Seeing her face change, Shen Wanci asked, "What's wrong?"

Qin Yuezhi flipped her phone screen over to show her the interface content: "Lu Yanchi, he probably just accidentally dialed out a while ago."

"...."

She and Lu Yanchi hadn't exchanged phone numbers. This number was given to her by Chen Xu the day before yesterday. She had wanted to talk to him again about the bidding, but Bo Rongxuan stopped her.

The call had connected, and a cold, detached voice came from the receiver: "What's up?"

Although he wasn't on speakerphone, the room was so quiet in the early morning that he could hear every word Ling Chen said, including his tone.

Shen Wanci was just about to reach out to take it when Qin Yuezhi snatched the phone back, and nervously exclaimed, "Oh my, how did you get blood on it?"

After finishing, he hung up the phone directly.

A set of smooth and swift operations, Shen Wanci didn't even have time to react, "Where is the bleeding?"

Just now, the fall didn't seem that bad. Could it be because I was too nervous and didn't notice?

Qin Yuezhi: "My heart is bleeding."

"....."

"Aren't you sure if he is Bo Jingzhou? If he comes, then he is. If he doesn't, then he is Lu Yanchi. You shouldn't talk to him from now on, every time you see him, hit him once."

Over the past few months, Qin Yuezhi has watched Shen Wanci heartbroken and worried. She felt both anxious and concerned, especially during the first month or two, when she stayed by Shen Wanci's side constantly, afraid that she might do something foolish because of Bo Jingzhou.

If he was really gone, or seriously injured and had to be hiding somewhere, she wouldn't bother him. But if he was clearly back but pretended not to know her, then she would be the Mount Everest on his road to winning her back: "It's not like a special job where you need a fake identity to get things done. I don't believe for a second that this couldn't be handled if you just told me."

Since they wanted to pretend not to know each other, before the matter was resolved, they should both be quiet and act as if they were uninvolved exes. He kept flirting but denied it, leaving Wan Ci's finally calmed mood in turmoil again.

Such a despicable person just deserves to be dealt with.

Shen Wanci: "He may have his reasons."

"What hardships? Shouldn't a couple share both good times and bad? If you're afraid of implicating your family, then move to a safe distance. Think about how many times you and he have been together? He's dangling you on one hand, afraid you'll be with another man, but unwilling to give you reassurance on the other. What's the difference between him and those men who only sleep with women and then leave? Even those scumbags say sweet nothings when things get intense. This guy just wants to take advantage of you without any commitment."

Shen Wanci: "..."

"Don't coddle him, if I were you, I'd have a different man flirt with him every day, let him cry himself to tears."

She recalled a news article she had seen before: "Crying too much can lead to breast hyperplasia."

"...Qin Yue's eyes widened in shock as she looked at her: "Men can get this disease too?"

"Men don't have mammary glands?"

"Sorry, I'm illiterate. From now on, I'll watch more educational channels and play fewer games and less TV drama. And when I do watch dramas, I'll stick to positive ones," Qin Yuezhi finished her humorous jab and then said seriously, "Don't worry about his mammary glands for now, focus on your own. The amount of anger you've accumulated these past few months could rival some people's lifetime supply. You haven't even gained any breast tissue, so he has the audacity to?"

That makes sense.

While being criticized by Qin Yue as someone worse than a scumbag, the person in question was currently so anxious he felt like an ant on a hot pot. However, he couldn't show it. He held his phone and 'calmly' stood up to walk out of the ward.

As soon as he moved, Ji Siyuan on the hospital bed looked at him: "Brother, are you going to leave me and go back to the company?"

He wore him down, finally persuading Lu Yanchi to stay. He even went as far as mentioning his father, saying that if Lu Yanchi didn't stay with him, he would call his father and complain, getting his father to talk to Lu Yanchi. Only then did Lu Yanchi give in.

So when he saw him get up, Ji Siyuan became particularly nervous.

Lu Yanchi: “I’m going downstairs for a smoke, my craving hit me. I'll grab you some food while I’m at it.”

Ji Siyuan's anesthesia wore off, and the pain from his injuries was intense, especially in his injured hands and legs. His dark eyes stared intently at Lu Yanchi, his eye sockets were red, his brows furrowed in restraint, and beads of sweat formed on his forehead. He looked utterly miserable.

A sickly, pathetic young boy lying in bed gazing at you with pleading eyes. If this were a woman who liked younger men, her heart would melt and she'd want to pull him into her arms and comfort him dearly.

Of course, all of this was an act. He had endured beatings and scolding for two years in the orphanage and had long since gotten used to it. He wouldn't cry out from pain anymore, or rather, he hardly ever cried from physical pain as a child.

He enjoys this feeling, and he enjoys it even more when it happens to others. It's gone. Ji Siyuan:

I'm not hungry, I have no appetite, and I don't feel like eating.

Lu Yanchi's mind was now filled with Qin Yuezhi's panicked cry of "Bleeding". He couldn't even spare a thought to placate him. When Lu Yanchi said he wouldn't eat, he simply hummed in response: "I'll go smoke a cigarette."

Ji Siyuan kept watching him until he could no longer see his back, the grievance in his eyes gradually subsided, replaced by a cold, expressionless face.

He pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Have you found anything? The person who called me tonight, was it sent by my brother?"

"Temporarily haven't found any connection between Bo...Lu Zong and her, that woman is looking for a young gigolo outside, Tiger Brother's people have been following her for several days, today just..."

"Are you saying I'm unlucky? Just bad timing?" Ji Siyuan's voice was a chillingly soft, feminine quality. When he spoke, it felt like a venomous snake waiting to strike, sending shivers down your spine: "I think this is my brother's doing. If you can't even figure this out, then I'll regret taking you, a useless waste of space, on that boat with me. Don't forget how Ginger Five died."

"Young Master Ji, I'll go check again."

Ji Siyuan impatiently curled his lips, "If you make another slip of the tongue, I'll cut out your tongue and feed it to the dogs."

This trash almost called him "Mr. Bao" just now.

Ji Siyuan disliked the name Bo Jingzhou very much. Lu Yanchi, it was he who chose it for him.

"Lu Yanchi…" He closed his eyes contentedly, his lips moving slightly as he whispered the three words, how beautiful they sounded.

……

Shen Wanci's fall completely scared Qin Yuezhi awake. It was already 5:00 AM, and she couldn't fall back asleep. Feeling a little hungry, she went to the kitchen and cooked two bowls of tomato and egg noodles. Just as she carried them into her room, she heard the sirens of an ambulance coming from downstairs.

They drove from far to near, then stopped under their building.

Qin Yuezhi placed a bowl of noodles in front of Shen Wanci: "You're definitely another victim of overworking and death from exhaustion. Our generation really is trading our lives for money."

This area is a business center, with apartment buildings surrounding it that are rented to white-collar workers. There are basically no elderly people living here.