Edited by Elanor
Lu Xun didn’t expect that he would actually get sick.
However, due to the large temperature difference between day and night, coupled with the fact that he kept studying hard for several days and had accidentally fallen asleep after studying for half a day, he, who had not been sick even for a single day for several years, had fallen gloriously ill.
It was in the middle of the night that Lu Xun found himself uncomfortable. It was the first time he woke up in the middle of the night because of a headache. He felt as if his head was splitting and the air he was breathing out was hot.
The room was dark at night, Lu Xun supported himself to sit up and turned on the light, went to the living room and poured himself a glass of water.
Even after drinking a glass of warm water, the thirst in his throat was not relieved at all.
Lu Xun rarely got sick or had a fever. The last time he had a fever was in Junior High School. That time was not as uncomfortable as this time, and he had recovered after taking the medicine himself, so he didn’t tell anyone.
In a trance, Lu Xun recalled the past.
It seemed that the last time he had a cold and fever that was so bad was when he was a child and still living at his Grandfather’s house.
Being young and ignorant, he wanted his Grandparents to accompany him, but he was lectured by his Grandpa with a sullen face, saying that real men shouldn’t be so squeamish and petulant. Real men, let alone a minor illness and fever, even if he was bleeding and sweating, he should bear it in silence without changing his face.
He wanted to be taken care of and kept company when he had a minor illness, which was simply spoiled and unmanly, and people would laugh at him when they found out.
That time in Junior High as well, he just laid down silently until he recovered after taking the medicine himself.
Lu Xun pinched his brows, went back to his room and picked up his phone.
He had not bought any fever medication previously, so he had to find a delivery app and let the delivery service help him buy some fever medication for him.
Lu Xun was stunned when he opened the delivery app and found the function of buying medicine was only available at a certain time in his location.
He had only ever used delivery apps to buy food during the day here before, and had no idea that this small city didn’t have a pharmacy that was open twenty-four hours a day!
…… What should he do now?
Lu Xun felt his head ache even more as the originally cool phone was warmed by the hot palm of his hand.
Fingers swiping on the phone screen irritably, the delivery app flipped up and revealed the programs that had not been closed in the background, and Lu Xun saw the address book.
His finger tapped in faster than his consciousness and Lu Xun saw the name of the person he had placed at the top.
Two simple words, but the connection to that person could easily give a reliable and reassuring strength.
Lu Xun glanced at the time on the upper right corner of the phone.
3:12 am.
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It was the late hours of the night when the vast majority of people were sleeping soundly, not to mention good students who follow the rules.
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Who needed to call someone to take care of him at three o’clock in the morning… He was not that delicate.
Lu Xun tried to sleep, but the headache really prevented him from falling asleep, so he picked up the phone again, his feverish head was struggling to function, and he just clicked on various applications to distract himself from the pain.
He clicked on a social networking app. He didn’t chat with people often, so the first person at the top was Ye Yao, who was added recently.
There was nothing in the chat box, only an empty sentence: [Your friend request is approved, you can start chatting now.]
Lu Xun’s head was getting hotter and hotter, and whatever he was thinking was slowing down by a few beats. He looked at Ye Yao’s automatic sentence [You can start chatting now], and subconsciously typed a few 1’s in the chat box, and sent it as a reply.
After doing all this, Lu Xun finally came to his senses, and quickly raised his hand to withdraw the string of numbers.
The digits were withdrawn, but as his message disappeared, another new string of bubbles appeared.
The content of the bubble was read succinctly: [What’s wrong?]
With this speed of reply, Lu Xun felt like he was dreaming. He confirmed the authenticity of the message again, and typed incredulously: [You haven’t slept at this hour, are you studying?]
Ye Yao sat up from his bed, he had nothing else to do today, he had already gone to bed long ago. It’s just that he had set a special notification sound for Lu Xun before, and when Lu Xun sent a message, he would have a reminder tone similar to a small alarm clock.
The reason for setting up the special notification was very simple. He thought about it later, and felt that a person like Lu Xun, who seemed to be a strong person, would not be likely to call him after encountering troubles that were not fatal. On the contrary, it was possible that because he couldn’t sleep after encountering something, he would pretend to be fine under the mental strain and send him a few messages to ease his strained spirit.
He had seen several of these types of people when he was taking care of parents in the hospital.
With this setting, there was no need to worry about Lu Xun disturbing him on weekdays, because Lu Xun was still quite aloof, not a talkative person, and even less inclined to send messages.
Ye Yao replied: [Yes, I’m still studying, secretly studying to kill others, why are you still awake?]
There was no reply for a while, Ye Yao didn’t know if Lu Xun was shocked by his reply. After a while, Ye Yao finally saw two new messages.
[…No need to work so hard, it’s not the same as getting up in the morning to study.]
[I’m too lazy to go to school tomorrow, please ask the teacher for a leave of absence for me, just tell him I’m not feeling well, so I couldn’t come.]
It seemed perfectly normal for a school bully to make excuses because he didn’t want to go to school.
But staying up past three because he didn’t want to go to school, and for someone who normally wouldn’t touch social media much at all, it was very strange to be chatting to him in the middle of the night.
Ye Yao frowned slightly: [Are you unwell, did you go to the hospital, do you have any medicine at home?]
After a few moments, Lu Xun replied: [I am not sick, why should I take medicine or go to hospital?]
Ye Yao didn’t believe it at all. He remembered that Lu Xun had been coughing for the past few days, and that cough had not abated with the passage of time. Instead, it seemed to be getting worse.
Ye Yao thought about several events in tandems, and immediately figured out the causes and consequences.
A person was vulnerable when he was sick, even if he seemed invulnerable in normal times.
And it’s really dangerous to be sick, so try not to put it off if you can.
Ye Yao revised his wordings: [Yes, there is definitely no serious illness, but I see that you have been coughing for the past few days. I have cold medicine at home. Let me get you some cold medicine?]
[You may not be able to buy the right one by yourself on the delivery platform, and it will be more serious if you take the wrong medicine.]
[Give me your home address, I will leave ten minutes early for school tomorrow and drop by your place to give you some medicine, then I’ll go to school and ask for your leave of absence, how about that?]
After a while, Lu Xun’s profile picture kept showing that he was in the middle of typing, then stopped, then wrote again, probably thinking about his reply over and over again.
Ye Yao didn’t urge him, and watched Lu Xun type for about ten minutes before sending him an address.
Ye Yao got up and put on his clothes.
***
Lu Xun put down his phone and exhaled a hot breath.
Delaying Ye Yao by ten minutes… It shouldn’t be considered that he was not independent enough, and Ye Yao wouldn’t laugh at him.
Ye Yao still wanted to deliver medicine to him, and this was the first time he was given medicine by a friend.
It was a strange feeling, Lu Xun repeatedly tapped on Ye Yao’s profile picture several times, clicked in and out, until his eyes finally stayed on those few lines of dialogue.
It seemed that after reading these words, his headache didn’t seem to be as painful as before. Lu Xun let go of his phone, and couldn’t help but start thinking wildly again.
Will Ye Yao come over tomorrow and find that his voice was wrong, saying that he looked tall, but was actually weak and that he was not manly enough?
Ye Yao, who was so not delicate, must not like this kind of friend very much.
Otherwise, he would have told Ye Yao not to send it.
Lu Xun laid on the bed tossing and turning for a long time, when his mobile phone, which was not muted, suddenly rang.
Lu Xun picked up his phone and saw a new message: [Are you asleep? If you haven’t slept yet, get up and open the door for me? I remembered that I was deducted three points in my last physics exam so I was in a bad mood and couldn’t sleep, so I came out to take some air and bring you medicine in advance. If you’re asleep, I will leave the medicine at your door, remember to come and get it when you wake up.]
Lu Xun sat up suddenly from the bed, read this short passage two or three times in disbelief, and then looked in the direction of the door.
The door was shut tightly, so of course he couldn’t see anything. Lu Xun’s feverish mind was in a mess, with many inexplicable thoughts pouring in at once.
Before Lu Xun had time to think about it, he hurriedly got out of bed, walked out of the bedroom and opened the door.
Standing outside the door was a figure he had become more and more familiar with during this period of time. Ye Yao’s face was not annoyed or impatient, but with the usual smile that he had every time he saw him.
Lu Xun’s throat was already dry, and now for some reason became even drier as he asked in a muffled voice, “Are you really unable to sleep in the middle of the night because you didn’t do well in your exam?”
“Yeah, otherwise why would I still be awake and be studying hard? Here is the medicine I brought from home for you.” Ye Yao stretched out a hand and handed a bag to Lu Xun.
Lu Xun subconsciously reached out his hand to pick it up, but his reach was so wide that it touched Ye Yao’s hand at once.
With his body temperature much higher than normal, Lu Xun withdrew his hand again, slightly nervous.
Ye Yao wouldn’t laugh at him for his weakness and petulance, would he?
In Lu Xun’s line of sight, Ye Yao slowly raised his eyebrows: “You still look very energetic with such a high fever, impressive, as expected of our new school bully.”
…Ye Yao complimented him for being amazing.
“Naturally.” The corners of Lu Xun’s mouth curled up slightly.
“Well,” Ye Yao said softly, “There is cold medicine and fever-reducing medicine in that bag, you take them later and see if you feel better tomorrow. You can’t delay the fever, it’s very dangerous.”
Lu Xun did not say anything, he pursed his lips and nodded in silence.
He looked at Ye Yao’s figure, but Ye Yao didn’t turn around and leave immediately, but picked up the bag in his other hand.
“I stopped by the convenience store and bought you tomorrows’ breakfast. If you’re too sick to go downstairs to get takeout, just eat this.” Ye Yao said again.
Lu Xun took the breakfast bag in a daze, feeling the meticulous care in the other person’s actions.
It turns out that this is what happens when you get sick and have a fever here.
He’ll want to keep the fever going next time.
The tall school bully lowered his head slightly, and gave a rare thank you: “… Sorry to have troubled you.”
Ye Yao smiled: “What’s the matter, if one day I bumped my head while playing basketball, I might have to ask you to carry me to the infirmary… Forget it, you don’t like contact with men, so I won’t let you carry me. You can help me with something else.”
“Who says I can’t carry you?” Lu Xun said in a husky voice.
Considering that Lu Xun had said before that he would never share a room with anyone, Ye Yao finally left after a few words of advice and reminders. As Lu Xun watched Ye Yao disappear, a thought could not be restrained in his mind.
He wanted to be best friends with Ye Yao.
Even the arrival of the Heavenly King would not be able to change their relationship. Once they were friends, they would remain friends for a lifetime.
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Lu Xun never stood a chance. He can’t go against someone who’s cool both inside out 🙈
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Ugh I just want to kick that grandpa so his butt still hurts in his next life!
honestly im still so angry because of his grandpa that idiotic a-hole makes my blood boil and im kinda sad that they never really went into his past trauma with his grandpa but well it makes sense the author maybe doesn’t know much about it because the characters also never educate themselves that u dont suddenly become gay like thats not how it works
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