Chapter 1

When Shou-wife received a call during a meeting, the other person on the line was a serious sounding woman. She said that a family member of his had gotten involved in a car accident and told him to quickly come over to the hospital.

After hanging up the call, Shou-wife’s mind was completely blank. It took him half a minute before he came to his senses. He immediately left the meeting that was ongoing and went straight to the hospital.

Earlier when he had picked up the phone, his entire being was trembling and he did not listen carefully which ward the person was in. Reaching the emergency room, he saw that there were many people coming and going. Shou-wife was like a headless fly searching amongst the crowd.

Eventually,Shou-wife managed to find the big sister nurse who called him. The nurse said the person was hit by a grandmother who was riding an electric scooter while crossing the road. His left leg was broken and he needed to be hospitalized for a week. It will be fine after the swelling is reduced and a plaster will be fixed. Shou-wife temporarily let out a sigh of relief.

At this time, the Broken-Leg Gong was lying on a temporary bed along the corridor. When he heard Shou-wife’s voice from afar, he immediately sat up and waved frantically. Baby, I am here!

Looking at Broken-Leg Gong, his spirits still looked good, although his appearance from head to toe seemed pathetic. His top was stained with dirt and blood, and part of his hand was torn open, exposing a large piece of bright red flesh. There was also a scrape wound on his face but it seemed iodine which stains has been applied on it, making it look a little fierce.

Shou-wife’s heart was distressed by the sight and his eyes became red. Broken-Leg Gong was worried the tears would start falling in the next second and wanted to lighten the atmosphere. “Baby, am I going to be disfigured? If I am no longer handsome, will you still love me?”

“You shut up!”

Seeing Shou-wife being busy here and there to settle his hospitalisation procedures, Broken-Leg Gong did not talk anymore. After all was settled, Shou-wife went home to pack some clean clothes and toiletries. Shou-Wife used a hot towel to help Broken-Leg Gong wipe his body. Broken-Leg Gong laid on the hospital bed and was hooked up with antipyretic medication. Not long after, he fell asleep. Shou-wife silently stayed by the bedside and watched him.

Actually, Shou-wife has not carefully looked at this man for many days now. A few years ago, Broken-Leg Gong started a creative company with a friend. Currently, it was in a critical stage and every night, Broken-Gong had to entertain clients until it was very late before he returned home.

Shou-wife had a healthy daily schedule. Usually even before it reached 10pm, he would lay down. By the time Broken-Leg Gong reached the bed, Shou-wife would already have had several dreams. Even if he felt the goodnight kiss from Broken-Leg Gong, he would not wake up.

This morning before he left the house, during that brief few minutes they got to spend time together, Broken-Leg Gong embraced Shou-wife. Broken-Leg Gong said once he was done being busy this week, on the weekend he would bring Shou-wife to the neighboring city to view the cherry blossoms. Shou-wife was very happy. On the way to work, he was even thinking of a suitable outfit to view the cherry blossoms with. But now, they would not be able to see anything anymore.

During this period, Broken-Leg Gong was indeed very tired. He would sleep the whole day and only wake up at night. Shou-wife would prepare congee with small dishes. Since one of Broken-Leg Gong’s arms had the drip, while the other arm was injured, he could be fed by Shou-wife slowly, one mouthful after another.

Broken-Leg Gong’s expectations as a patient was rather high. First he found the dishes were too bland, next he noisily wanted to eat meat. Shou-wife had no choice since he could not allow him to eat anything that was too spicy or oily. In the end, he could only go down buy a bag of Latiao (T/N: a spicy kind of snack popular in China). He opened it by the side and allowed Broken-Leg Gong to smell it.

How could Broken-Leg Gong have gotten hit by an electric scooter for no reason? Broken-Leg Gong hem and hawed, said that while crossing the road after lunch, he did not pay attention. Shou-wife found it puzzling. At their office building, there wasn’t a need to cross the road to get food and there wasn’t any electric scooters either. But he did not probe further.

At night, Shou-wife set up a foldable bed beside Broken-Leg Gong’s hospital bed. The foldable bed was shorter in height. Broken-Leg Gong extended his hand to hold Shou-wife’s hand. They have been together for 3 years and every night, they would sleep like this because Shou-Wife would get nightmares easily. He would dream that he was falling off a cliff.

Broken-Leg Gong said this was a sign of insecurity and if they were holding hands, Shou-Wife need not worry about falling off anymore. Thus, this habit of holding hands continued until now.

The next morning, Shou-wife went to work as usual. As his office was located far away from the hospital, Broken-Leg Gong said it would be too exhausting to travel to and fro at noon so he told Shou-wife to only come over after work.

Shou-wife helped him to wash his face, brush his teeth and went downstairs to buy breakfast. Before Shou-wife left he repeated again to Broken-Leg Gong: at noon, remember to order takeaway earlier, if he was feeling unwell, call the nurse and to eat the medicine prescribed by the doctor promptly. Broken-Leg Gong nodded his head obediently.

Shou-wife asked again, “Do you have any food you are craving for? I will buy it after work.”

Broken-Leg Gong, “Floss cake.”

(T/N, he asked for 肉松小贝. I don’t really know the english term but it is a kind of floss cake. You can google for the image).

Shou-wife chuckled and replied okay. He was about to leave when Broken-Leg Gong grabbed a corner of his clothes. He saw that Broken-Leg Gong was looking at him expectantly like a puppy.

Shou-wife asks, “What’s wrong?”

“I want a kiss.”

Shou-wife leaned in and gave him a kiss on his lips.

During work, Shou-wife was not at ease and kept worrying. In the end after deliberating, he took leave in the afternoon and returned to the hospital. On his way, he went to buy some floss cakes.

When he reached outside the ward, before he could go in, he heard voices.

“Why were you so careless?”

“It’s fine, small accident.”

Shou-wife felt that this voice was very familiar. He quietly peeked in. In front of the bed sat a handsome man and he was holding Broken-Leg Gong’s hand. The two of them were staring at each other and did not realize Shou-wife was standing at the door.

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