After dinner, everyone helped clean up before leaving.

Jiang Xiaoli linked arms with Li Guizhi, "I asked you to go for a physical exam the other day, but you kept saying you didn't have time. Now that the competition is over, let's go tomorrow morning?"

Zong Jia also advised, "Yes, Mom, Xiao Lizi has been talking about it for days. Let's go together tomorrow."

Li Guizhi smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go tomorrow as you say! But I really feel pretty good!"

She held up her index finger and wagged it, "You can't say for sure, we have to see what the doctor says!"

Around 2 a.m., Jiang Xiaoli suddenly sat up. Zong Jiayu groggily opened his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

She turned on the bedside lamp, turned her head, and asked, "My tooth hurts so much, is my face swollen?"

Zong Jia sat up and looked at her face, unable to help but laugh out loud.

The little girl's left cheek swelled up, turning her originally round face into a small square.

Jiang Xiaoli glared at him and punched him on the shoulder. "What are you laughing at! Ouch! That hurts!"

Zong Jiayu stood up and said, "It seems to be a tooth infection. Your face is a little swollen. I'll go get you an ice pack."

When he returned to his room, Jiang Xiaoli was standing in front of the bathroom mirror, lost in thought.

She mumbled incoherently, "Ugh, it feels like I have a ping-pong ball stuck in my mouth."

Zong Jiayu held an ice pack to her face and said, "Put an ice pack on first. I'll go find you some anti-inflammatory medicine. We'll go to the hospital to see what's wrong when it's light out."

Jiang Xiaoli grabbed him, "What if not taking the medicine affects the test results? I'll bear with it a little longer."

She was in so much pain that she couldn't sleep and didn't want to chat, so Zong Jiayu stayed up all night watching TV dramas with her.

The next morning, Li Guizhi packed the prepared breakfast into a lunchbox and knocked on the door.

Jiang Xiaoli's swollen left cheek had subsided somewhat, but it still looked quite serious, which made Li Guizhi burst into laughter.

"Mom! Is this really okay?" she asked plaintively.

Li Guizhi suppressed a laugh and wiped away the tears that had welled up in her eyes. "Alright, alright, let's go to the hospital to get checked out. It'll be fine in a little while."

The three of them got a medical check-up form, had their blood drawn, and completed all the tests before arriving at the dental clinic.

After taking an X-ray, the doctor said, "This is an inflamed wisdom tooth. The tooth hasn't erupted yet, so we'll have to wait for the inflammation to subside before surgery to extract it."

"Surgery?"

Jiang Xiaoli had her teeth cleaned before, and she felt that dentists were the scariest people. They would use instruments to pry open her mouth and rummage around inside. Now that she heard that her teeth would need surgery, she immediately became nervous.

The doctor nodded and said, "If it grows out on its own, it will be easy to deal with, but yours is far from growing out. If left untreated, it will grow close to the facial nerves, which will be troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Li Guizhi immediately made a decision: "Pull it! Come back to have the tooth pulled once the inflammation has subsided!"

Jiang Xiaoli looked to Zong Jiayu for help, and Zong Jiayu patiently advised, "What if it hurts so much every time it gets inflamed if we don't remove it?"

The doctor interjected, "That's right. If you don't remove it, it might get inflamed if you get a little heat in it. It's better to solve the problem once and for all than to keep going back and forth like that."

She could only compromise, "Fine, fine, I'll pull the plug!"

Upon hearing this, the doctor prescribed her anti-inflammatory injections, saying, "Have three days of injections, and come back to have the tooth extracted once the inflammation subsides."

As she received her IV in the infusion room, Jiang Xiaoli watched the two people next to her eating breakfast with immense envy.

Li Guizhi prepared easy-to-carry breakfasts, none of which were edible for her, so she could only drink water through a straw on the side.

She poked Zong Jiayu's arm in a fit of indignation, "Buy me a mask."

Li Guizhi asked in bewilderment, "Why are you wearing a mask if you have a toothache?"

"To cover up the ugliness!"

Zong Jia stood up, smiled, and said, "Okay, I'll go buy it now."

He quickly bought the masks and returned, even buying an extra one for himself.

Jiang Xiaoli tilted her head to look at him, "Why are you wearing a mask?"

Zong Jia patted her head and smiled gently, "I'll stay with you."

Li Guizhi packed up the lunchboxes and said, "You two keep making a fuss! Aren't you hot?"

Jiang Xiaoli was secretly pleased and didn't argue back. "Mom, you can go back now. Ayu can stay with me."

"Okay, I'll go home and cook some porridge. You can eat it when you get your injections."

She nodded vigorously and ordered food, "I want to drink mushroom and shredded chicken congee."

"Okay, okay! You little tyrant!"

After Li Guizhi left, no one sat next to them anymore, not even the bench next to them.

People would avoid these two monsters wearing masks even in the middle of summer.

As the IV drip was almost finished, Jiang Xiaoli overheard people whispering nearby, "Could these two have some kind of infectious disease?"

She muttered under her breath, "I have rabies, I want to bite her."

Zong Jia chuckled twice, coaxing her, "Okay, it'll be over soon, just bear with it a little longer."

On her way home from the hospital, Jiang Xiaoli called Zhu Han and said, "I won't be going to the company for the next couple of days. Call me if you need anything."

Zong Jia also called Zhong Yuan to give him some instructions.

Zhong Yuan looked puzzled. "Brother Zong, what happened?"

He denied it, saying, "It's nothing, I'll stay home with Xiaoli for two days."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Zhong Yuan said sarcastically, "Brother Zong, why do you sound like you're about to abandon your duties as emperor? You two better take it easy!"

Because he was driving, Zong Jiayu's phone was on speakerphone, and Jiang Xiaoli could hear everything clearly.

She endured the toothache and said angrily, "Brother Yuan! I curse you with circles, wishing you no toilet paper and that you'll spend the whole afternoon in the toilet with no one bringing you any!"

Zhong Yuan laughed, "Hey! Little Pear, you really reminded me! I'll have someone check if there's any toilet paper in the restrooms on these floors right away!"

Zong Jia quickly stopped the two childish kids from arguing. "Alright, stop arguing. Xiao Lizi has an inflamed wisdom tooth and needs to go to the hospital for a shot in the next couple of days. If there's anything at the company, just call me. I'm working online from home."

"Are you alright?" Zhong Yuan asked with concern when he heard that she was sick.

Jiang Xiaoli felt a little better and muttered, "It's okay, I'll just get a tooth pulled once the inflammation goes down."

But her comfort only lasted until the afternoon.

Zhong Yuan brought Hu Jingxin up with a basket of fruit to "visit the sick."

Upon seeing Jiang Xiaoli's swollen left cheek, the young couple burst into laughter as if their funny bone had been tickled.

Zhong Yuan laughed so hard he clutched his stomach and collapsed onto the sofa.

The expression of someone wanting to kill another person is impossible to hide, and Zong Jia quickly stopped the tragedy from happening.

He kicked Zhong Yuan, "Alright, you've seen it all, you two should head back now."

Hu Jingxin was still somewhat humane; she controlled her stiff smile and said, "Xiao Li, we'll be going now. If you need anything at home, just let us know!"

Jiang Xiaoli didn't want to say a word to her bad friend, and just nodded.

She refused all visitors until the inflammation subsided and the swelling on her left cheek went down.