Ruan Qingmu was flabbergasted and approached him. “What happened to your eyes? Did you get sand in them? Why didn’t you say so when that quack doctor was here?”
Qin Yuan suddenly coughed once and Ruan Qingmu abruptly realized, turning his head. “…”
Half of the doctor’s body poked in from the door and his expression was as cold as ice. “Little guy, don’t bother stealing anything.”
He coldly looked at Qin Yuan on the bed. “Both of you listen, I’ve counted every medicine in this room. If even one millimeter of them is less, I will chase you guys to the end of the world.”
The infirmary became quiet and the two people exchanged glances. After making sure that there was no sound from outside, they finally let out a breath of relief.
“What kind of person is that… he’s insane,” Ruan Qingmu muttered.
Qin Yuan slowly lay down and slightly relaxed his body, which was usually upright when he sat or stood, raised his head to look at the white ceiling before finally saying, “He’s a quite good person.”
“Oh, how good?” Ruan Qingmu was baffled. “Were you frequently injured and came here?”
Qin Yuan was silent for a while. “Do you remember how we did a simple psychology test when we first entered the school?”
Ruan Qingmu was stunned. “Ah, I remember.”
This body’s original host had some psychological problem and the class monitor had even specially called Mu Wanli. There was something like this in his memory.
Qin Yuan softly said, “I tested out normal, but he came to look for me.”
He knew that his test score would be average.
He had looked at the questions with a discerning eye and knew which answers would lead to problems if he chose them.
In the end, he chose the wrong answer in one of the questions and thought that nobody would find out about it. But this Dr. Gong, who looked cold and impatient, had especially looked for him right away afterward and talked to him for quite some time afterward.
Ruan Qingmu looked at him. “Why did he look for you?”
Qin Yuan faintly smiled, but the smile on his lips was fleeting. “He said that I not only did not have a little psychological problem, but I was also good at hiding it.”
“Although you ended up with an average score, some of your answers presented a completely abnormal correlation.” This was the original sentence spoken by Dr. Gong at that time. “If you don’t want to talk to me, you must let your parents know. You’re a smart boy. How about you read a psychology book to familiarize yourself?”
Ruan Qingmu froze for a while before nodding. “He did have some skill.”
“Aren’t you going to ask what my problem is?”
“What’s there to ask?” Ruan Qingmu squinted at him. His pupils were pitch-black. “You put on a depressed face every day. Is it strange to have a psychological problem?”
Qin Yuan glanced at him. “That makes the two of us.”
The school infirmary was right next to the sports field. The ending song of the sports competition and the students’ vague laughter began to drift in through the windows. The orange glow of the setting sun spread across the examination bed and the white walls, sparking a cold light on every medical equipment.
Ruan Qingmu suddenly stood up and touched the thin ice bag on Qin Yuan’s ankle.
The temperature had risen and the thin ice inside had started to melt.
He stood and found a replacement from the small freezer, then sat by the bed and placed it on Qin Yuan’s ankle.
The boy’s ankle was distinctly shaped and was slightly swollen with vague blue veins peeking out from underneath his skin.
When he placed the ice bag, Ruan Qingmu’s fingers came across the skin on his ankle.
Qin Yuan suddenly pulled back his leg and pursed his thin lip.
Ruan Qingmu hurriedly asked, “Does it hurt?”
Qin Yuan blurted out, “Hot…”
After applying something cold for a long time, that place had become bone-chilling. When those warm fingers touched his ankle, he didn’t know if the contrast was too stark, but he only felt like he was scalded by something to the bottom of his heart.
Ruan Qingmu blankly raised his head and looked at him with doubtful eyes.
Hot or hurt? How could it be hot?
Qin Yuan’s cheek slowly turned red and there was a strange quietness in the air.
At this time, a sweet girl’s voice came through the broadcast outside. “Thank you to all the athletes for their hard work and even more for the referee teachers’ hard work. We will carry out the last report on the School Sports Day. After intense calculating and re-examining, the ranking for each grade had freshly come out of the oven. Congratulations to the junior year Class 3 for getting first place in the overall scores of the junior year! The champion of the sophomore year is being intensely calculated right now…”
The two people in the room raised their heads simultaneously and looked at each other.
“Your class should win.” Qin Yuan looked at him.
Ruan Qingmu was silent for a while. “Mm, it should be.”
Suddenly, the phone in his pocket rang. When he picked it up, it was obviously in loudspeaker mode and a group of excited people sounded out as if they were a bunch of noisy hens. “Ruan-ge, Ruan-ge, this is coming straight from the PE teacher, Old Wu, saying our class is in the running to be in first place!”
Fu Songhua’s angry voice sounded on the loudspeaker at the side. “Bullshit. There’s no way. Even though Ruan Qingmu and Fang Li won first place, there are still a dozen or so points difference from ours!”
Tang Tiantian’s soft voice came from the side. “There are 37 people who signed up from our class. Even if most of them were eliminated in the preliminary rounds, our basic points are high.”
“Fuck! 37 people? It’s… 10 points more than our class?” Fu Sognhua shouted. “That’s not right, ah. Isn’t there still a 2-point difference between us?”
Ruan Qingmu’s laughter could be heard at this time.
“Idiot.” He drawled out a reminder to that furious someone, “Five of our class’ publicity manuscripts were broadcasted.”
Niu Xiaoqing burst into loud laughter too. “Five points! Just saying, our class’ sports representative wrote 15 manuscript sheets in advance. I’m asking, do you accept it or not?”
It was a shame that she had poured all of her heart and soul into writing seven or eight drafts, but they were all ruthlessly rejected by Ruan Qingmu when she had him look at them. After a sleepless night, the sports representative had managed to come up with a dozen more new manuscripts, truly making people admire him into throwing five-body on the ground*.
*T/N: Throwing five-body on the ground means both hands, knees, and head touching the ground, prostrating oneself before someone in admiration.