Strangers Ten Years Later

Su Zhongting's health improved a lot.

Ever since Lin Jin visited him once, and since then, he has visited him every now and then, he no longer needs to wear a ventilator anytime, anywhere. When the sun is better, Su Hua's boyfriend will even push him Go sit in the yard for a while.

Su Hua's boyfriend is called Li Xiyan, who is Lin Jin's immediate boss, and he only found out about it by chance when he met him in the hospital.

When Li Xiyan saw him for the first time, he smiled, narrowed his eyes, looked him up and down curiously, and said, "Oh, you are Lin Jin."

Su Hua dragged him into the room: "Why do you talk so much?"

Li Xiyan's voice came from inside: "See what kind of brother makes you so interested."

Care?Lin Jin laughed twice, feeling a little funny.

Su Zhongting was sitting by the bed reading a book, wearing glasses, reading word by word, it was very difficult, so Li Xiyan took the book in his hand, and read it to him word by word.

Su Zhongting leaned there with his eyes closed, the air was full of floating dust that was particularly obvious under the sun, among the whirling tree shadows, there were mottled and fine tree shadows falling on the ground, the temperature was just right, neither too hot nor too cold.

It was a rare and warm day, even though he just said harsh words to Ye Ziyuan, but the weather never depends on other people's mood.

The strange thing is that he doesn't feel very sad in his heart.

It's just that Ye Ziyuan's mention of his mother still makes him feel hurt.

Lin Jin tucked up the quilt for Su Zhongting, and couldn't help thinking how nice it would be if he was by his side when his mother passed away.

To be honest, Lin Jin's insomnia has become a little serious recently, and sometimes he even started to dream again. Although it is not as bad as before, he always feels that he should see a doctor.

He always suspects that the work pressure is too much—but not necessarily, because he thinks of Liu Yan occasionally.

He didn't trust the new doctor, and he didn't want to bother Liu Jin. She had just given birth to a baby and was in confinement.

As a result, he had no choice but to increase the dosage and try his best to endure it by himself.

During the day, it was still the same as usual.

"By the way," Su Zhongting suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Lin Jin, "Xiao Jin, yesterday, an old friend of yours came to visit me."

"Old friend?"

"Well," Su Zhongting said, "I sent some fruits, health care products, and the flowers over there, which were also sent by him. It seems that there are cards on them. It's not convenient for me to look at them, so I just left them there. "

Lin Jin responded and glanced at the lilies over there.

Then stand up and go to the pile of flowers.

His old friend?What old friends could he have?

Lin Jin got closer and saw that there was indeed a card inside the flower. It was light brown and inlaid with gold. When Lin Jin picked up the card, his eyes fell on the final payment, and he froze in place suddenly.

Su Zhongting's voice also sounded at the right time: "It seems to be called... Liu Yan? It should be this name."

Lin Jin's hands trembled slightly, looking at the words written on the card, he didn't look back for a long time.

"What did you write?" Su Zhongting asked.

"I wish you a speedy recovery." Lin Jin heard his own voice say.

He seemed to have been pulled out of his body, and he could see his pale face, the hot sweat that was gradually soaking up, his hands were clenched tightly, and the card was even crumpled by him, as if he just got out of the water. Pick it up in general.

It's Liu Yan.

Lin Jin repeated the other party's name in his heart.

Why did he find this place so lingeringly?

Lin Jin quickly put the card away and crumpled it into a ball. The hard cardboard made him feel pain in the palm of his hand. Su Zhongting whispered something, but he didn't listen to a word, and he looked confused.

In the end, Su Zhongting could see that something was wrong with him, and asked, "What's the matter? Do you have something to do?"

Without waiting for Lin Jin to speak, he continued: "Go to work if you have something to do, I have someone to take care of it, so you don't have to worry."

Lin Jin really wanted to throw away the hot potato-like piece of paper in his hand. Upon hearing this, he immediately got up and said goodbye, closed the door of the ward, leaned against the cold white wall, and took several deep breaths.

The passing nurse saw that his expression was not very good, and asked, "Sir, are you alright?"

Lin Jin looked ahead without focus for a while, then clenched his fists and shook his head with difficulty.

There was still no other way, Lin Jin thought, he could only disturb Liu Jin, so he called her.

Doctor Liu seemed to be in a good mood, and he spoke with a smile: "Did you finally think of calling me? Are you not angry?"

"angry?"

"Oh, don't you know?" Dr. Liu smiled, "I told Ye Ziyuan that you were in Shanghai. I saw him looking like he was going to collapse, so I couldn't help telling him... What's more, I I think it is more beneficial for your stability to have him by your side. I hope you don’t blame me for making my own decisions.”

Lin Jin sighed: "Is everything okay, child?"

"It's good, the crying is very loud," Dr. Liu said in a gentle tone when talking about the child, "How about you? Is everything okay?"

"..." Lin Jin walked through the long corridor of the hospital, arrived at the window, and opened the window even more. Outside the window, there was a cool breeze of early autumn blowing over his body, slightly cool, with the freshness of the soil after the rain.

After a while, he said, "Not very good."

"What's the matter?" Liu Jin wondered for a while, then seemed to stand up, "Not on good terms with Ye Ziyuan?"

"Liu Yan has come to Shanghai," Lin Jin lowered his eyes, "I don't know when he will appear by my side again."

He recounted what happened in the ward, and there was a long silence after he finished speaking.

Liu Jin didn't seem to know how to deal with this situation. After all, she was only a psychiatrist, not a police officer. She could only ensure that Lin Jin's mental state was not in trouble.

After a long time, she finally opened her mouth: "Have you ever thought about mentioning Liu Yan's harassment of you to Ye Ziyuan?"

"have not thought."

Lin Jin put an end to this possibility with one sentence.

Liu Jin sighed: "That's your nightmare, appearing by your side, naturally it won't make you feel better...Psychological problems can't be completely cured, you can only maintain stability, and a very important factor in maintaining stability is that Liu Yan never appears again. By your side, you'd better...you'd better ask Ye Ziyuan to help you."

"Back then, when Liu Yan wanted to trouble you, wasn't it Ye Ziyuan who helped you?"

Lin Jin stopped talking.

"You can tell me if you are short of medicine, and I will find someone to bring it for you," Liu Jin sighed quietly, "You are the patient I have been taking care of for the longest time, Lin Jin, I hope you are all well."

"Ah."

Lin Jin hung up the phone.

Without the blocking of the call records, Lin Jin saw three or four text messages suddenly pouring in on the phone interface, all of which were from unfamiliar numbers.

Lin Jin deleted the message with a blank face, and the number was blacklisted, and the knuckles holding the phone turned slightly white.

He knew that once Liu Yan found him, he would never be able to hide.

Liu Yan's family has some money. Isn't it easy to check a powerless person like him?

The continuous rotation of the past few days, exhaustion at work and emotional entanglement, insomnia, and staying up late have tortured him until he can't breathe. No matter how normal he looks during the day, he has become a little bit at this moment. Can't hold on.

Lin Jin took a deep breath, but failed to suppress the fear, and just slid down the wall and fell down.

Lin Jin opened his eyes, and the first person he saw was Yu Yan.

She was sitting by the bed and was writing something. When she heard the movement, she raised her eyes and hurriedly stood up: "Are you awake?"

Lin Jin opened his mouth, his throat was so hoarse that he could hardly speak. Yu Yan quickly handed him a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. His dry throat felt better. He pinched the corners of his brows and asked Said: "I... what's going on?"

"You're dizzy." Yu Yan said, "There are only a few contacts in your phone, and I'm the only one in Shanghai. Of course, I'm the only one obliged to come here."

Lin Jin nodded in a daze.

Yu Yan touched his forehead and said, "I can't take care of you all the time, but I have already told your brother that he will come over later."

"Brother?" Lin Jin was taken aback.

"That's right, it's the one you noted about Su Hua."

Lin Jin let out a heavy breath, and was a little dumbfounded for a moment. He had never called Su Hua "brother" when he grew up. The first time he heard such a word was under such circumstances.

Somewhat inexplicable.

Yu Yan stayed for another ten minutes, before leaving, he asked him, "Do you need me to tell Xu Fangzhi?"

"No need," Lin Jin said, "He should have already left."

"Well," Yu Yan nodded, "I'm envious. I'm also starting to think about whether or not I want to get past it—hey, forget it, let's not think about this for now, and let's talk about it after finishing the project I'm working on. Then I'll go first?"

"Okay." Lin Jin said goodbye to her, Yu Yan turned and left, after about two or three minutes, the door of the ward was pushed open again, this time it was Su Hua who appeared.

Su Hua folded her arms around her chest, stood at the door, looked at him silently for a long time, and then said quietly: "Sometimes I really can't understand you."

Lin Jin didn't speak.

"Eat." Su Hua put the packed meals on the small table beside her.

Lin Jin's illness was psychological after all, not too serious. He returned home after a day of observation in the hospital. Climbing up to the seventh floor was exhausting. Lin Jin opened the door, stood there for a while, and suddenly looked back.

Ten days ago, Ye Ziyuan stood there and said "I love you" to him.

He seemed to have pursued these three words for many years, but he could not get them. He never thought that Ye Ziyuan would utter them so easily one day.

What's even more ridiculous is that the moment Ye Ziyuan said it, he was not moved as expected, but more sad.

Why couldn't he have said such things to him earlier, earlier?

He and Ye Ziyuan always seem to be missing each other.

In fact, looking back, this long ten years is not a kind of miss.