Seeing her leave the hospital room, Yao Cen shook her head speechlessly and looked at Xiao Shun, “You know what my mom is like, don’t take her words seriously.”
“I don’t care what others think, but I heard everything you said to your mom outside. I didn’t expect you to love me so much…” Xiao Shun smiled with great effort.
“Don’t think you can get away with it just because you’re a patient. If you weren’t disabled I’d really kick you,” Yao Cen glared at him.
She went to the table, took out a bowl of chicken soup from the thermos, then suddenly felt awkward. She couldn’t exactly feed him the soup like she did this morning, right?
Xiao Shun also looked at her playfully as she struggled left and right. He really wanted to laugh but it would hurt all over if he did.
He tried his best not to laugh and said, “I’m not that fragile. Call a nurse to help prop me up a bit.”
“Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
“You didn’t ask. And this morning you just came over and kissed me, I didn’t have a chance to say anything,” Xiao Shun said innocently.
Yao Cen: “…”
This guy really deserved a beating. If not for him being disabled now, she really wanted to kick him.
Yao Cen called two nurses over, but they didn’t recommend moving him too much, just added another pillow to prop him up slightly higher.
After the two nurses left, Yao Cen finally sat down and carefully fed him the chicken soup.
This was the first time Yao Cen had taken care of him like this. It felt quite enjoyable, a blessing in disguise?
After finishing the soup and resting for about half an hour, Qin Guangyuan came in with acupuncture needles.
He had gotten the news shortly after Xiao Shun woke up in the morning. Without waiting for Yao Cen to invite him, he took the initiative to come inquire about the situation.
Xiao Shun also told him about using Fallen Seven to help unblock his meridians.
Qin Guangyuan naturally readily agreed. He was here now specifically to perform acupuncture on him.
With every acupoint Xiao Shun named, Qin Guangyuan carefully inserted a silver needle into the corresponding acupoint. In no time, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He had never been so nervous giving someone acupuncture before.
Although Xiao Shun was his patient now, he still felt like a quack doctor meddling without understanding. It gave him the sudden illusion of being back in his youth when the elders in the clan tested his acupuncture skills, making him very tense.
Since Qin Guangyuan couldn’t use qi in his needles, Xiao Shun didn’t feel any qi flowing, only occasionally a numb and painful sensation, like being bitten by an ant.
But having Qin Guangyuan do acupuncture itself was meant to play an assisting role – both to relieve pain and to unblock his meridians a little. What would really allow him to stand again was relying on the energy provided by Spirit Stones.
After about an hour, Xiao Shun’s whole body was covered in needles, looking like a porcupine.
“How is it?” Qin Guangyuan asked.
“Very good,” Xiao Shun said plainly.
He couldn’t exactly say it wasn’t very useful – that would be too disheartening. But the effect wasn’t obvious the first time. These acupoints needed repeated stimulation.
“The needles can be removed after fifteen minutes,” Xiao Shun continued. “But I’ll have to trouble Mr. Qin to stay in Stillwater for some days. I don’t trust others to do the needles.”
“No need to stand on ceremony with me. Even if you didn’t say so, I would stay until at least seeing you able to get out of bed. Besides, I have nothing else recently.” Qin Guangyuan said humbly.
With his way of speaking respectfully to someone decades younger, it made Xiao Shun feel a bit awkward instead.
Back then he had unilaterally taken Qin Guangyuan as master, but Xiao Shun had never agreed to it. With Qin Guangyuan over a hundred years old and prestigious in the traditional medicine circle, taking on a disciple like this might shorten his lifespan.
Yet Qin Guangyuan was utterly sincere, still treating him with great deference.
“Mr. Qin, just treat me as a friend. There’s no need to take the apprenticeship seriously, you’re making me feel bad. And it feels awkward when we talk like this,” Xiao Shun said.
“Since you put it this way, I’ll do as you say. But in Qin’s heart, you’ll always be my master,” Qin Guangyuan said somewhat awkwardly.
“Alright, do as you wish,” Xiao Shun said helplessly.
“By the way, how is Mr. Wang?”
“This time it was heart fire attacking his heart due to excessive worrying. Nothing major, he’s recuperating in Bamboo Garden. But as you know, Young Master Wang’s truly fatal illness is incurable, no medicine or stones can heal it. It’s truly tragic,” Qin Guangyuan lamented regretfully.
Xiao Shun knew in his heart that Wang Ye had placed all his hopes on him. Not that he fantasized Xiao Shun could save his own life, but that one day Xiao Shun could change the fate of the Wang descendants.
If anything happened to Xiao Shun, even that bit of hope would be gone. That was why he had been so anxious seeing Xiao Shun’s state.
Xiao Shun’s current condition left him unable to even help himself, let alone look after Wang Ye, but he still felt stifled inside.
After a brief silence, it was about time, so Qin Guangyuan removed the needles and left the hospital room.
“Focus on recovering. When you get better, everything else will follow,” Yao Cen comforted him seeing his mood was a bit down.
She didn’t know if it was a good or bad thing that so many people needed her man. Being needed by many was probably good, but being needed by too many might not be so good. Yet where was the boundary between many and too many? Yao Cen didn’t know, but she felt quite proud inside at the moment.
Xiao Shun smiled, “Thirsty.”
“I’ll get you water…”
Yao Cen hurriedly got up to pour him water, then immediately realized this guy had ulterior motives from the way he was watching her. She glared fiercely at him.
In the days Xiao Shun had been unconscious, many things had also happened outside.
The news that Starline could cure red cheek disease quietly spread on local social media.
As expected, no one believed it at first, especially the victims. But as the message continued circulating, some still couldn’t resist buying Starline to try.
In a support group with over a hundred victims, one of them posted two photos of her face.
“I drank two bottles of Starline yesterday. When I got up this morning, I felt like the red marks on my face had faded a little. Not sure if it’s psychological, take a look at the before and after and see if it’s lighter?”
“Probably just the lighting, doesn’t look like any change to me. Take another outside in the sun and let me see.”
“Sigh, got tricked once yet still buying health products. Now I know most health products on the market are scams. I won’t use anything ever again from now on, I’m crying.”
“I think the color did fade a bit, but I really don’t dare use it again. Zhou, let us know if it really works after you use it. If it really works I’ll use it too.” Someone said cautiously.
“Okay, I bought a month’s supply. I’ll be the guinea pig and see the results,” the woman Zhou who originally posted the photos generously said.