Lin Xun (1)

Yue Qianling was afraid that the link might contain a virus, so she didn’t dare to click on it.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: ?

After a while.

【School Grass】: It’s quite interesting.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: I think you’re the one who’s interesting.

【School Grass】: ?

Maybe it was because she came home too late today, but Yue Qianling suddenly felt a little sleepy.

She yawned and didn’t reply to his message. She simply took a quick shower and then lay down on the bed.

A moment later, Yin Xue sent her another message.

【Yin Xue】: Are you going to sleep?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Yeah, what’s up?

【Yin Xue】: Nothing, just checking on you.

【Yin Xue】: Are you okay?

Yue Qianling turned over, hesitated for a moment, and then typed.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: I’m fine.

Actually, tonight, she felt that she had calmed down, so she only told Yin Xue that she had been rejected by Gu Xun.

However, when she really said it out loud again, she found it challenging to control her emotions.

Although she didn’t cry, her nose remained a little sour.

Yin Xue didn’t believe it at first, and it took her a while to accept this reality.

After comforting Yue Qianling for a while, she realized that she was at a loss for words, so Yin Xue changed the literary move she originally bought into a comedy.

It wasn’t until she saw Yue Qianling laughing heartily at the movie did Yin Xue felt somewhat relieved.

After chatting with Yin Xue for a while, Yue Qianling didn’t have anything else to say. Tiredness hit her, and she fell asleep unknowingly.

But her sleep didn’t last until dawn.

A little over an hour later, she was awakened by the buzzing sound of her phone.

When she opened her eyes, it was raining outside.

She felt her back was hot, but the air conditioning wasn’t turned off.

Her consciousness was also a bit unclear, and she felt like she had no strength in her body.

She squinted her eyes and picked up her phone. She saw that it was Xiao Mai talking in the group.

【Xiao Mai】: Is everyone asleep? It’s the weekend, I think we can have a battle!

Yue Qianling originally wanted to say yes, but when she reached for her forehead, she finally realized something was wrong.

It seemed like she had a slight fever.

When she looked up at the air conditioner again, she sighed helplessly.

Her mom had always reminded her not to sleep with the air conditioning on, as it was easy for her to catch a cold.

She always forgot, and she caught a cold again and again.

Now that she was this old, she still made the same mistake.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: I won’t join, I don’t have the strength.

【School Grass】: ?

【School Grass】: Why don’t you have the strength?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: I caught a cold.

【School Grass】: Got caught in the rain?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: No, it’s just from the air conditioning.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Anyway, I’m ordering delivery to buy some medicine.

【School Grass】: But it will take an hour to be delivered.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Well, I have no other choice.

After sending this message, Yue Qianling’s headache became severe, and she didn’t reply anymore. She went straight to the delivery app and chose two types of cold medicine.

After placing the order, she checked the estimated delivery time.

Because it was raining outside and it was late at night, it was indeed estimated to take an hour.

Yue Qianling felt uncomfortable all over and her mind was not very clear, so she set an alarm, turned off the air conditioner, and went back to sleep.

She slept in a daze, neither awake nor asleep, and after an unknown amount of time, she was suddenly awakened by the doorbell.

Was the delivery here?

She sat up groggily, looked at the time, and found that only twenty minutes had passed.

The heavy rain was still pouring outside, so how could the delivery arrive so quickly?

She put on a coat and held her phone as she headed towards the door.

As she reached for the doorknob, she suddenly remembered that deliveries in the community were not allowed to be delivered to the door.

So who would come knocking on the door at one or two past midnight?

Yue Qianling was suddenly very scared. She gripped the doorknob, held her breath, and cautiously tiptoed to look through the peephole.

—Gu Xun?

Yue Qianling was stunned for a while before asking, “What’s the matter so late?”

In the narrow field of view, she could only see Gu Xun’s brows frowning slightly.

“Do you have a hairdryer?”

Yue Qianling: “Huh?”

Gu Xun’s voice was not very clear through the door.

“My hairdryer is broken. Can you lend me one?”

Yue Qianling didn’t react immediately. After hesitating for a moment, she said softly, “Oh, wait a moment.”

She turned and walked towards the bathroom.

She had said that it was not good to have him as a neighbor, yet he kept appearing in front of her eyes every once in a while, making it really difficult for her to completely remove him from her mind.

She took out her hairdryer, opened the door, handed it out, and said, “I’m going to sleep. Return it tomorrow, or you can just hang it on my doorknob.”

Gu Xun’s hand reaching out for it froze, and after a moment, he accepted it.

“Okay.”

The moment she handed over the hairdryer, Yue Qianling felt Gu Xun’s breathing was a little heavy.

She raised her eyes and found that Gu Xun’s hair was indeed wet.

The ends of his hair were soaked in water, drooping over his forehead, which made his sharp brows and eyes appear somewhat gentle.

Shifting her gaze downward, she noticed that the shoulders and front part of his clothes were also wet.

Washing his hair can actually get his clothes wet like this. Is he a three-year-old?

Just as she was thinking, Yue Qianling suddenly heard Gu Xun say, “Yue Qianling, are you sick?”

She blinked and looked up at Gu Xun.

“What?”

Looking at her face, flushed from fever, Gu Xun said lightly, “I have some common medicines at home. You can come over and get some.”

The hallway was so quiet during past midnight that you could hear a pin drop.

Maybe it was because Gu Xun looked a bit like a wet puppy at the moment, Yue Qianling couldn’t harden her heart to force herself to refuse, so she looked away and glanced at her phone.

The delivery rider was still motionless at the pharmacy four kilometers away.

She kept staring at her phone without saying a word, and Gu Xun didn’t leave either.

After a while, she said in a low voice, “Oh, okay.”

She closed the door and followed Gu Xun towards his place.

Walking behind him, Yue Qianling couldn’t help but glance at his hair again.

It was so short that it would only take two minutes for it to dry, so why did he need to borrow a hairdryer?

It wasn’t too much trouble in the middle of the night.

While grumbling in her mind, she had already stepped into Gu Xun’s place.

This was the first time she had been to his place, and for some reason, Yue Qianling felt inexplicably nervous.

It was as if she had entered some exclusive territory, and she kept reminding herself not to look around, not to be curious about him.

So she followed him like a robot to the living room.

However, wherever her line of sight fell, it still uncontrollably imprinted into her mind.

Well, it’s just as neat and tidy as she imagined.

It’s just a bit lifeless, with no extra furniture. If someone didn’t know better, they would think no one lived here.

“You can take whatever you need from there.”

Yue Qianling suddenly came to her senses, and when she raised her head, she saw a large bag of medicine placed in the cabinet.

Unlike the neat and tidy style of his home, these medicines were not neatly arranged. They were all piled up in the bag as if they had not been sorted out yet.

But thinking about it, he had just moved in, and it was normal for people to wait until everything was settled before buying medicine to keep at home.

However, the variety of these medicines was too complete. It seemed like he had swept all the cold medicines in the pharmacy.

Yue Qianling didn’t pick much and just took the two outermost boxes of medicine.

“How much is it? I’ll give you the money.”

Gu Xun’s voice was right above her head.

“No need.”

But before she could say anything, Gu Xun had already walked into the kitchen.

Seeing his resolute figure, Yue Qianling knew that, as a man, he probably didn’t want to mention such a small amount of money with her.

However, Yue Qianling had never liked taking things for free from others, even if they were not worth much.

Even more so when the person standing in front of her right now was Gu Xun.

So she reached out and rummaged through the bag.

If the medicine had been bought and hadn’t been sorted out yet, the receipt should still be there.

She rummaged around and, sure enough, found the receipt.

As she was about to check the price of the medicines she took, she noticed the time of purchase.

1:27 am.

It was today.

Today???

Yue Qianling thought she was seeing things due to her fever, so she looked again.

No mistake, it was today.

It was now 1:49 am, which meant that he had bought these medicines more than twenty minutes ago.

Although it was just a trivial matter, Yue Qianling found it particularly strange.

A strangeness that couldn’t be ignored.

Why did he go out to buy medicine in the middle of the night?

And it was cold medicine?

She got so lost in her thoughts that she didn’t snap out of it until she heard the light footsteps.

When she raised her head, she saw Gu Xun walking towards her with a glass of water.

Yue Qianling’s heart inexplicably panicked, and she squeezed the receipt in her hand.

“I just found out there’s still hot water in the thermos.”

He handed the cup to Yue Qianling, “Why don’t you take the medicine here before going back?”

Yue Qianling looked up at Gu Xun, and under the bright light, the water stains on his hair were particularly clear.

Suddenly, some strange speculations popped into her mind, and Yue Qianling stepped back and said in a daze, “No need, I’ll take it at home.”

After saying that, she immediately turned and left.

Gu Xun’s hand froze in midair. He looked at her hurriedly retreating figure and sighed.

Back at home, Yue Qianling completely forgot to take the medicine.

She sat on the sofa, wrapped in her coat, her mind in a mess, with countless thoughts colliding haphazardly.

Clearly, the medicine was just bought, so why did Gu Xun say it was common medicine at home?

Why did he go out to buy medicine so late?

He didn’t seem to be sick himself.

And how could it be so coincidental that he came to knock on her door so late? Did he not expect her to be asleep at this hour?

Could it be that he specifically went out to buy medicine for her?

But how did he know she was sick?

The more Yue Qianling thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. Coupled with the fever, her head was buzzing, making it even more difficult to sort out her thoughts.

At this moment, her phone started vibrating again.

She lowered her eyes and looked at her phone on the sofa.

Suddenly, her thoughts became even more absurd.

【Luo Tuo】: Why the hell are you playing so late? I just got home from a gathering.

【Luo Tuo】: @GlutinousRiceTwist, take your medicine and go to bed early. The weather makes it easy to catch a cold.

Yue Qianling’s fingertips began to heat up, trembling slightly as she pulled up the chat history.

The screen stopped at the part where she mentioned having a cold.

She only mentioned it here.

She hadn’t told anyone else.

The absurd idea in her mind suddenly seemed a bit plausible.

Yet she couldn’t believe it at all.