It was ten o'clock at night.
There was only a small bedside lamp left on in the ward. In the dim environment, Wen Sining and Lu Luochen were one sleeping on the cot next to the hospital bed and the other on the single sofa opposite the bed. In the whole ward, one could only occasionally hear the beeping of the electrocardiogram monitor and their shallow breathing.
Maybe he had maintained one position for too long. Lu Luochen, who was sitting on the sofa, changed his posture, making a rustling sound of cloth rubbing.
"Lu Luochen, can't you sleep?" Suddenly, Wen Sining's voice rang out.
Lu Luochen stopped in his tracks. His eyes instinctively looked in the direction of the sound, but he only groped in the dark.
"Sorry. Did I wake you up? I'll go out and sit for a while. Call me if you need anything..."
"No, I can't sleep either." Wen Sining sat up and casually ran her fingers through her hair. In the small orange light, she accurately met Lu Luochen's eyes.
"Since you can't sleep either, why don't we have a chat?"
A little later, Wen Sining's cot was folded back into a chair and placed side by side with the sofa.
"You seem a bit strange today. Are you really okay?" Wen Sining held a glass of water and asked, her eyes full of inquiry.
Although she couldn't claim to know Lu Luochen's personality completely, she knew it quite well. Today he was so quiet. There was not a trace of the overbearing CEO's swagger and arrogance he used to have. Even his personality seemed much more reserved.
This Lu Luochen gave her the feeling of a bomb full of gunpowder. One never knew when it would explode.
He was extremely dangerous.
Most importantly, there were only she and Lu Luochen, two able - bodied people, in the ward. For her own safety, Wen Sining decided to have a good talk with him.
Lu Luochen's eyes were fixed on Mr. Lu on the hospital bed. He slowly shook his head.
"I'm okay. It's just that there are some things I need to figure out on my own."
Suddenly he turned his head and, by the moonlight outside the window, quietly looked into the eyes of the person beside him. "Wen Sining, was I a real jerk before?"
"Do you really want to hear it?"
"Yeah, go ahead." Lu Luochen leaned his head against the back of the sofa, looking as if he was all ears.
"To be honest, you were not just a jerk before. You were even worse than one. Especially when you quarreled with Grandpa again and again for that woman, you were even less than an animal. Do you know how disappointed Grandpa was with you? I saw Grandpa sitting alone in the study many times, crying while looking at a photo. He kept saying sorry to them and blaming himself for raising a grandson who couldn't tell right from wrong..."
Wen Sining rambled on. Every word was like a heavy shackle that bent Lu Luochen's back.
Seeing Lu Luochen curled up, a flicker of pity flashed through Wen Sining's heart. She sighed and said,
"Alas, Lu Luochen, I won't comment on your past with her, and I don't want to pry into your feelings for her. All you need to remember is that she hurt your family, your only relative in this world."
"I hope you've really let her go, instead of losing your head again just because she cries and says a few words."
"Please... don't let Grandpa down again."
Lu Luochen raised his hand to cover his eyes. After a long time, he let out a barely audible "hmm".
"Don't worry. This kind of thing will never happen again."
Since the matter had been brought up to this point, Wen Sining didn't know what else to say. But Lu Luochen's mood was still low. Wen Sining bit her lip. She didn't like seeing Lu Luochen like this. It was as if a shining star had fallen into the mud, covered in dirt and losing its luster.
Suddenly, she remembered that not long ago, Lu Luochen had taken her to sit by the sea for a whole day. He had also been in a strange mood that day.
Wen Sining frowned and thought for a while. Finally, she decided to give it a try. She quickly took out her phone and started operating it like a whirlwind.
Half an hour later, Wen Sining's phone rang. She immediately got up and rushed downstairs to the inpatient department at full speed. She took the same - city express order she had placed half an hour ago from the delivery guy.
"What's that you're holding?" Lu Luochen looked at the box in her hand and couldn't help asking.
"Nothing. It's just a projector." Wen Sining replied casually. She installed and started it according to the instruction manual and connected it to her phone. Then, in Lu Luochen's puzzled look, a vast blue sea was projected onto the white wall opposite.
While setting up the projection, she observed Lu Luochen's expression. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw that he didn't show any resistance. Then she said casually,
"I can't sleep. I'm just going to watch a movie."
What was being played at the moment was a documentary about the sea.
The blue sky, the golden beach, the white waves, the green sea surface, the boats floating on the sea, and the birds circling around the boats...
One scene after another was like a hand that gradually smoothed out the waves in Lu Luochen's heart.
He turned to look at Wen Sining. The person who had just said she couldn't sleep was now dozing off, her head bobbing up and down.
Lu Luochen wasn't stupid. He knew that Wen Sining had done all this for him. He could no longer maintain his calm expression. His eyes were full of surprise. Besides that, he felt a warm current flowing through his heart.
Suddenly, Wen Sining's head rested on Lu Luochen's shoulder. Her bright eyes were closed, and her long eyelashes cast a silhouette under her eyes.
She was asleep.
Lu Luochen couldn't help curving his lips. He just stared at her quietly. After a while, he also slowly closed his eyes.
The next day, to everyone's disappointment, Mr. Lu didn't wake up. Wen Sining felt a little let down, but then she cheered up and continued to stay in the hospital to take care of him. Lu Luochen originally wanted to stay too, but something urgent came up in the company, so he had to go and deal with it first.
Wen Sining temporarily handed over all the affairs of Mo Xin, except those that required her personal presence, to Donna, her business partner and the vice - president of Mo Xin. She concentrated on taking care of Mr. Lu in the hospital.
However, on the third day, Mr. Lu still didn't wake up. Wen Sining comforted herself by saying that maybe Grandpa was just being lazy and didn't want to get up. So at night, she sat beside Grandpa's bed and told him the interesting things that had happened recently.
On the fourth day, Mr. Lu still didn't wake up. Wen Sining was visibly anxious. She couldn't even sleep at night. If it weren't for the doctor saying that Grandpa's physical indicators were all normal, she would have transferred him to another hospital immediately.
Finally, on the fifth day after Mr. Lu was hospitalized, he finally woke up. Ten minutes later, the Lichen City Public Security Bureau also issued a notice.