He Stayed by My Hospital Bed… Then Admitted He Was Sick Too

Xie Zhaozhou’s throat tightened.

He had never thought, in this lifetime, that someone would lie in a hospital bed, open their eyes, and care only about whether he had lost weight.

Ning Shixue’s whole body was weak.

His hand fell limply as soon as he raised it.

Then Xie Zhaozhou held it firmly in his palm.

The doctor quickly came over, examined Ning Shixue, and confirmed that all his indicators were normal.

He also breathed a sigh of relief.

Given Ning Shixue’s condition, he shouldn’t have been unconscious for this long.

After emergency rescue, he had already been out of danger.

If he didn’t wake up, it would be hard to say.

The doctor instructed Xie Zhaozhou to take Ning Shixue’s temperature a few more times that night.

Then he left the ward.

“Sleep a little more?”

Xie Zhaozhou reached out and touched Ning Shixue’s forehead, asking quietly.

Ning Shixue shook his head very lightly.

He wasn’t tired now.

He didn’t really want to sleep.

Xie Zhaozhou gently lifted him up and fed him some water.

Ning Shixue wrapped his arms around his waist and buried his nose in the hollow of his neck, rubbing against it.

A few nights ago, he had smelled this familiar perfume.

Xie Zhaozhou had indeed lost weight.

They hadn’t seen each other for almost half a month.

Then he had been unconscious for three days.

Seeing him now, he felt Xie Zhaozhou’s features had become much sharper.

He couldn’t help at all.

Xie Zhaozhou even had to come back to be with him.

He didn’t know if this had delayed anything.

Ning Shixue had actually been woken by the pain in his legs.

His hair was dark, making his profile seem even paler.

His overly long, thick eyelashes drooped.

Only his lips were still red after the high fever.

Xie Zhaozhou held him and wrapped him in the blanket.

Ning Shixue didn’t resist.

He obediently blinked and looked at him.

Xie Zhaozhou couldn’t help chuckling softly.

He leaned over and kissed him on the lips.

His voice was low and tender.

“So obedient.”

Only Ning Shixue’s legs were still outside the blanket.

Xie Zhaozhou’s warm palm rested on them.

He massaged him from his knees down to his thighs.

Ning Shixue, at an inappropriate time, blushed a little.

These legs had been caressed, played with, and even kissed during their intimate moments.

Xie Zhaozhou was always so rough that it made him flinch.

He simply couldn’t stand Xie Zhaozhou touching his legs.

He closed his legs, even curling his feet.

Then Xie Zhaozhou grabbed his knees.

Xie Zhaozhou’s fingers were long and strong.

He always managed to press on the pain points.

Ning Shixue’s forehead broke out in a fine sweat.

His legs hurt so much they went numb.

They trembled uncontrollably.

But after the pain, the bone-piercing ache in his bones eased considerably.

“Second Brother,”

Ning Shixue asked quietly, half his face buried in the blanket.

“When did you learn massage?”

His feet were cold.

Xie Zhaozhou held them and pressed them against his chest to warm them.

Ning Shixue could feel his abs when he moved a little.

He couldn’t help giving him his other foot too.

Xie Zhaozhou held his foot in his palm and, with a wicked air, tucked it under his clothes.

His dark eyes curved, his lips also curved.

His tone was drawling and annoying.

“In our line of work, you have to know a bit of everything. How else can you win Teacher Xiao Ning’s favor?”

Ning Shixue: “…”

My mistake. Is going into the industry this hard now?

“Just talk normally,”

Ning Shixue said, too weak to be angry with him.

He kicked him softly.

Kicked in the abs, Xie Zhaozhou didn’t dodge.

He meekly continued massaging his legs.

“I learned it recently.”

Ning Shixue pressed his lips together.

Xie Zhaozhou must have been very busy abroad.

He hadn’t expected him to learn this too.

“Because I need to take care of my wife,”

Xie Zhaozhou said, seeming to know what he was thinking.

His narrow, dark eyes were still curved.

But he lowered his voice.

“She’s quite delicate and has a big temper. If I don’t do it right and make her angry, she’ll scold me.”

“…”

Ning Shixue wanted to scold him now.

But he was choked up.

Scolding or not scolding seemed wrong.

In the end, his ears were red as he stubbornly insisted,

“Your wife is so fierce. Why don’t you divorce her?”

Xie Zhaozhou stared at the tips of his red ears.

His gaze unconsciously softened.

But his tone remained shameless.

He said quietly,

“Probably because I love her very much.”

Ning Shixue was stunned for a moment.

His face suddenly heated up.

But for some reason, he felt inexplicably jealous.

It was like fighting a ghost.

He could only kick Xie Zhaozhou again, saying with a red face,

“You’re so annoying.”

Their relationship felt like it involved a whole group of people.

What kind of fetish was this?

Xie Zhaozhou hadn’t expected to get hit for confessing his love.

But he was afraid Ning Shixue would get angry and exhaust himself.

He knew when to stop and didn’t tease him anymore.

Seeing that Ning Shixue’s legs didn’t hurt much anymore, he lay down beside him and pulled him into his arms.

Ning Shixue was very greedy for this embrace.

When Xie Zhaozhou held him like this, tightly, he always slept very well at night.

Xie Zhaozhou hadn’t slept for several nights either.

He held Ning Shixue and slept for a while.

When he woke up, the nurse came again to give Ning Shixue an IV.

He went to the consultation room for a moment.

“Winter is almost here,”

the doctor said, his expression somewhat serious.

“Be careful not to let him get sick again.”

The trouble with Ning Shixue’s body was this.

Even a minor illness could lead to more serious consequences than for a normal person.

Xie Zhaozhou had contacted Elder He’s regular doctor.

But Ning Shixue’s stomach was also bad.

He couldn’t take too many medications.

He could only be nursed back to health slowly.

However, Ning Shixue was still young, in his early twenties.

He recovered quickly and hadn’t developed other symptoms.

The doctor was also relieved.

After he woke up, Xie Zhaozhou helped him sit up and eat some breakfast.

Ning Shixue had lain down so long his bones were sore.

He didn’t want to lie anymore.

Xie Zhaozhou leaned against the headboard and pulled him into his arms.

Ning Shixue snuggled against him.

He looked up and could see Xie Zhaozhou’s drooping eyelashes.

They were long and thick, but not curled.

He felt Xie Zhaozhou’s body temperature was a bit low.

He unbuttoned a few of Xie Zhaozhou’s shirt buttons and put his cold hands inside his clothes.

Xie Zhaozhou couldn’t help chuckling.

His chest vibrated.

Ning Shixue’s ears reddened.

He took out his phone and actually transferred ten thousand yuan to Xie Zhaozhou.

Then, with a clear conscience, he continued leaning against him to sleep.

He had always hated the smell of disinfectant in hospitals.

But now his whole body was covered in Xie Zhaozhou’s cold yet gentle rose scent.

Xie Zhaozhou stayed with him in the hospital.

When he was sleeping at noon, Ning Shixue unconsciously acted cute.

He quietly said he wanted to eat food made by him.

Xie Zhaozhou planned to go home that afternoon.

“I was just saying that,”

Ning Shixue said, startled.

Before Xie Zhaozhou could get up, he grabbed his hand.

Hospital food was very bland.

He really did want to eat Xie Zhaozhou’s cooking.

But he also really didn’t want Xie Zhaozhou to run back and forth and get too tired.

Xie Zhaozhou didn’t sleep well at night watching over him.

In the past, even if he wanted to, he wouldn’t have said it.

Getting sick or injured didn’t make him fragile.

But Ning Shixue found he was weak now.

Xie Zhaozhou really seemed to love him very much.

His heart felt like ice and snow melting.

It made him drop his guard around this person.

His soft interior could be exposed for him to touch.

Xie Zhaozhou tucked his hand under the blanket and said quietly,

“I’ll be back soon.”

Ning Shixue didn’t want to sleep anymore.

After Xie Zhaozhou left, he finished his IV and scrolled through Weibo for a while.

He had originally had a promotional event for an endorsement that had to be cancelled due to illness.

His agent had posted a notice on Weibo for him.

Ning Shixue didn’t use Weibo much.

He hadn’t expected so many fans to be genuinely concerned about him.

This feeling was also very subtle.

In his past life, although he had debuted as a star and was very popular, his background was terrible.

That world had huge class differences.

No matter how popular he was, he was just a plaything.

Ning Shixue was rarely a bit touched.

Until he scrolled down to the comments on his old Weibo posts.

[Is your husband home tonight? If not, send the address. You know, I’ve never had a wife since I was little. Crying.jpg]

[Post a pic. I mean, post some bed pics.]

[Sniff, wifey, it’s been so long since you argued with me. When will you curse me out again? (just kidding)]

Ning Shixue: “…”

Ning Shixue couldn’t help questioning life.

Why did he have fans like this?

Were these people really his fans?

He couldn help replying to them one by one.

[Calling the police, thanks.]

When Ning Shixue was online, his fans got a notification.

A flood of replies instantly appeared under these comments.

[This kind of roleplay isn’t bad either. Pervert.jpg]

[What’s going on? Your husband’s not home, you’re secretly playing on your phone, and you won’t even open the door for me???]

Ning Shixue’s touch was gone.

He argued with his fans.

Before he could finish, it started raining outside.

The production hadn’t stopped.

These days, He Lin had been filming He Miao and Xie Yaoyao’s scenes.

That evening, after filming the last scene, he brought Xie Yaoyao and the others to the hospital to see Ning Shixue.

Passing by the hospital supermarket, Xie Yaoyao suddenly stopped.

He pattered over and raised his chubby little finger, pointing at the shelves inside.

“Buy one for the baby.”

It was a canned peach.

He couldn’t reach it.

He even stood on tiptoe, his soft cheeks straining with the effort.

He Lin helped him take it down.

When they were filming the movie, Xiaoyan’er and Mengmung were very sick and uncomfortable.

Wen Yu bought them canned peaches, saying if they ate them and slept, they would get better.

Even though Xie Yaoyao was just acting and wasn’t really sick, the canned peaches the baby gave him were very tasty.

Maybe the baby would get better after eating them too.

He Lin had originally wanted to pay for him.

But Xie Yaoyao’s face was very serious.

He waved his little hand at He Lin, refusing.

Then he raised his children’s smartwatch to pay.

Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King still wasn’t as tall as a little monster.

But these days, the baby and Big Daddy hadn’t been working.

Only he had been working.

This Uncle He had given him his pay.

He could already support the baby and Big Daddy now.

And he still had the billion Big Daddy had given him.

He hadn’t spent it all yet.

He could buy the baby lots of canned peaches.

Even when sick, Ning Shixue’s hearing was very good.

As soon as Xie Yaoyao and the others reached this floor, he heard the chubby kid’s footsteps.

Xie Yaoyao spread his little arms and ran towards him.

Ning Shixue couldn’t carry him now.

So he stuck out his little bottom and climbed onto the bed.

Hugging the can, he collapsed into the baby’s arms, his eyes sparkling.

“Baby, eat this can.”

Then they could go home.

He Miao ran over with Xie Yaoyao.

She also got on the bed and burrowed under Ning Shixue’s blanket.

Ning Shixue had originally not known how to interact with little girls.

He always felt like he didn’t know where to put his hands.

Maybe he shouldn’t touch her.

But after filming for over a month, He Miao was like his little sister.

They depended on each other in the movie.

Leaving the set, they also seemed closer.

He didn’t feel awkward being close to He Miao.

Ning Shixue couldn’t eat too much of the can now.

He Lin helped open it.

He ate a few bites and gave the rest to He Miao and Xie Yaoyao.

“Little Ning Gege,”

He Miao asked him,

“Does your leg still hurt?”

Ning Shixue shook his head.

His beautiful peach blossom eyes curved.

He Miao could tell at a glance that he was lying.

In their movie, Wen Yu had cancer.

In the later stages, he was so sick he vomited blood at night.

He wouldn’t tell her.

When she found out, Wen Yu just curved his eyes and said quietly,

“Gege was hungry, so he got up to eat.”

He Miao lay on his lap and raised her little hand to massage his leg.

Actually, she wasn’t pressing the right spot.

It probably made his knee hurt more.

But Ning Shixue didn’t move away.

He let He Miao and Xie Yaoyao massage his legs.

Xie Zhaozhou had left around 4 PM.

It was now exactly 7 PM.

It was getting dark.

Ning Shixue leaned by the window, waiting for him.

It was still raining that evening.

The window was covered in mist.

The lights downstairs gradually lit up, blurred by the rain into speckles of light.

They were very beautiful.

He Miao gasped softly.

“They look like stars.”

Xie Yaoyao’s eyes were blank.

He looked up.

The soft hair on his head stood up.

Who was calling him?

Car lights flashed in the night.

Ning Shixue’s eyes also lit up.

Like they held tiny, scattered stars.

Xie Zhaozhou, wearing a long black trench coat, got out of the car.

He was holding an umbrella.

But even with an umbrella, his shoulders were still wet from the rain.

He looked travel-worn in the rain.

Ning Shixue’s hospital room wasn’t high up.

Xie Zhaozhou looked up and saw him by the window.

He waved at him.

He Miao turned her head.

Ning Shixue’s eyes were slightly red.

She didn’t quite understand.

Shouldn’t having good food to eat make you happy?

But she felt Ning Shixue was a bit sad.

Afraid Ning Shixue wouldn’t have enough to eat, and not knowing what he wanted, Xie Zhaozhou had made a lot.

He Lin and the others ate dinner with them.

Xie Zhaozhou’s face was very cold.

He couldn’t help glancing at He Lin.

He Lin turned to Ning Shixue and asked,

“You don’t mind me being here, do you?”

“…No,”

Ning Shixue said, bewildered.

Xie Zhaozhou’s Adam’s apple moved.

He ignored the extra person and lowered his head to serve Ning Shixue food.

He Lin had no intention of leaving either.

On the show, he hadn’t eaten much of Xie Zhaozhou’s cooking.

He suddenly discovered this bastard could actually cook quite well.

Ning Shixue had eaten the canned peaches.

But he still couldn’t go home that night.

Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King simply couldn’t accept it.

Tears welled up in his eyes.

But before he came, the butler grandpa had told him it was best not to cry in front of the baby.

Xie Yaoyao hadn’t wanted to cry.

But lying in Ning Shixue’s arms, he started sobbing.

Ning Shixue didn’t think that if someone cried, he would die.

He was actually completely indifferent to being sick.

He just felt the chubby kid’s crying was so pitiful.

Ning Shixue had given up.

He would coax the kid.

Even though he still couldn’t accept being a dad.

He held Xie Yaoyao and patted his little bottom.

He suspected there was some kind of button on a little kid’s bottom.

Pat it a few times, and they would stop crying.

Xie Yaoyao even rubbed his face against his and said,

“When I get off work, I’ll come pick you up again.”

At only three and a half, the chubby kid had already taken on the heavy responsibility of supporting the family.

After Xie Yaoyao and the others left, Ning Shixue was tired.

He lay down and soon fell asleep.

Xie Zhaozhou stayed with him in the hospital for another three days.

Ning Shixue finally couldn’t help urging him to go to the company.

Of course, he didn’t want Xie Zhaozhou to leave.

But according to the original plot, Xie Zhaozhou’s situation would get worse and worse.

He was worried Xie Hanzhou would do something while Xie Zhaozhou was away.

“If anything comes up, Song Li will call me,”

Xie Zhaozhou said, not really wanting to leave.

Ning Shixue wasn’t discharged yet.

He was still worried.

Ning Shixue stared at him, fierce.

“If you go bankrupt, I won’t take responsibility.”

“Teacher Xiao Ning is so cruel,”

Xie Zhaozhou said, not seeming worried about bankruptcy at all.

Meeting Ning Shixue’s outwardly fierce but inwardly weak eyes, he even chuckled.

His phoenix eyes were smiling.

This person was always flirting and never serious.

Ning Shixue was blushing from his teasing.

But he forced himself to stay calm.

His expression was very serious as he looked at Xie Zhaozhou.

He wasn’t joking.

Xie Zhaozhou was silent for a few minutes.

Finally, he suppressed the frivolity in his eyes.

He lowered his head and kissed Ning Shixue’s eyes.

Quietly, he said,

“If anything happens, call me. If you feel bad, tell me.”

“Mm,”

Ning Shixue obediently agreed.

But Xie Zhaozhou still lingered, refusing to leave.

He held Ning Shixue’s hand and made him tie his tie for him.

Ning Shixue, tangled helplessly, could only, with red ears, help him.

He wanted to strangle him.

But in the end, he didn’t.

His long, dark eyelashes drooped.

His expression was so serious, his lips pressed together.

Xie Zhaozhou held back, and held back, but finally couldn’t help it.

He pinched Ning Shixue’s pale chin and kissed him.

Ning Shixue’s thin lips were sucked until they were red.

His tongue was even bitten.

“What are you doing…”

Ning Shixue pushed him, nervously looking towards the ward door.

Luckily, no one was passing by.

Xie Zhaozhou’s hands braced on either side of him.

He stared intently at his face.

His thin lips curved as he said innocently,

“Teacher Xiao Ning gave me ten thousand yuan and didn’t ask for any service. Wouldn’t that be a loss?”

“…”

Ning Shixue looked up, humiliated and angry.

“If you want to kiss, you can kiss again,”

Xie Zhaozhou generously offered.

“Consider it a freebie from me.”

Ning Shixue: “…”

No one wanted that kind of thing. Thanks.

Ning Shixue finally couldn’t take it anymore.

He pushed him out.

Before being pushed out, Xie Zhaozhou hugged him tightly.

Xie Zhaozhou pressed him,

“Don’t you really miss me?”

“…No,”

Ning Shixue stubbornly insisted.

Xie Zhaozhou wanted to say something, but in the end, he let him off.

He just glanced at him with a knowing smile.

Xie Zhaozhou did have a lot of company matters piled up to handle.

After he got to the company, he had meetings one after another.

Ning Shixue stayed in the hospital to recover.

When he was bored, he watched Xie Zhaozhou’s old movies, or memorized his script lines.

Xie Zhaozhou came to see him every night for a few hours.

He didn’t leave until Ning Shixue fell asleep.

In recent years, Xie Zhaozhou had been expanding overseas markets.

A branch was about to go public.

The group held a shareholders’ meeting.

After the meeting, Cheng Zhang and a few other directors stayed behind.

Xie Zhaozhou’s face was pale.

The light slanted down over his brow and nose.

His features had a sculpted look, almost mixed-race.

Only his thin lips were red.

Contrasted with his dark eyes, he exuded a cold, impersonal air.

His voice was also very cold.

He stared at Cheng Zhang and asked,

“Uncle Cheng, did you need something?”

Cheng Zhang had had a dark face throughout the meeting.

It wasn’t about company business.

But he knew Xie Zhaozhou had spent these past few days in the hospital.

He had no selfish motives.

He had worked for the Xie Group his whole life.

He only cared about the Xie Group.

The heir of the Xie Group should put the Xie family first.

Feelings were not as important as the company’s interests.

He had been dissatisfied with Xie Sui back then.

Xie Sui played dumb with him.

He always had that gentle smile on his face when facing him.

Anyway, he was dead.

Cheng Zhang didn’t want to say anything more.

But he hadn’t expected Xie Zhaozhou to be no better.

At first, he was dissatisfied with Xie Zhaozhou because he insisted on having custody of Xie Yaoyao.

He knew Xie’s father and mother hadn’t been good to Xie Zhaozhou.

He also knew Xie Zhaozhou and Xie Sui were distant.

Xie Zhaozhou was drifting outside the Xie family.

Yet he still cared so much about this child.

He mistakenly thought Xie Zhaozhou had feelings for Xie Yaoyao.

Too indecisive.

Someone like that couldn’t inherit the Xie Group.

Not until Xie Zhaozhou agreed to marry Ning Shixue did his attitude soften.

That was how it should be.

Marriage wasn’t important.

In business, it was all bargaining chips for profit.

Who would have thought Xie Zhaozhou would accompany Ning Shixue on that parenting show?

It caused such a stir.

It was even more absurd than Xie Sui.

Cheng Zhang was completely disappointed in him.

He would rather let Xie Hanzhou be the head of the family.

Even if Xie Hanzhou wasn’t capable enough, he could guide him for a few years.

At least he could be as good as Xie Mengyuan.

The most important thing was that Xie Hanzhou was ruthless and cold-blooded enough.

If Ning Shixue was sick, couldn’t the Ning family come to take care of him?

Besides, it wasn’t a particularly serious illness.

The other directors nearby were silently complaining.

If they had known Cheng Zhang was going to cause trouble for Xie Zhaozhou, they wouldn’t have followed him.

This old man, Cheng Zhang, wasn’t afraid.

But they were.

Xie Zhaozhou’s eyes were dark, like a silent deep sea that let in no light.

He asked Cheng Zhang,

“What do you want to say?”

The directors hadn’t seen Xie Zhaozhou lose his temper in a long time.

In the end, even Cheng Zhang was forced to fall silent.

Song Li escorted them all out.

Xie Zhaozhou frowned deeply.

He rubbed the bridge of his nose.

He still didn’t take the medication Song Li brought.

He just took a few painkillers.

He couldn’t take that kind of medication anymore.

He had originally thought that in a few years, when the Xie Group was stable, Xie Yaoyao would be grown up.

At least he wouldn’t feel like he was going to jail at three and a half.

Then it wouldn’t matter if he was around or not.

That’s why he had abused the medication without restraint.

But now he had greed.

He had to live.

That evening, Ning Shixue called Xie Zhaozhou.

He vaguely heard Song Li mention something about medication.

So he asked,

“Second Brother, are you sick?”

“…”

Xie Zhaozhou was silent for a moment.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t deny it.

He answered,

“Yes.”

Ning Shixue’s heart tightened.

Before he could ask more, he heard Xie Zhaozhou’s lazy chuckle.

His tone was quite plaintive.

“Teacher Xiao Ning didn’t want to see me, so I got lovesick.”

Ning Shixue: “…”

No saving him. Just bury him.