Chapter 197: The one who protects has become someone else

Xie Qingcheng's face was taut, his back straight, and he didn't feel any inferiority or retreat because of the other party's obvious malicious sarcasm.

He was quiet for a moment, and word for word Anthony's real name: "...... Thank you, Departure, Deep."

"......" The name that had been a long time removed from his life caught his ear, and Anthony smiled, "I don't like that, cousin, please call me Anthony instead. I don't like it, cousin, please call me Anthony."

Xie Qingcheng suppressed the fire in his heart and looked at Anthony with downcast eyes - the two of them were obviously about the same height, but Xie Qingcheng stood in front of him, there was a sense of oppression looking down on Anthony, even though he was blind, old and decrepit, this feeling had not faded away. Even though he was blind, old and decrepit, this feeling had not faded.

He glanced at He Yu, then turned his attention to Anthony again.

Putting it bluntly, "You're the one who's been treating him?"

"Yeah."

"...... I need to talk to you."

Anthony was quiet for a couple of seconds, and smiled, "Ay, cousin, why you're still the same, and can't talk to anybody without being polite."

Saying so, he turned to He Yu, "Then Mr. He, I'll go talk to him for a while?"

He Yu meets his eyes for a few seconds, unblinking, his lips moving lightly as he stares into Anthony's eyes, "...... It's fine. But we have things to do later, so control your time."

Anthony said gently, "Good, don't worry."

And then said to Xie Qingcheng, "Cousin, please."

He Yu looked at their backs, frowning slightly.

There is a 24-hour cafe right outside the summit venue.

The cousins took a seat in a corner with very good privacy.

"What can I get you to drink? A latte? An espresso?" Anthony's long fingers fiddled with the list, "But you're so old-school, you might want to order a pot of tea. How about a pot of Phoenix Fir?"

"Whatever."

Anthony ordered a pot of tea and a caramel macchiato, then folded his fingers on the table and looked at Xie Qingcheng with a smile on his face, "You're already like this, why don't you know how to change your tone of voice?"

Xie Qingcheng: "I speak in whatever accent."

Anthony narrowed his eyes and leaned forward slightly, "It's this ...... uncomfortable accent that makes people ...... uncomfortable."

"That's the way I talk, so bear with yourself if you're not used to hearing it."

Anthony leaned back and lowered his lashes, a smile rippling across his face more pronounced.

"We haven't met in so many years, and for you to talk like that as soon as you see me just makes me very sad."

Xie Qingcheng did not bullshit him that much, "Xie Lishen, you're working for Duan Wen? All these years, you've been in full charge of He Yu as his personal physician?"

"The previous question is just too mean and sharp, I could go to jail if I don't answer it well. You, cousin, are a little too ruthless." Anthony leaned his elbows on the back of the chair behind him and looked at him with a self-satisfied expression, "I am just a doctor, apart from treating the sick and saving people, I don't participate in anything else and I don't know anything else. I've never done a single thing to hurt the world or break the law."

Anthony said, sweeping his eyes over Xie Qingcheng's cell phone on the table.

His answer was watertight, and even if Xie Qingcheng was on the phone with someone at the police station at the moment, he could make sure that he wouldn't be recorded for any evidence he could use.

Coffee and tea were brought in.

Anthony took a sip and smiled lightly, "As for your second question cousin. Yeah, as I said earlier, I'm He Yu's personal doctor ...... Actually, I was four years ago, when he was still with you, and you never knew?"

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

"Oh, that's not true." Anthony laughed again, "I seldom show my face in front of people, and the name I use is no longer the name I used at the beginning, He Yu didn't know my identity at that time, so naturally, he wouldn't tell you about it. Moreover, he was so obsessed with you at that time that he didn't even want to mention to you that his family had found him another personal doctor, so it's normal that you don't know about it."

Xie Qingcheng looked gloomy, his eyes piercing Anthony through his silver-rimmed glasses, "Xie Lishen, what do you want?"

"Call me Anthony, cousin." He said, "I told you, I prefer Anthony."

"Whether you like it or not has nothing to do with me." Xie Qingcheng coldly said.

Anthony quieted for a moment, "...... Cousin, this mouth of yours ah ...... is owed, you have been reduced to this today, but still look like a proud and unclimbable. A gentleman can bend and stretch, a smart person like you, how come this point of reasoning took thirty years for you not to learn and understand?"

Xie Qingcheng : "It's not your turn to teach me what I want. Xie Lishen."

Anthony slowly stopped smiling, his peach blossom eyes became deep as he looked at Xie Qingcheng: "Do you have to insist on calling me by that name?"

"Aye. I'm afraid you'll always look the same to me as you did back then."

Anthony, this time, even the last vestiges of a false smile at the corners of his lips had faded.

He lowered his voice and moved across the table to get as close as possible to Xie Qingcheng's face, the malice that suddenly erupted from his eyes was enough to send shivers down anyone's spine, except for Xie Qingcheng.

"Xie Qingcheng, you know what?" He said quietly, "You are so annoying and deserve to be mixed up in this lonely look now. No wonder your ex-wife betrayed you and your ex-boyfriend hates you. You're an animal, only someone like Xie Xue with no temper could put up with you for thirty years."

Xie Qingcheng took all of his curses without a ripple.

He knows very well how problematic his character is, so there's no need for Xie Lishen to puncture him here.

He just stared at Anthony and asked, "Why did you approach He Yu."

"You're not bullshitting me." Anthony snorted, his body pulled back again, leaning back in the seat, he fished out a carton of cigarettes, the same brand as Xie Qingcheng, the cigarette was in his mouth, he clicked it to light the fire, "I'm a doctor, he's a patient, I'm treating him. Take your place. Just that simple."

"......"

"You can't say you quit your job and not allow him to find another, better doctor."

Xie Qingcheng: "Where did you learn medicine."

"Abroad." Anthony said, "I don't have to show you my license to practice medicine do I? He Yu is satisfied. He's my employer, you're not."

Xie Qingcheng is very clear about the character of Xie Lishen, he did not stare at him coldly.

"Healing him is not your purpose. You can hide it from others, but not from me."

"Ha, you half blind blind man, see things clearly." Anthony mockingly spread his hands and laughed, "Yeah, it's true that curing him is not my purpose, but my purpose is also very simple ...... I didn't break the law on the one hand, and I didn't do any harm on the other, and I even accompanied him through his most difficult two years in Australia, so that he could come out of his madness and grief. And in the process, he and I, the two of us ......"

Like a snake poking its head out of a cavern, silkily spitting out swimming letters.

Anthony's eyes were unblinking, his gaze locked on Xie Qingcheng, refusing to miss any inch of expression on Xie Qingcheng's face, and then he suddenly revealed his fangs to bite hard and stab--

"In bed."

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

"I fell in love with him and found him interesting, can't I?" Anthony stared at Xie Qingcheng and said, "I initially only treated him and solved some psychological problems for him because I was hired to do so. As a result, I found that he is very good, good looking and handsome, treats people with infatuation, even you are such an animal, he can hurt himself to that extent for you ...... Where else can there be such a good lover these days."

Xie Qingcheng looked at him woodenly.

Xie Lishen approaches He Yu for any of the thousand and one reasons he can think of.

But Xie Lishen told of the one that caught him most off guard.

Anthony scrutinized the halo in Xie Qingcheng's eyes, the emotions in them made the hatred and joy within him swell indefinitely, Anthony continued, "You know, after the shipwreck, he was badly injured, and the excitement in his heart was even greater. When I met him at the private hospital in Australia, he was almost completely insane."

"I spent a long time taking care of him and gave no less patience than you did back then. ...... No, to be precise, I gave much more than you did then." Anthony said, "You know what it's like when a mental Ai Bola patient gets out of control, we give him medication, we do hypnosis, we do sedation ...... all of that only lasts for a moment, he needs some comfort that can really be poured into his heart. The hole you have touched in his heart, he needs something else, or another person to fix it for him."

"I must admit that he was very, very fond of you at that time, even if you hurt him for the sake of justice, he was in the middle of the muddle, thinking of people or you. I looked and felt sorry for him, very heartbroken ...... I told him that I would always be by his side, and I soothed him over and over and over again, relentlessly ...... Then there was one time when he had an attack, probably because I looked a bit like you ...... He got the wrong person."

Anthony looked frankly at Xie Qingcheng and said, "I didn't care if we had sex, I was already quite fond of him, so we did what you would have done before."

As he spoke, he looked like he was caught up in a wild and wonderful memory, with a thought-provoking look on his face, "Actually, I was quite curious before as to why a straight man like you, with such a curmudgeonly personality, was able to break his own boundaries and get together with such a young boy... ..."

"But after spending an unforgettable day with him in the hospital room, well ...... it became clear to me ...... that you were truly born in a blessed place, Xie Qingcheng, the He Yu that you missed out on, he's just too too perfect to be a lover."

"We've been doing that almost every night for the past two years, and it's a form of therapy I give him I guess, and it makes me feel happy that he can relax in that relationship. So actually we're not just in a doctor-patient relationship now, I'm seeing him too - that should reassure you when it's laid out in the open like that, shouldn't it?" Anthony smiled, "I wouldn't hurt my boyfriend, even if I were cruel. Besides, we're very much in love right now."

"......"

"I have you to thank for that, cousin. If you hadn't been so ungrateful and broken his heart so completely, he would have never been able to love anyone else in his life." Anthony said, taking a sip of her coffee, her snow-white fingers cupping the ear of her cup, "I really have you to thank for being so thin-skinned now that I have such a perfect man."

Xie Qingcheng's icy fingers reached forward to touch the cup with the hot tea.

The heat of the tea came through the cup and spread into his palm.

"...... Xie Lishen, I have no interest in listening to your private life." Thin, cold and bloodless lips opened and closed, Xie Qingcheng's head ached, but he still held his composure and spoke to Anthony as he did, "But I'm warning you, he's a sick man, not an object to be toyed with by you and used to get back at me. Do you realize how unethical you are being?"

"What are you talking about, cousin." Anthony laughed gracefully, "I have no virtue? Who was the first person to hang out with this patient? Was it me? How low you were with him, crying and begging him to hold you like a shameless woman, he's staked me on it, and do you have the nerve to lecture me?"

Xie Qingcheng gritted his teeth slightly and finally revealed some ugly expression, as if he had been stabbed head-on.

"Besides, you're not me, so who are you to say I'm playing around with him." Anthony 施施然道, "Cousin, I'm playing with my heart for him."

Xie Qingcheng looked at him morosely, "Sincerely?"

"Yeah."

"I haven't met any man who has moved his heart to spread his private life in detail in front of outsiders. You have no respect for him, Xie Lishen."

"...... You don't make me laugh, cousin. What a time to be telling these things." Anthony said, "Or is it you who are not willing to listen?"

"......"

"It's hard on your heart, cousin. That feeling of having something of your own taken away from you and never getting it back. You're all blue in the face, and you're so sick, and you're so angry, so beware you won't live long."

Xie Qingcheng said clearly, "The length of my life has nothing to do with you, so don't worry about it. But listen to me clearly, Xie Lishen, if you're working for Duan Wen, if you're using He Yu, I'll make you pay - I'll do what I say."

Anthony was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth: "Xie Qingcheng, you really have an ego disease. How capable do you think you are? You are now a dying dragon, not to mention the clouds and the sky, even the strength to raise your hand is no longer there. You want to make me pay? How ridiculous."

Xie Qingcheng seemed to have a layer of frost condensed even on his eyelashes, "You can try it and see if I can do it."

"...... "Perhaps his gaze was too cold and steady, Anthony gradually became a bit uncertain. He stared at Xie Qingcheng's face, and after a few seconds, his face, which seemed to be wearing an elegant mask, seemed to have suddenly cracked open an invisible gap, and what surged inside was an undisguised hatred for Xie Qingcheng - hatred from many, many years ago.

He leaned over unexpectedly and forced himself to look at Xie Qingcheng, his voice suppressed to an extremely low level, the light in his eyes laden with viciousness and hatred.

"You're a cripple, where did you get such self-confidence ...... you're just ridiculous, Xie Qingcheng, you're just as disgusting as your pretentious parents, just as ...... unknowing! !"

Xie Qingcheng looked at him coldly.

His gaze irritated Anthony even more, and the words he spat out became the most vicious abuse and curses: "Your parents died in their self-righteousness, and if it weren't for the fact that they always claimed to be good, claimed to be righteous, and acted as if they were the givers of charity, they wouldn't have gotten into Wei Rong's case back then. ...... And the result? Dead, knocked into two puddles of mud! Haha, you're really worthy of being something born from those two bitches, so you deserve it-"

Anthony's gradual loss of control was cut short by a vicious slap from Xie Qingcheng.

Xie Qingcheng got up and threw the tea in his cup in Anthony's face.

"You--!"

"This is what you deserve." Xie Qingcheng had a gloomy expression and looked condescendingly at Anthony, "The biggest mistake my parents did in their lives was to take in a sinful child like you in the first place."

The people in the café had sensed the commotion here and were looking back at them.

Xie Qingcheng ignored the gazes of everyone around him and said to Anthony word by word, "Xie Lishen, listen to me carefully, no matter what name you change or what country you go to, you can't change this fact - you are a sinful child, you have the the right to choose to be a decent human being, but you chose the same path as your mom."

Anthony stood up with a huff, the elegant mask on his face had completely shattered, his eyes were filled with anger, even his voice changed tone slightly, "What did you say? How dare you talk to me like that, you-"

"What am I afraid of. Is it because I'm blind? Or is it because I'm old?" Xie Qingcheng said, "Let me tell you, Xie Lishen, the last time I saw you I called you an animal, and I can still call you an animal now. More than twenty years have passed, and you haven't grown at all."

The words were like a blow that knocked the last shreds of Anthony's mask off.

Anthony's previous calmness disappeared, and he lunged forward to punch Xie Qingcheng. But Xie Qingcheng was far superior to him in terms of fighting skills, he avoided it, clutched Xie Lishen's hand, coughed lightly, and twisted Anthony's arm until it was dislocated.

"......" Anthony's face was loose and white, and a bean-sized cold sweat dripped down his face.

But just then, a hand reached from behind Xie Qingcheng, holding Xie Qingcheng's wrist, and stiffly moving Xie Qingcheng's hand away.

"Sorry, Mr. Shea."

Xie Qingcheng turned his head back, and what he saw was He Yu's face.

He Yu looked at him calmly, holding his lettered hand unloosened, and said, "But I don't want you to make a move on my personal physician."

"......"

Xie Qingcheng was actually fully capable of attacking again, but when he saw He Yu's familiar yet unfamiliar face, the strength in his heart seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

He suddenly became ten thousand times more tired.

He Yu's fingertips lightly rubbed against Xie Qingcheng's wrist text seemingly unintentionally, then released him without moving.

"......"

"Thank you for rewarding me for this, Mr. Shea."

Xie Qingcheng straightened his sleeves without a word, and no one could tell what kind of mood he was in at the moment.

A few moments later, he straightened out his sleeves, drew a few bills from the money clip he had with him, threw them on the table, and with a wooden expression staggered past He Yu, leaving the place without looking back.

Never looked at them even once again.