Dangerous Aesthetics

"Me?" David was stunned. Maybe he could say that he was an art appraiser, or that he was a partner of a well-known modern painter...but these were all lies, and he couldn't lie to Ruby , "I'm still a nobody."

He couldn't tell him that he was a liar who cheated women out of money.

Ruby's eyes were clear, reflecting his appearance, making him unconsciously ashamed, and he just wanted to leave immediately.

"That Ruby, I was actually taking care of a friend in the hospital, so I have to go first."

The other party smiled slightly: "Goodbye, David. It's really nice to see you again."

David was carrying the newspaper, his mood was overwhelmed, and every step seemed upright. He came to the door of Olivan's ward, and looked at his watch again. It was over, for more than an hour...

"What are you still hanging around outside the door?" Olivan's voice came.

David paused, bit the bullet and pushed the door open.

"That... I saw my friend in the hospital, so I had a chat."

"En." Olivan was noncommittal, just reached out and took the newspaper and started to read it.

"Olivan, are we partners?" David asked in a low voice.

As the newspaper turned a page, Olivan asked rhetorically, "Do you prefer state prisons to your partners?"

The other party's answer made David happy, so that he could at least look like a man in front of Ruby.

After dinner, David left the hospital, where he was staying in a hotel near the hospital.

He looked up all the information about leukemia, and became more worried about Ruby's condition.

The next morning, David packed breakfast for Olivan at a French restaurant. When he passed by a flower shop, the owner happened to set out a fresh bouquet.

David stopped and saw fresh perfumed lilies.

"Boss, can you wrap me a bouquet of lilies?" David suddenly remembered the high school prom, and Ruby pinned a lily on her skirt. It was fresh and noble, like an elf in a movie.

Holding the lily in his hand, he sniffed it through his nose and walked towards the hospital with a smile.

Passing by the door of Ruby's ward, she was sitting on the bedside reading a book, and there was an unfinished breakfast on the bedside table.

David knocked on the door and walked in, "Good morning."

"Morning." When Ruby saw David, she showed a big smile on her face, just like the smile she had at the end of her speech on the stage when she entered high school, which David still misses so much.

David came in with flowers, only to find that there was no vase here.

Ruby reached out to take the flowers, "It's so beautiful, this is the first bouquet I've received since I came to Houston."

David smiled embarrassedly: "I'll go and give breakfast to my friend first, and I'll talk to you when I come back later."

"Okay!"

When David pushed the door of Oliwen's room, he was standing at the window, looking at the far horizon.

"Hey... you really look like Mozart in "Requiem"!" David half-jokingly put down the breakfast and handed the morning paper to the other party.

Olivan just took the newspaper quietly, still looking out the window.

"Don't you want to eat breakfast? The milk tea will be cold!"

Only then did Oliwen turn around slowly, looking at David's shoulders and frowning: "What's the smell on you?"

"Smell?" David raised his shoulders and smelled it. He didn't go out until he took a shower this morning.It is because I know Olivan has a cleanliness freak, otherwise I wouldn't have to get up so early!

Olivan stretched his fingers over and pushed the powdery thing off David's shoulder.

Only then did David realize what the other party was referring to.

"It's the pollen of the perfume lily! My friend is still in the hospital, so I bought a bunch of flowers to see her."

Olivan retracted his fingers, returned to the bed, picked up the newspaper and began to taste breakfast.

David touched his head, thinking that the other party's nose is really good!

As soon as he thought about it, he suddenly remembered that the other party's fingers brushed his shoulder just now, and it seemed that something overflowed in David's heart.

David laughed inwardly...

Since when did Olivan be able to control his heartbeat so easily?

The other party sat quietly by the bed, but David didn't know how to look away.

At this moment, the doctor came in to change Olivan's dressing, giving David an opportunity to look away.

He came outside the corridor, took a deep breath, and remembered that he had made an appointment to visit Ruby.

Just arrived at the door of Ruby's ward, the door opened suddenly, and Ruby was pushed into the emergency room lying on the bed with an oxygen mask on.

"Ruby! Ruby!" David wanted to follow, but was stopped by the doctor outside the emergency room.

Within half an hour Mrs. Linda arrived with Ruby's daughter, Diana.

Ruby was sent to the intensive care unit after coming out of the emergency room because of complications, which came close to respiratory failure.

This is not the reunion I wanted.

Through the glass window of the ward, David lowered his head, tears streaming down his face.

Not far away, Oliwen leaned against the wall, his eyes resting on the back of David with his head lowered.

David stayed in front of Ruby's ward until noon. When he saw the nurses changing shifts eating lunch, he realized that he should buy lunch for Olivan.

But he was not in the mood. He just went outside the hospital to buy a hamburger and coffee. When crossing the road, he was almost hit by a car because he was absent-minded.

When he returned to Oliwen's ward and handed out the hamburger, the other party took it and ate it without saying a word.

David froze for a moment, Olivan never ate junk food.

He was so straightforward, but it made David feel a little uneasy, "Well... I have something to do, let's eat this at noon."

"Come here." Olivan raised his chin towards David.

It's over, it can't be that the hamburger is not tasty, he is going to get mad, right?

David walked over slowly, but Oliwen raised his arm, "Be careful when crossing the road in the future."

"Ah..." David finally realized what the other party said.

But how did he know that he was almost hit by a car?

David looked at the window, and then remembered that Olivan sometimes likes to stand in front of the window and look out.

"That...Olivan, can you pay me my salary this time?" David pursed his lips.

"Yes." Olivan handed over a card.

"How much money is in this card?"

"80. Easter egg is that the market valuation is 250 million."

David blinked, "Give me all 80? Is there anything to deduct?"

"Thirty thousand was deducted because I was shot to save you."

"Just thirty thousand?"

Olivan frowned: "Did you break Neo's car?"

"No." David shook his head quickly.

"Did you break any utensils in the kitchen?"

"No."

"Did you litter and attract cockroaches?"

"Absolutely nothing!" David still remembers one time when he was eating pizza on the dining table and dropped a piece of ham on the floor. After cleaning up the table, he was lazy and didn't look at the ground. As a result, the next day Olivier found a cockroach lying on the piece of ham superior.

Needless to say, David was the only one in the entire villa eating junk food.

For a cockroach, Oliwen actually found a professional pest control company, and deducted more than 1000 US dollars from David for this.

"Then you can take your salary." Olivan continued to eat the hamburger, flipping through this issue of European art special issue.

"...You won't ask me to return this card to you tomorrow, will you?" David asked worriedly.

Olivan turned his gaze to David, "Return the card to me."

"No! Thank you!" David turned around and ran out immediately.

Outside Ruby's hospital room today, David talked to Mrs. Linda.He knew that Ruby had pinned her hopes on the bone marrow donor in Houston this time. Who knew that the bone marrow match was suffering from some kind of infectious disease. Ruby would definitely not be able to transplant the other party's bone marrow. Ruby already planned to contact the broker tomorrow to sell the French vineyard.

This time, they owed $[-] at the hospital.

David quietly paid the money, and then planned to leave his more than 80 yuan to Ruby before leaving Houston.

He knew that Ruby loved her father very much, and it was quite painful for her to sell the vineyard.

When Ruby woke up, the first thing she saw was David.

Tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

David touched the water mark anxiously, "What's wrong Ruby?"

"It's just that I never thought...that I could see you when I need it most."

David smiled, "You'll be fine, Ruby. Then live happily ever after with Diana."

"I'm past the age of believing in fairy tales. Eternity is too far away. It's a luxury to see Diana grow up."

"You've got to see Diana grow up, it's definitely not just a fairytale."

Ruby's condition stabilized after a week, awaiting a new match from the bone marrow bank.

One day, when David came to visit Ruby, the other party told her that he was going back to France, to the vineyard.But she won't sell it, because Diana is still young, if she is doomed, at least she can leave a legacy for Diana.

Mixed feelings are not enough to describe David's feelings. He wants to keep Ruby, but finds that he can't find any reason.

They hugged, David holding her tight.

"Remember to call me." David handed her his cell phone number, and she thought Ruby would give him his phone number too, but Ruby just smiled and took Diana's hand and left the hospital .

She didn't know that just the afternoon before, David transferred 80 to her account.

After Ruby left, David took a breath.

He didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky.After many years, I met my first love again, but we were about to part soon.

Carrying breakfast from across the road to the hospital, the leaves of the sycamore tree on the street fell on David's shoulders. He wanted to reach out and push it away, but finally decided to let it stay there.