Maybe the chest pain woke her.

She suddenly stood up.

Qu Xiaobo was startled by her sudden movement.

She asked, "What's wrong?"

"I need to go to my bedroom for a while. I'll come back in a second."

Gu Baisheng quickly walked to her bedroom and found her resume. She then turned on the computer and sent her resume to the Second Hospital's hiring email address.

After she finished that, she walked out of the bedroom.

Qu Xiaobo already ate half of her cake.

Seeing Gu Baisheng walking out, she said, "Come over and eat the cake. It's so delicious. Qianhe Bakery's skill has improved again."

Gu Baisheng smiled and walked over to have the cake with her.

...

After Song Shuang finished the last step of sewing up, he gave the rest of the work to his assistant on the side.

He relaxed down and left the operation room.

There was a layer of sweat on his forehead.

When he relaxed after 10 hours of intensive work, his body felt even more exhausted.

When he entered the changing room, he slid on the ground leaning on the wardrobe.

When he closed his eyes, the body of the patient in his mind overlapped with Gu Baisheng's body that was dug out from the ruins of the earthquake.

She was holding a mobile phone in her already stiffed hand.

The phone was smashed.

But from the SIM card and later repairment, he got two messages that she tried to send last minute before she died.

One was for Hu Hui.

The other was for Cheng Bi.

She didn't forgive her before death.

She didn't leave him a single word or respond to him.

He was so close to Hancheng.

He was just one step away from seeing her.

Yet she was dead. She was buried under such heavy ruins.

When she was dug out, she changed completely.

She was so cold, so distant, and so strange.

Song Shuang looked down and breathed quietly.

Suddenly, he heard a notification for a text message coming from the wardrobe.

He opened his eyes and took out his phone from the wardrobe.

A message Bai Shengsheng sent was showing on the screen. She asked him curtly, "Why are you still not home?"

Lights passed through in Song Shuang's eyes.

But they disappeared quickly.

When he took off the surgical gown and left the hospital, he heard the sound of thunder.

The weather was abnormal. In cold winter, there was a thunderstorm in Beicheng.

It was not in spring. Why would the weather be so unusual?

When Song Shuang was waiting for the red light, he lowered the window of the car. The rain drifted in from just outside the car window.

He reached out his hand. The rain landed on his palm and wetted his fingers and palm.

He suddenly remembered there was no umbrella in the car.

But it was fine. He could drive to the underground garage and go home from the elevator directly. It would be fine to go without an umbrella.

The green light lit up.

Song Shuang stepped on the accelerator. The car went on in the rain and heavy traffic.

When he arrived, it was already 11 o'clock at night.

When he passed the doorman, he saw a person wearing a white down coat and holding an umbrella looking at him by the road.

Song Shuang glanced at the person and didn't pay much attention.

But when he drove off a couple of meters, he suddenly slowed down and backed up to that person in white.

He lowered the window and asked her annoyingly, "Are you mad? Why are you out so late?"

"You didn't come home, so I came to the gate to wait for you. What a coincidence. You're back."

For a moment, Song Shuang was speechless because of her stupidity.

He could only talk to her coldly, "Get in."

Gu Baisheng got in the car and folded the umbrella. Her shoulders were wet because of the rain.

Song Shuang glanced at her shoulders and didn't say anything.

He felt a bit agitated.

Gu Baisheng didn't say anything. She went on the elevator with him after he drove the car to the underground garage. Because it was awkward that they didn't say anything in the elevator, Gu Baisheng asked him, "Did you have dinner?"

"Not yet."

Gu Baisheng immediately said, "I left you dinner."

Song Shuang fell silent for a while and then said, "Thank you."

Gu Baisheng was surprised.

She thought Song Shuang would at most nod. He could even just keep silent.

She didn't expect Song Shuang to thank her.

"It was quite sunny in the morning, but I don't know why it went cloudy in the afternoon. There's even a thunderstorm. That's so strange. It's winter."

Gu Baisheng tried to find something to say.

Song Shuang only responded to her once and ignored her.

She felt boring talking alone. When they entered the apartment, she warmed the pumpkin soup and two other dishes she made for dinner and decided to go to bed.

Because there was a bathroom in the main bedroom.

She usually wouldn't come out after she showered.

Today after Qu Xiaobo told her how Song Shuang stayed in Hancheng for two days after she died, she didn't know why, yet she really wanted to see Song Shuang.

She thought for a while and came back out. Yet Song Shuang already finished eating and went back to the room.

Gu Baisheng hesitated for a while. She pushed the door of the second bedroom that Song Shuang lived in.

The door was unlocked.

She easily pushed it open. When she walked in, she didn't see Song Shuang. So, she walked to his bedside curiously and wanted to see whether there was a photo album in the drawer next to the bed.

She gently pulled the drawer.

She then heard noise from the door, and Song Shuang walked in. He saw her hand on the drawer. He frowned and looked cold, "What are you doing?"

Gu Baisheng then realized Song Shuang had been taking a shower in the bathroom.

He just finished it and came out.

She was caught going over his drawer.

In the heat of the moment, she couldn't say she wanted to look at the album.

She was hot-headed and improvised, "Oh, I wanted to see if you have any medicine in your drawer."

"Medicine? What medicine?"

Song Shuang stared at her with a weird look.

Gu Baisheng thought it was too late to fake a cold. She remembered the accident on Christmas Eve, so she answered, "Birth control pills."

Song Shuang started at her, "You came into my room to find morning-after pills?"

Gu Baisheng thought her improvise was a bit poor, but she couldn't tell the truth. She could only continue.

"You didn't use any protection. What if I'm pregnant? Of course, I need to find some pills."

"It has already been more than 72 hours. It's too late."

Gu Baisheng didn't know what to say.

She forgot about that.

Song Shuang disliked her, "You studied medicine. Don't you have any basic knowledge?"

Gu Baisheng was infuriated. She didn't like being scolded, so she went ahead regardless and rebutted, "Not for now. I'm preparing for the next time."

"Next time?" Song Shuang squinted at her.

Gu Baisheng just realized how shameless what she just said was.

She was hinting Song Shuang there could be the next time.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Song Shuang asked her.

Gu Baisheng blushed.

She didn't know where to put her fingers. She turned around and wanted to escape.

Song Shuang quickly stopped her, "Honestly, what are you doing in my room?"

"I..."

Gu Baisheng didn't know how to patch up this lie.

"Tell me the truth."

Seeing her still hesitating, Song Shuang said with an emphasis.

Gu Baisheng had to tell him the truth, "I wanted to see you."

Song Shuang fell silent this time.

Gu Baisheng looked up at him, "Nothing else."

"Why did you pull my drawer?" His voice softened.

Gu Baisheng didn't understand why Song Shuang would hang on to her move.

But she couldn't tell him about the album, so she had to continue patching up her lie, "Your work is so intense, and you drank a lot of cold beer. I was afraid that you might have a stomachache at night, so I wanted to see whether you have any medicine."

Hearing herself, Gu Baisheng felt she was a virtuous wife.

Yet Song Shuang glanced at her and broke her lie, "You're lying."

Gu Baisheng was speechless.

Gu Baisheng didn't know what she should say to get away from Song Shuang's sharp eyes.

She took a breath and rubbed her temple.

He was so hard to deal with.

What should she do?

Gu Baisheng couldn't think of anything.

Song Shuang looked at her, "You can't go to sleep unless you tell me the truth."

Gu Baisheng's mouth twitched.

He really insisted on the answer.

Gu Baisheng rubbed her temple and kept thinking. Then she took a deep breath and looked up at him, "I wanted to see if you have any contraceptive. If you do, I want to sleep with you."

Song Shuang's eyes darkened, "You..."

"I didn't lie." Gu Baisheng preempted this time and interrupted Song Shuang before he could call her lying.

She knew Song Shuang so well. He was very conservative in regard to relationships.

Besides, if a woman filtered with him, no matter how seductive she was, she wouldn't succeed.

When their marriagewas going through a rocky patch, in those two years, various women tried to flirt with Song Shuang.

Countless of them tried to throw themselves at him.

But none succeeded.

So today, after she said something so shamelessly and tried to offer herself to Song Shuang,

Song Shuang would probably just kick her out as she had no self-respect.

Indeed, after Song Shuang heard what she said, he fell silent.

Gu Baisheng waited for Song Shuang to get angry and ask her to get lost.

But she waited for a while. Song Shuang didn't make any sound.

While she was wondering, Song Shuang suddenly said, "Did you go out to buy cakes today?"

"No, Qu Xiaobo came over in the morning. She brought cakes."

Song Shuang looked down and nodded.

Then he put down his arm that was blocking her way.

Gu Baisheng thought this meant he was letting her go.

So, she was relieved and walked out.

But just when she was about to leave the room, Song Shuang suddenly grabbed her arm.

"What?"

She was dazed. She didn't understand why Song Shuang grabbed her when everything seemed fine.

Song Shuang looked up with his black eyes and stared at her. His handsome face was facing her, "Aren't you going to sleep with me?"

Gu Baisheng was speechless.