Chapter 69 p1: Bad Seed
“It’s okay. How could it be such a coincidence? Sister Gu is so nice. Nothing will happen.”
Ye Wen held Gu Zhi’s arm and walked through the long and cold corridor of the hospital. The sky was just dawning, and the light from the window was getting paler. The thick and layered gray clouds were pressing down on the sky, and they were so heavy that they seemed to be about to fall.
They had drunk too much last night, and the first one to wake up was Ye Wen, who had gotten drunk first. She had accompanied Gu Zhi to get the medical report early in the morning. She was the first one to persuade Gu Zhi to go to the hospital for a checkup. She had come to the North Country a year earlier, and at that time, she was also not used to the climate, and her body was always not very normal.
“Yeah, nothing will happen.”
Gu Zhi smiled. After she spread her palm, the cold and wet sweat on her palm quickly dissipated. They found the doctor’s office according to the number and pushed open the door. An old woman with a high nose bridge and deep-set eyes was sitting at her desk. She saw them come in and gestured for them to sit down. Her thick and gray eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and her expression was a little heavy.
“Um… doctor, my friend’s medical report should be out, right? There shouldn’t be any problem with her body, right?”
“Her overall health is relatively good, and it’s the same as the result we inferred that day. The patient should be bleeding and in pain because of inflammation. This has a lot to do with her eating habits and psychological state. The problem is not very serious. She should pay more attention to conditioning in her daily life…”
“Oh… by the way, does the patient usually have headaches?”
“Rarely. She only started having them after she came here. But every time, it hurts for a long time, and she has to rely on painkillers. It should just be a migraine caused by the climate.”
The woman took out another X-ray from the drawer. The gray and white color blocks outlined the overall shape of the cranial cavity, which made people feel inexplicably uneasy. “There is a large shadow in the patient’s head. We initially judged that it might be a tumor.”
“Ah… how could that be? A tumor?”
Ye Wen was stunned for a few seconds, and the breath she had just let out was held again. This word always made people feel uneasy, as if it were naturally associated with death. A huge shadow suddenly spread in the narrow room, and it was heavy on her heart.
“Then… hiss, it hurts so much.”
She was about to ask something more, but the strength of the hand on her wrist suddenly increased at that moment, and her wrist was so painful that the words on her lips were suddenly interrupted. She turned her head and looked at Gu Zhi. The face that was always graceful and gentle was now pale and bleak. Her dark brown pupils could not catch any light, and they slowly turned a deep black.
“Don’t worry too much. At present, this symptom is actually very common. It has not shown a very strong aggressiveness. It is not a malignant tumor, and it was discovered quite early. The cure rate is very high with surgery. But our suggestion is that it is best to have the surgery as soon as possible. Don’t delay for too long.”
“That’s good… that’s good. It’s good that it can be cured. You really scared me to death. It’s just a small surgery. I told you, it’s nothing… Sister Gu.”
Ye Wen let out another long breath and held Gu Zhi’s hand, muttering incessantly. She probably knew that Gu Zhi was definitely not an ordinary international student. Her family background must be very good. And besides, she was at the age of a flower. How could she have contracted a life-threatening disease?
“Then… would it be better to have the surgery in China? Which hospital is better? How long does it take to recover after the surgery?”
Gu Zhi still did not relax for a moment. Her delicate eyebrows were deeply furrowed. She urged with one question after another, as if there was a terrifying shadow chasing her from behind. She was a little out of breath from running, and her breathing was rapid, but her whole body was cold.
“After the surgery, depending on the individual’s constitution, it will probably be about one to three months. You will need to rest for half a year. During this period, it is best not to engage in too high-intensity study and work.”
A month… was really too long. She couldn’t stand it for a single minute or even a second.
Will he run away?
He definitely will. Without leaving any message, without looking back, like escaping from a monster… he will just turn and leave.
A series of dark thoughts tightly gripped the beating heart in her chest, leaving no room for a single breath.
She actually knew better than anyone else the fragile relationship between them, which was like a thin layer of ice. She had always thought that there was still a long time. The bridge that connected the present and the future had suddenly collapsed, and a sense of a helpless and irretrievable despair had suddenly arisen.
Gu Zhi stood up with a trembling body. She picked up the film on the table and stared at it. The dark color block was as if it were a persistent curse, crawling all over her retina, and it was roaring menacingly in her ear. The monster in her body seemed to have found its food and was excited. The beast that had been dormant for a long time began to stir in her heart again.
Hate was more real. It would be best to go to her bedside while she was weak and strangle her.
A certain dark thought had taken root and sprouted, and it began to grow wildly like weeds on a barren land.
Gu Zhi threw down the film in her hand and turned to leave, her steps fast, almost without a single bit of hesitation.
“Hey… where are you going, Sister Gu?”
Ye Wen picked up the film on the floor and chased after her from behind. “The doctor said you have to have the surgery as soon as possible. Are you not at ease with the hospital here? Then go back to China to do it. You should inform your family as soon as possible. Yes… and Su Yu. He should also know. You can’t just… without a word.”
“Don’t tell him!”
Gu Zhi turned around and glared at Ye Wen. Her beautiful and alluring eyes were a little scary at this moment. Her eyes were covered with clear blood vessels, and her eyes were as if the coldest wind in the North Country had blown, and they had been broken into pieces of ice, with a deep and dark black.
“I… okay.”
Ye Wen had never seen Gu Zhi’s cold and indifferent appearance before, as if her body had been replaced by a soul. She was stunned and didn’t know what to say. She said the thought in her heart in a daze, “I left my phone at your house, Sister Gu. I have to go and get it.”
“The phone?”
What’s the use of a phone? Who would answer a call from the far north, which was thousands of kilometers away? And besides, the other party was just a dead person. No one could… no one could take him away from her.
Gu Zhi couldn’t figure it out for a moment, but the pain in her heart was still urging her to turn around and leave the hospital quickly. She clearly knew that the other party had no way to escape, but she was still stubbornly wanting to go back quickly.
She wanted to hold his wrist right away, to suck in his fresh and warm, sunny scent, to feel the rhythm of his heart beating once and once again. Only then would Gu Zhi be complete…
Disease or pain could not defeat her. But she could not lose the only remaining light in her life. Even if she was burned all over, she would still firmly imprison her light.
She covered her temples, and a faint pain was spreading in the depths of her cranial cavity. She seemed to be able to feel some ugly and dark things slowly growing inside. The bad seed that had been deeply buried by her was beginning to loosen again, and a bud had emerged, which was a deep and almost-black blood color.
