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Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can we make plans in more detail. The quality of information provided by private detectives is far beyond my imagination. It can be said that Ji Chenfeng has no secrets from me.

I know his sexuality, I know the names of his exes, and I even know why they broke up.

Ji Chenfeng and the other party can be regarded as close friends. They lived in the same place when they were young, and they were in the same school until junior high school but they got separated in high school. It may be because of the distance that makes the heart grow fonder, the two sparked a puppy love and secretly got together behind their parents’ backs.

However, the reason why first love is beautiful is that when you are young, you don’t need to think about the future and reality, and you think that if you have love in your heart, nothing can be an obstacle. Poor and lowly couples are sad about everything, let alone same-sex couples. When you grow up, you always have to consider more things, consider the future of the two of you, consider the worldly eyes, and also consider the feelings of your loved ones.

Love can’t be eaten, so how can they bear it? I don’t know the details, but it should have been a mess. For his own great future, this ex boyfriend resolutely abandoned his childhood sweetheart at the age of 20, got on an international flight and went overseas, and since then he has separated from Ji Chenfeng and has no contact with him.

Possibly stimulated, Ji Chenfeng’s hearing has been severely damaged since childhood. Since then, his hearing has deteriorated day by day. Finally one day he woke up and couldn’t hear anything.

The results of seeking medical treatment everywhere are very consistent – he has completely lost his hearing. If he does not have a cochlear implant, he will live in a silent world for the rest of his life. But a cochlear implant costs more than 300,000 yuan, which is not something their family can afford.

After Yan Shanhua went around raising money and hit a wall, she finally thought of me, the only one who could help them, and the one who would never refuse her request.

Rounding off, if it weren’t for Ji Chenfeng’s liking for men, Yan Shanhua wouldn’t have come to ask me to borrow money.

Now, if a man takes two extra glances and he gets offended, who is he pretending to be all sacred for?

“Mr. Sang, have you noticed the white film on its eyes?” Ji Chenfeng checked Xiaocao and put it back in the carton.

I glanced at the tortoise in the box that was slowly retracting its head, and there was indeed a white film on the eyes. But to be honest, I don’t remember its normal appearance anymore. After all, although I am its owner, Tang Bian has always been the one who raised and cared for it.

“It was raised by my younger brother before. I just took over it a few days ago, and I don’t know exactly what its eyes look like.” I made up nonsense without blinking an eye, and pushed away the blame completely.

Ji Chenfeng sat down in front of the computer again, and tapped the keyboard with his fingertips, making a clean sound.

“Its eyes are inflamed and eroded, and the albuginea is a secretion caused by inflammation, which blocks its vision, so it cannot forage for food.”

“Can it see it well?” I frowned slightly and asked worriedly.

The printer spit out the paper, Ji Chenfeng tore off a page, pinned it to the medical record and gave it back to me.

“Um.”

According to the doctor’s order, wash the whole body with medicine every day, apply ointment on the affected area after drying twice a day, and also need to send food to the turtle’s mouth to let it eat…

So complicated.

“I’ve been busy with work recently, and I may not be able to apply the medicine on time every day. Can it be hospitalized?”

This is of course nonsense. This kind of dirty work can be left to Tang Bian, where would I need to do it myself? I said this only for the purpose of getting closer to Ji Chenfeng.

“Let the nurse go through the formalities for you.” He stared at the computer screen without looking up. He had already finished this consultation and called the next number.

Compared with animals, his attitude towards humans is much colder. I couldn’t help raising my eyebrows and couldn’t control the twist on my face.

In my life, it has been a long time since I met someone who would ignore me like this. But I still have to put on my own smiling face to make him feel as close as possible and get closer to him.

I like the feeling that everything is under my control, so Ji Chenfeng must also be under my control. This is the current strategy, so even if I am annoyed, I can’t attack him directly.

I thanked him politely and walked out of the office. As soon as I saw the passing nurse outside, I couldn’t wait to throw the paper box in my hand to the other party.

“Please help me with the hospitalization process.” Taking out the hand sanitizer from my pocket, I rubbed my hands and said with a cold face.

Tang Bian found that the tortoise was missing, and asked me carefully if I had already eaten it.

I looked at him silently, and really couldn’t imagine what kind of cruel and savage image I had in his heart. It seems like he thinks I am a ruthless man who drinks blood.

“I sent it to the hospital for treatment.”

Passing him, I walked to the table, opened the takeaway and took a look. Although they are all my favorite food, it may be related to the severe lack of sleep, my body is exhausted, and my stomach is sick and uncomfortable. Just looking at the oil floating on it has already made me lose my appetite.

“Really?” Tang Bian closed the door of the rainforest tank with an unconvincing tone.

What important person are you that deserves to be deceived by me by telling lies? The cursing words that came to my lips were swallowed back a second before leaving my mouth.

“If you don’t believe me, you can come and see it with me today.”

It has been two days, although the pet hospital has sent me photos every day to update Xiaocao’s physical condition, but I have no contact information of Ji Chenfeng, the relationship between me and him is still stagnant, and there is no further development.

This is not good, I have to get close to him quickly.

“Now?” Tang Bian glanced at the time on his phone, “It’s already nine o’clock.”

I turned on deaf ears, opened the communication software, found the chat box of the pet hospital, and asked if Dr. Ji Chenfeng was on duty tonight.

After confirming that the other party was on duty tonight, I turned and walked to the bathroom.

“It’s open 24 hours. Throw everything on the table, and we’ll leave after I take a shower.”

“Huh? Won’t you eat? You haven’t eaten for a day.”

I rubbed my stiff shoulders and neck, and said, “Throw it away if you want, why are speaking so much nonsense?”

When I first got up, I was really not hungry, but when my body fully recovered, the urgency to replenish my energy as soon as possible also came. Which means… I’m hungry.

There happened to be a 24-hour convenience store opposite the pet hospital, so I asked Tang Bian to go down and buy food for me. Regarding my capriciousness, he didn’t dare to comment too much. After confirming the food I could accept, he got out of the car and trotted into the convenience store.

I opened the co-pilot’s window, with a cool evening breeze blowing on my face, and tapped the metal shell of the car door regularly with my fingertips.

Really slow.

Just after waiting for two minutes, I became impatient.

It was almost ten o’clock, but there was still a long queue of four or five people in the convenience store. Finally, when it was Tang Bian’s turn, a middle-aged man who walked unsteadily pushed him aside, left his things as if nothing had happened, and asked the cashier to pay for him first.

Tang Bian wanted to reason with him, but the man turned around and pushed him, pointed at his nose and said something, with a fierce look on his face.

Tang Bian was frightened, shrunk his shoulders like a quail, and dared not speak any more.

The cashier seemed to have seen this kind of thing too much and didn’t want to cause trouble, so he quickly settled the bill for the middle-aged man as if he hadn’t seen anything.

Waste!

I cursed secretly, opened the door and got out of the car.

The street where the pet hospital is located is not spacious, but a small road, barely big enough for two cars to pass through. There are many shops on both sides of the street, catering, haircuts, clothing, milk tea… everything. But it may be because of the late night, most of the doors are closed now, and even pedestrians have become very few.

One of the few open ones is a wine shop with a narrow front in the distance. From time to time, a drunk middle-aged man would come out of it, vomit while hugging the big tree in front of the door, and then leave with his clothes messed up.

Their life may not be as good as they want, but who has it easy?

I haven’t eaten all day.

I blocked the way of the middle-aged man, who looked up at me with red eyes and looked up at me inexplicably, holding an unopened can of coffee in his hand.

“What…what are you doing?” He poked his tongue out, and a disgusting smell of alcohol came out of his mouth as he spoke.

My stomach became more and more uncomfortable, and I frowned and asked him: “Why do you want to jump in line?”

“What?”

“Do you know whose team you messed with?”

The middle-aged man hiccupped and pointed at me with his index finger warningly: “Get out of the way!”

I stared at him, and suddenly grabbed his fingers and folded them in the opposite direction. He screamed in pain, bent his knees, and subconsciously twisted his body to relieve the pain in his fingers.

He kicked his knee, and I held him by the collar and pressed him to the ground. The other party was already drunk and didn’t have much strength in his body, so he was easily suppressed by me.

“You bastard… get up…” The coffee rolled to the side, and the man kept patting the ground and yelling vaguely.

I slapped him on the head, and continued my previous words: “…It’s Lao Tzu’s team.”

Still perplexed, I slapped him twice again.

“lack of manners.”

The middle-aged man was unable to bounce like a dying fish, but his body was completely paralyzed by excessive alcohol intake, so he could only let me beat him in humiliation.

After it was over, I picked up the coffee beside me and stood up panting. At this time, Tang Bian also ran out of the convenience store in a hurry.

“Young, young master, you beat someone again?!” He squatted down in fear to check, “You didn’t beat someone to death, did you?”

I wiped the mouth of the can with my sleeve, pulled the tab, and poured down the coffee full of saccharin. With something in his stomach, I no longer twitched violently, and my frowning brows were relaxed.

“It was just a couple of light slaps, how could it be…”

Suddenly, my gaze met a pair of eyes across the road.

Ji Chenfeng was wearing light blue overalls and a white coat over his head. He was standing in front of the signboard of the pet hospital that had turned down the brightness, holding a cigarette in his hand and looking towards me. Although there is no expression on his face, it can be seen from his paused posture that he should have seen everything I did just now.

Seeing me beating someone, and even grabbing the other person’s coffee.

Oh shit! I cursed in my heart.

I originally wanted to pretend to be more harmless, but I didn’t expect to expose my true nature under such circumstances. It seemed that it would take more effort to get close to him now, after all, normal people would not be friends with violent people on the street.

After meeting my eyes, Ji Chenfeng obviously sensed a bit of embarrassment. He looked away first, stopped smoking, turned around and walked towards the hospital gate.

Swallowing the last sip of coffee, I crushed the can and threw it at Tang Bian.

“Ah!” He was startled, covered his head and looked up.

“It’s over.” Leaving a sentence, I hurried across the road.

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