Chapter 237 Are you kidding me?
Chu Ci suddenly sat up from the hospital bed, scratched his already messy hair, and his sleepy face was full of irritation.
He glared at the buzzing phone with gritted teeth.
"Who on earth is this? Calling in the middle of the night? Don't you know the patient needs to rest?"
The shrill ringtone once again broke the silence of the ward. Chu Ci grabbed the phone. He wanted to see which blind person was calling him in the middle of the night.
But when he picked up the phone and saw that the caller ID was Lu Yiran, he was stunned. He had completely forgotten what he had just said and stared at the phone in a daze.
"Damn it..."
He stared at the flashing name and muttered to himself.
Based on his understanding of Lu Yiran for more than 20 years, Lu Yiran has never been the kind of person who would make a series of calls. According to convention, if a call is not answered, he should just send a WeChat message to get it over with.
What's going on today? Did you drop your phone and someone found it? Or is there something urgent going on?
Chu Ci thought about this, and finally answered the phone, and asked tentatively:
"Yiran?"
"Um."
Chu Ci breathed a sigh of relief at the familiar cold voice, but was immediately enveloped by even greater doubts. He cleared his hoarse throat:
"So many calls so late at night...what happened?"
Chu Ci's voice was a little hoarse, with a hint of laziness as if he had just woken up.
"are you sleeping?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Lu Yiran felt like the sun was rising from the west. When had Chu Ci ever gone to bed so early? Normally, he wouldn't go to bed unless he played until three or four in the morning.
But when he thought about how he couldn't sleep and Chu Ci was sleeping so soundly, he immediately became unhappy and asked seriously:
"Did you forget something?"
"What's up?"
Very good, Chu Ci forgot it again, really great.
Lu Yiran's face darkened instantly. Before he could speak, Chu Ci spoke first:
"Oh, now I remember. You mean to help you find out about your preferences? I remember that my brain hasn't been working well these past two days, and my reaction has been a little slow."
Lu Yiran said sarcastically, "I can see that you are indeed not in the right mind."
However, Chu Ci didn't hear it at all, and continued to talk to himself:
"We didn't have a video call, how did you know that? Never mind, it's not important. Yiran, I'm telling you, I've been hospitalized recently because of you, so you have to be responsible for me."
Lu Yiran: ??? Hospitalized???
"What's going on?"
"I've been trying to get close to Tang Yutong these past few days. Let me tell you, I've been hanging around her all day and haven't done anything else."
"She beat you up and sent you to the hospital?"
This was the only reason Lu Yiran could think of for Chu Ci's hospitalization. Otherwise, why would Chu Ci be hospitalized for no apparent reason?
"What are you talking about? How could she dare to hit me? I am her party A father now, and she can't stop licking me."
Chu Ci was particularly proud when he said this, as if he was not the one who was timid in the afternoon.
Hearing this, Lu Yiran raised his eyebrows:
"So I've completed what I asked you to do?"
"Well……"
Chu Ci was embarrassed. He couldn't say that he had been busy for three days and not only did he not get any information, but he also spent 10 million and ended up in the hospital. Would he still have any face left?
Chu Ci considered his words carefully, and then said:
"Well...it might take a few days, but it will be soon. Tang Yutong and I are already friends now, so it won't be long before I can answer whatever you want to know."
"So, after all these days of trying, you didn't get any useful information?"
Lu Yiran's voice suddenly turned cold, like an ice-hardened blade, and every word he spoke was filled with displeasure.
He pinched his brows and thought that if Chu Ci was his subordinate, with such efficiency, he would have been fired eight hundred times ago.
Chu Ci immediately became alert when he heard the tone and quickly defended himself:
"I'm in the hospital now, and I need to rest well. I'll definitely ask you when I'm discharged!"
"At this rate, by the time you find out, it will be too late." Lu Yiran sneered.
"Hey, hey, hey, you're taking it too far! You shouldn't be so mean."
Chu Ci shouted involuntarily, paused, and continued:
"You really can't blame me for this. If you have to blame someone, blame Tang Yutong for being so difficult to deal with. I've been trying every possible way to get her to talk these past few days, but she's so vigilant, like she's on guard against thieves, she won't reveal a single word! What can I do? I can only build a good relationship with her first and then take it slow."
Lu Yiran frowned and tapped his knuckles twice on the phone. He had already made a judgment in his mind. He was afraid that it was impossible to expect Chu Ci to pry something out of Tang Yutong's mouth.
"Forget it, don't worry about it. I'll figure it out myself."
"No, I must do what I promised you! But... I might have to relax a little bit on the time..."
Chu Ci immediately retorted, his voice rising a few notches.
Seeing that there was no hope for Chu Ci, Lu Yiran was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. He responded perfunctorily and then said:
"Hang up, go back to sleep."
"Wait, I—"
"beep--"
The call was ruthlessly cut off. Chu Ci stared at the black screen, unable to react for a moment.
He was sleeping soundly when Lu Yiran woke him up. Now he was talking seriously, but Lu Yiran actually hung up on him...
Chu Ci: ...Are you kidding me?
Chu Ci fell heavily back onto the hospital bed, threw his phone beside the pillow, closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.
Three minutes passed and he turned over in annoyance.
Five minutes passed while he stared at the ceiling and counted sheep.
Ten minutes passed, he sat up suddenly, grabbed his phone, and couldn't sleep, he couldn't sleep at all!
He tossed and turned for a long time, but couldn't fall asleep at all. He turned on his phone again. The moment the screen lit up, he somehow clicked on Tang Yutong's chat box. His finger hovered on the keyboard for two seconds, and finally typed a line of words:
【Have you slept yet?】
After sending the message, he stared at the "The other party is typing..." at the top of the dialog box. However, after waiting for a long time, there was not even a fake "typing" sign.
He didn't give up and added: [Want to play games? I'll help you rank up.]
The news still fell on deaf ears, without causing even a single wave...
Chu Ci gritted his teeth and clicked on Shi Mubai's chat history. The latest message was still from last week's "Let's get together another day." He typed away:
[Mu Bai, what are you doing? ]
Still no one responded.
Chu Ci has completely given up now. Am I the only night owl in the world?
He threw his phone onto the bed sheet in anger, and ended up pulling the IV needle, causing him to gasp in pain.
"Damn it! Even you're against me!"
He cursed as he turned on the light of his phone and clicked on the icon of Honor of Kings. Games are really reliable and will never stab you in the back.
Twenty minutes later, the sound of a crystal exploding accompanied by the "Defeat" prompt sounded.
Chu Ci looked at the 0-8-2 jungler and the support who was sleepwalking the whole time, and slowly buried his face in his palms.
He forgot that the game wouldn't work, but his teammates would backstab him. What rubbish teammates were matched with him!
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