Entrust My Life To You - Chapter 31

Translated by: RandomAlex

On New Year’s Day in 2011, the sunshine was very good. Gu Wei wrapped me up and carried me out of the house. He and his friends made an appointment to play football. At the gates, something unexpected happened.

Gu Wei took my hand and said, “Come on, let me show you around my high school.”

The guard patted him on the shoulder and let us in.

During the holiday, there were some scattered students on campus, some laughing together, some playing basketball with sweat on their foreheads, some standing in the corridor in the sun, reciting in English, and some gathered at the stairs to debate about test answer options.

“There, the sculpture, before any exam someone would paste notes on it wishing for high scores…”

“The stairs, every time it snows, it freezes the next day. So, pay special attention when you walk over there…”

“The basketball court has been expanded now. There weren’t so many fields before. The fastest runner in each class would come to grab the right to use it …”

“Ah, the breakfast in the canteen tastes very good. I never knew what they added in soya-bean milk. Lunch is a bit more painful, for three years the food is basically the same …”

After listening to him recalling his high school life sporadically, I suddenly wanted to see what young Gu Wei looked like. Whether he was also running around in a school uniform laughing loudly or morosely complaining that the test paper is too difficult, the teacher is weird etc. etc.

“I came to X city twice a year, I would have come over if I had known …” I started to ramble.

Gu Wei smiled: “When I was in high school, you were still in primary school. In any case, I wouldn’t have laid hands on a child.”

At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Gu Wei’s friends arrived one after another. When I was introduced as ‘my family’, I felt a little embarrassed. The crowd greeted me politely and I took off my coat to warm up on the lawn. I stayed beside a pile of clothes.

(TNote: Introducing someone as “my family’s etc etc” means that they are close and their family has acknowledged the relationship. This would mean GW introduced her as “my family’s Zhixiao”.)

The group of men thought I couldn’t hear them—

A: “Gu Wei, you are so bad! You already have a wife!”

B: “You are intentionally teasing me who was recently lovelorn, aren’t you?”

C: “Speak! Where did you get her?!”

D: “Gu brother, does sister-in-law have any cousins?”

E: “Please invite us tonight! You have to!!”

I just wanted to sigh with emotion; even in their 30’s, men could be so childish —

Gu Wei: “You cover it up a little bit. Your envy, jealousy and hatred are too obvious.”

I … found the most childish one.

Gu Wei drank very little that night, but when this fellow sat on the co-pilot seat and looked at me with squinting eyes, I thought I was going shrink back.

“Doctor, are you—are you drunk?”  I don’t even know how much alcohol he drunk until now.

“Do you want me to be drunk?”

Flirt!

I took a deep breath: “Just look outside the window!”

New Year’s in 2011 felt very short, busy with buying New Year goods, cleaning, New Year’s Eve dinner and New Year’s greetings.

On the 4th of the month, when I went to see Xiao Geng. He could already understand clearly. I played with his soft fingers and made him laugh. My cousin gave me a look: “Haven’t you had a showdown with aunt-flow yet?”

Me: “Almost …”

The door was pushed open, and my cousin-in-law came in: “Come on, so! Let’s ask your aunt for a red envelope!”

Auntie smiled and held Xiao Geng to him. She pulled me out of the bedroom together, whispering in my ear, “take the person home directly.”

A straight cut to the chase!

After the new year, I returned to X city.

Since the last time I talked to Gao Xi, seeing her again in the hospital always made me feel strange. You are so persistent now, what were you doing back then?

I have always believed in the Doctor’s personality, but who knew that this boyfriend and ex-girlfriend got along with each other every day? And the other party still had a wicked heart, how can someone feel comfortable? Even if the man doesn’t look over the wall, how could you be happy when someone else knocks on the wall and tries to reach over it every day.

I decided to organize an intervention.

“Doctor, I am too lazy to explain things. You too. But sometimes it is necessary to explain them.” I searched for words anxiously, to organize what I wanted to say in a string of words. But my language skills were all killed in the college entrance examination. “There are some things that aren’t convenient to ask by one party. If the other party does not take the initiative to explain. It’s easy to lead to a misunderstanding.”

Doctor: “You made a mistake?”

Me: “No!”

Doctor: “Then why isn’t it convenient to ask?” Why are science students so good at ‘equivalent substitution’!

“You and Gao Xi.”

“Oh. ” Why are you enjoying this?! Not even a follow-up…

“There is a person on the other side of the wall who covets you every day. Just like a fly is buzzing around all the time. It can’t be swatted away and can’t be slapped like other flies …” I suddenly think this metaphor is extremely inappropriate.

The Doctor was silent for quite a while: “I’ve told her everything. I should have told her off… ”

Chen Cong told me about this long ago.

I sighed, “Isn’t there a one-step solution to the problem?”

The doctor rolled over and pressed on my body: “Yes.”

“What are you doing?”  Unbuttoning me.

“One step at a time.”

“What kind of one-step approach are you talking about?!”

“Yes. ”

Yes, what ‘yes’?!

“Doctor!!!”

“Let’s get married. ” The doctor looked at me, “you should give me formal status.”

This is the first time that the Doctor mentioned marriage, which is really a muddle-headed move.

But what happened after wasn’t really muddle-headed.

In the past three to four months, the Doctor and I were extremely stuck to each other. With almost no rest in April, we saw each other almost every day. He ate all the signature food in our school canteen and nearby stalls with great interest. During this period, I was extorted by Xiao Cao, passers-by A and B as well as our dormitory and the dormitory next door. Four meals, this frequency is really high and heinous …

I also didn’t run any less to the hospital. Obviously, the Doctor’s night shift has increased. He complained a lot about the quality of food for the night rounds at the hospital… I brought all kinds of food to raise his food quality.

Although I didn’t point it out, it doesn’t mean that I don’t feel the Doctor’s ‘clinginess’ rising sharply. After I once doubted whether this would be a momentary thing, was strongly despised by San San. I think that since both parties enjoy it, let’s just keep this weird sweetness. Until a dinner party reached its peak.

Bai Mianjun hosted a dinner for everyone. I’m just a plus-one. During the dinner, those who had to go to work the next day were not allowed to drink alcohol. As a ‘family member’, I became the target; and helped the Doctor block two glasses of beer. At the beginning, everyone talked about Xiao Yu’s blind date. Bai Mianjun suddenly said, “why don’t you go find Gu Wei? Don’t you always talk about him day and night?”

Xiao Yu hurriedly shook his head: “No, no, he’s too smart for me.”

A table of people laughed.

All of a sudden, Bai Mianjun picked up a full glass of beer and pointed at me: “A toast, feel free to drink too. ” It bottomed out in a minute.

I am not good at drinking. I started to blush and feel dizzy after drinking two cups in a row just now. I helplessly looked at this guy who did not even try to find an excuse to toast: “Then I will.” An took a sip.

Bai Mianjun: “It looks like I’m not sincere enough.” And bottomed out another.

I looked at his drinking method and was puzzled: “Looks like I didn’t drink enough.” Took another sip.

Bai Mianjun: “What is the amount of alcohol in beer?” One cup bottomed out again.

I had some wicked thoughts; if change it to white wine, would this guy still drink suicidally?

“My bladder volume is small. ” I didn’t take a sip.

Bai Mianjun took up my glass, filled it up and handed it over: “Sister-in-law is not giving me any face.”

Everyone could see that something wasn’t right. Xiao Yu beside me subconsciously pulled my sleeve.

On the opposite; Gao Xi, looked at us, smiled and ate. I suddenly got fired up, but before it started, the glass in front of me was taken away.

Gu Wei: “Be polite to my girlfriend.”

Bai Mianjun: “which girlfriend?”

Suddenly it turned cold.

Really cold.

Gu Wei put the glass on the table: “Be polite to my fiancée. ”

Gao Xi’s chopsticks fell on the plate.

The whole of April passed quickly during the Doctor’s busy work. At noon on the 30th, when the Doctor drove to the school to pick me up, I pointed to the gift box in the back row and couldn’t understand: “This–”

Doctor: “Going back home, make it official. ” He took a five-day leave, which made it seem like he was ready for a long fight.

My first reaction, should I thank Gao Xi? Such an excellent reverse catalyst…

Special Dialog:

San San: Peripheral nerve failure, how could chopsticks easily fall off? Such drama…

(Agreed. )

Doctor: I haven’t had any credit given to me for a long time

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