“Cousin, you and Xiao Ze know each other?”
Feng Xueping, unaware of the truth, looked at Lu Youling, then at Gong Ze.
“We know each other but aren’t familiar. He helped me with a small favor before.” The young man in the white coat looked at Gong Ze with a slight smile. Gong Ze and Lu Youling had spent a lifetime together. Lu Youling only needed to raise an eyebrow for Gong Ze to know what was in his head. How could Gong Ze not see the ambiguity and hint in his eyes?
A favor?
Heh heh, guess if I believe you.
Gong Ze’s inner self was peacefully dead.
“Really? I didn’t expect us to be so fated!” Feng Xueping poked Gong Ze’s shoulder and said with a smile: “Gong Ze, you even helped my cousin before.”
Gong Ze: “…Although I don’t know what kind of help your cousin means, let him say whatever he wants.” Innocent silly child.
Feng Xueping: “?”
“Let’s not talk about this first. Come into the office and I’ll examine your wounds.” Lu Youling opened the office door and let them in, then closed the door, walked to the seat, and sat down, signaling the two of them. “Where are you hurt?”
Feng Xueping pointed at his face and back. “Here, and on my back. It doesn’t hurt that much now, so it’s hard to pinpoint. Gong Ze, what about you?”
“I have my mouth corner, plus my arms and chest.” At the time Gong Ze had been holding Feng Yuan tightly, and Feng Yuan, mad with fury, had smashed Gong Ze several times while struggling, and even bit Gong Ze’s chest.
Lu Youling’s thin body, wrapped in the white coat, leaned against the chair.
He looked not ambiguous at all, but rather carried a faint sense of distance and a doctor’s authority.
He said in a cool voice: “In case there are hidden injuries, both of you take off your tops. Pat your legs yourselves. If it hurts, take off your pants too. If it doesn’t hurt, no need.”
“Got it.”
Feng Xueping immediately grabbed the hem of his shirt with a backhand and stripped his top off completely. He lowered his head, patted his legs, and called to Gong Ze, who had not moved yet, urging: “Take it off, bro. Don’t be shy. That’s my cousin, not my cousin sister.”
He laughed.
Gong Ze twitched the corner of his mouth along with him and muttered quietly: “I hope in my next life I also have nerves as thick as yours.”
“What? Xiao Ze, did you just say something?”
“No.”
Ignoring the young man’s seemingly absent gaze landing on him, and somewhat suspecting Lu Youling of abusing his position for personal revenge, Gong Ze could not just turn and leave either. That way Feng Xueping would definitely ask why, and besides, they were already here.
Gong Ze pulled down the zipper of his sportswear, revealing the short-sleeved shirt inside, and pulled it off with a backhand.
Just after he finished taking it off, that gaze became even more obvious.
Gong Ze: …
His slow, weary gaze lifted, glancing at Lu Youling with a look hinting he should restrain himself: There are people here. At least act convincingly?
Lu Youling still leaned against the chair coolly, as if he did not understand what Gong Ze was saying.
“Damn, Gong Ze, your arm has so many bruises! And your chest—my god, who bit you? Feng Yuan?” Feng Xueping poked the bite mark on Gong Ze’s chest in shock.
“Don’t move. Go touch your own.” Gong Ze pushed away his claw.
Feng Xueping’s face was full of sympathy: “Feng Yuan must be born in the year of the dog. I don’t know if you need a rabies shot. If you get vaccinated, it’s really miserable.”
He turned his head and called Lu Youling.
“Cousin, hurry and take a look at my brother!”
Lu Youling put both hands into the pockets of his white coat and slowly stood up and walked over. His gaze lightly met Gong Ze’s, then lowered to sweep over that bite mark.
His voice sounded a little sour and unhappy.
“Was it bitten through clothes or directly with the mouth?”
Before Gong Ze could speak, Feng Xueping burst out laughing: “Cousin, you’re funny. Of course it was through clothes. We were fighting in the bathroom, not in bed.”
Gong Ze: “…”
Lu Youling: “…Hmph.”
“Can you kid talk less dirty?” Give your brother a way to live.
Who knew how, when this world merged, it had rationalized his and Lu Youling’s relationship. If Lu Youling was his proper boyfriend, later wouldn’t he take advantage of bandaging to take revenge on me?
“It’s fine.” Feng Xueping thought he was just uncomfortable in front of a friend’s elder, and casually comforted: “My cousin isn’t an old-fashioned parent. Very open-minded.”
Gong Ze: “I can tell.”
Otherwise he would not have gotten together with a younger guy ten years younger.
Lu Youling ignored them. He reached out his fingers and pressed near the bite mark on Gong Ze’s chest. After hearing the answer he wanted, he said: “If it was through clothes and the teeth had no direct contact, and the person who bit you has no diseases, then there’s no need for a rabies vaccine. Of course, if you’re not at ease, you can still get it.”
“Then I won’t get it.”
Gong Ze paused, then said in a faint voice: “Doctor, you can stop touching too.” He was almost touching the nipple.
Hearing this, Lu Youling looked up. A fleeting smile crossed his cool, pale face. In an equally faint voice he said: “Shy?”
Gong Ze twitched his lips: “Shy. So shy I’m about to die.”
“Tsk.”
Lu Youling pressed his lips together and laughed.
His originally cool expression gained a bit of astringent color. The cold fingernail that had traced Gong Ze into a slight itch withdrew from Gong Ze’s chest. Before withdrawing, it naturally drew a circle.
Over there, Feng Xueping, who had stripped off his top, sneezed. He saw his cousin and Gong Ze saying something in whispers.
He rubbed the tip of his nose and called out: “Cousin, don’t just stare at him. Look at me too. I’ve been airing out for ages.”
After he said this, the trace of seduction on Lu Youling’s face instantly changed back to an aloof look. He put both hands back into his pockets and said lightly, “Coming,” then walked in front of him and swept his eyes up and down.
“It’s fine. Superficial injuries.”
Feng Xueping: “???”
Feng Xueping: “No, wait—Cousin, look again? I spent so much effort taking off my clothes and you finish looking in two seconds? You weren’t looking at Xiao Ze like that just now. Aren’t you going to touch my arm and see if it’s fractured?”
Lu Youling heard him chattering and clicked his tongue. Facing his annoying own little brother, could it be the same as facing a little wolf-dog younger brother?
He said quickly and impatiently: “No need. Not fractured. If your arm were fractured, you couldn’t have taken off your clothes just now. Which person with a fractured arm can so smoothly reach back and raise both arms high?”
“Oh! So Cousin, you had that meaning too when you had us take off our clothes.”
“Mm. You two didn’t feel pain when patting your legs just now, right?”
Gong Ze shook his head. “No pain.”
Feng Xueping also shook his head. “Me neither.”
“Mm… then it means they’re all just superficial injuries. Sit properly, both of you. I’ll apply medicine and you’ll be fine.” The young man wrapped his white coat tighter, looking somewhat afraid of cold, and went to unlock his office cabinet. Then he bent down and dragged out a medicine box.
His movements were practiced as he opened the iodine packaging, dipped two cotton swabs inside, then grabbed the two of them and swabbed them.
The technique was like applying medicine before an injection, circling twice on the damaged spots on their faces. But strangely, although it did not look gentle, it actually hurt less than applying it yourself.
“The open wounds aren’t very serious. Disinfecting and letting them air will actually heal faster. Just don’t touch them.”
After Lu Youling said this, he added to Gong Ze: “For that bite mark on your chest, I applied some anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling ointment. Don’t get it wet. Don’t touch it randomly.”
“Thank you, doctor.”
Gong Ze thanked him.
Lu Youling looked noncommittal.
And for the bruises without open wounds, he used a spray entirely.
Although it worked well, the smell was too strong.
After spraying, Feng Xueping, bare-chested, leaned together with his fellow sufferer Gong Ze and muttered: “What do we do now? We originally came to the hospital to hide the wounds, but now we’re covered in medicine smell. My grandpa and your parents will definitely notice. If they find out we fought, we’re done for!”
Gong Ze thought of his own parents’ personalities and also felt somewhat worried.
Mainly because his mother Ruan Aimei was an extremely child-loving person. Gong Ze had never really fought since childhood. In his parents’ eyes he was an honest child. If his mother Ruan Aimei learned her son had been beaten, how was that different from the sky falling?
Plus his dad.
The two of them could go find the “culprit” at their doorstep.
“How about… we don’t go back today, and just say we’re playing outside… No, staying out all night would make your parents even less likely to agree.”
Feng Xueping scratched his head anxiously, unable to think of a solution.
“It’s just that there’s no proper reason. Otherwise I have money on me, and we could stay at a hotel.” Gong Ze was silent for a moment, then sighed.
“Yeah, I have money too.”
While the two were worrying, Lu Youling, who had been quietly listening while packing the medicine box nearby, suddenly said: “How about you two come to my place.”
“Feng Xueping, you just say you and Gong Ze were playing games at your cousin’s place and lost track of time, and it was too late and you hadn’t had enough fun, so you stayed at my place for the night. I can put in a word for you. Besides, your grandpa knows you’re at my place, so he can’t say anything about you.”
Gong Ze: …
Feng Xueping’s eyes lit up: “This is great! Cousin, you’re really our savior!”
He hurriedly turned and shook Gong Ze. “What do you think, Gong Ze? My cousin is at least an adult. Even if your parents aren’t happy, they won’t worry about you. And the doctor identity adds points. In front of adults, credibility is full. Your parents definitely won’t suspect.”
The wound on Gong Ze’s face was mainly at the mouth corner. Lip skin healed quickly. By tomorrow the scab would form and the swelling would go down.
He could completely say it was a cut from eating something!
“…” Great my ass. Can’t you see your cousin’s Sima Zhao heart is obvious to all?
Gong Ze looked expressionlessly at Lu Youling.
Lu Youling smiled and mouthed to him: ‘If you don’t agree, I’ll tell Xueping what you did to me.’
Gong Ze: …
His mouth twitched slightly. After the Shura fields with Sang You and Feng Yuan, Gong Ze was truly afraid of them.
He struggled unwillingly: ‘I don’t remember what I did to you. And aren’t you being too despicable?’
Lu Youling’s smile widened. He raised his phone and tapped his finger on the phone case: ‘Let me teach you a lesson, little brother. Never trust any adult—that day at the hotel, after we finished, I took a photo of you.’
Gong Ze: ‘…’
Fifty percent chance Lu Youling was bluffing him.
But where was there any chance for Gong Ze to choose now?
The only one out of the loop, Feng Xueping, was still thanking heaven. Today his cousin really was so easy to talk to.
He urged Gong Ze to hurry and decide. “Gong Ze, what are you still hesitating for? My brother’s place is super clean, and really big. Downstairs from his place there’s also really tasty takeout. My treat!”
“…”
“Come on, Gong Ze, stop struggling, okay!”
“…Fine, I’ll go.”
Gong Ze sighed and nodded.
Seeing this, Feng Xueping cheered. Awesome! If they stayed at his cousin’s place, he could play with Gong Ze for another night.
Feng Xueping could not wait to take out his phone and open the takeout page to show Gong Ze the signature dishes downstairs from Lu Youling’s home.
Gong Ze was speechless.
“Even like this and you still eat.”
“Bro, let your brother tell you, food is the heaven of the people. It’s exactly like this that you need to eat something good!”
Feng Xueping said happily.
Gong Ze watched him be happy and smiled along, then turned his head and fixed his eyes on Lu Youling’s gentle face. Lu Youling blinked at him. Gong Ze was silent for a few seconds and withdrew his gaze.
Mm, his back felt chilly.
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