Domestication and Dealing with

Surprisingly, Yi Zhize was fast to agree: “Okay.”

Ou Tingyun moved nearer to him: “Zhize, do not you wish to ask me what compensation I would like first? If I have been to make some extreme calls for…”

“You would not.”

“How are you aware I will not?”

“Instinct.”

Ou Tingyun laughed: “Zhize, aren’t attorneys alleged to be rational? It isn’t a very good factor to belief your instinct. Many occasions, it might probably deceive you.”

Yi Zhize spoke frankly, “Since I’ve agreed to do that, I’ve my very own issues.”

“What issues?” Ou Tingyun paused for a second after which stated, “I see. How I suggest it’s one factor, the way you implement it’s one other. You are a lawyer, you are finest at enjoying phrase video games.”

Yi Zhize smiled faintly, “Dr. Ou, you’re actually mentally enriched.”

“After all, it’s my career.” Ou Tingyun stared at his smiling face for some time: “Zhize, my request is straightforward, simply deal with me to a meal.”

“Okay.”

“You must prepare dinner it your self, and I’ve to go to your home.”

Yi Zhize stated helplessly, “Director Ou, what if I do not know the right way to prepare dinner in any respect?”

Ou Tingyun’s tone was moderately roguish, “I do not care, if you do not know the right way to, you’ll have to study now.”

“Be taught now, promote now, do you dare to eat what comes out?” (Angel: Be taught now, promote now’s an idiom meaning to point out off what you simply discovered.)

“Why would not I dare?”

“Professor Ou,” Yi Zhize appeared over at him, “is that this the way you act as a instructor?”

“It is known as the spirit of fearless journey, what’s fallacious with that?”

“Nothing.” Yi Zhize parked the automobile within the hospital’s underground storage, “We’re right here.”

Yi Zhize accompanied him to the surgical division and registered. As quickly because the physician sitting on the clinic noticed Ou Tingyun, he instantly exchanged pleasantries, “Director Ou, how did you handle this? It is fairly a deep wound.”

Ou Tingyun stated, “There was a small scenario, I am sorry to bother you.”

The surgeon teased, “Was it a heroic rescue?”

Ou Tingyun’s eyes smiled, “That’s proper, it was a heroic rescue.”

After saying this, he intentionally glanced at Yi Zhize, who coughed flippantly and appeared away uncomfortably.

After the wound was handled, the 2 of them got here out of the clinic.

Within the hall, Ou Tingyun requested, “Zhize, will you promise me or not?”

“What?”

“Cooking one thing for me.”

“En.”

“Then it is a deal.” Ou Tingyun stated, “This night, ship me your private home tackle.”

“Okay, later.” Once they parted, Yi Zhize stated softly, “Thanks, Tingyun.”

———

At seven o’clock that night, Ou Tingyun arrived on the appointed place. With nice persistence, he knocked gently on the door.

A couple of minutes later, Yi Zhize opened the door for him.

It was a moderately neatly laid out residence, adorned in a Japanese model, clear and pure but vibrant and profound.

Yi Zhize requested, “What would you wish to eat?”

Ou Tingyun was in a very good temper: “Something.”

“Is there something you do not wish to eat?”

“Sure,” Ou Tingyun stated, “I do not eat fish with spines, beef or lamb with a powerful scent, rooster or duck with out pores and skin, or greens comparable to eggplant or pumpkin.”

“That is rather a lot to ask.”

“However,” Ou Tingyun modified his phrases, “should you cooked it your self, all of this might be tolerable.”

Yi Zhize opened the fridge, picked out some components and stated with an expressionless face, “I am actually flattered.”

Yi Zhize took the components into the kitchen and Ou Tingyun adopted him and requested, “You reside alone?”

“En.”

“Not in a relationship or something?”

“No.”

“No cats or canines both?”

“No.”

“Do not you get bored by your self?”

“Is not it the identical at Dr. Ou’s home?”

Ou Tingyun sighed softly, “I truly fairly like pets.”

“Then why not have one?”

Ou Tingyun smiled, “Domestication is numerous work. Should you put an excessive amount of emotion into it and it nonetheless results in ruins, then it is higher to not make the connection within the first place.”

“Mr. Ou,” Yi Zhize stated, him, “it is known as giving up meals for concern of choking.” (Angel: Giving up meals for concern of choking is an idiom meaning to cease doing one thing due to slightly fault or concern of an issue.)

“It is simply avoiding losing feelings.”

“I believed that, as a psychiatrist, you’ll be good at manipulating feelings.”

“In a approach, that is true.” Ou Tingyun leaned in opposition to the glass door, “However the components that may be manipulated are sometimes irrelevant. The true emotions of human nature have all the time been tough to understand.”

“And since it is tough to understand, you do not even attempt? That is too unfavorable.”

“I simply do not wish to have a pet, so why do not I simply attempt all of it?” Ou Tingyun lowered his voice: “For instance, with you, I am keen to attempt.”

Yi Zhize paused as he washed the components, “Have you ever all the time been so ambiguous when talking to folks?”

“No, it relies on the particular person.”

“It’s best to have had numerous girlfriends.”

“Fairly the other, no.” Ou Tingyun’s tone was flat: “I’ve little interest in girls.”

Yi Zhize stated, “I am sorry.”

“What?”

“That is your privateness.”

“It is probably not personal, and I am not keen on males both.”

“You simply have not met anybody your coronary heart wishes.”

“Oh?” Ou Tingyun checked out him with a smile, “So there is a story, Zhize?”

“No.” After a second, he added, “A hunch.”

Yi Zhize completed cleansing the components, took out his silver knives and dealt with them meticulously.

Ou Tingyun watched from the aspect, not in the least useful, “Zhize, the best way you look now jogs my memory of an fascinating picture.”

“What?”

“A physician with a scalpel.”

Yi Zhize put the chopped components on a plate, “This morning, once you held that blade, I additionally had a picture in my thoughts.”

“What?”

“The sword of Damocles, the image of judgement.”

Ou Tingyun laughed quietly: “So, you are extra like a physician than I’m, and I am extra like a lawyer than you’re?”

As an alternative of continuous the dialog, Yi Zhize requested him, “Are you aware the right way to prepare dinner?”

“No.”

“Activate the rice cooker, put the rice in, and add water.”

“No, I will not.” Ou Tingyun stated, “How about some wine as a substitute of dinner? Do you have got any right here?”

“Sure.”

“Within the fridge?”

“En.”

“I am going to go and get it.”

“Okay.”

For the following hour or so, Ou Tingyun opened a bottle of wine and drank it for his personal amusement whereas watching Yi Zhize prepare dinner.

Nothing was stated between them, solely the silence of the evening and the scent of wine crammed the air.

After the delicacies have been delivered to the desk, Ou Tingyun opened a bottle of wine for Yi Zhize: “Drink slightly?”

“I am going to get a glass.”

“There is not any level in utilizing a glass.”

“I am a light-weight drinker.”

“You possibly can go from mild to heavy, I am going to train you.”

Based on his normal character, he would by no means have agreed.

However for some cause, on this scenario, he simply needed to do one thing slightly extra uncommon: “Okay.”

Yi Zhize raised the bottle of wine and gently clinked it with Ou Tingyun.

The fragrant wine entered his throat, stirring up a burning sensation.

He could not keep in mind when he had gotten drunk.

The mole on the nook of his eye appeared notably engaging in opposition to his flushed cheeks.