Chapter 56 - Don’t Want the Wabbit (2/2)

Adrian had always stayed right by his bed, watching over him. After hearing his movements, he immediately shut off his terminal that he was working on and took Zhong Yan’s hand, responding, “I’m here. Xiao Yan, I’m here.”

Zhong Yan turned to look at Adrian, then at the room. All his memories returned, and he quickly raised his left hand despite the pain to look. Sure enough, there was a ring on the ring finger of his left hand. What happened earlier…was actually real!

Since he moved too quickly, he agitated his wound. He was in so much pain that he sucked in a breath. Adrian quickly caught his left hand and reproached him softly. “What are you rushing for? You just had an operation…slow down!”

The identical rings present on both their ring fingers clashed together, emitting a crisp and pleasant sounding clink.

Zhong Yan was eager to confirm it. “This ring is…”

“It’s the ring I bought seven years ago to propose.” Adrian brought his left hand in front of him so he could see. “It’s cheap, but it’s custom made. There was a custom ring shop in the art academy, I chose the design myself. Do you like it?”

Zhong Yan “…”

He looked at the inexplicable and unfashionable lines on the ring, as well as the two names that should’ve been engraved on the inside, but were casually printed outside of the ring for some mysterious reason. And the more horrific part was, the names were not engraved, but rather protruding. Zhong Yan truly felt that him saying “it’s so ugly” before was wrong. It really should have been “it‘s too ugly”. Adrian was waiting expectantly for his praise, so Zhong Yan tried with difficulty to find the right words. However, he couldn’t sincerely say it looked “nice”, so he could only say, “Looking at it closely, it…it’s quite special.”

“Right?! I think so too! It’s one of a kind.”

Zhong Yan recalled to when his mind was in a blur, as well as what Adrian had said just now, and a balloon called joy slowly expanded in his heart. But he didn’t dare to believe it, and confirmed carefully, “Why did you give this to me? Is it…is it to uphold the image…”

“What do you mean image?” Adrian said in dissatisfaction. “I proposed to you yesterday. You’re not planning to reject me, are you? That won’t do, you’ve already put it on, and you’ve already been married for two days. It’s too late to regret it.”

“Who proposes like you?” Zhong Yan couldn’t hold back his laughter. “I haven’t even agreed and you’ve already put the ring on me.”

Even his eyes were covered in mirth. Adrian watched him adoringly, and suddenly realized he had not seen Zhong Yan this happy in ages. He couldn’t help but feel a twang of pain in his heart. He held his hand and brought it to his lips in a cherishing kiss. “I’ll treat you well from now on.”

“You’ve always treated me well,” Zhong Yan said with his eyes curved pleasantly. “You’re the one who treats me best.”

He had never encountered much goodwill in his life, so he was easy to satisfy. Adrian felt extremely guilty, and he solemnly vowed once more. “I treated you terribly in the past, but I’ll definitely be good to you in the future.”

Zhong Yan responded softly, “Alright.”

His wound was throbbing with pain. As he got more sober, the wound started to get more and more painful. He shut his eyes and endured it for a moment. Adrian held his hand and asked in pity, “Does it hurt badly?”

“It’s…bearable.” Zhong Yan sighed. He had never liked having Adrian worry over him, so he tried his best to change the topic. “I think I heard you mention you went broke? Did I hear wrong?”

“Not yet.” Adrian reached out to caress his face. “Thank god you had a strong will. The operation was a great success so we barely managed to keep our house and cars.”

Zhong Yan did not seem to have understood what he meant, so he asked in suspicion, “Was the operation…expensive?”

Adrian hesitated for a moment. Actually, he didn’t really want Zhong Yan to know how much he spent to snatch him back from the Grim Reaper’s hands, but this incident had already exploded throughout the entire virtual community. Yesterday, it didn’t take long for Zhong Yan’s blood type to be dug out. What’s more, the wanted order that was spread throughout the Federation stated it clearly. Qu Yongyi attacked Adrian and Zhong Yan, and both of them suffered serious injuries. Everyone knew that he burnt through all his money just to save Zhong Yan. For a moment, it seemed that no other news could be found within the virtual community at all. Everyone was eagerly talking about the reward video and the relationship between the two of them. Later, even the big news of the Lebor System’s borders being forcibly sealed off by Navi’s troops, and receiving three consecutive serious warnings from the Capital received barely any viewers.

Zhong Yan would find out sooner or later. Instead of letting him see the gibberish speculations all over the virtual community, he might as well come clean to him right now.

Adrian tried to understate it as much as possible. “You have a rare blood type, right? So I offered a reward yesterday in order to buy the blood. And rewards and stuff…You know how it is, nobody will come if it’s low. Then, a few people came in. The headquarters helped me out with some of it first since I don’t have much liquid assets. Then, to settle the debt, I let them confiscate all the real estate I had besides this house and several transport vehicles. Oh right, speaking of which, I thought about this when I was sitting outside the surgery room. The reason why you like giant space rabbits so much…is it because they’re mutated rabbits, and you’re a person with a mutated blood type? Hahahaha…”

Zhong Yan glared at him bitterly. “That’s not funny.”

Hearing that, Adrian shut his mouth obediently. But he did not give up in diverting Zhong Yan’s attention. He turned on his terminal and presented his little treasure to Zhong Yan. “You fell asleep earlier so I picked out a new ringtone, give it a listen.”

Zhong Yan didn’t want to listen to that sort of insignificant thing since he still had a lot he wanted to ask, but before he could say anything, he heard a familiar voice being transmitted from Adrian’s terminal.

“Don’t want the wabbit. Wa…bit…wa…wabbit…”

“What is that!” Zhong Yan threw his other thoughts to the back of his mind, and asked with both anger and embarrassment, “Why did you record that?! Delete it!”