“I didn’t take off his clothes to check, but from a quick examination, Lin Qing doesn’t have any wounds. He just passed out because he wasn’t feeling well… Maybe he was scared.”
Hearing Wu Gang’s concerned words, the school nurse standing nearby suddenly spoke up, correcting him.
When Lin Qing was brought in, his face had been deathly pale, but his clothes were perfectly clean, with no bloodstains anywhere.
The students who brought him in also said Lin Qing had suddenly passed out.
His face was pale simply because he wasn’t feeling well.
Thinking of Lin Qing’s post-traumatic stress, the school nurse guessed that something might have triggered it.
But since it involved Lin Qing’s privacy, the school nurse didn’t say so outright.
“He wasn’t hurt? You scared me half to death… The police just arrested Li Dong, and they found blood on his clothes. The tests showed it wasn’t his, and Li Dong confessed everything… The blood on his clothes belonged to Lin Qing.”
Wu Gang was interrupted mid-sentence. He didn’t get angry; instead, the moment he heard the school nurse’s words, he let out a huge sigh of relief.
The police had already gotten the results, but if even the school nurse said so, he couldn’t very well refuse to believe it.
As long as Lin Qing was okay.
“When Li Dong attacked me, I accidentally hit the wall and got a pretty bad nosebleed. Maybe some of it got on his clothes then!”
At first, Lin Qing thought he couldn’t feel the pain from the wound on his palm because of the anesthetic.
But now, it seemed that wasn’t the case.
After the school nurse confirmed that his wound had disappeared, Lin Qing felt a little panicked. But with his black hair hanging over his face, no one else could tell.
Only he knew.
With current medical technology, a wound simply couldn’t disappear in an instant.
So Lin Qing immediately figured out what had caused it.
The red skull above Su Yao’s head.
The red that had disappeared hadn’t vanished completely. With Su Yao’s kiss, it had flowed straight into his body.
Earlier, when he’d seen the red skull change, Lin Qing had wondered where all that disappearing red had gone.
Now it seemed it had all gone into him.
He just hadn’t expected it to have healing properties…
“Lin Qing, you can go home and rest for a couple of days. Don’t push yourself.”
When Lin Qing described what had happened, Wu Gang and the school nurse looked at him with sympathy. They both thought the poor kid had the worst luck.
To run into something like this out of the blue… Anyone more timid would’ve been shaking and crying by now.
But Lin Qing was still keeping his cool. What a good kid.
“Uncle Wu, Li Dong didn’t hurt me. I was just a little startled. I can still go to class!”
But Lin Qing simply shook his head at Wu Gang’s suggestion that he go home.
He had too many questions.
He wanted answers.
He had to find Su Yao.
“No! I’ve already talked to your homeroom teacher. You’re going home for today, at least… I don’t know who let it slip, but the news about Li Dong has already gotten around. You should stay home for a day. Maybe people will have moved on by tomorrow.”
At first, Wu Gang gave Lin Qing an approving look for his ‘determination’ to keep studying. Then he shook his head firmly.
Things were already out of control. If Lin Qing went back to class, plenty of people would crowd around him with questions…
Just thinking about it was exhausting.
“Okay.”
Hearing Wu Gang’s concern, Lin Qing obediently nodded.
Now that the news had spread, he was probably the center of attention. There was no way he could get close to Su Yao.
He’d wait until things died down.
After that, Lin Qing didn’t linger in the infirmary. He politely declined Wu Gang’s offer to escort him and left the school on his own.
He didn’t stop once on the way, hurrying home as fast as he could.
The first thing he did when he got home was unwrap the bandage around his left hand. Then he stared at his uninjured palm in shock, knowing his guess had been right.
The red skull above Su Yao’s head wasn’t harmful at all. If anything, it had benefits he never could’ve expected.
“Bzzzz…”
As Lin Qing raised his left hand into the air and examined it curiously, his phone suddenly began to vibrate.
Lin Qing lowered his left hand, took out his phone, and looked at the screen as it lit up.
【Darling❤】
Lin Qing stared silently at the caller ID for a moment, then answered.
“Su Yao, what exactly happened?”
No one spoke from the other end after he answered, but Lin Qing still said Su Yao’s name.
Su Yao was the only one who could get her hands on his phone.
“Not bad—you guessed it was me right away. Lin Qing, do you like me too?~ And how did you like that kiss at lunchtime?~”
Listening to Su Yao speak without the slightest attempt to hide her intentions, Lin Qing felt a little envious of his classmates.
He’d suspected before that Su Yao had an unusual need for physical contact. But when he thought carefully about everything she did…
She only acted that way toward him.
Su Yao kept up a perfect facade around everyone else. With him, she made no effort to hide anything.
She didn’t treat him like an outsider.
She showed him her mean streak without holding back.
“…”
Lin Qing chose to stay silent in response to Su Yao’s teasing.
The more he said, the worse it would get.
Knowing Su Yao, she’d only get more excited.
“That’s why I don’t like chatting on the phone. It’s much better to meet in person. Why don’t you come over to my place? My room’s pretty big…”
“Su Yao, I’m hanging up.”
“All right, all right. I’ll stop teasing you. It’s actually pretty simple.”
As he spent more time with Su Yao, Lin Qing gradually figured out a few tricks for dealing with her.
So he got her to give in pretty quickly. He couldn’t see her face, but her sulky voice carried a hint of reluctance. She sounded just like a cute little girl throwing a tantrum.
“After I changed you out of the clothes with blood on them myself, I asked a teacher to get some students to take you to the infirmary. Then I had professionals clean the changing room, so not a single drop of blood would be left behind. You won’t be mistaken for some perverted peeping tom, either.”
Lin Qing paid no attention to Su Yao’s displeasure. He was focused on the sequence of events.
Su Yao was clever. She knew what he was worried about.
“What happened after I passed out? Why did my wound disappear?”
With his biggest concern taken care of, Lin Qing looked at his left hand and deliberately asked what he already knew.
From what he could tell, he was the only one who knew why the wound on his left hand had healed. Su Yao didn’t know.
So even if Su Yao had noticed that the wound was gone, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
But he’d already piqued Su Yao’s curiosity.
It’d be hard to make it go away now.
Still, Su Yao was already clinging to him like a koala, so he didn’t really mind adding a little more curiosity to the mix.
“The wound disappeared?”
But Su Yao’s question made Lin Qing freeze.
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