After staying up until Wednesday, it was time to see Ai Jing Chu again.

She went so early that she met Zhou Wen at the gate of the hospital.

As soon as Zeng Li saw her, she thought about the changing of doctors, "When did you tell Teacher Ai? Didn't you say you wouldn't? He found out."

Zhou Wen looked sloppy with a guilty conscience, "Yes, maybe I remembered it wrong."

"Did you talk on the phone? Who called?" Zhou Wen asked with interest.

"I called." She originally called to talk about other things, but Ai Jing Chu misunderstood before she spoke.

"Oh, the teacher is really not active." Zhou Wen said, "Did the conversation go well? Didn't something explode?"

"He was very angry and hung up on me without saying a word."

Zhou Wen moaned weakly: "Oh my god!"

When they walked to the outpatient hall, Zeng Li asked her whether to climb up or take the elevator, but Zhou Wen said, "Take the elevator, I need to keep up my energy for the whole day's hard work, so let's go inside, it's crowded here."

So Zeng Li followed her to the other end of the corridor, only to see that there were two more elevators.

"Is this just for doctors?" Zeng Li asked.

"The operating room is used to pick up and drop off patients, so as not to be crowded with patients." Zhou Wen said.

As soon as the words fell, the elevator came up from the parking lot on the second floor, and the door opened, and there was Ai Jing Chu standing inside, not Ai Jing Chu in a white coat.

Probably because it was too hot recently, so he cut his hair very short. He was wearing a simple white shirt with the hem neatly tucked into the trousers. The sleeves were not buttoned but rolled up to the elbows. The lower body was black trousers and belt, plus black leather shoes. The simple black and white alternation made the legs look longer.

Zhou Wen reacted quickly, "Good morning, Teacher Ai."

The second sentence is "You are so handsome today".

Zeng Li guessed that the student who feared him the most in the school was Zhou Wen.

He took a step back, and Zhou Wen pulled her in quickly.

"That patient is Li Xiaoxiao. Her mother called and said that she was in terrible pain after wearing the rubber band. I asked her to take it first. I will come to the hospital today to show you, and..."

Zhou Wen took the time to report carefully to Ai Jing Chu about the time he was away. She was usually naughty, but she was very serious when she was doing business.

Ai Jing Chu answered and asked again from time to time.

Seeing that both of them were concentrating on their work, Zeng Li's heart calmed down.

He stood behind Zeng Li's side, so when she raised her eyes, she saw Ai Jing Chu's figure reflected on the stainless steel elevator door. His eyebrows are thick, and the brow bone is slightly high, so the eyes look deeper, but they look a little sharp. When there is no expression on the face and the mouth is pursed, there will be two and a half pea-sized small pits at the corners of the mouth. If you smile, the corners of the lips will be deeply sunken, deeper, a little lazy and sunny, but also a little childish, very charming.

The first time she saw him smile was the night when she met "Che Zhen". He drank, and she was ordered to drive instead. She thought he was drunk, so she whispered about him secretly, but she didn't expect that he was not asleep at all, and when he heard her words, he smiled deeply. At that time, he squinted his eyes first, and then the smile spread from the corner of his mouth.

From then on, she didn't dare to look at his face.

"Is that right, Zeng Li?" Zhou Wen's words disrupted her thoughts.

"Huh?" She didn't hear what they said at all.

"Didn't you say last time that you secretly told me that you were going to change doctors because you were scared when you heard that two more teeth were going to be pulled out, didn't you?" Zhou Wen asked her expectantly.

Ai Jing Chu was also staring straight at her, and the question came too suddenly, she hadn't gotten out of the emotion just now, and she didn't know how to answer it for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the elevator arrived.

Originally, she was going to be the first to ask her to go in, but then a mother with her son came and said that the child had only taken two classes off and was still waiting to go back to class.

"This..." Zhou Wen was in a dilemma, they had no right to change the order of treatment at will, otherwise other patients would have opinions.

"Let him go first, I'll wait a little longer, don't worry." Zeng Li smiled.

It wasn't long before it was Zeng Li's turn.

"I had swollen gums a few days ago, but it got better this week." Zeng Li confessed honestly.

"Where is the swelling?"

Zeng Li opened her mouth and pointed to Zhou Wen.

"How long has it been swollen?"

"For more than a week, I don't know if it's because of the braces, or because it got angry from what I ate."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"I thought at the time that I was going to come for a follow-up visit anyway, so why bother, who knew that you called again and said that you would postpone it for a week."

"Have you seen another dentist?"

"What a trouble if they break the braces, I just bore with it." Zeng Li replied.

Zhou Wen gave her a blank look, "You think you are a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?"

After a while, Ai Jing Chu also came, and the follow-up procedure was the same as usual.

Like last time, Ai Jing Chu didn't mention the phone call, nor did he mention changing doctors, and he still didn't say a word to her.

Facing the small orange light above the treatment bed, Zeng Li was debating whether to ask him what he meant by his last sentence on the phone a few days ago. And the news that Ning Feng got, she should also tell him.

However, until he walked away, she didn't bother with the result.

Before leaving, she secretly looked at his back, and simply sent a text message.

After sending it, Zeng Li heaved a sigh of relief, it is better to use text messages.

When it was almost noon, he wrote back to her.

A few days passed without any surprise.

On Saturday, Zeng Li was helping out at the cafe, but Wu Wan Xia called and said she wanted to borrow her bicycle. So, taking advantage of no business at noon, she went home and gave Wu Wan Xia her bicycle to ride.

The scorching sun at one or two o'clock was too hot, and she was still worried about putting on sunscreen, so she put on a hat, sunscreen sleeves and so on.

From the community, after passing the traffic lights, it is a long downhill. She squeezed the brakes and slid down slowly. Unexpectedly, a child popped up halfway, jumped out from the gap between the cars parked by the roadside, wanted to run across the road, and suddenly appeared in front of Zeng Li. When it happened suddenly, she was startled and slammed on the brakes. Unexpectedly, she braked too quickly, and the inertia caused the bike to slant, and she fell hard to the ground.

Her chin slammed directly on the ground.

Seeing her lying on the ground, the child seemed a little frightened, looked at her twice, and ran away.

Zeng Li felt that the collision just now made her mind a little bit flashy, and she wanted to prop up her body, but she felt that he couldn't do it. She didn't know how many times she fell from the bikes when she was studying, so she felt that there should be nothing else except for some skin scratches, but it was a bit embarrassing for her to fall so ugly and lie on her stomach like this.

At this moment, an aunt's voice sounded from behind: "Is the girl okay? I didn't see clearly. Did a car hit you?"

Then the aunt walked up to Zeng Li while talking, and was about to help her up. Unexpectedly, when she saw her face, her face turned pale, "Oh, this is not good, let me call 120 for you?"

Zeng Li followed her gaze and touched his chin and neck, and found that it was wet. When he put it in front of his eyes, she saw blood on his hand, which even made her panic.

The aunt was arranged by the community to collect parking fees on the side of the road. She hurriedly called a companion to help Zeng Li up, then moved to the sidewalk, took out her mobile phone and made an emergency call.

Zeng Li looked at the blood stains on the ground, spread out next to the bicycle, and then stretched all the way to his feet. She had never seen herself bleeding so much, and she didn't know what was going on. She vaguely felt that there was something wrong with her jaw or teeth, but she didn't feel anything, and she didn't feel any pain. She just felt dizzy, and her whole mouth and tongue were numb, and she couldn't even speak clearly.

The aunt was also a little worried when she saw this, and complained that the ambulance came too slowly, "I might as well take you there by a battery car."

Zeng Li waved at her.

At noon, the temperature is high and the circulation of body fluids is also fast, which is the time when the blood is most active.

She covered her chin with her hand, just wishing her blood wouldn't flow so fast.

The aunt was also anxious, "Girl, do you have a mobile phone? Give it to me, I'll call your family first, otherwise what will you do if you go to the hospital alone!"

Zeng Li took it out with his other hand and handed it to his aunt. The white phone was immediately stained with blood.

The aunt flipped through the phone, but she was not very good at it, and finally saw the word "Contacts".

"How to scroll down?" Auntie asked the colleague next to her.

"How do I know? It's fine to call one at random." The man replied.

So, the aunt pressed the number of the first contact person on it helplessly, pressed a few times and finally dialed it.

"Hey—do you know the little girl with this mobile phone? Can you call her family? She was in a car accident, and we are waiting for an ambulance." Afterwards, the auntie exchanged a few words with the other party in a hurry, and finally left her address.

And the one listed first in the address book is none other than Ai Jing Chu, who starts with the letter A.

It didn't take long, before the ambulance arrived, Ai Jing Chu arrived.

When he saw Zeng Li on the side of the road following the blood, his face turned pale, and he hugged her into the car without saying a word.

He drove very fast, the green light ahead was about to end, and it flashed and changed to a yellow light, but he still stepped on the accelerator and rushed over.

Zeng Li didn't know how that aunt happened to call his number, and her mind was clearer than before. When she saw him running a red light, she wanted to remind him.

"You..." She moved her mouth and managed to squeeze out a word.

"I know what to do, don't worry." He said, "Close your eyes, rest, don't talk, don't move around, don't look in the mirror next to you."

Zeng Li obediently closed her eyes.

At this time, an ambulance happened to pass by. Ai Jing Chu glanced in the mirror and ignored it.

Ai Jing Chu called Ge Yi: "Are you in the hospital?"

"Yes."

"You ask someone to prepare for the operating room of your department."

"What's wrong?"

"Here is a patient with a broken jaw that needs to be stitched up."

"Have you broken any bones and joints?"

"I don't know," he said.

After Ai Jing Chu hung up the phone, Ge Yi looked at the phone, a little dazed. She had known Ai Jing Chu for so many years, and this was the first time she heard Ai Jing Chu say the words "I don't know". When will he not know about work-related matters? Under normal circumstances, the complete rupture of the mandibular skin is not a serious matter. She remembers that when she was studying, she saw a patient who fell down the stairs and suffered a comminuted fracture of the mandible. Basically, the entire lower half of the face had to be reshaped. At that time, Ai Jing Chu only said one sentence: "No problem." This shows how familiar he is with this operation and how confident he is.

But this time he actually said "I don't know".

After talking with Ge Yi, Ai Jing Chu looked at Zeng Li again.

Because her chin hit the sharpest point, a two centimeter wound was opened horizontally. Like the forehead, this is the most likely part of the face to crack, and the wound is deep, exposing the bones inside, so he told her not to look in the mirror.

Although the blood from the wound had solidified, her hands, her neck, and the clothes on her chest were all stained with blood. She closed her eyes obediently, endured the discomfort and did not move, appearing to be too quiet.

Ai Jing Chu suddenly felt a little flustered, knowing that it was impossible, but still couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart, and shouted: "Zeng Li."

"Huh?" She snorted.

Hearing her voice, his mood stabilized a little.

After crossing a street, he called out again: "Zeng Li."

She didn't respond this time, but opened her eyes and looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what he was going to say after calling her twice.

"Close your eyes and rest, but don't sleep, I call you, you just answer me." He said.

"En."

When they arrived at the hospital, Ge Yi checked Zeng Li's wound, and asked her to perform a few movements of opening and closing her mouth.

"The wound is deep, but everything else is fine. The jaw joint should not be injured." Ge Yi said to Ai Jing Chu beside him.

"It's best to get a CT scan later." Ai Jing Chu said.

"Do you want sew or shall I sew?" asked Ge Yi.

Ai Jing Chu looked up at Zeng Li, but didn't answer.

"You've always sewed better than me, so you can't pick the good and the bad on a girl's face," Ge Yi said again.

Ai Jing Chu nodded.

Zeng Li was touched a few times by Ge Yi, although it hurt, but the numbness was much better, she tried to ask: "Am I going to have an operation?" She didn't dare to use too much force, and she didn't dare to move her jaw much, so her speech seemed a little slurred.

Ge Yi comforted her: "You don't need to go to the operating room, just do a small suture, and you can do it directly in our treatment room."

Zeng Li had never had a similar experience in his life, not even being hospitalised, and when she saw the nurse next to her bringing acupuncture and medicine equipment, she felt a little timid. At this moment, she was very grateful to the aunt who called for her, thanked her for her warm heart, and thanked her for worrying that she would be afraid of going to the hospital alone, and wanted to find a family member for her.

Seeing the timidity in her eyes, Ai Jing Chu couldn't help comforting her: "It's just that it hurts a little during the anaesthetic."

"En."

"Don't worry, with the senior brother here, his acupuncture skills are very good, and there will definitely be no scars on your face." Ge Yi smiled. Doctors usually only worry about whether there is any functional damage, and girls usually worry about whether they will get scars and become ugly. After finishing speaking, she went out to ask someone to fetch anaesthetics and needles and threads.

Zeng Li looked at Ai Jing Chu.

Back in Dongshan, Ge Yi said something similar, saying that he sewed his wounds well. At that time, he had a fever, and the child kept crying, but he was calm and decisive without the slightest hesitation. Later when the chubby boy came to the library, he opened his mouth for everyone to see, just like showing a man's medal. I don't know if it's because children have strong healing ability or because they sew well. It's really hard to tell.

She couldn't help but want to touch her wound.

"Don't touch." Ai Jing Chu hurriedly got up and grabbed her hand.

Only then did he notice that Zeng Li had many abrasions on the back of her hands and elbows. He froze for a moment, went to the nurse's station to find the nurse to bring disinfection supplies and gauze cotton balls, and then washed Zeng Li's wound himself.

When wiping the dust from the wound with cotton, Zeng Li couldn't bear the pain, shrank his hands, frowned tightly, and hummed twice in his throat.

His hands shook too.

At this time, Ge Yi came over, "I'm almost ready, let her go to the next door, senior brother, you go to disinfect first."

Another nurse also came in, took the things from Ai Jing Chu, and continued to wash Zeng Li's wound.

Ai Jing Chu stood up, but did not move for a long time. He lowered his eyes and stared at the movements of the nurse's hands. After a while, he called Ge Yi who was about to go out.

Ge Yi turned around in response.

He said, "Come and sew for me."

Ge Yi opened her mouth slightly, and looked at Ai Jing Chu for a long time, until Zeng Li hissed again in pain under the wipe of the nurse, then she looked away and glanced at Zeng Li, and then replied: "Okay."

The sutures were on the treatment table next door. After lying on it, Zeng Li's face was covered with a cloth, blocking her view.

Ge Yi's voice came, "The wound is relatively deep. We need to sew two layers. The thread is very thin. You may feel that the wound is being pulled a little. Just relax."

When injecting anesthetics, the needle is thin and long, which is different from ordinary injections. It is pushed eastward and westward.

Zeng Li didn't dare to hide or make a sound, but stared wide-eyed at the cloth covering her face, her eyebrows were tightened even more, she habitually showed her teeth and wanted to bite her lips, but her lips had long been brought down by the anesthetic, and she couldn't obey her, her hands were clasped stiffly on her heart.

Just as she was twisting her ten fingers together, a hand came up and separated her two tightly clasped hands, and then held them in the palm.

The hands she was familiar with.

For the first time, he took off his gloves to check the wires on her braces in her mouth.

The second time, helplessly, she caught up with him in that small town, held his hand, and shouted his name.

The third time, he called her name on the dark road like a prank, which made her cry out of fright. At that time, he took her hands, put them on his face and said, "Alive."

For the fourth time, he took her hand on the gear lever, pushed her into the car's forward gear, and taught her how to retaliate against insults.

Too much too much.

It was taken for granted every time, so she didn't, and didn't dare to take it to heart.

After the operation, he took her for a CT scan, and then for a tetanus shot.

The injection requires a skin test first. The nurse pricked the skin of her wrist and asked her to wait for more than ten minutes. There were a lot of patients, and the chairs outside the injection room were full of people. She and Ai Jing Chu went to the registration hall to sit for a while.

There were a lot of people coming and going there, and the patients were all coming to see the dentist, and there were very few bruises, so Zeng Li with a large gauze on his chin was more eye-catching, and Ai Jing Chu sitting next to him was even more eye-catching. This is the hospital where he works, and many of the people who passed by were colleagues, who simply nodded, and those who were more enthusiastic would come over to say hello, and some would drop by to care about Zeng Li's situation.

After no one continued to bother, Ai Jing Chu asked, "Do you want to call you family?"

"No need." She shook her head.

"Where are your friends?"

This time Zeng Li didn't shake her head, she just took out her phone and called Ma Yi Yi.

"Where have you been? I'm almost dizzy from work here." On weekend afternoons, when the weather is hot and not suitable for outdoor activities, it becomes the busiest time for the cafe.

"I'm in a hurry all of a sudden, so I won't go through it. Take care of me."

"Ah, then you should be busy." Ma Yi Yi said, "Isn't it a sneaky date?"

"No."

"Why do you talk like a big tongue?" Ma Yiyi noticed something strange.

"Hurry up and do your work, how can you talk so much?" After finishing speaking, Zeng Li cut off the phone.

Ai Jing Chu asked for a bottle of alcohol from the injection room, and said to Zeng Li, "Give me the phone."

She didn't know why, and obediently handed it over.

He put on a glove, and wiped off the blood on Zeng Li's phone bit by bit with a cotton ball dipped in alcohol. Probably because of his occupation, he was very meticulous in his work, which immediately reminded Zeng Li of his letter. Yu Yi later showed her the letter she wrote, and explained: "It is said that it was already stuck together at that time, and it was Ai Jing Chu who separated it."

An unspeakable emotion melted from her chest, and she suddenly felt that maybe her fault was that the moment she saw his name in this hospital, she didn't turn around and leave.

"I have something to tell you," Zeng Li said, "I hope you won't be angry when you know."

He wiped his phone clean, stopped what he was doing, looked up at her, and waited for her next words.

"I..." Facing his eyes, Zeng Li suddenly panicked, not knowing where to start.

She turned her eyes away, looked elsewhere, and finally told him everything.

Ai Jing Chu has been listening silently.

Finally she asked, "Is that you who called me?"

There was an old man in the outpatient hall who was arguing with the nurse. To be precise, the old man was yelling loudly at the nurse. Zeng Li didn't know what they were arguing about, but there were many onlookers and their voices were very loud. After she finished speaking, her heart almost stopped, but she didn't hear Ai Jing Chu's answer, so she wondered if she spoke too softly and he didn't hear.

She turned her head to look at him, and found that he was still looking at her, without the anger or surprise that she imagined, but just staring at her quietly, that gaze made her a little flustered.

Just as she was about to continue explaining, the nurse in the injection room came and interrupted them, saying that it was time for the skin test. After checking Zeng Li's arm, she was told to go over and get an injection.

After the injection, Ai Jing Chu drove from the hospital, said he wanted to buy some things, and asked Zeng Li to wait for him in the car.

After about ten minutes, Ai Jing Chu went back and forth with a small transparent plastic bag.

"When I get home, dissolve this with sterilized water, then put it in the refrigerator, and rub it several times a day, which can promote wound healing. And this," he pointed to another flat box, "This is a silicone patch. After the wound grows, stick it on it to prevent scar hyperplasia. But it may not stick well on the chin, so you should put this headgear on it when you sleep at night."

Zeng Li suddenly felt flattered, and after a while, she picked up the two injections and said, "But, how do you do this?"

As if thinking of something, she took out an unopened disposable syringe from his trouser pocket and asked her to put it in a plastic bag together, "It's okay, I know how to do it."

When approaching Zeng Li's house, Ai Jing Chu took a detour, passing by the place where he fell just now, found the enthusiastic aunt, and put the bicycle that Zeng Li had thrown there behind the car.

The aunt said: "I was scared to death just now, with so much blood, I thought something was wrong."

Zeng Li smiled, following the direction the aunt pointed to see the pool of blood on the side of the road, it was indeed shocking.

At this time, Ai Jing Chu, who had disappeared for a while, came from the fruit shop across the road with a large watermelon and a large bag of apples, saying that he was thanking her aunt and these colleagues for their help.

Auntie was overjoyed, and she declined, "You are so kind."

"As I should be." Ai Jing Chu said, "Thanks to your help, otherwise she would definitely not know what to do by herself."

Seeing that the other party was sincere, the aunt happily called her colleagues to collect the things together.

Zeng Li returned to the car and couldn't help sighing, "It's because you are more thoughtful."

She was still young when she separated from her father, and she didn't have much opportunity to get in touch with the opposite sex, so she didn't know if all men were so methodical.

Ai Jing Chu put on his seat belt, restarted the car, and explained: "Good deeds are rewarded with good deeds."

When they got to the downstairs of Zeng Li, because she didn't know how to get the injection, needless to say, Ai Jing Chu naturally wanted to follow upstairs.

When Zeng Li arrived at her home, she felt relaxed, and after bleeding so much, and having tossed back and forth in the hospital several times, she suddenly felt tired and unable to cheer up.

Ai Jing Chu said: "While the anaesthetic is still there, go into the house and rest. I'll get the medicine ready. I'll remember to lock the door for you before I leave."

Zeng Li was top-heavy and didn't have the energy to think about it, so she closed the bedroom door, changed the blood-stained T-shirt, and lay down on the bed.

Ai Jing Chu sat down on the sofa after the bedroom was quiet.

In fact, he hasn't had lunch yet. When he received the call, he was on his way home for a meal. Although he wasn't hungry, he had a stomachache. As soon as he felt unwell, he wanted to smoke. There was no balcony in the living room, and it was inconvenient to smoke in other people's houses, so he opened the door, went to the corridor to light a cigarette, and turned around to cover the door again.

In the bedroom, Zeng Li was still awake, and when she heard the door lock being unlocked, she thought that Ai Jing Chu had left. Her heart calmed down, and she fell asleep after taking off her tight jeans.

Later, there were footsteps coming from upstairs, and a middle-aged woman came down, saw Ai Jing Chu standing at the gate of the house, she kept smoking, and glanced at him several times inexplicably.

After the man left, in order not to have any bad influence on Zeng Li, Ai Jing Chu quickly took a few puffs, stubbed out the cigarette, and went into the house.

This time, Ai Jing Chu took a closer look at Zeng Li's house.

The small one-bedroom house, probably because of its old age, is not well designed. There are three doors that open to the living room, one is the main door, one is the bedroom, and the other is the kitchen. After the kitchen, there are toilets and washrooms.

The pot of green radishes he saw last time was still so lush, and there was another pot next to it, but he didn't know what it was.

She has a lot of things, and there are many skin care bottles and jars on the tea table. There are also a lot of colorful magazines, which can't fit on the coffee table, they are piled on the floor, and there is even a pile by the armrest of the sofa. On the sofa, in addition to magazines, there are pillows of several fabrics and colors, as well as a few rabbit dolls.

The whole room looks like a place where girls live.

There are a lot of things, but it doesn't feel messy.

On the other side of the corner is a rectangular dining table, but it is obvious that it is not used as a dining table. In addition to a laptop, there are some books, notebooks, colored pencils, and a jigsaw puzzle that has been put together at one corner and thrown aside. The jigsaw puzzle was a messy but orderly bookshelf. Maybe the colors were too complicated, or maybe the project was too huge, so she didn't continue.

Seeing a pen dropped by the foot of the table, he walked over to pick it up and put it on the table.

On the desktop, next to the computer, a leather-bound book with a grid pattern was open. He glanced at it casually, and there was a line written on it: three grams of white poria cocos, three grams of white peony root, three grams of Atractylodes macrocephala...

He didn't know Chinese medicine, but he knew these medicines. He thought where she had seen the beauty-beautifying prescriptions, and was afraid that he would forget them, so he copied them down in his notebook. He couldn't help laughing when he thought of girls' little thoughts about beauty.

However, looking at it again, it was a different state of mind.

This was the second time he saw her handwriting. He couldn't remember exactly what her handwriting was like back then.

After so many years, times have changed, has she changed as much as her handwriting?

He suddenly remembered the scene of her crying and looking for the concentric lock on Dongshan Mountain. At that time, he only thought she was a silly girl, but he didn't think that the person was Yu Yi, nor did he think that she was "she".

Ai Jing Chu stood there with his eyes downcast for a long time before looking away.

Afterwards, he went to the kitchen and washed his hands carefully, then knocked off the glass head of the ampoule, sucked up half of the liquid with a needle, poured it into the bottle containing the dry powder, and shook it. After the dry powder was dissolved, he found a pair of scissors, broke the aluminum skin on the rubber cover of the bottle, and put it in the refrigerator after removing it.

This process is very simple, and any nurse can do it with ease, but those who are not familiar with it will either spill or cut their fingers if they are not careful.

He didn't think about dinner until he went to wash his hands again.

It was almost five o'clock now, and even if she had a short sleep, it was time for dinner. He checked the refrigerator again. Apart from yogurt, there were a few apples and some leftovers, and there was nothing else to eat. Not only did she have stitches on her chin, but she also had several skin scratches on the back of her hands, so she couldn't touch the water, and she could barely cook when she lived alone.

After thinking about it, he returned to the living room and took the key that Zeng Li had put on the shoe cabinet after opening the door with him, and then gently closed the door.

When Zeng Li woke up, it was already seven o'clock.

But she herself fell asleep completely confused, not knowing whether it was morning or night, so she got up from the bed and wanted to go to the toilet. When she opened the bedroom door and saw that the light was on in the living room, she was a little puzzled at first, and then saw Ai Jing Chu sitting on the sofa.

Zeng Li was taken aback, and his brain was confused for a while, then she suppressed the urge to scream in her throat and retreated to her own room, and quickly closed the door again.

She stood in the bedroom, looked down at herself, wishing she could dig a hole and bury herself—

Because she didn't wear pants!

No! She's only wearing a pair of underwear!

Zeng Li has been living alone since graduating from university, and he doesn't care much about what he wears at home. Even going to take a shower, it is common for her to walk out of the bathroom naked without taking a change of clothes.

How could she have thought that there was another person in the room, how could she have thought that she was still a man, how could she have thought that Ai Jing Chu hadn't left yet?

How to meet people?

How to meet people!

How to meet people?

Zeng Li was behind the door, wanting to call the Virgin Mary for a while, and greeting Ai Jing Chu's sister for a while. Her anaesthetic had expired long ago, and she didn't feel it when she fell asleep just now, but now she felt throbbing pain from the wound, following the rhythm of the blood, even the brain began to swell and ache.

In the end, she said to herself like Ah Q, it's all right, let's just treat it as being in the swimming pool, and wearing a bikini even shows her breasts, and she only showed her lower body.

She comforted herself several times, then found a pair of shorts from the closet and put them on.

What does it mean to lose face at home? This is a living example.

She really wanted to never go out for the rest of her life, but she wanted to go out to the bathroom, and she couldn't hold it back for long.

When she mustered up her courage, she gritted her teeth and stepped into the living room for the second time. Ai Jing Chu was still there, but this time he didn't look up at her in time, but calmly flipped through the magazine in her hand.

"I thought you... had left early." Zeng Li cleared his throat and explained embarrassingly. She thought about it just now, although she also wanted to pretend that nothing happened, but this matter must be explained, otherwise he would think something happened to her.

Ai Jing Chu closed the magazine in his hand, "I think I have something to say to you face to face."

"Oh, I'll go to the toilet first." She said awkwardly.

The toilet was inside the kitchen. As soon as she got to the door of the kitchen, she saw soup was still boiling on the stove, and there was a pot of porridge and a plate of tofu on the countertop of the cabinet.

"You..." Zeng Li was a little surprised.

"I didn't expect you to sleep for so long, you must be hungry." He said.

Zeng Li looked back at him, not knowing what to say, but only two words after thousands of words: "Thank you."

She didn't know why he didn't even look at her a few days ago, but today he stayed at home to cook. With this gap, she felt a little...

When Zeng Li's mind was distracted, Ai Jing Chu's eyes also opened for a while.

He couldn't help but look down a little from her face, over the T-shirt, and then down on the shorts. He and she met in winter, and they were wrapped in thick layers, and it was not long before summer, so he didn't see her wearing summer clothes much. She wore long trousers during the day, but now she changed into shorts probably because of the heat. She was tall and thin, and her white and straight legs were exposed under the short trousers. Then, he thought of how she just walked out without even wearing outer trousers.

Ai Jing Chu didn't dare to continue daydreaming, and didn't dare to look again, so he turned his face away abruptly.

After returning from the toilet, Zeng Li sat in front of Ai Jing Chu solemnly, waiting for him to say those "things that need to be clearly stated in person".

He thought for a while and said, "Let's continue the topic you talked about in the hospital just now. I am indeed the one who called."

Zeng Li guessed what he was going to say, lowered his head and said "I'm sorry" slowly.

"Apologize for what?"

"I kept it from you and pretended not to know you." Zeng Li said.

"Since when did you know?"

"At first." Zeng Li replied.

"When did it start?" he pressed.

"Before you saw my teeth." She simply explained everything.

"Zeng Li," Ai Jing Chu glanced at her, and asked calmly, "Why?"

Zeng Li was slightly startled.

Why? She didn't understand the meaning of these three words. Why did she hide it from him, or why she knew him in the first place, or why she remembered him.

She thought about it, not knowing where to start.

After a long while, Zeng Li said softly: "You said your name on the phone at the time, and Yu Yi said it later, so I remembered it. Later, when I went to your hospital to do business, I saw that your doctor's resume graduated from the same school as Yu Yi. I was very curious, and then I saw the three words with the same pronunciation. At that time, I thought, maybe this is the 'Ai Jing Chu' who called me." She seemed to be lost in memory. You. However, it was really unintentional to see you. The hospital transferred me to you. I didn't intend to provoke you or lie to you. I just... I just..."

"Just for Yu Yi?" He answered calmly.

She frowned and didn't deny it. Who can say otherwise? If it wasn't for Yu Yi, why would she be so curious about him?

"Since you've pretended for so long, why do you want to tell me today?"

"I..." Hearing his questioning, Zeng Li recalled what Wu Ying said that night for a while, and thought of the warm and strong hands in the operating room for a while, his mind became entangled, but he didn't know how to speak.

Her hesitation caused Ai Jing Chu to misunderstand, and a thin layer of anger appeared on her face.

"That's why you want to change doctors? After you tell me, if you make it clear, you can leave the relationship clean and replace it with someone else for orthodontics, and then you won't have any contact with each other for the rest of your life?"

"No." She shook her head.

"Why is that? Because I helped you today, you feel guilty and want to tell me the truth to repay me?" His anger added another layer.

Zeng Li hurriedly shook his head again, "No."

She has never seen him get angry with anyone, even if he seldom smiles, even if he doesn't speak, even if he teaches the students harshly, even if he keeps a dark face and doesn't look at her, even if he hangs up her phone, he always looks cold and indifferent, separated from others by an invisible and intangible protective cover, he will not get angry.

"Or you think you know something, but others don't know anything. It's fun to act, but now you're tired of it?" He became angry, his expression became colder, and his face was not good, as if he would ignore people all his life.

Seeing it in his eyes, she suddenly felt wronged, her nose was a little sour, and her eyes turned red instantly.

"I'm not that kind of person." She murmured justified.

"I'm not that kind of person, I just don't know what's wrong with me. I lied to you on purpose, but it's not what you think. At first, I thought maybe you didn't remember at all, and there was no need to say it. Later, I got along with you more and more, and the time became longer and longer, and I couldn't say it. But, you are so kind and treat me so well. No one has ever treated me like this in my life. When I was in the operating room, I thought, I want to tell you the truth, even if you are angry, even if you think I am a person with ulterior motives, even if you hate me, But you are really angry now..." After she finished her last sentence, tears flowed down her cheeks.

It is said that tears are a woman's most powerful weapon, and Ai Jing Chu deeply understands the connotation of this sentence.

His feigned anger has long since disappeared, and the heart in his chest, as if soaked in warm honey water, has melted softly.

"Zeng Li." He called her name.

She raised her tearful eyes to look at him.

Suddenly, there was a movement in the kitchen, as if the soup in the saucepan splashed out and poured onto the fire. Ai Jing Chu reacted quickly, and immediately got up and went to the kitchen to turn down the fire.

When he turned around, he didn't want to bump into Zeng Li who was following him.

Zeng Li's face just hit his shoulder, she subconsciously protected her chin first, but she couldn't avoid the rub, the force and speed were not great, but it still hurt.

Her wound hurt, and she was a little anemic, and her head was dizzy. She couldn't help reaching out to grab the handle of the refrigerator on the side, and leaned over.

"Did you hit the wound?" he asked.

She waved her hands in pain, and leaned her back against the refrigerator door, trying to breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the refrigerator was quite large and fully supported her.

Ai Jing Chu's heart twitched, "Let me see."

He reached out, carefully peeled off the tape and gauze, and checked with his face sideways. She was standing in the narrow gap between him and the refrigerator, and he was half a head taller than her, so he had been bending over just now.

But at this moment, neither he nor her mind was elsewhere.

She raised her chin obediently so that he could see more clearly, and in this way, the tears just now were fully revealed.

After confirming that he was fine, Ai Jing Chu heaved a sigh of relief.

"Be careful when walking and sleeping these days, and don't get it wet." He reminded, while carefully restoring the gauze.

"Oh."

After Ai Jing Chu smoothed the tape, his eyes fell on her tearful eyes just now, and suddenly remembered what he hadn't finished talking just now, "Actually, there is one more sentence." He said.

He didn't get out of her way in time, and still trapped her between himself and the refrigerator.

"Huh?" She gently touched the gauze outside.

"I asked you something on the phone last time, do you remember?" he asked looking into her eyes.

"What?"

"I ask you, is your heart still there?"

Zeng Li stopped what she was doing, did he really ask this? At that time, he directly picked up the phone, and after that, he never mentioned it again, so she thought for a while that she had heard wrong, or that she had misunderstood.

He didn't wait for her to answer, but buried his head a little further, bringing the distance between the two faces closer.

Zeng Li could almost feel his breath.

Those black eyes appeared in Zeng Li's field of vision so clearly and vividly, the lake-like eyes were so hard to extricate oneself from.

"If it's still there." His eyebrows were brought closer together, his voice lowered, very magnetic, almost breathtaking, "if it's still there, I'll take it away."

After saying these sweet and charming words, his lips came close and kissed the corner of her lips lightly and shallowly.