Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In fact, Huo Shaoheng didn’t shut his eyes the entire night; he kept watch over Gu Nainzhi’s situation the entire time.
At midnight, Gu Nianzhi’s body temperature had risen so high that the equipment began to blare its alarm. Huo Shaoheng suppressed the burning worry in his heart and said quietly to Chen Lie, who had come over to check on Gu Nianzhi’s condition, “…Will something happen to her because the fever is so intense?”
“That’s hard to say… Perhaps her brain will fry from the fever and turn her into an idiot…” Chen Lie purposely dragged out his voice and spoke in bureaucratic terms to Huo Shaoheng in revenge for the “horror” of his singing.
Huo Shaoheng: “…..”
His sword-like brows were just beginning to raise when Chen Lie instantly deflated. “Hahahaha, Huo Shao. I was only joking with you… That won’t happen. Nianzhi won’t turn into an idiot…”
“But why is her body temperature so high? It’s even higher than… the last time.” Huo Shaoheng was referring to a year and a half ago when Gu Nianzhi had been inflicted by H3ab7 and suffered a high fever that lasted for two weeks. But her temperature the last time hadn’t been as high as this time around.
Chen Lie was also confused, so he didn’t dare confidently guarantee that Nianzhi was going to be okay, but seeing Huo Shaoheng’s gaze, Chen Lie knew that if he dared to say “she wasn’t okay,” he would be in trouble before Gu Nianzhi would…
“Huo Shao, you still don’t believe me?” Chen Lie puffed up his chubby chest. “Even if you say that medical skills aren’t unparalleled in history and modern times, they’re still considered famous domestically and abroad! I said she’s fine, so she’s fine!”
But as soon as Huo Shaoheng turned around, Chen Lie clasped his palms together and chanted internally at the deeply sleeping Gu Nianzhi like he was praying. “Nianzhi, you must be okay! You must be okay!”
Huo Shaoheng slowly turned around, and Chen Lie immediately hid his hands behind his back. He shook his head as he peered all around the equipment and appeared confident yet very busy. Huo Shaoheng trusted him halfway, but he couldn’t feel entirely reassured.
He sat with Chen Lie before Gu Nianzhi’s sick bed. They didn’t speak. One man focused on changes in the equipment while the other focused on Gu Nianzhi’s complexion. They had tacit understanding, and each knew that the other didn’t have confidence in the outcome.
After a night of anxiety, the sky finally grew bright, and the equipment finally indicated Nianzhi’s body temperature and heart rate had gradually returned to normal levels.
Chen Lie sighed deeply and stood up to wipe his sweat. He didn’t tell Huo Shaoheng that his body was completely soaked with perspiration. He had to go back and take off his shirt to wring it, and could wring out half a basin full of sweat.
Huo Shaoheng didn’t sweat, but he hadn’t been any less nervous than Chen Lie the entire night. He didn’t know the last time Gu Nianzhi fell into danger in Germany. By the time he had known, she already escaped safely. Because of this, Huo Shaoheng had felt guilty for a period of time, but even now that Gu Nianzhi was actually in the Huaxia Empire and under his strict protection, this kind of situation still managed to occur. He felt that he couldn’t forgive himself. Of course, no matter how angry he was, he still needed to protect Gu Nianzhi’s body and health first and foremost.
Gu Nianzhi slowly woke up and saw Huo Shaoheng’s caring gaze as soon as she opened her eyes. She thought he must not have slept the entire night; bits of stubble had appeared on his chin. However, it didn’t make him appear unkempt. Instead, it added a bit of wild masculine allure. It made the normally serious, solemn, and fear-inducing Huo Shaoheng gain a new kind of handsomeness.
Gu Nianzhi sighed internally. Did this man know the damage his appearance and voice could inflict on her? She was still seriously injured, and yet he was still continuously seducing her… This was too much…
Gu Nainzhi pouted, and when she instinctively moved, she discovered it didn’t hurt at all! She was very shocked. The sharp heart-splitting pain in her tailbone from yesterday was still freshly embedded in her memory, yet she couldn’t feel any pain anymore. This was really strange. Could her self-healing abilities have reached a new level?!
Huo Shaoheng looked at Gu Nianzhi for a long time and noticed that she wasn’t moving at all. Her eyes were staring straight ahead. Huo had no idea what had happened.
Chen Lie’s words from yesterday were still lingering in his ear. Had his ill-spoken tongue become reality?
“…Nianzhi? Nianzhi?” Huo Shaoheng couldn’t help but quietly call out to her a few times.
Gu Nianzhi composed herself and wanted to reach her hand out, but she discovered her arms were strapped down.
Her bones had hurt yesterday, so it was okay that she had been strapped down, but now that her body was perfectly fine, it didn’t feel good to be strapped to the bed.
Gu Nianzhi blinked. “Huo Shao, undo these straps. I’m okay now. It doesn’t hurt anymore. It’s true.”
Huo Shaoheng: “…..” Although her brain hadn’t been fried, maybe the fever had caused hallucinations?
Huo Shaoheng leaned over to press down on Gu Nianzhi’s shoulder. “Don’t move. Your bones are still injured. It’ll be troublesome if they don’t heal properly.”
“But it doesn’t hurt anymore! I’m already better!” Gu Nianzhi quickly widened her large eyes to look at Huo Shaoheng. “Look at me! I’m really perfectly fine!”
Gu Nianzhi’s voice was rather loud, so Chen Lie, who had been watching all this time, had no choice but to quell the situation. Putting on his glasses, he quickly stood up. “What is it? What is it? Where do you not feel good?”
Gu Nianzhi quickly said, “Brother Chen, tell Huo Shao that I’m really okay. Can you stop strapping me down? This feels horrible!”
Seeing Gu Naiznhi speak so energetically, he half believed that she was already okay. People with severe bone fractures all speak weakly and would never be able to carry their voice from their chest like she did. Her voice sounded especially crisp and tender, like a delicious fresh green cucumber from the early summer.
But Chen Lie was a doctor, so he had to go through equipment testing in order to fully believe Gu Nianzhi was all right; he wouldn’t just consider physical conditions.
Pushing Huo Shaoheng aside, he said to Gu Nianzhi, “I’ll check your body temperature and pulse.”
When he checked the data from the equipment, he discovered everything was normal. Her body temperature, heart rate, pulse, and blood pressure were no different from that of a regular person. Compared to the record-breaking body temperature from last night, her current body temperature data was like a cute little angel.
Chen Lie probed with his hand and pressed a button to undo all the leather straps on the sick bed. He said to Gu Nianzhi, “We need to take another CT scan. Can you walk there yourself?”
Gu Nianzhi sat up immediately. “I can!”
Huo Shaoheng’s brows had already furrowed into a tight ball, so his heart couldn’t help but skip a beat when he saw Gu Nianzhi jump up from the bed. He walked over with a solemn expression and carried her in his arms. He asked Chen Lie, “Where is the CT scanner?”
Chen Lie pretended not to see that Huo Shaoheng had already carried Gu Nianzhi and nonchalantly looked at a shocked Gu Nianzhi. “It’s over there. You went there yesterday.” He had already walked off first as he spoke.
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Huo Shaoheng carried Gu Nianzhi to the CT room and placed Gu Nianzhi on the belt.
Chen Lie turned on the equipment and performed another full body examination on her for the second time. After completing the examination, Chen Lie looked at the CT data and the scans–he practically couldn’t believe his own eyes.
One night! It had only been one night’s time! The severe bone fractures from yesterday had already healed completely! He had originally planned on the recovery to take at least two weeks!
Also, it may have been because the new injury was treated in time that it had healed especially well. There were no visible traces of the injury at all. This was a completely different situation from a normal bone fracture that had healed. It was like she had never been injured in the first place!
With shaking hands, Chen Lie looked at the set of data. He placed it next to the report from yesterday. He was shaking so hard that he almost couldn’t sit.
After Gu Nianzhi left the CT room, Chen Lie called after Huo Shaoheng and said as if he were dreaming, “… Huo Shao, you must protect Nianzhi well. You must not allow her any opportunity to get injured again. I’m truly afraid that we can’t hide this anymore.”
He thought that Gu Nainzhi’s kind of self-healing ability was already perfect recovery at the genetic level; this wasn’t merely enhancement of human self-recovery ability. Also, as she grew in age, her self-healing ability manifested stronger and stronger.
After Chen Lie said this, he proactively burnt both reports right in front of Huo Shaoheng, then he completely destroyed the temporary data stored inside the CT scanner.
Huo Shaoheng finally understood the severity of the situation when he saw Chen Lie proactively destroy the data he had always worshiped as treasure.
