Strong Sedatives, Pain and Insomnia

‘Ding—’

An Mingli’s face appeared in the camera.

The two were seven or eight years apart, and their eyebrows and eyes were very similar.

However, unlike An Huaixu, who had a cold face and foul mouth, An Mingli had been in business for many years, and his temperament was gentle and refined.

His style was steady and thoughtful.

He was a well-known smiling tiger with a hidden dagger in the business world.

The corners of the smiling tiger’s mouth were hooked like a mannequin, and An Huaixu felt more and more displeased, so he simply threw the phone away, the camera facing the roof, neither letting An Mingli see himself nor letting him see An Shuqi.

An Mingli looked at the environment around him and asked in confusion, “Where are you?”

An Huaixu: “Guest dormitory.”

An Mingli nodded, “Is Shuqi okay?”

An Huaixu: “Yeah.”

An Mingli suddenly laughed, “Are you still angry because I forced you to be on the kids’ variety show?”

An Huaixu: “No.”

This cold and awkward look clearly meant that he was.

An Mingli didn’t care about these things with him.

“I have already resolved the matter on the Internet. You guessed it right, it was the Wang family who did it.”

The Wang family was An’s family’s mortal enemy, and they often used some unscrupulous methods to try to bring down An’s family.

This time, An Huaixu’s negative reviews came fiercely, and even a lot of entertainment accounts poured out.

It was impossible without someone pushing it behind the scenes.

An Huaixu didn’t have much emotion, “Just rats in the gutter.”

An Mingli said yes, and changed the subject, “Uncle Lin said your attitude towards Teacher Shi is very bad.

I know what you are thinking. The Wang family has already brought out one last time, and it has been exhausted.

It is impossible for him to do anything in your team again.”

An Huaixu’s face recalled that bad experience.

Three years ago, the Wang family didn’t know where to find a teenager who looked six points like Shi Yu and quietly sent it to the crew where he was working.

At that time, he thought he had touched hope, but he didn’t expect that this person’s behavior, which did not conform to Shi Yu’s style, and his greedy and selfish use of his feelings, trying to interfere in the affairs of An’s family, was soon exposed as a ‘artificial sun’.

After that, the Wang family was unwilling to give up and messed around a few times, confusing his confidence in finding Shi Yu.

Speaking of it, the worst time he was cheated was exactly the same as meeting Shi Yun, with identity backgrounds and social situations that were so real that they could not be more real.

So—

An Huaixu stroked the thin rope on his wrist, “I have a sense of propriety. He was not sent by others, nor is he Xiao Yu. I will stop immediately.”

An Mingli sighed, “You have trapped yourself in the fifteen years.”

An Huaixu corrected him with a stubborn tone, “It’s fifteen years, three hundred and fifty-five days…ten o’clock fifty-seven.”

An Mingli was stunned and recalled—

Fifteen years ago in the morning, An Huaixu didn’t want to play with the nagging Shi Yu and hid in the back garden.

Shi Yu got lost on the way out to find other friends.

An Huaixu thought that it was his fault that caused this to happen, and he must bring Shi Yu back so that his life would not be a sin.

Thinking of everything his younger brother had experienced, An Mingli couldn’t bear it, and turned to ask,

“Do you need me to help you investigate?”

An Huaixu: “I’ll do it myself.”

An Mingli hummed and said, “What about Shuqi?”

An Huaixu deliberately didn’t let An Mingli see his son, and asked him unceremoniously, “Don’t you have anything to do?”

An Mingli’s smile stiffened, and he gritted his teeth and said, “You stinky brat, you…”

‘Beep—’

An Huaixu directly hung up the phone, blocking An Mingli’s next words.

His mood improved a little, opened the camera, and sent a photo that was distant, with an unclear perspective, and even completely unrecognizable to the group in a perfunctory manner.

Information dinged:

[Warm Family-Sister-in-law: (Thumbs up)]

[Warm Family-An Mother: (Thumbs up) (Sprinkling flowers x3) Not bad, at least you didn’t raise him to death.]

[Warm Family-Sister-in-law: (Laughing) I can rest assured that Huaixu is taking care of the child. I remember when I was a child, Shuqi was still very attached to Huaixu.]

[Warm Family-An Mingli: @AnHuaixu, are you deliberately trying to piss me off?]

An Huaixu ignored An Mingli, put away his phone, and looked at Shi Yun, who had returned from the vegetable garden.

Shi Yun was in a good mood, humming a song out of tune.

When he met his eyes, he smiled and showed a row of neat white teeth.

He waved his hand, pointed to the luscious green onion, and asked him if he wanted to eat it.

An Huaixu told him to do as he pleased.

Shi Yun muttered while peeling the leaves, “The most difficult to serve are the people who tell you to do as you please.”

An Huaixu heard it clearly and said speechlessly, “An Shuqi is allergic to ginger.”

Shi Yun responded and immediately put the ginger next to his hand into the basket.

An Huaixu leaned against the window and quietly stared at his busy figure in the kitchen, until the noodles came out of the pot and were served on the table, and the aroma woke up An Shuqi in bed, then he came back to his senses.

An Shuqi opened his eyes and was still a little dazed.

When he saw An Huaixu, he calmed down, “Where is this?”

An Huaixu picked him up and let him sit on the side of the bed to put on his shoes, “Speak with your tongue straightened.”

An Shuqi frowned, as if he was very troubled, “How do I straighten it?”

An Huaixu didn’t speak and handed him a glass of water.

An Shuqi resisted and pushed it away, “Uh, no, I’m empty, I want to eat!”

Shi Yun happened to poke his head in from the door.

Seeing that An Shuqi was awake, he happily came over, holding a glass of honey water in one hand and a few pills in a medicine paper in the other, “Shuqi, do you still feel uncomfortable?”

An Shuqi shook his head, and with a silly smile, he was about to stick to him.

An Huaixu held his forehead and pulled him back, “You’re burning up, don’t stick to people randomly, what’s wrong with you.”

An Shuqi looked at his stern face in confusion and was about to cry.

Shi Yun gave a ‘hey, hey’ sound and interrupted him, “I heard that the best children are those who don’t cry when they wake up. Is that right, Shuqi?”

An Shuqi sniffed and stubbornly choked to prove himself, “I, I yam!”

Shi Yun breathed a sigh of relief, raised the things in his hand, and whispered to An Huaixu, “These two are for before meals.”

An Huaixu responded, “Give them to me.”

He only took the pills and didn’t care about the honey water that Shi Yun had specially made.

An Shuqi’s little face was wrinkled into a ball.

Just looking at the pills made him feel pain, “Woooo, I dun wanna eat!”

An Huaixu stiffly said, “Do you want to have a fever again?”

An Shuqi shook his head.

An Huaixu said again, “Then take the medicine.”

An Shuqi: “I dun wanna eat!”

An Huaixu said a few words, but An Shuqi was unyielding, and he was about to lose his patience.

Shi Yun said, “It’s not a pill. Our Shuqi is already better now, so of course he doesn’t need to take pills.”

An Shuqi agreed, “Yes!”

Shi Yun: “These are little candies.”

He put one in his mouth with a fake move and chewed it for a while, “It’s very sweet with this cup of water!”

An Shuqi deeply believed his words, opened his mouth, obediently put the pill into his mouth, and followed Shi Yun’s appearance of raising his head and gulping water, swallowing it quickly.

Shi Yun stared at An Shuqi expectantly, “How is it, is it sweet?”

An Shuqi smacked his mouth and said in surprise, “Yes, I want more!”

Shi Yun stopped him, “No, let’s eat first, then Teacher will make you a cup of sweet water after dinner, okay?”

An Shuqi responded crisply.

An Huaixu suddenly paused.

A familiar scene turned into a huge wave, dragging the memories deep in his mind to the surface—

When he was a child, Shi Yu was in poor health.

He was almost sick three times a week and seriously ill every five days.

Every time he took medicine, Shi’s mother or Shi Yu’s brother, Shi Cheng, would make a glass of honey water and chase him for a long time before feeding it to him.

At that time, he was watching from the side and would silently say in his heart:

“Little delicate bag.”

Shi Yun led An Shuqi past and happened to hear the mosquito-like voice.

For a moment, he was a little confused, “Wh, what?”

An Huaixu then realized that he had spoken his thoughts out loud, and turned his head unnaturally to avoid his gaze, “You heard wrong.”

Shi Yun believed it to be true, nodded, and explained, fearing that he would think that he still had plans,

“Children are afraid of bitterness, so you have to coax them.”

Just when he thought An Huaixu would ignore him, he nodded with a seriousness that could be called serious.

Shi Yun turned his head in surprise, “…”

An Huaixu: “Is there something wrong?”

Shi Yun blurted out, “You are actually willing to learn!”

An Shuqi-brand repeater went online, “Learning~ Huaixu is good!”

He sang a song that was out of tune, “Little rabbit, open the door~”

An Huaixu: “…?”

Did the small ones infect the big ones, or did the big ones infect the small ones?

At the table.

This was a small square table, with countless patches on the edge of the table, it seemed that it would collapse in the next second.

An Huaixu recalled when he was filming “Shining Star Rain”.

Even though the protagonist had such a hard time at the beginning, he didn’t use such a dining table to eat.

An Huaixu asked him bluntly, “Won’t it collapse?”

Shi Yun ahhed in confusion, then understood and clapped the table with great force, enthusiastically, “Don’t worry, there’s no problem!”

An Huaixu didn’t ask anything else, picked up the small bench, and sat down.

Shi Yun watched his long legs straddling and felt really aggrieved.

It was only at this time that he tasted the embarrassment and handed over a pair of chopsticks cautiously, “New ones, never used.”

An Huaixu thought this guy was a bit nagging.

An Shuqi, who was next to him, was already hungry.

Smelling the aroma, his stomach growled.

Shi Yun didn’t prepare children’s chopsticks at home.

He hesitated for a few seconds and hinted at An Huaixu: You feed Shuqi!

An Huaixu thought he was twitching, and was puzzled, why did he have so many things to do just to eat a meal?

Shi Yun closed his eyes, how much he hoped that his disgust was just his illusion.

He raised his hand to hug An Shuqi.

An Huaixu disapproved, “He can use a spoon to eat, don’t spoil him.”

Shi Yun clipped the noodles into small sections.

Hearing this, he first praised An Shuqi, “Shuqi is so good?”

An Shuqi proudly puffed out his chest.

Shi Yun shredded the noodles, handed them to An Shuqi, and said to An Huaixu, “The soft noodles should be divided into small sections, so that the child can scoop them up with a spoon.”

An Huaixu paused almost imperceptibly, and a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes, he didn’t think of that.

He looked at An Shuqi, and An Shuqi was eating happily, his small mouth opened and closed, opened and closed and made a sound of: “Smack, smack…”

An Huaixu frowned.

An Shuqi was unaware, “Smack!”
An Huaixu was silent.

An Shuqi: “Smack…”

An Huaixu pinched his cheeks quickly and accurately, manually silencing him, “Who taught you those bad habits? If you smack your lips while eating again, I’ll throw you out.”

An Shuqi’s little face was squeezed into a ball, his mouth like an angry little duck, “Ugh, pain… I watch cartoon Xiao An do dat!”

Shi Yun laughed for a while and guided An Shuqi to watch how he ate.

An Shuqi was at the age of liking to imitate people, so he immediately imitated him.

The two happily finished this meal, and did not notice An Huaixu, who was obviously black-faced by the noise.

An Shuqi volunteered to help Shi Yun wash the dishes.

Shi Yun closed his hands covered with foam and blew towards the middle, “Whoosh—”

A colorful bubble flew up.

An Shuqi chased after it with a ‘wawala’, and was also very happy playing with himself.

However, after all, his illness had not fully recovered, and he soon fell asleep in Shi Yun’s arms, counting the stars.

An Huaixu took An Shuqi from Shi Yun’s arms and put him on the bed.

He turned his head and saw Shi Yun standing outside the window, half of his figure hidden in the darkness.

He was moving his arms with a painful expression, obviously pulling on his wound.

He thought to himself, he could really endure it.

An Huaixu half-closed the window and looked through the gap at Shi Yun who returned to the room, and walked out again in less than ten minutes, as if he was in too much pain to sleep.

He couldn’t stay idle if he wasn’t sleeping, so he cleaned the yard again with a stiff posture, and occasionally broke some buns to feed the stray cats and dogs that passed by outside.

An Huaixu looked at him for a long time and felt that this person was really strange.

He was so messed up himself, but he had to put others first in everything.

He couldn’t hold An Shuqi, so he let him walk by himself, and he had to pretend to be fat.

Shi Yun sat in the yard for a while, preparing to go back and spend the night when An Huaixu pushed open half of the window, a cigarette dangling unlit in his mouth, and asked him, “Are you going to let your arm rot and then amputate it?”

Shi Yun turned his head and said embarrassedly, “Sorry, did my voice wake you up?”

An Huaixu, without blushing or skipping a beat, hummed, “It’s too much trouble.”

“Then I’ll make less noise next time.”

“This is your home, I can’t control what you want to do.”

Without thinking, Shi Yun said, “It’s your home now too, Director Lin said…Hmm!”

In the middle of his words, An Huaixu suddenly threw a familiar spray into his arms.

An Huaixu: “It’s troublesome, I don’t like owing people favors.”

After speaking, he closed the window coldly.

Shi Yun looked at the spray in his hand with the words pain reliever written on it and smiled.

He didn’t understand what this ‘settling’ was this time.