The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 59 Extra Story [-]: Don't Be Afraid I'm Here

One and a half months after waking up from the operation, I recovered and was discharged from the hospital.

However, according to what the nurse Yanzhi and the attending physician said, my so-called recovery is just a term I use to comfort myself.In the eyes of the attending physician, even though the cancer had completely disappeared, as long as the five-year period for cancer has not expired, it means that I have not been cured.In Gu Yanzhi's eyes, even if the five-year period passes, I still haven't been cured. The so-called five-year survival rate is not safe enough in his eyes, maybe ten years is about the same.

He was so cautious, which made me feel a little secretly painful.For example, shortly after waking up from the operation, the moment I was taken off the oxygen mask by the doctor, the feeling of breathing the real natural air again could not be more wonderful, as if the whole person was just a kite that was just blown up by the spring breeze, and was just thinking about happiness. He floated freely, but was quickly dragged back to the ground cruelly by Gu Yanzhi.He was holding a glass of water in one hand, and in the other hand were colorful pills. He was dressed in a beige dress that couldn't be more beautiful, and he looked tall and slender. Take these pills first."

I said:"……"

And yet, despite the pills you swallow every day, the regular check-ups, and the slow and grueling recovery, it's nice to be alive.

I can still breathe the air of this city, see the warm and clear sunshine above my head, and feel the coolness of the water droplets.And my favorite person in the world.I can feel his body temperature, his heartbeat, and a faint smile extending from the corner of his lips.

These are too easy things for others.For me, it is very important.On the day I was discharged from the hospital, I seriously said to Gu Yanzhi: "I think now, God seems to be kind indeed. Such a small probability event in this world can actually happen to me. This kind of miracle is still a little bit dare not. Believe it, what do you say?"

He held my hand on his lap, with a smile at the end of his eyes: "Is that how you thank God?"

I tried to pull my hand back without changing my face, but he held it tighter.There were trees passing by slowly outside the car window, and the car was quiet and peaceful. I tried harder, but still failed.In the end, there was nothing to do, and he turned his head a little angrily: "Just touch it, so what! Can't you touch it! I didn't say anything when you sneaked back on weekdays!"

He smiled and said, "What do you mean I'm sneaky? I'm always aboveboard, okay?"

"..."

One month after being discharged from the hospital, we went to the Civil Affairs Bureau.The staff in charge of handling the formalities looked at us for a moment, and said slowly, "Aren't you—Gu Dushi?"

I swallowed, handed over the account book with both hands, and said calmly, "Ah."

As he took it over, he said, "Why are you here again?"

"Aren't you asking knowingly? This is the marriage registration office. Of course we are here to register the marriage."

"Of course I know that you are here to get married." He smiled and said, "What I'm asking is, how did you get divorced in the first place?"

I said:"……"

Silently looking at Gu Yanzhi who was at the side, the latter grabbed my hand, squeezed it twice, and then replied lightly: "Accident."

I said:"……"

The staff member on the opposite side said: "This is a general statement. How do I remember that it was not said in the newspaper? Didn't it say that it was because of the disharmony between husband and wife?"

I said, "Why are you so gossiping as a staff member?"

The gossip staff smiled again, stamped two official seals on the marriage certificate, and asked when handing it back, "Will accidents happen again in the future?"

I glanced at Gu Yanzhi, turned my head and said calmly, "Even if it happens, I won't divorce again."

The back of his hand was pinched, Gu Yanzhi said with a smile: "This kind of accident will never happen again."

Gu Yanzhi discussed with me and set the wedding date in May of the next year.The heat of summer completely dissipated in T City, and penetrated bit by bit into late autumn in November.The north in this period was always depressed and beautiful. Looking out every morning, you can see that the ground is covered with the unique golden texture of the north.However, Gu Yanzhi said that the north in this season is not conducive to recuperation, so he proposed to go to the seaside with a tropical monsoon climate in the south for a vacation for a while before returning.I asked what to do with the company's affairs, and his answer was: "It doesn't matter."

I hesitated for a moment and said, "Is it really okay? But didn't your secretary come to see you at home this morning with a hurried face?"

He squeezed my palm, pulled me to sit on his lap, and said with a smile: "But when she returned to the company later, didn't her expression calm down? This shows that there is really nothing serious."

I always feel that Gu Yanzhi is hiding some things from me during my illness.

For example, during the time I was hospitalized, there was a major financial leak in the Gu Corporation, and several senior executives chased and intercepted Gu Yanzhi outside the hospital ward, but Gu Yanzhi always ignored it.This is an event that was reported by the T city media a while ago.Another example is that not long afterward, a senior executive of the Gu Corporation was exposed to a spy scandal and was forced to resign. During that time, the secretary came to the house to look for Gu Yanzhi very diligently. Gu Yanzhi was only willing to meet her once, and he only answered one sentence: " Follow the procedures."

He never told me about these things.It was only by chance that I got a few words from the housekeeper, that I was able to have Gu Yanzhi have other affairs besides my illness in the past few months.However, he always played it lightly.At a later dinner party, I took advantage of Gu Yanzhi's spare time to answer the phone, and asked Jiang Yannan who came to talk to me about these questions. The latter smiled and asked me: "Why don't you ask Gu Yanzhi?"

"I asked."

"Then what did he tell you?"

"...He just said it was nothing serious."

"That's really not a big deal." Jiang Yannan said casually, "You might as well think about it this way, even if a miracle happens, there must be some price to prepare for it, right? There will be gains only when there is loss, this is a matter of course. Otherwise, how could you easily get the blessing from heaven? Since Gu Yanzhi doesn't care about it himself, you don't have to care about it too much."

"But, will things get better in the company?"

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and the answer with a smile was still very simple: "With your Gu Yanzhi's wisdom and martial arts, why is there any doubt?"

When he said this, I couldn't ask anything else.Jiang Yannan stuffed an apple into her mouth, then changed the subject and asked, "How do you feel after being born again?"

"..." I said, "it's actually okay. It's been so many days since I was discharged from the hospital, but I still have to take those medicines three times a day. I don't know if you can understand that some pills are sweet, but one day After taking three meals for several months, it is no different from the bitter one. So every time he takes the medicine now, it actually seems that Gu Yanzhi is a little annoying."

As soon as my words fell, I heard a deep voice not far behind, saying calmly: "Who said you hate it? Say it again?"

I said:"……"

When Jiang Yannan left, Gu Yanzhi said, "The oven at home seems to be broken, shall we go to the mall tomorrow?"

I hummed and stared at him without blinking.Until he stared at Gu Yanzhi so much that he turned to look at me: "What's wrong?"

I said, "Yanyan."

Gu Yanzhi's movements froze, the flesh in the spoon almost fell out, he calmed down, and turned his head: "What do you call me?"

I said, "Hey, I just heard from Jiang Yannan that this was your childhood nickname, isn't it?"

He quickly denied it: "No."

"To be honest, I don't really trust you..."

"Really." Gu Yanzhi only paused for a second, and soon a smile appeared on his face, "Jiang Yannan's nickname is Yanyan, didn't he tell you by the way?"

I said, "You must be lying to me again, aren't you? How could Jiang Yannan's nickname be Yanyan? No matter what, he should be called Nannan, okay?"

"In theory, that's right." Gu Yanzhi said calmly, "But at that time, there was a neighbor's child named Xi Jinnan in the community, and he was born a few months earlier than Jiang Yannan, so he could only be called Yanyan gone."

"..."

I still don't think it's credible, but I can't think about it. Gu Yanzhi asked again: "What else did Jiang Yannan tell you?"

"Do you really want to know?"

He said with certainty: "That's right."

I cleared my throat, made a movement of pinching the cuff buttons, then tilted my head slightly, lowered my eyelids, then lowered my voice, imitating Gu Yanzhi's tone of voice in the past, and said slowly: "Yanyan, Jiang Yannan said you disdain others When you look at it, it looks like this."

Gu Yanzhi said: "..."

Then he lowered his body and made a vague gesture of sitting with his legs folded together, with one hand resting on it, while sweeping the corners of his eyes.I said, "Jiang Yannan also said that you usually look like this when you are a little shy."

Gu Yanzhi said: "..."

He looked at me silently for a moment, then took a step towards me.I followed and took a step back.Then another step forward, another step back.Do this three times, until there is no way to retreat, and Gu Yanzhi forced him to sit at the dining table, and saw the corners of his eyes slightly raised.I was a little incoherent: "You, you, what do you want to do, this is a public place, a public place! Don't mess around!"

He whispered: "Guess what I want to do? There will be a reward for guessing right."

"I don't guess!"

He was still talking, and someone happened to come over with a glass of wine to strike up a conversation.Gu Yanzhi smiled a little, turned his head slightly, raised the end of his eyes slightly, and whispered a few words from his lips: "Go back and deal with you."

Life is slowly returning to the way it was before in these small things, step by step without much disturbance.Go to a dinner party together, watch a movie together, drink the same bowl of soup together, prune flowers and branches together, and go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities together.Gu Yanzhi has always dragged me to go to the supermarket to buy the daily expenses of the family, basically once every two weeks, and never handed over to others.And every time he went to the supermarket, Gu Yanzhi always attracted a lot of attention.Once I said to him: "Hey, have you noticed that many girls around you are looking at you?"

"I don't think so." He finished casually, then lowered his head and turned over the small cart, "It seems that I haven't bought sanitary napkins yet, are there any at home?"

"..."

It's just that sometimes I faintly feel that Gu Yanzhi seems to have not recovered from the miracle of my near-death resurrection.

This is specifically manifested in the fact that sometimes when I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night, I will find a lonely little lamp on the bedside.The light is dim, and it is basically difficult to affect sleep, but it can be used to see the appearance of Gu Yanzhi beside him.Several times when I woke up, I saw him lying on his side, but he was not asleep. Instead, he rested on one hand, opened his eyes, and his eyes fell on my face, containing some deep and complicated emotions.

At first I didn't pay attention to it, but asked him vaguely why he didn't sleep, but his answer was always that he drank too much tea at night and lacked sleepiness.After Gu Yanzhi drank too much tea for about five or six times, I finally figured out something unusual.This happened again and again, I waited for him to turn off the light again, and asked him directly: "Are you still worried about me, and one day I will be gone?"

His movements paused, and he denied: "No."

I skipped his words automatically.Touching his back in the dark, he patted him reassuringly.He was a little dumbfounded: "What are you going to do?"

"Comfort you." I said, "Don't think that you will lose face if you expose me. In fact, it's nothing. It doesn't matter if you admit it."

He laughed and didn't speak.Take my hand back.Every inch of bone was kneaded by him in the palm of his hand.And I said, "And, look, it's nice that you've been omnipotent all the time. But it's also very human when omnipotent people show a little vulnerability every now and then."

He said, "Who told you this?"

"...that's what's said in TV and movies."

He groaned and said, "Those are all lies."

"..."

After a long time, he finally heard him speak slowly again: "Sometimes I'm a little scared. I think of you being in my arms that night, and you wouldn't open your eyes no matter how I called you. That feeling is very cold, like... "

I hugged him tightly and interrupted his words: "It's all over, I'm here. Didn't the doctor say when I was discharged from the hospital that there is no luckier person in this world than me, and I will always Those who accompany you down will definitely do this. I will stay by your side all the time, until someday you think I am bored. "

He was silent for a while, and said: "I don't know if you are annoying, but I just feel..."

"What do you think?"

I felt a hand slowly moving upstream along the hollow of the leg, bringing a shuddering feeling.Immediately, I was a little out of breath: "Hey, you, what do you want to do!"

His chin was bitten, and his voice was hoarse and low: "What do you say I'm going to do?"

"But when you asked last time, didn't the doctor say that you should at least see it after the next reexamination..."

"So," he said slowly, "it's just a touch tonight."

"..."

"You don't like it?"

"..." I licked my lips and said with difficulty, "Aren't we talking about serious things?"

"It's also one of the serious things."

"..."

T city has entered from late autumn to early winter. When it entered December and the temperature dropped below zero in the evening, Gu Yanzhi took me to S city, which has a warm climate all year round.

On the second day when we came to S City, we went to the beach to catch crabs at night.The coast is long and narrow, and the tide kisses the ankles.Gu Yanzhi was wearing white clothes, rolled up his trouser legs, stepped barefoot in the sea water, and directed me to turn on the flashlight to shine on the sea water, and soon there were crabs crawling over the reef clumsily and quickly.But in a short time, he had already filled the two bags he brought with him.

There were two pairs of footprints on the way here.It was cut in half when I went back.I lay on Gu Yanzhi's back, and the light from the coast dragged out two long overlapping shadows.I carried a bag in each hand, and discussed with Gu Yanzhi how to eat these crabs.He said steamed, I said braised, he said he could consider half steamed and half braised, I said I just want to braise them all, and threatened to throw the two bags of crabs back into the sea if I dared to steam them. His arms loosened, and he was so frightened that he immediately hugged Gu Yanzhi's neck tightly, and then the two bags fell into the sand.

Watching the crabs get out of the bag and run around, I said: "..."

Gu Yanzhi said: "..."

We stayed in S City for two and a half months in peace.Such a long time is enough to see the best scenery of the city in the season and taste the best food in the city.However, the person I like, I have known him for 11 years, still has a deep voice that I never tire of listening to, and his gestures are still calm and calm, which makes people fascinated.

It's just that a wise man like Gu Yanzhi also has a day when he catches a bad cold.Half a month after returning to T City, Gu Yanzhi woke up early one morning. At first, Gu Yanzhi only had a stuffy nose, but at night he developed a cough and a low-grade fever.After swallowing the pills, he was half-drowsy and flipping through magazines by the bedside. In my impression, I have rarely seen Gu Yanzhi sick for so many years, so that now when I see him sickly, my first reaction is to feel unkind. Something fresh.

When it was time to go to bed at night, I came out of the bathroom, and Gu Yan was no longer in the master bedroom.Walking into the corridor, I found that the door of the next room was not closed tightly, and I gently pushed it open. In the dim light, there was a faint figure on the bed not far away.

3 minutes later.Gu Yanzhi said: "Wanwan, go back to the master's bed and sleep."

I said, "I don't want to go back."

He said: "You are not healthy enough to sleep together at night, and viral colds can easily spread to you."

I said, "But I'm cold."

He said: "Go to bed at night and cover the quilt tightly."

"Then what if you kick the quilt?"

"You haven't had this bad habit for so many years."

"Maybe there will be one tonight, what should I do?"

"..."

I said, "I feel like I need human warmth."

"..."

I added: "And I have a hunch I'm going to have another nightmare tonight."

"..."

Gu Yanzhi was completely silent.I put the pillow I carried on the head of the bed, pulled away the single corner of his quilt, and quickly got into it.In the dark, she groped to his waist, then put her arms around her and pressed them tightly.It was obvious that Gu Yanzhi was stiff, and I said, "Hey, it's already so close anyway, it doesn't matter if it gets any closer, right?"

He said nasally: "Nonsense."

There are shadows of flowering branches outside the window, hanging thinly on the wall through the moonlight.I touched his palm, still feeling a little hot.Say, "Are you feeling cold? How about going to the doctor tomorrow?"

He tucked the quilt behind me tighter and said, "No."

I said, "So, are you sleepy now?"

I heard him smile inside: "What do you want if you are sleepy? What do you want if you are not sleepy?"

"Sleep if you're sleepy, if you're not sleepy," I paused, nonchalantly, "I'll tell you a story to lull you to sleep, okay? Just like you lulled me back then."

His smile grew stronger: "What story do you want to tell?"

"... How about teaching you how to dig Gastrodia elata in the mountains?"

"I don't really want to hear this, what should I do?"

"Then teach you how to dig the Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains?"

"..."

Time passed by carelessly like this, and after the new year, it seemed that it was just a blink of an eye, and it was late spring.The roses in the corner of the courtyard are in full bloom, and the wedding will be held in less than a month.Gu Yanzhi and I went back to the mountain to visit the tomb as usual at this time.The graves of my father and mother survived the mudslide last year. When we went up the mountain, the pine trees planted next to the tomb were still lush and green, and they had grown to the height of a person.

It's been so many years in the blink of an eye.

Gu Yanzhi was wearing black clothes and black trousers, standing in front of the tomb with a very solemn look.I put the bouquet in front of the tombstone, and when I straightened up, I saw the picture of my father on the tombstone, and suddenly realized that I hadn't seen my father in my dream for a long time.

I even realized with horror that if it wasn't for the reminder from the photo on the tombstone, I wouldn't remember my father's voice and smile very much, and even the outline of his face would become blurred and shallow.

This is something that was never thought possible.Many years ago, when I first settled down in Gu's house, Gu Yanzhi edited the photos taken by my father when he was still in T city, and put them in the most eye-catching place on the table in the study.Frankly speaking, although I was grateful to Gu Yanzhi for his carefulness at the time, I actually didn't really care about the placement of that photo.Because I always vividly remember the appearance of my father.I even confidently think that I am sure to remember my father's appearance until I grow old.

It wasn't until I went back to T City after sweeping the tomb this time, and went straight to the study to see the photos, that I finally accepted my fate. I was indeed gradually forgetting my father.I don't remember his face clearly anymore, and I can't even remember his movements and things he did.

This feeling is very scary.Until one day Gu Yanzhi saw the clue.We were sitting on the sofa together discussing the guest list for the wedding day, when suddenly he asked, "I miss my father a lot recently?"

I was dumbfounded for a while, and said in a low voice, "Did you see it?"

He smiled: "Tell me?"

I told Gu Yanzhi about my worries, and he just hummed, twirling a lock of my hair with his fingertips, and his tone was always calm: "Maybe it's just the end of many years of wish, maybe I can leave with peace of mind?"

"But……"

"A few months ago, there was a beautiful girl lying on the hospital bed with weak breathing and refusing to wake up. I had a discussion with her father in the dark." Gu Yanzhi said in a low voice, "I told him Said, he can take anything from me, as long as he is willing to give me this girl back. As long as he does this favor, I can assure him that I will take over the rest of this girl's life, I believe I Well looked after. No need for him to worry. He said yes."

I opened my mouth and whispered, "You're lying again."

There was a little smile on his face, his palm slowly rubbing against my back, and he stopped talking.After a while, I couldn't help asking: "Is this really true? How do you know he agreed?"

He looked down at me, feeling his fingertips brushing his eyelids with gentle movements.Hearing his comforting low tone: "Whether it's true or not, you are here now. So, sometimes you can barely believe it, right?"

I froze for a moment, suddenly choked up and couldn't speak.After a while, he asked with a trembling voice: "Actually, it's not that simple, right? You just told me a little bit of the truth. When I was sick, you spent a lot of effort in places I didn't know about, right?"

There was a little smile in the corner of his eyes, and he said softly: "Didn't you say that I am omnipotent, huh?"

Nod hard.Finally, she couldn't help but hugged his waist and burst into tears.

Have you ever believed that there is happiness in this world?

Have you ever believed in miracles in this world?

Do you believe that if you love very much, maybe one day, you can really create a miracle that belongs to you alone?

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