Chapter 8

Not good!

The result of the Blood Pact ceremony had come out, he was thoroughly remolded anew.1 If this was recorded on camera, then this good son will definitely be dissected. Don’t even mention other people, even his mentor, Mr. He, won’t let him go.

Xia Yuzhou took a deep breath in his abdomen and using a sonorous voice renowned in his drama days, he roared, “What are you doing!”

Everyone in the room trembled in shock, even the camera pointed at the young man shook. Chen Mo immediately pulled down his sleeves and quickly looked at Yuzhou at the door. The doe eyes suddenly lit up, he scrambled to grab the quilt piled at his feet to envelop himself, and put on an antibacterial mask along the way.

“This is a sterile ward. A group of you went in wearing leather shoes. Have you ever considered the safety of the patient?” Before the other party could reply, Xia Yuzhou pre-emptively asked loudly once more, causing all the people in the corridor to look over at their direction.

The reporter, Chen Mo’s mother, and even the photographer himself did not wear face masks, let alone sterile gowns. The thin young man was curled in the corner of the bed, they did not know when he had put on the mask but it showed his pair of big, frightened eyes.

“Yes. I remember this is a sterile room, and even fans were not allowed to enter yesterday.”

“These reporters really have no bottom line.”

“Why don’t you nurses care?”

The nurse, who was watching the excitement outside finally woke up and quickly stepped in to pull the bacterial screen to isolate the young man whole with the transparent cover. “Please stand far away, everyone. Those who didn’t wear any shoe covers and face masks, go out.”

The camera had faithfully recorded those inhumane reporters trying to cause a ruckus,2 and the sentimental atmosphere just now was completely wiped out.

Chen Mo’s mother gave the “good-for-nothing passerby” Mr. Xia, a fierce look.

“We will just cut off the scene just now, and re-record it later.” The reporter comforted Chen Mo’s mother.

The woman nodded, tidied her hair and spoke to the young man through the curtain, “Have you thought about the words you need to say? You say it to me first, and I’ll check it for you.”

Chen Mo simply looked at her and resisted in his silence.

The woman glared at him and urged him, “Did you hear me? This is to let the fans donate some money to you.”

Chen Mo picked up the black-bronze gilded book, put his palm on it and said, “Why do they need to donate? The prize money I won last time was enough to cure the disease.”

“What is enough? Do you know how much your medical bill costs? This intensive care unit alone cost tens of thousands a day. The award money was nearly gone.” The woman’s tone suddenly became stern.

The young man looked at Xia Yuzhou who was looking at the door worriedly, and he whispered, “1.5 million, how could it be gone so soon? Then, are those previous award money also gone?”

“There is no previous award money. Those games you played when you were a kid were more like tips, it’s the complete opposite in fact, and the prize money was not even enough to cover for the registration fee!”

“From the age of three, Chen Mo had been taken to participate in various competitions.” He Yi explained to Xia Yuzhou.

“Three years old?”

He Yu took off his glasses and rubbed his glabella. The bridge of his nose painted with foundation bears two small spectacle marks, it showed a slightly different color than its surrounding skin. He replied, “It’s said that his out of the ordinary intelligence was early on discovered. He can recite poetry as soon as he can speak. I often participated in TV programs such as “Idol Scholar”. When in fact, Chen Mo’s debut was earlier than me, and can even be said that he’s my senior.”

He said it in such a gentle and pleasant voice, it was not fast or slow, but it exudes such a cultured vibe.3 Xia Yuzhou couldn’t help but relax every time he listened to him. So even if this person said something unreasonable, you simply can’t get angry with him.

“It’s not that I lack such a student. I just feel it’s a pity…” He Yu apologetically smiled while he looked at Xia Yuzhou. His smiling eyes were bloodshot, and his face looked quite haggard. “I was too anxious the other day. I’m sorry to have troubled you for doing such an illegal operation. Just take it as though I didn’t ask for your bone marrow. New donors have already been found.”

To find a new bone marrow donor, huh, so what he was requesting that time was to convert Chen Mo’s bone marrow…4

“Ahaha.” Xia Yuzhou laughed dryly and said, “There’s no need to transfer him to another hospital then?”

He Yu shook his head. “If he was to be transferred, then it has to be in a research institute. He has a special constitution so the effect of common drugs is very poor on him. If his condition cannot be stabilized, then he can’t undergo transplantation. There are always new drugs in the lab that might be useful for him.”

Research institute!

Xia Yuzhou’s palm sweated. It’s dangerous enough in the hospital, and you want him to go to a research institute? It’s really convenient for him to be dissected there!

I really shouldn’t have turned the child on impulse, but rather steal the person first. Now, what to do?

“Professor!” Two young men dressed as students ran over here and spoke while gasping for air, “The transfer had been arranged, we can go at any time.”

Xia Yuzhou suddenly stumbled back.

He Yu looked at him suspiciously and asked, “What’s wrong? Your complexion isn’t so well.”

“I suddenly feel the urge to pee.” Xia Yuzhou turned and walked towards the direction of the toilet. He subconsciously put on the face mask, but found out that it was worn properly this whole time. He looked back and saw He Yu had turned back to talk to his assistant.

With time pressed on him, he didn’t care if He Yu could see his action or not. He swiveled and veered left and after turning a corner, he stopped in front of the doctor’s duty office.

The nameplate of the doctors on duty hung on the door, and the name Si Jun is impressively listed on it. The ID photos of white attired doctors in blue background were also posted on it. While others stared blankly into space, Si Jun’s magazine-like photo really stood out. It was really an anomaly in this group of mediocre doctors.

He raised his hands, but it hung in the air for a long time and he couldn’t seem to knock it down on the door. He took it back, put it in his pocket and when Xia Yuzhou slapped himself, the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

Si Jun wearing thin medical gloves was holding a printed out report form in his hands as he went out. He walked past as if he did not see the person standing in front of the door, and directly walked around him.

Xia Yuzhou put one hand on the door frame, thereby blocking the way to prevent him from walking past.

Si Jun stopped and looked at him silently.

“There is favour I’ve to ask of you.” Xia Yuzhou pulled down his face mask and said anxiously, “Why do you want to transfer Chen Mo to another hospital? Can you stop it? Help me buy one day, just one day is fine.”

He Yu, as a professor in the medical University, also works at the Research Institute. Since the Medical University and Affiliated Hospital are originally one, it’s only natural to be given an easy transfer. The only one that can stop him is Chen Mo’s attending doctor, Si Jun.

On the light color lower lip, there is a small canine that didn’t fit into the groove due to Xia Yuzhou’s nervousness. It moved up and down as he spoke.

Si Jun’s gaze zoned on it, and said, “What’s the matter with your teeth?”

Xia Yuzhou pulled his canine teeth back and wrapped it with his lower lip, “Don’t worry about the teeth, will you help or not?”

The light in his blue eyes became colder as he said, “Xia Yuzhou, what is our relationship?”

This sentence froze Xia Yuzhou. Yes, what kind of relationship do we have? Why should he help him?

”

”

His eyes fell on Si Jun’s left ear, where there was a small blood mole that was bitten by him when they were in school. At that time, it was supposed to be a joke, who knew that his bloodfang was too sharp that it bit through. Si Jun was angry with him for several days after that. He was probably disgusted that he did not disinfect his mouth and saliva before piercing it, but still, in the end his boyfriend forgave him.

But they are not the same anymore. He’s not even of the same species.

Since he’s not a boyfriend anymore, then he has no obligation to help when he’s already so busy, nor some things would just be as easily forgiven.

Xia Yuzhou’s lower lip trembled slightly. After opening and closing his mouth a few times, the canine teeth escaped its groove once again. Then he suddenly snorted and grinned, “We’re comrades who’ve watched a film together.”

……

‘Hey, we can be regarded as comrades having watched this film together. You can sort out the key points in the PPT and give it to me afterwards, okay?’

……

Using the back of his white medical glove cladded hand, he slowly swiped Xia Yuzhou’s obstructing forearm up and out of the way as he said, “Excuse me, please.”

Si Jun with the report in hand, walked to the other ward without looking back. Xia Yuzhou who had his arms raised slowly woke up and it fell down with a plop. He then patted his face twice as he berated himself, “How low can you be.”

Over there, the young man who had been preached for a long time finally agreed to record a paragraph in front of the camera.

The reporter immediately turned on the camera and resumed the interview. The woman who had already tidied her hair said bitterly, “I know it’s not good to do this, and it will cause trouble for everyone. But please understand the feelings of a mother. Domestic treatment for him is really useless now. I don’t want him to die at such a young age of 16. He still has a long way to go. I want to take him abroad for medical treatment, even if I have to smash one’s iron pots and pans into pieces and sell them as scrapped iron,5 just so he could live for one more year.”

The camera turned to the young man behind the sterile curtain.

He had already put the black-bronze book in front of him while he looked outside the door. He remained silent for nearly half a minute, and just when the reporter thought he was going back on his word, Xia Yuzhou came back and gave him a look of reassurance that clearly expressed, ‘Be calm, it’s going to be okay.’

The young man suddenly lifted the quilt surrounding him and sat upright. His eyes resolutely looked at the camera as he said, “Hello, everyone. I’m Chen Mo. From now on, no matter what you hear or see, please don’t give me any donations. I won’t go abroad for treatment nor do I want to die in another country. Even if I die, I will do so in this land. In this life I’m a Huxia person, in my death, my soul will still remain as Huxia!”

Those words he cadence were full of passion, brimming with hot blood and utterly out of tune with the situation.

Reporter, “…..”

Cameraman, “…..”

The corner of Xia Yuzhou’s mouth twitched. Has this child transformed into Chunibyo?6 He’s getting more silly.

It turns out that the child was not silly because after saying this, he turned to his mother and said, “You don’t have to worry about me in the future. You don’t have to spend more money to treat me. Whether I live or die, just let me fend for myself. The unused award money will be your pension fund.”

Then he picked up the upright book and turned it over. Everyone noticed that there was a black mobile phone embedded on the cover of that black-bronze book.

“He is broadcasting it live!” The reporter holding the microphone exclaimed.

The young man showed an ‘I’ve been found out’ expression, grabbed his mobile phone and jumped down from the bed then he rushed in his flip flops to Xia Yuzhou’s direction.

Xia Yuzhou subconsciously stretched out his hand protectively around the young man. He hid him behind, blocking the camera that tried to follow after him. “Okay, you heard what he said just now. So go on, you idle people need to leave the hospital. Don’t disturb the child’s treatment anymore!”

Chen Mo’s mother stomped at him angrily while pointing a finger at his nose, “Who are you? How is it any of your business?”

Xia Yuzhou felt a little hand grasp his clothes tightly, and he couldn’t help but straighten up, “I’m his father!”