In the middle of it, Shi Liang woke up once and heard Qi Wei discussing his condition with the doctor, which made Shi Liang’s heart tighten.
He listened carefully to their conversation: “This kind of fainting is a common phenomenon during the treatment process, so there is no need to worry. When the family has free time, they should spend more time accompanying him, which will be a bit better for his psychological recovery.”
Weren’t they talking about him?
Since they weren’t talking about him, he didn’t want to listen at all. Lying in bed and trying hard to listen to the whispering of the two really made Shi Liang feel miserable.
Perhaps from listening so tiredly, wave after wave of sleepiness swept over him, and finally engulfed him.
Waking up again, it was already dark outside. Except for the sound of traffic, not a single human voice could be heard. Qi Wei was holding his hand, leaning over the hospital bed, and guarding him.
The hand held by Qi Wei felt a bit numb. He moved it slightly, and Qi Wei woke up immediately, his very first sentence being: “Older brother, what’s wrong?”
“I’m fine. Isn’t there another bed next to us? Go lie down on the bed and sleep.”
Qi Wei’s eyes beamed with brilliance, and he smiled shrewdly: “Is older brother feeling heartache and pitying me?”
Shi Liang didn’t speak, so Qi Wei took it as his tacit consent, feeling as if his whole body was floating and lacked any sense of reality.
“The doctor said older brother has no major issues and can be discharged tomorrow. After the holiday, I will make older brother’s favorite century egg and lean pork congee and shredded dough soup.”
The faint warmth from just a moment ago vanished in a flash.
Who wants to go home? Go home to be placed under house arrest by you?
“Do you think this is interesting?”
Qi Wei looked puzzled: “What’s wrong with me?”
“We are both adults. Can you be a little more mature? I’ve already said I don’t like you. Is it always interesting for you to keep acting like this? What do you want to do? Don’t force me to call the police.”
Qi Wei’s face turned pale, and the light that had just been in his eyes shattered into tearful reflections. Gazing at Qi Wei, he said, “Older brother, I also want to let you go, but I can’t do it. What should I do?” Qi Wei looked at Shi Liang with sadness and helplessness. Suddenly, his expression turned icy cold, as piercingly cold as ice shards in freezing winter.
“I also wanted to give you your freedom, but the moment I thought that one day you might be with another man or woman, and that he would kiss you just like I do, make him hear the sounds of you crying out in bed, and see you flushed all over, I couldn’t bear it. Unless I die, don’t even think about escaping from me again. You were the one who pursued and chased after me in the first place, so now you have to take responsibility for me.”
As he spoke, his eyes were filled with possessiveness: “You cannot leave me. I truly cannot live without you. If you drive me crazy, I might not know what I’ll do. For instance, becoming a pair of ill-fated lovers dying together. After all, dying together is still being together.”
Shi Liang felt as though he were being sucked into Qi Wei’s eyes, inside of which lay endless darkness, a bottomless abyss, and a centerless tornado.
Shi Liang steadied himself: “The premise of love is respect. Since you are forcing me like this, do you even deserve to talk about love?”
Shi Liang pondered for a moment.
He decided not to bicker with Qi Wei.
Romance, after all, is always like that: when you are in love, it’s deeply affectionate, making you eager to stay together forever; once apart, it feels as though you could die. But after a while, it just becomes routine, and everyone eventually gets tired of it.
Especially with their current relationship, a love without any response definitely won’t long last anyway.
Anyway, trying to persuade Shi Liang to break up right now is impossible. Since that’s the case, why bother putting in all that effort? It’s better to just wait until he naturally gets tired and wants to give up; by then, this relationship will truly be over.
“I’ve figured it out. I won’t leave anymore, but you cannot restrict my freedom. I want to go to work, I want to have my own social circle, and you are not allowed to interfere with my friendships.”
Qi Wei replied, “It just depends on what kind of friends you make. If all your friends are like Blue Hair, I cannot guarantee what I might do.”
Shi Liang smiled grimly: “Are you threatening me now? Qi Wei, let me warn you, I’ve been putting up with you not because I’m afraid of you. Don’t go too far. If you really push me to my limit, our Shi family is not someone to be trifled with.”
Qi Wei looked at Shi Liang, who looked just like a restless little kitten exposing its sharp claws, throwing a cute temper tantrum: “Older brother, don’t be so impatient. I have something I want to show you. Once you’ve seen it, you can decide whether you still want to say things like that.”
Shi Liang looked at him suspiciously, wondering what trick he was pulling.
Qi Wei came out of the study holding a document envelope and handed it to Shi Liang.
Shi Liang took it and opened it.
Inside were photographs of his father sleeping in an embrace with another young woman on a hotel bed.
Shi Liang was stunned for a moment.
Ever since he transmigrated into the book, he had never seen Shi Liang’s father. Upon seeing the photos, he instantly recognized that it was Shi Liang’s father, or rather, his father.
If these photos were made public to the masses by the media, their company’s shares would inevitably plummet. And that wasn’t even the most crucial part. The most critical thing was that if this matter were to be investigated and filed by the authorities, whether his father could keep his position as chairman would remain to be seen according to the Company Law.
Shi Liang raised the document envelope between the two of them, looked at Qi Wei, and suddenly a fierce impulse rose in his heart as he interrogated him: “You’re really something! It was me who spent massive amounts of money and connections to get you to where you are today. Now that you’ve achieved career success, you turn around and stab a dagger straight into my back. An ungrateful wretch is truly no different from this!”
Qi Wei opened his mouth: “I truly love you, and I’m doing this for your own good.”
Shi Liang was consumed by rage: “You locked me up and that’s for my own good?”
After a long while, Qi Wei said nothing: “I’m sorry. If you have any anger, you can scold me or hit me, but you just can’t leave me.”
Shi Liang no longer had anything left to say to Qi Wei. He turned around, walked into the bedroom, and locked the door behind him.
“System, system, system?” Shi Liang called out several times, but it didn’t show up. Ever since his last hospital stay, there hadn’t been a single sound from the system.
Could it be that getting an IV drip in the hospital managed to wipe the system out of existence?
Shi Liang always felt that something wasn’t right. Clearly, he hadn’t majored in law during college, so how did he understand the Company Law?
And clearly, he had never seen Shi Liang’s father before, so why did he recognize him at a glance and instantly tell that the woman on the bed nearby wasn’t Shi Liang’s mother?
He even felt that his own name, Shi Liang, being the same as the name in the book wasn’t just a coincidence.
Drawing on his years of experience reading transmigration novels, he seriously suspected that he might very well be this original host, Shi Liang.