After opening the abdomen, the situation was more complex than expected, with multiple adhesions, and the surgery ended in the afternoon.

Guan Yue had just left the operating room; after washing his hands, he opened his phone to check messages.

He thought the little capybara didn’t know he was working overtime and would probably ask about him.

He opened WeChat.

There were messages from the department group, meeting messages, and thank-you messages from patients.

As for the little capybara with an orange on his head, there was no red notification.

Only an automatic message prompt.

[You have an unclaimed transfer]

At that time, Lü Dongyi also came out of the operating room and caught up with him: “How about we go to that newly opened Sichuan restaurant across the street?”

Guan Yue: “No.”

Lü Dongyi: “Aren’t you hungry? You’ve been standing for so long.”

Guan Yue: “I’m full.”

“…?”

He knew, senior brother really wasn’t an ordinary person.

Three o’clock in the afternoon.

Pei Qi finally finished the presentation; he checked it again from beginning to end, and after confirming there were no errors, he got up and stretched.

His waist ached from being curled up on the lazy sofa.

The sunlight outside the window was abundant, it smelled like summer.

Actually, he had always felt that something was missing in Doctor Guan’s beautiful apartment.

But he couldn’t figure out what it was.

At this moment, the warm light shone on his face.

He suddenly knew what was missing.

It was missing some green life, such as potted plants and greenery.

No wonder the whole apartment felt a little cold and impersonal.

The young man stood by the window basking in the sun for a while, like a green plant needing photosynthesis; after basking comfortably, he curled back into the sofa.

He was going to carefully read a book about restoration techniques today.

After reading for a while, when he looked up again, dusk had already fallen.

Pei Qi organized the notes he had just taken, and his stomach also “gurgled” twice at this time, reminding him to eat.

His last meal was in the morning; he really should eat something.

When he went into the kitchen to turn on the gas stove, the young man suddenly remembered.

Doctor Guan hadn’t come back yet.

If he had gone to work, he should be back by now, right?

Should he send a message to ask?

He should ask, ask if he’s coming back for dinner.

What if Doctor Guan comes back while he’s eating.

And there’s no food in the pot.

That would be quite embarrassing.

He picked up his phone and clicked into the chat box with Guan Yue.

The man’s profile picture was simple, a picture of the starry sky.

Dots of starlight dotted the Milky Way.

Seven: [Are you coming back for dinner tonight?]

He tried to keep it concise.

He waited for a few minutes.

Without waiting for a reply, a subtle sound came from the front door.

Guan Yue was back.

Pei Qi ran over: “You’re back, are you having dinner?”

“No, I’m a little tired.” The man was very cold, without even raising his eyelids, he passed the young man and went upstairs.

The little capybara stared at the figure disappearing around the corner of the stairs, stunned for two seconds.

It seemed that Doctor Guan was really very tired.

The little capybara made some simple vegetable porridge, thinking that the man must be hungry after being so tired.

So, he took a bowl of warm vegetable porridge upstairs.

“Knock knock.”

The young man knocked on the door.

However.

Perhaps he wasn’t just knocking on the door.

Soon, the door opened.

The little capybara offered the vegetable porridge: “Doctor Guan, are you going to sleep? Do you want some porridge?”

“Okay.”

The little capybara smiled, the dimples beside his cheeks appearing.

It made one want to poke them.

They must be very soft.

Pei Qi: “Are you eating it in the bedroom?”

Guan Yue: “Let’s go downstairs.”

Pei Qi: “Okay.”

The little capybara was carrying the porridge, about to go downstairs.

“Let me.” A hand reached out and took the porcelain bowl from his hand.

Pei Qi cooperatively let go.

While eating at the dining table, both of them silently lowered their heads to drink porridge, without much extra conversation.

Pei Qi secretly observed the appendicitis doctor opposite him; his eyes were faintly tired, it seemed he was really a little tired.

“It’s the weekend today, were there many patients?” The young man took the initiative to speak.

Guan Yue drank two more sips of porridge, without responding.

Pei Qi felt a little embarrassed.

Maybe Doctor Guan was too tired to talk.

He was trying to make conversation…

“No, I did a rather complex surgery.” After several seconds, the man slowly opened his lips.

Pei Qi nodded.

He could roughly understand the appendicitis doctor’s current state, it should be like the situation when he had been sticking small pieces of paper for a whole day.

After stopping, there was indeed a feeling of mental emptiness.

He just wanted to be on standby.

So he didn’t continue the topic, silently preparing to finish his meal and quickly return to the bedroom, not wanting to disturb Doctor Guan’s rest any further.

Guan Yue also put down his chopsticks at this time.

Pei Qi: “Doctor Guan, go rest, I’ll clean up.”

The man’s complexion wasn’t good, his lips were slightly pale.

Pei Qi couldn’t help but feel a little worried, thinking that Doctor Guan wouldn’t treat himself, wouldn’t he know if he was sick?

The little capybara thought, got up from the chair, leaned forward, and pressed his cool back of his hand against the man’s forehead, feeling with concern: “You don’t seem to have a fever, but your complexion is very bad, are you feeling unwell anywhere?”

The frost wolf with eyes full of ferocity, suddenly lowered its alert ears at this moment, and the clusters of bristling gray fur gradually calmed down.

The suppressed anger from nowhere was carried away by the coolness of the young man’s hand.

Pei Qi’s wrist was held by a scorching gaze.

He realized that his action was a little sudden and exceeded the social distance.

So he hurriedly tried to pull his hand away.

His slender wrist was suddenly grasped by a strong force at this moment.

Unable to move, there was no room to pull his hand away.

“I am unwell, touch me again.”

The restraint at the wrist was obvious.

The little capybara felt his wrist tightly wrapped.

The temperature of the appendicitis doctor’s palm was very hot.

Pressing against his skin, it seemed to want to transmit this temperature to the young man’s body.

But the little capybara didn’t shrink back, only slightly moving his wrist: “Then I’ll try with the other hand.”

This hand, stained with the temperature of the man’s forehead, could no longer feel anything.

Guan Yue: “Mm.”

The force on his wrist was released.

The little capybara changed hands and pressed against the man’s forehead again.

He felt carefully.

“Um… it’s not hot to the touch, you probably don’t have a fever, where do you feel uncomfortable?” The young man asked seriously.

Guan Yue: “I don’t have much strength.”

The little capybara lowered his hand, a faint scent of cedar lingering in his nostrils: “Are you too tired from today?”

The man didn’t answer, his gaze still fixed on the young man’s face.

Although the little capybara was slow-witted, he could feel the pressure of this long gaze, making him uncomfortable; he reached out and rubbed his nose with his fingertip.

As if trying to block some of the heat in that gaze.

Guan Yue: “Did Teacher Pei know I had to work today?”

The gaze certainly didn’t move at all; instead, the atmosphere became even hotter.

The young man lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes fluttering: “I didn’t know, but I probably guessed.”

“Oh.”

Pei Qi didn’t understand what kind of emotion was contained in Doctor Guan’s “Oh,” nor did he understand the meaning of Doctor Guan asking this.

If you don’t understand, just ask.

He lifted his eyelids, “What’s wrong?”

Guan Yue: “What I said yesterday was right.”

Pei Qi still didn’t understand: “Huh?”

“You don’t know at all, and you don’t pay attention.” The man said, pausing slightly, “The fact that I am your legal husband.”

The man said many words, but Pei Qi still didn’t understand the causal relationship.

So he expressed it directly: “I… still don’t understand.”

“In this situation, you should send your husband a message, or make a phone call, to ask where he is and when he will be back.” After a few seconds, Guan Yue announced the correct answer, “Just like your parents, caring about when the other person will come home for dinner.”

“Um…” Pei Qi was listening carefully, thinking carefully, “Well, I’m sorry, I haven’t lived with my parents much, I haven’t seen much of that.”

The man in front of him froze, a hint of strangeness flashing in his eyes, but it was quickly suppressed, becoming calm: “Didn’t Teacher Pei live with his parents before?”

Pei Qi shook his head, retracting his leaning body and sitting back in his seat: “No, when I was very young, they went to the south to do business, and they’ve been there ever since; I’ve been living with my third aunt.”

Guan Yue: “Why didn’t they take you with them?”

“At first, we were poor, it wasn’t convenient to take me with them; later, my younger brother was born, and it was delayed for a while.” The young man’s tone was flat, recounting his childhood, “Later, I went to school, transferring schools was troublesome, and I said I didn’t want to go.”

“My third aunt’s husband is a soldier, and he’s not often at home; I rarely see the kind of interaction Doctor Guan mentioned.” The young man paused, explaining, “So I don’t understand, but I know now, I will learn.”

The little capybara’s tone was sincere, as if he really treated the way couples get along as a required course.

The man opposite him at the dining table didn’t speak, but his gaze remained fixed on the little capybara’s face.

Pei Qi blinked: “Did… did I say something wrong?”

Guan Yue: “No.”

The man suddenly got up and walked to the coffee table in the living room, picked up a bright yellow orange, and began to peel it.