"I wanted to take the 'Body Tempering Elixir' in a quiet place, so I booked a hotel online. I happened to see that Tongxinyuan Hotel was relatively cheap, so I..."

"'Body Tempering Elixir'?" Song Ye asked in confusion.

“Oh, I got it from a secret channel. It’s not a brand commonly found on the market. You can verify this with my classmates, like Wang Yangming or Lin Xiaoqian,” Shen Qian explained.

Song Ye nodded and then asked, "I heard from Huo Ling'er that you looked for her after leaving the hotel that night, and... did some strange things?"

Ding Yi raised his chin even higher.

I have a dull, aching headache in the front of my head.

He weighed the options for a second and decisively decided to sell Huo Ling'er. In any case, such details didn't really matter, and Song Ye wouldn't care.

"It's like this, junior Huo Ling'er has always admired me, um... I went to see her that night to make things clear to her, to tell her to focus on her studies and not to have a relationship too early," Shen Qian said righteously.

As expected, Song Ye only glanced at Shen Qian with surprise, but did not dwell on who had confessed their feelings.

Then Song Ye asked Shen Qian, but Shen Qian said that he was knocked unconscious in the alley after he parted ways with Huo Ling'er, and he knew nothing about what happened after that, only vaguely mentioning that it might be related to the scavengers.

After asking a few more questions, Song Ye had no choice but to give up. He took one last deep look at Shen Qian and closed the missing person case.

This kind of case wasn't originally his responsibility; he only appeared here because of his personal interest in Shen Qian.

After Song Ye left, Ding Yi also left quickly, without saying a word to Shen Qian, only greeting Wang Xiaojuan.

Watching Ding Yi's tall figure disappear through the ward door, Shen Qian could only smile wryly.

He knew that Ding Yi doubted his words. Even if Ding Yi believed him, the fact that Ding Yi did not know about Huo Ling'er's existence beforehand was the biggest problem.

But Shen Qian, lacking experience, had no choice but to wait until he was discharged from the hospital to find an opportunity to explain, hoping that Ding Yi would still be there by then.

Ten orifices... I wonder if it was worth risking my life to survive...

Before sinking in, his thoughts were already racing, and he was already eager to be discharged and try it out.