Yu Yuan thought Gu Shaocheng had woken up and was preparing to ask him about his well-being and show his filial piety.
But before he could speak, Gu Shaocheng’s eyelids drooped and he fell asleep again.
Yu Yuan used an ear thermometer to check his temperature and felt it was still a bit high, so he continued to change his towel.
The sleeping Gu Shaocheng was only sickly pale and had a lingering melancholy between his brows. The man was seriously ill and his breath was much weaker than normal people. Yu Yuan was quite able to get along with Gu Shaocheng, who had little vitality.
He had decided to take good care of Gu Shaocheng in his final moments and repay some of his debt of gratitude as much as possible. So, while using a cold towel to wipe the man’s neck and elbows to cool him down, he carefully recalled the plot related to Gu Shaocheng in his mind.
Although the book doesn’t describe their married life as mere tools, Wang’s mother mentioned it briefly to appease her beloved son.
The gist of the story is that Gu Shaocheng’s death has devastated Old Master Gu, and his health has deteriorated significantly. The doctor predicts that he only has a year or two left to live, so his son should endure it a little longer. After that, everything in the Gu family will belong to the three of them.
However, the description of the main characters in the book is naturally not as shameless as Yu Yuan remembered. The book portrays Gu’s father, the first son-in-law, as quite noble, and his perseverance and humiliation are comparable to the hero Goujian[1]Goujian was a hero of the state of Yue during China’s Spring and Autumn period, celebrated for his perseverance in defeating the rival state of Wu after a period of humiliation and … Continue reading jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1301339_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1301339_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });.
He was said to be exceptionally talented and handsome, but he was forced to marry into the Gu family.
He is said to have a good business sense, but he has been restricted to academic research in the field of mental disorders for many years in order to take care of his wife.
He is said to be loyal and righteous, but he was deeply in love with his beloved but could not be with her. He endured for more than 20 years and finally broke away from the control of the Gu family before he was able to welcome back the love of his life.
The plot was rapidly immersing him in the dream, and Yu Yuan didn’t have time to think much about it, only remembering the general outline. But looking back now, there are quite a few things to complain about.
It’s obvious that Gu’s father’s marriage into a wealthy family was a case of a poor boy from a poor background climbing up to a rich and beautiful woman. Based on what Zhang Ma kept saying, Yu Yuan really couldn’t understand how forced this forced marriage into a top-tier wealthy family really was.
Of course, he didn’t sneak under someone’s bed to get firsthand information, but the fact that the two of them could have Gu Shaocheng… surely it wasn’t because someone held a gun to his head and forced him to get an erection?
The book mentions that the two met in the hospital. Gu’s father was an intern under the supervision of Gu’s mother’s attending physician. It is perfectly reasonable for a psychiatric medical student to engage in related work.
As for the last point, Yu Yuan felt it was even more outrageous. The male lead’s father, whose love child was also eighteen years old, was cheating on his wife. How could he have the nerve to try and claim it was true love?
The more Yu Yuan thought about it, the more he realized how deep the protection the main characters were for each other. The filter was as thick as a corner of a city wall, and without the main characters’ halo, it was like a garbage dump.
On the contrary, Gu Shaocheng, the young master born with a silver spoon in his mouth, not only did his father not love him and his mother not care for him, but he also died young and suffered from illness throughout his short life…
The conversation between the Wang Mother and the male protagonist takes place when the male protagonist first encounters setbacks in his entry into the entertainment industry. It is the first difficult point that comes after the initial setup. If you calculate it this way, Gu Shaocheng really doesn’t have many days left.
Before the forced marriage, Gu Shaocheng was just a wealthy but sickly man to Yu Yuan. The thought of him being able to live a beautiful widow life after Gu Shaocheng’s death made Yu Yuan very happy. But now, thinking about it, Yu Yuan felt a little melancholy. Gu Shaocheng was quite pitiful…
However, since things had come to this, he could only try his best to bring Gu Shaocheng some comfort in the short remaining years of his life.
Letting life end gently is the meaning of end-of-life care. After realizing this, Yu Yuan’s pent-up anger immediately transformed into deep filial piety towards the patients in bed!
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Drug abuse has ruined Gu Shaocheng’s health; his sleep now depends entirely on whether the time when he has an attack coincides with the time when he is exhausted.
Once the connection is established, even if his body is exhausted, the intense pain and the torment of hallucinations and delusions can keep him on the verge of collapse, suffering night after night.
As his condition worsened, he developed increasing resistance to several effective medications, making it increasingly difficult for him to have long, continuous sleep sessions of several hours.
When Gu Shaocheng woke up at nine o’clock in the evening, he was stunned for a moment.
In the spacious bedroom, only a decorative floor lamp was turned on by the window. The light was dim, and the dim light filled the room with a warm yellow hue, making everything in sight soft and cozy.
Several towels were laid out on the shelf beside the bed. The young man was mostly lying on the edge of the bed, revealing a small part of his delicate and sculpted profile. It was clear that the other person had been taking care of him while he was unconscious…
The side-lying position compressed his downward-facing cheeks, causing his overly rosy and full lips to pout slightly, adding a touch of cuteness to his already exquisitely sculpted face.
When Yu Yuan first entered high school, he still had soft baby fat on his cheeks. However, a year after his adoptive mother was diagnosed with stage 3 pneumoconiosis, his temporary worker status with no reimbursement and the high cost of a lung transplant caused him to lose weight rapidly, and his facial lines tightened, making his features more delicate and three-dimensional.
Gu Shaocheng was aware of these circumstances in his previous life, so considering that Yu Yuan had not done anything substantially wrong, Gu Shaocheng was willing to let him off the hook.
Having been in the mire for too long, he preferred to believe that Yu Yuan’s elaborate deception was merely a ploy to obtain money to treat his adoptive mother.
Since his memory is disordered, he can only be presumed innocent. If he lives a long time, he can be cleared of guilt again when he remembers. But his physical condition… well, that’s letting the swindler off easy.
The man slowly sat up, the back right side of his head having hit the solid wood armrest during the day. A dull ache returned with each movement. He remembered Yu Yuan’s words before he ran away: “No, no divorce…”
The deep gaze followed the dim yellow light to the young man’s thin frame. The loose hem of his shirt was messily turned outward, revealing a thin, resilient, and fair waistline, as well as a dark purple bruise.
Gu Shaocheng frowned. Suddenly, his phone rang. The young man sleeping beside him fluttered his eyelashes and looked away before the other person opened their eyes.
”Yes, the study on the second floor.” His deep voice was slightly hoarse.
Hearing Gu Shaocheng’s voice on the phone, Yu Yuan instantly snapped out of his drowsiness. He sat up straight with a jolt, instinctively leaning back against the chair back, as he was used to keeping his distance from others.
Gu Shaocheng caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, a dark glint flashing in his eyes. After hanging up the phone, his dark eyes were filled with coldness: “Not getting a divorce?”
In the afternoon, Yu Yuan felt that he had gotten used to being with Gu Shaocheng, but now seeing him with his air conditioning on full blast, exuding an incomparably sharp and fierce aura, and feeling so nervous that his throat was dry and his breathing was slightly choked… it seems that he has only become familiar with Gu Shaocheng in his dying state.
He blinked, then nodded a beat late.
Yu Yuan wanted to tell him his determination to stay, but he needed a little time to process and regroup.
But Gu Shaocheng’s gaze was like two tangible plasma lightsabers, each stronger than the last, making all his confident vows stuck in his throat, and his body began to tremble slightly again.
This resistance yet deliberate submission quickly transformed into a barely concealed anger in Gu Shaocheng’s eyes.
But the next moment he looked away, his eyes returning to their indifferent and cold state. Since the other party insisted on staying, he would play along…
”Push me to the study.” Gu Shaocheng suddenly said this out of the blue.
Yu Yuan nodded, but did an electric wheelchair also need to be pushed by a person? Isn’t that thing as simple and convenient as a senior citizen’s electric vehicle, and can even be used for high-speed driving? However, this thought quickly vanished.
Knowing that Gu Shaocheng’s days were numbered, Yu Yuan patted his chest with his fist: He will never forget my kindness, and he will always remember my care in his final moments!
When Yu Yuan pushed the person into the study, there were already quite a few people waiting inside. The double doors of the study were completely open, and the interior was completely visible.
In Yu Yuan’s opinion, the study in the master bedroom was the most spacious and grand study he had ever seen. The master bedroom also had a small study for the couple to use for reading or processing documents.
So he had made some preparations for the formal study on the second floor, but when he actually saw it, he was still shocked by its extravagance. In Yu Yuan’s eyes, Gu Shaocheng’s study was almost a small library.
The building features an exaggeratedly high ceiling that spans two to three floors. The surrounding high walls are lined with books in a stylish and symmetrical design. In addition, the spacious and bright interior is divided into different types of office areas, with a dedicated reception area in the center.
Zhang Ma was sitting on one of the single sofas, guarded by two bodyguards. The old woman’s hair was disheveled, and her bright eyes, which had shone brightly in the morning, were now drooping weakly. The redness and swelling in her eyes looked like she had cried many times. It was clear that she had suffered a lot by choosing to kneel all day as punishment in order to avoid being sent to the old house.
However, according to Gu Shaocheng’s punishment, Zhang Ma should have been kneeling until the next morning, but just after nine o’clock, the bodyguard was ordered to take her to the study, which made her even more convinced of her previous guess.
Gu Shaocheng’s brain was disordered after his illness, and the fact that he treated that little trinket that was supposed to bring him good luck was the reason she suffered this calamity. Once Gu Shaocheng’s condition improved, wouldn’t he release her immediately?
Although Zhang Ma was kneeling in the ancestral hall, the time she spent eating and using the toilet was enough for her to keep track of Gu Shaocheng’s whereabouts. She knew that Gu Shaocheng had fainted not long after leaving and slept until nine o’clock before waking up.
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