SDVPP Chapter 38

Chi Han woke up feeling pain all over his body, his limbs weak and limp.

He moved his head a little and felt like the top of his head had brushed against something.

When he looked up, what came into view was a perfectly arched lower jaw.

It was Rong Xu’s.

Chi Han froze for quite a while before he finally realized that he was actually lying in the other man’s arms!

And what’s more, his hand was clinging tightly around the man’s waist!

Chi Han: “……”

He’d only ever heard of people getting frisky after drinking. He had never seen someone, while burning up with a fever, crawl into someone else’s arms.

“…Awake?”

Just as Chi Han stiffly tried to pull his hand back, Rong Xu spoke in a low, groggy voice tinged with sleepiness and a hint of nasal tone.

Chi Han swallowed. His body temperature had already returned to normal, but the parts of him pressed against Rong Xu felt like they were burning up.

“How did the two of us… end up in the same bed?”

Chi Han scooted to the side, gave an awkward laugh or two, and half-jokingly said, “Don’t tell me I was so out of it from the fever that I dragged you up here?”

The blanket that had originally been properly tucked around them had been messed up into a complete mess after all that commotion.

A big empty space opened up between the two of them.

Rong Xu leaned half against the headboard, his right arm still loosely held in a half-embrace. He glanced at the now-empty spot in his arms and said in a hoarse, unreadable voice:

“Your fever was bad. My body’s cool. Holding you helped lower your temperature faster.”

Chi Han rubbed his ear, looking a bit out of it, eyes half-squinted as he tilted his head to glance over at him:

“Aren’t you afraid I crushed your legs? What if I messed them up?”

Maybe it was because he was still running a low fever, and his mind wasn’t quite clear, Chi Han didn’t realize there was anything wrong with what he just said.

He even looked like he was seriously waiting for an answer.

Rong Xu’s breath hitched. His legs, still cold even under the blanket, suddenly seemed to catch a strange warmth, slowly and densely creeping upward.

“They really hurt?”

Noticing the change in Rong Xu’s expression, Chi Han’s mind cleared up a bit as well. He propped himself up, about to lift the blanket and take a look.

Rong Xu immediately pressed down on his hand, his gaze shifting slightly away.

“They don’t. Lie down.”

Chi Han wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but Rong Xu’s hand felt surprisingly warm right now.

Nothing like the usual coldness.

Chi Han obediently lay back down and curiously grabbed that distinctively bony hand, rubbing his palm against it.

“Why are your hands so warm today? Don’t tell me you’ve got a fever, too!”

Right now, Rong Xu really just wanted to get into his wheelchair and roll away.

His hand was being caught and rubbed back and forth, sending a tingling numbness up his arm.

And the worst part was he couldn’t even pull it back.

Rong Xu turned his head to the side and took a deep breath.

How could something be so frustrating, yet impossible to push away?

Chi Han didn’t have much strength in his hands. After a while, he got tired.

He yawned and looked up at the pale ceiling light of the hospital room, the doubt in his heart growing stronger and stronger.

In the original novel, even though it was full of melodramatic nonsense, aside from the scumbag gong and his white moonlight, everyone else was actually pretty healthy.

There was no cancer, no leukemia, none of that.

So, how come he was falling sick every few days?

Just getting caught in the rain could leave him burning up and unconscious.

Chi Han vaguely guessed in his heart. He felt it might be because his soul didn’t fully match this body, and that’s why he was so weak.

But honestly, that idea was a bit too far-fetched.

Then again, he thought, what could be more far-fetched than transmigrating into a book?

For a moment, Chi Han really didn’t know what to do.

He turned his head and rubbed away the tears that had leaked out from yawning, his expression calm and open.

Forget it. Overthinking it wouldn’t help anyway.

If the lifespan of this body had really been shortened, then… There was nothing he could do about it.

Chi Han closed his eyes and forced all those messy thoughts out of his mind.

He only hoped that before he left, he could help Rong Xu truly find happiness.

“What are you thinking about?”

Rong Xu’s fingers brushed over the spot Chi Han had just been rubbing, eyes lowered as he looked at the person who seemed to be asleep.

But the faint flutter of eyelashes gave him away.

There was a rare trace of hope and a soft smile in Rong Xu’s eyes.

Half an hour ago, his assistant had messaged him. There was a chance that the newly arrived batch of medical equipment could cure his legs.

Even if that chance was next to nothing.

Rong Xu reached out and placed a hand over his knees. Even if the odds were zero, he would still try.

Chi Han didn’t open his eyes when he heard the voice. He pressed his lips together, then, after a while, a faint smile appeared.

“I was thinking… what you’ll be like in the future.”

Rong Xu’s eyes curved slightly, his tone warm and gentle: “Aren’t you going to stay with me?”

Chi Han paused, then smiled. “Yeah, I’ll stay.”

Until my very last day.

***

The safety talisman pendant had ended up broken after all.

The shards were found under the car.

Rong Xu stared at them for a long time, the dark mist in his eyes making it hard to tell what he was thinking.

Chi Han was afraid Rong Xu would overthink, so he kept pulling him into random small talk.

“I saw a new hot spring town open up yesterday. Want to go check it out? The doctor said it could help unblock your meridians. Maybe if you soak a bit more, your legs will get better.”

At first, Chi Han was just trying to distract him, but the more he spoke, the brighter his eyes became. In the end, he decided on the spot—they’d go spend two days at the hot spring town.

Whatever made Chi Han happy, Rong Xu naturally had no objections.

That heavy rainstorm had knocked down several power lines near the school, leaving everything in chaos.

Broken branches, collapsed billboards, and even random junk that had blown off the rooftop of the teaching building.

So, No.1 High School simply gave the whole school a week off, switching to online classes instead.

All the students in the school: “…………”

Damn, when it comes to being ruthless, the school still wins.

Even though Class 1 was full of top students, that didn’t stop everyone from cursing the school out.

Geng Xue created a WeChat group and pulled Gui Gaojie, Chi Han, and Rong Xu into it. The group name was “chrxszd”.

【Group chat】 Gui Gaojie: ?

【Private message】 Gui Gaojie: Geng Xue, are you out of your mind? You actually dared to pull Rong Xu into the group?!

Gui Gaojie mournfully thought to himself, the evil physics problems had finally driven his poor deskmate insane.

Geng Xue rolled her eyes and couldn’t even be bothered to reply.

This was what you call absolute genius, alright?

Someone like her, who can dig out sugar even from shards of broken glass, could easily pull heaps of sweetness from Chi Han anytime.

That way, she could “monetize” it at Rong Xu’s place as a VIP physics mini-class for academic gods.

Not only improving scores, but also getting to enjoy the sugar up close.

Ah, what a divine life this is!

Did he think switching to online classes could stop her from indulging in sugar?

Geng Xue sneered coldly.

Ha, how naive!

Chi Han noticed he’d been added to a strange group and clicked in out of curiosity.

The weird group name made him frown.

【Group chat】 Chi Han: chrxszd… what does that mean? @Geng Xue

【Group chat】 Geng Xue: Just some random code WeChat generated, hehe.

【Group chat】 Gui Gaojie: …………

【Group chat】 Gui Gaojie: I remember, the group name is set by the group owner.

System message: This member has been removed from the group chat.

【Group chat】 Chi Han: ???

Geng Xue typed word by word with a gentle smile, as if she were about to press down on someone:

【Group chat】 Geng Xue: It’s nothing, I clicked the wrong button by accident. I’ll add him back soon.

Gui Gaojie, who had left the group at light speed, looked completely baffled.

This… Geng Xue really is under way too much pressure, isn’t she?!

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