Chapter Nine

Su Tang turned her head and glanced at the clock on the bedside table. It was already past four o'clock. "I have to go to work tomorrow. I need to go home and tidy up tonight. Are you okay being here alone?"

Su Tang shook her head weakly and stared at him with a deep gaze, "The one living in your soul is not Captain America, but Doraemon."

Concrete has a strong compressive strength, but only 10% of its compressive strength in terms of tensile strength. Adding steel bars can effectively improve the tensile capacity of the overall structure, which seems to be somewhat different from the concept of sturdiness.

I have considered calling the police.

Perhaps I wouldn't have survived until now.

Shen Yi did not deny her statement, instead she nodded thoughtfully and smiled as she typed on her phone.

You promise not to eat those things in my ward again.

Su Tang is a little bit crazy.

Su Tang felt a prick in her heart and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"

I'm fine, I've troubled you these past two days, thank you.

When thinking about going to work tomorrow, Su Tang recalls how she got this job. "If you really want to thank me, give me a chance to thank you after you're discharged from the hospital. We can have a meal together or I can help you with something. Otherwise, I won't feel at ease."

That day, I saw you walking and crying alone in the corridor at the sanatorium. I remember you always followed Dr. Zhou around, so I guessed you couldn't find Dr. Zhou. Then I took you to her office and waited with you until she came back, and you gave this to me.

Shen Yi shook his head earnestly.

Su Tang nodded repeatedly. She believed that there must be something inside, otherwise he wouldn't have kept a girl's toy for so many years and still displayed it so prominently on the bedside.

Shen Yi added another sentence quietly.

Shen Yi reached out and patted her hand, which was tightly grasping the bed rail due to nervousness. He smiled and shook his head, his eyes revealing pure joy, happy like a child.

Shen Yishen looked deeply at her, his face showing a difficult-to-express seriousness. As his fingers moved on the touch screen, it seemed like he was thinking about something that was too painful to look back on.

"You are a tough girl, then what am I?"

Missing one sense, there will always be a lack of security.

Am I still calling you behind your back?

Do you think I'm ugly?

Shen Yiyuan originally looked at her with a bewildered expression, feeling somewhat disappointed with his reaction. Suddenly, she asked him such a question, causing him to be stunned for a moment before nodding his head.

Su Tang is still very frustrated. This is not the first time she has forgotten about this matter. Shen Yi's temper, even if it's good, is probably going to snap. Su Tang cautiously looks at the person lying loosely on the bed and says, "I'm sorry, my mind is a mess. You don't have to stoop to my level..."

Su Tang stood up from the chair and gestured with the teddy bear as a shield, imitating Captain America's iconic pose, which made Shen Yi burst into laughter.

So, what you said is nothing to me. I didn't take it to heart, and you don't have to keep thinking about it, making me feel awkward. Tell me, next time if this happens again, should I take care of it or not?

Su Tang spoke very sincerely, and Shen Yi nodded with a smile.

This is the basic knowledge of reinforced concrete. She certainly knows, but how could this securities guy even know about this... She thought that this seemingly scientific nonsense could impress him.

Less than the best, more than the worst, at least there is something.

Shen Yiqian lightly pursed her pale red lips, her expression becoming a bit more solemn.

Shen Yi shook his head earnestly and slowly typed out a long paragraph.

Everyone's head has a pit, research has shown that the deeper and longer these pits are, the larger the brain capacity and the smarter the person. However, as someone who studies natural science, I hope you refer to them as cerebral gyri and sulci.

ーーTo fully understand the value of a stock, it is best to study the basic situation of the industry in which the stock is located. Thank you to Huazheng Group for giving me this opportunity.

Zhao Yang's wife is also a girl who wears S-sized clothes. Her T-shirt fits perfectly on Su Tang's body, revealing the curve of her chest.

Shen Yi followed Su Tang's guidance and looked over. His gaze fell on the little bear, and his expression involuntarily softened, nodding slightly.

Su Tang breathed a sigh of relief as she saw him no longer entangled in those matters. "Your soul is much stronger than your body. If you were a man's body...". Seeing Shen Yi raise his eyebrows, Su Tang smiled and changed her words, "Okay, okay, you are a man's body, then there should be a Captain America living in your soul, holding a shield and standing there, indestructible."

Shen Yixiao shook his head with a smile, seemingly carefree. The heart rate monitor also proved, with its steady waveform, that he truly didn't care.

Su Tang was so flattered by him that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "There's nothing to thank me for. It's because you don't look like a bad person. Not now, and certainly not when you were a child."

Su Tang lowered the bedside for him before leaving. Shen Yi earnestly typed many words of caution and safety on his phone. Su Tang believed that if he could get out of bed, he would personally escort her to the doorstep before feeling at ease.

Su Tang finished speaking in one sentence. She watched as Shen Yi was deeply stunned for a moment, and saw that his expression had changed. In astonishment, he even subconsciously glanced at her chest.

Su Tang sent him a text message to let him know she arrived home safely as soon as she got home. Shen Yi replied almost instantly. Su Tang suspected that he had been waiting for this message from her since she left the hospital room, as he had been holding his phone the whole time.

During the ward round, it was discovered that the little white mouse had fallen asleep. Rest assured, it's under the care of the skilled physician Zhao Yang.

Su Tang held back a laugh that almost burst out and shook her head seriously. She also solemnly raised three fingers towards the ceiling and said, "I won't eat it, I promise I won't eat it!"

ーーI suddenly lost my hearing. I was too young at that time and couldn't accept it for a long time, even dared not to close my eyes. I had to take medicine to fall asleep. After struggling for several years, I encountered some psychological and physical problems, so I was sent to a sanatorium for recuperation. It was only after I sent you back to Dr. Zhou that I realized I could still be useful. After my condition improved, I participated in a medical project co-operated by Boya Hospital and the United States, learned lip-reading in the United States, and then started studying. If I hadn't met you at that time, I wouldn't know what I would be like now.

Shen Yiru's current temperament does not show the slightest trace of being tormented by suffering. She can guess that he has put in more effort than others from childhood to adulthood, but she cannot guess that he has also experienced these things. Suddenly, seeing him calmly typing these words on his phone as if writing a story, Su Tang didn't know how to react for a moment.

Shen Yi digested Su Tang's words for a moment before nodding lightly to indicate agreement.

Everyone has different standards for judging ugliness. Just like most girls would try to stay far away from someone vomiting, but you are willing to hold me.

Su Tang watched with a mix of amusement and tears. If her heart were XXXL, then this person's heart would probably be IMAX.

Su Tang stared at him blankly as he typed these words one by one on the memo page. With each additional word, Su Tang's heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Do you call that being angry just because you lower the frequency and amplitude of your smile a little?

Shen Yi reached out his hand to her, palm facing up. Su Tang immediately understood and handed him the phone. Shen Yi took it in his hand and slowly typed three words.

Forget it, Su Tang couldn't argue with someone who had studied law, but she was also worried about the words Qin Jingyao said before leaving. She was afraid that he would be troubled by this matter and it would affect his condition. So she sighed and said, "To be honest with you, I am not a girl."

That's because I didn't have any other options," Su Tang argued earnestly, "If I had been driving that night, with Qin Jingyao sitting in the back seat with you, she would have definitely done the same."

Su Tang immediately understood where Shen Yi wanted to go, and added with tears in her eyes, "I'm not a boy... I'm a tough girl."

Su Tang was comforted by him, she bent down and rested her chin on the back of her hand on the railing, looking up at him, "Have you never been angry before?"

The smile on Shen Yi's face faded slightly, revealing a hint of apology.

Do you want to know?

Shen Yiqing gently pressed the surgical incision that was made by himself and laughed until it hurt, and then slowly typed out the words.

Shen Yi shook his head with a good-natured and amused expression, let bygones be bygones, and lowered his head to type.

Shen Yi was left in stitches by her straightforward and rough reasoning.

Then, did you just turn around and leave?

Shen Yi nodded gently, and the soft anger on his face had completely dissipated. A faint expression of anticipation appeared, as if he really hoped that she could remember this matter.

Shen Yi shook his head.

Su Tang didn't want to discuss such a heavy topic with him in the hospital. She reached out and picked up the teddy bear, "If you like stuffed animals, I can give you another one. This one is too ugly and doesn't match with you."

Su Tang sent him another message before going to bed.

Shen Yixiao was extremely pleased, and Su Tang lost all her temper.

Su Tang couldn't hold back and leaned on the railing, laughing so hard that her body trembled. After laughing enough, she suddenly remembered that something seemed a little off. "Oh, wait a minute..." Su Tang stood up straight and glanced at the teddy bear on the bedside table. "It's been twenty years, why are you still keeping it?"

This is a scientifically based reasonable inference. If you don't believe it, I can write a standard SCI paper to prove it.

Two months ago, she and the driver drove me to the hospital. Throughout the journey, she only helped me carry plastic bags to prevent me from vomiting in the car. It is normal for most girls to love cleanliness.

I don't think it's ugly.

What are you laughing at? This is praising you. Su Tang's face turned serious, and she said earnestly in a tone of reciting inspirational quotes, "Internal things must be more solid than external things for the structure to be stable. Take reinforced concrete for example. Concrete itself is already strong, but it still needs to have steel bars inside. That's the principle."

Didn't I just get angry with you for two days?

Shen Yi gave her a weak glare.

Su Tang frowned. She really couldn't remember this matter, but she remembered very clearly that she had been sticking to her grandmother since she was a child, especially in the first few years when her parents abandoned her to her grandmother. She would be terrified if she couldn't see her grandmother for a while. She could imagine how miserable she cried at that time.

Good night, go to bed early.

Shen Yi could probably see the galloping horses deep in Su Tang's heart, and couldn't help but curl up his lips.

—In memory of your trust in me. I have always wanted to thank you in person.

As if possessed by a ghost, Su Tang blurted out a question. Seeing Shen Yi's stunned expression, she suddenly realized what she had done and her face turned red like a freshly cooked spicy crayfish under the warm afternoon light. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I just suddenly remembered that I seem to have some impression of this scene. That day when I saw you getting off the car and walking towards the hospital building, I felt a bit familiar..."

It's just... Su Tang made great efforts to help him understand the essence of this term, "a man's soul resides in a woman's body." Not someone like you... how should I put it... a rough man, you know, like Li Kui, Zhang Fei, Wu Dalang... Seeing Shen Yi's still confused face, Su Tang slapped her thigh and picked someone he must know, "Doctor Zhao."

Shen Yi's expression fully proved that he had never heard of this term.

Shen Yi vigorously shook his head.

Still a quick response, but not in Shen Yi's tone.

Su Tang lifted the bear up, and pressed its face against his own, saying, "Does this mean that in your eyes, my looks are on par with its?"

Shen Yi seemed to have understood something, nodded thoughtfully, and gestured for Su Tang to continue.

Su Tang patiently held a stomach full of question marks, waiting for him to turn his gaze back to her face and asked, "Is it about the time you said you saw me at the Boya Sanatorium twenty years ago?"

Su Tang always felt that Shen Yi had a special nervousness about traveling.

Su Tang still shook her head with a bitter face, "I've been thinking for two days, but I really don't have any impression at all..."