KEIGHTY: Special thanks to Flowersky for the ko-fi donations! <3 (Extra Chapter 2/2)
He Yu drove the car over. Qiao Mudong dropped the knife in his hand, opened the door, and climbed into the passenger seat.
He Yu glanced at the knife with some worry and said, “It has your fingerprints on it.”
Qiao Mudong answered confidently, “Then the higher-ups can have my blood all they want! What nonsense, just drive quickly.”
He Yu had no choice but to step on the accelerator and continue driving forward. He asked Qiao Mudong, “Should we go to the hospital?”
Qiao Mudong said, “You drive forward and turn left at the next intersection. Wait for me to tell you where to go next.”
He Yu turned his head, saw the blood stains flowing down Qiao Mudong’s clothes, and suddenly panicked. He also hadn’t touched a car for a long time, so the front of the car jerked forward for a while, causing him to slam on the brakes again.
Qiao Mudong put a hand on the back of He Yu’s neck, squeezed it affectionately, and told him, “Don’t panic, I won’t die.”
He Yu quipped back, “If you see these kinds of people in the future, just avoid them. What are you trying to do? It won’t be good for you whether you win or not!”
Qiao Mudong snorted, “What do you know? I have to follow the rules of the world. If you win, it’s your skill. If you lose, you have to accept your fate.”
He Yu looked at him coldly. “Do you really think you are a gangster, ah?! Still following the rules of the world!”
Qiao Mudong suddenly came closer and whispered in He Yu’s ear, “Are you feeling distressed for me?”
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He Yu blurted out, “I wish they would beat you up so that I could get a break from all of your teasing.”
Qiao Mudong bit his ear. “They could never beat me up so easily. If you don’t believe me, try it tonight.”
The car swung left and right under He Yu’s control. He became angry and pushed Qiao Mudong away. “Give me a break! Scram and sit properly!”
Qiao Mudong then directed He Yu as the car drove to the largest private hospital in the north of the city. He Yu directly called an emergency call for him. The emergency doctor debrided and sutured Qiao Mudong and said with emotion, “Fortunately, the cut wasn’t deep. The nerves and bones weren’t injured as well.”
That’s because when the knife was struck, Qiao Mudong’s shoulders dropped downward, taking away a lot of strength. Thus, the wound looked long and bled a lot, but it wasn’t too deep.
While the doctor was stitching him up, he asked, “How did you get injured?”
Qiao Mudong didn’t want him to call the police, so he said, “I had a fight with my wife, then I got angry, so I grabbed a knife and stabbed myself to my heart's content.”
The doctor paused for a moment, looked at him sideways, and stopped talking.
He Yu was sitting on the bench outside the door, waiting for him. When he leaned back, he felt some pain in his lower back. He reached out and pressed it. Just when he was thinking about whether to ask the doctor to take a look at him, he suddenly heard a commotion in the hall outside.
He Yu stood up and looked out from the open door of the emergency room. Many people rushed into the emergency hall. In the middle, doctors and nurses were pushing a bed into the room. Some people shouted, “Emergency surgery! Arrange the surgery room immediately!”
One of the young men ran by, and He Yu suddenly felt that he looked familiar. He thought about it carefully and found out that the man was Hong Minhang’s subordinate. He had just met him in front of Hong Xiangfeng’s tomb yesterday.
He Yu became curious and walked out slowly.
When he reached the door of the emergency room, someone held his shoulder.
He Yu turned around and saw Qiao Mudong standing behind him. Qiao Mudong asked him, “What are you doing?”
He Yu looked at his shoulder. He had already put his shirt and coat back on. He could only see the white gauze inside through the slit of his clothes, so he asked, “Is it healed already?”
Qiao Mudong replied, “It’s okay; the stitches will be removed in a few days.”
The doctor came out of the debridement and suturing room. He walked towards his office while saying, “I’ll prescribe some medicine. You go and get the medicine for tetanus.”
The doctor prescribed injections and anti-inflammatory drugs and gave the prescription to He Yu.
Before He Yu went to buy it, he told Qiao Mudong, “I just saw Hong Minhang’s people outside.”
“Oh?” Qiao Mudong also looked a little surprised.
He Yu came back after spending a lot of money to get the medicine. He saw Qiao Mudong standing in the corner of the emergency room, watching the people coming and going in the hall. “What’s wrong?” He Yu walked up to him and asked.
Qiao Mudong put his hand on his shoulder and said, “It seems like something happened to Hong Xiaomao. I saw his second and third uncles arrive.”
Speaking of Hong Minhang, the first thing He Yu thought of was Li Tang. After hesitating for a moment, He Yu asked, “Do you want me to tell Brother Li?”
Qiao Mudong answered, “If you don’t want Li Tang to be involved, it’s best not to tell him. Both of Hong Xiaomao’s uncles would not simply wait while he came into contact with him. Once Li Tang is spotted, he would only make his family’s Xiaomao disheartened.”
He Yu couldn’t help but frown.
Qiao Mudong patted his face and said, “Let’s go; let’s mind our own business.”
Qiao Mudong’s shoulder was injured, and He Yu’s original plan to find a hotel for the night naturally came to nothing. He drove Qiao Mudong home, resignedly took off his suitcase, and went upstairs with Qiao Mudong.
Qiao Mudong opened the door in front and reached out to turn on the ceiling light in the living room. The moment the light shone in, He Yu had the illusion of returning home.
He dragged his suitcase in. Qiao Mudong was already sitting on the sofa, squinting his eyes tiredly.
He Yu was also tired. He was kicked out of Fu Chenshan’s house and was chased and almost killed while accompanying Qiao Mudong on the street. He felt that his life experiences in the past few years combined were richer than those in the first half of his life.
He Yu took his luggage up to the second floor and looked at Qiao Mudong on the sofa below from the stairs, not wanting to go downstairs again. He went directly into the bathroom in Qiao Mudong’s room and started running the water.
Taking off his clothes one by one, leaving only a pair of underwear, He Yu walked to the large full-length mirror in Qiao Mudong’s room, wanting to see the injury on his lower back. When he looked in the mirror, he noticed that there were many bruises and contusions on his body, which were all caused by the punches and kicks of the two men. As for his lower back, it was a terrible purple. He didn’t know if there were any injuries to his lumbar spine.
The water in the bathtub had been put in. He Yu took off his underwear, stepped in slowly, and completely immersed his body in the water. When you are extremely tired, taking a bath is probably the best way to relax. He Yu suddenly felt a little lucky that when he arrived at Qiao Mudong’s place, he at least had a large, luxurious bathtub, so he didn’t have to take a cold shower in a dirty and messy hotel.
He Yu leaned on the edge of the bathtub to support his lower back without stress, then raised his head and looked at the starry sky outside the glass dome. In the bustling city, naked and looking up at the starry sky and night, He Yu smiled. Only the rich could enjoy it like this, while the poor could only run around for a living all day long and then go back and be trapped in a small room at night, waiting for the arrival of a busy tomorrow with a dim light above their heads.
Of course, Qiao Mudong only knows how to chew peonies. To him, these things are all a waste.
He Yu soaked for a while and heard Qiao Mudong coming upstairs. He walked directly into the room and took off all his clothes. It seemed that because of the injury to his shoulder, it was a little difficult to take off his clothes, so his movements were also slow. After a while, he walked naked to the bathroom.
He Yu looked back at him and said, “Don’t wet your wound with water.”
Qiao Mudong still stepped down, but only with his legs immersed in the water. He then sat on the edge of the bathtub.
“Come here.” He stretched out a hand towards He Yu.
He Yu lazily stretched out his hand to hold him. He then used Qiao Mudong’s strength to pull him up to sit next to Qiao Mudong, leaning his head on Qiao Mudong’s thigh.
Qiao Mudong touched his face with one hand and said, “My wound shouldn’t get wet. You should help me wash.”
He Yu closed his eyes. “I don’t want to move.”
Qiao Mudong rubbed his face instead. “Laziness won’t bring you anywhere.”
He Yu smiled. “Isn’t it better to be lazy?”
Qiao Mudong ran a hand down He Yu’s face and neck. When his hand touched his chest, He Yu suddenly grabbed his hand. He Yu opened his eyes and said, “Just a sponge bath, ba?”
He stood up, stepped outside the bathtub, reached for the towel on the shelf, then returned to the edge of the bathtub. He soaked the towel and twisted it, squatted down, put the wet towel on Qiao Mudong’s neck, and started to move it from top to bottom, wiping him gently.
Another extra! Thank you to Flowersky for your generosity! 😍
I wish they could just move to a different country where nobody knows them and live the rest of their lives together. They’re two damaged ppl who finds comfort from each other.
Thanks to flowersky for letting us enjoy another extra chapters. 🤍
Not the sponge bath! I’ve seen way too many of those 😅
Thank you for the chapter!
Ohohoho~ you’re welcome, Sasha!