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This was Deanxit, a compound preparation mainly composed of flupentixol dihydrochloride and melitracen hydrochloride, used to treat mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
“Vitamins,” I said, “It’s multivitamin.”
Ji Chenfeng’s gaze stayed on my face for a long time, as if discerning the authenticity of my words.
He looked at me too carefully, to the point where my smile stiffened and I couldn’t help but feel nervous. I began to doubt whether animals also use Deanxit, otherwise why would he doubt my words.
Ji Chenfeng couldn’t see anything on my face and finally looked away.
“Vitamins…” He murmured softly, staring at the small pill in his hand, and in the next second, he put it in his mouth without saying a word.
“Don’t!” I couldn’t pretend any longer and stepped forward to knock it away. The small rose-red pill rolled from Ji Chenfeng’s fingers and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Ji Chenfeng glanced in the direction where the pill disappeared and asked calmly: “Isn’t it just vitamins?”
“Can vitamins be eaten indiscriminately?” After speaking, I felt there was something wrong with this sentence.
Forget it, so what if I tell him, it’s not a shameful problem.
I turned back to the suitcase, rummaged through the pill box again, and took out a new pill.
“It’s an anti-anxiety medication that can help relieve the restlessness that comes with alcohol withdrawal.”
I got up and went back to the bedroom, picked up the water glass on the desk and took a sip of water, then raised my head and threw the medicine into my mouth.
“You weren’t an alcoholic before.”
After swallowing the pill in my mouth with water, I turned back to look at Ji Chenfeng who was following me, planning to implement my usual trick— telling three points and concealing seven points.
“This is just one of the symptoms, I just said it casually. I am not an alcoholic, but I used to smoke a lot. I have been trying hard to quit smoking before, as you know.”
Ji Chenfeng was doubtful: “Quit smoking?”
“Yes, I even quit e-cigarettes. I have been taking the medicine for three months now, and the treatment is almost completed.” After moving a lot, my shoulders started to hurt again, so I lay back on the bed and stopped continuing this topic.
I don’t know whether he believed it or not, but he didn’t ask again. After a while, he came over with a first-aid box and sat beside the bed.
Opening up the collar, he carefully removed the gauze and observed the healing of the wound.
“It’s already scabbed.” He broke off an iodophor cotton swab and gently pressed it against my wound.
“Is it ugly?”
The wound was stimulated and tingled. To distract myself, I kept looking at Ji Chenfeng. From his thick black eyebrows, to his beautiful eyes, to his tall and straight nose, to his perfectly shaped lips.
How could someone look so pleasing to my eyes? More is not much, less is not less, everything is just right, as if it was born just for me.
“It’s not ugly.” After all, he is a professional. Ji Chenfeng moved very quickly and finished the disinfection work in a short time. “It will be covered with clothes, others can’t see it.”
“But you can see it.”
He can see my naked appearance.
Ji Chenfeng understood my subtext and put a heavy hand on the gauze.
I hissed, and my body trembled.
“Sorry.” His movements became softer.
I didn’t care and continued: “My body is too ugly, with scars everywhere. Is there anything Dr. Ji can do to cure me?”
Ji Chenfeng kept his head down, focusing on the work at hand and didn’t reply to me. And I no longer pushed myself too far.
It’s really fun to tease him, but if it goes too far, it won’t be worth the gain if he gets angry and kicks me out again.
After putting on the gauze and fastening my buttons one by one, he suddenly said: “It’s not ugly.”
His expression was so serious that it didn’t look like he was comforting me, but rather like he was reiterating his point of view— he didn’t think my scars were ugly, nor did he think my body was ugly.
I want to kiss him. When can I kiss him? One day, two days? Will he let me kiss him after my body is completely healed?
I know I have to take things slow, I know I shouldn’t be impatient and take it step by step, but living under the same roof with him every day is really unbearable. In addition, he always says things that make people lose control.
After packing up his things, he stood up and prepared to leave: “I’m going to buy some things. Do you want me to bring anything for you?”
After thinking for a while, I felt a bit like eating watermelon and said, “Buy a watermelon.”
Ji Chenfeng nodded: “Okay.”
I sent a message to Zheng Jieyuan, but he didn’t respond and only called in the afternoon.
“How are you?” I asked.
Zheng Jieyuan was a little wilted: “I am fine. How about you?”
“I’m fine too.”
“Oh……”
“Bye.”
“Wait a minute!” Zheng Jieyuan stopped me.
I put the phone back to my ear and asked him what else he wanted. He sighed for a while, as if he was having trouble talking about the topic.
I was a little impatient by his hesitation, so I urged, “If you don’t want to say it, I’ll hang up now.”
“Don’t, I’m just organizing my language…” He struggled for a long time, but couldn’t get to the point. “Actually… that… I just asked casually, and it’s not about. I am just asking out of curiosity.”
“Then say it.”
“If… I mean what if, two men get into trouble after drinking, then the one who takes advantage of the other needs to be responsible for the other?”
I was startled, sat up from the bed, and asked calmly: “What was their relationship before, friends?”
“Uh… almost, but it doesn’t count.” Zheng Jieyuan said distressingly, “Strictly speaking, it’s still a bit difficult to deal with.”
“…”
“The one who took advantage is a straight man.” He murmured in a low voice, “It can’t be said that he is taking advantage. After all, the straight man doesn’t want to take advantage of him even if the other party gives the money.”
“…”
Seeing that I didn’t respond for a long time, Zheng Jieyuan said in confusion: “Sang Nian? Say something.”
I took a deep breath and regretted not hanging up the phone immediately. I should just let him fend for himself. Just curious? Who would be curious about such a specific question? He might as well say it directly that he had a friend.
“Did you sleep with Shi Hao?”
This time Zheng Jieyuan fell silent.
“What…what!” He waited for a long time before stammering and denying, saying that it was definitely not him and Shi Hao. He would never like a man, let alone Shi Hao.
What a coincidence, I once thought that I would never be able to like a man.
But that doesn’t matter anymore. The point now is, why is Zheng Jieyuan still alive?
With Shi Hao’s dog-like temper, can Zheng Jieyuan really take advantage of him in any way, let alone in bed. If something like this really happened, then as soon as Shi Hao woke up, he should have tied Zheng Jieyuan up and stuffed him into a suitcase, throwing him in the sea. How could he be allowed to live until now?
“I understand, it’s not you, it’s someone else. Then tell me, why does that straight man think that he took advantage of the other party? Is there any… irrefutable evidence?”
“The two of us were drinking together the day before, and when I woke up, I found that I was not wearing any clothes… I mean, the straight man found that he was not wearing any clothes, and then there was someone lying next to him who was also not wearing any clothes. The straight man didn’t feel anything wrong with his body, but the person next to him looked… very tired. I… the straight man didn’t dare to lift the quilt to take a closer look. He only looked at the exposed upper body… There were quite a few hickeys and teeth marks on his back.”
This evidence… isn’t too solid, right?
“Do you feel… I mean does the straight man feel like he made it to the last step?”
Zheng Jieyuan’s voice, which was already weak, became even weaker after I asked this question: “Ah… vaguely, it seems… it felt good.”
I rubbed my temples and asked, “How did the other party react?”
“I don’t know, I ran away secretly.”
No wonder Shi Hao didn’t kill him, and no wonder he was so quiet these days, as if he was “hiding from the debt collector.”
“What do you think we should do now, Sang Nian?” He didn’t notice the “slip of the tongue” he just made.
“Go find your dad. Hong City can’t accommodate you.” It’s best to change your name so that you can go abroad where the Shi family’s hands can’t reach.
Zheng Jieyuan was a little reluctant: “…Is there no other way?”
What else can be done? Let Shi Hao beat him to death to vent his anger?
“Have.”
Zheng Jieyuan perked up: “What?”
Based on my limited life experience, apart from running away, there is probably only one more peaceful, simple, and effective solution.
“Pray.”
Commonly known as “resigned to fate”.
Upon hearing this, Zheng Jieyuan let out a long sigh like a deflated ball, and without saying a word, he voluntarily hung up the phone..
After walking out of the bedroom, I saw that the lights in the kitchen were on and the sound of pots and pans could be heard. Ji Chenfeng was making dinner.
Everything seems to be back to our best days, except that the house has been changed and the cat and turtle are gone.
Xiao Xue and Xiao Juzi are living a fairy life at Xu Xi’s place. I wonder if they will be willing to come back with me. How can they get used to living in such a small home?
It should be possible, I can do it, there’s nothing I can’t do.
Leaning against the door of the kitchen, I admired Ji Chenfeng’s busy figure for a while. Seeing that there were a lot of ingredients on the cooking table, which could make at least four dishes, I asked with a smile: “There are so many dishes today, can two people finish it?”
Ji Chenfeng turned his face when he heard the voice and said, “There are more than two people.”
More than two people?
I stood up straight and asked in confusion: “Who else?”
Just then, there was a knock on the door. I glanced at Ji Chenfeng and walked towards the door: “I’ll do it.”
The iron door slowly opened, and the first thing that came into view was a white plastic bag.
“I brought you the waterproof sticker. Do you want this…” When the door was fully opened, I looked at Jian Xing outside the door, and we were both stunned for a moment.
So this is the extra person, right?
“…Who are you?” Jian Xing looked into the room doubtfully.
“His man.” I said with a stern face, and regardless of the other person’s reaction, I turned around and walked towards the bedroom.
However, it didn’t take long for me to start regretting it.
Listening to the vague conversation outside the door, my thoughts always drifted away involuntarily. I want to know what they were talking about, but I don’t want to stick to the door like a suspicious husband eavesdropping on my wife’s conversations with others. I stared at the door, as if I had enough perseverance, it would eventually be burned to ashes by my gaze.
After sitting like this for half an hour, Ji Chenfeng knocked on the door and asked me to go out for dinner.
I stood up immediately and opened the door without any hesitation. The movement was so fast that I didn’t even react to Ji Chenfeng outside the door.
“Let’s go, aren’t we going to have dinner now?” After saying that, I walked towards the living room first.
The low table was set up again, with four dishes and three pairs of bowls and chopsticks densely placed on the table. There was no extra space, so that the wine bottle could only stay on the floor in embarrassment.
The situation is the same as when I ate here the first time. With three people eating, the table was a bit crowded, not to mention this time there were three big men with heights of over 1.8 meters.
Jian Xing and Ji Chenfeng sat opposite each other, and I sat in the middle.
“It’s been a long time since we last had a drink together. Let’s have a good drink today…” Jian Xing poured beer into Ji Chenfeng’s bowl, then raised the bottle and looked at me, “Brother, do you want to drink?”
I blocked my bowl and before I could even open my mouth to speak, Ji Chenfeng answered for me: “He doesn’t drink.”
“Okay, then let’s drink together.” Jian Xing filled his own bowl.
I thought that after Zheng Jieyuan’s phone call, nothing else could shake my heart on this day. It turned out that I was wrong.
Jian Xing not only sent waterproof stickers, but also Ji Chenfeng’s secrets. It made me realize for the first time that my understanding of Ji Chenfeng was not comprehensive enough.
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