I See Roses

I See Roses – Chapter 18

“At present, there is severe subcutaneous hematoma. We are not sure if the bone is affected, so we need to take an X-ray.”

It was 8 o’clock in the morning at the First Municipal Hospital.

Ming Si sat on the examination chair, lifting one foot gently. The cuff of her jeans had been cut open, and the pale ankle formed a stark contrast with the deep purple bruise, which was shocking to the eye.

She glanced at it quickly and, under the psychological effect, felt the pain even more intensely. Especially when the doctor pressed on it firmly while speaking, tears almost welled up in her eyes.

Only then did she realize that the slight bump Liang Xian had caused when they were kids was nothing at all.

The doctor quickly wrote a prescription and handed it over with a chuckle. In a very cheerful tone, he said, “It’s been a while since I’ve seen a foot so swollen. Impressive!”

Ming Si: “…”

She didn’t know what was there to be happy about.

Liang Xian couldn’t help but laugh as he watched her annoyed expression. He reached out to take the prescription, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. But how did she injure her foot?” The doctor unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup and poured out the steaming Chinese wolfberry water, “According to the situation, it’s just a sprain and shouldn’t be swollen like this.”

Ming Si was about to stand up, but her body froze when she heard the doctor’s words.

Liang Xian noticed and lightly pursed his lips.

Last night, they waited until 8 o’clock, but Cheng Yu and the others still didn’t show up. He suggested that she prop her foot on the car window to prevent further hematoma.

However, Ming Si refused and wouldn’t give the reason.

In the end, he guessed it right——she was afraid of the dark and windy night, fearing that something might come and bite her foot.

Liang Xian couldn’t help but laugh at the time, and as a result, she threw a small blanket at him and hit him a few times.

However, under Ming Si’s threatening gaze, he didn’t mention any of this.

He just smiled lightly and said, “Maybe it’s just bad luck.”

“If it weren’t for you scaring me with made-up stories, would my foot be swollen like this?” After leaving the consultation room, Ming Si immediately let go of Liang Xian. She leaned against the door frame, looked at him displeased, and said, “Are you still laughing?”

“I’m not laughing anymore,” Liang Xian cleared his throat, tilted his head, and chuckled one last time, “Give me your hand.”

“No, I’ll go by myself.”

He raised an eyebrow, “Are you sure? It’s three floors up.”

Given her current condition, even reaching the elevator would probably be difficult.

“I’ll still go by myself.” Ming Si emphasized each word, and indeed, she assumed an attitude of not wanting to be associated with him, hopping towards the hospital corridor.

With one foot off the ground, her posture should have looked awkward, but her posture remained straight. With each hop, her long black curly hair swayed behind her.

The radiant sunlight filtered through the windows at the end of the corridor, falling gracefully on the tips of her hair.

Even when she was hopping on one foot, she was still a beautiful little peacock.

Liang Xian watched for a moment and inexplicably smiled. Taking big strides, he walked up to her and directly picked her up horizontally.

“Ah!” Ming Si was completely unprepared, and when she was lifted off the ground, she was startled and instinctively held onto his clothes tightly.

Both of them were eye-catching in appearance, and with the commotion just now, people in the corridor occasionally looked their way.

“What are you doing? Put me down,” she tapped his shoulder quickly, her tone stern but her voice not too loud.

Perhaps she was mindful of the people around.

“We’ve wasted enough time waiting for you to hop up until here,” Liang Xian didn’t mind her feeble struggles and glanced at her, “If you move again, I’ll drop you.”

Ming Si seemed to be choked by his words. After a moment, she looked up at him with eyes that said: Are you even human to say such things?

However, perhaps fearing that he might actually act on his words, she remained quiet for the rest of the journey, not making the slightest movement.

After taking the X-ray, Ming Si refused to be princess-carried again.

“Alright,” Liang Xian told her to sit on a plastic chair outside the door, “I’ll figure something out.”

He walked away with long strides. Ming Si played a mobile game for a while, but she lost interest and didn’t feel like continuing. The hospital corridor had an lingering smell of disinfectant that made her uncomfortable.

As more people gathered on the third floor, nurses and patients were bustling back and forth, creating a lot of noise. Ming Si rarely spent time in such crowded and chaotic places, and she wished she could fly away.

Somehow, a little regret surfaced in her heart——being carried by Liang Xian would have been better than hopping on one foot or waiting here.

Just then, she noticed from the corner of her eye a tall figure approaching from a distance.

Sure enough, it was Liang Xian, wearing a white T-shirt, with a well-proportioned figure, handsome features, and a somewhat carefree expression that attracted the attention of countless girls along the way.

However, none of these were not the main focus.

The main focus was that he was pushing a wheelchair.

As soon as the black wheelchair stopped in front of her, Liang Xian took immediate action and forcefully lifted her onto it.

Ming Si had only one thought in her mind—

To hell with reconciliation, let’s cancel it!

After a ceasefire of only ten hours, she was already thinking of unilaterally tearing up the peace treaty.

As it turned out, when a handsome man pushed a wheelchair with a beautiful woman sitting in it, the visual effect was extremely eye-catching.

Throughout the journey, Ming Si didn’t know how many curious or probing glances she received. When they passed by the service desk, she finally couldn’t take it anymore. She grabbed a brochure and used it to cover her face.

Liang Xian pushed the wheelchair, and when he glanced down, he could see the content on the pink brochure——a group of nurses holding a naked chubby baby in their arms, with the child’s mother smiling as she lay on the bed. Next to them was a promotional slogan from the hospital’s maternity ward: Caring for new life, warming half the sky.

Liang Xian: “…”

He noticed that more glances were now directed towards Ming Si.

After getting the medicine, Ming Si was already so tired that she could barely speak, so she laid down and fell asleep in the car.

Liang Xian made a call to Ke Lijie.

“Alright, as long as she’s fine now, let her rest at home for a few days and not wander around,” Ke Lijie paused and couldn’t help but sigh, “Ah, Brother Xian, this is also our fault.”

Yesterday, when they heard from the club boss that Ming Si had twisted her foot, they didn’t take it seriously and just sent them both a WeChat message to contact them if there was any issue. After all, they were all adults, and there was no need to be stuck together all the time.

By the time they realized that neither of them replied, it was already past ten o’clock at night. After asking the boss to borrow a car and going down the mountain, it was already close to midnight when they finally found them stranded.

“It’s okay.”

“Are you taking her back home now?” Ke Lijie asked.

Liang Xian replied with an En.

Ke Lijie hesitated for a moment, then bit the bullet and said, “By the way, Brother Xian, since you two are already married, you should live a good life together from now on, what do you think?”

He spoke so fast that his last few words were almost indistinct.

Coincidentally, at this moment, the car turned a corner, and Ming Si, who had fallen asleep, unintentionally tilted her head to one side.

Liang Xian reached out and supported her, but couldn’t quite hear what Ke Lijie said, “Speak more clearly.”

“I heard the club boss say that you two had a fight before going down the mountain?” Ke Lijie cautiously asked.

The club boss didn’t specifically point out this matter, but when they went to borrow the car from him, the club boss suddenly remembered, “Oh, the man and the woman who went down the mountain at noon seemed to have had a fight before going down.”

Upon hearing this, Cheng Yu was shocked and immediately imagined a scenario where they argued in the car and accidentally fell off a cliff. He quickly urged the boss to give him the car keys.

Ke Lijie, on the other hand, couldn’t quite understand it. Weren’t they married? Did they plan to remain at odds with each other forever? Although there are marriages where couples argue and fight, that’s obviously not happiness.

So, he mustered up the courage to act as the head of the Women’s Federation.

“We didn’t fight,” Liang Xian recalled for a moment; at most it could only be considered minor squabbles.

“That’s good then. She’s a girl, so let’s be more accommodating to her. Don’t really get mad at her,” Ke Lijie said.

Liang Xian smiled, “When did I really get mad at her?”

Although Ming Si had a princess-like temperament, most of the time, she was more like a little girl——childish, proud, occasionally fierce, and held grudges.

But she was always lively and bright.

No man would deliberately be at odds with a beautiful little girl, and Liang Xian didn’t harbor any real animosity towards Ming Si.

It had been like this since they were young. He would just tease her a little from time to time.

As the car continued to move forward, Ming Si’s head tilted again. With her eyelids closed, her eyelashes cast a small, quiet shadow that could be counted one by one. Further down, her fair skin, beautiful lips, and now-faded lipstick still retained a rosy hue.

Liang Xian looked at her for a moment and added, “We’re doing well now.”

“Oh…” on the other end of the phone, Ke Lijie tilted his head, feeling that this didn’t sound like something his Brother Xian would say.

“Sir, it seems like Miss Ming is asleep,” Shi Tai had actually been sitting in the front passenger seat all along, but as a bodyguard, he had a natural ability to be inconspicuous, and very few people notice him if he didn’t speak.

Liang Xian made a sound of agreement, “Let her sleep, let’s go back to Lujiang Mansion.”

Last night, Ming Si had hardly rested, and coupled with the pain in her foot, being able to sleep so soundly was quite rare.

Lujiang Mansion was the apartment where Liang Xian currently resided.

When the car arrived downstairs, Shi Tai instinctively opened the back door, preparing to carry Ming Si out of the car. In his view, as a subordinate, it was only natural for him to carry things for the employer—Ming Si’s status in his eyes was no different from that of a bag of rice.

“No need,” Liang Xian gently gestured, “I’ll do it.”

Ming Si dozed off and had a hazy dream.

In the dream, everyone was still in high school. After class, Cheng Yu waved at her from the window, “Ming Si, let’s go browse the small street vendors together!”

Beside him stood Yu Chuan and the others. Liang Xian was also there, wearing a loose white T-shirt and school uniform, looking very casual.

In reality, there were no small street vendors near Ming Si’s high school.

But in the dream, they were there, and the crowd was bustling, making it quite lively.

She bought a lollipop and strolled as she enjoyed it. Passing by a stall selling dart guns, she was attracted to a toy bear hanging on the wall.

Liang Xian stood beside her, his tall figure blocking most of the sunlight.

He skillfully loaded the dart gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger, continuously popping countless balloons. Finally, he took the toy bear from the stall owner and casually handed it to her.

With a smile, she reached out to take it, but before she could touch it, the bear disappeared into thin air.

In Liang Xian’s hand, there was only a little red notebook.

The logic in her dream was nonsensical, and facing such a scene, she surprisingly didn’t slap him in the face; instead, she shyly lowered her head, blushing.

Her heart was still pounding.

Liang Xian stuffed the little red notebook into her hand and leaned forward, whispering in her ear with a very gentle and deep voice—

“I listened to you, it cost three yuan.”