He Jingshen pulled his hand away from his grasp and stroked his tousled hair. "Don't try to prove yourself to others this way in the future, understand?"
Liu Qi gave a bewildered "oh" because he didn't think it was a big deal. After all, they were all men, and he wouldn't try to prove himself to a girl like that, nor did he need to.
He Jingshen pinched his cheek. "Be good, understand?"
Liu Qi nodded his head knowingly and hummed softly.
He Jingshen grew increasingly fond of the obedient little beauty in front of him, secretly vowing to keep her by his side forever.
"Let's go out, or they'll start to panic and come to bail us out."
"Okay, sure..."
As Liu Qi walked beside He Jingshen, he couldn't help but glance at him. He was quite handsome; if he were half as handsome as He Jingshen, maybe…
"Junior, if you look at me like that, I'll think you've fallen in love with me."
Liu Qi looked away from his face, his eyes darting around, and he stammered nervously, "Senior He, you...you're overthinking it. My sexual orientation...is...not a problem. I like girls."
He Jingshen stopped in his tracks, his previously upturned lips instantly drooping. He looked at him coldly and said defiantly, "Oh... I like girls too."
After saying that, he strode to the dining table without looking back and sat down with a resentful look on his face.
Liu Qi sat down as well, feeling a bit confused. He wondered if he was angry because he had been staring at him, or if he had offended him with something he said. Would he make things difficult for him?
Seeing He Jingshen's dark face, Lu Jie went up to him, put his arm around his shoulder, and whispered with concern, "Jingshen, you don't have hemorrhoids, do you? Should I go buy you some ointment?"
He Jingshen glanced at Liu Qi out of the corner of his eye, then gave Lu Jie a cold look, which startled Lu Jie so much that he let go of his shoulder.
His awkward hand, hanging in mid-air, could only pat Liu Qi sitting next to him.
"Excuse me, junior, could you please take care of our handsome school heartthrob, He?"
When Liu Qi overheard Lu and He's conversation, he thought He Jingshen really had hemorrhoids and even considered going to the pharmacy to buy him medicine to appease him.
"Okay, Senior Lu."
When the food was served, everyone started eating. Liu Qi kept feeding He Jingshen, so enthusiastically that his roommates thought he was being a bit of a sycophant.
She was peeling shrimp and picking up vegetables, practically feeding them directly to Ho King-sun.
Seeing that He Jingshen's complexion had finally improved after he kept feeding him, Liu Qi continued to feed him.
He didn't eat his fill during the meal; he was only focused on making Ho King-sun happy and not giving him any trouble.
After dinner, Lu Jie suggested going to karaoke, but He Jingshen refused. He wanted to go with the pretty girl, but he couldn't; he just wanted to go to the hospital.
Everyone got into the car, leaving only Liu Qi and He Jingshen. He grabbed He Jingshen's arm and said, "Senior, wait a moment."
Before He Jingshen could ask anything, Liu Qi hurriedly ran to the pharmacy across the street to buy medicine for hemorrhoids, then ran breathlessly back to He Jingshen and handed him the medicine.
Looking at the medicine in the bag, He Jingshen felt a warm current surge in his heart, because the little beauty not only paid attention to him but also cared about him.
He Jingshen took the bag of medicine from his hand and explained, "I don't have hemorrhoids... Lu Jie was joking."
He Jingshen wasn't embarrassed at all. Instead, he gently patted his head and said, "But thank you for your concern, junior."
When Liu Qi heard that he didn't have hemorrhoids, he was so embarrassed that he wanted to crawl into a hole. How could he have been so stupid as to buy medicine for Senior He?
Liu Qi reached out to take the medicine back, apologizing, "Senior He, I'm sorry, I didn't know... Can you just pretend this never happened?"
Ho King-sun held up the medicine in his hand, "Since it was bought for me, it's mine."
Liu Qi frowned helplessly. This was the first time he had ever seen someone treat giving medicine like giving a gift, and the other party wasn't angry at all, but rather seemed to cherish it.
*
He Jingshen lay in the hospital room, receiving an IV drip, holding his medicine and grinning foolishly.
Thud…
Ho King-sun hurriedly placed the medicine under his pillow.
"Ms. Chen Xi, what brings you here?"
"It was the old man who asked me to check on his most precious grandson to see if he was alright."
"Sigh! I knew my great mother would stay up late to visit her handsome second son instead of getting her beauty sleep."
Ms. Chen Xi's handbag made direct contact with the back of He Jingshen's head.
"You seem quite energetic, and you can even eat something outside. You're also quite talkative."
"No, it's not that. Ms. Chen Xi's unusual behavior has awakened my talent for languages. You can't blame me for that," He Jingshen said with a sneer.
Ms. Chen Xi reached out and touched his forehead, then placed her hand on her own forehead to check: "No fever?"
He then held his head and examined it carefully, asking, "Did you bump it there and get a hole in it?"
Helplessly, Ho King-sun removed Ms. Chan Hei's hand from his head. "Ms. Chan Hei, I didn't fall and get a hole in my head, but you're the one who's going to hurt it."
"Stop joking, baby. Are you in a relationship? I feel like you're acting weird."
Am I weird?
"That's strange. By the way, what did you hide under your pillow just now? You didn't secretly hide a picture of your girlfriend, did you? Show it to Mom."
Ho King-sun excitedly pressed his hands against the pillow, tightly protecting it beneath him, completely forgetting that he still had an IV drip in his hand.
Ms. Chen Xi looked at He Jingshen's excited hand and said, "Second darling, don't protect it. If you don't want me to see it, then don't. Look, your hand is bleeding. I'll call the doctor."
Ms. Chen Xi pressed the call bell, and soon a nurse came over and gently helped He Jingshen re-set up the IV drip.
The nurse looked at He Jingshen with reluctance. Ms. Chen Xi couldn't bear to watch any longer and coughed lightly, "Second darling, take out the picture of your girlfriend that you just hid under your pillow and show it to Mom."
When the nurse heard Ms. Chen Xi say that he had a girlfriend, she left the ward feeling embarrassed.
"Ms. Chen Xi, I don't have a girlfriend, so where did you get these photos?"
"Then what were you protecting so tightly just now?"
He Jingshen deliberately changed the subject; he didn't want anyone else to touch the things the little beauty had given him, only he could touch them.
"Ms. Chen Xi, it's getting late. Aren't you going home to get your beauty sleep?"
"I'm not going to sleep. Right now, I'm even more curious about who my second son's girlfriend is."
Ms. Chen's desire to know what was under his pillow intensified, and how could she possibly sleep if she went back now?
Unable to bear Ms. Chen Xi's curious gaze any longer, He Jingshen sighed and took out the ointment from under his pillow. "I don't have a girlfriend, I'm just a box of ointment."
Ms. Chen Xi looked at the ointment in his hand and said speechlessly, "What's the point of hiding a piece of junk ointment? What a fuss."
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