Chapter 52 is about male best friends.
Yu Li was so shocked that she sat up abruptly from her deathbed.
"My colleagues are here to visit me. Quick, hide! If they see us, our relationship will be exposed!"
Compared to Yu Li's anxious and flustered state, Qi Chenyan remained quite calm.
"It's okay, don't get out of bed, I'll go to the balcony."
But Yu Li stopped him, saying, "No, the balcony is too obvious."
She quickly looked around. "Go to the bathroom and lock the door. As long as they can't get in, they won't find out."
Qi Chenyan found it somewhat amusing. In fact, he wanted to say that they were a legally married couple, but the reason they didn't make it public was simply because he was afraid that Yu Li's privacy would be exposed and her life would be easily affected.
But Yu Li's reaction was like a guerrilla tactic, as if their relationship was something shameful.
To be honest, when this thought popped into Qi Chenyan's head, he felt inexplicably uneasy, as if an invisible pebble was blocking his mind.
"Okay, I'll go to the balcony, don't rush me."
Qi Chenyan suppressed this inexplicable emotion and got up to go to the restroom.
For a director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be so humiliated that he has to hide in the restroom, this must be a first for Qi Chenyan.
After Qi Chenyan locked the door, Yu Li cleared her throat and said, "Please come in."
Several colleagues came with Xu Hui.
As soon as Xu Hui saw Yu Li, she took her hand and looked her up and down.
"Xiao Yu, are you alright? And..."
Thinking that others didn't know Yu Li was pregnant, she lowered her voice and asked, "Is the baby in your belly okay?"
Yu Li smiled knowingly: "Don't worry, everything is fine. I could have been discharged today, but the nurse said it would be better to stay another night. I'll be able to come to work tomorrow, all lively and energetic."
Although Yu Li said she was fine, Xu Hui still felt very guilty.
"I'm sorry, it's my fault as your supervisor. I didn't take good care of you. I knew your situation was special, but I still made you work overtime for two days in a row."
"We agreed to go together, but I didn't see you. I didn't call to confirm, and I didn't even go to the bathroom to look for you. If your friend hadn't come, something terrible might have happened."
Xu Hui still feels terrified when she thinks about it later.
"Sister Hui is fine now. It was my own fault for not taking good care of myself and for overexerting myself. It has nothing to do with you. Besides, I'm perfectly fine now. Let bygones be bygones."
“If you keep blaming yourself like this, I won’t feel good either.”
Yu Li let the matter drop, and Xu Hui finally managed a smile.
My colleagues gave me flowers, fruit, and milk.
Some people couldn't help but exclaim, "Are hospital wards this nice now? When I was hospitalized before, there were at least four beds in a ward."
"It was noisy during the day, but the worst part was the snoring from the bed next to mine at night. It was so loud that I felt like I would have a nervous breakdown if I stayed any longer. Luckily, I was young and had a good constitution, so I recovered quickly."
"As soon as the doctor said I could be discharged, I didn't want to stay a minute longer. If this hospital had a single bed, I think I could have recovered much faster."
In a joking remark, another person chimed in, "No way, this is a public hospital. I saw that the wards all had several beds along the way. Yu Li's is a private room with a different price, right?"
“I remember that medical insurance doesn’t cover single rooms, and it costs 200 yuan a night. I used to want to stay there, and when I heard the price, I ran away faster than anyone else.”
"Yu Li, you're so rich and know how to enjoy life. A single room is so comfortable."
However, just as she finished speaking, Xu Hui spat twice and said, "What bad luck! It's best if people never go to the hospital in their lives, whether they are alone or in a group of four."
The colleague quickly corrected himself: "Yes, yes, look at my mouth! Yu Li, you'd better get better soon, otherwise your celebrity interview, which just got off to a great start, will be overshadowed by Qi Jianyue."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Hui turned around and glared at her colleague.
"Xiao Yu is still recovering. Didn't I tell you that when you visit, you shouldn't talk about work?"
My colleague muttered, "I was just trying to be helpful, I didn't mean anything by it, it was all for Yu Li's sake."
Yu Li sensed that the atmosphere was off, and since Qi Jianyue, that scheming woman, was involved, her first guess was that nothing good was coming.
"What does my show have to do with Qi Jianyue? Is she trying to take advantage of my illness to steal my show again?"
But Xu Hui didn't want Yu Li to worry about work while she was still recovering, so she casually replied, "It's nothing serious, just that Qi Jianyue brought up a proposal at the meeting this morning."
"But whether you can make it or not is another matter. Don't worry about it. Right now, the most important thing for you is to rest well. Don't think about anything else. I'll take care of everything."
Yu Li originally wanted to ask again, but then a colleague wanted to go to the restroom when she wasn't looking.
When they tried to turn the doorknob, they found that the door wouldn't budge.
"What's going on? Is the bathroom door locked?"
When Yu Li saw someone trying to go into the bathroom, she felt guilty and sat up abruptly, wanting to get out of bed.
Xu Hui was quicker, pressing her down. "What are you doing? Be careful not to get dizzy if you get so excited. She's just going to the bathroom, it's nothing serious."
"Um, there's someone in the restroom. My best friend is in there taking a break and she probably won't be out for a while. Why don't you go to the public restroom outside?"
Just as Yu Li finished speaking, a series of coughs came from the restroom, indicating that someone was inside.
My colleague exclaimed, "Yu Li, your best friend is a guy?"
Yu Li: "..."
In fact, Qi Chenyan really didn't need to make a sound; this was just a futile attempt to cover up the truth.
Without even blinking, Yu Li blurted out, "My male best friend, he just happened to come to visit me."
Fortunately, her colleagues didn't pay much attention. After hearing Yu Li's explanation, they went outside to find a restroom.
Xu Hui didn't want to disturb Yu Li's rest any longer, so she interrupted the others when they wanted to chat with her.
"Alright, Xiaoyu needs rest right now. Let's all go back. We can't be absent from work for too long."
After persuading everyone to leave, Xu Hui still couldn't help but add, "I'll keep an eye on things at the station, so you should rest well at home for the next couple of days."
"Don't worry, even if Qi Jianyue wants to cause some trouble, she's all alone right now and can't amount to much. Your health is the most important thing."
Yu Li said she understood and told her not to worry.
After her colleagues left, Yu Li lifted the covers and was about to get out of bed.
Just then, Qi Chenyan opened the door and came out. Seeing her get out of bed, he frowned and quickly went forward.
"Didn't I tell you not to move around? Lie back down and be a good boy."
Yu Li was about to say that she wasn't that precious, and that she could easily do anything, even a disco dance right there and then.
Just as she was about to speak, someone pushed the door open and came in.
"I'm sorry, Yu Li, I left my phone behind..."
Yu Li reacted with lightning speed, cupping Qi Chenyan's face in her hands.
Before he could even react, she buried the man's face in her chest.
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