Knock knock...
A few knocks echoed in the room at night.
Su Jin frowned and opened her eyes, groping for her phone. The glaring light from the phone almost blinded her.
It was past 1 a.m.
The faint noise continued outside the door.
Who is it so late at night?
Su Jin's mind was foggy, and she staggered to her feet to open the door.
The dark figure outside the door was huddled up in a ball, looking as if it could barely stand.
"Violet...it hurts so much, it's so uncomfortable."
Su Jin instantly snapped out of her daze. "Teacher Shen? Is that you?"
Shen Yanxiu held onto the door frame with one hand and tucked the other hand into his chest. Even though Su Jin couldn't see his face clearly in the darkness, she could still sense that something was wrong with him.
"What's wrong with you?"
Chen Yanxiu was in so much pain that he was delirious, his hair was soaked with sweat, and his voice was so faint it was almost inaudible, "It hurts..."
Su Jin squatted down and brushed his hair aside, pressing the back of her hand against his forehead.
"It's so hot, do you have a fever?"
Like a cat, Shen Yanxiu rubbed against her outstretched hand; it was so soft.
"Um......"
Su Jin ignored his little actions and quickly got up to find the production team.
"Don't go! Don't go!"
Even though Shen Yanxiu was so ill, I don't know where he got the strength, but he grabbed her sleeve desperately.
The sound was fragmented, as if it could break into pieces with just a little more force.
Su Jin looked down at him and realized that Shen Yanxiu was really thin. Are all male actors like this?
She was so thin that her collarbones protruded and her neck hollows were sunken.
Su Jin raised her hand and turned on the room light, which made Shen Yanxiu close his eyes.
She was shocked to see his disheveled state and the trickling blood flowing from his bandaged left hand.
"Teacher Shen, can you hear me? What happened to your hand?"
Shen Yanxiu's face was as pale as paper, with an unnatural flush on his face, and he seemed unable to hear her at all.
But if Su Jin showed even the slightest intention to leave, he would hold onto her sleeve tightly.
This is really a headache.
Su Jin could only patiently reason with the patient, "I need to go find the production team now and ask them to call an ambulance. You feel very uncomfortable right now, right? You need to go to the hospital, then you won't feel uncomfortable anymore."
Shen Yanxiu breathed softly, leaning against the door frame, tilting his fragile neck back.
After a long pause, she let out a very soft "Mmm..."
Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief and got up to leave.
My sleeve was gently tugged.
Shen Yanxiu's eyes were swirling with emotions that Su Jin couldn't understand.
Su Jin tilted her head in confusion.
Shen Yanxiu's trembling lips opened and closed again, but in the end he closed his eyes.
"It's nothing, you can go..."
Su Jin found him strange, as if he would never come back after he left.
"I'll be right back! Hang in there a little longer!"
When he found the director and heard that Shen Yanxiu was so ill that he couldn't even get out of bed, he was so frightened that his legs went weak.
It seems like my career is coming to an end.
The director asked Su Jin to find someone to help carry Shen Yanxiu while he went to find a car to drive him to the hospital.
Forced to get out of bed, Lin Shi: "...Oh, so you came to find me?"
Su Jin took a step back. "Hey, aren't we good friends? Good friends can lick each other's wounds."
Lin Shi rolled up her sleeves. "My hemorrhoids seem to have flared up too."
"......"
Although reluctant, Lin Shi still carried Shen Yanxiu with Su Jin.
Don't let his thin appearance fool you; a person in a coma is incredibly heavy.
Lin Shi asked breathlessly, "Don't you know that staying up late makes you ugly? Why did you have to come to me?"
Su Jin supported Chen Yanxiu's buttocks.
"Staying up late will make you ugly, but if you're already ugly, you can still keep staying up late."
Lin Shi threatened.
"Do you believe I'll just quit?"
Su Jin quickly changed the subject, "It's okay, my best friend. My appearance skipped the flowering season at birth and went straight into winter."
"We're both just as bad as each other."
Exhausted, Su Jin carried Chen Yanxiu into the car. She wanted to take a nap in the front seat, but the man grabbed her clothes.
Helpless, he sat in the back seat, supporting Shen Yanxiu's body to prevent him from falling off due to the bumps.
The director then asked, "What's wrong with Teacher Shen? Does she have a fever?"
Su Jin glanced at the bandage on his left hand. "It's not that simple."
Gently lift his left hand with its distinct knuckles and remove the gauze.
The bloody hole on the back of his hand was now red and swollen.
"His wound is infected."
"ah?"
Thinking back to tonight's meal, I guess I must have gotten something on my plate at some point.
Lin Shi turned around and looked at him. "Is it that serious?"
The car drove over a gravel road, and the bumps might aggravate his wound.
Shen Yanxiu frowned and groaned.
"A Jin..."
"Um?"
Su Jin looked down and saw that Shen Yanxiu's eyes were blurry with tears, and he was delirious with fever. He opened his mouth but no sound came out.
Su Jin thought he was speaking too softly and she hadn't heard him.
So she lowered her head and put her ear to him, "What did you say?"
Her long hair fell down, with a few strands landing on Shen Yanxiu's face.
He closed his eyes.
"I......"
He used all his strength, but could only manage a single breathy sound.
Su Jin shook her head and sat back down.
She may never know what Chen Yanxiu really wanted to say that day.
He just wanted a hug from her.
It could be the pain in my hand, or it could be the indescribable ache in my heart.
But this request is really excessive...
So he kept quiet.
Su Jin stood at the entrance of the emergency exit, looked up at the bright red lettering, and suddenly asked, "Do you think we look like beggars right now?"
Lin Shi looked at her messy hair and mismatched clothes.
"A little..."
Seeing that no one was around, Lin Shi asked her, "Why did Shen Yanxiu come to you? If he had the energy, wouldn't it have been better for him to go directly to the director?"
Su Jin sighed, "Don't say anymore. I don't even know how much he likes me now. The system went to find the main system."
Recalling Shen Yanxiu's vulnerability just now, Su Jin raised her head and said, "Even if he's a masochist, he can't be this cruel to himself."
What did you say now?
"I just checked his wound in the car, and it looks like it got infected from some unclean water. I guess it was when he was cooking for us."
Both of them found themselves blaming themselves.
Lin Shi: "Actually, Shen Yanxiu is a good person. If you had tried to win him over from the beginning, you might have succeeded much earlier."
Su Jin shook her head. "That's not necessarily true. He likes married women."
"ah?"
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