The Uncharted Husband and His Wife

Crouching down, she crawled her way past the receptionist desk so the nurses on night shift couldn't catch her. Once she was out on the clear, she stood up and ran for the stairs heading up. Climbing the stairs one by one, she reached the top and turned back to look at the staircase grudgingly. Shaking her legs out she cursed, "It's a hospital why were there so many steps?"

Returning to her goal, she went on in the semi-lit passageway looking for room B201 in ward B. Finding the room, she made sure that no one was around and turned the doorknob and walked in. The room was semi-lit as well with only the lamp on the nightstand shining.

She turned to the viewing window after closing the door and pulled the strings of the blinds to close them. She ran her fingers down the blinds then smiled, turning her attention to the handsome man lying on the bed asleep, she kicked off her slippers and walked towards the bed.

She switched the light on above his head. His nose scrunched at the invasion of the light but continued to sleep. She sat down on his bed beside him and leaned over to gaze at his handsomely sleeping self properly.

Lifting her finger, she traced his features with a smile. 'You really are handsome' she thought as she looked at him dearly. She found his features fascinating even though it was her second time seeing him and the last time she saw him was when he came in with an ambulance unconscious.

Smiling as a bad thought came to her mind, she grabbed a few of her hairs that hung loosely between her fingers and brought it to his nose. She tickled the mole on his nose with it and giggled when he scratched his nose and groaned in his sleep.

The man asleep on the bed was already a light sleeper but with the drugs, they injected him with made him sleep soundly but now, the sudden itchiness that kept bothering him annoyed him awake to see what it was.

Opening his heavy eyes lids he came face to face with someone who was smiling seconds before but pulled back and was covering her mouth as if she was stealing something and was caught red-handed.

He quickly sat up on the bed and pulled himself against the headboard. He looked at her and she stared back at him. Her eyes kept widening and when it couldn't any longer, she burst out in laughter. She laughed so hard that her stomach started cramping.

She fell off the bed and held her stomach. The young woman sat up and stopped laughing, looking at her feet covered in white socks with yellow pigs on it. The man on the bed looked at the girl on the floor and pulled the covers up.

He wanted to call for the nurses but saw that the button that was clasped to his finger wasn't where it should be. Looking at her he became furious, "Who are you and what do you want?" He asked in a raspy voice still filled with sleep.

She looked up at him and grinned, climbing on the bed she stared at him, "You have a different expression on your face today," she said making his frown deepen. "I asked you who you are!" he repeated in a commanding tone.

She looked at him puzzled then smiled. Shaking her head she teased him, "That won't work on me!"

The man glared at her wishing so badly to kick her off the bed but he couldn't use his legs. He remained silent after thinking about his legs and felt lost yet again. The girl saw his face changed and recalled what the nurses who gossiped about him said.

Her eyes quickly darted around the room and stopped on him. She moved closer to him and he didn't realise it, grabbing his cheeks she pinched them. He winced from the pain. His eyes shot to her, furiously he asked with a glare, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?"

She pulled her hands away frightened. Her eyes began to water as she looked at him, "Since when have you been so rude? Did you lose all your brains after falling asleep or did they brainwash you?" The man looked at this crazy woman, "What nonsense are you spouting now? And who are you?!" he demanded to know. How dare she act so intimate with him?!

She wiped her tears away and buried her head in his lap where his member was situated. The man's body froze as she dropped her head down where she shouldn't, he grabbed her silky blackish-brown hair in his hands. Trying his best to push her away with flushed cheeks he struggled, "What... What... What are you... you doing? Get away!"

She mumbled something inaudible making him stop, he raised her head that dangled as it was held by her hair, "What did you say?" She looked into his eyes with tears rolling down her face, "How can you treat me this way when I love you so much?"

"Huh?" he thought baffled by her words. He could swear that he didn't know who she was since he arrived two days ago in the hospital and she wasn't anyone he knew outside of the hospital, was she some fan of his? He let go of her hair deciding to ignore her. Seeing that she was released, she climbed onto his bed and rested her head against his stomach where she could feel ripped abs and a strong physique.

The man looked at her confused, what in the world is happening. He wanted to tell her to get the hell out but he had no desire to speak and wanted to pretend that she was non-existent, he had other thoughts running through his mind, and she was of no significance right now. He sat up on the bed and gazed down at her back absent-mindedly.

Her back was open since she wore a patients robe. He could see that she wasn't wearing a bra and the robe fell to its sides opening her back for him to get a good view of it. Her back seemed to be perfect at a glance but upon closer inspection, he saw that she had many scars on it and it looked like it hurt.

His eyes trailed further down her back to her bottom noting that it was round slightly laying flat. She moved her left leg to make herself lay more comfortably on him and her butt jiggled. He swallowed as a shuddering thought went through his mind but the moment it disappeared he became depressed.

No matter how much he tried to get over everything, he was rendered useless.

As his mind was dawdling on his past and present a melodious voice sounded through the room, "If you're not the one for me, then I'll come, I can bring you to your knees.

And if you're not the one for me, why do I hate the idea of being free.

And if I'm not the one for you, you better stop holding me the way you do.

Honey if I'm not the one for you, why have we been through what we have been through.

It's so cold oo out here, in your wilderness, I want you oo to be my keeper but not if you are so reckless.

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

Oh ooo o oh ooo o ooo o

Say that I love aint water under the bridge

And what are you waiting for

You never seem to make it through the door

And who are you hiding from?

It aint no life to live like you're on the run

Have I ever asked for much?

The only thing that I want is your love

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

Oh ooo o oh ooo o ooo o

Say that I love aint water under the bridge

It's so cold oo out here, in your wilderness, I want you oo to be my keeper but not if you are so reckless.

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

If you're gonna let me down, let me down gently

Don't pretend that you don't want me

I love aint water under the bridge

Oh ooo o oh ooo o ooo o

Say that I love aint water under the bridge

Oh ooo o oh ooo o ooo o

Say that I love aint water under the bridge"

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He felt her climb off him when she finish sang but she climbed into the sheets beside him, wrapping her arms around him she closed her eyes. His eyes opened, after a moment of hesitation he asked her, "What is your name?"

He felt her smile against him through his shirt as she questioned him, "How could you forget the name of your girlfriend, did you really lose your memory Ah-Rui?" He frowned, how does she know my name? I for sure didn't lose my memories. He raised his arm and looked at her from underneath it.

She smiled at him then pulled his arm to rest around her waist, she moved closer to him and said, "Switch off the lights honey, it's time to sleep."

"You switched them on didn't you?" he groaned.

"Mn, and it's your job as the husband to finish his wife's job," she yawned with droopy eyes. Yuan Rui regarded her with a glance then reached up ahead of him and turned off the lamp above his head and covered them properly with the blanket.

Ten minutes passed and she was still here. Is she really not leaving? He wondered. Who are you and why are you disturbing my sleep with this nonsense? You're lucky I don't have the energy to deal with you.

Narrowing his eyes, he reached for the drawer and pulled it open without moving much, pulling out his phone, he tapped the screen and switched the camera on and took a photo of her silently. Viewing the picture he took, sighing he went out and took another of the two of them together.

In the picture he took of them, he noticed that her hair was long in it. Moving his eyes over to her sleeping figure in his arms, he couldn't see it clearly. Placing the phone down on the blanket, he pulled her hair from under the blanket and rested it across him, covering her face.

She felt him run his fingers through her hair gently. Opening her eyes she smiled then closed them again, 'I wonder what expression is he making', she thought. Yuan Rui entangled his fingers in her hair until he became drowsy and closed his eyes. Low snores danced in the room as they slept.

*

"Morning Mr Zhao, it's time for breakfast," a nurse interrupted his sleep. She stood by his bedside looking down at him with a smile.

Yuan Rui opened his eyes then rubbed the sleep out. He got up scrunching his nose and sneezed, the woman's perfume was burning his nose. He glared at her, "Did you take a bath in perfume?'' he asked her in disgust.

The young nurse looked at him in shock, "N-no," she stuttered embarrassed. She stepped back and looked away from him.

Yuan Rui ignored her and looked at the food that was prepared for him. Pulling the tray and table closer to him, he started eating, seconds later his eyes widened in realization and he looked for the woman who was in his room last night.

His head snapped in the direction of the nurse. She looked at his cold expression as his voice boomed out, "Where is the girl that was in my room last night?"

"Girl? What girl?" she asked him confused. Yuan Rui stared at her blankly as he thought about it. "Get out!" he commanded. She jumped at his yell and stumbled out of the room.

Yuan Rui reached for his phone and went through his images. He sighed in relief when he saw the two pictures he took of her last night, so I wasn't hallucinating? But when did she leave?

8 AM arrived and in walked his best friend with a get-well basket. He grinned as he looked at his friend happily but inside he was overwhelmingly worried for his friend and just wanted him to get well.

Yuan Rui looked at Huang Yunshen and felt all his energy leave, he didn't want to see anyone he knew. "How are you feeling today?" he asked Yuan Rui.

"Fine," he answered with no emotion.

Huang Yunshen wasn't sure what happened to him. He was well and all four days ago but he relapsed and tried to kill himself. Yuan Rui was looking out of the window at the birds' nest on the tree, the mother bird was sitting on her eggs keeping them warm.

His mind trailed off to last night at the odd meeting between him and his so-called wife. His body slumped slightly thinking about her, he was wondering where she was and when she left when he suddenly was pulled out of his thoughts by Huang Yunshen.

Huang Yunshen saw that Yuan Rui's mind was somewhere else and suddenly became depressed and his body slump. He started shaking Yuan Rui, "Come now Rui, please don't become depressed all of a sudden, everything will be okay, look, I'm here and Jiang Hui Yin will be here soon so please be careful," he begged.

Hearing Huang Yunshen mention Jiang Hui Yin's name his body stiffened. Yuan Rui shrugged Huang Yunshen off from him but before he could tell him to let him be, Jiang Hui Yin walked into the room. Her eyes landed on him and immediately she became teary-eyed.

She ran up to him pushing Huang Yunshen aside and hugged Yuan Rui, "Ah-Rui, my poor Ah-Rui," she cried.

'This bitch!' He thought. He looked at Huang Yunshen mentally asking his best friend to get her off him but Huang Yunshen wasn't telepathic and looked on hoping for the best. Yuan Rui sighed as he didn't have the energy to deal with her right now especially after what he had overheard her say before he tried to kill himself.

His mind wandered and as he was becoming depressed he saw hope in the one standing behind Huang Yunshen. His eyes lit up for some reason. She was here again so it wasn't his imagination but she was looking at Jiang Hui Yin holding onto him.

She had an unreadable expression and although he wanted to call her he didn't know her name and to call her wife out of the blue with these two here, he couldn't. Her eyes trailed over to him and she smiled slightly.

Turning around she left the room just like that, appearing unannounced and leaving just like that.

Yuan Rui was in the middle of his rehabilitation when the door opened silently. He didn't notice her enter neither did Huang Yunshen nor did Doctor Liu notice her enter. She sat down on his wheelchair and watched Yuan Rui try to move his legs with great difficulty. Sweat beads were running down his chest and forehead and his hair was soaked.

The grey shirt he was wearing was soaked as well. He continued his rehabilitation with the Doctor while Huang Yunshen sat closer to him keeping a close eye on him in case there was an accident.

"Alright young master Zhao, that's it for today," Doctor Liu said and helped him to the bench along with Huang Yunshen. He was handed a bottle of water and drank half of it. He wiped down the sweat and after resting he asked, "Doctor Liu, can you help me go through the exercises again please?"

Doctor Liu looked at him with a gentle smile, "You will strain yourself if you go through the exercises again young master Zhao. You know that we can only do it once a week and since you haven't been here for the past three months, doing it again will hurt you instead of make things better."

Yuan Rui protested, "I know but I want to get better soon."

"Listen to the doctor," came from behind them all. Huang Yunshen stood up in fright and so did the doctor. They saw a woman sitting in Yuan Rui's wheelchair with her legs swinging over the right armrest. She had her eyes set on the handsome sweaty man.

She smiled at him and waved, "Yo!" she greeted him. Yuan Rui's mouth twitched, "You're here?" He was unknowingly happy inside and felt relieved but why would he show it? He had been worrying about her the whole morning and just like before, she appeared unannounced.

Huang Yunshen looked between his friend and the attractive woman, "Buddy? You know her?" he asked confused since it was the first time he saw this woman. "Oh, her?" he asked as he continued to wipe away his sweat.

She pursed her lips as she watched him. The doctor was looking at her oddly but remained silent. She'd seen the young woman before but couldn't remember where and when.

Huang Yunshen nodded his head, Yuan Rui was unnecessarily dragging out his answer. Yuan Rui drank the rest of his water then looked at her, "Why are you in my chair?" he asked her.

"You aren't using it," she answered him simply. He mentally threw the bottle beside him at her, "Bring it here since you don't want me to continue."

She happily got up, walked around the chair and pushed it forward, stopping in front of him. Huang Yunshen, helped him onto his chair and before he could the young woman turned the chair and pushed him out.

*

They arrived in Yuan Rui's room where she pushed him into the bathroom made specifically for the handicapped. Yuan Rui looked at her since she wasn't leaving and asked, "Do you want to shower with me?"

She smiled at him, "That's very tempting but who knows what'll happen if we do?" With that, she turned on her heels and walked out closing the door behind her.

Yuan Rui shook his head in defeat, he didn't know where she came from but it was better to have her around him since the tension was always so heavy. She eased it away naturally with just her appearance making him forget everything.

She walked out of the bathroom and saw that Huang Yunshen was looking at her trying to find any clue on who she was, he also thought that she might be a fan of Yuan Rui but she wasn't acting like one.

She sat on his bed that was made up and made herself comfortable, closing her eyes as well. "Who are you?" he asked her but there was no response from her. She opened her eyes and looked at him then closed it again.

"I asked you who are you!" he yelled. A nurse came in after she heard him yell and looked at the woman lying on the bed. She recognised her immediately as one of the patients who was released today and asked, "Why are you here?"

"You know her?" Huang Yunshen asked the nurse. She nodded but this woman's name was something she couldn't remember. "Yes young master Huang, she's a patient of this hospital that was released two hours ago," she answered.

That didn't answer his question. He looked at the woman on the bed and the nurse, "What is her name and why is she bothering Yuan Rui?"

"I-I don't know why she is here but I will remove her immediately," she said and went up to the bed. She grabbed the woman by her hair and pulled her up and off the bed making her fall on the tiled floor and hit her head.

Huang Yunshen's eyes widened and he immediately went to help her up when he saw she hit her head. When he picked her up he saw that her head was bleeding and winced. He glared at the nurse who was the cause of it and yelled, "Who told you to be so rough huh? Have you no sense? Aren't you a nurse? How can you hurt her?"

Yuan Rui just finished his shower and was about to get dressed when he heard Huang Yunshen's yell. He covered his bottom half and came out of the bathroom. He saw the woman in Huang Yunshen's arms head hanging limply and yelled, "What the hell did you two do to her?"

Huang Yunshen was taken aback by his outburst and looked back. He was already beside them and took her from Huang Yunshen, holding her in his arms, he examined her and glared at the nurse, "Go get someone to help her and don't show your face before me or I'll skin you alive!"

He placed her on the bed. While the doctor was examining her, he went back into the bathroom and quickly got dressed. His face had dark lines on it when he came out. He saw that the woman was bandaged up and laying soundly on the bed.

He looked at the doctor and asked, "Doctor, will she be alright?"

Doctor Kwon nodded his head, "Yes she will be. The bleeding was due to her landing on a wound that was recently stitched up and reopened. We've re-stitched her and taken care of the wound."

Yuan Rui nodded his head. Wheeling up to the bed he reached for her hand and caressed it with his thumb. Huang Yunshen narrowed his eyes on the tenderness his friend was giving the unknown woman but said nothing.

"Can I see her chart real quick doctor?" he asked. Doctor Kwon who was his doctor nodded and handed it to him. Yuan Rui scanned it quickly memorizing all of her details they noted down. He frowned when he saw that she had no name beside the name entry.

He looked up at Dr Kwon and asked, "Why isn't her name filled in?"

"She never gave us her name. She was brought in a week ago by a traffic officer who said she passed out on the sidewalk during traffic hours, there was no identification card on her and she isn't in the database. There wasn't anyone to pay her bill and so she was discharged due to insufficient funds and because of this, the nurses who were supposed to treat her just left her be after the first day. We've contacted the police but even they won't look up if she's in the criminal base and they aren't willing to pay. She was supposed to leave the hospital on the second day after she woke up but kept sneaking into the hospital," he said.

"How can you people be so irresponsible? Aren't you all doctors? Is money all you care for? What about that nurse who injured her? Where is she?" he asked furiously slamming the chart on the sliding table.

Dr Kwon sighed, "Sir, this is Hospital-A, only made to take care of high profile clients, not for those who can't afford it."

Yuan Rui looked at him coldly. Turning to Huang Yunshen, he said, "Settle her bill and make sure she gets treated properly." After a moment he added, "Everyone get out!"

Huang Yunshen looked at Yuan Rui speechless. He lost his words and did what his friend asked, making sure that the bill was settled and to search up who she was also making sure that a capable doctor would take care of her.

Meanwhile, in room B201, Yuan Rui caressed her cheek with his finger. The bed was lowered to suit his needs. The doctor Huang Yunshen got for her came in and attended to her wounds, gave her an injection and told him to make sure she drinks water when she wakes up.