"You saw it?" Shi Youxi narrowed his eyes, showing no panic at being exposed.
Guan Shiyan scoffed lightly, not answering, but beckoning him with his finger, "Are you still going to apply the medicine? There are no other doctors here, so Young Master Shi, you'll have to bear with it."
Shi Youxi: "....Tsk."
Shi Youxi, who was being precisely controlled, reluctantly stretched out his hand. Guan Shiyan grabbed his precious hoof, took out an alcohol swab and poked it. He deliberately didn't hold back his strength, but Shi Youxi seemed not to feel any pain.
A patch of red burning appeared on the back of her fair hand, with bulging veins. Shi Youxi looked at it for a while before making a request: "Do you have any mercurochrome?"
"Push harder."
"Are you out of strength?"
"I told you to use more force on me."
"Why are you so skilled?"
"Won't you get a scrape?"
"It's better if it's bruised and swollen."
"..."
Guan Shiyan, unable to bear it any longer, said, "Damn it, shut up! Don't mess with medical students! Be careful, or I'll make sure your sister doesn't see you tonight."
Shi Youxi indeed shut up.
Guan Shiyan's expression was dark and unreadable. Only after he finished applying the medicine did he speak to him again: "What happened today? Haven't you been controlling yourself very well? Have you finished your medicine?"
"...."
Shi Youxi turned his wrist without making a sound.
"Just because the school doctor touched your sister?" Guan Shiyan asked, puzzled. "You've already crippled her, what else could you be dissatisfied with? How could that trigger your illness?"
Guan Shiyan frowned and asked suspiciously, "Did you see something?"
Shi Youxi lowered his eyelids, his phoenix eyes tracing a graceful arc. He stared at his phone, the screen flickering with afterimages, thinking back to when he went to Andrei's office that afternoon...
That was around three o'clock.
Shi Youxi made an excuse to leave the classroom. There were 32 surveillance cameras on the way from the teaching building to the school hospital. Shi Youxi knew the location and range of each one like the back of his hand. He took the opportunity to bypass some of the surveillance points and arrived at the back gate of the school hospital.
The area was overgrown with weeds, and large swathes of bushes and ivy covered the walls.
The back door revealed the school hospital office, but it was empty. The boy entered through the main entrance and went straight to the deserted office. He glanced at Andrei's workstation; the desk was bare, indicating that Andrei carried his eye drops with him at all times.
The boy looked up, his eyes catching sight of the security camera in the corner, and left without a word.
Guan Shiyan had told him before that only the surveillance camera in the rest room of the entire school hospital was broken.
Shi Youxi walked in and leaned against the window, where he could see the raised steps leading to the back door. He held a syringe between his long, slender fingers, the clear liquid inside sliding up and down.
This is a new product from Shimen. Once injected into the human body, the drug will be excreted through respiration after one hour and will not be detected.
Although it is not fatal, it is similar to poisoning and can damage the function of the body's organs.
But... just one pair of eyes isn't enough, Shi Youxi felt.
Just then, a man's voice came from outside the window.
"It'll be this afternoon, just wait. Of course, if your price is high, everything is negotiable."
"Maybe I'll have a few more photos of Cheng Ran later, hahaha. Don't worry, Cheng Ran will definitely come, right tonight. If you don't want them, I can sell them to someone else."
"....."
Andrei, a cigarette dangling from his lips, smiled broadly. This one photograph could be exchanged for the equivalent of tens of millions in wealth. Once he had that money, he would never have to rely on serving those old women to make a living again.
His peak is just beginning.
The person on the other end of the phone went silent, and Andrei didn't urge them; he didn't need another buyer anyway. A gust of wind blew by, and his eyes suddenly felt itchy. Andrei, phone tucked between his fingers, took out eye drops from his pocket and tilted his head back to drip them in.
Footsteps sounded behind him. He turned his head, his eyes blurry, and through his hazy vision, he saw only the tall figure of a young man walking towards him.
"Student, the infirmary is on the other side. It's too dangerous here. Go back—"
Before Andrei could finish speaking, the boy suddenly shoved him!
The immense force caught Andrei off guard, causing him to stagger backward a few steps, his heels hitting the edge of the stone steps. Andrei frantically reached forward, scratching and grabbing at the boy's school uniform collar.
"What are you doing, classmate?!"
His eyes were bloodshot, and his blurred vision gradually cleared.
Andrei saw the boy's face clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted, the boy smiled faintly at him, grabbed his chin, and gave him one last push without any mercy.
"It's you! Shi—"
"ah!!!"
A body wearing a white coat fell from a platform nearly ten meters high, instantly splashing dark red liquid onto the yellowish-brown cement ground, which then flowed down the slope.
Shi Youxi used the steps and the piled stones on the wall to climb over several times and came to Andrei's side, whose head had been dented from the fall.
"So dirty..."
Shi Youxi coldly stared at the unconscious man, and thinking of the words the man had just uttered, a surge of violence rushed to the back of his mind.
"Ugh... Help, help me...!"
Fragmented groans escaped as Andrei struggled to survive with his last shred of consciousness. His eyelids twitched, and just as he was about to open them, a sharp, intense pain struck him.
A sharp object pierced his eyeball, and spicy liquid flowed from his eye socket into his brain. Andrei convulsed all over, unable to even groan.
It twitched like a dying fish, and then became completely still.
Shi Youxi expressionlessly withdrew the syringe, picked up the phone that had fallen to the side with her gloved hand; the screen was broken, but the call was still going on.
"Mr. Andrei?"
The hoarse voice made Shi Youxi, who was about to hang up the phone, freeze instantly.
"...Mr. Andrei? What happened to you?"
That's the sound.
Hoarse and aged, just like always.
Has that person gone back to China?
A sharp pain shot through his chest, and Shi Youxi's vision began to blur. He breathed heavily and hung up the phone, his face pale.
Plug in the data cable and format your phone with one click.
He staggered to his feet and returned to the lounge the way he came.
Looking back now, perhaps it was because I was in such a bad state at the time that my vigilance was lowered and I didn't realize that Li Buhuo was nearby.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
Guan Shiyan scrutinized his face. "Could it be... you're afraid of blood? What nonsense," he said, then immediately denied it.
Who would faint at the sight of blood and then like to self-harm?
"You wouldn't faint at the sight of blood even if you fainted at the sight of poop."
Shi Youxi snapped out of her daze, dodging Guan Shiyan's restless hand, and said calmly, "It's nothing, I was probably just too excited."
Seeing that he looked normal, Guan Shiyan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not press him any further.
The two of them finished packing and came out of the ward. The hospital owned by the government was very famous in the capital. As the future successor handpicked by the old man, Guan Shiyan's face was not unfamiliar to the medical staff.
The two handsome young men attracted a lot of attention. Guan Shiyan smiled and greeted the doctors he knew from time to time.
"So, are you sure Cheng Ran is the sister you're looking for?"
"Um."
“But how did she become Cheng Ran? Cheng Ran doesn’t look like her at all.” Guan Shiyan secretly reminded Shi Youxi that the two did look completely different.
But in Shi Youxi's eyes, her sister has always been the same, unchanged.
It was as if he was the only one who could see his sister's true appearance.
This realization gave him immense satisfaction.
"It's not clear yet, but she is the older sister."
"Okay, okay, she is, she is!" Guan Shiyan went along with him. The two entered the elevator, and the elevator door reflected Shi Youxi's chiseled, smooth profile.
His face was expressionless, but Guan Shiyan could still tell that the other person was restless at the moment.
Are you... worried?
Shi Youxi looked up, and their eyes met on the elevator wall.
"Are you worried that she might leave you again like she did last time?"
"Seriously, what is it about her that you like so much? Is it just because she's pretty?"
Guan Shiyan really couldn't understand Shi Youxi's obsession with that woman. If it were an obsession with a woman he had grown up with, then it would be understandable.
But Shi Youxi has been obsessed with this person since she was ten years old. It can't be because of love, right?
Could it be that she has come to regard it as a motherly affection?
Guan Shiyan's birth was never viewed favorably by others, and for a long time he always thought that Shi Youxi was nothing like him.
A chosen one, admired by all.
Until one day, he witnessed Shi Youxi's mother holding her child and expressing her deep love.
Meanwhile, Shi Youxi's father stood by and watched the farce unfold from a distance.
That scene left an extremely powerful impression on Guan Shiyan when he was a child.
Morbid, suffocating, tragic.
Later, whenever Guan Shiyan saw Shi Youxi, he would think of these words. He finally understood why Shi Youxi was always shrouded in a feeling of loneliness and self-loathing.
Guan Shiyan at least had a loving mother.
Shi Youxi had nothing.
He was like a fragmented chip. When needed, emotions that didn't belong to him were implanted.
Once they've used it all, they'll implant another one, constantly changing their methods.
They don't even have a self.
The elevator to the VIP ward went down until it stopped on the first floor, when the person in the reflection spoke softly.
"I don't know, but I feel like... I can't resist it."
She liked her older sister from the very first sight, more than anything else from her childhood, and Shi Youxi couldn't resist it.
"bite!"
The elevator doors opened.
Shi Youxi looked up through the crack in the door. The warm light outside the stairwell turned on automatically, and a woman's alluring face appeared before him.
That's right.
He couldn't resist.
Whether it was Shi Youxi at age 10 or Shi Youxi now.
Falling in love with Mu Yiran was like Shi Youxi's destiny, something he couldn't avoid.
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