Chapter 104 (1/2)

Shi Yan finally conquered his disease and fended off his high fever. In the end, the doctors could only classify it as a bacterial infection that was caused by some natural calamity; because this year, the entire nation was fighting off floods, rescuing people and providing disaster relief, so they traced his inexplicable symptoms to the recent change in their natural climate. Fortunately, Shi Yan was physically very fit and he had a good constitution, so he managed to resist the life of being a human boiler for the past 20 days. Since he was just discharged, it was inevitable for his body to have a deficiency of Qi, so he was still being nourished with soups at home all day long.

But Shi Yan couldn’t stay still any longer. His thoughts were all revolving around He Nuo. Was his throat better now? On the second day after his discharge, he looked for Wang Feng to send him to He Nuo’s house on his bike, because he would collapse if he rode his bike for about 10 to 15 minutes. Wang Feng wasn’t willing to go over at first because he had just been discharged, plus he didn’t want to happily wag his tail over to look for He Nuo. But he couldn’t stand Shi Yan’s insistence, so he just went along with his wish.

When they reached the row where He Nuo’s house was situated at, Shi Yan got off the bike and walked over by himself. Wang Feng left after he saw Shi Yan enter He Nuo’s house (Wang Feng thought that He Nuo wasn’t being a good friend, so he didn’t want to enter his house). It had only been a short 10 metres, but Shi Yan’s cotton shirt was completely drenched with sweat. He Nuo’s voice sounded mostly normal right now, but the ulcers on his mouth haven’t recovered.

The two of them were silent for awhile, but He Nuo first broke the stalemate, “You’re so weak, you should be resting at home.”

“I want you to listen to me for a bit, I won’t lie this time.”

“You don’t need to say anything, you really don’t. Just go back and have a good rest ba.”

“Qin Mingxu was chasing his girlfriend.” Shi Yan said this sentence out of the blue.

He Nuo uttered a response, but didn’t probe any further. He wasn’t curious about other people’s private affairs.

“When we were playing around in a social club1, Mingxu liked one of the singers there called Gong Fang, so he started to pursue her. Gong Fang studies music, she’s a second year. She wasn’t too enthusiastic about Mingxu, but Mingxu always dragged us all over to support her.”

He Nuo knew that their bunch was just muddling their way through college, so he wasn’t surprised that they would go to those kinds of places.

“Gong Fang has a very good relationship with another girl in the social club, she said that she was her junior. When Mingxu invited Gong Fang out for a meal, we accompanied him too and that girl Bei Gege was there, so that’s how we got to know each other. After that, whenever we went there, we often chatted and ate together.”

Shi Yan was sneaking peeks at He Nuo’s expression as he spoke, but he got nothing.

“Later on, Mingxu told me Gong Fang said that Bei Gege likes me, so she wanted him to set us up. Mingxu was pursuing her relentlessly at the time, so of course he would agree to anything she said. I told Mingxu that I wasn’t interested in Bei Gege at all, but he told me to treat it as I was doing him a favour and to just deal with her first. Then once he got Gong Fang, I wouldn’t need to accompany him to the club anymore and I wouldn’t have anything to do with Bei Gege after that. Or else, he still wouldn’t have been able to ask Gong Fang out until now.”

“You should be tired ba, go back.”

“You still don’t believe me?” Shi Yan was extremely anxious, “Everything I said was the truth. I’m not trying to shirk any responsibility or excuse myself.”

“I believe you, but what’s the point?”

“Even if you don’t think there’s a point, can you let me finish?” Shi Yan could barely sit still, “Don’t death penalty criminals get a last chance to speak too? You’ve already sentenced me to death, but now you don’t even want to bother listening to the reason behind my death sentence?”

“Then say it ba.”