Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 79

As soon as the news that the second son of the Chen Group fell into the sea and drowned, it quickly occupied the important pages of major media in a short period of time.
When the news broke that Chen Xu drowned in the sea, netizens and the media had various conspiracy theories in their views and speculations about this sudden and somewhat bizarre incident.
The day after his death was confirmed, a scandal about Chen Xu broke out on the Internet.
The girl who looked like a student was at a loss and fearful in an interview with the media. When faced with the media’s question about “Why did you stand up now and point out that Chen Xu had done wrong to you?”, she burst into tears. Said: “…I called the police that night but the yacht hadn’t arrived at the harbour at that time. The police couldn’t rush to the scene to collect evidence at the first time. I-I’m a student and I can’t help it…”
The police then provided the video surveillance of the day which clearly showed Chen Xu forcibly dragging her from the deck into the room after the yacht party. The girl was seen crying disheveled due to him at nearly two in the morning that night, running out of the room.
The second scandal that broke out was that during the process of investigating the cause of death, the police found a small amount in the room where Chen Xu lived which had previously been found to be highly addictive and hallucinogenic. After testing, the same drug ingredients also appeared in Chen Xu’s body.
The third time was an unrelated news report. The executive president of a bank in Yi City was sacked and Chen Xu’s name appeared in the bribery details reported.
The reversal of the cause of death and the revelation of more scandals made this incident fermented in a week’s time and became the talk of the country after dinner. The truth and falsehood have been ignored in several reports.
When Chen Chulian’s younger brother, Chen Xu’s father called Lian Jue, Shen Tingwei was surrounded by medical staff for a week to examine him.
Lian Jue was disturbed by the constant vibration of the mobile phone, hung up irritably, dragged the phone number into blacklist and anxiously asked Director Liu about Shen Tingwei’s physical condition: “How is it?”
Director Liu looked at the fluctuations on the instrument while frowning and asked him, “Are you sure you see signs of Mr. Shen’s recovery?”
Lian Jue hesitated for a moment amid his doubts, thinking that he was not entirely sure whether the subtle movements he had just seen were real or just an illusion.
It happened two hours ago.
The subcutaneous bruise on the back of Shen Tingwei’s hand due to the recent frequent infusions finally subsided. Lian Jue stared at the smooth and beautiful hand resting on his side then suddenly there was an uncontrollable impulse in his heart – so, he in this very ordinary and unromantic morning, under the thin light penetrating the gauze curtain and the pungent smell of disinfectant he put on the prepared ring for Shen Tingwei. Which he originally wanted to wait and give to Shen Tingwei once he woke up.

Shen Tingwei’s actual finger circumference is not much different from his estimation. It is difficult for Lian Jue to describe his feeling of putting a ring for Shen Tingwei. He only knows that he is more ceremonial than the one in country C. The mood of exchanging rings in the more atmospheric registration hall is very different. It’s not as perfunctory as the latter. It seems to be more urgent than then.
He pushed the ring onto Shen Tingwei’s finger base almost religiously watching the thin platinum ring with diamonds lining his pale and slender hand creating a sense of beauty that complemented each other and then involuntarily held Shen Tingwei’s hand. Shen Tingwei’s slightly cold hand kissed the tiny pinhole on the back of his hand that could only be seen when he got closer. Recalling the registration process, he leaned over and kissed Shen Tingwei’s dry lips.
He looked seriously at Shen Tingwei’s closed eyes, as if he wanted to make up for the lost sense of ritual and said to him with a tone of voice only used to convey dialogue between the two: “I do .”

Shen Tingwei’s head was wrapped with thick gauze. His long dark eyelashes hung down obediently, just like every morning when Lian Jue woke up early, he lay on the bed and fell asleep peacefully.
Lian Jue raised his hand and stroked Shen Tingwei’s bloodless cheeks and lips. He gently pressed the skin beside the corner of his lips with his fingertips. ‘What a good dream, he still don’t want to wake up.’
He occasionally speculates on Shen Tingwei’s dreams and asks Shen Tingwei some questions that he may be difficult to answer even if he is awake. He even asked Shen Tingwei if he remembered to hate him.
Shen Tingwei doesn’t have dimples, he usually smiles shyly, his eyes are slightly bent, his lips are pursed and his smile is shallow.
Lian Jue’s hand left his face. The corners of Shen Tingwei’s lips slowly returned to their uncurved appearance.
The smile in Lian Jue’s eyes also faded. He calmly looked at his soft-sided face embedded in the morning light and fell into a long blank thinking like every day when Shen Tingwei was not in a coma.
It was at this time that his peripheral vision was flashed by the fine light reflected by the diamond. His breathing was stagnant at first. He quickly regained his senses and lowered his head to find Shen Tingwei’s hand.
Lian Jue seemed to see Shen Tingwei’s fingers curled up invisibly but in the blink of an eye nothing seemed to change.
Lian Jue’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated at this moment. When he held Shen Tingwei’s hand again, he felt his hand trembling uncontrollably. The person beside the hospital bed called Shen Tingwei’s name over and over again.
But in the end it didn’t turn out as he wanted.
Shen Tingwei’s small movements seemed to be just a slight tug on his tense nerves and he didn’t mean to wake up.
Perhaps out of comfort and consolation, Director Liu said to him: “If you are sure to see Mr. Shen’s movements clearly then it is very likely that Mr. Shen can hear you. Don’t give up and talk to Mr. Shen more. Talk, maybe he’ll wake up soon.”

Lian Jue looked at Shen Tingwei’s pale face. The heart hanging under his chest slowly sank. After a while, he said “Okay”.
Before Director Liu left, looking at Lian Jue’s light blue. He couldn’t help but say more and persuaded: “Mr. Lian, you have been here for a week. You should go back home to rest first.”
The tiredness on Lian Jue’s face was not actually hidden but his expression was as calm as ever.
Director Liu looked at him and didn’t insist any longer.
The appearance of Lian Jue these few days is completely different from that of Lian Jiu, who was high in the past.
In fact, the hospital arranged for him a place to live not far away but Lian Jue insisted on staying here. With Lian Jue’s figure and pampered temperament, he didn’t know how he slept on the narrow sofa in the independent ward for so long. of.
After the people in the ward exited one by one, Director Liu gently closed the door of the ward. His eyes unintentionally swept to Lian Jue through the glass on the door. His eyes paused slightly, as if he read something from the straight shoulders. Matching desperation and embarrassment.
After noon, an uninvited guest came to the ward.
Lian Jue just drew half of the blackout curtains and covered the head of the window in the shadow blocked by the curtains, so as not to disturb Shen Tingwei’s beautiful dream due to the excessive light.
He pulled the curtains and turned around, helping Shen Tingwei to pull the quilt down a bit and when he raised his eyes, he accidentally saw the face of Yu Man outside the ward door.
Lian Jue’s eyes became colder and colder in the eyes of the other party’s constant prying eyes. He restrained his anger from his heart. He took Shen Tingwei’s arm out of the quilt as gently as possible and then got up to go towards the door.
Yu Man looked at Shen Tingwei lying on the bed through the glass on the glass window of the ward. Although she had seen it in the photos several times, it was still amazing to see the slightly bulging pregnant belly under the quilt.
The first time he saw from Chen Chulian that Lian Jue had raised a pregnant lover, Yu Man was very moved but she only thought that Lian Jue had brought a man back to Chen’s house to make a fuss causing him a big deal. The behavior of other people’s stomachs which is extremely inconsistent with public order and good customs is quite criticized – she once thought that Lian Jue would not be such a person.
Reminding him to pay attention to Chen Xu was only because she was dissatisfied with Chen Chulian’s behavior of sitting idly by when he knew that Chen Xu was going to do something inappropriate.
Until two weeks ago, she saw that the handsome man was pregnant from Chen Chulian’s study. She was almost stunned when she saw the photo then she hurriedly put the photos and documents back where they were and returned to the room in a daze.
She had never seen anything like this but it actually happened around her.
For a moment, she wanted to question why Chen Chulian was collecting this information and whether he really wanted to put Lian Jue to death but when she walked to Chen Chulian’s study that night, she heard him talking to someone and spent a high price on the other party’s hand. The news that was about to be released was suppressed.
Only then did she know that it was true that Chen Chulian hated Lian Jue. That it was true that he wanted Lian Jue to go to jail, that his appreciation and disappointment to Lian Jue were also true but not to the point of pacifying anger by hurting outsiders.
She still remembered the last time Chen Xu left the Chen family scoldingly, shouting: “You are still protecting him. He is just a dog raised by the Chen family.”
Chen Chulian stood on the second floor and said to him coldly, “It also depends on who owns the dog.”
Chen Xu said, “Then just wait and see”, and then respond, “I don’t know who is really from the Chen family. I think you are really confused. It’s you who should check your brain.” He slammed the door and left.
Then there was the car accident caused by Chen Xu’s anger.
After learning of the car accident, Yu Man’s hands were shaking. The first time she had a head-to-head conflict with Chen Chulian, she asked him if he knew Chen Xu’s actions. Chen Chulian’s answer was yes.

At this moment, her dissatisfaction with him completely turned into disappointment. She really couldn’t accept that the man who had slept with her for many years was so indifferent and regarded human life as grass and trees. Chen Chulian only looked at her lightly. With a glance, he said, “I have already saved him once, what else should I do?”
Before she decided to leave, guilt drove her to come here. She wanted to make sure of Shen Tingwei’s condition and also wanted to accumulate some virtue for the child in her womb – the virtue that his own father lost.
Lian Jue opened the door and blocked her sight with hos body, her face froze: “What are you doing here?”
“…I came to see him.” Yu Man was obviously lacking in confidence. She took a few steps back and asked, “Is he okay? How’s the baby? Are you all okay?”
Lian Jue snorted inexplicably, closed the door and said coldly, “Thanks to you, I’m not dead yet.”
Yu Man was silent for a while and said sorry to him but out of selfishness, she did not want Lian Jue to attribute all the responsibilities for her husband, so she deliberately hid part of the truth and only told him: “It was Chen Xu who did it.”
Lian Jue was not surprised and his face did not show any waves. He coldly pointed blame back to the person she was deliberately avoiding: “Chen Chulian knows?”
Yu Man was flustered by his question and after a while she said in a low voice, “…Ah.”
When she looked at Lian Jue, she realized that the “know” that Lian Jue said did not refer to the car accident but to Shen Tingwei’s current situation. That’s why she came here at this time.
She was stared at by Lian Jue without saying a word. She bit her head and said, “But don’t worry, Chen Chulian won’t trouble you…you know…Chen Chulian is not that kind of person.” Her voice became lighter as she spoke, as if it was about to disperse along with the dust floating in the air. After a moment’s pause, she continued, “Chen Xu had such an accident. His previous sins involved many of the family’s industries. The family is already in chaos, Chen Chulian can’t have the energy to deal with you anymore. Neither will he… After all, you have been together for so many years. He can’t deal with you ruthlessly.”
While she was saying these words, Lian Jue never gave any response. She raised her eyes and saw that Lian Jue’s gaze fell blankly on the glass window on the door of the ward.
After she finished speaking, Lian Jue retracted his eyes, his attitude and tone were the same as always: “Is there anything else?”
Yu Man looked at the ward from her side and before her eyes were fixed on the man on the bed, Lian Jue had bluntly blocked her vision.
Yu Man had no choice but to withdraw her eyes. She looked at Lian Jue and said, “I’m leaving.”
Lian Jue didn’t ask where she was going and didn’t even reply. Yu Man didn’t seem to need his response at all and said to herself, “I checked the weather forecast, and the day after tomorrow will be a good weather… suitable for starting a new life.”
Lian Jue was not interested in her new life or her old lifebbut out of respect for the pregnant woman and self-cultivation, he stood still and waited for her to finish speaking.
Yu Man hesitated for a long time before leaving and finally took out a lipstick from her bag. She wrote a series of numbers on a tissue and put it into Lian Jue’s hand, saying that if you are really worried, you can contact me. She has a very good address abroad. It is suitable for raising a baby. Chen Chulian will definitely not be able to find it. If necessary, Shen Tingwei can be sent there.

Lian Jue didn’t say goodbye to her but accepted the tissue with the number written on it.
After Yu Man left, Lian Jue’s cell phone rang.
He looked at Shen Tingwei sleeping with his eyes closed in the ward and answered the phone at the door.
The other party briefly talked about some cooperation matters and then asked his wife, saying that he would come to visit in person after the work was over.
Lian Jue’s gaze was very soft, as if he was afraid that it would be too heavy and would cause Shen Tingwei to fall on the bed so lightly. He politely refused.
“Don’t bother.” Lian Jue said, “my wife will be well soon.”

In the middle of the call, a nurse came to him and asked him to go to Director Liu. He said he knew.
The other side obviously heard it too, so he said goodbye to him and let him go first.
Lian Jue hung up the phone and stood at the door for a while before walking towards the chief physician’s office.
Director Liu’s expression was much more relaxed than usual. When Lian Jue entered the door, he almost smiled and asked him to sit down.
He pointed to a small indistinct shadow on the brain film and said to Lian Jue: “Mr. Shen’s brain still has a small amount of congestion, which temporarily compresses the nerves causing the person to remain in a coma. But Mr. Shen is now recovering. It’s very good, if it goes on like this, he may wake up in less than three days!”

Lian Jue, who had been holding on to his heart for many days suddenly relaxed at this moment. He heard himself say “Okay”, then opened his mouth and said again, “Okay”.
Director Liu was obviously as happy and excited as he was. After several restraints, he continued to tell him about the possible sequelae of the patient after waking up, such as headache, dizziness, drowsiness, loss of appetite, memory loss and a certain chance of transient neurological disorder or he may lost his memory and found a few typical cases to show him one by one.

Lian Jue took it over and roughly flipped through the cases in his hand. After roughly reading one of the cases, when the patient woke up and stated conclusively that he had seen a UFO.

The nurse who usually changes the dressing for Shen Ting suddenly ran away and came in
Because Lian Jue was here, Director Liu had some obvious opinions on her rashness. He planned to reprimand her with an unpleasant expression.
The nurse ignored his expression and shouted out of breath, “Mr. Lian, Director Liu! It’s not good! Mr. Shen… is gone.”