Hospital.
Jiang Chu sat silently in his office, weighed down by worries. At the same time, there was also a woman in the office.
She was his ex-wife.
"Jiang Chu, tell me honestly. What exactly is wrong with the child?"
Jiang Chu said dejectedly, "His body is rejecting the transplant."
The woman's expression immediately turned ugly. "Rejecting it? How could that happen... You said you'd found compatible bone marrow, and that was why I agreed to the surgery! And now you're telling me there's a rejection?"
Jiang Chu was irritated as well. "Do you know how difficult it is to find a bone marrow match for your son? I went to great lengths to find a suitable donor... but I never expected it to fail in the end!"
"Then... then what do we do? If it's a rejection, shouldn't it be possible to control it?"
Jiang Chu shook his head. "I can't answer that either... Right now, we can only wait and see how severe the rejection is. We'll know the specifics after the detailed test results come back. But no matter what, I won't let anything happen to the child... Go watch over him. I want some peace and quiet."
After his ex-wife left, Jiang Chu collapsed helplessly against the back of his chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.
"Why did this happen... Why?"
Not only had he been diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's disease, but his son's life was also in danger at any moment.
Jiang Chu shut his eyes in pain.
At that moment, he seemed to see once more the longing eyes of the little girl waiting for him to perform her surgery, as well as the face of the child lying on the hospital bed and suffering terribly.
The two images tangled together incessantly like a whirlpool, leaving him unable to break free. Jiang Chu felt as if he had fallen into an endless abyss with no bottom in sight.
He abruptly opened his eyes, his head drenched in cold sweat, and realized that he had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
First, Luo Qiu complained about the maliciousness of whoever had invented mobile-phone location tracking.
He still sent his location map to Ren Ziling's phone. She probably wouldn't take long to sneak over here, would she?
The place where he was supposedly working.
Generally speaking, it was perfectly normal for university students to take part-time jobs to experience life. Ren Ziling wouldn't object, but because of her overflowing maternal love, she would worry about where Luo Qiu was working and whether the place was respectable.
So, to avoid the trouble of coming home late in the future, Luo Qiu had decided to properly take a job... a one-night job.
He also had to carefully consider the location.
Basically, he had narrowed it down to places Ren Ziling rarely visited—or would never visit at all—and where, after observing it once, she would feel that there was nothing wrong with it and never come again.
It also had to be the sort of job university students commonly took and that was easy to find.
"Teacher, is this really suitable?"
"Let me see..."
That was right. The job that would keep Luo Qiu from having to face too many people, suit his personality better, and not require too many extras was—private tutoring!
It was a simple matter. You Ye could use hypnosis to find a wandering mother and son? Father and daughter? Mother and daughter... Anything would do. As long as they looked like they were of an age to need a private tutor and could afford one.
However, it was unknown whether You Ye simply preferred beautiful things.
Luo Qiu's student this time was a female high school student... a first-year high school student.
Were high school students these days really this well-developed?
As for the parent of the student Luo Qiu was tutoring, she looked like an elegant, well-educated woman.
Was she really taking such good care of herself...? A witch?
Still, when he thought about how the other party was putting on this "act" for him without knowing anything about it and that he wasn't even getting paid, Luo Qiu decided that he should at least properly teach this high school student.
Although he didn't know whether a one-time tutoring session like this would actually help, it was still good if he could solve a few of her problems during the lesson.
The place chosen for the lesson was a relatively quiet Western restaurant near the commercial street, with their seats beside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
"So you really are tutoring..." Ren Ziling gnawed on a hamburger and drank a pitifully small cola by the roadside.
She had been standing there for more than ten minutes.
Although she was happy to see Luo Qiu experiencing life and taking a part-time job in his spare time, still...
"Isn't that girl a little too well-developed...? And why does her mother look so well-preserved too...? A witch? A carnivorous **** who specializes in eating young men?"
Associate Editor Ren had a brain that was good at thinking, along with an imagination that went in all sorts of directions.
She took a long sip of her cola, unable to stop her imagination. "Could it be... a mother-daughter bowl?"
Imagining Luo Qiu with a young and adorable daughter on his left and an alluring, elegant mother on his right, Ren Ziling felt that things had gone horribly wrong!
She absolutely couldn't let such a thing happen!
Associate Editor Ren threw the half-eaten hamburger and cola into the trash can and hurriedly rushed into the Western restaurant.
Luo Qiu probably hadn't expected Ren Ziling to rush in directly. He was so stunned that he opened and closed his mouth without managing to say a word.
"Who is this?"
The girl's mother looked at the woman who had suddenly appeared and asked Luo Qiu suspiciously.
Just as Luo Qiu was about to speak, Ren Ziling smiled brightly. "Hello! I'm Luo Qiu's older sister. You can just call me Zi Ling. I just got off work, and when I heard that my brother was tutoring someone here, I came by to pick him up on the way home... Um, I didn't interrupt you two, did I?"
"Not at all." The girl's mother smiled elegantly. She took a packet of tissues from her handbag, pulled one out, and handed it to Ren Ziling.
Ren Ziling froze. Luo Qiu could only point helplessly at his own mouth.
Ren Ziling instinctively touched her mouth... Good heavens! She hadn't noticed that sauce had stuck to her face while she was eating the hamburger.
No wonder the waiter at the entrance had looked at her so strangely when she came in.
"Th-thank you..." Ren Ziling smiled awkwardly and reached out to wipe the sauce from her face.
"Mm... Let's end things here for today. It's getting rather late." The girl's mother stood up with a faint smile. "Teacher Luo, I'll trouble you again next time."
There probably wouldn't be a next time.
But Luo Qiu still nodded.
The girl's mother said, "Then I won't disturb you two any longer. Pingting, say goodbye."
So the girl's name was Pingting... Luo Qiu had simply sat down after getting ready, and only now did he officially learn her name.
"Goodbye, Teacher. Goodbye, big sister," the girl said politely.
Only after watching the beautiful mother and daughter leave did Luo Qiu breathe a sigh of relief. With a hint of complaint, he said, "I thought you'd only watch from outside at most. And what was that about being my sister?"
Ren Ziling said aggrievedly, as if she were completely in the right, "I did it for your sake! If your mother were this young and beautiful, what would other people think about you?"
Luo Qiu sighed. "Confidence is a good thing, but next time, could you wipe your mouth before eating? And when you eat hamburgers, could you not add mayonnaise?"
Ren Ziling widened her eyes. "Listen to yourself! What are you even talking about? Filthy!"
"..." Luo Qiu decided to skip over this rather subtle topic. "Are you full?"
"More or less..." Ren Ziling rubbed her stomach.
Luo Qiu shook his head, called the waiter over, and ordered Ren Ziling a seafood pasta and a fruit salad. He said calmly, "It's too late. Eat something light."
Ren Ziling immediately kissed Luo Qiu on the cheek. "Good boy! You're the one who's my mother!"
Luo Qiu wiped his cheek, moved to the end of the cushioned booth, and took out The Origin of Blue and White Porcelain beside the window. He began reading without saying anything else.
Seeing Luo Qiu like this... seeing that he was still the same as always, Ren Ziling felt that she had been worrying needlessly.
She began enjoying the food the waiter brought over.
An exceptionally beautiful girl who looked like a model quietly walked past the mother and daughter. Perhaps because she was simply too beautiful, both of them couldn't help looking at her twice.
When they came to their senses, the night breeze blew past, and the girl's mother suddenly shivered. In a daze, she said, "Strange... Where is this?"
Ji Pingting also looked at her mother in confusion.
At that moment, a black card quietly glided through the night sky. Without anyone noticing, it eventually slipped into Ji Pingting's mother's handbag.
"Let's go home."
"Mm!"
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