Then the ward door was pushed open, and Liang Shi rushed in with a nervous expression, "Are you alright?"
Xu Qingzhu frowned and stared at her, her hand already on the emergency call button, but suddenly a bottle of unopened water was handed to her.
Liang Shi said gently, "If you need, I can unscrew the cap for you."
Surely unopened water can't be dangerous anymore, right?
“This is warm water,” Liang Shi said. “I’ve been keeping it warm in my hands.”
Xu Qingzhu stared at her without moving.
There was a sense of unfamiliarity with the person in front of me.
This doesn't seem like the Liang Shi I know.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Liang Shi felt a little flustered, but he pretended to be calm and said, "Do you want me to help you open it?"
She was about to pull her hand back when she said that, but Xu Qingzhu took the bottle of water and said indifferently, "No need."
She held the water in her hand, still warm from Liang Shi's body.
It also has a faint tea aroma, similar to the taste of Baihao Yinzhen (Silver Needle White Tea).
That was a tea that her late grandfather really liked.
Liang Shi had already taken the broom and sweeper from the ward and was bending over to sweep up the broken glass on the floor.
Xu Qingzhu, holding the bottle and watching her unfamiliar movements, suddenly asked, "Who are you?"
Liang Shi paused, looked up and smiled, "I'm Liang Shi."
Xu Qingzhu frowned even more deeply. "Really?"
"Yes, we got married," Liang Shi said. "Have you lost your memory?"
When Liang Shi said this, there was a look of astonishment in his eyes.
Her acting was excellent, so Xu Qingzhu didn't notice anything amiss at this point.
When she reached out to touch Xu Qingzhu's forehead, Xu Qingzhu dodged backward, avoiding her touch.
Xu Qingzhu didn't say anything more.
Liang Shi cleaned up the debris on the ground, but when he turned around, he saw Xu Qingzhu struggling with the bottle cap.
The sick Omega was weak and powerless, unable to even open a bottle cap, making it difficult to even get a sip of water. Liang Shi rushed over, stood there hesitantly, and asked, "How about I do it?"
Xu Qingzhu kept her head down and tried, her pink fingernails turning pale from the force.
Liang Shi couldn't stand it and reached out to take it, her fingers landing right on Xu Qingzhu's fingers.
It was clearly a simple touch, but Xu Qingzhu suddenly looked up.
Liang Shi belatedly tried to pull her hand back, but in that instant, Xu Qingzhu's fingers gently brushed across her palm.
It brought a tingling, itchy sensation.
Her heart suddenly started beating several beats faster.
Chapter 6
The ward was quiet, and Xu Qingzhu was sipping water.
She drank water with great elegance, clearly having received proper etiquette training. Her beautiful swan neck stretched out, revealing exquisitely graceful lines, and sunlight danced on her skin.
It's a very beautiful scene.
Liang Shi was unconsciously lost in thought until Xu Qingzhu finished drinking her water, screwed the cap back on the bottle, and placed it on the cabinet. Then, her eyes glanced over indifferently, "What are you looking at?"
Liang Shi: "..."
She awkwardly looked away.
Liang Shi was not a man of many words, and even after several years in the entertainment industry, he still maintained a solitary lifestyle.
If it weren't for her good acting skills, she really wouldn't have been able to survive in the entertainment industry.
She has always believed that getting along with others means exchanging sincerity for sincerity.
So when Sun Chengcheng showed her goodwill, she didn't take much precautions, but she didn't expect to be tricked.
Thinking about these things, Liang Shi also became depressed.
For a long time, neither of them spoke.
Finally, Xu Qingzhu broke the silence, "After you are discharged from the hospital, I will have my lawyer prepare the relevant documents. I will not take a single penny of your property. Before, you..."
She paused, her voice growing colder, though it seemed she was trying to appear calm, "The Liang family helped the Xu family..."
The sudden, loud ringtone interrupted Xu Qingzhu's words.
Liang Shi looked at her first, then belatedly realized that it was his own phone ringing.
Liang Shi: "..."
This ringtone is really awful.
She took out her phone, covered the receiver, bowed slightly, and said to Xu Qingzhu, "I'm sorry."
Then I looked at the screen and saw Cheng Ran.
"Hello," Liang Shi answered, deliberately lowering his voice, "What do you want?"
It was a bit noisy on Cheng Ran's end, but her voice came through very clearly; she was loud, "Where are you?"
“The hospital,” Liang Shi said.
Cheng Ran frowned. "I'm at the hospital too, why haven't I seen you? Or is it..."
She paused for a moment, then quickly guessed, "You're not in your own ward, you're with Xu Qingzhu?"
Liang Shi glanced at Xu Qingzhu somewhat guiltily, then immediately said with a righteous expression, "Yes."
"What are you doing? Going to apologize with a thorn on your back?" Cheng Ran teased casually. "Then I'll go to Xu Qingzhu's place now and take a look while I'm at it."
"Don't come," Liang Shi refused.
"What's wrong? I'm Xu Qingzhu's friend, and she's sick. Can't I even come to visit?" Cheng Ran's tone left no room for negotiation. "I'm already here, I can't just leave without doing anything. Why are you so resistant? Could it be... that you really want to be a good lover?"
After saying that, she laughed to herself, "Come on, everyone knows who's who."
"Cheng Ran," Liang Shi called her, his tone carrying a subtle warning.
Cheng Ran didn't care. "I'll be there soon. Come out and meet me."
The call was disconnected immediately after I finished speaking.
Liang Shi frowned as he looked at his phone screen, then looked at Xu Qingzhu, only to find that she had already turned away and was no longer looking at him.
Worried that Cheng Ran might come to Xu Qingzhu's ward and say something that would upset Xu Qingzhu, she immediately told Xu Qingzhu, "A friend of mine is coming to see me, I have to go now."
Xu Qingzhu did not respond.
“If anything happens, just press the emergency call button,” Liang Shi said. “Or call me. Your phone is by the bedside; I’ve charged it for you. And…”
Liang Shi glanced at the phone with the matching phone case as his own, lowered his eyes, and said, "I've recovered all your data. There was no password set, so you can set one yourself. Also, I've deleted all the copied data, including the USB drive that stored your information. I've destroyed it. I won't touch your phone again, and I won't invade your privacy."
After taking Xu Qingzhu's phone, the original owner copied all the data to a USB drive. While waiting outside, Liang Shi thought of this and went to a mobile phone store to finish the task as quickly as possible. He also bought Xu Qingzhu a new phone in case she was upset.
"There's another phone that's brand new and unopened. If you don't want to use your old phone, you can insert the SIM card and use the new one." As Liang Shi spoke, she could already hear the clicking of high heels in the corridor, and she guessed it was Cheng Ran.
There's no one else but her who can walk around in a hospital wearing sky-high heels.
Liang Shi immediately cut to the chase, saying, "Take good care of yourself. I'm leaving now. I'll come see you later."
After saying that, she walked quickly out of the ward.
The moment she stepped out of the ward, Xu Qingzhu, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes.
She was not asleep.
She heard everything Liang Shi said.
Moreover, she has had good hearing since childhood, and she heard what Cheng Ran said on the phone.
Not only that, she also heard the frivolous and disrespectful things Liang Shi had said to her and others in the past.
She just didn't say it.
Because the Xu family was on the verge of bankruptcy, it was Liang Shi who married her and injected a considerable amount of money into the Xu family, which saved the company. Therefore, she felt guilty and always swallowed her anger.
Moreover, she had feelings for Liang Shi.
In her memory, Liang Shi had always been the girl who, even when kidnapped, would bravely seek a way to survive and would encourage her to escape together, not the cynical, spoiled, willful, and promiscuous girl she is now.
Memories don't change, but people do.
Liang Shi was no longer the person she remembered.
While lying in bed suffering from her heat, she finally came to realize the truth.
Even though Liang Shi now says he won't hurt her, makes repeated assurances, and has improved his behavior, she will never trust him again.
She only wanted to divorce Liang Shi.
Then she joined the company to help her father. She had an MBA, but her father was always worried about her health and didn't let her get involved in company affairs.
As Xu Qingzhu was thinking, her phone vibrated slightly.
[Mom: My dear Bamboo, has your sister contacted you?]
Xu Qingzhu frowned. [No.]
Xu Qingzhu has a younger sister named Xu Qingya, who is 15 years old and just started high school. She is going through puberty and is somewhat rebellious.
Before she got married, Xu Qingya often argued with her parents at home, and she was caught in the middle as a mediator.
When she got married, Xu Qingya cried her eyes out and promised her that she would be a good girl and listen to her parents from now on.
This promise remained in effect for four months.
This was at least the first time her mother had contacted her to inquire about Xu Qingya's situation since she got married.
She replied: "No."