There’s a psycho who has a crush on me

Chapter 48

Luo Changzhou had originally thought he could just take a look at the hospital entrance and go home reassured, but when he ran to the hospital, he found that unless he saw Yu Pei with his own eyes, he probably wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.

Moreover, he felt there was something wrong with what Gu Zheng had said, so he replied: “How could I not see him? I’m Ah Pei’s friend, and his deskmate too. Isn’t it perfectly normal for me to come see him after hearing he was in a car accident?”

“True enough.” After thinking it over, Gu Zheng felt that was right. He’d been overly cautious, practically acting like a guilty thief. As long as Luo Changzhou didn’t go in and kiss Yu Pei, who could discover their real relationship?

Having thought it through, Gu Zheng immediately prepared to return to the hospital room with Luo Changzhou. However, just as they were about to leave from around the elevator corner, the elevator dinged open.

The two instinctively turned to look and met Yu Qing’s face, which bore sixty to seventy percent resemblance to Yu Pei’s.

All three stood frozen in place for a long moment. After about ten seconds, when the elevator doors were about to close automatically, Yu Qing blocked them and stepped out.

“You’re Ah Pei’s classmate, right?” Without waiting for Gu Zheng or Luo Changzhou to speak, Yu Qing spoke first, asking Luo Changzhou, “You’re here to see him?”

“Yes.” Luo Changzhou nodded. “I’m Luo Changzhou.”

“I’ve heard Ah Pei mention you.” Yu Qing didn’t ask how Luo Changzhou had learned about Yu Pei’s car accident so quickly, and nodded slightly at him, saying, “Ah Pei’s room is this way. Let’s go.”

With that, Yu Qing walked past them both toward Yu Pei’s hospital room.

Behind him, Gu Zheng whispered to Luo Changzhou: “Have you already met Ah Pei’s big brother?”

“No.” Luo Changzhou said, “This is the first time I’ve met him.”

“Then how did Big Brother Yu know you were Ah Pei’s classmate?” Gu Zheng said strangely. “And his attitude toward you seemed quite friendly.”

Luo Changzhou slowed his steps slightly, raising an eyebrow at Gu Zheng, saying: “Didn’t you hear what he said? Ah Pei has mentioned me to him.” A blue-eyed classmate wasn’t common, so if Yu Pei had mentioned him to Yu Qing, it would be quite normal for Yu Qing to remember him. Luo Changzhou didn’t think there was anything strange about it.

But Gu Zheng still felt something was off, though he couldn’t put his finger on what.

The hospital had given Yu Pei a double-bed room, which was also Yu Qing’s request, because one bed was reserved for him.

When Gu Zheng and Luo Changzhou entered, Uncle Zhuang was inside arranging the folding bed that the hospital provided for accompanying family members, preparing to spend the night there. As soon as Yu Qing saw this, he went over to stop him: “Uncle Zhuang, don’t bother with that. You should go home to sleep tonight, the folding bed isn’t comfortable.”

The hospital’s folding bed wasn’t particularly good, and an elderly man like Uncle Zhuang would surely have aching bones after sleeping on it all night. Yu Qing was unwilling to let Uncle Zhuang sleep there.

Hearing this, Gu Zheng also stepped forward to agree: “Yes, Uncle Zhuang, you should go home to sleep. I’ll stay here with Ah Pei tonight.”

“Oh, alright then.” Uncle Zhuang nodded, then looked up to see a blue-eyed young man he’d never seen before standing beside Gu Zheng, and asked in confusion, “This is…?”

“Hello, Uncle Zhuang.” Luo Changzhou greeted Uncle Zhuang. “I’m Ah Pei’s classmate.”

“Oh, I remember now.” Uncle Zhuang said with a chuckle, “Ah Pei often mentions you to us at home.”

As soon as Uncle Zhuang said this, Yu Qing coughed twice, as if he’d choked on his own saliva. Uncle Zhuang anxiously asked: “Young Master, are you feeling unwell?”

“I’m fine.” Yu Qing said, then raised the plastic bag in his hand, saying to Uncle Zhuang, “I’m going out to speak with the doctor. Uncle Zhuang, you all watch over Ah Pei.”

Uncle Zhuang replied: “Yes, alright.”

Yu Qing’s gaze lingered deeply on Luo Changzhou once more, then he left carrying the plastic bag. As soon as he left the hospital room, the gentle expression he’d deliberately put on disappeared, his brow furrowed tightly, his face full of gravity as he went straight to find a doctor, asking them to test whether anything had been added to the water in the cup he’d brought.

After Yu Qing left, the atmosphere in the hospital room did indeed become somewhat more relaxed. Luo Changzhou and Gu Zheng each moved over a chair and sat beside Yu Pei. Gu Zheng looked at Yu Pei, occasionally glancing at Luo Changzhou, while Luo Changzhou kept looking at Yu Pei.

When they’d parted that afternoon, Yu Pei had still been laughing and talking with him, but just a few hours later, he was lying in bed with his eyes closed, covered in injuries. Luo Changzhou really wanted to reach out and touch Yu Pei’s other uninjured hand that lay beside the bed, but with Uncle Zhuang sitting there, he couldn’t act rashly.

He sat silently beside Yu Pei like this, occasionally responding to Uncle Zhuang’s questions, until he left the hospital at 11 PM.

When Yu Qing returned, Gu Zheng had already shaken out his bedding and was preparing to sleep. Seeing the wound on his head, Gu Zheng asked: “Big Brother Yu, where did you go just now? You still have that head injury, you should rest early.”

“Mm.” Yu Qing responded, took off his clothes, turned off the lights, and lay down on the hospital bed.

Only, in the dark room, Yu Qing’s eyes remained open for a long time.

His choice to rest at home this weekend wasn’t without reason. During this period, he’d often felt physically exhausted and weak, dizzy and sleepy. He’d thought it was because he was too tired or under too much stress, and since he hadn’t had a proper rest, he’d decided to recuperate at home on Sunday. But his condition during today’s car accident had been too abnormal. In that moment when he’d zoned out, besides the headache, there had been intense dizziness, as if the entire world had turned upside down in that instant.

Yu Qing felt that something must have been mixed into his food, otherwise he couldn’t have been in such a state.

The final answer to all this would have to wait for tomorrow’s test results from the doctor.

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The next day was Sunday. Originally, Gu Zheng could have had a lovely lie-in at home, but unfortunately he was now in the hospital, where nurses generally began their rounds at 8 AM to check on patients’ conditions. So Gu Zheng was woken early, and while he was still brushing his teeth and washing his face in the bathroom, he smelled a fragrant aroma.

At first, Gu Zheng thought it was the takeout he’d ordered, but when he came out to look, he discovered it was Luo Changzhou carrying a food container to the hospital room.

The food container was tightly wrapped, but you could still smell some of the aroma. Gu Zheng ran up to Luo Changzhou and stared at the container, asking: “Changzhou, is this breakfast you’re treating me to?”

Luo Changzhou raised his hand to protect the food container, saying: “This is pigeon soup I made for Ah Pei. It’s not for you.”

Pigeon soup?

Just hearing about it sounded delicious, but it wasn’t for him to drink.

Gu Zheng was very disappointed and dejectedly returned to sit in his chair. Even when his takeout arrived, he had no interest in eating it.

Yu Qing had already left the hospital room before Gu Zheng got up. His bed was also made neatly, looking like he wouldn’t be returning to sleep. Uncle Zhuang hadn’t come either. Yu Qing had called him last night saying someone would come to take care of Yu Pei in the morning, so Uncle Zhuang didn’t need to come. Uncle Zhuang had assumed Yu Qing meant Gu Zheng, and though he privately wondered if Gu Zheng’s flighty nature could properly care for Yu Pei, since Yu Qing had said so, he hadn’t come over.

Seeing that there wasn’t really anyone else in the room, and the only living person, Gu Zheng, was busy playing on his phone, Luo Changzhou moved his chair closer to Yu Pei’s side and reached under Yu Pei’s blanket to touch his uninjured hand.

It was ice-cold to the touch.

Yu Pei’s hand was very cold. Despite being under the blanket all night, even his hand hadn’t warmed up.

Luo Changzhou cupped both hands together, gripping Yu Pei’s hand tightly, breathing warm air into them and gently rubbing, hoping his hand would warm up quickly.

Before long, Yu Pei’s hand gradually warmed up and even moved twice, his fingernails scratching across Luo Changzhou’s palm, somewhat ticklish. At first, Luo Changzhou thought this was his imagination, until Yu Pei frowned and made two soft sounds, and Luo Changzhou realized Yu Pei had really woken up.

“Ah Pei?” Luo Changzhou immediately stood up from his chair, leaning down close to Yu Pei’s face and calling his name softly.

As soon as Gu Zheng heard Luo Changzhou’s voice, he also hurried over, gently calling: “Ah Pei?”

Luo Changzhou: “…”

Being pushed aside, Luo Changzhou was somewhat unhappy, but Yu Pei’s eyelashes trembled twice, and before long he really did open his eyes.

His gaze fell on Gu Zheng’s face, his fine eyebrows furrowed again, and the next moment he struggled to turn to one side and began dry-heaving.

Gu Zheng: “…”

“Ah Pei.” Luo Changzhou didn’t release Yu Pei’s hand, sitting on the edge of the bed and gently patting Yu Pei’s back to ease his discomfort.

Yu Pei’s stomach was empty and he couldn’t vomit anything. He lay back down listlessly, glanced at Luo Changzhou, then quickly closed his eyes again, saying with a tearful voice: “Changzhou… I’m so dizzy…”

Yu Pei had had a dream where he’d seen many people, and at the end of the dream, Luo Changzhou had been holding his hand. Yu Pei had thought it was just a dream, but he hadn’t expected that when he woke up, Luo Changzhou was really holding his hand.

But his head was very dizzy, and his temples throbbed with pain. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the entire world spinning rapidly before him. His ears were filled with noisy ringing, and his stomach felt as if someone was squeezing it hard, causing waves of discomfort so severe he almost fainted.

Yu Pei instinctively raised his right arm, wanting to touch the throbbing part of his temple, but found that his right arm also seemed to be immobilized by something and couldn’t move at all. So he had to open his eyes and look toward his right arm.

When he saw the bandages wrapped around his right hand, the memories from last night came flooding back, and Yu Pei suddenly remembered that he and his big brother had been in a car accident together last night.

“Big brother!” Yu Pei suddenly bolted upright from the bed, then lay back down with a pained expression the next moment, murmuring quietly: “Where is my big brother?”

“Big Brother Yu is fine. He was gone when I got up this morning.” Gu Zheng quickly leaned over to say, “Ah Pei, you should lie down properly. The doctor said you have a concussion and need to rest in bed.”

A concussion? No wonder his head was so dizzy.

Yu Pei reluctantly opened his eyes, saw Gu Zheng’s face spinning in front of him and quickly closed them again, moving his left hand that was still held in Luo Changzhou’s palm, calling softly: “Changzhou…”

“What is it?” Luo Changzhou’s voice was very gentle. He reached out to stroke Yu Pei’s hair by his ear like he was coaxing him, gently massaging his temples. “Let me massage it for you.”