She suddenly felt guilty: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said this... If you don't want to mention it, just pretend I didn't say it."
Gu Ci lowered his eyelids and said calmly: "It's not something difficult to talk about. After the accident ten years ago, they all felt that it was inappropriate for an almost disabled person to sit in the position of heir again, so they abandoned their son.
The title was born.”
As he spoke, he sneered twice, "It's a pity that they forgot an important thing. The abandoned son almost died trying to protect the Gu family's secrets. Based on this alone, the old man cannot give up easily."
She could understand every word of his words.
But Cheng Lu was confused as to what they meant.
In Gu Ci's description, this abandoned son doesn't seem to be him...
"The Gu family's secret? What is it?" she couldn't help but ask.
Gu Ci raised his eyes and stared at her deeply: "I will tell you when the time comes."
His eyes were deep, like an abyss of tenderness, and she could fall into it with just one look.
Her heart skipped a beat and she lowered her head in panic: "Okay."
After breakfast, Gu Ci sent her to work.
At the entrance of the medical center, she was about to get out of the car when suddenly a pair of iron-like arms behind her hugged her tightly.
"Gu Ci?"
She turned her back to him and couldn't see his expression clearly.
But you can clearly feel the man's panic at this moment.
She reached out and touched the big hand clasped around her waist, hoping to comfort him.
He leaned against her ear: "If...if I weren't me, would you still choose to be by my side?"
An inexplicable sentence.
Cheng Lu didn't understand.
"What do you mean you are not you? You are you." She was a little angry. "Is the person who has been with me during this time a phantom? Are you not the father of the child in my belly?"
Gu Ci's breath suffocated slightly.
After a few seconds, he smiled: "That's right."
He kissed her earlobe softly: "Go ahead and be careful not to tire yourself too much."
"Um."
She didn't look back until she walked into the door of the medical center.
The car drove away far away.
Cheng Lu narrowed his eyes.
Gu Ci's attitude just now was really strange. He had always been as strong as him, so how could he make her feel so distressed at that moment?
He... was really vulnerable just now.
What does that sentence mean if he is not him?
Her heart was confused, as if it was covered with an invisible veil.
Xiaoxian came over and interrupted her thoughts: "Doctor Cheng, the special ward is calling for you to come over."
The special ward...is Zhu Chun!
Her expression remained unchanged, and her steps visibly quickened: "Did something happen? Was there something special last night?"
Xiaoxian: "No, everything was normal last night. These are the various data indicators monitored. Take a look."
Cheng Lu flipped through a few pages, and his hanging heart finally fell.
It seemed that Zhu Chun was recovering well, better than she expected.
"Very good, let's continue according to the treatment plan. I'll go to the outpatient clinic first and then go there after I'm done."
Xiaoxian nodded obediently: "Okay."
It was not until lunch break that Cheng Lu came to the special ward with lunch.
Zhu Chun was sitting on the hospital bed, her face was still wrapped with a lot of gauze, only half of her face and two dark eyes were exposed.
Her hands were also wrapped heavily in gauze, but she had three or five fingers left for her to read books and newspapers.
Seeing Cheng Lu coming, Zhu Chun smiled and said, "I thought you would come here early in the morning, but I didn't expect you to wait until now."
"The medical center is very busy. You should thank me for not coming so quickly, otherwise your situation may not be as optimistic as it is now." Cheng Lu lowered his head and started eating.
Zhu Chun stared at her and said after a moment: "That's right."
Cheng Lu ate very seriously.
Her lunch was prepared by Li Xiumeng at a specially appointed restaurant.
From the raw materials to the chefs who start cooking, they must undergo strict screening.
Of course, all these considerations are well understood.
Cheng Lu thought this was unnecessary at first, but Gu Ci and Li Xiumeng were surprisingly consistent on this point.
Faced with their two-pronged approach, she had no other option but to be obedient.
Zhu Chun: "Your lunch is different from other people's."
"Of course, I am a special person who is taken care of." She half-joked.
"Is it difficult to double major in medicine...?" Zhu Chun asked.
"It's difficult, of course it's difficult."
"I thought you would say it wasn't difficult."
"Why do I say that? It's very difficult to begin with. Even I have to put in a lot of effort and energy, and some things may not be perfect." She sighed, "The more you study, the more capable you will be.
I find myself getting smaller and smaller.”
Zhu Chun's eyes lit up quickly: "What you said...makes sense."
"Did you come here just to chat?"
Cheng Lu finished eating and she wiped the corners of her mouth gracefully.
"Is the special ward safe?" Zhu Chun said this out of nowhere.
"This ward is for the private use of the Li family. No one except you will know it is here, and no one will find out that the person in the ward is you. Besides, you are already 'dead', have you forgotten?"
She blinked her eyes and showed a bit of a smile.
Zhu Chun nodded: "Yes."
There was silence again.
Cheng Lu looked at the time and saw that there was still an hour and a half left in her lunch break.
She decided to spend another half hour with Zhu Chun, and she would take a nap in the remaining hour.
As soon as this idea came to his mind, Zhu Chun spoke.
"The fire was set by Zhu Li." She opened her mouth with a powerful sentence, "I was deceived by Zhu Rou to go back. She didn't know that her uncle would set fire to the entire Zhu family. She just wanted to use grandpa's name to trick me into going back.
, teach me a lesson. In her eyes, I am the culprit who took away all the aura of the Zhu family."
"That day... I was locked in the study and discovered Zhu Li's secret."
"Do you still remember a medicine exchange meeting you attended before? At that exhibition, there were rare medicinal materials discovered from the Snowfield Continent."
Cheng Lu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this: "Of course, I have all those medicinal materials now."
Gu Ci has ordered people to carve out a piece of land in Yaowang Mountain and use modern technology to simulate the environment of the Snowy Continent to plant these medicinal materials in the hope of getting more harvests.
Zhu Chun nodded: "I know. But do you know? In fact, before this batch of medicinal materials from Snowfield Continent entered the exhibition, Zhu Li had already used some means to withhold part of it."
"real?"
"Really." Zhu Chun met her eyes without moving his gaze away, "I guess - he discovered the whereabouts of Shen Chong, the master medicine immortal."
These words set off a storm in Cheng Lu's heart.
She pursed her lips and lowered her eyelids to think for a moment.
When she raised her eyes again, her eyes were sharp: "What does this have to do with him burning down the entire Zhu family?"