Xu Qichen blinked slowly, his still-sleepy brain forgetting to keep up the act. When he saw Su Lin, he subconsciously shrank back into the blanket, leaving only his forehead exposed, and went back to sleep.
He had barely closed his eyes when the blanket was pulled aside.
“Did you call me here just so I can watch you sleep?”
Xu Qichen scrunched up his face. Hearing this, his mind became a little clearer. “Dr. Su, you’re here…” Xu Qichen rubbed his eyes, arched up, and then showed a flattering and confused smile to an expressionless Su Lin, “Dr. Su, have a seat.”
Su Lin took off his mask. His skin was very pale, but his facial features were sharp and defined; making him look like a mixed race.
“Didn’t you say your leg hurt?”
Xu Qichen was stretching his neck and suddenly remembered the message he had just sent, “Oh, yes, my- my leg has been hurting for a long time. Doctor Su, please help me check…”
Su Lin looked at him suspiciously, before walking towards his leg. “Where exactly does it hurt?”
Xu Qichen’s eyes darted around as he said, “It’s… the shinbone…” He looked at the next bed and found that Xiao Chao was not there. They were the only two in the ward.
A rare opportunity!
Seeing a red apple and a fruit knife on the table beside the bed, Xu Qichen suddenly had an idea, “Did you have lunch, Dr. Su?”
Su Lin kept his head lowered and continued with the checkup without saying a word.
“I’ll peel an apple for you.”
Only then did Su Lin reply coolly, “No need, I already ate.”
He really was cold.
‘Already ate’, did that mean he drank some blood before coming over?
Nonetheless, Xu Qichen still picked up the apple, “That’s okay, just treat it as dessert then.”
Although he was experienced in the kitchen, he had never peeled an apple before. He clumsily turned the apple in his hand. The result was vastly different from the image he had of the whole apple peel coming off. Instead, the skin came off in bits and pieces and fell on the bed like autumn leaves.
This is not going to work.
Xu Qichen looked at the ugly apple, and his heart began to pound.
“0901, I would like to take that medicine now.”
0901’s voice appeared unhurriedly: “Of course, Mr. Xu, if there is large amount of blood, you can drink a whole bottle. Otherwise, if it is just a small amount, a sip is enough.”
Xu Qichen replied, “En, just directly put it in my system. I can’t drink it right now.”
“Very well, Mr. Xu.”
After a few seconds, the voice of 0901 reappeared, “Mr. Xu, the medicine has been supplied.”
Hearing this sentence, Xu Qichen braced himself and cut his index finger with the tip of the fruit knife. Then he gave a very pretentious cry. Seeing Su Lin look up, he put the apple on the table and grabbed his injured index finger.
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Too fake, too fake, Xu Qichen criticised himself while acting.
Unexpectedly, the cold blooded animal straightened up and made as if to leave, which made Xu Qichen anxious. Most importantly, the medicine which he had spent his precious points on would go to waste if he left.
He had no other choice but to pretend to faint. Xu Qichen closed both eyes and tilted over, falling straight off the bed, thinking, Come save me, save me, before I really hit the floor.
As expected, this tactic worked. At the last moment, Su Lin caught him. Feeling his cold body, Xu Qichen let out a breath and continued to play dead.
Su Lin placed him on the bed. Then, he pinched Xu Qichen.
It hurt, so Xu Qichen subconsciously furrowed his eyebrows.
“Stop acting.”
Since he had already been seen through, Xu Qichen could only open his eyes and laugh awkwardly, “I really have a phobia of blood…”
“I know,” Su Lin drew a piece of tissue from the box by the bedside, “but this amount is not enough to make you faint.”
Seeing him reach out to take Xu Qichen’s hand to wipe the blood off, Xu Qichen anxiously hid his hand behind his back.
“What are you doing?” Su Lin asked him with a frown.
With his other hand, Xu Qichen tugged on Su Lin’s white coat, “Dr. Su, it would be a waste to wipe it off…”
He suddenly lowered his voice to a whisper, “Are you hungry? There’s no one else around. I can let you drink it for free.”
Su Lin still looked at him coldly. He put his mask back on. When he spoke again, his voice was even colder than his temperature. “Is this what you meant by ‘dessert’?”
Xu Qichen nodded, “That’s right.”
“No need.”
How bad does my blood taste? Xu Qichen wondered.
“If there’s nothing else, I’m leaving now.”
“Don’t go ah,” Xu Qichen boldly hugged Su Lin’s waist, “Dr. Su, I’m still bleeding ah, shouldn’t you at least deal with the wound?”
“Let go.”
Xu Qichen obediently let go and looked up at him.
“How do you want to deal with it?”
Xu Qichen hesitated, but still said, “En… On TV, after someone gets injured, someone else must suck on the wound or something…”
My gosh, this is so shameless.
Su Lin still did not move.
“And, don’t you vampires have healing salive?Just suck it for me, it will surely heal quickly!” Xu Qichen put his finger close to him, “Doctor Su, it’s still bleeding!”
Su Lin sat on the chair beside the hospital bed, grabbed Xu Qichen’s hand, and efficiently wiped the wound with the tissue.
“Don’t…” Xu Qichen felt very discouraged and wanted to take his hand out.
“Don’t move.” Su Lin was very strong. Xu Qichen could not pull back his hand. He took out a band aid from the pocket of his white coat.
Was his pocket Doraemon’s pocket? How did he just so happen to have everything he needs in there?
Because he had only one hand free, Su Lin used his teeth to help tear open the band-aid. Perhaps due to some strange inclination, this action made Xu Qichen feel very…
Infatuated? He could not describe the feeling, as if he had taken a sip of mint soda under the hottest summer sun.
While he was shaking in his mind, Su Lin had quietly wrapped Xu Qichen’s finger. Looking at the band aid on his fingertip, Xu Qichen felt a little discouraged.
Although the other party was a vampire, he was not in the least tempted by the sight of fresh blood, bleeding right from the source. He felt disappointed, as if he had prepared an entire feast but the guest did not even pick up his chopsticks.
Extracting his hand, he leant back on the pillow angrily, and accidentally knocked over the box that he had placed beside it.
With a thud, it fell on the floor.
And all the photos in it scattered.
Seeing Su Lin lowering his head to look, Xu Qichen felt very embarrassed, but his legs were injured and he could not go down to pick them up. He had to rush to Su Lin and cover his eyes with his hands, “Don’t look!”
His current position was precarious; with the slightest slip, he would fall off the bed. Su Lin reached out to steady him, “Are you trying to break your other leg as well?”
“Dr. Su, are you worrying about me?” Xu Qichen had completely rid himself of shame. “Don’t look ah.”
Su Lin did not reply, so Xu Qichen took that as ascent. He reached up and pulled his mask up to cover his eyes.
“What are you doing!?”
“Don’t look.” Xu Qichen bent over, grabbed the bed board with one hand, and reached for the photos with the other. It took him a few minutes to pick up the scattered photos and put them in the box. But there was still one that had drifted near Xiao Chao’s bed, which Xu Qichen could not reach.
As he was thinking about how to get it, the person beside him reached out and picked up that photo, and even looked at it.
It felt like a public execution…
Holding the box, Xu Qichen crawled out of bed and snatched the photo back, “Stop looking.” Seeing that Su Lin was looking at the box in his hand, Xu Qichen admitted, “It’s full of your photos. You don’t have to look.”
Even though he was not the one who did these things, Xu Qichen had to take the blame.
This time, he cut his finger and used the precious medicine, but not only did he fail to get Su Lin to drink his blood, he also exposed such an embarrassing deed of secretly taking photos of him. He had really lost a lot in this encounter.
Only now did Xu Qichen realise that it wasn’t so easy to woo someone.
A strange silence fell over the ward.
Xu Qichen did not know what to say, so he picked up the freshly peeled apple and pretended to bite calmly.
The window of the ward was not closed, and the April wind came in gently, blowing the light blue mask hanging from Su Lin’s ear.
“March 18. Today, I sneaked into the garden behind the hospital and saw Dr. Su dozing in his office beside the window. He always looks a little tired during the day, but he never looks less handsome.”
He slowly recited the words behind the photo in an emotionless tone.
His voice was cold, but very pleasant to the ear, reminding Xu Qichen of a familiar cold perfume.
He choked on the apple.
“Wh-what are you doing!? Kekeke…”
Su Lin glanced at him, “You wrote it yourself, why are you acting embarrassed now?”
Xu Qichen drank a big gulp of water, and only then did he stop coughing.
He really wanted this to end. He can’t keep living on in this world…
0901 suddenly spoke: “Mr. Xu, hang in there. You made it through so many worlds already!”
Xu Qichen sighed internally.
“Dr. Su, can you do a ward check every day from now on? If you do, I won’t take photos of you anymore. I promise!”
Su Lin did not reply.
Xu Qichen scooted closer, “Really, Dr. Su.” He pouted, “All the other patients get daily visits from their doctors, except me.”
He said this in the tone of, All the other kids’ parents come to pick them up, and I’m the only one who waits in the kindergarten until the sun set.
“You can be discharged soon.”
Xu Qichen grabbed Su Lin’s sleeve, “No. If you don’t visit me, I won’t leave the hospital.” Seeing that Su Lin was not responding, Xu Qichen threatened, “If you don’t agree, I’ll jump down from the third floor and break the other leg, and make you heal that too!”
Su Lin’s eyebrows twitched.
“If you don’t speak, I’ll take it as a ‘yes’!” Xu Qichen bowed his head, found his hand along the sleeve, pulled out his little finger, and made a pinky promise with him. “Don’t go back on your word, Doctor Su. Your fingers are so long ah.”
Su Lin looked helpless, and his lips moved slightly.
Xu Qichen caught the little detail and thought it was a good opportunity to strike again.
So he took back his hand and looked into Su Lin’s eyes. “Let me tell you a secret.”
“I dreamt of you earlier.” Even though it was a lie, Xu Qichen said it with a sincere smile, “And when I woke up, you were there by my side. Isn’t that a great coincidence?
Pfft HAHAHAHAHA Xu Qichen be like: what is shame? Can it be eaten???
Jiayou!
Thanks for the chapter~
He is so out of his element and I love it
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…..ahhh…xu qichen sounds so adorable right now……so opposite of his character ah…ahahahha