"Mucen, let me tell you..."
He was watching her with uncontained ecstasy when suddenly, someone pushed the door open. He glanced over, was startled, and quickly loosened his fingers to put the eye patch back on her face.
The person who entered was Ji Chengzhi, with an expression that seemed to contain an uncontrollable excitement.
"No, it’s just...what are you doing?" Ji Chengzhi was truly agitated. Although he couldn’t be certain yet, the feeling that something was amiss made his heart start beating wildly.
Seeing his expression, Ou Mucen casually stood up from beside the hospital bed: "Nothing much, just cleaning the area where she got her injection. Why are you here? Isn’t it not yet time for her injection?"
Ji Chengzhi shook his head, wanting to say something, but after thinking it over, he decided to speak only once he was sure.
Thus, two months after he had announced that this woman was brain dead, he proposed for the first time to have her go through a check-up.
When Ou Mucen heard this, he paused, "Why does she need a check-up? Didn’t you say she was brain dead?"
It was a bit ironic and somewhat mocking...
Indeed, it was he who had told him she was dead, and now he wanted to do a check-up for her? Wasn’t this ironic?
Ji Chengzhi saw his reaction and felt a little embarrassed: "Yes, but you’ve always believed that she would come back to life, right? So there’s no harm in doing another check for her, is there?"
Ji Chengzhi meant well; even if there was likely no hope for the woman after the check-up, he still hoped to look into it.
However, what surprised him was that the man who had always wanted this woman to live, upon hearing his suggestion, rejected it outright without a second thought: "No need, I know enough that she will come back to life!"
One sentence, enough to leave you utterly dumbfounded!
Ji Chengzhi didn’t know what to do. Trying to forcibly take her for a check-up was simply impossible. With him watching over her as if guarding something precious, attempting to move her would likely end up tearing him apart.
But without the check-up, he would be unable to ascertain her true condition.
So in the end, he could only stand there, looking at the two people in the hospital room before finally leaving, defeated.
Forget it, he would find another time. On his territory, it would be easy for him to find an opportunity to check on her.
But what he didn’t know was that immediately after he left, the man left in the intensive care unit’s brow furrowed tightly: "Ningning, it seems he’s discovered you; this is getting troublesome&"
After drawing the curtains over the glass windows, he casually removed the respirator from her face...
A respirator is not exactly a great thing; used perpetually, it can easily cause infections in one’s own organs.
So, from the day she could breathe on her own, he had removed it. Only when Ji Chengzhi came to administer injections or when nurses came to clean did he put it on her to keep up appearances.
At all other times, she didn’t wear it.
Yet now, Ji Chengzhi claimed he wanted to take her for a check-up!
It seems he really did suspect something was off. After all, it had been two months, and using those injections as a pretext, he had deceived them for two months; the fact that it took Ji Chengzhi this long to notice was quite dull.
He poured himself a glass of water and sat down at the small table near the window at the far end.