Twilight Scarlet

Chapter 24 Seriously

"When I was ten years old, the boy next door had a turtle car, which was a toy model of the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles..." Chicken rib sat beside him hesitantly, and then said.

"..." Qiao Zhen looked at him inexplicably.Turtle car?Is that a horse?

"It's a toy car... the size of your palm..." Chicken Ribs gestured extremely unwillingly.

"..."

"I don't know? Forget it, anyway, you know, I really like that car and want it very much."

"..." Qiao Zhen began to doubt the IQ of chicken ribs. "Hey! I said, ribs, what the hell are you trying to say?"

Chicken Rib glanced at him sideways, and continued: "So I climbed to a tree next to his bedroom window in the backyard of his house, but the tree was sick, and his father refused to pay to hire him. People healed that tree. So I had no idea that many of the branches on that tree were actually dead."

"Oh, you're lucky. I usually like to listen to these inexplicable stories with a hot drink. Make me a cup of hot coffee, thank you." Qiao Zhen looked at him with great sympathy and nodded, and instructed him very naturally Picking up the chicken rib classmate, just like a housekeeper who usually orders someone.

"..." Chicken Ribs looked at him helplessly, turned around and poured a cup of hot coffee, put it in Qiao Zhen's hand, and planned to continue to make persistent efforts: "I fell down later and was admitted to the hospital. Broke too, had a mild concussion...then the kid with the toy car came to see me and I told him the truth, you know what he said?"

"..."

"He said to me, I can give you this toy."

"Ah..." Qiao Zhen nodded, as if suddenly realizing.

"You understand? In fact, people only need to be frank..." Chicken Ribs said excitedly.Before he finished talking, he was interrupted by Qiao Zhen's words at the same time.

"...I see. He must have had a crush on you back then. He was gay." Qiao Zhen continued to realize suddenly.

"..."

"..."

The two looked at each other for two seconds.Chicken Ribs asked suspiciously, "Really?"

"Yes. For sure." Qiao Zhen nodded.

"Oh, God... No wonder, I said, No wonder... This makes sense for a long time..."

"But I'm sure you didn't tell me this story to make me understand it. It should be, for example... Should I be honest with Marcus?"

"……Correct."

"...Why do you know about our relationship?"

"...Obviously, although you keep a low profile, Director Volturi doesn't like kissing you secretly in the car."

"Have you all seen it?" Qiao Zhen jumped up. "Really? On Christmas Day?"

"...We are not blind..." Chicken Ribs stroked his forehead and whispered. "It's just a small gathering, there are not many people, you two are missing, can we not know? Dr. Britt and Dr. Schebert offered to find you, and I'm still wondering how you lie about it..."

"..." Qiao Zhen suddenly felt stupid. "Okay, okay, I'll go talk to him." As he spoke, he walked towards the elevator slowly.

……

Can't believe Marcus actually did it.He really shut himself up in his office on the fifth floor for twenty hours during his working hours.Qiao Zhen mechanically signed the piles of cases in his hand, feeling his whole waist cramp.And Marcus was sitting on the sofa not far away, with a scarlet light flashing in his eyes from time to time.

"Pleasure is only temporary, but I believe you have a lot to say about temporary pleasure." Marcus squinted his eyes and pressed him on the soft leather sofa in the office again. "About that little 'engagement' issue, I want to talk to you..." Marcus said dangerously.

"Yes, I knew it when you said it to me for the fifth time." Qiao Zhen screamed and twisted his body, even though his waist was already protesting unbearably. "But when I was about to answer for the fifth time, you pressed me on your wool rug just like the previous few times!"

"...Hmph, it seems...you haven't learned how to behave..."

"No! Listen to my explanation..." Qiao Zhen yelled.

"Uh huh, then I'll give you a chance...that man...what the hell. How. To be. My. Lovely. Lover's. Fiance's?" Marcus ground and chewed every word It squeezed out from between the teeth, with a gloomy expression, like a ghost running from hell.

"Uh... Listen to me, he is my professor, we used to be very close." Qiao Zhen swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, and looked at the expensive silent quartz watch on the wall.It was faithfully showing 10:[-] in the morning - he was due to leave work in [-] minutes, but he hadn't stepped out of the office yet... It didn't feel very good.If things go on like this, my tragic little body will have to be heroic on Marcus's sofa.

"I'm afraid 'intimacy' is just a rhetoric used to cover up?"

"That's old stuff..."

"I've been mentioning this trusted director and the school he is in all the time, so you never thought of telling me?"

"...I thought...you wouldn't want to know about all the men I slept with. It would take me a whole day to talk about it." Qiao Zhen said incredulously.

"Huh?" The British man raised his eyebrows sexy.

"That... that..." Qiao Zhen looked at the raised eyebrows of this sexy British man, and she languished in disbelief. "Uh... ok ok... that engagement or something... We just went to a campus event organized by Stanford, and then I was drinking a pink concoction on a shitty island called Fiji or something And then...woke up the next morning and out of nowhere became his fiancée...I don't even know how that happened. Satisfied your curiosity? Fine, I can go now " Qiao Zhen looked like a frightened rabbit ready to jump out, jumping up from the sofa in embarrassment.

"Huh?" Apparently, this explanation didn't make Marcus look any better. He pressed his hands on Qiao Zhen's shoulders very quickly, and raised his eyebrows to indicate that Qiao Zhen and the others are not over yet, and the topic will continue.

"Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr first before first first first before first first before first first before first first before first first first before first first first first first before last first now before the first time, but also in Fiji. .So I was going to say break up. But that damn pink drink..."

"Well, go on."

"Then there was no further..."

"Hmph, it looks like he didn't come to break up with you at all."

"Uh……"

"Besides, you don't think I'm referring to this one, do you?"

"What?" Qiao Zhen was about to cry, could there be something else?

"You don't think I don't know that you still keep your little apartment?"

"..."

"What on earth are you thinking?!" Marcus yelled suddenly.

"..."

"Wouldn't you rather be with me? What's wrong with me?! I'm Marcus, you know. The Volturi. I'm a... Volturi! A royal! With titles and fiefdoms, I am still the chief director of this damn Seattle hospital! And what are you? You are just a little intern!! You should have thrown me in your arms...but you are the most beautiful person I have ever seen Fighting, the most wary, stubborn, and difficult human being! But, I love you, what the hell is wrong with you, that you can't let me love you calmly?!"

"...Twenty hours ago, Chicken Rib talked to me and asked me to be honest with you, so I rented out my upper floor on the second floor."

"...Very good." Marcus's tense face eased a little, and he held Qiao Zhen in his arms. "Promise me, get rid of that man as soon as possible, or you will never enter that damned operating room again, and you will never smell the smell of heart surgery again!"

"...Okay." Qiao Zhen kissed him, and he suddenly had a sense of reality for Marcus' outburst. Marcus has always been like a perfect lover, rich and powerful, and so in love He is like a perfect story in a fairy tale world...and in the end, it proves that Marcus is still a normal man...

"...Tell me the truth, how many people have you been raped for your craft?"

"...Wrong, you should ask, how many times did I get on..."

"Damn..." Marcus growled again.

But Qiao Zhen actively blocked his mouth. "Shh, don't talk... I won't have any more in the future. You are the only one I am willing to lie down... You know, you... are enough."

"Humph……"

"I know I was wrong."

"Let go of you now, go home tonight and continue..."

Qiao Zhen turned pale, but thinking of Marcus's mood today, she had no choice but to endure it, nodded obediently, and replied, "Okay."

"We're also engaged."

"..."

"Huh? You don't want to?"

"No, I would." Qiao Zhen hesitated for only a tenth of a second between getting engaged and not being able to enter the operating room.

"Hmph. This ring... put it on." As he spoke, Marcus took off his ring from his hand, and quickly put it on Qiao Zhen's finger.It can be seen that the azure blue sapphire cut into a bright mirror surface alone makes this ring very precious.

"...Huh?" Qiao Zhen had already been completely kissed by him, and he let him push the ring onto his ring finger. The size was surprisingly just right.

"Don't even think about running away." A light flashed in Marcus' eyes, and he whispered in Qiao Zhen's ear. "This is a family ring, seeing this thing is like visiting me personally..."

"Hmm..." Qiao Zhen took the time to take a breath, and peeked at the huge ring on her hand. The blue gemstone shone with a faint cold light, as if it could suck people in.The inside of the ring is engraved with two letters M&W——Marcus & Volturi.

Qiao Zhen took off the ring with a smile.

"Um?!"

"You know, you are not allowed to wear a ring during the surgery, I'll just wear it around my neck."

"Heh heh heh...that's good."

"Stop talking nonsense, come in quickly... um... um..."

……

In the evening, Qiao Zhen really didn't have the energy to compete for the big night shift, and since Marlowe was in charge of the hospital, he wouldn't be so stupid as to throw himself into the trap, so he was bored in the bedroom watching TV, his fingers crackling. Press the remote control, constantly changing from one station to another.At this time, Remy, the orthodox British butler who was said to have served the Marcus family for eight generations and nearly five centuries, passed through the hall silently.

"Remy." Qiao Zhen is not an idiot. Usually, the butler is so unpredictable, it is just like the air in this house. He will appear in front of Qiao Zhen accurately only when he is needed. Usually, he is not at all. It may be so easy to see him.Today, he has abnormally appeared in front of his eyes three or four times, or even more times, without calling him.Qiao Zhen sighed, threw the remote control on the sofa casually on the table, and spoke to the handsome black-haired butler who walked through the corridor outside the door for the nth time.

"His Highness Qiao Zhen."

"I said, don't call me Your Highness." Qiao Zhen had already begun to believe that Marcus was a descendant of the British royal family that disappeared, because the butler had called himself His Highness several times with a strict and meticulous face.

"No, although in your mind, your status is not like this. But in my mind, my lord has chosen you, and you are my Highness."

"..." Qiao Zhen waved her hand indifferently.He didn't intend to dwell on this issue. "You seem to be very busy, can you tell me what you are doing?"

"I'm just preparing some rose essential oil for adults to take a bath." Remy bowed down and saluted respectfully, then whispered. "Adults take your feelings very seriously."

"Oh." Qiao Zhen shrugged.The British like to speak in such a fog.Fortunately, Qiao Zhen spent his time in a more tactful country, so Qiao Zhen could naturally tell that there was something in his words.So Qiao Zhen nodded, waiting for him to continue.

Remy glanced at Qiao Zhen, looked at him carefully, and said cautiously: "Your Highness Qiao Zhen, maybe I shouldn't say this... But, your existence, to that lord, has become a It is more important than anyone else. So, please..." Remy didn't finish his sentence, but stopped suddenly, and changed the subject: "My lord said that you like the aroma of this Damascus rose very much, so smoke it When it was fragrant, I specially ordered me to take some Damask rose essential oil to take a bath. Then, please allow me to step down now..."

"...Well, thank you, I know." Qiao Zhen was silent for a while, then whispered, with a smile on her lips.

"Yes, good night, Your Highness."

"Good night."

Qiao Zhen looked up at Marcus, who had finished bathing not far away, and who was standing at the corner of the stairs at some point, and laughed. "Have you finished washing?"

Marcus glanced at his butler. He has very good hearing, and he couldn't hear their conversation clearly because of the sound of water. He only heard the topic about rose essential oil in the second half, and looked at whether he was in hot water or not. With fingers that were still pale after soaking in water for a long time, he walked down the steps slowly, and said with a smile, "Why? Don't you like the smell?"

"No, I like it very much." Qiao Zhen wrinkled her nose, deliberately sniffing the warm body with a faint fragrance. "It's just that I sighed that you are indeed a rich man..."

Marcus was not in a bad mood after taking a shower, and as soon as he went out, he saw Qiao Zhen wearing the silky white shirt he wore yesterday, revealing two slender and white thighs, obediently waiting for him in the bedroom Instead of working overtime, I feel even better.So Marcus naturally walked over and hugged his lover's looming buttocks, stroking fondly. "What's the matter, so you say?"

"Damascena essential oil...it's expensive...ah, right, right. I ordered breakfast...err, no, it should be dinner, Zhou Ji's preserved egg and lean meat porridge." Sitting across his lap.

"Oh? Extremely enjoyable sex with dinner? Well, how considerate..." Marcus raised his eyebrows. To be honest, his anger has not completely subsided, but at the same time, he also knows that he can't force this little thing too tight .The engagement ring alone is already considered a good grade.Of course there is the added bonus of that true "cohabitation" form.Marcus allowed himself to spoil his lover a little.

"Not angry anymore? Huh?"

"...huh..." Marcus snorted with some unknown meaning, and continued to kiss Qiao Zhen in a good mood.

It was impossible for Qiao Zhen to hide from people all his life, besides, his only bit of face was lost when Marlowe pinched his ass in public.Bambi, Chicken Ribs, Richard, Alex, Dr. Schebert and even his immediate superior, Dr. Britt, have already known about his relationship with Marcus, so he really has nothing to lose face up.She's completely shameless and skinless, what more shame is there!

Qiao Zhen thought angrily, got up early the next morning and went straight to the hospital.He needs to get that damn [single] man out of the hospital quickly, neatly, and cleanly.But when he walked into the hospital aggressively and saw that the assistant was himself on the operating board that said "heart transplant operation", he softened again without disappointment.

God, obviously that cunning man knows how to seduce himself... After Qiao Zhen changed his clothes, he glanced at his watch and found that the time was still an hour away, so he decided to go to the "uncallroom" or the utility room or some other place where no one was there Hide away.

The eyes of the intern in the lounge were about to catch up with the scalpel, and he was about to take off pieces of his body...Damn...his face was completely lost...

Thinking that he was approaching the utility room, he opened the door without even thinking about it and got in.As soon as the door was closed and I looked up, I saw two naked people with eyes full of shock—Richard and an unknown female nurse...

Oh damn.After Qiao Zhen and the little nurse looked at each other for three seconds, they finally won with their incomparably powerful brazenness.The little nurse blushed all of a sudden, hurriedly put on her clothes and rushed out like a frightened bird.

"Hey, what are you doing here, this is my hiding place! And you interrupted my good work. In my opinion, you should go out! Go somewhere else!"

"Damn it, I have to hide here, Richard."

"Karen Marlowe... because of him?"

"Yes, he is my fiancé, we used to be very close, but that's all in the past!"

"Oh, of course, his hands are all on your ass, of course you [have] been intimate, it's strange if you weren't intimate! You are the kind of person who would seduce the professor. We have one in our class, but she Only the radiology doctors, no one dares to play the idea of ​​​​the god of heart surgery. Especially a gifted top student like you, who entered the university at the age of 15, and then took half the time to get Stanford medicine Doctor, plus having a good family background, sometimes I really don't understand you...you don't have to sleep with him at all...you can get what you want, so why..."

"That's right, I'm too good, I'm the kind of cynical rich boy, okay? You know you can hide in the toilet and have sex with the little nurse, and the single room there has a seat, it's really good..."

"The little nurse and I have been here as a base for a long time, but you, you and your god of heart surgery have just started for one day, don't even think about occupying my secret base."

"I don't want to talk about the god of heart surgery right now. Besides, I didn't seduce him, but he seduced me. Besides, I fucked him! What's so strange about it?!"

"You know you can hear it from outside, right?" Suddenly, Karen came from outside.Marlowe's sexy voice. "It's clear."

"..."

Damn it, that's why the tofu dregs project is the most annoying!Mouth!Qiao Zhen gave Richard a hard look, kicked him out the door, and walked out with her head bowed.Thinking about it, when he was in bed, he suggested that Marcus re-invest in the hospital and get a thicker wall that can insulate the sound.

"I can't believe you hid in the utility room when you saw me. If this is not a tragedy, it is the cutest behavior I have ever seen..."

"You should have told me earlier that you would come to this hospital."

"And then? Then wait for you to leave this hospital immediately, because you don't want to talk to me at all, and you play hide-and-seek with me in the utility room?"

"..."

"Of course, of course you don't want to talk to me. Because from the past, especially after the engagement, you ran away when you saw me like a cockroach at the light."

"No, I'm just leaving school after explaining the embarrassing situation to you. I still have work to do now. I'm no longer the full-time note-taking student who likes to drink and get high."

"What are you doing? Assisting in my operation? Besides, your hair is cut short, so handsome..."

"...don't flirt with me, I warn you. I've got someone."

"Really? Who?" It's a pity that Karen didn't care. He smiled quite complacently, looking very confident.

"Marcus. The Volturi."

"Hehe, you really haven't changed, so cute. You always like such a powerful person who can be used by you."

"Shut up, me and him...not...damn, he doesn't go into the operating room. So, you know, I've changed. This is a very serious relationship."

"Oh, I guess so. Just as real as you and me, right?"

"He and I are engaged. And I agreed to live together."

"...Is that so?" Marlowe froze for a moment, a little bit of panic and bewilderment finally appeared in his brown eyes. "Congratulations."

"So, you'd better leave now." With that said, Qiao Zhen turned around and planned to leave.

"No, don't go, I mean it." Marlowe pulled Qiao Zhen's arm, hugged his waist tightly, and whispered.Like a wounded little animal. "I can't, I can't leave you, I still love you."

"I told you, Marcus and I are fine now..."

"Do you remember the night we met?" He interrupted what Qiao Zhen was about to say, and said immediately.

"...I really don't remember clearly." Qiao Zhen said weakly.

"We were lying on the boat, the sea was sparkling, and the world seemed to be turned upside down. We were swimming in the Milky Way, and we talked about how the universe would whisper to us. And when our lips touched, The 21-gun salute on the island was fired for us..."

"Uh... that's the festival bell, okay? Seriously, Karen, give it up. We don't fit in."

"...We need time to communicate."

……

"You can turn Qiao Zhen into the kind of man who is dedicated to feelings, I really admire." Marlowe stood in front of Marcus majestically, with his hands resting on Marcus' cold oak boss's desk, Said word for word. "I always thought he was the type who roams among all kinds of men, and no one can control him. He will collect baseball cards like... collect us..."

"Baseball card?" Marcus frowned, secretly remembering the term he didn't understand.

"Yes, he's always looked up to those kind of authority figures, people who can really teach him things. Like...me. But I never thought that one day he'd actually settle down and talk to you...that's not Dating with men on the operating table. He used to say that marriage is only for the weak and those who have no dreams. I have proposed to him a few times and begged him to move in with me a few times. After we dated for so long… …This is a matter of smooth sailing. I was almost [-]% sure to bring it up with him, but it all failed. He thinks it is a very stupid thing to maintain a marriage or make a commitment to each other, probably with him He just refused...Damn it, in the end I had to resort to cheating marriage...How on earth did you get him to agree to live with you or even get engaged?"

"How long can it be, you're just messing around with your students. You fall in love with him, and then... it's just a matter of love."

"Chunshui has no trace? He told you that? Did you know that Qiao Zhen and I have been together for three full years."

"..." Marcus' face darkened instantly. "go out."

"..."

"I told you to get out." Marcus's low voice was snarling, and a deep storm suddenly raged in his eyes.

"...Yes." At this moment, Marlowe felt how stupid and ridiculous it was for him to go to the top floor to negotiate alone with the most authoritative man in the hospital.The man in front of him was different from anyone he had ever known.He sat there gloomy like a stone, his eyes were red like blood... like a demon... a demonic man.Marlowe regretted it instantly.He stepped back immediately and left the office.

After a long while, Marcus's marble-like face, hidden in the shadows, finally softened.He sighed, pressed the corner of the phone and said, "Gina, ask Qiao Zhen to come to my office."

"...Yes." Gina's trembling voice came from the other end of the phone.

Ever since Qiao Zhen and Marcus established a relationship, because the two people often discussed and discussed at work, they would become sticky, so Marcus simply transferred Gina, who was originally in one office, to the office next door.Anyone who wants to find Marcus must first report to the office next door, and Gina will let them in after talking with him—naturally, so that no one will appear rashly to interrupt his good business with Qiao Zhen.

Gina has felt much better since she moved to the next room. Facing the pressure of a blood prince is not something ordinary people can do, so when the familiar bloodthirsty coercion came from Marcus's office, Gina first Looking at the phone nervously and fearfully, for fear that a nervous missed call would become a snack in someone's mouth.

"Is it the matter of me sleeping with my professor or the matter of me being together with him for three years that bothered you again? Didn't I already apologize?" Qiao Zhen rushed into the office on the fifth floor like a whirlwind after receiving the notice. , he said quickly.To be honest, he was already a little tired, and he didn't want to be entangled in the past and make endless noises. It would be bad for both of them if this continued.

"Neither, you told him that marriage is a stupid institution, and making promises to each other is also a stupid thing."

"Based on my only experience... yes." Qiao Zhen nodded. "My parents made vows to each other and agreed with each other. Didn't they fall apart in the end, and it was so tragic?"

"Then why did you agree to my engagement and promise to me, since you don't believe them..."

"Because I want to make you happy, okay?"

"Happy? Promises aren't like that..."

"I know, but I do so many stupid things in my opinion, just because of you, I want to believe you once, even though my reason tells me how ridiculous and stupid it is, I still want to... believe you Once. Did you see what I handed over everything about the engagement ceremony? Meeting parents, introducing friends, etc.? No. But if it makes you happy, I'd love to do it and try to believe it , we can grow old together."

"How did you end up?"

"That's how it ended. I graduated, I needed to leave, I wasn't going to work in that city, so we broke up."

"You dumped him?"

"I have a job in Seattle, I have you, I am in love with you..."

"A new boss who has something new for you? Like Britt, you know I'm not going to be on the operating table, or..."

"If you think that I fell in love with you and was willing to be fucked by you because I want to learn something from you..." Qiao Zhen said without hesitation.

"Do you still feel that my power, or wealth or even knowledge is more attractive to you than me." Marcus interrupted him.

"No. When I was in the bar, I was not a clairvoyant. I didn't know your power, your wealth, or even your knowledge. Didn't I get fucked by you? And I embarrassedly tried to deny it the next morning fact."

"A king of heart surgery thinks and deeply believes that you have a very intimate relationship with him, even to the point of being engaged, but you... don't think so, do you?"

"Correct."

"Then one day, you dumped him and just disappeared. What about us? Me and you? Didn't you try to make me think we were actually in a cohabitation relationship? I don't know What the hell kind of childhood was it that you didn't open up like anyone else. Sometimes I find it fascinating and it draws me in. You're so different that you don't give in as easily as anyone else, but then I I found out that the reason why you are so unique is very simple... I have never been in your heart..."

"I'm not interested. You only agreed to marry me to appease me. I will not admit such a promise. I am Marcus. Volturi. My pride does not allow this. I admit that you are very Attract me, but I want you, I want the whole of you, or I will destroy you!" There was a faint light in Marcus's scarlet eyes, and he said quietly hiding in the shadows, like a building monument.

"..."