CH 12

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Shen Kanyu arrived there and grabbed a bowl of instant congee. He couldn’t help himself from picking up a packet of dried radishes as well since he was overcome with a huge craving for some once he saw them. When he went to pay, the cashier gave him a small packet of soup. “This is a complimentary item that comes with the congee.”

“Wow, thank you, thank you.” Not expecting himself to be able to enjoy hot soup with his congee, Shen Kanyu happily accepted it. He grabbed the junk food and made his way to the hospital’s cafeteria.

Thank god the cafeteria was just next to the convenience store or else he might not have had the strength to go anywhere else.

After filling the cup with hot water, while waiting for the congee and soup to be cooked he took out his phone to call Jiang Mo.

“Hello?” Jiang Mo picked up quickly. 

“Jiang Mo, it’s me Shen Kanyu.”

“…there’s a caller ID.”

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After coming back to the ward and not seeing Shen Kanyu there, Gu Yansheng spoke to the young nurse with a dark expression.

He merely left for a while to go to his mother Song Li and ask her to cook a portion of congee for him to bring over.

Before he left, he had clearly instructed the nurse to watch Shen Kanyu so he wouldn’t roam around, yet he was still gone in the end.

To be treated coldly by such a handsome man, the young nurse couldn’t stop herself from being on the verge of tears. “It’s not my fault. The patient insisted that the person I spoke of wasn’t him, saying that I remembered it wrong. What else could I have done?”

Gu Yansheng’s brows were furrowed dead-tight. “Then where did he go? Do you know where he is?”

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Gu Yansheng didn’t find him in the convenience store but instead saw him in the cafeteria beside it. 

He walked right to Shen Kanyu and placed the thermal insulated lunch box on the table with a thud.

Shen Kanyu was so scared he dropped his spoon. Raising his head, he looked at Gu Yansheng stunned, his lips parted but only made a sound after a long time had passed. “A…A-Sheng?”

Gu Yansheng controlled his temper, saying, “What are you eating?”

“I I I…” After a long time, Shen Kanyu didn’t end up answering Gu Yansheng’s question. He only swallowed and finally, strained and with much effort spoke. “I won’t eat this much from now on…don’t be angry.”

“…” Gu Yansheng saw the two “bowls” of congee and soup, each one not even the size of a fist and the packet of dried radish in front of him. His veins on his temples pulsated, yet he couldn’t find it in him to scold Shen Kanyu.

Shen Kanyu observed Gu Yansheng’s eyes for a moment, then cautiously bargained with him. “That…lo-look ah, there’s only a little bit left. Let me finish it first, I swear I won’t eat this much next time.”

“No.” Gu Yansheng replied coldly, picking up all of the things he was eating and directly throwing them into the bin.

“…” Lowering his eyelashes, Shen Kanyu dazedly thought ‘I really do feel cold’.

After Gu Yansheng dumped the junk food, he turned back and sat across from Shen Kanyu, twisting the thermal lunch box open and pushing it in front of him. “Eat this.”

Shen Kanyu opened his eyes dispiritedly to see a bowl of fragrant, thick pork liver, lean meat congee before him. There was also a soft boiled egg, as well as fresh scallions sprinkled over it. The light and sweet aroma of the congee rose with the steam. 

Shen Kanyu was dumbfounded. Blinking hard with those eyes that were reddened and moistened by the steam, he looked at Gu Yansheng with a blank expression, and for a moment, he didn’t even dare to breathe.

Gu Yansheng also silently looked back at him.

His whole face was pale; apart from red-rimmed eyes and his split open lips, there wasn’t a trace of color to him. The clothes that were far too loose on him and the drooping collar exposing his prominent clavicle made the man look even more thin and frail.