The fifth update is here. It wasn't easy to pull off this burst of updates, so everyone, please send some Recommendation Tickets to give me some motivation.
Early the next morning.
Orthopedics Ward.
Dawn had barely broken, and the autumn morning was wonderfully cool. The noise of the nurses making their rounds woke Dong Xuebin from his sleep. After yawning, he politely greeted the elderly man in the adjacent bed, whose right leg was fractured. Then he carefully turned over and got out of bed, avoiding his wounds as he picked up the thermos from the small cabinet with one hand and gulped down a few mouthfuls of water. He slipped on his slippers and was just about to ask at the nurses' station what examinations he still had scheduled for the day when the iPhone 4 beside his pillow started chirping—it was Qu Yunxuan's number.
Dong Xuebin quickly cleared his throat and tapped the touchscreen. "Hello?"
"Xiao Bin, where are you? Why didn't you come home all night?"
Dong Xuebin hadn't told her he was hospitalized, partly because he was afraid she would worry and partly because he didn't want the woman he loved to see him in such a sorry state. When he had called her last night, he had only said he was staying at a coworker's place and wouldn't be coming home for dinner. "Oh, I stayed up too late yesterday, so I spent the night at my coworker's place. I just got up and was about to go to work." Just as he finished speaking, a female nurse pushed open the ward door and called loudly into the room while holding several round plastic pill containers. "Your medicine is here—the medicine to take half an hour after breakfast."
"What medicine?" Qu Yunxuan immediately grew