My Sweet Wife

Romaine is the girl who kneeled down to Cleo in the hospital a few months ago and begged Cleo to help her father with his surgery.

Her father, who was working at a construction site, fell down from a high place, Cleo helped her father to do the surgery, the surgery was not successful, just save a life, her father is currently in a vegetative state.

“Please, Dr. Cleo, I know you have a good heart.” Romaine spoke with a smile at Cleo.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

She didn’t use that pathetic and sniveling pleading voice, but the kind of smile that smiled with a slight flavor of petulance between acquaintances.

Cleo looked at the smile on her face, her heart had an indescribable taste, and she was a little lost in thought for a moment, before saying, “No, taking care of patients requires relevant qualifications, and a job like sweeping and cleaning is not suitable for you.”

“How is it not suitable? I can do anything, I’m very hardworking.”

Romaine’s father was a construction site laborer, workers now worse can be six thousand dollars a month, is very bitter and tired just. But her family is a big hole, first her grandparents got sick and died, then her mom. She thinks it’s because her dad wasn’t home to take care of her family.

Because, her family was poor, her mom was the one who didn’t make it to the hospital and passed away after treatment was delayed on the way.

Romaine became rebellious and wanted to stop taking care of her dad, so she came to work outside by herself, but she suddenly received the news that her dad had fallen off the building. She was sad and regretful, and she was also afraid that her dad would pass away.

So that day, no matter what, she just kneeled on the ground one by one and kowtowed to Cleo, begging Cleo.

For her, Cleo didn’t simply lend her money, she saved her father’s life, so she wanted to repay Cleo, that’s why she followed Cleo every day.

“If I say it’s not appropriate, it’s not appropriate, I can’t help you.” Cleo was also cold to her.

Because she was only eighteen years old, according to Cleo’s concept, she should go to school at that age, in his eyes she was a child.

Romaine helped him to apply the medicine, before she spoke again, “Then, I guess I really don’t have any way to work in your hospital. Dr. Cleo, you know, everyone else looks down on poor people like me, and if you don’t help me, no one will surely be willing to help me.”

“I’ve been speaking Mandarin all this time so that I can talk to strangers, and I’ve bought clothes to change into so that they don’t have to look at me differently. It took quite a bit of courage for me to stay here.”

“If I didn’t want my dad to be treated in a big hospital like yours, and didn’t feel comfortable with those small hospitals, I would have taken my dad back.”

When she was eighteen, she only went to junior high school, and after that, she was helping to farm the land at home and taking care of her grandparents and her mom.

There’s a saying that it doesn’t matter if your family is poor, it’s just that you’re still sick.

Romaine’s family had both. So even though she was willing to work hard, her family never got rich.

“Knock knock knock …”

At this moment, a knock came from outside the door, Romaine’s first reaction was to hurriedly put down Cleo’s pants leg before walking over and opening the door.

The doctor outside the door, looks over to Cleo, “Cleo, it’s time to get off work, we’re having a potluck dinner tonight, do you want to join us?”

“I’ll just forget it.” Cleo hadn’t been to this kind of gathering for a long time, ever since his leg was ruined.

This doctor was Cleo’s old colleague, and his usual relationship was quite good, he didn’t go out, but walked in, “Don’t ah, Cleo, once in a while you’d like to get together with us, you’re off work so early by yourself, how boring it would be to go back.”

“Besides, do you have a wife that needs you to go back early to be with.”

Cleo gathered her things and looked at him, “There’s really no need, I don’t want to go.”

“Fine, I won’t force you then.” He turned to go.

Cleo called out to him in a hurry, “Moore ah, your wife is in charge of the hospital’s logistics department, right?”

“Uh, what’s up?” Moore looked at him suspiciously.

“Help me ask your wife if we still need people in the hospital’s logistics department, preferably for jobs like organizing documents and files.”

“Why are you asking?” After Moore asked, and as if he thought of something, his eyes swept to Romaine who was standing at the side, and he was surprised, “No way, Cleo, you really got … glued to this kind of girl.”

Hearing him say this, Cleo furrowed her brows in displeasure, “What do you mean I’ve been glued to her?”

Romaine’s cheeks at the side also suddenly heated up.

Moore was having a hard time accepting it, “This girl comes to pester you every day, our entire hospital knows that this girl is after you. I didn’t expect that you would really be chased by this girl.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Moore, there’s nothing between Romaine and me, she’s just a family member of my patient.” Cleo coldly brushed the relationship aside.

Moore was not believing what Cleo said at all, he sized up Romaine and spoke slowly, “I know you treat this girl as a patient’s family member, but is this girl treating you only as a doctor, a blind man can see that.”

“How many times must she run to you this day? How much food has she sent to you?”

“It’s all a misunderstanding, Romaine is just grateful to me.” Cleo was still explaining, was not thinking much about it at all.

At this, Moore laughed as he looked over at Romaine, “Tell me, do you like Dr. Cleo?”

“Uh-huh.” Romaine’s cheeks reddened like ripe tomatoes, shy, but not denying it out of shyness, she nodded in response.

She did like Dr. Cleo, a lot.

It’s just that all along Dr. Cleo didn’t find out, and today someone helped her put words in her mouth, she kinda wanted to seize the opportunity, wanted to say all the words in her heart to Cleo clearly.

Moore looks at Romaine like this and laughs even more, “Look at her, she’s admitting it, she’s admitting it herself!”

“I say Cleo, don’t tell me you never saw it. Everyone in our hospital has seen it, but you didn’t, this is something that when you say it, I’m afraid no one will believe it.”

“No wonder, no wonder Romaine came to you for so long and you didn’t say anything.”

By the time Moore finished his sentence, Romaine’s face was even redder, her heart was beating very fast, and she stared timidly at Cleo.

She wanted to see what kind of expression was on Cleo’s face, she wanted to know what Cleo was thinking.

Moore looked at the situation and didn’t stay any longer, ”Cleo, I’ll leave first then. Before I leave, I have to remind you, if you don’t like this little girl, don’t let my wife stay working for her in the hospital to avoid unnecessary trouble.”

Watching Moore finish his sentence and walk out, Romaine looks at Cleo, her voice low, “Dr. Cleo …”

“You shouldn’t have thought that.” Cleo interrupts her in a cold voice.

Romaine looks at him in disbelief, “Why? I don’t understand why Dr. Cleo. Isn’t it human to like someone? And you’re not married, and I’m not married, so why shouldn’t I think that way?”

Why?

Cleo gave her the reason, “Because you’re only eighteen and I’m thirty-six, and you’re mistaking gratitude for fondness when it comes to your feelings for me.”

“I know that our ages are a little far apart, but I don’t see what’s wrong with that. Aren’t there a lot of celebrities, scientists and the like who are still in their seventies marrying twenty-somethings, not to mention our place? I don’t think age is an issue.”

“Only my feelings for you, and you’re not me, so how can you know?”

She countered all the reasons he gave.

Romaine looked at him for a split second with a smile in her eyes, “Dr. Cleo, actually, you don’t have to care about my feelings. If you don’t like me, think I’m not good enough for you, think I’m not good in any way, you can just tell me clearly and come to reject me.”

“I don’t feel … what’s bad about you.” Cleo looked at her this way, and his heart softened again.

He should actually go along with her words so that he could reject her.

After thinking for a moment, Cleo spoke again, “Our family environment, and growing up is different, we don’t fit.”

“So, Dr. Cleo, you still dislike me. I know I came from a poor country; I know I didn’t have much schooling or education; and I know my family was poor.”

Cleo frowned, “I don’t mean that I dislike you, I just mean that we don’t fit.”

“How do you know we’re not a good fit when you won’t even give me a chance?” Romaine was lost, she kept her head down and made herself barely speak to him in a laughing voice. “Dr. Cleo, I get it, you don’t have to tell me anything, thank you.”

“I know I don’t deserve you, I was delusional and I’m really sorry for the trouble I caused you.”

She was like this, and he saw it in his eyes.

He had an indescribable feeling in addition to his intolerance; he hadn’t thought that a person could be this humble, that they could just say they weren’t worthy.

Cleo thought, she was only eighteen after all, she shouldn’t look down on herself so much at this age, so he spoke again, “You’re only eighteen, you still have tons of life ahead of you. It’s not that you don’t deserve me, it’s that I don’t deserve you.”

“You know, my legs. That’s why I haven’t taken a wife until now, because no one wants to marry me.”

As soon as he spoke, he heard her say, “I do!”

Her face overflowed with earnestness, as if she were saying a vow that way, and she repeated, “I do, Dr. Cleo, I will marry you.”

“You …” He froze for a moment.

Romaine took his arm, met his eyes, and said word for word, “Dr. Cleo, you said you don’t mind me and I’ll marry you. Why can’t we be together?”

“I really like you, as long as you don’t mind me and let me be with you, I’ll do anything. Wherever you think I’m not good enough, I’ll work hard to correct it, and I’ll love you for the rest of my life, and stay by your side for the rest of my life, without leaving you.”

Cleo thought as if there was no reason to reject her anymore.