On the rewards for successfully defeating a boss

The follow-up examination is held every two weeks. After Yu Wangxi helped him run around through the tedious examination procedures, Chen Qian returned to the doctor's office.

"From the images, your original blood clot has been almost absorbed, and you have recovered very well. Logically, there should be no sequelae." The doctor looked at the abstract picture of black, white and red blending into one on the screen and explained to Chen Qian carefully.

Chen Qian didn't understand and just nodded silently. He had other things he wanted to know more.

"You said last time that it affected your memory, right? Has it still been like that recently?"

That's the problem.

"Yes, there are some things I don't remember."

"This is probably related to the accident... and your injuries. Your wounds are healing well. You can come back the day after tomorrow to remove the plaster and rest before being discharged."

"Thank you, doctor. I'll go back now."

Although Chen Qian received the doctor's notice that he could be discharged from the hospital soon, he couldn't relax.

Since Chen Tian left last time, he has never come again, as if he disappeared, not replying to messages or answering calls.

Chi Mu upholds the spirit of some unknown dragon that can't be seen from the beginning, and always sends Chi Yuxing, the miracle nurse who gives patients a headache, late at night, but he himself never comes once.

He did answer the phone.

But Chen Qian spent a whole day browsing the call logs and didn't find a record that lasted more than three minutes.

People come and go in the ward, and it changes every day.

Today, Lin Xixi will entertain him and show him the singing and dancing skills she has learned for half a month. Tomorrow, there will be a crosstalk performance by Yu Wangxi and Sun Cheng.

But he still felt empty.

It seemed as if Chen Qian was the only one trapped in the not-so-spacious single ward, lying on the small bed all day long, only looking forward to who would come to visit him at dawn and who would stay in the house with him all night at sunset.

Anyone can come, but those you expect don’t come. Anyone can leave, but those who shouldn’t stay won’t leave.

Chen Qian is happy about her upcoming discharge day.

Turning his head, he saw Chi Yuxing shaking the blanket and lying down to sleep, and his heart was blocked again.

Ever since Chen Qian regained the ability to take care of himself, this big brother has completely let himself go. He doesn't even pretend, as soon as he enters the house, he immediately curls up in the accompanying crib, and remains motionless even in the thunder and rain.

What did you say before?

Oh, no need to sleep in the crib, just put your head next to Chen Qian's hand and wake him up when you find a convenient place to use it.

I don't know whose rhetoric he borrowed here to appease her. Chen Qian thought that he was being sincere in his care just by chatting with her casually.

"Chi Yuxing! Wake up, don't sleep anymore. Do you think this place is a hotel?" He kicked his leg, which was still in a cast, onto the small bed, and the person on the bed lost his balance and fell straight off the bed.

Boom, it worked.

Chi Yuxing woke up.

Even the nurse on duty at the nurses' station outside rushed in.

"I'm sorry, my friend has a bad sleeping posture. I'm really sorry." Chen Qian held up his arm with plaster on the joints and opened his eyes wide to pretend to be pitiful.

With a few words of slander, the deafening noise at midnight was covered up.

Of course, he felt that it was actually this face that had not been damaged by the battle that served as the background, so all the nonsense worked.

The nurse opened the door and Chi Yuxing started talking, and they stepped on the spot one after another.

"Do you know that I can only sleep well when I come to your place? Why do you always have to wake me up?"

His self-righteous tone almost made Chen Qian laugh. Chen Qian said in disbelief, "You come to my place just to sleep, no buddy, do you really think I'm a hotel?"

In the silent eye contact, Chen Qian and he were in a tug of war.

After a long silence, Chi Yuxing lowered his head and sighed.

"You lost." Chen Qian smiled cunningly as if he had succeeded.

"Don't you need to blink? Isn't it uncomfortable?"

"I don't care about that kind of stuff."

Hearing Chen Qian's words, Chi Yuxing looked frightened, his face full of horror: "Wow, you are really crazy, I knew that you and Chi Mu would be like this sooner or later, but... this is too fast."

Chen Qian didn't care. He waved his hand and thought about where to start this rare conversation.

"So, um...what were you doing there the day of the accident?"

"Nothing. I just wanted to have a meal after finishing my work. Chi Mu came here on his own and somehow made me miss the meal."

"You probably won't be able to eat after watching the car accident scene."

"Would you do that?" Chi Yuxing looked puzzled, then said, "I went to eat Chongqing noodles with pig's blood later."

"Is there something wrong with the genes of your Chi family?" Chen Qian couldn't help but step back, moving his body to a place where the other person couldn't reach him, and continued to ask him: "When did you find out that I was here?"

"You ran out then? Who could have known that someone who was supposed to be at school would come out?"

"Where's the person responsible? Are they following me?"

"Hehe, I guess so." Chi Yuxing sneered.

Chen Qian racked his brains, trying to keep this sleepy source of information steady while also finding ways to get information out of him, and he thought carefully about every question.

The progress was unexpectedly smooth. In fact, the two chatted until late at night. For a large part of the conversation, it would not be appropriate to say that Chen Qian was absorbing information. Chi Yuxing told him almost everything he knew. The degree of cooperation was more like Chi Yuxing venting his emotions, as if he was extremely tired of the busy work and was taking advantage of the opportunity to vent.

He was excited and lonely, and the feeling of powerlessness made him even more helpless, and Chen Qian felt the same way.

"I knew nothing, so I could only watch as the tip of the knife emerged and stabbed Chi Yuyuan. He protected me, blessed me, and pushed me to do what I loved, and then, to protect me for the last time, he collapsed on the way to take me home. He is my brother, but the difference between us was only three minutes in the ward, and yet he tacitly accepted that I needed protection." Chi Yuyuan bent down at some point, his face hidden between his palms, "He helped me study for a master's degree, but now I don't even have that..."

Chen Qian stared at the water leaking from between his fingers, drop by drop, disappearing between the fabric.

He said that he had a big fight with Ji Yuyuan the day before the accident because he did that because he did not understand Ji Yuyuan's sacrifice. Now he deeply regrets his childishness.

This was Chi Yuxing's personal confession, but Chen Qian's ears were burning as he listened in the audience.

The stories of fools are all the same, and the mistakes they make are all the same.

Of course, it is difficult to understand many things from the perspective of the protected.

Those parts that are not understood are the result of the best efforts made by the protectors, sometimes even requiring self-sacrifice to achieve them.

Not understanding one's own weakness is a sin, resisting protection is also a sin, and sometimes being too clever adds fuel to the fire.

They usually have to wait until the day when everything is irreversible and they are forced to become protectors helplessly before they can be enlightened to the truth.