Vacancy

Hospital

Ruan Tang said she would wipe her daughter's body, so Zhou Chengsen closed the ward door and walked out.

As his daughter gradually grew older, it was no longer as convenient for a man like him to care for her, so he could only leave it to Ruan Tang.

Zhou Chengsen walked to the emergency stairwell and stood before the window. He took out a cigarette, bit down on the end, lit it, took a drag, and exhaled.

Amid the drifting smoke, he looked through the branches of the white magnolia at the crescent moon hanging in the sky, his thoughts as hazy and ethereal as the night.

When he came back to himself, the cigarette in his hand had burned away, and he had no idea which direction the night wind had carried the ash.

Clamping the cigarette butt between his fingers, Zhou Chengsen left the stairwell and went to the bathroom to throw it away.

When he returned to the ward, Ruan Tang was hanging up the clothes Zhou Ying had changed out of.

Seeing this, Zhou Chengsen hurriedly said, "I'll wash the clothes."

"It's fine. I was doing it anyway." Ruan Tang hung up the last item.

Just now, she had helped Zhou Ying change into a clean hospital gown, wiped her body, and massaged her acupoints. Zhou Ying had quickly fallen asleep.

After Zhou Ying fell asleep, she had washed the clothes while she was at it, thinking that Zhou Ying would have clothes to wear when she was discharged.

Zhou Chengsen had no choice but to walk over and carry the basin back to the bathroom.

Ruan Tang caught a faint whiff of cigarette smoke and said, "Smoking is bad for your health, and secondhand smoke isn't good for Yingying's wound healing either."

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