Chapter 69

  In recent years, He Sheng has not traveled far. The only time that counts as a long distance trip was when she went back to find Yuan Zhi. At that time, she took a group bus and didn't need any documents, so the various incomplete documents she had were never replaced.

  Yuan Zhi asked to take He Sheng back personally to make up for it, and after making up for it, he would also send her back personally.

  He took advantage of Liao's trip to the toilet and blocked him at the door to tell him about it.

  Liao Shi shook off the water droplets on his hand and looked at him seriously, "You've severely hindered my work, do you know how many patients are still waiting? You're wasting their time."

  Yuan Zhi's calm and composed smile, set against his mischievous face, could make even a toilet shine with splendor.

  "I don't want to keep bothering you, I just need your consent!" He paused for a moment, putting away his careless expression. "No matter what, I'm grateful that you took in He Song and have been taking care of her for so long, so I also need your recognition on this matter!"

  "There's no rush for her to get an ID card, and since she's only temporarily living here, there aren't many places where she'd need to use one."

  "It will come in handy someday."

  Liao Shi turned to He Sheng who was staring at them with a tense expression, and after a moment of contemplation, suddenly said: "Let's get engaged!"

  The sound is faint and echoes in this corridor, as if it will disperse in the next second.

  Yuan Zhi's expression was stiff, and He Sheng was stunned. He continued: "Let's get engaged, we can choose the day you come back from getting your license. It'll just be the two of us, we can go to the civil affairs bureau and then have a good time outside for a few days, what do you say?"

  He Sheng quickly glanced at the quiet Yuan Zhi and asked, "Is... isn't it too fast?"

  "Will we?" Liao Shi walked over to Yuan Zhi, slightly bowing his head and leaning in close to her, saying with a hint of temptation: "Just like Mr. Yuan said earlier that our ID cards will be useful one day, won't we eventually get married? It's just that this process has been moved forward a bit."

  Liao Shi's eyes clearly reflected He Sheng's extremely unnatural facial expression, but what he said was the truth. As long as they were together, it would always end like this, whether in the past or in the future.

  He Sheng slowly lowered his head, "Okay!"

  Such a response did not bring Liao Shi the expected joy, he just stood up straight and lightly hugged her, then turned to Yuan Zhi with an expressionless face and reminded him: "Have a safe trip, and also supervise her exercise of her left arm, this girl loves to be lazy."

  Yuan Zhi responded with a faint voice, his expression calm and indifferent.

  After getting out, he got on the car directly. He originally thought that he would go home to pack his luggage first, but Yuan Zhi directly drove the car towards the highway entrance.

  He said: "We have everything at home, and if we don't have it, we'll just buy it!"

  A simple sentence, He Sheng was speechless, who has it at home? Whose is it? He Sheng couldn't help but think of the girl being hugged by Yuan Zhi in a magazine that year.

  He Shou's mood was still low, and the aftermath of Chen Jia-yin's impact seemed to have not passed yet, so he couldn't care about other things.

  The several-hour car ride seemed especially quiet without him, this chatterbox.

  Arriving in the city, Gu Wei went straight to the municipal hospital for work, while He Shou Si got off at a club and looked depressed. Yuan Zhi patted the steering wheel and said, "Call me if something comes up, otherwise head home early!"

  He Shou Si waved his hand and walked in without looking back.

  The city's appearance has undergone significant changes, He Sheng gazed out the window and looked carefully, there were more hotels, more shops, and the original pedestrian street was blocked by a high-rise building. As urbanization construction became more frequent, the pace of life also became increasingly compact.

  They first went to the police station, where a young female police officer in uniform told them that it would take almost a month to get the certificate through normal procedures, but they could get an express one in just a week, with only slightly higher fees.

  In a room with dim light, He Sheng said: "Then I'll hurry..."

  "Let's proceed with the normal steps!" Yuan Zhi interrupted her, "We'll come back for it in a month!"

  Then he pulled He Song and walked away with a steady and rapid pace.

  He Sheng walked out passively, stumbling and calling out: "Yuan Zhi!"

  The other party seemed to have not heard it.

  She raised her voice and said, "You wait a minute!"

  Yuan Zhi Meng stopped in his tracks, turned around and glared at her, "You're so eager to leave? Can't even stay by my side for a month?"

  "Not what I meant!" He Song pulled out a few photos from his pocket, "The photos haven't been given yet!"

  But Yuan Zhi's gloomy expression didn't ease up because of her words, he pinched He Song's hand, "Let's go, let's go and settle the account!"

  Then he pulled the man back again.

  Yuan Zhi took her out of the police station and they went to a nearby restaurant for dinner, then went shopping at a mall.

  He walked into a women's clothing store and didn't even let He Sheng try it on, directly pointing to the clothes rack, coat pants shoes all complete.

  "Trouble will be delivered to my apartment later!" He threw down this sentence and pulled He Song away.

  The shop assistant responded with a dignified attitude and no unexpected expression, it can be seen that Yuan Zhi is a regular customer of this family.

  "You said your family has one too." He Sheng spoke up, "I just saw that the clothes are very expensive, what a waste!"

  "What's the waste? It's not like we don't have money!" He said coldly, "How about it? Is Liao Shi reluctant to buy you clothes like this?"

  The extremely sarcastic words left He Song stunned for a moment, she slightly furrowed her brow, and after a while, she slowly but very firmly pulled her hand out of his.

  The mall's lighting is very bright, and the radio is playing the latest popular music. There are also scattered customers chatting in hushed tones as they walk by.

  Yuan Zhi turned around and saw He Sheng's silent and stubborn face, only then did he realize what he had said. He felt a bit remorseful and bowed his head slightly, then said: "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

  "Hmm!" He Sheng responded faintly, "Nothing's wrong!"

  It was already dark outside, and He Shuangyuan thought it was time to go home, but Yuan Zhi took her into a store that made her want to run away.

  When he picked up his underwear and discussed the fabric issue with the red-faced salesperson, He Song was so embarrassed that he could hardly speak.

  "Yuan Zhi, stop buying!"

  Yuan Zhi glanced at her and said, "Don't you think it's time for a change?"

  "No!" He Sheng quickly glanced at the salesperson on one side, anxiously jumping up and down in place, "Then... then I'll buy it myself, you go wait outside!"

  "Do you know how to choose? Do you know what fabric is good?" He picked up two pairs of underwear and waved them in front of her, "Do you know the difference in materials?"

  He put down his hand again and waved at the person who had become a wooden stick, "Go outside and wait!"

  He Sheng squeezed out a strange sound from his throat and then ran out.

  Yuan Zhi could imagine her vivid expression of being anxious to the point of tears just by listening to her footsteps, and couldn't help but smile.

  She then picked up a few sets of underwear and socks, handed them over to the giggling sales clerk to check out.

  After going out, he saw He Song holding his head and squatting at the corner, looking innocent and pitiful. Passersby couldn't help but glance over, Yuan Zhi walked by with a mixture of laughter and tears, and poked her toe, "What's wrong with you, are you stupid?"

  He Shuang's eyes were moist as she looked at him and whispered, "How embarrassing!"

  "What's wrong with you?" Yuan Zhi pulled him up, "Is it against the law for me to buy you underwear?"

  He Sheng hastily pulled his clothes and said, "Speak softly!"

  "It doesn't matter if you hear it." He raised an eyebrow and smiled slightly, the only happy expression he had shown in these days, "Let's go, back home!"

  The place he went is where he lives now.

  As soon as I entered, the extremely modern and elegant decoration revealed the owner's high-end taste. It looked very good, but it felt a bit cold, possibly because no one had been back for several days.

  He Sheng sat on the sofa, turning his head to look around. After a while, Yuan Zhi's mobile phone rang. Since he got off the highway and turned it back on, his phone hadn't stopped ringing, but he rarely answered it.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, he picked it up and took a look, then threw it back again.

  "Is it okay like this? Maybe there's something urgent!"

  "No." He handed the cup to He Song, "Have a drink of water!"

  Waiting for her to finish drinking water, Yuan Zhi got up and went to take a bath first. When he came out, he saw her sitting on the sofa, squeezing a stress ball one by one.

  There were two of them. One was an old acquaintance. Yuan Zhi wiped his hair and sat opposite her, his eyes scanning her calm face.

  "Are you pinching every day?"

  He Sheng smiled and nodded, "Now it's half an hour every day."

  "What about before?"

  "He Sheng began to recall, 'At first it was ten minutes, then later five minutes were added every five minutes, and two years have passed until now.'"

  Yuan Zhi looked at her with a wooden expression as she continued to shape and reshape the cotton ball in her hand, "And what about that first year? What were you doing?"

  He Sheng glanced at him and forced a smile, "The first year was spent adjusting the treatment plan."

  "How serious is it?"

  "Not serious!"

  Yuan Zhi said in a cold voice: "Tell the truth."

  He Sheng pursed his lips, "I was unconscious, Dr. Liao kept applying medicine to me, medicated baths, and intermittent acupuncture, before I slowly regained consciousness."

  The night he learned that her hand was crippled, he returned to the suite and started calling domestic and foreign hospitals, asking people to find connections just thinking of curing He Sheng's hand. However, Gu Wei told him: "It's useless, Liao Shi's achievements in Western medicine are renowned at home and abroad, no one is more authoritative than him, now he has devoted himself to traditional Chinese medicine, his achievements are not low either, if he can't cure He Sheng, then there won't be a second person."

  He Shuang said, "Dr. Liao said that as long as I exercise every day, I can recover a bit more, although I won't be able to compare with normal people, but I'm already content! Because when we go out on medical visits, we also encounter many high-level spinal cord injuries or amputees due to illness or injury. Compared to them, I'm already very fortunate!"

  She said loudly, with a calm expression on her face, as if discussing today's menu or some trivial matter, it can be seen that Liao Shi has guided her very well.

  Half an hour later, she picked up her quilt and went to take a bath in the bathroom.

  There are still vacant rooms in the apartment, but Yuan Zhi has no intention of letting them out.

  In the dimly lit bedroom, he knelt on the bed and smoothed out the quilt, patting his hand, "Sleep here tonight."

  He Sheng hesitated and said, "I'd rather sleep on the sofa!"

  Yuan Zhi raised an eyebrow, "You think I'd let you sleep on the sofa?"

  He Sheng rubbed his hands together, looking very embarrassed, "You can't sleep on the sofa either!"

  "Who told you I slept on the sofa?" He glanced at her with a smile, "I also sleep here."

  He Sheng was taken aback, his face showing a very embarrassed expression, and after hesitating for a while, he turned around and walked out.

  Yuan Zhi hastily jumped up, stretched out his hand to stop her, and said with an unpleasant expression: "What's wrong with you? I didn't treat you badly, so why did you draw a line like that? We used to sleep on the same bed before, have you forgotten?"

  "I haven't forgotten." He Sheng said lightly, "But it would be different from now, Liao Shi will get angry."

  Yuan Zhi's face turned even uglier, "Are you stupid enough to go talk to him on your own initiative?"

  "It's not a matter of whether to say it or not." He Song shook his head and said seriously: "Since I chose to be with him, I should have this awareness. How can I sleep in the same bed as another man? If I can't even do that, how can I be worthy of being with him?"

  Yuan Zhi's temper flared up and he bellowed: "In that case, don't stay together. I'd be delighted if you all went your separate ways and never saw each other again until you're old and dead."

  He Xiang silently looked at him for a few seconds, lowered his head and no longer spoke, standing straight with his body, his stance clearly expressed.

  Yuan Zhi stared at her for a long time, his expression darkening, then turned and walked away. "You sleep!" he said.

  He Sheng looked at his back disappearing at the door, turned his head to the side, walked to the bed and climbed up, face down on his pillow, with a faint scent of fragrance, very pleasant, so pleasant that she felt a little heartache.

  It's been a long time since I turned over, pulled up the quilt and covered my head, and fell asleep!

  He Shuang wouldn't know that Yuan Zhi sat downstairs for half the night and then went upstairs, standing in front of her bed until dawn.