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I was at home working on my article when I received a call from Fu Yanjin. The background noise on the other end was terrible, and it took me a while to make out what he was saying. "Jiang Xiaoyan, let's go out for drinks!" he said, clinking his glass against his phone, slightly drunk.
"What's wrong? Who bullied you?"
"Shen Kuo! He's having an affair!" he exclaimed, downing his drink in one gulp. He then ordered another whiskey from the bartender beside him. "Another whiskey, please."
Where are you? I'm coming to find you.
"Hmm... at the bar. Okay! Waiting for you~" She finished speaking and took a sip. Jiang Yanmu asked her editor for leave and rushed to the bar. She walked over and took the drink from Fu Yanjin's hand, placing it aside. "What's going on? Why are you suddenly saying Shen Kuo is seeing someone else?" Fu Yanjin buried her head in Jiang Yanmu's arms, crying as she spoke, "I saw it! I saw it with my own eyes! This afternoon when we were shopping, I saw him laughing and talking with a woman across the street, even sharing food! How could he do that? Is he tired of her and wants to find someone else?" Fu Yanjin's words became increasingly agitated. She was about to pour herself another drink when Jiang Yanmu stopped her. "I'll go ask him later and see what he means. If it's true, I'll make sure he doesn't give up!"
"It's true! It's really true!" He slammed the cup down on the table.
Jiang Yanmu agreed, "Yes, yes, it's true. Let's go beat him up tomorrow and vent our anger."
"Come on, cheers!" Fu Yanjin, satisfied with the answer, clinked glasses with Jiang Yanmu. "Cheers!" Jiang Yanmu, inexplicably dragged into drinking all night, ended up slumped on the table. Jiang Yanmu clung tightly to Fu Yanjin, and whenever someone approached, she would snap back to reality, grab a glass, and pretend to smash it, driving them away—thankfully, they were too cowardly to resist. "Get out!" she yelled, throwing the glass on the floor. Then she collapsed back down.
Fu Yanjin's phone vibrated several times, and the bartender by the platform noticed it several times as well, politely taking the phone to answer: "Hello?"
“You are…” Shen Kuo said warily.
The bartender was startled and quickly explained, "Your wife is drunk at the bar, oh, and with a friend too."
"Address," Shen Kuo said coldly.
"A quiet bar on Shuiyang Street."
"We're coming right away. Don't let anyone touch him!"
"Ah, okay," the bartender gently put the phone back. Shen Kuo then called Ye Ziyi, "Are you free?"
"What's wrong?"
"Go pick up Jiang Yanmu. She and Yan Yan got drunk at a bar."
"Where?" Ye Ziyi asked as she changed her clothes.
"I've sent the address to your phone, bye." She hung up immediately. Shen Kuo tried to take Fu Yanjin away, but Jiang Yanmu wouldn't let go. She only released her grip when Ye Ziyi arrived. "Jiang, let go, it's time to go home."
"Hmm?" Jiang Yanmu tilted her head and stared intently at Ye Ziyi, then grabbed his hand and wouldn't let go. "Let's go home..."
"Yes, go home."
"Ayan wants to go home too."
"Yes, I want to go home too."
"Where's Ayan?" Jiang Yanmu looked around but couldn't find him, and started to panic. "Fu Yanjin was taken away by Shen Kuo." Her hand was shaken. "No way! Shen Kuo is a scumbag! He can't take Ayan away!"
"What?" Ye Ziyi was taken aback, then grasped Jiang Yanmu's hand and coaxed her to leave the bar. Before leaving, they paid the bill.
"Shall we go and bring Fu Yanjin back?"
"Okay~" Ye Ziyi took Fu Yanjin's hand and went home. Jiang Yanmu tried entering the password for a long time but couldn't get it to work. Ye Ziyi chuckled beside her, taking Jiang Yanmu's hand that was trying to enter the password and pressing it on the fingerprint lock. "Silly, if the password doesn't work, there's always the fingerprint lock."
She almost tripped and fell when they entered the room. Ye Ziyi half-carried, half-helped her to the bed. Xiao Chu ran over upon hearing the noise, and before she even reached him, he kicked his legs and picked her up. "You're Jiang's little kitten!" He pinched Xiao Chu's cheek. "So soft!"
"What's your name?" Ye Ziyi muttered to himself to Xiao Chu. Suddenly, Jiang Yanmu, who was lying on the bed, sat up, called out "Xiao Chu," and then lay back down. "Xiao Chu."
"So your name is Xiao Chu. Xiao Chu, you can play by yourself for now. I need to go make some hangover soup for your master." Jiang Yanmu woke up again, came out, and stood by the door, staring intently at Ye Ziyi making the hangover soup. Ye Ziyi turned off the stove, ladled out the soup, turned around and saw Jiang Yanmu standing by the door. "What are you doing by the door?" Ye Ziyi wiped his hands, walked over, and was immediately hugged by Jiang Yanmu.
"Hug me, Yan~" She buried her face in his arms. "You think I'm Fu Yanjin?" Ye Ziyi hugged her back and patted her, coaxing, "Okay, hug." After hugging her for a while, he carried her to a chair. When he tried to feed Jiang Yanmu, she covered her mouth with her hand, frowned, and said unwillingly, "Um, no. I don't want to drink anymore, I really can't drink anymore."
Ye Ziyi grabbed Jiang Yanmu's hand that was covering her mouth and coaxed her like a child, "No drinking, no drinking. This is hangover soup; you won't feel bad after drinking it." Hearing this, she seemed somewhat swayed and tentatively confirmed, "Really? You won't feel bad?"
"Really, I'm not lying to you."
Reaching out to take the bowl of soup, Ye Ziyi, worried that Jiang Yanmu might choke, held her hand and fed her. Jiang Yanmu drank too quickly, choked a little, and quickly patted her back, saying, "Why are you drinking so fast?"
"Hmm... I want to sleep."
"Okay, okay, go to sleep. Slow down, don't fall." Helping her into the room, Ye Ziyi didn't notice Xiao Chu sprawled out beside her. Thinking it was some dark shadow, she walked over, turned on the light, and stepped on its tail. The pain caused Xiao Chu to scramble under the bed, startling Ye Ziyi and nearly causing him to drop Jiang Yanmu.
After carefully placing Jiang Yanmu on the bed and covering her with the blanket, I wanted to kneel down to check on Xiao Chu, but Jiang Yanmu held my hand tightly, repeatedly saying, "Don't go, don't go."
"I'm not leaving, I'm going to check on Xiao Chu. I accidentally stepped on it." She listened, but still held on. Ye Ziyi said again, "I'll come back after I've checked." This time she reacted and slowly let go.
He crouched down and looked at Xiao Chu, who was crouching under the bed. "Xiao Chu, does it hurt? Come out and let me see, okay?" Xiao Chu just meowed and didn't seem inclined to come out. Ye Ziyi went to the living room to get some cat food, poured it into his hand, and then tried it. "Xiao Chu, look what this is." Ye Ziyi stretched his hand, which was holding the cat food, further inside. "Cat food, don't you want to eat?"
Unable to resist the taste, Xiao Chu gracefully extended its paw, as if to tell Ye Ziyi that it was only giving him face, not that it had come out for the food. Xiao Chu licked its paw contentedly and held it out to Ye Ziyi for him to see. "Xiao Chu, don't look at the paw, look at the tail." It turned around, sat up in a ball, and stretched out its tail. "Hmm... I think I only stepped on the edge, thankfully. It's alright now, Xiao Chu."
Ye Ziyi patted Xiao Chu's head and was about to get up to leave when Xiao Chu meowed, "(I'm leaving now, not staying any longer)"
"I have surgery tomorrow, I'll come see you again next time."
"Alright, go ahead." Xiao Chu licked her fur haughtily. She glanced at Jiang Yanmu on the bed and watched Ye Ziyi leave.
Jiang Yanmu was woken up by Fu Yanjin's phone call. "Hmm..."
"Jiang Xiaoyan!" This shout was not only deafening, but it also completely woke Jiang Yanmu up, causing her to jump out of bed. "What are you doing? You almost deafened me."
"Sorry, Jiang Xiaoyan, you came shopping with me!"
"Oh, you're all set now."
"I misunderstood him. He went to see his sister yesterday." Her voice trailed off.
"Then you drank it for nothing yesterday."
"You can't say that, just consider it as going out for a night."
"..."
"Okay, come out and keep me company."
"Okay," Jiang Yan was dragged out for a walk again, looking at Fu Yanjin beside her with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong?"
"I'm thinking about what to buy for Sister Shen Kuo." Jiang Yanmu pulled Fu Yanjin into the self-service hot pot restaurant and said as they walked, "Yan, why don't we go and eat something first? I haven't eaten since you dragged me here last night, I'm starving."
After realizing what was happening, Fu Yanjin quickly pushed Jiang Yanmu to sit down and said, "Haha, sorry. Let's eat first, let's eat first. You eat more so you can help me think of a gift."
"..." After shopping all afternoon, I finally picked out a gift I liked. "Jiang Xiaoyan, let's go together."
"No, the car will be here soon." After walking all day, her heels were raw and sore. She took off her high heels and held them in her hand. She walked to the bus stop and sat down to rest. A car drove by, blowing a gust of wind through Jiang Yanmu's hair. The person inside rolled down the window and hissed at Jiang Yanmu, who was sitting in the chair rubbing her feet.
Wearing sunglasses, she poked her head out and said, "Jiang Xiaoyan."
Jiang Yanmu heard the voice, looked up at Wen Yan, and asked, "Hmm?"
"Why are you sitting here? Do you want me to take you home?" Wen Yan's manager reminded her, coughing and saying, "Ahem, we still have to record a song." Although it was because of recording a song, the real reason was that they were worried about being photographed by reporters, which would affect Wen Yan's career.
"Is it still possible, or..." Upon hearing this, the carefree person had no idea.
Jiang Yanmu understood what her agent meant and shook her head in refusal, saying, "No need, the car will be here soon."
"Hmm... okay." She sat waiting for a taxi for ages, but didn't see one. Ye Ziyi's mother, on her way to deliver food to Ye Ziyi, saw Jiang Yanmu sitting alone. Noticing the bleeding on Jiang Yanmu's heel, she asked worriedly, "Miss, it's hard to get a taxi on the weekend. How about I give you a ride? I also need to deliver food to my son."
"No need, thank you."
"It's alright, besides, your foot is injured, and it will get worse if you delay any longer. If you're worried, you can call a friend while the phone is on." Jiang Yanmu started recording the call with some skepticism, and got into the car while making the call.
Ye Ziyi's mother brought Jiang Yanmu to find Ye Ziyi. She greeted the nurses around her. "Auntie, you've come to bring Dr. Ye's meal again," Nurse 1 said.
"Yes, if we don't send them off, they'll never know how to eat properly."
"There's nothing we can do. We have surgeries all the time, so even if Dr. Ye wanted to eat, he couldn't."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"Oh, Auntie brought her daughter-in-law to deliver food to Dr. Ye," Nurse 2 noticed Jiang Yanmu following behind. Jiang Yanmu didn't think much about the Dr. Ye they were talking about; she was only focused on following Ye Ziyi's mother to see Ye Ziyi. She knocked on the door and went in. "Xiao Yi, come and see this girl's foot; it's bleeding all over."
"Okay," she realized that the Dr. Ye she had been talking about was actually Ye Ziyi. "Jiang!" she smiled in surprise. "Are you still feeling unwell?"
"I don't feel bad anymore. Thank you for yesterday."
"It's alright," Ye's mother said, standing to the side and taking out a lunchbox. "You two know each other? Why didn't you tell me so I could get to know you?"
"Now let's get acquainted. Jiang Yanmu, my junior high school classmate." Ye's mother clicked her tongue and nudged Ye Ziyi. "Tsk, you're so good at talking, aren't you?" Ye Ziyi didn't say anything more to Ye's mother. While treating Jiang Yanmu's foot injury, he instructed, "Don't get it wet. Change the dressing in three days. If you can't handle it by yourself, you can come to the hospital and I'll change it for you."
"Yes, thank you," she said, her ears turning red.
"Xiao Yan ah"
"ah "
"It's good that you're vigilant, but no matter what, you shouldn't get into a stranger's car."
"I understand, Auntie."
"Xiaoyan, stay for dinner." Jiang Yanmu wasn't given a chance to refuse. "No, thank you."
"It's alright, there's not enough food. Let Xiaoyi go eat the staff meal herself." She pushed the food towards Jiang Yanmu, forcing her to eat. "Thank you, Auntie."
"Hey, take your time eating. I'm going out for a bit." Ye's mother exchanged glances with Ye Ziyi: "Take care of him, don't just focus on eating."
Okay~
When Jiang Yanmu encountered something she didn't like, she would eat exceptionally slowly. "You don't like it?" Ye Ziyi noticed. "No, I like it..." She forced a piece of carrot into her mouth and swallowed it with difficulty, her eyes closed.
“Don’t force yourself if you don’t like it. I won’t let Ms. Yan know.” Ye Ziyi teased Jiang Yanmu. “Here, yogurt.” He handed her a bottle of yogurt.
"Thank you." Just then, Ye's mother returned after buying the slippers. "Have you finished eating?" "Mmm, it was delicious, thank you, Auntie."
Mother Ye handed Jiang Yanmu slippers to change into, saying happily, "It's good that it's delicious. Next time you come to Auntie's house, Auntie will make you something else delicious. Oh, and remember to take Xiaoyan home, okay?"
"I know, you should go back soon too. Otherwise, the old man will complain to me again about how I've kept his wife for so long."
"You..." Ye's mother shook her head and left, amused by Ye Ziyi's words.
After taking Jiang Yanmu home, I didn't have time to stay and rushed back to the hospital.
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