Chapter 8: All Are Clueless

Because of Zhou Xinyue, Xie Yunshu went back to her parental home. Within less than a day, the news had spread throughout the hospital’s family quarters.

Chen Xue was cracking sunflower seeds, standing in the courtyard chatting with someone: “Sister-in-law Li, do you think Xie Yunshu is sensible or not? She had a good life but just keeps messing around! Now she doesn’t even have a job, and she still doesn’t know how to properly curry favor with Doctor Lu. Just wait till she gets kicked out and regrets it!”

The young girl was still young, relying on her pretty face thinking she could easily control a man? Didn’t she see what kind of family Doctor Lu came from? What kind of handsome girls hadn’t he seen? Take Zhou Xinyue for example, she wasn’t bad-looking either, and that gentle, delicate appearance was exactly what men liked most!

Sister-in-law Li’s husband worked in the hospital logistics department. She had more contact with Xie Yunshu and had a good impression of the young girl. Hearing Chen Xue’s words, she couldn’t help but speak up: “This time it really was Doctor Lu’s fault. No matter what, how could you lock your own wife up in the psychiatric ward?”

There were some words she didn’t say. Many women in the family quarters blamed Xie Yunshu for being wrong, but if it were their own situation, they probably would have made even more of a fuss than Yunshu! No matter the reason, their own husband should be the first to stand by their side!

Chen Xue didn’t think so: “She hit Xinyue. Shouldn’t she be punished a bit?”

Sister-in-law Li shook her head and didn’t say more. Although the Lu family had once been helped by the Zhou family, and Zhou Xinyue seemed reasonable, gentle, and delicate on the surface, what woman would rely on another woman’s man for everything?

Sigh, all of them are clueless!

While they were talking, Zhou Xinyue rode her bike over. She was wearing a trendy wool coat and smiled when she saw the two: “Sister Chen, has Zhixing come back from work? I have something to talk to him about…”

After speaking, she glanced toward Lu Zhixing’s room, her eyes flickering: “Yunshu isn’t home either? Isn’t she not working now?”

Chen Xue spoke with a bit of schadenfreude: “Xinyue, you probably don’t know, Xie Yunshu packed up and went back to her parents yesterday! Tsk tsk, probably throwing a tantrum, wanting Doctor Lu to come and coax her back!”

“Ah? Yunshu went back to her parents? It must be because of me. That day she had a fight with Zhixing and even smashed the dishes!” Zhou Xinyue frowned anxiously and spoke self-reproachfully: “Zhixing really is something. I just took a slap and that’s it…”

Chen Xue couldn’t help but sigh: “Xinyue, you’re just too easy to be bullied! You think about others all the time, so people only take advantage of you!”

Zhou Xinyue looked a little sad and lowered her head: “If it weren’t for Xiao Wei, I would definitely leave Haicheng and not trouble Zhixing. But Xiao Wei is still so little…”

Tears welled up in her eyes. Chen Xue quickly comforted her: “Don’t take it to heart! I know that Xie Yunshu normally treats Doctor Lu like her own eyes, how could she bear to stay at her parents’ home for long? Don’t worry, she’ll sulk for a few days then sheepishly carry her baggage back!”

A woman without a job can’t rely on anything but a man, right? Could she possibly rely on her lonely, widowed parents?

Sister-in-law Li sighed quietly in her heart and turned to go back to her room without a word. Now that Zhou Xinyue had Doctor Lu Zhixing’s help to get into the hospital as an intern nurse, it wasn’t easy for her. But who in this large hospital compound couldn’t help her?

Why must she always find Doctor Lu Zhixing for everything? And that child Xiao Wei was so skinny, and Zhou Xinyue’s eyes were full of fear when looking at him, not like her own child at all.

Of course, this was just her own thoughts. If someone really cared, such obvious things wouldn’t be hard to see. Lu Zhixing was wholeheartedly grateful and even gave up on his own wife. If he was blind, who could wake him up?

As for Xie Yunshu, she was probably like Chen Xue said — unwilling to leave Doctor Lu. After all, in the year-plus of their marriage, everyone had seen how well Yunshu treated Doctor Lu.

In the hospital, Lu Zhixing just finished surgery. He had studied medicine abroad, and after returning to the country was assigned to Haicheng Hospital. He was the youngest and most skilled surgeon here. So he was very busy most of the time, sometimes doing surgery back-to-back and wouldn’t even go home for lunch.

His assistant Cheng Fan followed him, grinning and said: “Brother Lu, is your wife going to bring you lunch again today?”

Doctor Lu’s wife was famous in the hospital for cooking well. Xie Yunshu herself was busy with work but always rushed home at noon to cook and then bring the food to the hospital. She was afraid that when Lu Zhixing got busy, he’d forget to eat and hurt his stomach.

Sometimes he could even enjoy the benefits himself!

Lu Zhixing paused as he took off his mask and coldly said: “She won’t come today.”

“Ah, I was looking forward to eating wife’s shrimp tofu!”

Cheng Fan was disappointed. Seeing Lu Zhixing expressionless, he rolled his eyes: “Could it be she’s still mad about what happened a few days ago? Didn’t they clear things up? Besides, our hospital’s psychiatric ward isn’t bad…”

Although Lu Zhixing had people lock Xie Yunshu in the ward to calm down, he had instructed the nurses to put her in a single room deep inside, which was clean and warm. She wouldn’t suffer. But he hadn’t thought about the nurses’ good relationship with Zhou Xinyue, so to vent for Zhou Xinyue, they locked Xie Yunshu in a storage room on the seventh floor, which hadn’t been used for a long time…

Lu Zhixing took a deep breath, not wanting to discuss the topic: “She just lost her mind for a moment. A couple of days to calm down, and she’ll be fine.”

This was also why he hadn’t gone to Xie’s family to find Yunshu — because he didn’t want to hear the word “divorce” from her mouth again. It was all just a misunderstanding; arguing endlessly was meaningless.

Once she calmed down, she would come back.

As for Zhou Xinyue, she had already started working. After things stabilized, she wouldn’t interfere so much. Her salary card would be handed over to Xie Yunshu for safekeeping, so she wouldn’t worry herself thinking she was really involved with Zhou Xinyue.

By the time Lu Zhixing left the hospital, it was already 1 pm. He still hadn’t eaten and was a little hungry. Having Xie Yunshu bring him food before hadn’t been a big deal, but now alone, he didn’t know how to solve the problem of eating.

Zhou Xinyue came back after circling the family quarters and immediately approached him: “Zhixing, you haven’t eaten yet? Let’s go to the noodle shop at the gate and have some hand-pulled noodles. The taste is pretty good!”

Lu Zhixing rarely ate out. Before marriage, he just grabbed something in the cafeteria. But the hospital’s food wasn’t tasty. He had a sensitive stomach and couldn’t eat hard or cold food. So after marrying, Xie Yunshu forbade him to eat random things, always bringing him hot meals with porridge.

For more than a year, day after day, he didn’t know how she managed to keep this up.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhixing showed a faint smile: “I’ll go home and cook. I’m not used to eating outside.”

Zhou Xinyue pursed her lips: “But Yunshu isn’t home, cooking alone is so troublesome for you…”

“No problem, anyway, I have to eat,” Lu Zhixing glanced at her, “Xiao Wei went to kindergarten?”

The kindergarten was arranged by him, right opposite the hospital. The teachers there were nice, so Zhou Xinyue could focus on working and earning money. Xiao Wei often got sick, so Lu Zhixing used his connections to arrange Zhou Xinyue a job at the hospital, not because of any special feelings as rumors suggested.

He always thought Yunshu would understand him but hadn’t expected her to react so strongly.

When Zhou Xinyue mentioned Xiao Wei, a barely noticeable look of disgust flashed in her eyes, but her face showed a weak expression: “Thanks to your help, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do! When Xiao Wei was born, I was in poor health, and he suffered a lot too. That man always hit us…”

She shed a tear but quickly wiped it away and forced a smile: “Now it’s better. With you here, our children won’t suffer anymore, right, Zhixing?”

If it hadn’t been for Zhou’s father helping the Lu family back then, Lu Zhixing wouldn’t have had the chance to study abroad. Such a debt of gratitude, he couldn’t ignore. He sighed in his heart and thought Xiao Wei was pitiful: “Don’t worry, I will watch Xiao Wei grow up.”

With that promise, Zhou Xinyue looked a bit uneasy: “But Yunshu, she…”

Lu Zhixing’s expression softened: “She just doesn’t understand for the moment. I’ll explain it well to her.”