My crush wants to be my sugar daddy.

Chapter 165 Chi Yuan's Dream Awakens~~

Outside the operating room at the hospital.

Jiang Haochen had just signed the surgical consent form.

Xie Lingzhou was sick; he had a severe stomach perforation. After calling 120, he fainted. The nurse unlocked Xie Lingzhou's phone with her fingerprint and found his contact information in his address book.

He was Xie Lingzhou's emergency contact.

Jiang Haochen sat on a bench outside the operating room and called Xie Lingzhou's agent, Han Dai, asking him to come over.

Jiang Haochen: "They arrived in time, so she should be fine after the surgery, but she'll need to stay in the hospital for a few days to recuperate. Have your assistant come and look after her."

Han Dai readily agreed, "Okay, I'll arrange for someone to go right away, but even if we buy tickets now, they won't arrive until midnight. Until then, could you please take care of things for me, Mr. Jiang?"

Jiang Haochen frowned: "His assistant isn't in S City?"

Han Dai explained, "Teacher Xie was in a bad mood recently and said he wanted to rest for a few days, so he didn't arrange for an assistant to accompany him."

Jiang Haochen paused for a moment, then vaguely guessed the reason.

It was almost 9 p.m., and his flight back to City B was at 8:30 p.m., which he had already missed.

Jiang Haochen sighed: "Come over as soon as possible."

Han Dai: "Okay, thank you, President Jiang. I'll send someone over right away."

Xie Lingzhou is a celebrity, and we can't leave him alone in the hospital. If no one takes care of him, the media will definitely sneak into his ward.

By this time, someone had already recognized him, so Jiang Haochen got up and walked outside, finding a quiet, empty place to call Chi Yuan.

These past few days have been chaotic. He missed Chi Yuan terribly, but only now has he had time to call him.

Leaning against the wall, Jiang Haochen looked up at the sky. In the quiet space, the only sound was the dial tone of a phone waiting to be connected.

Mr. Jiang.

A moment later, Chi Yuanqing's clear voice rang out from the other end of the phone. The moment Jiang Haochen heard the voice, his eyes softened involuntarily.

"Chi Yuan."

"Mmm." On the other end of the phone, Chi Yuan tried hard to control his emotions, even his breathing became lighter.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Haochen asked.

Chi Yuan looked down at the letter he had just finished writing and replied, "I just finished taking a shower."

Taking a shower? Jiang Haochen curled his lips into a smile.

It had been a long time since he had seen Chi Yuan after his bath. Chi Yuan was at his softest right after a bath, with a faint scent of bath gel. If you hugged and kissed him, he would turn completely pink.

He lost a lot of weight during the past few months of filming; his waist is so thin that he doesn't dare to bump into anything.

It needs to be properly cared for and recovered.

"Chi Yuan." Jiang Haochen's mouth was dry from thinking, and his voice became hoarse involuntarily.

"exist."

"I'll go back first thing tomorrow morning," Jiang Haochen said.

There was a pause on the other end of the phone before a voice came through: "I... understand."

Get some rest.

"Yes, you too."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Haochen didn't immediately return to the operating room. Instead, he stood there and booked the earliest flight for tomorrow using his phone, then reserved a private restaurant. He planned to take Chi Yuan to catch up on sleep when he got back, and then they could go out for dinner together later that evening.

Jiang Haochen made his plans, a smile in his eyes, and even the cold white lights of the hospital seemed much softer to him.

Meanwhile, Chi Yuan sat blankly at his desk, holding the phone that had already been hung up.

It took him a few minutes to come to his senses and get up to start packing his luggage.

He didn't have many belongings in this apartment; he always kept only enough to take with him in a suitcase.

He didn't want to leave, yet he kept simulating it. Every single thing he left behind was a thought in mind as he planned how to pack it when he took it with him; every item had its designated place in his suitcase.

Perhaps because he had done so many simulations, he packed everything up in just half an hour.

Mr. Jiang wouldn't be back tonight, so he could leave early, but Chi Yuan didn't. He wanted to stay until the very last second. It was as if every extra second he stayed meant his intimate relationship with Mr. Jiang could last an extra second.

Chi Yuan had imagined the scene of leaving countless times. He thought he would cry, pretend to be strong, and be too sad to speak. However, when the moment came, he was surprisingly calm.

He felt disappointed, but not sad, because he had been happy during those two years.

He loved Mr. Jiang when he came, and he loved him when he left.

For him, liking Mr. Jiang is a source of happiness that will always remain.

Chi Yuan sat on the sofa in the living room, with the poem that Mr. Jiang had recorded for him playing on his phone.

"I love you, not only for how you are, but also for how I am when I'm with you..."

Mr. Jiang, on my way to see you, I worked very hard to become a better version of myself.

"I love you because you have transformed my life from the mundane to the extraordinary..."

You pulled me out of the mire and gave me a brand new future. It was the sugar you gave me that let me taste the sweetness of the world.

……

He had listened to this poem countless times over the course of two years, and these words were what he had written in his letters.

He wanted to tell Mr. Jiang that he had walked for a very long time on his way to see him, and that he had worked very hard, put his heart into it, endured a lot of hardship, and was also very happy.

But not now.

"Ring ring ring!!!"

The alarm clock rang at midnight, and his time was over. Chi Yuan turned off his phone; the screen that flashed briefly showed a trending news article.

[Xie Lingzhou is ill, and Actor Jiang stays by his side late at night.]

Chi Yuan dragged his suitcase and left the apartment.

Without looking back with lingering reluctance, he closed the door, pressed the elevator button, and went down the stairs. When he walked out of the building, he saw Huang Kai waiting outside.

Huang Kai came to pick up Chi Yuan. When he saw the news about Xie Lingzhou and Jiang Haochen trending on social media, he knew that Chi Yuan would leave the apartment at this time.

"Come pick me up?" Chi Yuan smiled, but his eyes suddenly reddened.

He didn't know what was wrong with him; his emotions, which were normally quite stable, suddenly became somewhat uncontrollable the moment he saw Huang Kai.

"Hmm," Huang Kai replied with a similar expression.

He went up and took the luggage from Chi Yuan's hands. The two didn't say much, got into the car and left.

As the car drove out of the residential complex, Chi Yuan could no longer hold back his tears. He choked out, "Huang Kai, does this mean I've... been dumped?"

His one-sided love affair ended today.

Huang Kai didn't offer any words of comfort, but quietly opened a crack in the car to let the wind in.

He knew better than anyone that this unwavering journey was Chi Yuan's long-cherished dream.

He wasn't heartbroken; he just woke up from his dream.

From that... dream of Jiang Haochen.