Chapter 106: He's no longer the same

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Chapter 106: He's no longer the same

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Doctor Li chuckled and shook his head at his stunned expression.

“I said he is awake, he can recognize people, he won’t scream out of control if he sees strangers again.”

A surprised Tang Shuo was after hearing his words, his voice trembling a little: “He…recovered?”

“Yes, I told you Niannan was a very strong person since he survived the terrible nightmare he had experienced back then.”

“What nightmare?”

Doctor Li was taken aback, looking at Tang Shuo who was full of doubts, he said: “Nothing, he…will tell you when he’s ready to tell you in the future.”

Although Tang Shuo had doubts in his mind, he didn’t overthink the matter, all that was he thinking about now was Wen Niannan was recovered, finally recovered…

“Mr. Tang, today’s treatment is over, I’ll leave first, you can go in to see him.”

Dr. Li stood up, walking outside, but after a few steps, he turned his head looking at Tang Shuo and saying with a deep meaning behind his words: “Mr. Tang, Niannan is a good boy who had suffered too much through the years, he deserves to have the best things in the world, I hope you can seize this opportunity, I know you didn’t have the chance before, but now…you have it.”

Tang Shuo trembled, raising his eyes to Dr. Li, he asked: “Opportunity? What do you mean?”

Doctor Li thought of the empty eyes in that room, a strange color flashed in his eyes: “Niannan…is no longer the same as before, he needs your company, his family’s company, I hope you can tell them, his family, to come to accompany him.”

After that, he turned and left.

Tang Shuo closed the computer in his hand as he stared at Doctor Li’s leaving figure with a confused look, a thunderstorm of emotions flashing in his eyes.

Now that Niannan is already okay, will he hate to see him? Maybe… who he wants to see now is Gu Yansheng instead of Tang Shuo.

Looking at the doorknob in front of him, Tang Shuo held his breath, finally pushing the door and walking in, as he closed the door carefully, he tried not to make any noise, stood at the door looking at the floor, clasping his hands, not daring to look up at the person on the bed.

After a long time without hearing a scream, Tang Shuo slowly raised his head looking at the person on the bed in a stupor.

Wen Niannan sat still on the bed looking at his legs, he only raised his eyes dumbly when he heard the door opening, but looked away immediately.

Tang Shuo walked over gently standing three meters away from the bed.

“Niannan, are you thirsty? Would…would you like to eat something? By the way, your stomach…does your stomach hurt?”

Tang Shuo noticed that Wen Niannan had been staring at the injury on his leg, he thought maybe he was worried about his leg.

“It’s all right, it will be all right soon, with me here, I will take care of you…”

Wen Niannan still didn’t speak, nor did he glance at Tang Shuo not once, he was just lying on the bed sideways without movement.

Tang Shuo’s heart tightened when he noticed he was unwilling to speak, saying softly: “Is your head still dizzy? Then…then sleep for a while, I’ll be here for you.”

The person on the bed still didn’t reply.

Tang Shuo sat on the opposite couch turning on the computer. Wen Niannan glanced at him, showing sadness in his eyes.

Wen Niannan, with his back facing Tang Shuo, couldn’t fall asleep, his body trembling slightly under the blankets.

How can I still sleep…

He had been asleep for too long, for so many years, but now he was finally awake, awake at last…

He didn’t remember what he had done those days, it was only when he was awake, realized that his wounds had been bandaged.

He thought he passed out the day before and was rescued by passers-by, but Dr. Li told him that Tang Shuo rescued him, and he hadn’t fainted the day before, but a week ago…

Dr. Li told him what happened those days and how difficult were those days for Tang Shuo.

Wen Niannan touched the bandage on his neck pulling it off suddenly, only then did he remember that he had escaped and returned to the Yifeng District where he used a knife pressing it against his neck to force Gu Yansheng to sign the divorce papers…

Divorced…finally free…

Tang Shuo in every way knew that Wen Niannan had changed after waking up, becoming less talkative, the always smile on his face had also disappeared, the whole person became like a robot as if he had lost his perception of the outside world.

Every day, Wen Niannan sat quietly on the bed staring out the window in a daze, as if not interested in everything, not responding no matter what he said.

After Wen Niannan woke up, he never said a word, Wang Qi clearly felt that Tang Shuo’s mood was tense day by day as if he was on the verge of collapse.

But anytime Tang Shuo entered the room, he would instantly turn into a smiley face amusing the person on the bed, just to hear him speak.

The wound on Wen Niannan’s head was almost healed, Wang Qi helped him to remove the gauze, the bruises on other parts of his body were also almost healed.

Only the injury on the leg hadn’t recovered at all, he still couldn’t get out of bed to walk, Wen Niannan’s leg had been injured once, but this time the severe blow caused the injury to be even worse.

Wang Qi said that he should follow his treatment plan first, if the treatment is not satisfactory, the surgery would be the last chance.

Looking at Wen Niannan’s expressionless face, a touch of sadness installed in Tang Shuo’s eyes.

Tang Shuo walked to the bed stretching out to hold his hand but was abruptly avoided, his eyes full of panic.

“No…it’s okay, don’t be afraid…I won’t touch you.”

Tang Shuo looked outside through the window, his eyes lit up suddenly: “Niannan, it’s snowing outside, it’s very beautiful, do you…do you want to go out and have a look?”

When Wang Qi heard him, he was taken aback but said sharply: “Tang Shuo, what are you talking about? It’s so cold outside, the wind will blow his hairs, his body is still weak, how can he go out?”

Tang Shuo stared nervously at Wen Niannan while he tightened his lips.

“Get well soon. It’s winter now, it will be snowing a lot, so when your body recovers, let’s go out and build a snowman together, okay?”

Wen Niannan remained unresponsive and speechless.

“You…return to me, okay? Please, say something, all right, I’m really going crazy.”

Tang Shuo’s eyes were red, he wanted to hear Wen Niannan speak, he wanted to see the gentle and confident person who used to smile and tell him that he wanted to see the snow.

“Didn’t you say that you like snow the most? Remember? When you were in high school, you wanted to make a snowman because you wanted to have fun but instead, you got a fever because of freezing, you still wanted to make a snowman…”

Wen Niannan turned his head stiffly looking at Tang Shuo with no expression.

Seeing that he finally had a reaction, Tang Shuo walked over with red eyes kneeling in front of Wen Niannan, looking at him with tenderness: “Niannan…can you help me build a snowman?”

Wang Qi stood aside in astonishment watching the scene in front of him.

Wen Niannan’s eyes flickered slightly, looking out the window where the snow was falling.

“…Okay”

Hearing the extremely tiny sentence, Tanh Shuo let the weight in his heart fall.

“Great…you’re finally… speaking…”

Since Wen Niannan spoke, Tang Shuo had become more talkative than before, talking about various interesting things to relieve Wen Niannan’s boredom.

Wen Niannan sat on the bed looking at the snow outside, his eyes full of longing.

“Want to play in the snow? Today’s fallen snow had become even bigger.”

Tang Shuo suddenly walked in with a wheelchair, smiling, he looked at the man on the bed: “Would you like to go to play in the snow?”

“Yeah…”

It was outside snowing falling like goose feathers, the weather was exceptionally cold, Tang Shuo asked Wang Qi to buy a white down jacket, a hat, and a scarf that could cover his whole body, pushing the dressed Wen Niannan, he stopped at the door without going further.

“The snow is really beautiful, isn’t it?”

Wen Niannan didn’t speak, but a brilliant light flashed in his eyes.

“I’ll go outside and make a snowman, wait for me.”

Tang Shuo ran out suddenly, after a little, he had two snowballs in his hands, having the snowman ready in a while.

“Niannan, look, is the snowman I made look good?”

“Looks…really good.”

Upon hearing Wen Niannan’s words, Tang Shuo’s heart suddenly softened.

“Would you like to hold it and have a look, I have gloves for you to wear.”

A surprised Wen Niannan took the gloves and put them on, he picked up the snowman, holding it in front of his eyes, he looked at the chubby snowman, the corner of his mouth suddenly raised a little, appearing a faint smile.

Click…

Tang Shuo looked at the photo of the man in his cracked cell phone showing that old smile from back then, in the corners of his mouth plastered a smile.

Just after arriving home from the airport, Gu Yansheng turned on the computer for a meeting to explain the contents of the project discussed in the host country, the meeting didn’t end until the sun went down.

After catching the plane overnight, he didn’t close his eyes for two days, Gu Yansheng’s inflamed eyes were red, after closing the computer, he pressed a somewhat sore neck and looked at the milk on the table next to him.

He remembered that Wen Niannan liked to drink milk, thinking of Wen Niannan’s milky white skin, complicated feelings flashed in his eyes, he remembered because he loved milk.

Gu Yansheng took a sip of the milk, frowned after tasting it, putting down the milk in his hand, he looked at the milk on the table for a moment.

How is Wen Niannan in the hospital now? How is the injury recovering?

Instead of calling Wen Niannan’s father, he asked the dean to arrange for Wen Niannan the better ward for his recuperation.

In the days of his business trip in his country, Gu Yansheng would wake up in the middle of the night almost every day, and every night he would dream of Wen Niannan pushing the door covered in blood.

The face in the dream was full of tears and blood, asking him why he treated him that way, why he abandoned him, why he had been left in the hospital regardless of his life or death.

Looking at the milk on the table in a trance, Gu Yansheng knew Wen Niannan’s mood was extremely unstable the last time he left, now more than a week had passed, his wounds should be almost healed.

The irritability in his heart became more and more obvious, staring at the milk on the table in a stupor, out of the blue he got upstairs and returned to the room.

After taking a shower, Gu Yansheng walked to the bed in a bathrobe, wiping his hair at will, he lit a cigarette giving it a puff, the water falling from his head crashed the bed drop by drop.

Gu Yansheng got up approaching the floor-to-ceiling window to look out at the snowing outside, he moved his eyes to the cell phone in his hand, a storm of feeling flashed in his eyes.

It was snowing… he can recall that Wen Niannan favorite day was the snowy days.

Back in his mind, the image of Wen Niannan lying unconscious on the bed covered with blood in the hospital, got to him.

Gu Yansheng spitted out a smoke ring lightly, gleaming his eyes slightly, Wen Niannan’s wounds…how his recovery was going…