Chapter 72

Qing Li and Yue Zhi maintain a delicate calm, as if a colorful but fragile soap bubble, as long as there is a little external force, will break.

She would follow Yue Zhi back to the manor every night, and then come back to Singapore the next morning, after which she would almost always be at the hospital.

Yue Qi will sometimes be very unhappy to call her back, she will go back to the company for a while, accompanied by Yue Qi to eat a meal or just silent in the office for a while, and then left.

She knew that she was of little use at the hospital, and it was not because of guilt that she had to guard Singhota, it was just because she didn’t want to be with Yue Zhi all the time, it would make her painful and suffocating, there was no way for her to eliminate her love for the other person but she couldn’t act as if nothing had happened, the love and disappointment was pulling at her, making her feel the illusion of being torn apart every minute and every second.

“Ah Li? Ah Li!” Yue Zhi called Qing Li several times.

Qing Li returned to her senses and slowly looked up, “Huh?”

Yue Zhi looked at her for a few seconds, lowered his head and continued to look at the documents, “Woodpecker sent a message, Xingota woke up, you can go to the hospital now.”

His words have not finished, Qing Li has been like a gust of wind out of the office, he sat quietly for a moment, raised his hand and overturned a crystal pendant in front of him, let out a loud bang, the pendant also cracked into several pieces.

Liang Jin heard the commotion and pushed the door in, didn’t say anything, silently cleaned up the mess and was ready to go out.

“Liang Jin, how’s the matter I asked you to look into?” Yue Qi asked, looking at him calmly. Yue Qi asked, calmly unable to see that he had just had a seizure and smashed something.

“Lance King hasn’t come to Southeast Asia for most of the year, he’s been operating in Europe, the same goes for Ganojin, other than going to school and coming to the company part-time, there’s no other unusual actions.” Liang Jin said.

“Keep an eye on him, don’t let him be alone with Ah Li.” Yue Zhi said indifferently.

Qing Li rode her motorcycle at wind speed and rushed to the hospital as fast as she could, the ICU was away from the nurses coming in and out, she gulped and hesitated at the door.

“Get in there, what are you waiting for.” Woodpecker looked a lot more relaxed as well, “Don’t go in don’t get in the way here.”

Qing Li followed behind Woodpecker into the hospital room, and saw that Singota’s other eye that was not wrapped in bandages was half-open, looking straight at the ceiling, not much of a glow, looking a bit blank and dull.

But the azure color was familiar, still transparent and clear.

Aonashi gasped sharply twice and bit her lip.

Woodpecker looked up at her, “Don’t you cry, I can only scold, not comfort.”

Greenleaf smiled helplessly as she walked over to the hospital bed, “Singota, it’s so good that you’re awake.”

Singhota’s dry, wasted cheeks were shrouded in a breathing mask, and it took several seconds before he slowly rolled his eyes and glanced toward Aonashi, sluggish and dull the entire time, seemingly not recognizing her or even knowing who Singhota was.

Qing Li’s heart that had just been leveled off suddenly lifted up again, “What’s wrong with him.”

“After twelve days in a coma, there’s always a bit of after-effects, and he’s weak, he still needs to recuperate.” Woodpecker explained, “Being as good as new is impossible, in my opinion, it’s a miracle that he’s alive, and thanks to his good body base.”

Qing Li nodded, “You’re right.” She shouldn’t expect anything more, as long as Singota was alive, even if he really couldn’t take care of himself, she would still take the responsibility to take care of him.

Singota didn’t stay awake for long and soon passed out again, but soon he would be transferred to the general ward and everything would return to normal.

Qing Li’s mood was much lighter because of Singota’s wakefulness, and she was even able to take the initiative to speak to Yue Zhi a few times a day, although it was all to report on Singota’s condition and Yue Zhi didn’t even want to hear it.

The people from the base and Ganojin would also visit the hospital at their leisure every now and then, and there wasn’t a moment when the ward was empty.

Qing Li wanted to ask Ganojin what he wanted her to say, but she couldn’t find the opportunity for a moment, but she felt that it shouldn’t be anything too big and didn’t really care.

Singhota transferred out of the ICU recovered quickly, after a few days can get down from the hospital bed, but one of his legs was crushed by the house with a plaster cast, one leg was shot by a bullet, both need to recuperate, so basically can’t walk, can only support the crutches in place for a while to stand.

Spare a thought, Qing Li walked into the hospital room to look at his upright back, have a kind of out-of-this-world feeling, twelve days in a coma, wake up to now and more than a week has passed, before and after twenty days, she is almost forgetting the appearance of Singo Tower standing up.

“Singhota ……” Aonashi called out to him, but Singhota didn’t respond as he propped up his crutches and looked out the window.

“Singota?” Aonashi amplified his voice.

Singhota then froze for a moment and slowly turned back to him, his expression faint, “You’re here.”

Qing Li felt that something was not quite right, from the time Singota regained consciousness until now, she always felt that the other party’s reaction was slow and a bit sluggish, but thought that it was the aftereffects of the brain infection, fearing that the other party would think too much about it, so she didn’t ask, but today, she felt that it wasn’t the case.

“What’s wrong with him.” Just as Woodpecker came in, Aonashi asked hesitantly, and Woodpecker gave Singota a look that didn’t say anything.

Singota sighed, “Come here and give me a hand, I need to lie down for a while.”

Aonashi didn’t look at him and stared at the woodpecker, “Say, what’s going on?”

Woodpecker scratched his head in annoyance, “He’s deaf, to be precise, the ear on the side where the eyeball removal surgery was done is basically completely deaf, the other ear only has about fifty percent of its hearing left, it’s hard to say whether it will deteriorate in the future or slowly recover some of it, and the sensory nerves have been affected, it’s hard for him to walk in a straight line right now, and his life will be affected in all kinds of ways, but it’s also all something that he can rely on rehab to adapt.”

Qing Li recalled that yesterday, she delivered food to Singota, bought him a jelly and put it on the small tabletop of his hospital bed, he should have tried to get that jelly, but his hand ended up accidentally reaching into the bowl of soup next to him, and was scalded red.

Her knowledge of the medical side of things was limited to emergency trauma care, and it never occurred to her that this was due to spatial cognitive impairment caused by deafness and blindness combined with neurological sequelae.

“Singhota ……” Qingli looked at Singhota and wanted to ask why the other party was hiding it, why she didn’t tell herself, but in the end, she only said “I’m sorry” with a trembling voice.

“I was just afraid of you like this.” Singota propped himself up on his crutches and took two steps to the bed, fumbling with the edge of the bed to scoot himself onto it, “I haven’t blamed you, rather, if you and Mongoma and the others hadn’t come back for me, my will would have been finished, so you really don’t need to apologize.”

Qing Li’s eyes ached, “You don’t know ……” You don’t know why you were so close to dying, why you lost an eye to end up in this situation, it’s all her fault, it’s all because of her.

“I know.” Singhota’s tone was calm.

Qing Li raised her eyes to look at him, “What?”

Singhota looked at her, still with that detached and cold look, his slightly long light blonde hair resting on his forehead, the azure-colored eyes underneath were like shallow, waveless bays, “I know.”

When he couldn’t contact Qing Li he guessed that it was Liang Jin who had his hand in the command center, Liang Jin must have followed Yue Zhi’s instructions, the purpose was to guide himself deeper into the battlefield, Qing Li should be safe, but he didn’t dare to gamble because in his eyes Yue Zhi was the type of person who would sacrifice Qing Li, so he had to confirm it himself.

Qing Li instantly figured out what Xingota hadn’t said, she just slightly furrowed her brows together, she couldn’t see any intense emotions, but her heart had already shattered into a ball, blocking her chest making it hard for her to breathe, she paced back and forth for two steps, and left the ward without saying a word.

Woodpecker is an acute person, usually he would have asked after Singhota to know what, what the two are playing dumb riddles, but today he sat on the sofa shaking his legs, a face of annoyance but did not ask anything, and even in looking at Singhota’s expression of some intolerance and helplessness.

Qing Li stood in front of the window at the end of the corridor, taking out his cell phone to search for sensory disorder and spatial cognitive impairment rehab, when Ganojin’s voice came from behind him, “Sis, what are you doing here?”

“Nothing.” Aoori turned back and put away her cell phone, “What’s wrong?”

Kanojin looked back, the VIP ward, the corridor was very quiet, except for the nurse’s desk not far away, there was no one else, he put his hand into his pocket as if he was going to pull out something, “There’s something I want to talk to you about.”

Aonashi nodded, “Go ahead.”

“I got a call at school earlier, it was through one of my teachers who found me, international ……” Kanojin took two steps towards Aonashi, something in his pocket almost coming out.

“What are you two doing there.” Woodpecker poked his head out of the hospital room with an annoyed look on his face seemingly fed up with his own behavior, and spoke faster than usual “Kanojin, go get me something, Aonashi come over here and keep an eye on Singota, I’m going to go talk to the rehab practitioner to discuss a follow up rehab plan.”

Kanojin stiffens for a moment and turns back with a smile, “I’ll go later then.

“Go now and come over with me.” Pecker waved at him, “Come over here and I’ll tell you what to buy.”

Aonashi remembered that two days ago as well, she came out of her hospital room and Kanojin followed, and just as she was about to say something, Mongoma, who had been in her hospital room, chased after her, pulling Kanojin and saying that she wanted to go shopping.

It was too deliberate.

“You go.” Aonashi said.

“Sis, stay in the ward, stay a little longer today ah, when the nurses change shifts help me ask the nurse’s desk if they’ve seen my bluetooth headset, sure.” Kanojin said.

Aonashi nodded, “Got it.”

She went back to her hospital room and watched Woodpecker and Kanojin leave, it was already six in the afternoon, an hour before shift change, “What do you want to eat, I’ll order for you.”

Singota casually reported two dishes, “That jelly from the other day, it was pretty good, get two more.”

Qing Li called the restaurant to order food and asked the other party to go to the supermarket to bring a few snacks over, and when Singota ate dinner, the nurses came to check in and change shifts.

Ganojin was sunny and handsome, sweet-talking and good at what he did, and after a few visits he had gotten acquainted with all the nurses here, and one of them asked why he hadn’t come.

“He came, but he had to leave first, he asked me to ask if you have seen the Bluetooth headset he left here.”

That nurse smiled, “Yes, come and get it from me later.”

After a while Aonashi went to the nurse’s desk and got a heavy envelope.

She went back to her hospital room and opened it, inside was a smartphone, basically in factory condition, there was nothing in it but a call log, international, the number was familiar to her, it was Lance.

“Call it.” She said this to her as she sat on the stool right next to the bed, and Singhota saw it.

Aonashi looked at her cell phone as if it were a Pandora’s Box, not knowing what kind of pain and despair she would get if she opened it, and she was even stressfully scared.

If she didn’t know, she could pretend that nothing had happened, and continue to stay calmly by Yue Zhi’s side like this, as long as she was numb and sluggish enough, it seemed that she could also obtain a certain amount of happiness, right?

“Fight.” Singhota said, “I used to say that there are some things that you don’t need to think too hard to understand, but not wanting to understand yourself is different from being intentionally deceived.”

Greenleaf gave him a look and called back.

The phone was picked up after only one ring, Lance’s voice was full of gas, “My God, you finally have news, I fucking thought you were sold to Antarctica to go it, you want to die ah phone has not been able to get through, I thought you were quite smart, you really have no brain ah you! Your cell phone has been tampered with do you not notice?!”

Qing Li looked at Singhota, dead silence does not hide the injury in the eyes, cell phone signal was tampered with, only Singhota can do it, her best friend in the base relationship, she even took the phone to him to repair.

Singota lowered his eyes, “I’m sorry.” Just like when Xiji wanted to kill him, the others deliberately separated Ganojin and Qing Li, Yue was the boss, they were just weapons that didn’t need to think, they just needed to carry out orders.

Qing Li already didn’t know where the hell she was hurting, she wanted to find somewhere to hide so badly, but she had to face the truth, she even prodded Lance, “Get to the point.”

“I knew that Yue Zhi guy wasn’t a good thing, I found out about your father Valentin Yeager, and I even found the sanatorium where he has been staying for so many years.”

“He …… is still alive?”

“Well, alive, I’ve been contacting you to let you come over to take a look, I just can’t get in touch, I can’t even call Yue’s, three months ago, Valentin was transferred again, now there’s no news at all, and my father answered a phone call from Yue Zhi to beat me up, told me to stop meddling in this matter, and also had my passport impounded, I can’t even go to you if I want to, I’ll tell you, Yue Zhi That guy doesn’t have good intentions, he doesn’t want you father and daughter to meet at all ……”

Lance said a bunch of bad things about Yue Zhi at the back, Qingli could no longer hear them.

She looked out the window with a calm expression, bean-sized teardrops one by one scrambled and crowded out, wetting her pale face and washing out a furrow of pain and despair.