Chapter 2073: Xu Shu Has Arrived

“I…”

Bo Yanching: “Get lost.”

The beeping after the call got cut off thudded in Yaen Chi’s ears like a muffled hammer.

His ears were actually ringing, his head pounding, and he honestly wondered what sins he’d committed in this life—he’s already a total screw-up himself, so why is he still surrounded by a bunch of bastards digging pits for him, watching him fall in and laughing?

Did he not accumulate any virtue in his past lives?

Just then, the door was pushed open.

Well, strictly speaking, it didn’t count as “pushed open”—the guy used his hand, sure, but the strength in that hand was like lifting weights, more force than a kick. The door slammed into the wall and bounced a few times, the series of bangs instantly igniting Yaen Chi’s temper.

“Get out!”

Yaen Chi turned his head and glared at Li Jian, who had a dead cigar hanging from his mouth. “You don’t know how to knock, you damn brute?!”

“Fine.”

Li Jian pulled back the foot he’d stepped in with, retreated, slammed the door shut with a “bang,” then theatrically thumped on it twice. When he didn’t get any response from inside, he suddenly shoved the door open again.

“I knocked this time. Can I come in now?”

Yaen Chi’s face was thunderous. “No. Get out. My head hurts the second I see you.”

“You think I’m giving you face or something?”

Li Jian tucked the cigar behind his ear, strode over in his combat boots, and deliberately looked down from on high at Yaen Chi lying on the hospital bed. “It’s not like you’re bare-ass naked. What, my eyes aren’t worthy of you now? What the hell are you being so precious about in front of me? I humor you once and you start climbing all over me?”

“What did you say?” Yaen Chi’s brows and eyes were twitching.

“What did I say? Didn’t catch that?”

Li Jian yanked back the blanket covering Yaen Chi’s lower back.

His hospital pants were on perfectly fine.

Li Jian actually felt a little disappointed.

“You’ve got pants on. What are you embarrassed about?”

Yaen Chi was too pissed for words. “You’re getting more and more cocky lately.”

Li Jian generously gave him a big, cheerful grin. “Then get up and hit me.”

“You…” Yaen Chi yelled for half a day and finally squeezed out, “Just you wait till I’m better.”

“Do I look as stupid as you?” Li Jian snapped back without missing a beat.

Yaen Chi refused to keep bickering with him. “Can you stop coming every day? There is nothing wrong with me. You showing up just stresses me out and slows down my recovery.”

“No can do, I have to come. Grandpa told me to check on you every day, see if you’re dead yet. If I don’t come, he’ll come himself. Your choice.”

Yaen Chi: “…”

Speechless.

“Then you’ve done your daily inspection, now hurry up and get out.”

“Xu Shu came by. I saw him when I was coming upstairs just now—he was doing handover with a couple doctors. He happened to see me and we exchanged a few words. I saw the badge on his white coat, it’s for your department.”

Yaen Chi knew; Xu Shu had already told him. Going by the timing, it should be these couple of days.

“And while I’m at it, FYI, Bo Yuman’s coming to see you tonight.”

“Who?!” Yaen Chi jerked his head up, looking utterly horrified like he’d seen a ghost.

“Second sister of the Bo Family, Bo Yanching’s older sister. She heard you’re crippled and wants to come check you out, and show you some brotherly concern on his behalf.”

“I don’t need it!”

Yaen Chi was so cornered he almost sat up. In his mind, images instantly flashed of that tomboy from their childhood with a buzz cut, black tank top, and cargo pants—more man than any of them.

Back then, the guys had been forced into jungle training. Bo Yuman was the only one who went voluntarily. With her watching over them, they hadn’t escaped a single round of grinding torture. In Yaen Chi’s childhood memories, Bo Yuman and his old man were a pair of evil villains colluding together.