my friend

"How is he doing?"

In Chen Wei's office, Joyce asked Chen Wei a question.

Chen Wei sat down on the sofa wearily and shook his head.

"Is there anything else I can think of?"

"Just wait for the results of the genetic test in the United States."

"That probability is very low, right?"

"But other tests that can be done, everything is normal. I can't find the reason for the abnormal discharge of his cardiomyocytes..." Chen Wei took off his glasses and gently pinched the bridge of his nose.

"There is no law at all... If it continues like this, maybe one time... it will never be saved..."

"No... definitely not..." Joyce retorted.

"You know it in your heart." Chen Wei did not accept Joyce's comfort.

After a while of silence, Joyce suddenly said:

"You saw it just now..."

"What do you see..." Chen Wei stared at the glasses in his hand, his voice indifferent.

"These years... I understand your concern for Lin Xiao... But did you notice just now, Lin Xiao's eyes on that Marvin... Will they..."

"I'm sorry..." Chen Wei's voice suddenly softened.

"Joyce, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to use you..."

"No...Chen Wei, even if I didn't recommend you to uncle, you are capable enough to be where you are today...There is nothing I'm sorry for... But, I can't wait any longer. I Stayed in Taipei all year this year...this is the last time..."

"...I know...I..." Chen Wei didn't know what to say, walked over and hugged Joyce.

Lin Xiao was fine, Director Shen took everyone back to the Qoros Museum, Lin Xiao and Marvin drove their own cars, and went back to Lin Xiao's home one after the other.

After entering the living room, Lin Xiao went up to the second floor and moved down to a big dog house alone.Brother Six jumped up and down excitedly.

"Come back just to get this?" Marvin was very happy when he saw that Lin Xiao seemed to be going to his home with Sixth Brother.

"You take Sixth Brother away."

"What do you mean?" Marvin began to feel that Lin Xiao was not in the right mood.

"Brother Six, I can take it away first, how about you? Aren't you together?"

Lin Xiao shook his head.

Brother Six took out the food bowl from the kennel, and squatted obediently aside, thinking that dinner would be served later.

"Uh..." Marvin hesitated for a moment and said, "I know you've been very busy recently, Brother Six, I'll take it for you first, and come to see us when you're done." Marvin said in a casual manner.

"How to make it..." He said to himself again: "How to make it seem like I'm afraid of you."

"Also," he suddenly remembered something, and took out a few tickets from his pocket.

"This is the ticket for the preview of this year's spring auction. When the time comes, you and Director Shiyuan Shen will come to see it."

"Thank you." Lin Xiao didn't reach out to take it.

"I'm not interested in."

"What's wrong? What happened?" Marvin tensed up.

"It's nothing, I'm very busy with work, and I don't have time." Lin Xiao's voice was the same as usual.

"Something must have happened! Have you... met Ms. Sterling?" Marvin boldly guessed.

Lin Xiao didn't answer.

"I know...she's your mother after all...if she asks you..."

"My mother is Xiao Pinyue." Lin Xiao corrected.

"What do you mean?" Marvin knew in his heart that something must have happened. At this moment, he was not angry, but anxious, worried that Lin Xiao had been threatened.

"I said I didn't know any Ms. Stelling."

Lin Xiao denied it so simply, which made Marvin even more confused.

"Just last week, right here... right in front of this painting." Marvin pointed at the New York street scene.

"You share your past with me."

"That's just my story, it has nothing to do with anyone else."

"Okay...okay..." Marvin paced back and forth.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I don't have any other relatives in Taipei. When the time comes, you, me and Sixth Brother, we will celebrate the New Year together."

"...Let's talk about it later." Lin Xiao's tone softened slightly, but his attitude was still cold.

"I shouldn't have let you wade into the muddy water..." Marvin backed down again and again.

"Can I stay here tonight? I'm worried that you fainted for two days in a row."

"Alright..." Lin Xiao said, turning around, "You stay here, I just have to work overtime in the office."

"What the hell do you mean!" Marvin finally couldn't help it.

It was already dark, and the lights were not turned on in the living room, so Marvin couldn't see the expression on Lin Xiao's face clearly.

After a moment of silence, Marvin finally said:

"Okay, okay, you rest first, don't bother."

"Brother Six, let's go."

Marvin picked up Sixth Brother, carried the kennel, and slammed the door away.

Lin Xiao was the only one left, standing alone in the dark living room for a long time.

Everything before the spring auction went smoothly, but as Bolin's boss, Marvin didn't have a trace of joy on his face.Through the glass, Assistant Qin saw Marvin pacing back and forth in the office, sometimes returning to the computer to operate, and sometimes talking on the phone in English.There was a low air pressure in the whole office. Assistant Qin seemed to see countless black tentacles slapping on the glass wall, and couldn't help shivering, ready to run away.

"Qin!" Marvin turned around just in time to see Assistant Qin passing by, and called to him.

"Yes." Assistant Qin entered the office in response, and carefully closed the door behind him, for fear that the terror in Marvin's office would leak out and affect the morale of the entire company.

"You..." Marvin looked Assistant Qin up and down, and seemed to feel that something was wrong.

"Why are you sneaking around?"

"Where is it?" Assistant Qin straightened his shrinking neck and returned to its usual height.

Marvin waved his hand and decided not to delve into it.

"Do you have Dr. Huang's contact information?"

Dr. Huang is the doctor of Marvin's grandfather.

Assistant Qin nodded, "Yes."

"Okay, then, you contact Dr.Huang, and make an appointment with Dr.Andrew through him." Marvin issued an order, and at the same time handed Assistant Qin a sealed document bag, "If you get in touch, fax this information."

"Okay." Assistant Qin was about to reach out to pick it up, but Marvin suddenly turned his hand away, "You can only open it when you have an appointment."

In the file bag is Lin Xiao's case information that Marvin managed to sort out.

"Don't worry." Assistant Qin took the file bag, and then whispered, "I can't understand medical English."

"En." Marvin waved his hand to signal Assistant Qin to leave, so Assistant Qin left the office.

Then Marvin suddenly came back to his senses and hissed, "This Qin, you know too much!"

Fortunately, Assistant Qin had already fled.

Marvin sank into the couch, letting out a long sigh.Many things, knowing and accepting are two different concepts.From the first day he knew Lin Xiao, he knew Lin Xiao's physical condition, but it was still very difficult to accept that Lin Xiao was a patient.

On the last weekend before the Spring Festival, in the apartment Li Shiyuan and Tan Jialin rented, Tan Jialin was helping Li Shiyuan draw her eyebrows.

"Don't draw too much..." Li Shiyuan muttered softly.

"Can't you trust my craftsmanship?" Tan Jialin still had a mask on her face, and when she spoke, the muscles on her face moved weirdly, which caused Li Shiyuan to chuckle.

"Don't move!" Tan Jialin chiseled Li Shiyuan's head violently.

"The animation is crooked again!"

"Oh..." Shiyuan wiggled her little feet obediently.

"You said Marvin would ask me out again, but he hasn't called me for a long time."

"If he doesn't make an appointment, there will be someone else, so you have to dress up every day. Well..." Tan Jialin looked at Li Shiyuan's pink and tender face, and was very satisfied with her craftsmanship.

"You are not young, don't you have any plans?"

After tidying up Shiyuan, Tan Jialin began to work hard on her face.

"What's the plan?"

"You don't feel anything about Marvin?"

"I only saw him two or three times."

"Then... where's your Teacher Lin? After all, he's not your teacher. Why do you always call him Teacher Lin?"

"...I don't know either. I just like to call it that." Li Shiyuan shook her little feet.

Tan Jialin stopped suddenly and stared at Li Shiyuan.

"Ms. Lin is very suitable for you."

"What? You mean Teacher Lin and me?" Although Li Shiyuan was innocent, she was not stupid. Of course she understood what Tan Jialin meant.

"That's impossible!" She shook her head like a rattle.

"Ms. Lin is handsome and has a steady personality."

"Of course, there are many people who like Teacher Lin."

"So you don't take the initiative."

"Mr. Lin has never..."

"I ask you," Tan Jialin interrupted Shiyuan, "If you don't like Teacher Lin, why do you run to his office all day?"

"I have work to do..."

"The publicity center and the repair center are so far away, can't you call if something happens?"

"...I want to be active..." Li Shiyuan's voice gradually weakened.

Seeing Zhong Shiyuan's concern, Tan Jialin smiled happily.

"You little fool, if you like Teacher Lin, you will like it, and you still don't admit it."

"Really not!" Shi Yuan hurriedly stood up and defended.

"Then..." Tan Jialin rolled her eyes, "That's because Mr. Lin has a bad personality, isn't he very cruel to others in private?"

"No, Mr. Lin is the most kind."

"Then does he have particularly bad living habits, shining brightly in front of others, but messy behind others?"

"How come... We have all been to Mr. Lin's house when our colleagues got together, and it was very tidy."

"Then he is actually a poor man?"

"Impossible, the restoration center is the one with the highest income in our museum."

"Then is there anything about him that you don't like?" Tan Jialin's trap began to tighten.

Li Shiyuan thought about it carefully.

"No, I like every aspect of Teacher Lin."

"Ha! Hire it!" Tan Jialin looked proud.

Li Shiyuan was taken aback by her.

"...You mean, the person I like is Teacher Lin?"

"If it's not enough to say that you like him, at least you have a good impression of him." Tan Jialin said very pertinently.

"That's just..." Li Shiyuan couldn't think of an excuse.

"It turns out that I like Teacher Lin..."

Thinking of Mr. Lin makes me feel at ease.She shook her head and sat firmly in Tan Jialin's trap.

"Come on!" Seeing this, Tan Jialin took the phone.

"What?"

"I'll order a pig's heart soup, you go and get the thermos, and you, take this can of love soup to visit Teacher Lin's class."

"Huh?" Li Shiyuan opened his mouth wide.

"Don't talk about it, but say it's your soup."

"That...that..."

"Didn't you say that Teacher Lin is working overtime on weekends? It's reasonable for you to visit the class today."

"Then...then..." Li Shiyuan stammered.

"I dare not go... Isn't that a lie?"

"You don't even understand the jokes, you're so stupid!" Tan Jialin poked Li Shiyuan's head and dialed the takeaway number.

"That's right." Putting down the phone, Tan Jialin seemed to suddenly remember something.

"You said that the last time he fainted was because his heart was uncomfortable. He didn't have a heart attack, did he?"

"How could it be, Mr. Lin... Judging by her figure, I know she exercises regularly..." Shiyuan suddenly remembered something, her face flushed suddenly.

"Oh...that's okay, but it's too...hey, forget it, if it doesn't work, I'll let you practice your hands."

"Oh, what are you talking about!" Li Shiyuan stomped her feet in shame.

"It's only been a few minutes, and Teacher Lin can't say anything!" Tan Jialin covered her mouth and laughed.

"I'm all dressed up anyway, shall I go with you?"

"En!" Li Shiyuan pouted her mouth and nodded vigorously.