Chapter 22: Meeting in the Ward

Translator: Zhang Chuyu
Proofread by Peter Gong

In the hospital, the smell of disinfectant keeps irritating nasal linings. Ko Chen takes a few steps, and an intense pain suddenly attacks his body. He almost collapses but struggles to support himself and moves forward.

Uncle Zhang immediately finds something wrong about Ko Chen. He steps forward and asks him in a low voice whether he feels ill.

Ko Chen compresses his lips and doesn’t answer. But more and more sweat on his forehead suggests everything.

Since his body is indeed in unstable condition and maybe next second he’ll collapse again, Uncle Zhang doesn’t dare to delay and is going to contact Duan Tsingfeng instantly.

Gu Yi has been following them not far away. Ko Chen holds back Uncle Zhang’s hand, maintaining his countenance, and shakes his head. Then he puts his hand back and over his stomach tightly, “if Fei feels something wrong, tell her my stomach hurts.”

Uncle Zhang knows all, but he can’t reveal the truth, what’s worse, he needs to help Ko Chen deceive Yu Fei . Seeing lovers can’t be together, his heart hurts, too.

Walking into the ward, he sees Yu Fei lying on the bed and having infusion. As pale as death is her skin under which tendons stand out.

Ko Chen’s heart is broken. How can she be so weak in such a short period of separating?

Sitting down beside the bed, he allows his love to pour from his heart. He gently holds Yu Fei’s hands which are quite cold as if they were taken from the refrigerator.

Gu Yi sits on the other side of the bed. Notwithstanding he doesn’t move, he looks at Yu Fei affectionately.

Seeing Gu Yi’s face, Ko Chen feels uncomfortable.

He puts on a gloomy face, saying aloofly to Gu Yi, “Fei needs to rest after operation. Could you, the outsider, please go out so that Fei would not be disturbed? ”

Ko Chen stresses “the outsider” particularly, which is like a lion proclaiming its territory.

Gu Yi doesn’t take his words seriously at all. He sits still in his chair and says, “The outsider? These days, it is me, the outsider that accompanies Fei. So who should go out? Absolutely it’s not me.”

It’s obvious that his implication is to drive Ko Chen out.

Neither of them has an upper hand in the verbal attack. Gu Yi sneers, and goes out.

The moment Gu Yi goes out, Uncle Zhang follows him, leaving only Ko Chen and Yu Fei in the ward.

Since no one is here, Ko Chen stares at Yu Fei attentively. Her palm-sized bony face and pointed jaw show no hint of pregnancy. Two dark circles hang underside of her eyes, which indicates her lack of rest.

He gropes her face. The smooth touch on his fingertip is so familiar. Ko Chen stares at Yu Fei like that, and the pain in his body seems to be far away. He suddenly has an illusion that maybe he has no genetic disease at all and they live together happily forever.

So indulgent is Ko Chen in his illusion that he forgets to change his expression when Yu Fei wakes up. She sees Ko Chen’s affectionate face.

Yu Fei doesn’t expect the moment she opens her eyes, she will see Ko Chen. What’s more, his face doesn’t wear aloofness or dislike but affection. Her nose twitches and a smile is forced. She whispers, “Do I miss you so much that I have a delusion?”

Her voice drags Ko Chen back to the reality. His body pains at the same time. Ko Chen draws back his hands quickly and hides all the expressions on his face in a second, as if the affectionate man in the previous second were just an illusion.

His action confuses Yu Fei. In dullness, she looks at her hands, then at the blank Ko Chen. Her brain now goes rusty and doesn’t run smoothly.

“Chen…” Yu Fei murmurs with a hoarse voice.

A hint of heartache flashes across Ko Chen’s face, but only a flash, then he takes on his aloofness again.

Yu Fei finally knows that it’s the real Ko Chen. He really accompanies her.

Seeing her beloved man, she feels grievance rising in her heart. Without any warning, tears fall and wet the pillow.

Seeing her tears, Ko Chen is stunned and frowns. Without any words, he takes out a handkerchief and wipes her tears gently.

Yu Fei closes her eyes. The soft touch on her face makes her trapped in an illusion that she is Ko Chen’s beloved girl.

However, the scene where Ko Chen and Yu Yu were together emerges in her mind inappropriately. With more and more tears falling, Yu Fei isn’t able to control her emotion. She loves Ko Chen. She loves him so much that she doesn’t know what to do. Although she agrees to sign the divorce agreement, she feels reluctant to let him go when seeing him.

What’s more, his action is so gentle.

Yu Fei knows clearly that he is such a gentle person, and that’s exactly why his hateful expression would hurt her more.

Yu Fei, who has been indulgent in grievance, doesn’t know that Ko Chen has also been deeply entangled at this time.

He loves Yu Fei, but his illness hinders him. It’s not that he doesn’t consider telling her the truth, but he doesn’t want to upset her. So it’s better to choose short pain.

Ko Chen finally chooses his original decision that Yu Fei can’t be with him.

Thinking about it, he draws back his hands, folds his handkerchief and puts it back into the pocket.

Feeling the touch on her face disappearing, Yu Fei is stunned and opens her eyes instantly. She looks at Ko Chen but Ko Chen doesn’t look at her. Thus, she dares to look at the man’s handsome face recklessly. Seeing his sharp jaw, Yu Fei feels her heart hurts. He grows thinner.

But she doesn’t have the qualification to care Ko Chen now.

It’s quiet in the ward. Neither of them intends to speak. It seems as if the silence were maintained and time would stop.

Under the quilt, she clenches her hands and loosens them. She clenches again, then loosens again. She repeats for several times, and finally musters up the courage to speak, “Chen…”

Before her voice dies away, the door is opened. Gu Yi comes in with two big bags. Seeing Yu Fei is awake, he smiles to her like a spring breeze blowing. “You’re awake,” he says.

It occurs to Yu Fei that it’s Gu Yi who took her to the hospital. In that case, why is Ko Chen here？

There are answers in her mind, but she doesn’t dare to ask. She isn’t able to experience that feeling again after so many frustrations.