Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Yuan Mingxu turned his head in confusion and saw Zhou Yixing sitting on the sofa in the ward. He’s still here, Yuan Mingxu thought, why are we here now and he’s still here? When will he be gone?
“You’re awake.” Zhou Yixing saw him open his eyes, stood up and walked towards him.
Yuan Mingxu looked at him without saying a word, his eyes showing no life or any brilliance.
Zhou Yixing looked at his helpless expression and thought of what the doctor had told him before and felt a mixture of sadness and anger in his heart. He looked at Yuan Mingxu, and even couldn’t help but step forward to take off his clothes and take a look. Was he even a man?
When Yuan Mingxu saw him coming, his body couldn’t stop shaking. He had already formed a conditioned reflex and didn’t dare to resist, but he felt scared both psychologically and physically.
Zhou Yixing looked at him shivering under the quilt and still couldn’t figure it out, “How could you be pregnant? How could you have a child? You are a man, how could you be pregnant?!”
Yuan Mingxu couldn’t listen. What were they saying when he went in? He just kept his head lowered in fear and his body was shaking.
Zhou Yixing couldn’t stand the way he looked now, so he grabbed his chin and said, “Speak, why are you pregnant? Are you a woman? Are you a monster? You don’t have a uterus, how can you be pregnant!”
Yuan Mingxu still didn’t speak, just looked at him timidly.
Zhou Yixing raised his hand to hit him, but Yuan Mingxu closed his eyes instantly and shrank himself up.
Zhou Yixing looked at him curled up, raised his hand halfway, and then slowly took it back. He couldn’t understand why Yuan Mingxu was pregnant. What was a pregnant man? A neither-male nor female monster? Why would he get involved with this kind of person? And why did he stay with this kind of person for so long?
He looked at Yuan Mingxu, his eyes full of disgust and contempt. He wanted Yuan Mingxu to go away and never appear in front of him again, but countless complex emotions were entangled in his heart, leaving him unable to express them. With this sentence, he could only hate him and himself at the same time.
Yuan Mingxu kept his eyes closed, as if he didn’t have to face anything with his eyes closed, and all the suffering and torture would be gone.
Zhou Yixing gritted his teeth, glanced at him one last time, turned around and walked out. He couldn’t stay here anymore. He thought, he needed to be quiet and think about the future between him and Yuan Mingxu. He needed to calm down.
Yuan Mingxu heard a loud slamming of the door, and then he slowly opened his eyes and looked around the ward again. Zhou Yixing is gone, he thought, Zhou Yixing is finally gone.
He closed his eyes and wanted to sleep for a while, but suddenly realized something and opened his eyes. He looked at the ward where he was, his mood then gradually became excited, and he even smiled in surprise.
Zhou Yixing, this was not his house, this was the hospital, he could leave, he could escape, he finally waited for this day.
Yuan Mingxu almost immediately lifted the quilt and got out of bed. He had just suffered a miscarriage, was injured, and was severely malnourished. He couldn’t stand almost as soon as he got off the ground. But Yuan Mingxu stood up by his own will. He covered his wound and walked towards the ward door step by step.
He had never felt that he was so close to hope, and he had never felt that he was so excited.
He opened the door and ran out instantly.
The nurse who was about to take care of him after receiving the news saw him running out and quickly chased after him, shouting, “Patient over there, stop, you need to rest.”
But how could Yuan Mingxu stop, he used his strong desire to survive, quickly ran into the elevator, closed the elevator, and went all the way down. His heart was beating fast. He knew that all success or failure depended on this. He could still live well after escaping. If he was caught by the nurse, he would probably die at the hands of Zhou Yixing.
The elevator opened, and he ran out as fast as he could, but was caught by the security guard waiting on the first floor. Yuan Mingxu struggled desperately. He kept struggling, roaring, and even started biting the security guard.
His movements were so big that he instantly attracted the attention of other patients in the hospital.
Seeing this, the security guard increased his strength and prepared to drag him into the elevator.
Yuan Mingxu felt what was called despair at that moment. His tears couldn’t stop flowing down, and he cried and begged them to let him go. The security guard quickly covered his mouth, and he bit him hard, but he couldn’t resist. With the strength of the security guard, he was finally dragged to the elevator.
He cried loudly, his heart was filled with despair, but at the moment before his heart died, he saw a figure. Yuan Mingxu had never felt that he would be so familiar and appear in front of him with a light that he had never dared to pray for, so he seized his last chance at that moment. He used all his strength to shout in the direction of the man, “Wei Lan——”
Wei Lan was accompanying Wei Xun to visit a sick family member. It was their uncle who was hospitalized. Wei Xun didn’t plan to bring him here, but he hadn’t seen this uncle for a long time, so he followed him. The two of them were about to go up directly from the VIP elevator when Wei Lan heard someone shouting heartbreakingly at him.
He turned back following the sound and saw an elevator not far away. Two security guards were pulling a patient. Wei Lan frowned and looked at it, wondering who this was?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the patient take advantage of the security guards being stunned on seeing him, and actually break away from them and run towards him. He ran so fast but the security guard who reacted chased him until he finally caught up with him again.
Yuan Mingxu used up almost all his strength to run in front of Wei Lan. As soon as he reached him, his legs went weak and he fell down. He quickly got up, knelt in front of Wei Lan, and hugged him, “Wei Lan, help me, help me. I beg you, help me, I don’t want to die.”
He said, and even started to kowtow to Wei Lan.
The two security guards quickly held him down and apologized to Wei Lan while trying to take him away.
Wei Lan finally reacted and looked at the person in front of him who was begging in disbelief, “Yuan Mingxu?”
Yuan Mingxu’s tears were flowing freely. He had been forced to stand up by the security guard. Wei Lan suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart. He then reached out and grabbed Yuan Mingxu and looked at him in disbelief.
He looked at Yuan Mingxu and couldn’t believe that this was the little white lotus who once ruled the world. No wonder he didn’t recognize him just now. Yuan Mingxu had simply become too much. He was too thin, so thin that he looked malnourished at first glance. His cheeks were sunken, and his whole body was like skin and bones, without any life. He looked at Wei Lan, and there was a kind of chaos in his eyes, even if they were filled with tears, how could they still be as bright and clean as they were back then.
Wei Lan looked at him and couldn’t understand how a normal person could become like this. “What’s going on with you?”
When Yuan Mingxu saw that he was willing to talk to him, he knew that he was saved. At this moment, gratitude towards Wei Lan burst out from his heart, and he shed tears and said tremblingly, “Zhou Yixing imprisoned me, Wei Lan, please save me, save me, I don’t want to die, I am about to be tortured to death by him.”
He said and burst into tears.
From mid-to-early March to now, a full four months had completely flattened Yuan Mingxu’s pride and ego. He was locked up by Zhou Yixing in a room where he could never see the exit, living like a prisoner, enduring his abuse and violence which made him ask himself countless times why he came back, why he didn’t listen to Jiang Mochen and stay in L city forever, and why he listened to Zhou Yixing’s sweet words.
He recalled his past over and over again, looking at every step he took in the past, only to realize that he had already blocked his own path. Jiang Mochen and Yan Qingchi gave him so many opportunities, but he did not cherish them, he also thought of what Jiang Mochen said, “Just a few days before you hired someone to beat him, he saw your text message. He thought something had really happened to you, so he specifically asked Wei Lan to check it out. But what about you? How did you do it?” It was the first time he felt so regretful. He had clearly felt the crisis at that time. Zhou Yixing’s slap and words pinching his jaw had clearly frightened him, but he still believed him. With his sweet words, he was obsessed into thinking that his career would be able to make a comeback if he came back with him, but what was the result? He was just kept in captivity like a dog. No, probably not even as good as a dog.
He had met too many good people, so many that when he saw the real wolf in front of him, he naively thought that this wolf could become a sheep for him.
Yuan Mingxu cried wildly, feeling that his life had never been so difficult.
Wei Lan saw that he was crying more and more, and more and more people were looking here, so feeling a little irritated, he asked Wei Xun for the car keys, patted Yuan Mingxu, and said, “Follow me.”
“Mr. Wei.” The security guard called him.
Wei Lan turned around impatiently, “Why, you still want to keep someone in front of me.”
The security guard immediately shook his head to express his incompetence.
Wei Lan snorted coldly, “In a society ruled by law, illegal detention is against the law. You don’t need me to teach you, right.”
After he finished speaking, he turned to Wei Xun and said, “Brother, go ahead and I’ll take him to the car.”
Wei Xun glanced at Yuan Mingxu. Yuan Mingxu lowered his head and did not dare to look at him. Wei Xun then said “hmm” and said nothing more.
Wei Lan led people to Wei Xun’s car and opened the back door. “Come in.”
Yuan Mingxu sat in obediently and asked him, “What about you?”
“I have something else to do, so you can stay here and wait first.”
Yuan Mingxu suddenly became afraid, “I’ll accompany you.”
Wei Lan sneered, “Are you coming with me? Do you know who I’m meeting?”
Yuan Mingxu was a little startled when he heard this. Looking at him, he looked timid.
Wei Lan had never been used to seeing boys cowering. He was just about to give him a few words of inertia, but then he thought that he had been locked up by Zhou Yixing for so long. He was already timid, so he reluctantly opened his mouth to comfort him, “Don’t worry, this is my brother’s car. Even if Zhou Yixing had a hundred hearts, he wouldn’t dare to touch it.”
Yuan Mingxu nodded quickly and said sincerely, “Thank you.”
Wei Lan felt that Yuan Mingxu saying thank you to him was still a bit magical, so he smiled perfunctorily, closed the door, and walked to the hospital again.
He thought it was a bit magical. So, he turned on his phone and wanted to tell Yan Qingchi, but he also thought that Yan Qingchi was still pregnant at the moment. Would it be too harsh to listen to this kind of prison play story? But if it’s someone like Yuan Mingxu, maybe he won’t think it’s so harsh, right?
So Wei Lan called Yan Qingchi while walking.
Yan Qingchi was drawing when he saw Wei Lan’s call and picked it up, “What’s wrong?”
“Let me tell you something. You need to listen to the outline of the story first. It’s about imprisonment, the baby in your belly, can it listen?”
Yan Qingchi chuckled, “Tell me, the child is so young that it can’t understand.”
“Then I will tell you.”
“You tell me.” Yan Qingchi put down his pen and prepared to concentratedly listen to him.
“I accompanied my brother to the hospital to see my uncle today. As soon as I arrived at the hospital, I was hugged by a man crying and shouting for help. Who do you think this person is?”
“Who is it?”
Wei Lan sighed, “Yuan Mingxu.”
Yan Qingchi regained interest, “What’s wrong with him?”
“Didn’t you say that Jiang Mochen asked him to leave here? Zhou Yixing brought him back, but Zhou Yixing imprisoned him directly after he brought him back. You haven’t seen Yuan Mingxu today. He really rushed in front of me and I didn’t even recognize him. He looked so inhuman. Oh, it’s really a bit miserable.”
Yan Qingchi connected his words with what he heard from Jiang Mochen yesterday afternoon and almost spelled out the whole story. Jiang Mochen sent Yuan Mingxu away, but Zhou Yixing took him back. In order to hide it from Jiang Mochen and prevent him from discovering it, Zhou Yixing imprisoned Yuan Mingxu, and Yuan Mingxu and him had a child during this period, and then due to some reasons, maybe a dispute, Yuan Mingxu had a miscarriage. He accidentally met Wei Lan today, so he asked Wei Lan for help, and Wei Lan came to help him.
“Then you saved him, what are you going to do next?”
“Looking at him. I think he wants to stay away from Zhou Yixing now. The power of the Zhou family is here. If he wants to get rid of Zhou Yixing, he can only go as far away as possible.”
Yan Qingchi smiled when he heard this, “It coincides with what Jiang Mochen said before, about letting him leave.”
“Yes, others asked him to leave before, but now he probably wants to leave himself.”
“Why bother?” Yan Qingchi thought.
“There are always some people who have to experience some things before they can understand the truth of being a human being.”
Yan Qingchi did not speak, there was nothing to say. Yuan Mingxu chose the path himself, and everything he had now was the result of the seed planted by him.
“If he wants to leave, just send him away. Save him, and I’ll tell Jiang Mochen when he comes back.”
“Well, that’s what I mean too. Just rest at home. As long as you know this, the rest I’ll take care of it. When Zhou Yixing finds out that Yuan Mingxu is missing, he may start to pester you and Jiang Mochen. This scumb*g, people of our background know that illegal detention is illegal, and his education likely went into a dog’s belly.”
Yan Qingchi chuckled, “Thank you for the hard work.”
“Okay, you are being polite now, treat me to dinner another day.” Wei Lan saw that he was about to enter the elevator, and hurriedly said, “I won’t talk to you anymore. I’m going to see my uncle first. As long as you know this, don’t think too much about it. Have a good rest. I’ll contact you if there’s anything else.”
“Well, I wish your uncle a speedy recovery.” Yan Qingchi said.
Wei Lan smiled and said, “Then let me thank you on his behalf.”
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