because i'm pretty

The ring was lying on the palm of his hand, Yuan Zhiming stared at it blankly.He didn't put it on for a long time, and he couldn't bear to put it down.

Li Yikai said that he was impatient, but in fact he was a hunter with ease. He waited quietly, and then asked, "Are you hesitating?"

Yuan Zhiming cupped his hands and held the ring tightly.

He mustered up the courage to admit: "I may be sick."

"So?" Li Yikai remained calm, "What does this have to do with whether you promise me or not?"

"It does matter, I mean..."

"Family inherited polycystic kidney disease", Li Yikai interrupted him, "I know, it will be the same as Uncle Yuan, I saw it, so what?"

"You know..."

Yuan Zhiming repeated vaguely, eyes dodging, "The test results will be out tomorrow..."

"Don't interrupt Yuan Zhiming, what does it have to do with the test results? Right now, what is your answer?"

Li Yikai still kept his voice down, but his aura obviously increased sharply. He pressed questions every sentence, revealing that he was not without complaints, and he also had emotions towards Yuan Zhiming's attitude.

"I thought we made it clear from the very beginning, poor and rich, sick and healthy." He clasped the box in his hand, and put it in Yuan Zhiming's hand together with the remaining ring inside.

"Its meaning is that no matter what accidents, whether we can predict or not, we will never be separated from each other."

"I didn't want to be separated from you," Yuan Zhiming shook his head, holding two rings at a loss.He looked at Yuan Songqing on the hospital bed, and then at Li Yikai.

"I can't tell, you don't understand," he said in a panic, "My dad has been trapped by this promise all his life, he has been..."

Yuan Zhiming's defense came to an abrupt end. He followed Li Yikai's sudden gaze, and saw Yuan Songqing woke up at some point and was looking at them quietly.

"Dad", Yuan Zhiming hurriedly possessed him, fed him water, and asked questions.It was only later that she realized that Yuan Songqing's eyes were not on him.

"Uncle Yuan, I'm Li Yikai," the person behind said softly, "I'll come and see you and Xiao Yuan, don't worry, everything is fine."

Yuan Songqing smiled, said "OK" in a hoarse voice, and winked at Li Yikai again.

It was rare for Yuan Songqing to wake up, and her spirit was much better than before.

Li Yikai sent the doctor on duty away and didn't go back. He stayed outside the door of the ward, giving the father and son some time alone.

The phone was already full of messages, he flipped through them one by one, and finally called back.

"I didn't see the news just now, are you looking for me?"

"Well, I heard from Zhou Xing about your company." Qi Jiu didn't exchange pleasantries, and said concisely: "Some of my classmates here are doing arts and crafts, and one is doing interactive exhibitions. They are not considered popular artists. But the level is good, it depends on whether you need contact information."

Li Yikai was empty for two or three seconds, and replied: "Thank you, I need it."

"Then send me a brief introduction of the company and project later, and I'll go say hello." Qi Jiu calmly explained, and finally said half-jokingly: "Zhou Xing and Zhao Kaisi both know things, but they didn't tell me. Is it to avoid suspicion?"

"No", Li Yikai laughed a few times guilty, and picked up a half-truth: "Seeing that you are too busy, I'm afraid it will delay your time."

"I'm very busy," Qi Chen said with a smile, "Then I'll hang up first, and you can check WeChat later."

"Thank you," Li Yikai said.

"No, just owe me a favor."

Hanging up the phone cleanly, Li Yikai rubbed his nose when he heard Yuan Zhiming's footsteps and the door opening.

"Are you on the phone?" Yuan Zhiming asked in a low voice.

"The call is over." Li Yikai showed him the phone, and added: "Qi Chen's phone number, help me contact work."

"Oh."

Li Yikai asked back: "Uncle Yuan is asleep?"

Yuan Zhiming nodded.

"Then you came out to find me?"

Yuan Zhiming lowered his head, and slowly took out the ring in his pocket.

Li Yikai looked at him, his steady heart began to become disordered, he couldn't help but began to reflect on what he just said, maybe he was really too anxious?

"I've done a lot of things to make you unhappy recently, I didn't do it on purpose, maybe like Dr. Lu said, I have some stress reactions." Yuan Zhiming said, spreading his hands towards him.

Li Yikai couldn't react for a while, until Yuan Zhiming pulled his left hand and put the ring towards the middle finger.

"Hey, the one you bought is a bit small." Yuan Zhiming said.

"Because you wore it wrong."

"Oh", he squeezed the stuck ring, and then carefully and securely put it on Li Yikai's ring finger.

The slender fingers with plain circle look good.Yuan Zhiming admired it silently, then rummaged through his pockets and took out the box containing the other ring.

Li Yikai also looked down at him, and asked with a smile, "Is there anything else you want to say?"

"Yes", Yuan Zhiming stuffed the box to him, stretched out his hand and waited, raised his head and said, "I'm not sure if your end is mine, but mine must be you."

"Not necessarily." Li Yikai took the box, "In case, if something unexpected happens, we all hope that the other party can go out instead of dying alone."

He helped Yuan Zhiming put it on, bowed his head and kissed the ring: "It is not a bondage, but a beginning for us."

"Okay, everything is right for you," Yuan Zhiming looked at his hands and muttered in a low voice, "Anyway, I'm not the one who lost."

Li Yikai laughed out loud and rubbed his hair: "This way I'm more like you."

"Then who else do you look like?" Yuan Zhiming glared at him.

It only took Li Yikai half a second to react, but just as he was about to coax him, Yuan Zhiming had already turned around and told the night shift nurse about staying with him in bed.He was left where he was, looking at his ring and giggling.

"Are you jealous?" Li Yikai asked bluntly while driving home with him.

Yuan Zhiming turned his face away from him: "I don't have one."

Li Yikai was very kind, and he took the initiative to explain clearly the ins and outs of the phone call with Qi Jiu. Yuan Zhiming couldn't do anything if he wanted to be jealous, so his face reluctantly changed.

"Of course I'm happy for you if a friend offered to help you," he said awkwardly, "I'm not that stingy."

"Then I'm really, a little disappointed." The hospital and home are very close, Li Yikai braked off, raised his ring-wearing hand and asked, "I thought it was because you had a sense of crisis that you quickly locked me up."

"Come here less", Yuan Zhiming saw through that this person was best at turning his back on customers, so he ignored him and got out of the car on his own.

Li Yikai smiled and followed, just about to continue talking, when he smelled the fragrance of flowers first.The courtyard door opened, and he was suddenly stunned by a burst of vitality.

The vines in the courtyard have changed their green leaves, and the small courtyard is covered by it, leaving only a sky gap in the middle.A path underfoot, even though it was only a few steps long, was carefully paved with cobblestones.

The bamboo frame supporting the vines stands neatly in the soil, and low gardenias are interspersed on the ground. It is the blooming season, and the white petals are competing to emerge.Two wicker chairs and a small table are placed among the flowers.

Under Yuan Zhiming's command, Li Yikai helped water the water, and asked casually, "Uncle Yuan planted these by himself?"

"Yes, these vines are almost 20 years old. My dad used to make his own wine every year." Yuan Zhiming straightened his waist. "Until last year, he must have been very uncomfortable, so he didn't mention it."

Li Yikai washed his hands, and chatted with him on the rattan chair: "By this autumn, his body will be almost recovered. Then we can pick grapes together, and I have always wanted to learn how to make wine."

"There's also pomegranate wine," Yuan Zhiming pointed out to him: "The neighbor in the front row has a pomegranate tree, which is brought here every year."

"If you're lucky, it's not bad to catch up with my dad to go fishing and shrimp. My dad cooks these delicious." He took toilet water from the window sill and kept counting while spraying: "Usually he also grows some eggplants. Peanuts and the like, but these should be early, and he will give them all out later."

The two talked one after another, and occasionally the wind blew, and the fragrance of gardenias was even stronger. Yuan Zhiming said that these flowers had been planted for many, many years, because his mother liked them very much.

"My father said that when my mother went to school, she would leave behind the fragrance of gardenias when she walked by," Yuan Zhiming said, leaning on the back of the chair.

Li Yikai turned to look at him, the smell is the longest memory, Yuan Zhiming this night, will also be the scent of gardenia in his future memories.

"Yuan Zhiming", Li Yikai said, "You didn't finish what you just said in the ward, what is the remaining half?"

"Which sentence?" Yuan Zhiming wavered, "Is it about my dad?"

He looked at the grape leaves above his head and looked at the night sky through the leaves: "I sometimes think that when my mother passed away, my father was only 26 years old, the same age as me now, but he has never been in love again. He also said that he had no plans to find someone else."

"He never said it, but I think he has been living in the shadow of my mother's suicide. If they hadn't married early, if it hadn't been for me, his life would have been very different. He is obviously such a lively person. .”

"You are not his burden," Li Yikai said.

"I know, I never doubted his love for me." Yuan Zhiming sighed softly, turned his head and looked at Li Yikai: "And my dad told me a lot after you left."

He scratched his hair and smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's very sensational. He said that I was the most precious gift in his life. He never regretted marrying my mother."

"He also said that I deserve the best in the world."

Li Yikai pulled Yuan Zhiming's hand, and said affectionately: "No wonder I figured it out when I came out. So that's how it is."

Yuan Zhiming slapped him backhanded in an instant: "You are too right to take a seat, right Li Yikai? Why do you think you are the best person?"

"Isn't it?"

"Of course not." Yuan Zhiming shook his head, thought for a while and said, "I'm the only one who thinks so in the whole world."

"That's enough."

……

Laughing and chatting, Yuan Zhiming's nerves that had been stretched for several days soon relaxed, and the sleepiness finally returned to his body.

He came out of the bathroom yawning, looked up and saw Li Yikai fully dressed, he thought in a daze that he was dreaming.

"Didn't you just take a shower?" He rubbed his eyes: "Did I remember wrong?"

"Aren't you stupid?" Li Yikai pinched his nose: "Go to sleep, I'll wait until you sleep before leaving."

"Where are you going?" Yuan Zhiming suddenly regained consciousness: "Go back to Jinghai? But it's so late..."

Li Yikai smiled and pushed him back to the bed: "Go back to the hospital, don't you worry about the nurse being alone?"

Before Yuan Zhiming left, he asked the nurse again and again, and just made a long phone call to inquire. If he hadn't stayed up for three nights, he might still refuse to come back tonight.But even so, he didn't think about sharing the hard work with Li Yikai.

"You've been staying up late to work these days, and the nurse is fine by himself. I'm making too much of a fuss..."

"I have already put on my ring. Your family is also my family. I don't feel relieved that Uncle Liuyuan is there." Li Yikai lowered his head and kissed his eyelashes: "And I can only accompany you for a few days. You have rested, and there is still a long time to endure by yourself."

Yuan Zhiming blinked and saw the faint dark circles under Li Yikai's eyes, but he didn't stop him, just said: "Then when I go back to Jinghai, take me to see your mother too, okay?"

"Of course, but she has some enthusiasm, as long as you don't be intimidated by her."

"I will be more enthusiastic," Yuan Zhiming probably wanted to express his sincerity, raised his hand to pull Li Yikai down, and passionately sent a hot long kiss: "I will charge you up."

"You can charge it with just a kiss? You take yourself seriously too!" Li Yikai wiped his mouth in disgust, and covered Yuan Zhiming with a quilt: "Go to sleep, and bring me breakfast tomorrow morning."

Yuan Zhiming failed to resist, and was covered under the quilt along with the voice of replying.

Li Yikai walked out of the small courtyard with a smile, the sound of locking was soft and crisp, leaving the laughter at home.

His mobile phone is full of messages again, Qin Xiaoen's, Feng Xin's, various work group chats... There are also emails from the bank manager, artists recommended by Qi Research, entrepreneurial loan experience sorted out by Zhou Xing...

It's manageable, it just takes time and coffee.

But the other one was like a dark cloud hanging over his head, Li Yikai stood under the shadow, but he had no position to break through——

What Qiu He told about the past, what Yuan Zhiming said, these vaguely put together an incomplete story in his mind.

This story has been buried for 26 years, covering up the intricate blood relationship in Yuan Zhiming's body, but it also made him live in anxiety for more than [-] years under the worry of illness, and he has not been able to get out until now.

Turning it over or turning it over, no matter which side it is, it points directly at Yuan Zhiming's deepest wound.