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"President Li."
"The family doctor has arrived."
Li Huiwen stood stiffly in front of the door and knocked twice.
The door was not closed, but half-open.
You can see someone with red and swollen eyes from crying just by turning your head to the side.
This person is still clinging to the boss.
"Ahem, young master?" The family doctor looked at the door blocked by Li Huiwen with a puzzled expression.
"Please wait a moment."
Li Huiwen speaks politely and has a scholarly air about him, but he is also physically imposing, which is both contradictory and unique.
With his eyes blocked, the family doctor couldn't see anything: "Could you describe to me... the lady's injuries?"
"They're all superficial wounds, knife cuts, less than two millimeters in size." That's how they all look.
Li Huiwen's ears felt slightly warm.
The person inside was probably arguing with his boss about something again.
The main reason is... from the angle he's standing now, the two people inside look like they're entwined in passionate embrace.
The family doctor waited for a long time, and seeing that the young master in front of him had no intention of moving aside, he said, "In that case, you can also help Madam. The villa has saline and iodine. Rinse it with saline, then apply iodine around the stab wound, and finally use a band-aid or gauze..." At the end, the family doctor coughed, "The villa's pharmacy has some granules for reducing internal heat. Young Master Huiwen, shall I go and get you a handful now?"
Li Huiwen's neck, from the back all the way to her ears, was completely red.
"...Go quickly and come back quickly."
inside the house.
Gu Xinglan was still trembling slightly even after she had cried enough.
All I wanted to do was grab something to vent my frustrations.
Li Taihe was like a piece of wood, letting him scratch at him.
The pity I saw in this person's eyes earlier was not an illusion.
When this person is in a dark place with his eyes downcast and his thin lips tightly closed, it gives the impression that he is showing him pity.
Gu Xinglan tried her best to regain her rationality, but to no avail.
After the administrator in her mind left, the character assistant completely collapsed, and all her emotions poured out like a burst dam.
He had just mistaken Li Taihe for the adult Li Hetai, which terrified him. At least, his current understanding of the world was far removed from the adult Li Hetai.
"Are you afraid of me?" Li Taihe narrowed his eyes.
Gu Xinglan lowered her eyes, her hand trembling, unable to pull it back.
"Alright, since you've responded to what I said, you should let me go now." Li Taihe's smile was always the most formulaic and official smile imaginable.
Gu Xinglan's lips trembled as she said, "Stay with me a little longer..."
The room fell silent immediately.
Gu Xinglan with long hair gives off a different, indescribable feeling.
But as long as you lift the blanket and then the clothes, you can tell that this person has the same organs as him.
Li Taihe was stunned, looking at the person on the bed leaning on his shoulder in a dependent manner.
"Li Taihe, you did that on purpose in the hospital's rest area, didn't you?"
Intentionally what?
Li Taihe didn't ask, and listened quietly to the person in his arms.
"You're deliberately dragging me into this act, and I'm playing along, but that doesn't mean I'm going to risk my life for it..."
“I didn’t do it on purpose, and I didn’t intend to use an ordinary person like you to lure out some sewer rats.” Li Taihe’s voice was hoarse, and his eyes were downcast, making his expression unreadable.
This was the first time I had explained it to him.
Gu Xinglan twitched her fingers, eager to try out the idea that had suddenly popped into her head.
He doesn't know how the child he implicated is doing, nor does he know how the kidnappers who nearly killed him are doing.
But it's too late now. We've suffered, we've been hurt, and we've even lost the system and administrator functions in our brains.
Gu Xinglan wanted to make some demands of Li Taihe.
Li Taihe is a man with money, influence, and the potential to do great things.
However, getting this person to do something depends on the businessman's willingness.
He didn't know if what happened today was enough to be used as leverage in negotiations.
Little did they know that Gu Xinglan was acting all coy and hesitant.
In someone's eyes, it's like a dandelion, lost and wandering in the lawn, fluffy and fuzzy, not knowing where it came from or where it's going, only able to drift with the wind in bewilderment and helplessness.
"You say that's acting, but what if I tell you now it's not acting?"
Li Taihe's scent unconsciously mingled with his breath.
Gu Xinglan trembled suddenly and looked up at the person who was so close to her.
This person kept closing the distance between the two people.
He couldn't see the person's eyes when they were at a safe social distance, but now they are eye-to-eye.
Li Taihe pressed down, his hands sinking deep into the blankets, his eyes unusually deep, like an endless vortex that threatened to engulf him entirely.
He wanted to say something.
But when you meet those eyes, all words vanish, and your mind goes completely blank.
Gu Xinglan subconsciously wanted to push this person away, but thanks to the rationality she had managed to muster, she managed to hold back.
Asking for a three-point smile.
What he asked for was no small matter, and the person he was asking was Li Taihe, so he had to do more than just smile.
The two of them remained like this for a long time.
Li Taihe seemed to be testing how far he could go, getting so close that his forehead almost touched Gu Xinglan's.
After touching foreheads together, is the next step nose-to-nose contact? And then...?
What I imagined did not come to pass.
Warm breath gently brushed against his cheek.
"Hmm? Why aren't you saying anything?" The man who spoke had a deep, hoarse voice.
Gu Xinglan felt an unconscious resistance; her brows furrowed, her eyes closed, she held her breath, and even the pores on her face seemed to be resisting.
"What do you want? Tell me, money? A house? A person? Or something else?"
And yet, not a single leaf clings to him.
Li Taihe slowly stepped back, restoring a safe distance between the two.
He said calmly, "Thank you for your hard work tonight. Just tell me what you need, don't be shy."
The ambiguous atmosphere suddenly vanished completely.
Gu Xinglan breathed a sigh of relief, and the clenched hands under the blanket slowly relaxed.
He glanced cautiously at the man's face, then composed himself.
"I hope that after the program ends... you can help those homeless children. I don't ask that you can do everything, I just ask that you can provide those children with warm clothes to cover their bodies in the cold wind, food to fill their stomachs when they are hungry, and if possible, a temporary shelter to protect them from the wind and rain..."
The person in bed said these words without even daring to look him in the eye.
After they finished speaking, the two fell into a long silence.
"Okay, I promise."
Li Taihe got off the bed and slowly straightened his clothes.
Before I could even observe the person's expression, I had already turned my back.
Even the tone of voice of this person is indistinguishable.
"Thank you!"
Gu Xinglan called out as the man was leaving.
Even the person who shouted didn't realize that his once lifeless eyes had regained a few sparks of light, like the first rays of dawn, each spark cheering and leaping, a yearning for the world, an expectation for the future, and a longing for unknown surprises, as if he had been reborn.
As Li Taihe closed the door, he caught a glimpse of the person on the bed's eyes with his last bit of light.
PDLP