When she couldn’t go on, Su Yao finally remembered why she’d come in the first place.
Lin Qing seemed dazed from losing too much blood. He let her lie on top of him, kissing and licking him, without putting up the slightest resistance.
Su Yao couldn’t help poking out the tip of her tongue. She stopped taking advantage of Lin Qing and stayed straddling him, but quickly lifted his injured hand with one of hers.
She held a bandage in her other hand. She needed to…
Huh?
The wound…
It was gone?
Su Yao froze as she went to bandage Lin Qing’s wound. Then she tossed the bandage aside and took his injured hand in both of hers, turning it over and examining it closely.
The more she looked, the more confused Su Yao became.
That’s impossible!
She’d been excited just moments ago because of Lin Qing’s wound. There was no way she’d imagined it.
And the blood scattered all over the floor was proof of the wound, too.
Yet Lin Qing’s palm was now perfectly smooth, without even a scar.
What on earth had happened?
What secrets was Lin Qing hiding?
Thinking this over, Su Yao stared at Lin Qing, whose eyes were half closed. He sat slumped on the floor against the wardrobe, looking exhausted, as if he didn’t even have the strength to speak.
It looked as though he might pass out at any moment.
He’d been perfectly alert not long ago. How had he suddenly become so drowsy and weak?
Curiosity filled Su Yao’s eyes, but this wasn’t the time to keep pressing him.
Besides, given Lin Qing’s personality, she wouldn’t get an answer even if she asked.
In the end, she’d have to figure it out herself!
…
“Lin, you’re finally awake!”
When Lin Qing came to, he saw the familiar furnishings around him and the school nurse. He immediately knew where he was.
But how had he ended up in the infirmary?
Before he passed out, he remembered being with Su Yao in the changing room.
That lunatic Su Yao had suddenly thrown herself at him and kissed him over and over, ferocious as a beast breaking free from its cage.
But after Lin Qing had watched the red skull change, he hadn’t kept enduring Su Yao’s forced kisses.
He’d wanted to fight back, but his body wouldn’t cooperate.
His mind had grown hazy, too, and he couldn’t clearly sense what was happening around him.
Then, for some reason, he’d passed out. When he woke up again, he was in the infirmary.
Where was Su Yao?
“Ma’am, how did I end up here?”
Remembering that he’d been with Su Yao before passing out, Lin Qing looked at the school nurse from his bed and immediately asked what had happened.
It would be better to hear the details from someone else.
He really wanted to ask where Su Yao was, but since their relationship had to stay secret, Lin Qing decided to phrase it another way.
But when the school nurse heard Lin Qing’s question, her cheerful expression changed.
She quickly grew dejected, like a child who’d done something wrong, her eyes full of guilt.
A few question marks popped into Lin Qing’s mind. He had no idea what was going on.
No matter how he looked at it, what had happened in the changing room had nothing to do with the school nurse, did it?
“This is all my fault. I shouldn’t have stuck my nose in where it didn’t belong. And now you’ve been dragged into it, Lin. Don’t worry—I’ll make sure you get justice. He’ll pay for this!”
While Lin Qing was still utterly confused, the school nurse’s expression changed again.
Now she looked furious, her words sharp with anger.
That only left Lin Qing more bewildered.
“The school has already started dealing with Li Dong attacking you.”
The school nurse kept a close eye on Lin Qing. Even with his black hair hiding his face, she could read his mood from the smallest movements.
Seeing how many questions Lin Qing had, the school nurse got straight to the point.
She’d seen Li Dong getting bullied all the time and felt sorry for him, so she’d wanted students in his year to lend him a hand.
Anything would’ve helped ease things a little.
But…
Who could’ve guessed Li Dong would stab Lin Qing with a craft knife!
Thinking of all the concern she’d shown Li Dong, the school nurse felt as if she’d been wasting her kindness on a dog.
And an innocent student had gotten dragged into it.
The school nurse looked at Lin Qing with even more guilt, wondering how she could make it up to him.
After all, if she hadn’t said those things earlier, Lin Qing wouldn’t have helped Li Dong.
As the school nurse spoke, Lin Qing listened to what had happened and couldn’t help freezing. He hadn’t expected Su Yao to report the whole thing!
It wasn’t that Lin Qing was kindhearted and had decided to forgive Li Dong for attacking him. The problem was where it had happened.
The girls’ changing room.
If word got out, Li Dong wouldn’t be the only one punished. People at school would point fingers at Lin Qing, brand him a “pervert,” and make him live out the rest of high school with that reputation.
That wasn’t the ordinary life Lin Qing wanted—and there was nothing ordinary about it!
“Who brought me here?”
At that thought, Lin Qing realized he couldn’t keep lying there. He had to find Su Yao as soon as possible.
He couldn’t let things keep unfolding like this. He had to stop them from getting worse.
“The student who brought you here? You two must be fated to cross paths. He brought you here last time, too.”
“Last time?”
“Yeah. His name’s Zhou Lin. He ran all the way here, out of breath, carrying you. Then he went back out.”
The school nurse thought for a moment, then answered with a sigh.
Zhou Lin really was a good student!
But Zhou Lin wasn’t what Lin Qing was focused on. He realized his guess had been wrong.
It wasn’t Su Yao. It was someone else.
That meant the first person to find him hadn’t found him in the changing room.
The moment he understood that key detail, Lin Qing let out a breath of relief.
“Ma’am, I…”
“Lin Qing, you’re finally awake!”
Lin Qing was about to ask something else when a voice full of excitement interrupted him.
The infirmary door was flung open, and the burly Wu Gang strode over to Lin Qing.
When Wu Gang had been hospitalized before, he’d always been lying down, so he’d seemed like an ordinary-sized man. Standing up, though, he was seriously built.
“Mr. Wu, I’m fine.”
“Hey, kid, why so formal? Call me Uncle Wu like you used to! How’s the wound? They said you lost too much blood. Look at you—you’re as pale as paper. You’re really weak!”
Wu Gang grabbed the chair beside him without a second thought and sat down, looking at his former hospital roommate with concern.
He’d wanted to surprise Lin Qing when they met again. Who knew that their reunion would turn from a pleasant surprise into a nasty shock…
Kids these days… What were they thinking?
Lin Qing wasn’t the one who’d bullied Li Dong. No matter how you looked at it, he shouldn’t have been the one to suffer for it!
As Lin Qing listened to Wu Gang’s questions, he instinctively clenched his hand—and froze.
What happened to the wound on his hand???
