Chapter 6 Children who are afraid of injections and medications

Ruan Chao saw the crying expression on the system's face and lowered his voice: [I just said it casually, I won't do it. ]

0606 Doubtful: [Really?]

Seeing its silly look, Ruan Chao deliberately bullied it and said with his lips pursed: [It’s fake.]

The system was sobbing and shedding tears, and its little wings were all wet. Its wings were originally shorter than those of other systems, and every time it flew it had to flap its wings desperately to move its round body. Now that they were soaked with tears, it could not fly again for a while.

Ruan Chao raised the corners of his lips in a wicked manner and let it cry for a long time before he tried to comfort it.

The system is also easy to coax, like a child, and will be happy again after just a few nice words.

After coaxing him, Ruan Chao continued to wipe Gu Xingyan's face. The wound on his forehead was bleeding and it wouldn't come clean no matter how hard he wiped it.

In the end, Nguyen Chao had no choice but to give up.

I watched the blood slowly flow from the corner of my eye, drop by drop onto the seat, and then slowly soak the cushion.

He lowered his head and saw that his fingertips were also stained with bright red blood.

Ruan Chao frowned in disgust and rubbed his blood vigorously on Gu Xingyan's clothes. Anyway, the school uniform was already stained with blood, and no one would notice it if he wiped it twice.

He didn't know if he used too much force, but the person in front of him fluttered his eyelashes, suddenly opened his eyes, reached out and grasped his wrist, preventing him from taking the next step.

Ruan Chao blinked twice: "Are you awake?"

The boy's gaze fell vaguely on Ruan Chao's face, without focus, as if he was awake but not completely awake.

Ruan Chao opened his five fingers and waved them in front of him.

"Gu Xingyan?"

He still had some reaction to his own name and struggled to squeeze out a "hmm" from the depths of his throat.

"I saw you fainted on the side of the road. I need to take you to the hospital now."

"Hospital?" Gu Xingyan frowned and repeated slowly, "I don't want to go to the hospital."

Realizing that Ruan Chao had no ill intentions towards him, Gu Xingyan lessened his strength, but still held the boy's wrist loosely without letting go.

In order to maintain his precarious image, Ruan Chao gradually pried open Gu Xingyan's palm.

Gu Xingyan was sick with a fever and had lost too much blood, with double debuffs stacked on top of him. He had already used up all his strength just now when he grabbed Ruan Chao, and he could only watch helplessly as the boy gradually escaped from his control.

His fingers clenched in the void, and finally he could only retreat and grab Ruan Chao's sleeve.

He slowly raised his eyes, his pupils, which were much darker than those of ordinary people, stared straight at Ruan Chao, repeating word by word, "I don't want to go to the hospital."

Nguyen Chao was speechless, which was rare.

You don't want to go to the hospital for treatment. Are you a child who is afraid of injections and taking medicines?

He pulled his arm back, not wanting Gu Xingyan to continue pulling him. The fabric of the cuff was very slippery, and with just a casual pull, most of it was pulled out of his hand.

Only a little was left in Gu Xingyan's palm.

Perhaps because the blood flowed into his eyes, the boy's eyes were bloodshot. Even though he felt obviously uncomfortable, he still stared at Ruan Chao with great persistence.

The wound on his forehead was still bleeding, and a drop of warm blood happened to fall on the back of Nguyen Chao's hand.

The heat made his fingers curl up.

Ruan Chao did not pull his arm back, allowing him to pull the last bit of cloth.

He kicked the trash can next to him, allowing Gu Xingyan to look at the blood-stained tissue inside.

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"You don't want to go to the hospital, are you planning to bleed to death?" Ruan Chao thought for a moment and continued, "That's right, there's no point in living like you, it's better for you to die early and purify society."

Gu Xingyan had heard worse things and had become immune to the Nguyen Dynasty's sarcasm.

This kind of sarcasm without any profanity could not break his defense at all.

He was a little surprised to see the tissues soaked in blood, as if he had not expected that he would bleed so much.

Only now did he feel the sharp pain on his forehead.

He must have accidentally hit his forehead after falling.

No wonder he felt so cold and weak. Was it because he had lost too much blood?

Gu Xingyan's breathing became rapid, his heart beat much faster than before, and his vision went dark.

He knew very well that this was a precursor to shock.

So he stopped stubbornly repeating that he didn't want to go to the hospital.

When Nguyen Chao saw that he had calmed down, he knew that he had realized how serious his injuries were.

He had never met anyone who cared so little about him.

Even if you don't hit your forehead, if your fever is over 40 degrees, you should go to the hospital for a check-up.

If this high fever is not treated promptly, it can easily leave serious sequelae and may even develop into pneumonia.

There was a noticeable gravity coming from his shoulders; it was Gu Xingyan who fell on him.

The guy held on for just a few minutes before passing out again.

Nguyen Chao pushed his head away and told him to lean against something else.

Because they were so close, the boy's pale face looked even more frightening.

The dark circles under his eyelids were purple.

Ruan Chao couldn't help but stretched out his finger and touched it, muttering to himself, "How long has it been since you stayed up late? The dark circles under your eyes are so deep."

The system captured the key words and unlocked some information about the male protagonist.

System: [Gu Xingyan has been sleeping at 2am and waking up at 6am for a month straight, and in the past week he didn’t even get four hours of sleep.]

Ruan Chao casually complained: […Is he trying to cultivate immortality? ]

Thinking of Gu Xingyan's series of minor ailments, Ruan Chao felt that if he had not been the protagonist, he might have died suddenly long ago.

…

The driver drove to the hospital as quickly as possible, in just fifteen minutes.

There were not many people in the hospital at this time, and they completed the medical consultation process quickly.

The wound on Gu Xingyan's forehead was quite deep and required five stitches. The doctor said that if it was not properly cared for in the future, it would most likely leave a scar.

Because when he fell to the ground, he hit his head directly and suffered a mild concussion, so he needed to be admitted to the hospital for observation.

He had a very high fever. If he had been sent to the hospital later, serious problems might have occurred. After a temporary fever-reducing injection, he is now receiving an IV drip in the general ward.

In addition, there are countless other minor issues.

Ruan Chao held a stack of examination reports and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Are you his family member?" The doctor pushed his glasses and asked in a serious tone.

"……no."

"Is that his friend?"

Ruan Chao originally wanted to say that he was just a kind passerby, but when he saw Gu Xingyan looking lonely in the ward, he nodded and accepted this identity.

The doctor sighed, "The patient's condition is not optimistic. He has an irregular work and rest schedule, anemia, and long-term malnutrition... If he continues like this, he will sooner or later ruin his health."

"If you don't take care of yourself when you are young, it will be too late to regret when you are 30 and your energy is no longer there."

Nguyen Chao agreed with what the doctor said and felt that the doctor had been very tactful.

If Gu Xingyan continues like this, even a strong body will not be able to withstand it and he may not live to be thirty years old.

But he is the protagonist favored by the fate of this world, and his tragic fate is only temporary. In a few months, he will be picked up by the top family in Beijing, wear brand-name clothes he has never worn before, eat top-notch meals he has never eaten before, and no longer have to suffer in life.

"You have a good relationship with him, right?" After Gu Xingyan was hospitalized, Ruan Chao had been busy all the time, paying bills, getting reports, and communicating with doctors and nurses. He hadn't sat down to rest for such a long time, so the doctor naturally thought that the two were good friends. "When you have time, persuade him not to stay up late all the time, eat three meals a day, eat more vegetables and meat, and even if he is picky about food, he must force himself to take in normal nutrients, so that he can protect his body."

Ruan Chao nodded: "I understand. I will talk to him about it later."

The doctor couldn't bear to see such a young child wasting his health, so he gave him many earnest instructions. Then another patient came, and he had to leave.

Nguyen Chao, who was not very good at socializing, breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace.

He pushed open the door of the ward and walked in.

This is a single ward, which is clean and tidy, and the air is filled with a faint smell of disinfectant.

Nguyen Chao placed the stack of reports on the bedside table and sat on a chair to observe Gu Xingyan for a while.

His face regained some color, no longer looking ghostly white like before. The wound on his head was bandaged, with scarlet blood peeking through it, and it looked painful.

Ruan Chao restrained his expression and bent down to help him cover the quilt again.

He stared at Gu Xingyan's face for a while and found that his eyelashes were much longer than those of ordinary people, and the ends were slightly curled.

This reminded Ruan Chao of the doll he picked up from the garbage dump when he was a child. The doll also had long and curly eyelashes, which was very beautiful.

Because the doll had been wandering for too long, its face and clothes were dirty, and he had to wash them several times before they were clean again.

When he was a child, Nguyen Chao had few toys and few friends. He held a doll in his hands and treated it as the whole world. He even cut his own clothes to make a skirt for it.

The skirt was not finished and in the end the dress was damaged and could not be worn.

I thought about things that happened a long time ago... I can't say they were pleasant or unpleasant, but I haven't thought about them for a long time, so it's inevitable that I feel a little depressed.

Ruan Chao stretched out his hand and tested the temperature of Gu Xingyan's forehead again.

Although it's still a little hot, it's far less hot than before.

I don’t know when I will wake up.

He sat in a chair and browsed his phone for a while. Feeling bored, he raised his head and stared at the IV bottle.

Watching the liquid inside drip down little by little, and then slowly flow into Gu Xingyan's blood vessels.

A loud ring broke the silence in the room.

Ruan Chao saw the word "Mom" displayed on the contact screen. He was stunned for a moment before hurriedly picking up the phone.

"Hey, Chao Chao, why haven't you gone home yet?"

A soft female voice came from the other end of the phone, and the gentle tone revealed a hint of worry.

"Didn't the driver tell you? A friend of mine is injured and we are in the hospital now." Fearing that his family would worry, Ruan Chao asked the driver to go back early and tell them about his current situation.

"Then when will you come back? Mom made your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs. The ribs won't taste good if they're too cold."

Ruan Chao was afraid of waking up Gu Xingyan, so he walked out of the ward with his phone in his hand. When his mother asked him when he would be back, he was a little unsure, "It should take a while, he hasn't woken up yet."

"What about his family? They didn't even come to the hospital to take care of their own child when something happened. Why do they let you, a child, run around for him? How can that be justified?" Mother Ruan was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and she always spoke in a soft voice even when she was complaining.

"His family..." Ruan Chao turned his phone to another direction, his voice a little dry, "His parents are gone, and he is the only one left at home."

"...Mom." It had been a long time since I said this name. It was very unnatural when I first said it. After a pause, the following words became smooth. "He is seriously injured and has a concussion. Someone needs to stay and observe. I have to wait until he wakes up before I can go home."

"Okay, okay, there's nothing we can do about it. Your friend hasn't eaten yet, right? Mom will ask the driver to bring you food."

"No need, Mom. There's a cafeteria here in the hospital. If that doesn't work, we can order takeout."

"How can we do that?" Mom said disapprovingly, "Takeout is so dirty. What if we get sick from eating it?"

"But……"

"Okay, Chao Chao, stop talking. I've already loaded the food and asked the driver to set off."

So fast?

Nguyen Chao looked at the sky outside the window. It was night time and bright stars lit up the sky.

The call was disconnected.

Ruan Chao stood in the corridor for a while, and through the glass on the door, he saw Gu Xingyan supporting himself and sitting up.

Those dark eyes, without any wavering, stared straight at him.