan looked at Mo Lan, the gentle face finally was unable to continue and seemed somewhat exhausted.

Mo Lan walked over, and supported Xie Wan to sit on the bench by the side, she just wanted to say something, but found that she seemed to have lost her voice, nothing came out.

She wanted to say, ma don’t worry, papa will surely be all right.

She wanted to say, just blame me for not being good, I will certainly take good care of papa in the future.

But nothing could come out, her entire mind was now packed with: Mo Lan, you’re really unfilial, Mo Lan, you’re really useless. You can’t even take good care of your own father, you’re simply a worthless good-for-nothing girl.

After about half an hour later, An Xiaoluo returned, Mo Lan lifted up her head, and saw An Xiaoluo had an it’s-not-good-news expression, as she hummed and hawed: “Umm… I’ve just asked, the mouth at this hospital is particularly airtight, all of them said there’s no ward, but I’ve just contacted the military hospital, there are still available wards over there, Drum Tower is not too far from the military area, later why don’t we look for the ambulance to send uncle over?”

Xie Wan who was next to her heard her words, without any particular expression at all, it seemed as if the answer An Xiaoluo came back with was as expected, she took the tissue in her hand and wiped the corners of her eyes, her tone very composed: “Being in this deadlock is also not a solution, just do as what An Xiaoluo said ba.”

Mo Lan’s fair hand clenched into a fist, she closed her eyes, the father in her mind held out his hand towards her, with a helpless doting smile on his face: “How did baobao fall again? Your mother just said, if you still can’t learn how to ride a bicycle today then you won’t be allowed to eat dinner.” After a moment, he once again lowered his voice and told her mysteriously, “But no problem, it so happen that papa will take you to the restaurant tonight, we’ll order your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs and pumpkin lily cup.”

sweet & sour pork ribs

pumpkin lily cup

Pa……

Could you possibly tell me, what should I do now?

I don’t want to eat sweet and sour pork ribs, I also don’t want to eat pumpkin lily cup, I just want you to be well.

While the atmosphere grew heavier, on the other side of the hospital corridor, the footsteps of several people could suddenly be heard from a distance, it seemed to be the doctors from this hospital, they were right in the middle of a quiet discussion while approaching the vicinity of the emergency room.

“The patient in 208 will have a surgery at 8 tomorrow night, you* see if you have time when the time comes.”

(您 nín – you (formal/courteous))

As their footsteps grew closer and closer, their discussion grew clearer and clearer and fell into Mo Lan’s ears.

“Everything is ready, it’s quite straightforward you’ll just need to anesthetise. En… also, Dr. Gu, the meeting later will be held on the third floor, it would probably last two hours.”

“Understood.”

The faint voice, echoed clearly in the quiet room.

Serene, indifferent.

Although it wasn’t a tone that Mo Lan knew very well, however a voice does not deceive people. This voice, even if amidst a hundred other voices, she would also be able to just differentiate it out just by a word.

The brain which had all along been stretched taut suddenly loosened.



That’s right, how could she have forgetten, that Gu Ye Mi, worked at Drum Tower Hospital.

The footsteps grew closer.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Mo Lan could feel his footsteps stopped in front of her, his body still had the faint soapy fragrance. Clean and distinctly aloof.

Mo Lan sat on the bench, she suddenly partially didn’t dare to lift up her head.

The nurse by his side saw this scenario, and seemed to ask him a little puzzledly: “Dr. Gu, aren’t you going to the third floor for a meeting? Why did you stop here?”

But Gu Ye Mi didn’t answer, he just stood quietly in front of Mo Lan, after a while, he suddenly reached out and touched her hair: “Momo, why are you here?”

Such a tender voice, it was just as if the last match in a world of ice and snow, suddenly just rescued Mo Lan from the end of the world.

Mo Lan slowly lifted her head in the warmth of his palm, as soon as her eyes lifted, she instantly met Gu Ye Mi’s pair of beautiful to the extreme eyes. He looked at her just like that, his eyes inconceivably gentle and soft.

Her dry eyes went tart yet again, and went completely out of her control, when Mo Lan came back to her senses, she then realised that tears had already been flowing steadily from her eyes, she hurriedly lowered her head again, on the one hand she wiped her tears hastily, and on the other hand somewhat choked with emotions she spoke: “Gu Ye Mi… my father was in a car accident, he’s now in the emergency room, but… they said there’s no bed in the hospital, they asked him to transfer to another hospital…”

She cried while she answered incoherently, even she herself did not know what she said.

Mo Lan haven’t wiped her tears away, when Gu Ye Mi’s tender eyes suddenly cooled a bit, he turned his head to look at the nurse, his tone serene and light, so much so that it was a little ice-cold: “I remember, ward 312 is still empty.”

The nurse seemed to be taken aback by his tone, then glanced at Mo Lan, and replied somewhat embarrassedly: “It is empty, but Dr. Gu… that room, the director had arranged beforehand, he said to leave it for Mrs. Li.”

“Then you go back now and tell the director, to vacate this ward, if he asks, you just say it’s my idea.” Gu Ye Mi looked indifferent, clean and efficient, his tone, filled with further-discussion-will-not-be-tolerated.

This was the first time Mo Lan had seen such a cold until almost unreasonable Gu Ye Mi.

The nurse bit her lips and hesitated for a while, finally she still surrendered to Gu Ye Mi’s rarely seen cold expression: “Oh, okay, then I’m going to go ask now.”

The nurse’s footsteps disappeared in the distance, and Mo Lan finally flusteredly wiped away her tears, she raised her head, and looked at Gu Ye Mi with her red eyes.

Gu Ye Mi looked at her, he seemed to have sighed, then he reached out and took off the scarf around his neck, and gently woved it around Mo Lan’s neck: “So bold, you’ve buttoned your jacket up wrongly, aren’t you cold?”


After she warmed up bit by bit, Mo Lan lowered her head, only to find that the scarf around her neck, precisely the day that they went together to listen to the qin se pipa concert, was the scarf she gifted Gu Ye Mi.

He actually… really used it.

She looked up, at first she wanted to say thank you, but the words that came out instead* became: “Why are you so good to me?”

(话到嘴边 huà dào zuǐ biān – lit. words reach mouth side – to be on the verse of saying what is on one’s mind)

As soon as Mo Lan said this few words, right away her surrounding atmosphere obviously broke out into a slightly weird transformation, An Xiaoluo instantly widened her eyes, she looked at her with an undeniably pitiable and intense unfortunate expression, Xie Wan beside her on the contrary was very calm, one was unable to tell the mood from her gentle eyes.

Yet Gu Ye Mi laughed, low, somewhat indolent somewhat tender, absent-mindedly, Mo Lan thought she had returned to WeChat. Once upon a time… the small voice message button in WeChat, was the only preserved and binded source of communication between them. At that time, he also said good night to her with such a laugh, and called her name.

“How are you so slow?”

The other party’s voice dropped extremely low and rang in her ears, with a little helplessness, and the remainder was entirely pampered and doting.

Mo Lan’s heart palpitated for a moment, and looked at Gu Ye Mi a little unbelievingly, she thought she had auditory hallucination, in a blink of an eye, she saw Gu Ye Mi had already turned around quite naturally.

Gu Ye Mi walked a few steps, with an elegant and light smile towards Xie Wan who stood to the side: “Hello Aunt, my name is Gu Ye Mi, I’m Momo’s friend.”

“Gu Ye Mi?” Xie Wan looked at Gu Ye Mi up and down several times, after quite a while, she finally looked a little gratified: “Just now… thank you for your help.”

Gu Ye Mi heard what was said, turned and glanced at Mo Lan with her red eyes who seemed to be lost in thought, his eyes could not help but softened, his lips outlined a hint of vague smile: “As I should have.”

It was at this time, Mo Lan only discovered afterwards, the Gu Ye Mi today, wore a spotless white coat, his right hand held a very thick case file, the tip of his eyebrows were undoubtedly distinct and aloof, but it inexplicably made her feel warm.

It turned out… when he wears the doctor’s uniform, he looked so good too.

All that remained……

Mo Lan looked up at the lighted up words “OPERATION IN PROGRESS” by the operating room, and bit her lip, as her expression became a little grave.

An Xiaoluo next to her suddenly seemed to have remember something: “Oh no” She reminded: “Secretly… cough, Gu Ye Mi, just now I heard the nurse said, you were going to a meeting, if you don’t go now wouldn’t you be late?”

“No hurry.” Gu Ye Mi replied indifferently, he looked unexpectedly somewhat indolent and at leisure.



An Xiaoluo listened to that perfect money and riches could not buy internet voice, her heart practically and precisely incapable of calming down, if not for Xie Wan being there, she would have definitely rushed up earlier and delightedly asked for a signature, a photo and a ringtone.

With a [Ding Dong], the operating lamp that was lighted up just recently suddenly switched off, then, Mo Lan heard the emergency room door opened from the inside.

She rose abruptly from the bench, but hesitated and daren’t lift a step.

Two person in white large gowns and with masks that looked like the doctors that walked out from the operating room, Mo Lan stood in a daze, she heard Gu Ye Mi enquired about their patient’s situation, she saw those doctors took off their masks, their lips opened and closed, but she couldn’t hear anything clearly, she could only hear her own heartbeat, one at a time, practically nearly jumped out of her chest. Finally, she saw Gu Ye Mi walked towards her, his voice dim as well as tender.

He said, “Momo, don’t be afraid, it’s all right.”

Mo Lan let out a sigh of relief, her legs jellied, and nearly fell to the ground. Gu Ye Mi frowned, with his swift eyes and quick hands he walked over, supported her waist with a hand, and let her leant steadily on his shoulder. This obviously wasn’t a very courteous move, but it didn’t made one feel frivolous at all.

As all her three immortal souls and seven mortal forms were back in place, Mo Lan finally released her continuous clenched fist, in the middle of her fair palm, the trace of blood already appeared from the clutching of her fingernails.

The father in her mind had a smile on his face facing her, that look became increasingly clearer.

Fortunately… it’s all right.

With the help of Gu Ye Mi, looking for the ward, getting the medicine prescription list, going through the hospital formalities, enquiring about the situation… everything all seemed to have become simpler.

The room was very spacious, it was a single room, television, DVD player and bookcase with everything needed available, there was even a few stalks of yellow carnation considerately arranged by the window sill, neat and bright, everything was arranged just right. Mo Lan sat by the bed, holding the hand of papa who was still fast asleep, and finally salvaged back that little sense of reality.

An Xiaoluo bit her fingernails while anxiously looked at Gu Ye Mi, it seemed that the phrase “Secretly Captivated SAMA give me your signature” would pop up in the next second, Xie Wan was busy bustling back and forth tidying up the room, Gu Ye Mi also followed and lent a hand.

The scene was bizarrely harmonious.

It was at this time, somebody suddenly rushed through the door.

“Momo Momo, how’s uncle? No problem right?”

The voice a little out of breathe, unusually flustered, it was Rong Xiaxia who heard the news and rushed over.

Mo Lan raised her head and looked at her, with a smile: “Just finished settling down after the operation, the doctor said, the blood clot in his head have already been extracted, now all his body signs have also begin to return to normal, there should be no big drawbacks after a few days of rest.”

“Phew… that’s good, frightened me!” Rong Xiaxia patted her chest with trepidation, turned her head, smiled and began to greet Xie Wan, “Aunty*, it’s been a while–“

(This Aunty is more of a familiar way of addressing a woman of similar age to one’s mother compared to GYM’s more polite form of Aunt)

The next sentence “How are you* recently” haven’t been asked yet, when her sight was instantly snatched away by the tall distinct handsome Gu Ye Mi who was standing by the side.

(formal you)

She stared determinedly at Gu Ye Mi for a while, after about ten seconds, she then somewhat responded astonishedly, even a little stutter appeared in her voice: “You, you were that person that night… who came to Confucius Temple and sent Momo home, that person whose voice was so good that it angered the heavens and made people resentful*!”

(天怒人怨 tiān nù rén yuàn – heaven/god anger people complain – widespread indignation and discontent)

Hearing her description, Gu Ye Mi haven’t even spoken yet, and An Xiaoluo nearby had already laughed as pleased as punch: “I say, you shouldn’t be pulled into the circle by his voice? Just so happened that I want a little junior apprentice, how about it, do you want me to train you?”

Just when the atmosphere was harmonious, a young person who looked like an intern doctor suddenly knocked on the door, he looked very anxious as he ran over while saying something, and as he pulled Gu Ye Mi away, he seemed to talked about some operation which ran into some trouble.

Mo Lan gazed at Gu Ye Mi’s back for a very long time, and suddenly found herself a bit reluctant to withdraw her gaze.

“Tsk tsk, looking at your expression, no different from Amah Rock.” As An Xiaoluo relaxed afterwards, sure enough the first thing she did was to tease her.

In Hong Kong. A symbol of women’s loyalty and faithfulness.

Xie Wan by the side who had always been listening to their discussion with a smile on her face heard Rong Xiaxia and An Xiaoluo whispers, and suddenly asked too: “Xiaxia, you said that night… what happened?”

Rong Xiaxia heard Xie Wan asked a question, she immediately put on a solemn expression, cleared her throat, and answered very seriously: “Aunty, it’s like this, that day Momo and I joined the classmate gathering together, later Momo… sigh, drank too much, and then, just happened that Gu Ye Mi called her, so I asked him if he could come over and send Momo home, actually I wasn’t expecting much when I asked, in the end, he promised without even thinking! With that said at that time it was but January’s freezing* winter, and it was nevertheless quite late at night, I felt at that time… if it can be like this between friends, it proved that he really cares about Momo.”

(腊月 là yuè – twelfth lunar month – it seemed a bit too blocky to be placed there)

“Xiaxia–” Mo Lan who had been silent all this while, indescribably felt a little embarrassed when she heard it, she quickly opened her mouth wanting to interrupt her.

Xie Wan over there just merely nodded thoughtfully, without speaking.

At night, both An Xiaoluo and Rong Xiaxia had already left, as Xie Wan determinedly refused to go back, Mo Lan had to find a nurse to add an extra bed in the ward for her.

Mo Lan meticulously and carefully helped clean her father’s hands and feet, folded the corners of his blanket neatly, after she thought about it, she also took off her down jacket, and quietly and softly covered Xie Wan’s body.

After she finished all these, she then gently and cautiously left the ward.

She walked to the corridor, randomly found a bench and sat on it, looked at the hurried crowd in front of her, and quietly started to blank.

Among the people who walked back and forth before her, there were nurses making their rounds, patients with bandages, and haggard-looking family members.

Mo Lan had always felt that the hospital was quite a dreadful and also a very powerless place. Dreadful, because it beared the hope of too many people, powerless, because it was incapable of fulfilling everybody’s hope.

She did not like hospitals. Hospitals in her heart, represented suffering, despair, and death. It’s icy cold, it made people shudder at the thought.

But now, it seemed that everything was all different.

Ultimately, it was only because of the existence of that person, he unexpectedly and miraculously made her feel safe.

Mo Lan extended her hand, gathered up the scarf around her neck that seemed to be still carrying his temperature, don’t know what she thought of, she suddenly laughed softly.

Thinking about it… when she came over at noon, she was so flustered that she even buttoned up her buttons wrongly, it was also quite embarassing. However, among so many people, unexpectedy only he found out.

“They’ve all fallen asleep?”

The somewhat light voice rang low in her ears, dimmed as well as tender, for no reason it made people think of the spring snow that first melted in the sunny south, it was the soft warmth that started to melt in her heart bit by bit.

“Gu Ye Mi, I haven’t had the time to tell you, today, thank you very much.”

Mo Lan turned around, and looked at the exquisite features of Gu Ye Mi who sat next to her, and quietly continued, “From young, papa has always doted on me, from my memories he seemed to have never lost his temper with me, no matter what happened, whether he could do it or not, he have never been willing to reject me. Papa have always been in good health… I have never, ever thought about what would happen if I lost him, today while waiting for him outside the operating room, I felt a chill all over, didn’t even have one bit of energy, all that was in my mind going around in circles was full of his face…”

Up until here, Mo Lan exhaled softly, her eyes and the tip of her eyebrows were enveloped with a faint smile, her whole appearance unable to convey the meekness and gentleness, “Fortunately, he’s all right.”

Gu Ye Mi turned his head and looked at her quietly, a pair of evidently black and white eyes produced a faint misty somewhat peach blossom appearance, which outlined his facial features in a little hazy tenderness, the whole person so pleasing like a dream illusion, made one can’t see clearly.

He fixed his eyes on her, quietly without saying a word.

Not sure how long after, Gu Ye Mi lowered his eyes slightly, and eventually spoke each word each line slowly: “Momo, when I was outside the emergency room today… looking at you like that, really terrified me.”

His voice was very soft, very feeble, like the clouds floating and circulating indefinitely on the horizon, obviously vague, and yet it clearly entered her ears, took root in her heart, and left behind a neither light nor heavy remnant.

Mo Lan listened to his voice, then remembered how she cried so messily at that time, her cheeks burned up all at once.

“It’s just that, what I care about more, was why didn’t you call me in the first place.” Gu Ye Mi looked at her, his picturesque features, a gentle and soft tone. “In your heart, am I someone who is not worth relying on?”

“No, it’s just that, I…” As Mo Lan heard him say it in this way, she quickly opened her mouth to refute it, but she mumbled “I” for a long time, and also couldn’t think of how she ought to answer him.

What should she say? … I didn’t want to trouble you? I’m afraid it would affect your work? Or should she say… I didn’t have the courage to look for you.

Gu Ye Mi looked at her, his deep jet-black eyes, like an endless deep blue sea. After a while, he suddenly stretched out his hand, without any warning he covered Mo Lan’s red and swollen eyes.

His fingers were slender and clean, a little cold, when they gently covered the corners of her eyes, it made one felt very comfortable.

Gu Ye Mi opened his mouth, unexpectedly a rarely heard seriousness and and toughness in his tone: “Momo, I don’t want… to see you cry again.”

Mo Lan stared at him in a daze, her eyes widened, and widened again, her whole person was so astonished until she was speechless.

Don’t want… to see her cry?

The words he had spoken… what did it mean?

All kinds of thoughts in her mind turned a thousand times upside down and circled a hundred times over, each thought, was as if all incomparably clearly pointed towards the same direction.

One… a direction that she had never dared to think about.

Gu Ye Mi looked at Mo Lan’s embarassed and at a complete loss appearance, withdrew his hand, hooked the corner of his lips and exposed a smile. He lowered his head and glanced at the time, it was 11:45 at night. Later at twelve, he had a last operation to be performed today.

He couldn’t help but scowled, the heavens seemed to always make his life difficult.

With a helpless sigh, Gu Ye Mi took the navy blue down jacket in his hands and draped it over Mo Lan’s shoulders: “It’s so cold, running around without wearing a jacket.”

He lowered his head, and slightly lowered a pair of beautiful eyes, his long eyelashes fell meekly over his eyes, and formed a tiny shadow, which made it difficult to see his expression. “Two days later… it’s the YY news conference for the new drama, you will go right?”

“Ah… of course I’ll go.” Mo Lan listened to his words, and immediately nodded instinctively.

Gu Ye Mi heard her answer, and laughed softly, just like a green lotus blooming little by little, undoubtedly a distinct and aloof appearance, contrarily suffused with tenderness from the inside to the outside: “Sleep early, good night.”

Until the tall distinct handsome figure disappeared from Mo Lan’s sight, she lowered her head and looked at the navy blue down jacket over her shoulder, she suddenly realized, this jacket… seemed awfully familiar.

Apparently, she had seen it somewhere before.





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