The Tang Family’s Seven Os - Chapter 150
Chen She knocked on the door, and after receiving Tang Liu Yuan’s permission, he entered the room. He looked at Tang Liu Yuan and smiled ingratiatingly before asking: “Are you busy now?”
Seeing that it was him, Tang Liu Yuan put down the papers he had just picked up and shook his head: “I’m not busy.”
He looked up at Chen She’s bandaged arm and asked: “Your wound hurts?”
“No, it doesn’t. Dr Tang, your bandaging skills are superb, your medical skills are unparalleled, your hands are like the hands of God. After your treatment yesterday, I was able to go downstairs to buy breakfast by myself this morning! The speed of recovery is simply extraordinary.”
Tang Liu Yuan rubbed his brow and reminded him, “You injured your arm, even if I hadn’t treated you, you would still be able to go downstairs to buy breakfast today.”
“……” Chen She swallowed in silence, and felt that he had just over-exaggerated, he sat down in front of Tang Liu Yuan, and couldn’t help but add sheepishly, “Anyway, Dr. Tang, you’re amazing! ”
Tang Liu Yuan sighed softly, not bothering to continue to joking with him, sat up straight and said: “If you have anything, just say it.”
Since Chen She was not here to see a doctor, that means he had something to say to him.
Chen She pursed his dry lips, looked at Tang Liu Yuan’s cold face, and inexplicably felt at a loss for words. He was silent for a while before he said: “Liu Yuan, is it still possible for you and Xia?”
Tang Liu Yuan tapped his fingers on the table and asked: “Did he ask you to ask this?”
“No.” Chen She shook his head, “I myself wanted to ask.”
He looked up at Tang Liu Yuan and pleaded for Xia Cheng Lang, “Xia Ge has had a hard time over these years, take pity on him, he……”
Tang Liu Yuan stood up and poured a glass of water for Chen She and placed it in front of him, saying indifferently: “Then tell me about it.”
Chen She was racking his brains thinking about what to say, trying to turn the situation around using his eloquent tongue, and let Xia Cheng Lang carry the beauty home. When he heard Tang Liu Yuan’s words, he froze for a while, and he didn’t respond for a moment. “Say what?”
Tang Liu Yuan poured himself a glass of water as well, sat down with slightly downcast eyes and said in a soft voice: “Tell me how he has lived all these years.”
“Xia Ge……” Chen She stalled for a moment, mentioning it also had some bitterness, deliberating for a moment before speaking slowly, “When he lied to you, I was actually to blame, I was the one who told him that you liked Omegas, Alphas can’t even get close to you, so he pretended to be Omega to get close to you, and later I could see that he was getting more and more trapped and had fallen in love with you, and I think you could also see that at that time.”
Tang Liu Yuan listened quietly and did not make a sound.
Chen She picked up his glass of water and took a sip, “Back then on the day you found out he had lied to you, he had actually wanted to confess to you, but to his surprise, you found out about it in advance, before he could explain, his grandfather was suddenly admitted into the hospital, Old Master Xia spent five days in the intensive care unit, he also stayed with him in the hospital for five days, without leaving a single step. ”
Tang Liu Yuan suddenly interrupted him and asked hesitantly: “Are you saying that Grandpa Xia was admitted into the hospital on that day?”
Tang Liu Yuan’s hand unconsciously clenched, he only knew when Grandpa Xia passed away, he did not know on which day he was admitted to the hospital.
“Yes.” Chen She nodded and continued: “Five days later, Grandpa Xia passed away, followed by his funeral, just after the funeral, Xia Ge was sent directly out of the country by Empress Xia. Before he left the country, he wanted to go and say goodbye to you, but as you know, His Majesty has always been eyeing the Xia family. Before that, he didn’t dare to touch Xia Ge because of the presence of Old Master Xia. Once Old Master Xia was gone, Xia Ge was assassinated on the way to your home, fortunately the people of Empress Xia protected Xia Ge, but Xia Ge was afraid of bringing you danger, so he didn’t dare to go to you again……”
Tang Liu Yuan listened to Chen She talk about the situation, the more he listened, the more frightened he became, forgetting to breathe several times, and the hands under the table were clenched tighter and tighter.
“I later learned that Xia Ge and the Second Prince used to go abroad for that period of time every year, wasn’t to go out to play, but to be sent out to train and study, in order to hide from His Majesty, the Xia family’s power has been secretly transferred to foreign countries, all these years abroad, Xia Ge…..”
Chen She broke off and said a lot, he talked about the dangers and loneliness Xia Cheng Lang had encountered over the years, and also about the many compulsions Xia Cheng Lang had, Tang Liu Yuan kept his eyes downcast as he listened, until Chen She finished, then he took a deep breath and stared blankly at himself reflected on the water glass in front of him.
He looked at the glass of water for a long time, and wondered if it was because he had been staring at one place for too long that his eyes were a little red and sore.
He blinked his eyes without moving, trying to suppress that sourness, but no words came out for a long time.
Chen She also sniffled a little after he finished, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Tang Liu Yuan and said cautiously: “Liu Yuan, do you want to take pity on Xia Ge? It’s not easy for him to be a lonely old man.”
Tang Liu Yuan slowed down his emotions before looking up at Chen She.
Chen She looked at him with eyes filled with caution and expectation, as if Xia Cheng Lang was really an old man in desperate need of care.
Tang Liu Yuan didn’t answer, but looked down at his wristwatch, “You go back first, so that the nurse will be able to find you when she checks the room later.”
Chen She wanted to persuade him some more, but Tang Liu Yuan said in a low voice: “I know in my heart.”
Although Chen She was still unclear about Tang Liu Yuan’s answer, he knew that this was a matter between the two of them and he could not force it, all he could do was just say what he knew, so he nodded and stood up, “Then I’ll go first.”
He walked to the door, thought for a moment, then turned back and said, “Xia Ge is at the balcony.”
After Chen She left, Tang Liu Yuan sat in the office in silence for a while, only blinking after a long time and slowly got up.
When he pushed open the balcony door, Xia Cheng Lang had a cigarette in his hand and several cigarette butts were scattered on the ground.
He occasionally shook off the ashes of the cigarette, and his face still looked somewhat gloomy.
Tang Liu Yuan walked over and pinched the cigarette out of his hand, “The hospital doesn’t allow smoking.”
When he raised his hand, half of his wrist was exposed through the cuff of his white coat, his slender wrist was white and clean, his fingers holding the cigarette were beautiful, and his nails were round and pink.
Xia Cheng Lang was stunned for a moment and looked up at Tang Liu Yuan, whose limbs were long and slender, and the white coat he wore gave a sense of cold detachment on him, his eyes were transparent and pure, without the slightest impurity, and had not changed over the years.
Xia Cheng Lang looked at him and suddenly spoke in a deep voice, “I’m sorry for embarrassing you just now.”
He reached out and ran a hand through his hair, he had been impulsive just now, but at that moment he really couldn’t contain the anger and agitation in his heart, from the beginning to the end, he couldn’t imagine that Tang Liu Yuan would be someone else’s.
If Tang Liu Yuan was angry with him, he could slowly beg for forgiveness, if Tang Liu Yuan didn’t like him, he could slowly chase after him, but he couldn’t accept that Tang Liu Yuan already had someone else in his heart.
In the past five years, he was constantly worried that someone else would come into Tang Liu Yuan’s life, but he was far away abroad, there was nothing he could do, and he did not even have the chance to come back to see Tang Liu Yuan.
All he could do was to work harder to climb up the ladder so that he could return to see Tang Liu Yuan sooner. Everyone said that he was growing up fast and that he was capable, but no one knew how much hardship he had put in behind his glamour, and no one knew that he had spent every miserable night relying on Tang Liu Yuan’s photos.
He saw Tang Liu Yuan’s first day at university in those photos sent to him by Chen She, got to see Tang Liu Yuan wearing a white coat for the first time, saw Tang Liu Yuan consulting a patient for the first time, but he was like a bystander, isolated far away from Tang Liu Yuan’s life.
He was restless every day he was abroad, and only he knew what he was fearing in his heart.
Just now, in front of Sun Yu Ming, the worry and unwillingness that has always existed in his heart was stabbed mercilessly by Sun Yu Ming, so he was afraid and angry, but more uneasy. All emotions were mixed together, and all could not be suppressed and broke out at that moment.
When Tang Liu Yuan heard his apology, he softly took a breath, turned his head to look at the flying birds passing by in the sky and said in a light voice: “It’s okay, I’m used to it, I’ve been embarrassed quite a few times when I was with you anyway.”
While Tang Liu Yuan’s tone was somewhat disgusted, Xia Cheng Lang inexplicably felt that his tone seemed to have become a little closer, as if he wasn’t as cold as before, as if he was invulnerable.
“You’re not angry?” Xia Cheng Lang couldn’t help but ask with a bit of excitement in his voice.
“En.” Tang Liu Yuan softly responded, “You will apologise to senior with me tomorrow.”
Xia Cheng Lang was silent, he did not want to apologise to Sun Yu Ming, since Sun Yu Ming dared to covet Tang Liu Yuan, he had already classified Sun Yu Ming as a love rival, where would he put his face if he apologised to his love rival?
When Tang Liu Yuan saw that he pursed his lips and refused to agree, he raised his eyebrows and asked: “You’re not willing?”
“……willing, willing.” Xia Cheng Lang replied in a spineless voice. In the face of coaxing his future wife, he could throw away any face. No matter how hateful his love rival was, if his future wife asked him to apologise, he would apologise without hesitation. .
Tang Liu Yuan gently curled his lips and said in a flat voice, “Over the years, Senior has taken good care of me, and I’ve always treated him like a brother.”
Xia Cheng Lang reacted slowly and half-heartedly that Tang Liu Yuan was explaining to him, his heart could not help but feel happy, and his whole body was refreshed, and he said in an aggressive manner: “Then you should keep a little distance from him in the future.”
Tang Liu Yuan gave him a look, “We work in the same department, it’s inevitable that we will have contact.”
Xia Cheng Lang pursed his lips reluctantly, but he didn’t dare to say anything else in the end.
After the two of them stood quietly for a while, Xia Cheng Lang touched Tang Liu Yuan’s shoulder and asked with some anticipation: “I want to go see Xiao Nai Cha, can I?”
Tang Liu Yuan smiled, “My house doesn’t allow smoking either.”
Xia Cheng Lang reacted to what he meant and his eyes involuntarily lit up, he curled his lips and asked in a low voice, “Can I go without smoking?”
“……I’m going back to work.” Tang Liu Yuan turned around and walked out, pausing slightly in his steps as he opened the door and said with his head bowed: “I get off work at five this evening.”
The corners of Xia Cheng Lang’s mouth instantly blossomed into the biggest smile since he returned to the country, looking at Tang Liu Yuan’s back and shouting aloud: “I’ll pick you up on time when you get off work!”