CH 64

S-Class Except Me

Lu Yuanbai glanced at the coat a few times, then didn’t look back.

The long-term insomnia gave Lu Yuanbai a splitting headache for a while. Lu Yuanbai exhaled, and then forced himself to close his eyes.

However, the moment he closed his eyes, anxiety and fear also followed.

At the beginning, after Lu Yuanbai was rescued in the hotel, he only had a little treatment for his wound and went to the police station to make a statement.

Since the content of the conversation between the two had been monitored by the police during the entire phone call before the police, Lu Yuanbai only needed to briefly retell the process he experienced during this period.

“I drank too much and wanted to find some water to drink. After that, my memory was a little fuzzy. I remember someone around me said to take me to drink water and wake up later…” 

Lu Yuanbai’s cracked mouth trembled slightly when he spoke, and his hands grabbed the cuff of his body tightly, “When I woke up again, I was in a room, and then…”

Lu Yuanbai explained the whole process truthfully to the police officer in a difficult tone, and his face turned pale after the words. Sweat broke out on his forehead.

The police officers on the side also know that speaking out about the victimization process is also a kind of torture for the victim.

After all, traumatic experiences and memories are inherently terrifying to victims.

Afterwards, the police officer took down the record and let Lu Yuanbai wait aside.

The middle-aged man became a lot more honest after he arrived at the police station. He lost his brilliance in the hotel room. At this time, he was surprisingly like a fox hiding between its tails.

Lin Mu, who was watching Lu Yuanbai, could not wait to step forward and give the middle-aged man two punches.

Animals without humanity will pretend to be human when they arrive here.

“As Mr. Lu said, is all this true?” The middle-aged man nodded, “Yes, police officer, I also drank alcohol and did these stupid and absurd things on a whim until just now. There is a hint of sobriety, I’m really sorry, I’m really sorry.”

The man’s tone was very pious, and Lu Yuanbai watched coldly not far away.

Since Chen You also participated in this matter, he should also be investigated for legal responsibility.

Chen You and the man had completely different attitudes. The whole person was very frightened. He frequently turned back to look at Lu Yuanbai and the others, his eyes full of pleading and help.

He hopes that Lu Yuanbai and the others can help him, and forgive him for so many years of friendship.

Lin Mu turned slightly to block Chen You’s line of sight, and now both he and Lu Yuanbai felt disgusted when they looked at this person.

Just when Lin Mu thought everything could get the desired result, the door of the Public Security Bureau was pushed open from the outside again.

A lot of people in black suits walked in.

The middle-aged man looked at him and exclaimed excitedly, “Big brother.” 

The leader looked at the middle-aged man, his eyes were impatient and severe, and the middle-aged man could not help shrinking his neck when he saw them.

But he was apprehensive and scattered.

Someone has come to protect him.

Then the lawyer, the police and the middle-aged man brought in by the lead person began to negotiate.

Finally the lawyer asked the police to agree to go forward to speak to Lu Yuanbai alone, and looked at Lu Yuanbai and asked in a low voice, “May I ask Mr. Lu this? Are you willing to reconcile this matter privately?”

The meaning of this sentence is obvious, I give you money, and you treat this matter as nothing has happened.

However, before Lu Yuanbai could speak, Lin Mu clenched his fists instantly and said angrily, “What do you think of people? You are still a lawyer, do you know how humiliating this is to the victim?” and angrily pushed the lawyer away.

The lawyer gave Lin Mu a disdainful look, and then continued: “Because this matter did not cause any substantial harm to Mr. Lu, reconciliation and compensation are the best way. I’m showing Mr. Lu a clear way, Mr. Lu can think about it.” 

The lawyer looked at Lu Yuanbai, and there was obviously another meaning in this sentence.

The middle-aged man is powerful and has a background, and Lu Yuanbai is only a star of the eighteenth line now. Yao wants to play him behind his back. Lu Yuanbai will never stand up again in this life.

Even if Lu Yuanbai takes care of this matter, they will also follow suit and appeal. They are not like Lu Yuanbai running around for life.

Sometimes the time was wasted with Lu Yuanbai, and the middle-aged man just said that he had been drinking, and he cleverly gave the police a point. He was not sober when drinking, so he was impulsive.

Lu Yuanbai raised his eyes to look at the middle-aged man, only to see that man was also looking at him, and then inadvertently showed a bad smile to him while he was not paying attention.

Lu Yuanbai’s whole body was shaking with anger, and his hands were tightly clenched into fists.

“Mr. Lu, the compensation to you will definitely not disappoint you, and I also learned that you have a mother who is sick and hospitalized…”

Lu Yuanbai’s pupils were slightly opened for a while, and his eyes were scarlet.

In the end, the lawyer and Lu Yuanbai walked back after chatting, and the police also knew that the middle-aged man wanted to bail and settle compensation.

Then the middle-aged man and Lu Yuanbai were called over.

“Have both parties agreed to reconciliation and compensation now?” 

The middle-aged man said without hesitation, “Yes.” 

The police officer looked at Lu Yuanbai, “Where’s Mr. Lu?”

Lin Mu clenched his fists angrily.

“I do.” 

A cold voice sounded, and Lin Mu looked at Lu Yuanbai in disbelief for a while, “Brother Yuan!”

Lu Yuanbai’s face was expressionless, and there was no more light in his eyes, “I am willing to reconcile.”

He and his mother were waiting for him to pay for his medical bills in the hospital, and there were still a lot of lawsuits to pay.

Lu Yuanbai felt like a skeleton in the mud, filthy and hopeless.

Yes, he can only live like this now.

Lu Yuanbai is no longer the young master he used to be.

Now he doesn’t even need dignity for money.

As long as the reconciliation is made, he will have money to treat his mother. Just like the lawyer said, he has not suffered any substantial harm, and he has nothing to lose. After the reconciliation, he will get an objective amount of money for nothing.

The money was enough for him to settle his mother.

Lu Yuanbai persuaded himself over and over again in his heart.

But when the words came out, tears poured into his eyes unconsciously.

Now even if he is wronged, he can no longer appeal for himself, to restore the self-esteem that has been trampled underfoot.

Lu Yuanbai lowered his head and held his hands tightly, word by word, “I am willing to reconcile.”

Not long after Lu Yuanbai closed his eyes, he sat up abruptly from the bed, panting for a while.

Then Lu Yuanbai looked sideways at the coat on the sofa.

It was what Duan Yu wore when he came to see him on a cloudy and rainy day, and the result of the two breaking up after that was also what Lu Yuanbai wanted.

At that time, he was blowing hair in the room, and Duan Yu draped his clothes over his shoulders.

However, the drizzle didn’t stop when the man left after some argument, but Duan Yu didn’t take away his coat.

The black coat lay quietly on the sofa, while Lu Yuanbai lay on the side of the hospital bed and watched quietly.

It’s more than ten in the morning, but to Lu Yuanbai, who is insomniac, it seems that there is no difference between day and night.

He can’t go anywhere now lying in the hospital bed, but the exhaustion and discomfort caused by insomnia have been bothering him.

At that time, after insomnia, he also saw many psychiatrists, but there was no medicine to cure his heart disease.

Although drugs can stabilize mood, everything still has to rely on itself.

This was what the psychiatrist said to him at the time, but as soon as he closed his eyes, his vigilant appearance in front of people began to crack.

He was afraid that he would close his eyes and appear in a certain room again, and he could not fully trust the people around him.

After being rescued, Lu Yuanbai was beaten violently, and he could hardly hear any outside sound in his right ear for nearly a week.

This time, it can also be said that the superposition of every previous anxiety and fear finally overwhelmed Lu Yuanbai.

At this time, Lu Yuanbai’s eyes were full of red blood, and his eyes were slightly blue and black. He was obviously very tired, but he closed his eyes but still couldn’t sleep because of the anxiety in his heart.

The next moment, the person who was lying on the bed slowly sat up, then walked to the sofa and hesitated for a while before picking up the coat on the sofa.

Lu Yuanbai took it first, and then gradually took it into his arms.

Lu Yuanbai returned to the hospital bed with his clothes in his arms, lying on his side with his clothes in his arms, his cheeks gently pressing against the clothes like a cat.

This made him feel inexplicably at ease.

Lu Yuanbai knew that this kind of peace of mind was not brought to him by clothes, but by Duan Yu.

All the experiences since Lu Yuanbai entered the entertainment industry after amnesia, the trauma and anxiety in his heart also disappeared.

This is the solution to the heart disease that the doctor said before, which is relief and forgetting.

But Lu Yuanbai still woke up in the night when he woke up from the hospital bed, because the eighteen-year-old Lu Yuanbai would also be afraid of the unfamiliar environment until Duan Yu appeared three days later.

The man gave Lu Yuanbai invisible support in an unfamiliar environment.

It seems that as long as Duan Yu is there, all the pain and anxiety in Lu Yuanbai’s heart will disappear.

Although the two have not slept together in the past few months, they are also under the same roof, and Duan Yu has long been inseparable from him.

Later, when he came to this small county for filming, he also brought Duan Yu’s pillow and shirt together, so that this sense of security could continue.

He would sleep with Duan Yu’s pillow every night.

Even if Lu Yuanbai didn’t want to admit it, he couldn’t deny it, as long as Duan Yuzai could make him feel inexplicably at ease.

A few days ago, Duan Yu was in the hospital with him, and he fell asleep normally every night, but until Duan Yu left three days ago, Lu Yuanbai could no longer fall asleep successfully at night.

Those fearful images and unease are like unburned weeds, and the spring breeze blows again, sweeping again with Duan Yu’s departure.

Lu Yuanbai was lying on the bed with Duan Yu’s coat in his arms, his impatience seemed to be much less, and after a while, a pair of peach blossom eyes slowly closed and fell into a deep sleep.

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If Lu Yuanbai could see him sleeping soundly now, he would find that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, his face was defenseless, his hands were tightly hugging his shirt, just like a child sleeping with a beloved toy. He had slept the same way a month ago.

Lu Yuanbai lay on the bed with Duan Yu’s coat in his arms and slept well.

When the nurse knocked on the door and came in to deliver lunch to Lu Yuanbai, she saw the man lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

Lu Yuanbai looked good, the nurse looked at it, and couldn’t help but take a few more glances.

He is also a big star who can only be seen on TV and the big screen in recent days.

Sure enough, the person in private is the same as his usual image in front of the camera, and Gao Leng's body always reveals the aura that strangers are not allowed to enter.

In the past few days in the hospital, I didn’t smile or talk much, which was exactly in line with the flowers of Gao Lingzhi and the beauty of icebergs called by those on the Internet.

But the nurses also realized in the past few days that Lu Yuanbai doesn’t seem to want to cause trouble at all, and he hardly rings the bell except when changing dressings.

He usually looks like a very cold person, but is unexpectedly cute when he’s asleep, holding a black coat in his arms like a child holding a beloved doll, and his fair cheeks seem to be very nostalgic. 

His face was buried in his clothes, his slender and thick eyelashes trembled from time to time.

He looks defenseless.

Originally, the nurse wanted to come over to deliver meals to Lu Yuanbai, but when she saw the person fell asleep, she consciously eased her footsteps and put the insulated stainless steel rice bucket at the head of the bed.

The location is very conspicuous, and you can see it when you wake up and look up, and you don’t have to worry about the food getting cold even if the rice bucket is kept warm.

What Lu Yuanbai eats every day is not the canteen in the hospital, but what someone comes and delivers every day.

It started three days ago. At first, someone came to deliver the meal. The nurse didn’t pick it up, because she didn’t know the person who delivered the meal in front of her. The ordinary feeling seemed to have nothing to do with Lu Yuanbai. That’s what happened.

But after some explanation, the nurse soon knew that the meal was delivered by Duan Yu’s trustee.

The nurse was a little surprised, “Why didn’t Mr. Duan come over by himself?”

Assistant of Duan Yu scratched his head after hearing this. He was also on a plane and hurried over to deliver the documents. Unexpectedly, he received a meal delivery job just after landing.

“Actually, I don’t know either.” Then he pursed his lips, glanced around, and whispered to the nurse, “Do you think the two of them quarrelled?”

Before, their boss had been busy for half a month, doing all the work in order to accompany Lu Yuanbai in the past, but after he flew over, he saw that his boss’s face was quite ugly.

There is no Lu Yuanbai around, and it looks like the two are quarrelling.

The nurse suddenly realized, “No wonder President Duan hasn’t come to see Mr. Lu these days. It turned out to be a quarrel.”

In the days when Lu Yuanbai just had the accident, Duan Yu was guarding the ward day and night. No one persuaded him to make him wait until Lu Yuanbai woke up and stayed up all night for three whole nights.

However, the man has not been seen at all in the past few days, so it must have been a quarrel.

The nurse felt a sense of realization that it turned out such a beautiful love would also quarrel. But she didn’t expect that even after quarrelling, the two people didn’t forget to give away meals for a day after the quarrel.

Before the assistant left, he told the nurse thousands of instructions: “If Mr. Lu asks who brought this meal, don’t say it was delivered by our President Duan.” 

The nurse was a little puzzled, “Why?”

Assistant: “Now Mr. Lu is angry with our President Duan. If he knew that the meal was delivered by Mr. Duan, he would definitely not eat it.” 

The nurse nodded hurriedly, “If Mr. Lu asks, how should I answer?”

After thinking about it, the assistant said, “Just tell Mr. Lu that it was sent by his manager, so that Mr. Lu will not suspect or worry about the problem with the meal.” 

The nurse’s little hand showed an okay sign.

After the nurse put down the rice bucket, she carefully left the ward for fear of disturbing Lu Yuanbai’s sleep.

She also knew about Lu Yuanbai’s insomnia in the past few days, and asked her this morning where the department that diagnosed insomnia was.

It seems that he lost sleep after quarreling with his lover. It seems that both of them care about each other very much.

After the nurse walked out, Lu Yuanbai was still asleep on the bed.

After some time, Lu Yuanbai seemed to hear someone calling him.

Lu Yuanbai’s brain is a little confused now and he can’t hear who is calling him.

But when a person is unconscious, there will always appear in his mind the person he is thinking about, and the tall figure of a man will appear in his mind.

Lu Yuanbai even felt as if Duan Yu was calling him for a while.

“Wife…”

Lu Yuanbai grabbed the opponent’s hand and patted on his body, and subconsciously cried out.

However, this title made Lu Yuanbai come back to his senses and woke up quickly.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he met Shen Yuchi who was standing in front of his hospital bed.

Shen Yuchi is now being grabbed by Lu Yuanbai and his face is flushed, “Yuan… Brother Yuanbai…”

Lu Yuanbai hurriedly let go of Shen Yuchi’s hand when he saw it, his eyes slightly changed back to his previous indifference, “I’m sorry. “

Shen Yuchi shook his head, “No… It’s nothing.”

Lu Yuanbai closed his eyes slightly, obviously very regretful.

It’s also a pity that the person just now wasn’t Duan Yu, and that wife was completely subconsciously said by Lu Yuanbai.

Shen Yuchi was a little embarrassed to look at Lu Yuanbai for a while, but the latter didn’t give him any glances after that.

Instead, he noticed Director Zhang and another person in the room.

That person was an actor who played against him before, and it seemed that he had been beaten hard on the side of the cheek, and it was still bruised.

When the director saw that Lu Yuanbai was awake, he stepped forward, “Wake up, let’s eat first.”

Director Zhang actually wanted to visit Lu Yuanbai all the time, but the one from Lu Yuanbai’s family didn’t seem to want to see them very much.

They also understand that the fact that their lover had a problem with their crew and was injured was indeed due to their failure to do their job properly, causing Lu Yuanbai to suffer an unwarranted disaster.

Director Zhang and Lu Yuanbai have been in friendship for so many years, and they feel uncomfortable for a while, not to mention how guilty they are towards Lu Yuanbai.

He wanted to come, but didn’t dare come due to Duan Yu.

No, today he heard someone say that Duan Yu was not in the hospital, so he hurriedly brought someone over to visit.

Since it was relatively late when he learned the news, it was already four o’clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the hospital.

Originally wanted to knock on the door to go in, but was stopped by the nurse, saying that Lu Yuanbai was still sleeping.

Afterwards, the nurse saw that they were carrying the supplements in their hands and came to visit: “After you go in, please gently wake up Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu slept for a day and please remember to let him eat after waking up.”

Director Zhang guided themselves in. He nodded and walked into the ward.

Shen Yuchi volunteered to call Lu Yuanbai, and the next scene happened.

Luu Yuanbai looked at the people in the room at this time, his expression did not change, but he set his eyes on the stainless steel rice bucket by the bed.

He was really hungry, but he wasn’t used to eating when talking to people.

The director also saw it, “I’m here today just to see you, there’s nothing else you can eat first.”

After hearing this, Lu Yuanbai decided to start eating.

The next moment he said coldly: “I don’t like people staring at me all the time.”

Shen Yuchi, who was standing by the side and looked at Lu Yuanbai without blinking, hurriedly turned his head away, and said a little embarrassedly: “I’m sorry, Brother Yuan.”

“…”

Lu Yuanbai ignored it and started to eat slowly.

Because Lu Yuanbai was hospitalized, his meals were no longer the diet meals he used to eat, but after eating half of the soup and rice in the stainless steel rice bucket, Lu Yuanbai consciously stopped the spoon in his hand.

Director Zhang looked at it, “Don’t eat more?”

Lu Yuanbai shook his head, “No.”

Lu Yuanbai is like this. When he doesn’t eat a diet meal, he only eats seventy percent full and when he no longer feels hungry, he stops eating.

Director Zhang saw that Lu Yuanbai had finished eating, and then he went up to chat with Lu Yuanbai, “I’m really sorry for you this time. We have been friends for so many years. I’m here to apologize to you.”

Speaking of that, Zhang Zhizhi lowered his head to Lu Yuanbai, “Yesterday, that kid Lin Mu also came to the crew to talk to us, saying that you are still willing to continue acting, I really don’t know how to thank you. 

In fact, the director team has already planned it. Well, the worst plan is that if you don’t plan to continue acting, then the film will be put on hold, and even if they find suitable actors in the future, you won’t continue to shoot. But I didn’t expect you to continue to come back to act. On behalf of the crew, I treat you with gratitude and respect.”

When the director said these things, Lu Yuanbai didn’t even look at them.

Then he said lightly: “If you say these things, you can go.”

The others in the ward listened to their hearts, thinking that Lu Yuanbai must be thinking they’re annoying.

However, only the director could hear the meaning of Lu Yuan’s vernacular.

This kid thinks that he is being hypocritical with him.

He thought he was worthless.

Afterwards, I felt more guilt towards Lu Yuanbai for a while, but it returned to normal. He reached out and patted Lu Yuanbai’s thin shoulder, “Let me tell you something nice, your kid doesn’t like listening to it yet.”

Only then did Lu Yuanbai glance at Director Zhang.

Then Director Zhang pulled Shen Yuchi forward, “Hurry up, don’t you have something to say? Hurry up.”

Shen Yuchi was a little nervous for a while, and Lin Mu came to the crew to talk about things in the past few days. Expressed, it is about his and the other star’s acting skills.

Then Shen Yuchi bowed to Lu Yuanbai, “Brother Yuanbai, I’m really sorry before, because I have been slowing down the progress and hindrance of the crew. I will definitely learn and hone more this month, and I will definitely not be able to shoot in the future.”

Lu Yuanbai looked at him with a light expression and said nothing.

Then Shen Yuchi was pulled back by director Zhang embarrassedly.

“There’s another apology here, don’t be annoying, kid.” 

The director said with a haha, and pushed out the actor who played opposite Lu Yuanbai that day.

The actor was obviously very uneasy after seeing Lu Yuanbai. Now there are some bruises on the actor’s cheeks. It has been raised for several days and he has not recovered. It is estimated that it will take four or five days.

Lu Yuanbai looked at the face of the opponent’s actor.

Director Zhang also saw the questions on Lu Yuanbai’s expression, and then said,

“The day you were injured and hospitalized, your man beat him.”