"Waaaaah...it hurts so much...waaaah, it hurts so much!"
"Blow it..."
"Blowing on it didn't help."
"How about we go out for a big meal after you've finished eating?"
"Okay..."
This is a conversation between the girl in front of Chu Chu after she had her blood drawn and her boyfriend who came with her.
Lu Yibei watched the whole thing without any expression.
Although every couple has their own way of getting along.
It's impossible to judge whether it's good or bad.
But after subconsciously comparing, he still felt a sense of pride.
His girlfriend is the best; she's so poised and confident, and even her occasional attempts at being coquettish seem so natural and adorable.
but.
His girlfriend no longer belongs to him.
"...It's okay, it doesn't hurt."
At the window, Chu Chu rolled up her sleeves high as if she were going to her execution. After the doctor inside disinfected her arm with alcohol, she immediately turned around, hugged Ji Qingqian tightly, and buried her head in Ji Qingqian's chest. Her whole body trembled, and Ji Qingqian gently stroked the top of her head, softly comforting her.
Lu Yibei clicked his tongue: "...Tsk."
He was just relieved that "thankfully it wasn't me who got the injection," but now he's resentful that "why wasn't it me who got the injection!"
Even the heroine Qingqian has never coaxed him like this... How awful!
Ji Qingqian held Chu Chu in her arms, and seemed to sense the gaze of her boyfriend sitting on the public bench behind her.
She turned around.
Lu Yibei suppressed his displeasure and smiled – it wasn't necessary to appear too stingy in front of the patient.
Ji Qingqian narrowed her eyes slightly and pursed her lips.
A chill ran down her arm, and Chu Chu hissed, her eyes tightly shut and her eyelashes trembling. Ji Qingqian continued to gently pat Chu Chu's head.
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt..."
"alright."
At the doctor's call, Chu Chu took the alcohol disinfectant and pressed it against her wound.
Ji Qingqian helped her back to her boyfriend's side.
The pain of blood draws is less about the pain itself and more about the fear of needles; there is actually little pain in them.
So after the injection, Chu Chu returned to her original demeanor—she appeared somewhat dull and listless due to her illness.
Lu Yibei didn't say much.
Considering the girl is sick, I'll let it go for now.
But then again...
He was sick and his girlfriend stood him up so they could have dinner together.
Later, when he came to the hospital for a blood test, he had to hug his girlfriend... Lu Yibei had never been hugged like that by his girlfriend while getting a blood test before, nor had she gently touched his head and whispered comforting words like "It's okay".
My ex-girlfriend once asked him to bring her two cups of milk tea, one of which wasn't for her, but for this girl...
"...Are you alright?" Ji Qingqian asked.
Chu Chu hummed in agreement.
Although that was the answer, it clearly revealed a sense of weariness.
—She even tilted her head and leaned on her girlfriend's shoulder!
Lu Yibei, who was sitting on the other side of his girlfriend, sighed and stood up.
Ji Qingqian looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lu Yibei was helpless:
"I'll go pour a cup of hot water for our child. Do you want some?"
Ji Qingqian shook her head.
Lu Yibei smiled and then asked Chu Chu:
"Have you eaten anything? Tell me what you want to eat as soon as possible, I still have time to buy it for you."
Chu Chu said in a hoarse voice, "No," and then added, "I don't want any water either, Senior Lu, you don't need any..."
Before he could finish saying the word "trouble," Lu Yibei interrupted him:
"It's one thing to have a fever and no appetite, but you must drink water, otherwise you'll collapse."
Ji Qingqian was also quite stern: "Be obedient."
“…Okay.” Chu Chu obediently agreed.
Watching Lu Yibei walk slowly away with his hands in his shirt pockets, Chu Chu suddenly felt a mix of sadness and emotion.
What's painful is that this is the first time in her life she's been sick, and no family members are by her side... and she's even thousands of kilometers away from home.
—Aside from illness, this was the first time Chu Chu had been away from home for almost half a year without returning.
Her heavy body and dizzy head made her miss her hometown, thousands of miles away, her parents whom she hadn't seen in a long time, and her friends back home even more.
Perhaps it's because illness makes one more prone to sadness that these emotions come on so intensely.
As for what makes it touching,
"Thank you, Qian..."
Chu Chu leaned on Ji Qingqian's shoulder and whispered in a husky voice, "And Senior Lu...you guys are so kind..."
Ji Qingqian hummed in agreement and said calmly, "It's nothing."
Chu Chu sighed, with a hint of apology:
"I didn't do much to help you when you were sick before..."
Ji Qingqian paused for a moment, then said:
"It doesn't matter."
“Back then, I had my father to take care of me.”
"It's because you don't have a boyfriend."
Chu Chu:…
The headache and the weakness from the rising body temperature made her really not want to move, so she endured it.
But in the end, I couldn't resist:
"Hey Ji Qingqian, you motherfucker—"
…
Chu Chu drank some lukewarm water and leaned weakly on Ji Qingqian's shoulder, waiting until fifteen minutes before the test results were due.
Lu Yibei successfully retrieved the blood test report.
The good news is that it's not related to the flu.
The bad news is that even a common cold can cause a fever as high as 39 degrees Celsius, which should be taken seriously.
So the doctor gave us two options.
The first is getting an injection.
The second is intravenous fluid therapy.
Chu Chu chose to commit suicide.
Chu Laomei, who trembled at the thought of having her blood drawn, couldn't imagine what kind of groans she would utter when she got a shot.
An IV drip is much better than an injection; at most, it's as painful as a blood draw.
However, it takes a lot of time; it will probably take three or four hours to finish three bottles of water.
They had classes in the afternoon, but Chu Chu herself didn't mind.
But it would be too lonely for someone to be on an IV drip alone, and Chu Laomei, who already felt insecure because of her illness, felt even more empty.
"...Let's take the medicine?" Chu Chu suggested to the doctor.
The doctor ignored her and instead looked at Lu Yibei and Ji Qingqian.
Chu Chu:…
No, doctor!
Are you really just joking about a family of three?
I'm an adult, for goodness' sake!
Ji Qingqian suggested, "Let's get an IV drip."
She recovered last time with an IV drip, and it worked very quickly; she slept it off and felt much better.
So she decided to study the old versions and try out the existing strategies.
"Okay," the doctor said. "Let's start the IV drip."
Chu Chu:…
When Lu Yibei thought his girlfriend would ask for the afternoon off, he didn't expect her to say:
"Abei, are you free this afternoon?"
Lu Yibei: ?
How come my little girl, who always thinks about skipping class, is thinking about studying properly?
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