CH 5

It was clearly a warm spring day in April, but a layer of frost had formed around Jiang Xu, making Yu Sang’s spine chill.

The operating theatre was a relatively sterile environment, and doctors and nurses were not strictly forbidden from visiting. In the past, there had been cases where nurses had shown off on the floor when they had delivered a pair of twins. However, this was Sheng Fangyu’s first time visiting when Zhang Lan was not around.

“Good morning, Dr Jiang.” Shen Fangyu had also changed into his surgical gown, but he wasn’t wearing a sterile gown yet, so he must have stopped by on his way to the operating room next door.

Most of those in the operating room were students under Jiang Xu. They all knew that the two of them didn’t get along, especially today when Jiang Xu was giving off a low pressure. So apart from a couple of nurses who talked to Shen Fangyu, no one dared to pay any attention to him.

However, if the mountain doesn’t come to me, I will go to the mountain.

Shen Fangyu walked straight up to Jiang Xu and stared at him inexplicably.

Jiang Xu was watching Yu Sang’s operation, leaving only his side profile to Shen Fangyu, but Shen Fangyu’s feet seemed to have grown roots here, and he did not move.

His gaze remained on Jiang Xu’s face until the tips of his ears were red.

“What are you staring at?” Jiang Xu finally couldn’t bear it and snapped.

Shen Fangyu blinked, “I’m looking at you.”

Jiang Xu gave him a deep look, but then turned his head and called out “Yu Sang.”

Yu Sang trembled; he felt that something was wrong, so he didn’t even dare to call him “Brother Xu,” as he usually did, and said, “What is it, Mr. Jiang?”

Jiang Xu’s gaze fell on the neatly arranged scalpels as if he were choosing carefully, his glasses reflecting the light of the silvery-white metal.

“Do you know the minimum sentence for manslaughter is only a few years?”

Jiang Xu didn’t like burdening himself; he preferred to directly address the people and things that disturbed him.

“Mr Jiang, you shouldn’t think like that.” Yu Sang persuaded him with fear.

For some reason, Shen Fangyu suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

His desire to leave conjured up an image in his mind; the image of a child holding up a large warning sign from a glass window, with the words “Run” written on it.

So Shen Fangyu had a sense of propriety and said, “You’re busy; I …… will leave first.”

Jiang Xu glanced at Shen Fangyu’s back, irritably suppressing the clear discomfort on his body, and then silently recited three times, “I’m a good doctor, I only save people, I don’t kill people.” Only then did he finally shake Shen Fangyu’s face out of his head.

In the evening, after the surgery, Jiang Xu took his usual meal and planned to eat it in the rest area of the operating theater, but as soon as he sat down, he couldn’t help but gasp in pain.

He took a deep breath with a sunken face and gently and slowly readjusted his angle to accommodate the extremely uncomfortable pain.

He finally calmed down a little and opened the food box. He had just taken a few bites when he saw someone who was not afraid of death wandering around the door of the lounge from a distance. He prayed for three seconds that Shen Fangyu wouldn’t come in, but unfortunately, the man came in and took a cup of coffee before sitting down opposite him.

If it wasn’t for the fact that their department wasn’t on a floor high enough to kill Shen Fangyu and that he would be responsible for taking care of him for the rest of his life, Jiang Xu would have thrown him out of the window.

Jiang Xu didn’t understand what was wrong with Shen Fangyu; he wished Shen Fangyu would selectively forget about last night like he did and treat him like a normal one-night stand.

He swore that if Shen Fangyu dared to mention a single word, he would send him to hell.

However, Shen Fangyu seemed unable to see the displeasure on his face and began to stare at him meaningfully again.

Jiang Xu slammed his lunchbox onto the table, grabbed Shen Fangyu’s collar with one hand, and raised his fist.

However, Shen Fangyu showed a look of joy instead. “You do have a mole under your eye!” He then said, as if to himself, “So subconsciously observed details do stay in the brain for so long.”

It was strange, to say the least, but after having drinks with Jiang Xu yesterday, he had a dream about him at night. He couldn’t remember much about what he dreamed, except that there was a mole under Jiang Xu’s eye.

When he woke up in the hotel room, he went to the front desk to check out and saw the room payment record on his mobile phone, so he assumed he had slept alone all night.

But he felt strange all morning. He had never cared whether Jiang Xu had a mole under his eye before, so when he came to the hospital, he couldn’t help but be curious if there was such a mole.

However, Jiang Xu’s mask and glasses in the operating room blocked his face, and he refused to face him. He didn’t want to dwell on this matter with Jiang Xu, but he didn’t expect that after working for half a day, he still couldn’t get it out of his mind.

Dr. Shen was worried that he’d lose his sleep over it, so he decided to take a good look at Jiang Xu to see if he had this mole or not.

At the risk of almost disfiguring himself, he finally saw the dazzling tear mole when Jiang Xu grabbed him by the collar.

“Holy shit! How did the fight start!”

“Brother Jiang, is everything alright?!”

Several doctors were alerted by the noise here and pushed their way in. Sure enough, it was Dr Jiang and Dr Shen again.

The interns stood behind their prospective teachers in support, the atmosphere was tense and war was about to break out.

Jiang Xu glared at Shen Fangyu but finally did not make a move, saying, “This is a hospital, so I won’t fight with you. Come to the boxing gym on Saturday after work, whoever doesn’t come will call the other grandpa.”

With that, he picked up the lunch box, threw it into the bin, and left. Shen Fangyu gave a chortle behind him, not forgetting to add fuel to the fire by asking, “Are your kidneys weak or did you overindulge in watching movies last night? Your face looks pale.”

Jiang Xu, whose face was covered in dark clouds, stopped in his tracks and swallowed back the words, “I think you were the one who overindulged last night,” as he suddenly realized something.

Shen Fangyu seemed to have forgotten what happened last night.

Jiang Xu chanted indifferently as he reversed the car out of the parking lot: it’s good to forget, forget cleanly.

Lest you end up killing someone.

The traffic jam on the way home was terrible. As a city where social animals and workers gather, the evening rush hour in City A lived up to its name and could last from the early light of day to the middle of the night.

Jiang Xu was stuck in the middle of the road, unable to move forward or backward, it was as if the whole world was against him.

‘It’s okay,’ Jiang Xu told himself, ‘it’s just sleeping with Shen Fangyu. Let’s take it like a bite from a dog.’

After repeatedly building up his mentality, Jiang Xu gave up his struggle. He admitted that the dog’s bite was a bit painful, but he would never lower himself before Shen Fangyu.

He glanced out of the car window and suddenly realized that he was next to the retarded “Hell Bar” from yesterday. It was now daylight, and its signboard was less conspicuous without the blinding lights.

However, there was a group of policemen gathered at the entrance of Hell Bar whispering something to each other, so Jiang Xu asked, “Brother, what’s going on here?”

An upright-looking police officer said seriously, “This bar is suspected of selling fake alcohol, and we are checking with the victims.”

“……” Jiang Xu: “How many years will the owner get sentenced to?”

“It’s hard to say, the circumstances are pretty bad, a conservative estimate would be ten years.”

‘Good, very good.’ Jiang Xu thought, ‘it’s best not to get out for the rest of your life.’

He withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, and after a long time, he banged his head heavily on the steering wheel.

Fake alcohol is too harmful.