Although he has the advantage of having memories, in that Shen Fangyu remembered a large part of knowledge and difficult exam questions, but to achieve high scores, a lot of things still have to be memorized and strengthened again.
The great Dr. Shen was forced to pick up those college knowledge points again, living the bitter life of pulling all-nighters to review once again, practically returning to his senior year of high school.
Fortunately, there is Jiang Xu, these moments finally seem less agonizing.
Usually, Shen Fangyu rarely has the opportunity to be alone with Jiang Xu, there had always been the Queen Mother of The West1Queen Mother of The West or 西王母 or 王母娘娘 is the wife of the Jade Emperor (the ruler of heaven). She was said to have control over life and death, creation and destruction, and have a garden of immortality peaches (the one Sun Wokong from the journey to the west stole from). Here it is used to say that Tang Ke is like an authoritative mother figure to Jiang Xu who ‘protects’ him from Shen Fangyu Tang Ke who kept watch between them. However, Tang Ke wasn’t as durable as them in pulling all-nighters to study. When there was no exam, he usually stayed up until 10 o’clock at most and left. As a result, Shen Fangyu also has the opportunity to return to the dormitory with Jiang Xu every day.
Most medical schools are not big, it only took about ten minutes to walk from the self-study room to the dormitory. Everytime, Shen Fangyu had always hated that the path couldn’t keep going forever. Alas, the two of them had long legs and fast pace, always reaching the end before long.
But during this period, who knows if it was Shen Fangyu’s illusion, he always felt that Jiang Xu seemed to walk much slower than before.
Sometimes if they start chatting a bit succinctly, Jiang Xu would occasionally pause his steps, standing still to listen to his explanation, waiting for him to finish before continuing forward.
There was one time when he pushed the door of the dorm room open to buy breakfast, the door of the neighboring dorm suddenly opened. Shen Fangyu looked over and met Jiang Xu’s gaze. The latter pulled at his bag strap, walked over to him, and very lightly held his chin, “You eating?”
So they naturally started eating breakfast together every day.
After some time, Shen Fangyu realized that if he left the self-study room for a while, various kinds of snacks would appear on the table. He asked Jiang Xu, “Where did these come from?”
Jiang Xu always shook his head and said, “Don’t know.”
But when he turned his head to ask the others, Jiang Xu would pull his sleeve to stop him, saying “Just eat, you talk too much.”
In addition, Tang Ke also began to occasionally be missing on their meals. According to Jiang Xu, the research project was not going smoothly and he was often caught by his senior sister to work overtime.
Shen Fangyu expressed deep sympathy for Tang Ke’s plight and asked if he needed any help.
However, Tang Ke just looked at Jiang Xu with a hating-iron-for-not-being-steel expression, his face expressed resentment, saying that he could handle it by himself.
And Jiang Xu, who has not played with Moments for 800 years, inexplicably began to share some information about discounts and promotions at the restaurants near the school. When he saw it, he would enthusiastically poked Jiang Xu privately and asked if he wanted to go eat together. The latter would always wait for ten minutes before replying with a cold “✓”.
Their self-study locations are no longer limited to the self-study rooms arranged by the school. These two figures have begun to appear in the restaurants and cafes near the school.
In the quiet and deserted second floor, in the little time for leisure on the weekend amidst their busy life, the pleasant sunlight from the windowsill, they each looked at their own books, occasionally exchanging a few words softly. Often they stayed for a whole afternoon and ended up until night.
After the cafe was closed, they carried their bags and went back together. The medical school’s lush path2林荫小道 As in a path with a lot of shades from the trees was really long, and also very peaceful.
Shen Fangyu was the one talking the majority of the time, and Jiang Xu would throw in a sentence from time to time.
Once, Shen Fangyu suggested for the two of them to go to the internet cafe to play games, and Jiang Xu looked at him and suddenly said, “After the final exam is finished, shall we go and play?”
Of course, Shen Fangyu would not refuse.
It rained heavily on the night when the final exams were all over. Finally, the students who were temporarily liberated from the mountains of books and seas of questions enjoyed a rare night of revelry and relaxation.
The two of them ordered a bunch of colorful cocktails and drinks. In the internet cafe, they fiercely fought in the old games for half the night. Just that this time, there was no Boss who gave them the newspaper containing the correct answers to the exam. When they pushed the door open, the rain outside had already stopped.
But Shen Fangyu opened his umbrella.
“It’s not raining anymore,” Jiang Xu reminded.
Shen Fangyu looked up at the small umbrella and smiled, “I know.”
Jiang Xu looked at him in confusion. Shen Fangyu tilted his head to meaningfully look at Jiang Xu’s and his shoulders sticking to each other under the umbrella.
“Just… wanting to be closer to you.”
The slightly tipsy boy was stupefied for a moment, then suddenly began to give a shallow smile.
He stood in the darkness of the night, kicking the stones at his feet, and lowered his head to say to Shen Fangyu, “I have something to ask you.”
Shen Fangyu grasped his shoulders, “You say?”
Jiang Xu looked at him, lowered his lashes, and after a while, he moved his head to look at him and cleared his throat, then said, “Do you still want to be together with me?”
The bright and colorful light from the internet cafe signs fell on Jiang Xu’s face, creating gorgeously mottled lights and shadows. The Jiang Xu of his student days looked a bit nervous but still pretended to be calm, seemingly unaware that his own words had caused Shen Fangyu’s heart to surge with huge torrential waves as great as the sky.
The half drunk Shen Fangyu stared at the small mole under his eyes for a while, before then suddenly kissing him off guard.
He hugged Jiang Xu’s waist tightly, and Jiang Xu raised his hand to wrap around his neck.
He pried open his mouth, and Jiang Xu responded to him even more fervently.
The umbrella was thrown into the air, and the two of them passionately kissed and hugged at the entrance of the internet cafe. The stars in the night sky were bright, and the dim street lights reflected a pair of slender and well-matched shadows on the empty and deserted doorway. The wind blew the boys’ thin clothes. The moon witnessed the young Jiang Xu’s passionate and vigorous love.
After Jiang Xu finished kissing his lips, he then went to kiss his face. After kissing his face, he went to kiss his eyebrows, nose, and the shallowly-closed eyes.
Shen Fangyu hugged him for quite a long time, then finally stuck to his ear and said, “You know… this shop became a bar ten years in ten years. We drank fake wine here and then muddleheadedly got into the bed.”
Hearing Jiang Xu’s muffled laugh, he kissed his side of face and earnestly said, “I love you, Jiang Xu.”
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“Your love for me is also useless. Don’t stay in bed anymore. Quickly get up and go bring Xiao Xiao to get vaccinated.”
A familiar voice suddenly heard from near his ear, and all the dazzling and lustrous view dissipated in an instant. Shen Fangyu was startled, abruptly opening his eyes.
Looking up was the familiar ceiling at home. Dr. Jiang, carrying a two-year-old girl, sat by his bed, and was currently encouraging Xiao Xiao to pinch his nose.
The moment he was awakened, his heart beat instantly accelerated. It calmed down quickly due to the reassuring scene he was seeing.
Shen Fangyu rubbed his drowsy eyes and couldn’t help but tick up the corner of his mouth, then hugged Xiao Xiao and kissed her.
However, before Xiao Xiao could get affectionate on Shen papa’s chest, she was placed on the side against the wall, “You play by yourself first.”
After her good daddy finished speaking and handed the pink rabbit into her arms, he turned around and hugged Jiang Xu’s waist, throwing him onto the bed.
“Why are you causing trouble so early in the morning?”
After Jiang Xu broke free from his embrace, he was then hugged back again by Shen Fangyu.
“I had a dream, Jiang Xu,” Shen Fangyu hugged him and said, “I dreamt that I went back to the time when you were still in the university.”
“Then?”
Shen Fangyu glanced over at Xiao Xiao, “Then I told you we were married to each other, and also have a kid.”
Jiang Xu rested his head on Shen Fangyu’s arm and commented, “After you finished speaking, I would have definitely beat you up.”
“You were still reluctant.”
Shen Fangyu smiled and played Jiang Xu’s hair into a mess. The two of them looked at each other for a while, and Jiang Xu also laughed along.
Shen Fangyu looked at the beloved person so close in his embrace, and suddenly recalled a fragment of the dream.
In his dream, he and Jiang Xu sat side by side on a bench downstairs in the dormitory, and Jiang Xu handed him an examination report.
“I went for a check up, what you said was right. In my body…. There is indeed an immature uterus..”
Jiang Xu told him, “The doctor said that it is currently only the size of a winter jujube, and other appendages have not started to develop, so it temporarily does not have the capability of bearing pregnancy and will not affect my normal life.”
After a moment of silence from Shen Fangyu, he said to him, “When you have free time, I’ll accompany you to the hospital for a surgical resection.”
“Now?”
“It would have developed into a mature uterus in ten years, and the vascular and neurological state would become extremely complex,” Shen Fangyu explained. “At that time, the risk of the surgery will increase significantly.”
Jiang Xu thoughtfully thought over and nodded after listening, took the report back from Shen Fangyu’s hand, carefully folded it, and then put it back into his bag.
But in the end, he said to Shen Fangyu, “I won’t go for surgery now.”
“Why?”
“Although I currently can’t understand why I will love you so much ten years from now, but I believe, the me of that time must have also carefully thought it over before making such a decision.”
“According to your words, my uterus matured only after I became the deputy chief physician,” Jiang Xu said. “So I think… I should still have many more years to consider whether or not to conceive a child together with you.”
The Jiang Xu of student times who talked about having children still seemed somewhat awkward and inexperienced.
But his calmness and caution have already formed the seedling of Jiang Xu.
Shen Fangyu withdrew his stray train of thoughts and gently rubbed Jiang Xu’s lower lip, telling him the stories in his dream, “Not only did you not hit me, but also….. you fell in love with me again.”
Jiang Xu slapped his hand away and gave him a helpless cold glance, obviously somewhat amused by Dr. Shen’s daydream. Shen Fangyu, seeing him like this, couldn’t help but lower his head and kiss him.
Jiang Xu hurriedly turned his face away and said, “Xiao Xiao is still there.”
“It’s okay, she’s still young,” Shen Fangyu said as he pulled the blanket over, covering their heads. “Really I can’t suppress it.”
The child, Xiao Xiao, was sitting on the bed leaning against the wall, clutching on the rabbit’s ear while looking at the moving blanket on the bed in confusion.
After about half a minute, the beige velvet blanket was lifted open. Xiao Xiao, who was observing secretly, saw that her papa’s earlobes seemed to be extremely red, his hair was a complete mess, and his mouth was red as if he had eaten chilli peppers.
And her Daddy suddenly seemed to be in a good mood and got up from the bed, lifted and carried her up on his head, interrupting a little train of thought that had just sprouted from her tender little head.
The young father smiled brightly, looking at her with eyes full of love and affection. “Let’s go get vaccinated, Xiao Xiao!”
The pink rabbit was suddenly let go, and the child Xiao Xiao who abhorred injections curled her mouth and cried loudly.
[End]
Translator’s note:
That’s it! It’s completed guys. Hope you enjoyed it!
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