Chapter 26
Chen Tingwei's wrist was suddenly grabbed. He had not yet come to his senses completely. His eyes were as gray as the fog covered in the morning mist, and he stared blankly at Lian Jue: "What's wrong?"
Lian Jue's expression was difficult to maintain a steady state. He grabbed Chen Tingwei's hand and pulled the person up from the chair almost rudely: "Follow me to the hospital."
Chen Ting's steps were staggering slightly by him, and his wrist was so painful that he had not had time to take it back. His heart suddenly became tight, as if he had understood the sudden abnormality of Lian Jue.
Lian Jue's expression was stiff, but his movements carried unprecedented panic. Chen Tingwei was dragged by him and walked a few steps towards the door before he quickly called Lian Jue: "Wait, wait a moment, are you going out like this?"
Lian Jue stopped his steps, and a dullness that did not belong to him appeared in his eyes. After a few seconds, he let go of his hand and accelerated his steps towards the second floor.
Chen Ting had not rubbed his pinched wrists before he could finish his red-pinched wrists until Lian Jue's figure completely disappeared on the stairs before he suppressed the urge to return to the room to take a pill. He raised his hand and pounded his chest, trying to relieve his abnormal heart rhythm.
No matter how high-end a private clinic is, it cannot avoid the scent of disinfectant water in the air.
Chen Ting was not sitting on the chair in the deserted corridor, his hand was unconsciously resting on his lower abdomen. He heard a small conversation in the door of the clinic beside him. He did not listen carefully, but only vaguely captured words such as "malnutrition", "anemia", etc. that were not painful or itchy when he was pregnant.
Lian Jue used single words from time to time to time, which sounded as serious as a primary school student answering questions in class. Chen Ting lowered his eyes before he paused for a while, and a pair of shiny black leather shoes appeared in his sight.
"Mr. Chen, this is your salary in the trampoline park." Lin Chen handed him a bulging kraft paper bag, "Mr. Lian has asked me to go over and handle the resignation procedures for you today."
"Yes." Chen Ting took it without feeling depressed and said nothing.
Lin Chen sat down beside him, noticed his emotions, and couldn't help but say a few more words: "Actually, Mr. Lian is also worried about your health. Last night, he knew that you were injured and General Lian asked me to send me a blow to the drug. The original board meeting this morning was postponed. It can be seen that General Lian attaches great importance to you. I hope Mr. Chen will not blame Mr. Lian for making his own decisions."
Chen Ting did not shake his head, and reluctantly pulled the corner of his mouth: "I know."
Lin Chen smiled, Chen Tingwei didn't say anything, and continued to stare at the tiles on the corridor floor in a daze.
Lian Jue came out of the clinic with the inspection report. Lin Chen stood up and quickly returned to work: "Mr. Lian, the contract has been prepared as you told me, the air ticket has been booked, and the flight is 10:27 tonight. The application materials have been submitted this morning and will land at 9:00 tomorrow morning. The driver has been contacted to pick you up and Mr. Shen."
Lian Jue said "um" and his eyes were still on Chen Tingwei who was still on the seat. Lin Chen subconsciously reached out to pick up the things in his hand out of his professional habits, but was avoided by Lian Jue without any trace.
Before Chen Ting got up from the chair, he glanced at the corner of his dark clothes. He raised his eyes unexpectedly and saw Lian Jue standing in front of him, and was reaching his hand in front of him.
Chen Tingwei was stunned, and became nervous by his extravagant consideration. He pressed his forearm and stood up, looking at him, his expression slightly changed: "...Is the test result not good?"
Lian Jue glanced at Lin Chen beside him. The other party took a few steps back with great insight. Lian Jue withdrew his hand and replied in a low voice: "No."
The almost perfunctory word did not make Chen Tingwei's face feel relaxed. He shut up because there were still others there.
Lin Chen did not go back with them, probably because he drove by himself. In short, he never saw him again after leaving the luxurious private hospital. The driver who was responsible for driving when he came.
The return trip was driven by Lian Jue. Chen Ting didn't open his mouth. After a while, he whispered to remind him that the overnight wine might not have been metabolized.
"I didn't drink much." Lian Jue didn't say that the drunkenness of last night was mainly due to the taste of Chen Tingwei. He was unwilling to think about his bad behavior last night too much, "Hold the seat belt."
Chen Ting did not say "Oh", lowered his head and put on his seat belt. When he raised his head, he asked again: "Do you still have a meeting today?"
"No need." Lian Jue said.
The dialogue once again fell into two-way silence. The air conditioner was not turned on in the car, and Chen Ting did not lower the window into a very narrow gap, allowing the wind that flowed with the vehicle to blow in.
The car window was quickly raised, Lian Jue looked straight ahead and asked, "Hot?"
Chen Tingwei said: "No, I want to have some breath."
"Can catch a cold." Lian Jue said.
Chen Ting did not speak, Lian Jue added after a while: "You have poor physical resistance now."
Lian Jue's good-looking expression made Chen Ting feel at a loss. He nodded, raised his eyes, and his fingers twisted with the seat belt were strangled with red marks. He carefully asked along Lian Jue's words: "Did the doctor say something else?"
Lian Jue looked at him from the rearview mirror and said, "No."
Chen Ting stopped breathing slightly, and the shock like a drum under his chest made him unable to control his tone, and he said nervously: "Then... is the child okay? Is he healthy?"
The calm on Lian Jue's face changed slightly in his question. He thought he naturally adjusted his sitting posture, but his stiff tone exposed his concealed mood: "There is no problem at the moment. The number of weeks is too small, and it is still impossible to tell whether he is healthy or not. It takes multiple checks to determine it later."
Chen Ting didn't finally feel relieved.
The two rarely had such a continuous conversation, approaching an awkward conversation. Chen Ting could not see his awkwardness, so he simply stopped talking.
However, Lian Jue seemed to have something to say, but Chen Ting had not waited for him to speak for a long time, so he had to turn his face out the window.
The workers in the villa are still busy taking care of the garden.
Chen Ting had not changed into slippers in the entrance hall, and after thinking for a while, he decided to follow Lian Jue to the study on the second floor.
Lian Jue stood in front of the window with his back facing Chen Ting. When he heard the sound of closing the door behind him, the cigarette he had just touched in his hand returned to its original place.
"Mr. Lian." Chen Ting did not look at him pushing the window open a gap, "Do you have time now?"
In fact, Lian Jue wanted to be alone for a while now. He closed his eyes and his mood could not be completely sorted out in such a short time, so he could only try his best to turn around as calmly as possible and said to Chen Ting: "Sit down."
The person who wanted to chat hadn't spoken for a long time, and seemed to be waiting for Lian Jue to speak first.
Even the secret is indeed unbearable.
This morning, the moment when the examination results were placed in front of him in black and white, his first reaction was that if there was no problem with the examination results, there must be someone between him and the doctor who needed to go to the psychiatric department. But he knew that the chance of errors after doing so many times was very small, and he wanted to keep himself calm and rational cannot be achieved by hard work.
The doctor tried harder than him to maintain the professionalism and calmness of the doctor - although his eyes were full of disbelief - and he clenched his forehead and told him about Chen Tingwei's situation.
Lian Jue looked at his flat belly under his thin clothes that was no different from a normal man. His face was not as ugly as a terrible one, but it was also stiff enough: "Are you a transgender person?"
He wanted to rationalize the status quo as much as possible, even if the possibility was extremely incredible.
Chen Ting did not frown at Lian Jue, and did not ask him at this time if he was joking. He shook his head and said, "I'm not."
"Then you-" Lian Jue paused for a moment, and his eyes were hard to move away from his abdomen, "Why are you pregnant?"
Chen Tingwei's expression suddenly became very strange. After reading Lian Jue for a long time, he found that the confusion on Lian Jue's face was not pretended, and his emotions became depressed for a moment.
Chen Ting did not have to admit that it was impossible to say that he had never blamed Lian Jue at all. He tried his best to avoid thinking about these things just to make himself feel better, but the words he was pierced by the other party at this moment seemed to induce his grievances that had been suppressed for a long time, and then slowly spread to his eyes.
Before his emotions were out of control, he opened his eyes and said briefly and quietly: "You are unwilling to wear...condoms."
Lian Jue was obviously stunned by his answer. He never expected that he would lead the topic to such an unscrupulous place, but it seemed very reasonable, which made Lian Jue unable to find evidence of his intentional seduction.
The atmosphere solidified for a long time.
Lian Jue seemed to suddenly realize something: "So you knew it?"
Chen Tingwei said in a depressed voice: "...What do you know?"
Lian Jue's expression gradually became serious. His eyes looked at Chen Tingwei with deep and sharp eyes, as if he wanted to stare him in the same way: "You can get pregnant."
His tone became aggressive from the suppressed soothing at the beginning: "You have always known it, so you came to me."
Chen Ting didn't need to think about it and knew that his next sentence was "What's your purpose?"
"I didn't deliberately come to you." Chen Ting didn't feel aggrieved. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Lian Jue was really an excessive person. He raised his eyes and looked at Lian Jue. The mist in his eyes almost covered the original pupil color, and his voice became lower and lower, as if tears were about to fall. "I was not very awake during that time, my head was dizzy, and my body was not comfortable. It was not you, but maybe someone else... I wanted to treat that day as an accident, but you asked someone to take me back..."
Lian Jue was not very satisfied with his words and could not find any problems. He probably subconsciously believed his reasonable explanation. He did not think that the mistake was entirely on him, so he reminded him for the purpose of refuting himself: "You fainted on the road, and I saved you."
If Lian Jue hadn't thoughts and recalled the previous two times, he would have almost been confused by his pitiful appearance.
Lian Jue opened his eyes and felt that Chen Tingwei was really good at pretending to be pitiful. It was obvious that he took the initiative to come up on the first two times, but why did he seem to be like a beast that forced him?
Chen Ting could not have noticed the reason, and bit his lip with red eyes, not wanting to say anything more.
Lian Jue looked at him tiredly, with a slightly sharp edge in his eyes, and changed his words and asked him again: "What's going on with your body? When did you know...you know what you can get pregnant."
Chen Ting didn't know how to answer. Talking about time travel or explaining his body structure is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words. He first frowned his eyebrows habitually, then pursed his mouth for a while, and answered his second half of the question in a vague way: "Last year, I went to have a physical examination when I felt uncomfortable."
Strictly speaking, he did not deceive Lian Jue. He did not completely complete the differentiation of the second gender last year.
Lian Jue mistakenly regards his long silence as helplessness. This rare situation that cannot be explained by medically unexplained makes the patient himself unable to explain. He leaned on his forehead and closed his eyes: "Forget it. What are you asking for me?"
Chen Ting didn't speak for a long time, and even Jue didn't plan to speak in front of him. The study room lasted for a while, and Chen Tingwei finally spoke.
"Will you agree to me keep the child?" His voice was low, and he could hear uneasy in his tone, "If he was healthy."
Lian Jue opened his eyes and looked at him. When he was silent for a while, he gave an ambiguous answer: "It depends on the situation."
Chen Ting looked back at him without raising his eyes, and his eyes showed a perseverance and stubbornness that Lian Jue had never seen before.
He expressed his needs to Lian Jue concisely: "I agree to marry you just to give birth to a child smoothly."
Lian Jue frowned and said nothing.
Chen Tingwei said again: "I will give birth to him."
Lian Jue stared at his eyes for a long time, and quickly thought in his mind about the responsibilities and time he needed to raise a child and whether he could bear it. Then, it didn't take too long to make a compromise almost hasty: "Yes."
Chen Ting didn't seem to be confirming the credibility of his words. After a while, his expression of pretending to be hard gradually became soft and gentle. He pursed his lips, nodded while seriously saying "Thank you" to Lian Jue, and said "What do you need me to do?"
“I just need a marriage.”
Lian Jue's tone was very casual, and it was true. It was no difference between him, whether his other half was a man or a woman, or Chen Tingwei or others.
As long as it is not Chen Ningxue.
Chen Ting didn't ask much, but said "Okay".
Lian Jue looked at his brows and looked down, and thought for a while, then added another condition: "Be obedient, there may be some occasions in the future that you need to attend."
Chen Ting nodded before he understood and nodded: "I understand."
"There will be doctors coming to you regularly for physical examinations. They may conduct some necessary research on your body structure. You..." Lian Jue originally wanted to say "You cooperate well", his eyes stayed on his face for only half a second, he paused slightly, and changed his words casually, "Try to cooperate as much as possible as possible."
"I will."
Lian Jue briefly described the flight time to Country C tonight and the registration process tomorrow. Chen Ting did not seriously play the role of the "obedient" person he said. After listening to him patiently, he smiled gently without too much emotion: "Just arrange it."
Before Chen Ting left the study, he placed the kraft paper bag that Lin Chen had given him on the spacious table. Without waiting for Lian Jue to speak, he turned around and went out.
Lian Jue leaned against the back of the chair, his eyebrows were closed and his slender fingers were tapping the kraft paper bag one after another. Below was a stack of numbers he knew without counting - Lin Chen put them in as he ordered this morning.
The phone that was knocking on the table rang, Lian Jue was not in a hurry to answer it. When the call ring was repeated for the second time, he slowly answered it: "Dad."
In the morning, he took people to the hospital in a hurry, and it was not accidental that Chen Chulian called him at this moment.
Fortunately, Lian Jue greeted the hospital in advance, and the other party's words were reasonable: Lian Jue was not too heavy or too heavy after drinking too much, and the child on the bed was brought into the hospital.
Chen Chulian must have believed that the rhetoric. After Lian Jue answered the phone, he asked nothing. He notified him to go back for dinner on the weekend as if nothing had happened, and told him lightly that he should calm down and not be joking like an ignorant young man.
Chapter completed!