Bo Jingzhou's eyes darkened as he looked over, "Retract your claws."

Qin Heci withdrew his hand from Shen Wanci's forehead and, right in front of him, flipped it over several times: "You mean this?"

He raised an eyebrow at Bo Jingzhou, then leaned in provocatively, rubbing her head. Shen Wanci really didn't expect that a man in his twenties who was almost thirty would be so childish. She didn't even have time to resist before he messed up her hair into a chicken coop.

Qin Hèyì: “Do you know what qualities a qualified ex-husband should have? He should be like dead. But you, you’re pretending to be dead every other day, and you even drag others down with you.”

Just as Bo Jingzhou was about to throw off the covers and get out of bed, a nurse walked in with a tray and handed him a thermometer: “Take your temperature.”

Then turning her head to look at Nie Yu Cheng who was still sitting on the stool, she spoke softly: "Sir, I'm sorry, it's getting very late now. Our hospital has a regulation that family members who are not staying overnight can't be in the ward after eleven o'clock."

Nie Yu Cheng got up.

The nurse thought he was leaving, but then she saw him twist a chair and sit beside Bo Jingzhou’s bed: “Since it’s one patient, one nurse, I’ll keep him company.”

“...”

Bo Jingzhou's face immediately darkened, and he impatiently said, "Get out."

Nie Yu Cheng smiled: "At least I'm Wanci's brother, you're her ex-husband, so rounding up, I'm also your brother. Seeing that you're all alone and pitiful, I'll reluctantly take care of you."

The atmosphere in the ward suddenly froze.

Bo Jingzhou and Nie Yucheng looked at each other, one cold and the other warm, but neither affected the tension in their eyes.

No one spoke, not even the nurses were around.

Shen Wanci was already having a headache, and now it was even worse. She raised her hand to press her temples, but before she could touch her head, she felt three men staring at her all at once.

This kind of scene is... utterly speechless.

She said to Qin Heyi, "You go back and rest. I don't have anything to do here either. I guess I'll be able to leave the hospital tomorrow morning."

As for Bao Jingzhou and Nie Yucheng, she couldn't control them. One was a patient, the other an attendant. The hospital wasn't hers to run; could she really ask the doctors to kick them out?

Qin He Yi raised an eyebrow, looking at the two beside him: "You're going to use it and throw it away? Wan Ci, being realistic doesn't have to be this realistic. This place is so far from the holiday villa, and my car didn't come down either. At least let me sleep for a while, and we can leave tomorrow during the day. It's too unsafe to take a taxi at this late hour."

"As a grown man, running naked is just putting others at a disadvantage. What's unsafe about that?"

"Because I'm a man, I inherently suffer from this situation due to gender bias. Even when seeking justice, I have to prove why I was assaulted..."

Shen Wanci directly pulled the pillow behind her and covered his mouth: "Please be quiet."

She was afraid he might say something like "still hard" -- such lewd and vulgar words.

She decided to ignore them, lay back on the bed, turned her back to them and closed her eyes: "If you're really bored, have the nurse bring out a deck of cards and play something like poker or Mahjong. If you keep talking and disturbing my rest, I'll complain."

She didn't know if they argued afterward, at least not before she fell asleep.

Shen Wanci slept soundly. After climbing a mountain for more than an hour in the afternoon and stubbornly waiting on the viewing platform until evening, she got drenched in the rain. Even a god couldn't withstand such torment. When she woke up, the doctor was checking on her.

"Is there anywhere that hurts?" Qin Heyi said as he opened his eyes and answered the doctor's questions.

Shen Wanci shook her head. Besides finding the hospital bed a bit uncomfortable, giving her a sore back, she didn't feel any pain anywhere else, not even a cold symptom.

After the doctor finished his rounds and left, Shen Wanci got up and went to the bathroom to wash. When she came out, Qin Heyi's takeout had arrived, with lean meat porridge, crystal buns, rice noodle rolls, dumplings... a dazzling array laid out on the table.

Qin Heyi took apart the disposable chopsticks and handed them to her. "Eat quickly, it'll get cold."

On the side, Bo Jingzhou and Nie Yucheng also woke up. Seeing this scene, none of them spoke, which wasn't quite in line with their usual mode of interaction when they bumped into each other. Shen Wanci felt something was off, but she thought it was her own overthinking. She finished her meal and told Qin Heyi that she was planning to be discharged. The two remained silent the whole time, which was definitely strange. "What's wrong with them?"

Qin Heyi nonchalantly replied with an "oh", "We agreed that the loser of the card game isn't allowed to speak to you or come near you today."

Shen Wanci rolled her eyes. “…”

Immature man.

She was fine physically. After asking the doctor and being cleared to leave, Qin Heyi went through the discharge procedures.

Next to him, Bao Jingzhou kicked the stool where Nie Yuchen was sitting, head bowed over his work. "Aren't you family? I'm being discharged, hurry up and get the paperwork done."

As Qin He Yi reached the doorway, he turned back with a half-smile and said, "You wouldn't want to wait for us all to leave before taking the chance to talk to Wan Ci, would you?"

Bo Jingzhou sneered, "Is it because you often do such tasteless things that you think everyone is like you?"

"No, it's because dogs lack morality, so I can't help but worry."

After saying that, Qin Hexit vanished. Bo Jingzhou wanted to retort but didn't get the chance, so he could only swallow his anger and turn his gaze back. He happened to see Shen Wanci trying hard to hold back a smile but failing miserably, "Very funny?"

Shen Wanci actually wanted to treat him as nothing, but she couldn't help laughing. Seeing Bo Jingzhou eat his words was simply a rare and wonderful thing: “Didn’t you guys agree that the loser wouldn’t speak to me?”

"Hmph," the man sneered, unsure if he was throwing in the towel or sarcastically saying, "Have you ever seen a dog keep its word?"

“...”

She was speechless.

After a moment of silence, an unexpected but somehow expected person appeared in the ward. It was Jian Weining, who had been missing for a while. She wore a black fitted suspender dress with a coat over it. From her makeup to her attire, everything was meticulously and delicately put together, except that her makeup was a bit heavy.

This time, it's completely different from the sly bare-faced look I had before.

Shen Wanci's hospital bed was outside, and Jian Wuning saw it as soon as she walked in. She bit her lip, a little embarrassed, and lowered her head as she walked towards Bo Jingzhou: "Jingzhou, I heard people say you were hospitalized, are you feeling better?"

Her face, even with heavy makeup, couldn't hide her exhaustion. Her eyes were also red from insomnia these days. This state was just right when facing a man, pitiful and endearing, making people want to pity her. But when facing Shen Wanci, her rival in love, it was too embarrassing.

She should always be above it, even when she's angry.

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