"Du Xinghe, Dr. Lu is looking for you!"
The young nurse finished collecting the needles and said to me with a smile, "He even ordered takeout milk tea for you!"
I had just had a rather unpleasant nightmare. I forced a smile at her, picked up my backpack, and followed her out of the ward.
All the way, I kept my eyes on the nurse's figure. Fortunately, everything seemed normal, not like in the dream.
The young nurse also noticed me staring at her. She looked back at me in surprise. "Something wrong?"
I quickly shook my head with a smile. I couldn't very well tell the young girl, "I had a nightmare and dreamed that you only had one eye!"
"Dr. Lu really likes sweet food! He always has candies in his pocket."
Remembering the candies Dr. Lu took out casually in the water room, I thought it was a bit of a cute contrast.
"That's not for him. He doesn't like sweet food. It's for me," the young nurse said in a relaxed tone as she walked in front of me. The LED lights in the corridor emitted a soft glow, shining on the almost identical ward doors on both sides. The arc-shaped corridor was like a mirror reflection, seemingly endless.
"I'm his girlfriend, and I don't like anyone disturbing our life."
Her tone was calm, just like chatting with an ordinary friend, but the words she said sent a chill down my spine. "If you want to drive me away, I'll make everyone accompany us in death."
I stopped in my tracks.
We had been walking for more than ten minutes, and there was still an endless corridor ahead. There was no sign of the office at all.
"Dr. Lu is a good person. If you keep pestering him, it will make him sick," I said truthfully. "Since you like him, you should know how to let go."
"No, I won't," the young nurse said firmly as she slowly turned her head. "The Buddha Mother said that as long as two people truly love each other, a human and a ghost can become husband and wife for all eternity."
"The Buddha Mother?!" I frowned.
In the ward, there was a single eye behind the uncle in the next bed. And in the nightmare just now, the young nurse also only had one eye on her face. This should be the "One - Eyed Buddha Mother" that Li Chengxian had worshipped. How did she get out? She was clearly attached to Li Chengxian and torn to pieces by Si Jiangchen!
"Yes! The Buddha Mother has tied our marriage fate together. I can find him every night!"
The young nurse's face was pale, but she had a sweet smile on her face.
"Find him? For what?!" I was even more surprised. She was a bound spirit and could probably only appear in specific places in the hospital. Once Dr. Lu got home, he should no longer be affected by her...
"Of course, to do the things that lovers do!" the young nurse said rather proudly. "We are husband and wife. Even the door gods in his house have no right to stop me!"
"..."
I finally understood why the aura around Dr. Lu's body was contaminated. He had been arranged a ghost marriage!
This ghost girl's obsession was stirred up by the "One - Eyed Buddha Mother". Among the five colors and five desires, she had chosen "desire". No wonder Dr. Lu had a hard time talking to me. With his personality, how could he be embarrassed to tell me that he had "wet dreams"?
"So, when you see him, drink the tea and then leave quickly. I don't want to make things difficult for you and make Dr. Lu sad."
The young nurse was still very gentle. The way she always thought about Dr. Lu really made her seem like an understanding little wife.
After saying that, she smiled at me again and actually turned around and walked into a white wall.
I was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, the white and hazy light in front of me flashed, and everything became colorful. The light - blue floor, the off - white walls, and the green plants decorated on the walls all seemed to suddenly appear in front of me.
Right in front of me was the nurse's station, decorated in a vibrant way. Several nurses in white uniforms were holding milk tea cups and whispering and giggling about something.
This was the mild - symptom area, and even the doctors and nurses were in a relaxed mood.
Seeing me standing in front of the nurse's station looking a bit lost, a nurse in charge immediately greeted me, "The caregiver for Bed 6 is here. Dr. Lu is in the doctor's office. You can just go there directly!"
I thanked her and walked to the office behind the nurse's station. The door was ajar. I raised my fingers and knocked twice. "Dr. Lu?"
The light inside was dim. I could hear soft gasps, but Dr. Lu didn't respond.
There were three computer desks against the wall in the doctor's office. Dr. Lu was sitting in front of one of them, his head slightly lowered as if he had fallen into a dream.
"Dr. Lu!"
I raised my voice again. His body trembled, but he still didn't wake up.
A deep groan came from his throat, as if he was being covered by someone's mouth and nose and couldn't breathe.
"Hey!!"
I walked to Dr. Lu's side and gently patted his shoulder. "Wake up. It's just a dream!"
"Ah!!"
Dr. Lu was awakened from his nightmare by my pat. He opened his eyes, sweating profusely, and grabbed my arm tightly.
"She's here! She... she's already here..."
I naturally knew who Dr. Lu was referring to when he said "she".
"Yes, we've met," I said.
He was holding my arm tightly, like a drowning man desperately trying to grab every straw floating on the water. I had to pretend to be calm and say, "Don't worry. She doesn't mean any harm."
"But... but this is so abnormal!"
Dr. Lu wasn't wearing his black - framed glasses, and that old - fashioned and stuffy feeling had disappeared. Now he was like a young man lost in confusion, and a rather good - looking one at that!
"Um, let's talk later. You... you'd better deal with your own problem first," I said, pointing at his pants.
It was the middle of summer, and Dr. Lu was wearing a thin light - colored suit pants. Now there was a large wet stain on his thigh.
"Ah, I'm... I'm sorry!!"
Dr. Lu quickly grabbed the white coat on the table and covered himself. His face was as red as a boiled shrimp. He jumped up from the chair and rushed out of the door to the staff - only restroom at the back.
I was also extremely embarrassed. If it weren't for Si Jiangchen's actions, I might not have known what that situation was...
After a while, Dr. Lu came back with a red face, looking like a child who had done something wrong.
He had changed into a pair of dark - colored pants and put on his white coat.
"Du Xinghe, that ghost girl... her name is Li Li. She was a former intern nurse in our hospital," Dr. Lu finally stopped being so hesitant and told me exactly how he had met Li Li in order to make himself look less embarrassed.
It was a night half a year ago.
After Dr. Lu had finished his night shift in the ICU and handed over his work, it was almost one o'clock at night.
After being busy for a full eight hours, he was quite hungry. So he went alone to the 24 - hour convenience store on the street outside the hospital to buy something to fill his stomach.
It was in that empty convenience store that he met the girl he liked!