Re-engraving the Spring - Chapter 48

Such days were getting longer and longer, the hearts of two teenagers testing each other and warming each other up, becoming short-lived spring days in this clinic.

Chi Qiu began to wait every afternoon, Lu Ming used to come in every afternoon.

Until one day, the keen Chi Qiu noticed that something was wrong with Lu Ming.

He asked Lu Ming worriedly, “Are you very tired?”

“What?” Lu Ming came back to his senses, looking at him blankly and finding that Chi Qiu was also ‘looking’ at him. Lu Ming paused and realized that his tone of voice was blunt and he felt bad, so he slightly restrained himself.

He reopened his mouth, pretending to be relaxed and said, “What’s wrong with me?”

“Every time you talk, you sound like you’re happy, but I think…you’re tired. Did something happen?”

“…”

Chi Qiu was afraid that he might offend Lu Ming if he guessed wrong, so he nervously squeezed and clasped his two hands together, “I’m sorry, maybe I’m too sensitive.”

Lu Ming leaned back on the bench, his wrists were covered in new bruises. He looked down and rubbed his bruise; the slight tingling from pain tormenting his nerves, causing his slightly long eyelashes to tremble.

“No, but I do feel a little tired.” Lu Ming’s tiredness was something that he didn’t even know where to start, “but I can’t say it, I’m sorry. Thank you for caring about me.”

He did not want Chi Qiu to know that he had a mentally abnormal mother; he was afraid that Chi Qiu would alienate him.

Therefore, Lu Ming deliberately shrugged his shoulders and pretended to laugh nonchalantly: “Chi Qiu, you are good, you found out at once. Other people…those people think I have a happy life every day. But in fact, there is nothing to be unhappy about. Indeed, there was happy times.”

He couldn’t say anymore.

But if Lu Ming was really happy, why would he come to this clinic?

While hesitating, Chi Qiu took the initiative to reach out and rustily hold his hand, comforting him: “It’s okay, we all came to Auntie Luo’s place because we were a little tired, didn’t we?”

Lu Ming nodded. Remembering with hindsight that Chi Qiu couldn’t see, he uttered, “Yes.” He asked, “Then, what are you tired of, can you talk to me?”

“…”

“It’s fine if you don’t say anything. I just think, if I can help you, I want to help you.”

Chi Qiu lowered his eyes. After thinking for a while, his lips and teeth slightly opened: “Actually, the doctor said there is a good chance that my eyes will regain their sight.”

Lu Ming sat up straighter, his voice couldn’t help but get a little louder: “Isn’t that a good thing?”

Chi Qiu shook his head bitterly: “Except for mom and grandma, no one is happy for me. If my eyes can see again, many things will change. But if I can’t see, maybe everyone will be happy.”

Chi Qiu didn’t dare to tell the fact that he had regained his sight, so he told Lu Ming: “Recently, my mother and stepfather have started quarreling frequently, and it has reached the point of getting a divorce. My half-sister lost her footing and fell down the stairs to stop their divorce, and I couldn’t do anything to help.”

Not only that, but it was all because of him.

Chi Qiu said in frustration, “I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to go home now, and I don’t know where I’m going.” He hid in this small clinic, but how long could he hide?

Lu Ming, on the other hand, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He tightly held Chi Qiu’s hand back, squeezed it hard, but was afraid of hurting Chi Qiu.

Chi Qiu’s face flushed. He tried to pull his hands, but failed: “What are you doing…”

Lu Ming shamelessly tightened his grip, like a teenager in love for the first time, sheepishly scratched his head with the other hand and said, “I also have something I want to say to you.”

His Adam’s apple moved: “My mother finally agreed to divorce, and I may not come back to the clinic next time.”

Chi Qiu was stunned, and it was clear in his heart that he felt reluctant.

Lu Ming lowered his head and continued, “My mother and I have to go abroad first. She is not in good health. I will accompany her there for treatment for a while. Then, I want to send her to my grandfather’s place, but I don’t plan to stay there, I want to try to live my own life for once.”

Chi Qiu listened carefully.

Lu Ming took a deep breath and blinked his eyes as he gave Chi Qiu one more look.

Just this one glance gave him endless courage.

Lu Ming looked at Chi Qiu eagerly and said, “It may take a while…but when I come back, do you want to live with me? You’re fifteen this year, I’m seventeen. Actually, not long after, we’ll be adults and can move out.”

Chi Qiu was startled by his words, and was too surprised to answer. And his heart had long been beating like a drum; it was deafening.

Lu Ming, after all, was only a teenager who was just beginning to fall in love. He was apprehensive and afraid of being rejected by Chi Qiu, so he expressed in panic: “I think it’s a particularly good thing that you can regain your sight. If you can regain your sight, we won’t have to stay in this little garden all day. I want to take you out, to eat good food, to see beautiful things! The world is so big, you can always find a place without worries, right?”

The boy’s wish was as innocent as ever, which made Chi Qiu’s heart yearn for it.

“And what if I can’t regain my sight?”

“It doesn’t matter if you can’t regain your sight, I’ll take you with me, I won’t lose you wherever we go” Lu Ming was not in a hurry. He said sincerely, “It’s still early, you can take your time to consider.”

Chi Qiu’s ears were buzzing, he couldn’t give an answer at this moment, but gave up the idea of ​​pulling out his hand.

Chi Qiu’s heart was pounding, and the throbbing stuck in his throat was the teenager’s beautiful heart. He became afraid to look at Lu Ming, and lowered his head to look at the stones and grass on the ground.

At this moment a flower petal fell at his feet, and he secretly touched it.

Lu Ming noticed his little gesture and thought that Chi Qiu was distracted, so he confessed unhappily: “If only we could be together forever, I will always like you very much.”

Chi Qiu was dumbfounded, he received confession for the first time.

Lu Ming was equally nervous, he was red behind the ears and looked particularly uneasy: “What about you?”

“…”

“Will you always like me too? Do you want to be with me?”

Chi Qiu did not answer, but his head nodded hard, and Lu Ming smiled happily.

That afternoon, they had a little more tacit understanding, and the hands holding together were not separated for a long time.

And this answer, which Chi Qiu was embarrassed to say when he was young, was now a love story that could be calmly put on the lips of the 25-year-old Chi Qiu.

He looked at Lu Ming, who was sleeping beside him, and pursed the corners of his mouth.

Who would have thought that the optimistic teenager who could not stop talking at the beginning would have this lonely look today.

Chi Qiu only knew a general idea of what happened to Lu Ming. Without anyone telling him, he wouldn’t know what Lu Ming once went through that he closed his heart off step by step.

Chi Qiu was very distressed.

The ten years of separation were too long. They were absent from each other’s growth, but they fortunately did not miss each other.

He was close to Lu Ming and slept in Lu Ming’s arms, which really proved Lu Ming’s words of ‘live together’ and ‘always be together’.

Chi Qiu smelled the faint scent of shower gel on Lu Ming’s body, and in order not to wake Lu Ming from sleep, he said in a voice he could only hear, “I like you too, and will always like you.”

He embraced Lu Ming, and this time, he said it out loud.

Very quietly.

Chi Qiu said: “So you need to get better soon.”

In the blink of an eye, the scar on Chi Qiu’s arm had healed a lot. With Lu Ming’s reminder and help, he applied medicine on time every day and paid attention to a light diet, so that no deep scars were left.

Because of this wound, he hadn’t returned to Chi’s house for a long time.

Early on Saturday morning, Chi Qiu woke up earlier than Lu Ming, and he planned to go back to Chi’s house.

Lu Ming was supposed to accompany him back, but there was a sudden meeting this morning, so he had to go to the company first. He promised Chi Qiu that he would arrive before lunch.

Chi Qiu skillfully helped him with his suit and tie. While tying his tie, he said, “If you’re busy with work, let’s go together next time. There’s no rush.” After saying that, Chi Qiu stood on tiptoe and kissed him.

“Keep on good work.”

“If I can’t make it in time for lunch, I’ll come over in the afternoon.” Lu Ming followed Chi Qiu’s movements and kissed him back, “I’ll pick you up and go home.”

At Chi’s house, Chi Lanyan knew that Chi Qiu was coming and had the live-in nanny, Aunt Su, waiting outside the door early.

Once Chi Qiu’s car arrived, Aunt Su enthusiastically went up and opened the back seat door: “Young master is finally here. Come, be careful with your steps.”

As usual, she walked with Chi Qiu without leaving an inch, and kept saying be careful.

Chi Qiu did not forget to ask Xiao Yan to take out the gift he had prepared from the trunk and he followed behind.

Aunt Su watched Chi Qiu grow up and asked affectionately, “Young master hasn’t been home for a long time, Mrs. Chi didn’t say she was happy, but early this morning ah, she went shopping with me and planned to cook by herself. Hey, where is Mr. Lu, he did not come along?”

“There’s something in the company. He went to work first, maybe he won’t come for lunch.”

“Oh, that’s a pity. You said last time that he likes to eat fish with green onion and oil. Mrs. Chi even picked a fresh sea bass.”

Hearing that Chi Lanyan had the intention to prepare fish with scallion oil for Lu Ming, Chi Qiu’s heart felt a little pity.

Once he arrived at his own home, Chi Qiu’s guide cane became of little use. He entered the house familiarly and shouted first, “Mom, I’m home.”

But it was not Chi Lanyan who responded to him.

In the living room, Lin Yuming had just come out of the study, holding an empty water cup. When he saw Chi Qiu, there was not much of a happy expression on his face, but more of a polite and distant one.

T/N: You can expect a daily update for this week as I’m actually on leave for the whole week but literally got nothing else to do hahah