Twilight Scarlet

As sister Zixia said, I guessed the beginning but not the ending.The date of two people is very successful.Indeed, the atmosphere was very harmonious. After returning to Marcus's luxurious mansion, the two of them became even more passionate, and they made great strides forward.

But there is an old Chinese proverb that goes: extreme joy begets sorrow.

In the early morning of the second day, Qiao Zhen was so groggy that he almost didn't wake up. Although his brain was quickly occupied by caffeine after waking up and he became sober, his nose was still a bit weird.Even Marcus, the non-human, found his problem. "Qiao Zhen, do you have a cold? Why is your body temperature so high?"

Blood races don't know much about human viruses. Their bodies are like a large sterile processor, and it is impossible for any bacteria to coexist with them. They don't get sick, and they don't have the opportunity to learn more about these diseases.However, Marcus discovered sensitively that after last night's hmm, the blood temperature of the little thing in his arms inadvertently increased quietly in the early morning. The level rose geometrically, almost making him uncontrollable.But as a Kindred who has lived for 3000 years and is beginning to figure out how to form a stronger bond with his food, he worries.Because humans call this symptom sick...

Doctors don't talk about Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.Not to mention those little shrimps who live at the bottom of the hospital, they are almost deprived of the right to rest to the maximum extent.When encountering an emergency, they are often asked to add more time to a new round of rescue work immediately after working for more than [-] consecutive hours. This is not something that ordinary people can insist on.Being a doctor is also a physical job.

So even Qiao Zhen, Richard and other gourmets who regard surgery as a feast will have a day of physical exhaustion.What's more, Qiao Zhen still has to squeeze out two or three hours to be with someone in the already pitifully short rest time.So the virus bacteria quickly knocked him down.

Whoever said that doctors can't get sick, whoever said that doctors are born to take care of themselves, that's bullshit.Qiao Zhen drowsily poured a large cup of warm and extremely expensive coffee into her stomach, and cursed inwardly.He naturally knew what was wrong with him, but he was still thinking about the previous surgery.Britt had said that the case was his, and today he had a few exciting surgeries to refresh his mind, which could completely suppress the bacteria that were rampant in his body.But when he met Marcus's worried red eyes, he was a little shaken...

"No, I'm fine." Qiao Zhen narrowed her eyes happily after swallowing a large piece of waffle.He already felt better after a shower, a full breakfast, and most importantly, surgery. "After eating breakfast, I feel better immediately! And you know, I'm going to have a major operation today, and Dr. Schebert is going to remove half of a three-year-old's brain. It's just amazing!" He quickly And he spoke happily, his pink cheeks stained with a little excitement.This is an extremely rare case, and Qiao Zhen had been fighting for it before. Britt finally let him go when he got off work yesterday.After finishing speaking, Qiao Zhen shook her dizzy head and rushed out of the house quickly.

"..." Marcus looked at the empty corridor that still had lingering sounds, and his dark red eyes were stained with a layer of complexity again. "It's...an operation..." He muttered the simple three-syllable word, gnashing his teeth, but it seemed helpless.After casually recruiting the waiter to clean up the restaurant, he stood up, adjusted his meticulous suits, and said indifferently: "Get ready for the car, I will go to Seattle Hospital, and I will inform Gina that all employees will work overtime for one day today, and all meetings The terminals are all changed to Seattle Hospital. I'm going to be there for financial reports."

"Yes." The butler at the side did not know when he appeared to the side. His slender figure was wrapped in a strict tuxedo dress, and there was no expression on his rigid handsome face. Only the overly pale complexion showed his racial characteristics.

Today is Saturday. As a member of the board of directors, Marcus originally didn't have to go to work today, and tomorrow is the day for routine financial reports, but... Marcus paused, hesitantly turning back to look at his young housekeeper . "Remy, I said humans..."

"What, master?"

"I ask you, if human beings are sick... what do they need to do?"

"You mean..."

"I mean, if Qiao Zhen is really sick, does he need to take a vacation? Or..."

"Since Master Qiao Zhen insists on working, self-cultivation is obviously not what he wants. Maybe..." At this point, the cold and handsome butler who looked young and handsome hesitated for a moment.As the Volturi's steward, he has served the master since he was a human, so he naturally knew what the master meant.Although, as a vampire, he doesn't understand his master's obsession with this oriental boy, but the direction of his master's heart is what his sword is pointing at.This does not prevent him from comprehensive and multi-faceted understanding and assisting the owner to get everything he wants.

"Go on."

"Maybe a decent lunch will make him feel better."

Marcus thought for a while, and suddenly remembered a bloody soap opera that he saw when he switched channels a few days ago. After the heroine cooked a delicious meal for the hero, the man seemed very moved.Although Marcus scoffed at this at the time, but now I don't know why this picture suddenly broke into his brain.

"I remember that Qiao Zhen seems to like preserved egg porridge with lean meat." Marcus hesitated, and his eyes slipped to a hidden carved wooden door - where the kitchen was located.But don't talk about complicated Chinese dishes, even the dishes of his own country, as a royal family among the nobles, he has never cooked them since he was born.As the saying goes, ten fingers don't touch the spring water, which refers to people like him.Cooking in person today is really too difficult.

"Owner?"

"No, it's nothing. Prepare the car and go to the hospital first."

"Yes."

Joe Hazel drives his new Mercedes-Benz SUV—his precious SUV isn't lost, but Marcus still gives him a new one as a reward.It's as simple as giving a candy to a child.Qiao Zhen swung the car beautifully into the middle of the four yellow lines.

"Ah, Richard, it's really rare to see you." Qiao Zhen raised his eyebrows and smiled. He has rarely seen Richard since he went to work. After all, there is no need for two outstanding Stanford students to compete with each other in a rotation. The arrangement of the hospital also has a sense that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, so Qiao Zhen was surprised to see Richard.

"I followed you into the parking lot."

"Hi, good morning, stalker, I don't want to meet you in a dark alley." Qiao Zhen shook her hair, locked the car and laughed.

Richard also locked the car at this time, waiting for him in place.Qiao Zhen followed quickly and said with a smile, "On duty?"

"No, work overtime temporarily."

Qiao Zhen shrugged, no wonder. "An interesting case?"

Richard's complexion darkened, and he said in a low voice, "Dr. Britt called me here... He said he was going to have a meeting... How come I don't know what meeting the director is going to have today? He's obviously messing with me."

Qiao Zhen couldn't help but realize that he was with Marcus all night last night, so what would happen?Marcus doesn't even use to work today.It turned out that Britt hadn't tossed him enough, on purpose.What a poor baby.He shrugged and smiled gloatingly. "It deserves it."

"Die, this can't destroy me... but you... what is that? What did I see? Dr. Qiao Zhen, I seem to see your eyes are straight, your head is hot, your movements are slow... occupational weakness? Oh you Britt's delicate body finally couldn't hold it anymore?"

"Don't talk nonsense, it's just a slight stuffy nose, go away." Qiao Zhen gave Richard a blank look, walked quickly into the elevator, made a grimace, and quickly closed the elevator door before Richard could react. up.

"Oh...Damn it!" Richard didn't catch up, and there was nothing he could do about cursing, so he could only turn around and rush up the stairs, waiting for the next shift, he would definitely be late...

Almost at the same time, the calling devices of all the doctors in the entire building rang. Qiao Zhen was startled when he realized that it was the call signal for the highest-level conference. After Qiao Zhen changed his clothes quickly like everyone else, he rushed to Into the meeting room.Richard hurriedly followed behind.

Seeing Qiao Zhen, she was surprised and said, "No way, you just called me out of the house because of a meeting? Such an early morning?"

Qiao Zhen glanced at the almost twisted Richard, and shrugged involuntarily. "Know what?" He was a little curious, but Marcus hadn't told him about it.

"You will know if you go?"

"Six interns, ten resident doctors, and fourteen nurses in this hospital were all found to have... syphilis during routine physical examinations a few days ago!" Marcus was wearing a dark blue suit today. There was a storm in the red eyes, and a thick stack of medical examination reports in the slender fingers. "Someone wants to tell me, what is going on? Tell me, who did it?! Who is the pathogen?" As he said, the thick medical examination form was thrown on the conference table with a "snap". On the desktop, the crowd erupted in an instant.

Richard glanced at Britt, who was watching him inscrutably, with an ugly expression, and swallowed involuntarily.Qiao Zhen couldn't help but twitched the corners of her mouth, this guy...couldn't be...

Marcus snorted coldly and said, "You should be lucky, I have a meeting in a while, and now Dr. Richard, spread the knowledge to these doctors!" Marcus said with a gloomy smile With a smile, he glanced at everyone present one by one with a cold expression, and the entire conference room fell silent... When Qiao Zhen was swept by those scarlet eyes, Marcus paused meaningfully for two seconds, and then slowly Slowly open the door and leave.Qiao Zhen couldn't help shivering, and quickly stood up.

"..." Only then did the people in the venue relax, and everyone's eyes instantly focused on Richard. A vacuum with a diameter of one meter was formed around Richard, and even Qiao Zhen was not enough. Feeling loyal and somewhat uneasy, Qiao Zhen moved N positions to the side. At this moment, Qiao Zhen suddenly saw Britt's smiling eyes in the corner, and it became vaguely clear... Suddenly there was another trembling... Sure enough, the Nazi was Not to be trifled with.After silently casting a helpless look at someone in the vacuum circle, Qiao Zhen buried herself in the crowd.

"..." Richard was called on the spot, his face flushed for a moment, and then after seeing the vacuum state, he was already numb, his face turned green and red, and stood up embarrassingly. Everyone present Suddenly, he looked at the poor man strangely.

"There are [-] new cases in the United States every year. If we don't find out the reason, syphilis may cause blindness, madness, and even death..." Richard finally walked to the podium tremblingly, picked up the The information was read mechanically.

"If someone in the hospital is unprotected when they have sex with others, then they need to be checked..." Before he finished speaking, there was laughter and heckling with other meanings.

Richard paused, a strange look of despair flashed across his face, and then continued: "This is not a request to you, but an order from Director Volturi. Today, all doctors in this hospital, all All the nurses will participate in the collective syphilis inspection..."

"..."

Richard was clutching the thin speech paper eagerly, his complexion turned purple. Obviously, the manuscript clearly pointed out the next move, but obviously, it did not conform to Shenma's beautiful fantasy. "Now, I...I...I'm going to show you how to make love safely..."

"..." As soon as the words finished, Qiao Zhen laughed out of no sympathy like everyone present.

I saw that Richard's face was almost dying of embarrassment and despair. He gritted his teeth and finished the last few words. He quickly picked a long and plump banana from the fruit plate on the podium and held it in his palm. His face was so dark that it was horrible to look at. "When the time is right... Cough... Gentlemen, you should understand... You need to carefully open the packaging bag of the condom..." As he spoke, he opened the tightly clenched fist in the other hand, and one He showed everyone the little pink bag in his hand, and everyone burst out laughing, with howling wolves a few times.

Richard gritted his teeth and glanced at the direction of howling wolves, then tore off the bag stiffly, and said, "...then, put it on...uh...your bananas..., pay attention...too many An immature relationship can lead to an STD..."

At this point, he couldn't go on talking at all, and the audience was already roaring with laughter.But he gritted his teeth and glanced at the black font on the speech, and the next few sentences were almost gritted.That hatred, it seemed that those black characters could be ignited by him, and flew into everyone's minds by themselves. "Poor Richard, look at his poor little face, it's almost turning green." Alex finally couldn't help but laughed loudly without any sympathy. It seems that he was very suppressed by Richard's rule. miserable.

Qiao Zhen, one of Richard's bad friends, also squinted his eyes at this time, without any sympathy for him, and said mercilessly. "Who told him to mess around?"

"When the bananas have been... carefully remove the condom, dispose of it properly, and throw it in the trash... remember, every time you get a new banana, use a new... condom, do not recycle Use..." Finally, someone finished reading the speech, then roughly peeled off the transparent jelly from the banana, and threw it into the trash can viciously as if venting hatred, Richard De's face was already close to purple...

Qiao Zhen and the rest of the team avoided him in a tacit understanding and left silently.

"Richard is so pitiful, let's go and comfort him..." In the corridor, Bambi blinked his big eyes, looking at Richard who was sitting slumped in the conference room with sympathy, Said anxiously. "Qiao Zhen, aren't you his best friend? You should comfort him at a time like this!"

"..."

Qiao Zhen looked at Bambi strangely, and just about to say something, suddenly, she saw someone's gloomy eyes around the corner.He said impatiently: "Bambi, I believe you don't need to check for syphilis, you don't even know how to do it. So don't worry about these grown-up matters." Then he left around the corner.

"..." Bambi's face suddenly turned red and then blue, and he whispered angrily, "I'm not..." It's a pity that Qiao Zhen had already left first.

"What? A virgin? Oh, don't talk about it, we all understand." Alex stepped forward quickly, and walked away with a smile.

"...What's the matter? Aren't you not going to work today?" Qiao Zhen whispered, seeing that there was no one around in the stairwell. "Why..." Before he finished speaking, someone stretched out his long arms and hugged her in his arms, with a soft and warm object stuck to his lips.

"Um... what are you doing?! It's working time, I'm working!" Qiao Zhen looked at him panting in panic, her face was stained with a thin layer of red.

"Do you need to check?" Marcus ignored him, rolled him into his arms, kissed his neck delicately, and whispered.

"what to check for?"

"syphilis."

"..." Qiao Zhen narrowed her eyes, silently looked at Marcus with her eyes, and said through gritted teeth, "I just have a stuffy nose...or do you need me to check?"

"Then you don't need to check," Marcus said.

"……what?"

"I have no one but you."

"..." Qiao Zhen gave him a sideways look in surprise. In his eyes, a man like Marcus should be quite... popular.

"Is this surprising to you?" Marcus's tone was slightly annoyed.

"No, I'm not surprised at all." Qiao Zhen immediately followed suit. It was undeniable that the corners of his lips were already curled up triumphantly. He was still happy to learn of Marcus' loyalty.

"Then, should I check?" Marcus looked at him deeply, and quickly decided that if Qiao Zhen dared to nod, he would immediately tear him apart.

"Of course not." Qiao Zhen held Marcus' cheek and kissed deeply back, smiling.

"Very good." Marcus suddenly smiled softly, a faint halo flashed in his ruby-like eyes, like a soft mist, Qiao Zhen was a little fascinated.

"Then... see you in the evening." Qiao Zhen pinched himself secretly, feeling a lot clearer in an instant, he leaned forward and kissed the soft, thin lips with a hint of mint flavor, and said in a low voice.

"Well. Goodbye... oh, um... come to my office at eleven o'clock later."

"……it is good."

At eleven o'clock, Qiao Zhen came to the luxurious office on the top floor with a view of all the mountains on time. Qiao Zhen knocked on the door politely, only to hear a clanging sound inside, and then came Marcus's slightly shy voice , "Qiao Zhen...Doctor?...Uh...Come in."

"Director, what are you looking for..." Before Qiao Zhen finished speaking, she saw the steaming "Zhou Ji" preserved egg and lean meat porridge on the table. "This is……"

"Uh... I heard that it is better to drink porridge when you are sick... I..." Marcus, who has always been strong, couldn't continue. He just coughed wordlessly, and his usually pale cheeks seemed to be smothered by the heat. A little flushed, Marcus blinked his agate-colored eyes, looked around in a panic, pushed the steaming porridge in front of him, looked left and right, but didn't look at him, and said in a low voice: "... drink .”

"Marcus..."

"Shut up and drink it."

"Marcus, thank you."