Chapter 81: What it was like Having Split Personalities (1/2)

After being scolded, Yan Jin subconsciously looked at Xiao Yu with a complex gaze.

Xiao Yu guiltily turned his head toward the wall to avoid Yan Jin’s gaze, trying to act dumb.

“My girlfriend is coming over to pick me up this afternoon, so I’m leaving. You have a good rest. Give me a call if anything happens.” Chu Ge originally planned to continue harping on Yan Jin, but seeing that it was getting late, he decided to give Yan Jin a break. He could yell at Yan Jin another day.

When they heard Chu Ge say that he was leaving, one person and one hamster let out a sigh of relief. They didn’t even bother to gossip about how many girlfriends Chu Ge had.

“Oh, I almost forgot.” Chu Ge crooked a finger at Xiao Yu: “Fishy come here.”

“Squeak?” Xiao Yu was suspicious.

“I’ll tell you the location of the medicine box and teach you some common knowledge. Next time something like this happens, you can give Yan Jin some first aid……”

Oh, is that all?

Xiao Yu didn’t see any problems with it, so he obediently allowed Chu Ge to bring him and his iPad to the living room; completely missing the looks of pity Yan Jin was giving him from behind.

Two hours later, Chu Ge left.

Yan Jin could hear movement coming from outside the room, but he continued to read his magazine leisurely.

About five minutes later, Xiao Yu made it back into the room.

Yan Jin now closed his magazine and tossed it to the side. He watched as Xiao Yu stumbled over, climbed up the bed with difficulty, then crookedly took two or three more steps before burying his head onto the chairman’s tummy.

He flopped around a few times, and stilled.

Yan Jin smiled understandingly and reached out a hand to poke at Xiao Yu’s melancholy back. Although he already knew the answer, he still asked, taking joy in Xiao Yu’s misery: “What’s wrong?”

“Squeakkk squeak……” The third generation cephalosporin……

Xiao Yu mumbled unintelligibly as he lay on top of the blanket.

The little guy’s wretched appearance put Yan Jin in a great mood. Not just anyone could make it through Chu Ge’s class on the Foundational Knowledge of Medicine. In the past, Yan Jin also had the privilege to experience it. Afterwards, he did his best to stay a respectful distance away from this nightmarish course.

It could not be said that Chu Ge was a bad teacher. Although Chu Ge seemed like the type of person who looks respectable on the outside while being a beast on the inside, he was truly a talented health professional. He graduated with double majors, and during his Masters and Doctoral program, he studied under an internationally renowned doctor. No matter his talent or educational background, Chu Ge was a leader in his field.

The problem was, Chu Ge could not differentiate between salient and trivial information, which might have been a side effect of him studying too much. Usually, all people wanted to know about cold medicine was: how to take it, what it was effective against, and how many to take— whereas Chu Ge felt the need to thoroughly explain the side effects, contraindications, and the metabolism of the medication while expecting his student to recite it back to him.

Yan Jin had a passable understanding of what was in the little medicine box Chu Ge prepared. Other than band aids, rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, and the like for external wounds, there were also not more than five types of medicine useful for treating colds, fever, diarrhea, and headaches. Most people only required a few minutes to introduce all of it, while Chu Ge took two hours.

“Squeakkk……” The medicine of choice to treat anaphylactic shock is……

Subconsciously, Xiao Yu was still answering the questions buzzing around his ears that refused to be shooed away.

“Hah, I don’t even have any allergies.” Yan Jin relied on his uncommon talent in order to understand that complex gibberish while bringing the physically and emotionally drained Xiao Yu back to reality.

Yan Jin felt the soft ball lying on his body suddenly freeze at his words.

“Squeakk!” Xiao Yu exploded forth with the last of his strength and earnestly punched Yan Jin’s palm with his little fist.

Very naturally, Yan Jin caught hold of Xiao Yu’s fluffy little paw before seizing the whole hamster with his hand.

“I told you not to call Chu Ge. Now do you understand the damage he can cause?” Yan Jin’s words carried zero sympathy.

“Squeakkk!” You never told me Chu Ge was such a nag. And I wouldn’t have called him if you knew where your medicine was!

“Ugh, I really miss those days when I could just lock Chu Ge outside.” Yan Jin reminisced about the past, then poked at Xiao Yu, who finally stood on his paws with great difficulty, making him fall over again: “It’s all because of you.”

That really was the truth. Yan Jin only gave Chu Ge permission to freely enter and exit from his villa because of Xiao Yu. In the past, Chu Ge even had trouble getting a hold of Yan Jin for his bi-annual checkups. Now, Chu Ge even had the audacity to increase the checkups to once a month.

If Yan Jin was not completely certain that his body was healthy and his mind was stable, he would have suspected that he had some kind of terminal illness.

“Squeak……”

Xiao Yu weakly squeaked without getting up. He looked even worse off than Yan Jin, who was the patient.

Maybe that was the truth, because right now, he could still hear Chu Ge’s lecture like a broken record. It was even worse than hearing the chanting of Buddhist scriptures.

Hn, if it weren’t for Yan Jin, I wouldn’t have made such a big sacrifice!

Xiao Yu very naturally pushed the blame onto Yan Jin’s head.

“Squeakk.” Tell me quickly; how are you going to compensate me?

Xiao Yu leaped up like a carp, with one paw leaning on Yan Jin’s palm, one paw pointing at Yan Jin’s nose. His little face full of arrogance.

“You dare to ask for compensation?” Yan Jin asked amusedly : “I still haven’t held you accountable for turning off the heater in the middle of the night.”

Hearing those words, Xiao Yu suddenly went silent.

“Squeakkk……” You turned the heater up too high.

“Liar.” Yan Jin squinted his eyes: “If you thought it was too hot, you could’ve just lowered the temperature. Why did you turn it off…… Tell me, did you do it on purpose?”

As Yan Jin spoke, he used both hands to pinch the sides of Xiao Yu’s fat little waist. Then, without giving Xiao Yu any time to react, he started tickling Xiao Yu thoroughly.

The unguarded Xiao Yu fell for Yan Jin’s trick and started laughing uncontrollably. As he struggled to get away, he did not forget to defend himself:

“Squeakk!” I didn’t, I didn’t, I didn’t!

“You still dare to quibble?” Yan Jin increased his tickle attack, interrogating him: “Is it because I haven’t spent enough time with you these past two days, so you became jealous?”

Xiao Yu was too busy gasping for breath to ponder too deeply on the question. At least Yan Jin was not completely without compassion. When Xiao Yu laughed until he couldn’t catch his breath anymore, Yan Jin stopped his ‘atrocity.’

Xiao Yu, who slowly recovered, finally understood what Yan Jin just said ——

He was probably referring to the two whole days he spent wrapped around Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both.

Xiao Yu seriously replied: