Su Mianmian and Jin Chen exchanged rapid messages through their divine sense, occasionally glancing at Chu Luohen nearby. Their looks could not have been more guilty.
Watching them from the side, Su Jiu's eyes held a rare trace of amusement.
These two really had not changed a bit in all these decades...
Beyond them, Su Jiu's gaze settled on someone standing behind the group. She knew this person too: the Medicine Gate Sect Master.
They had not met often, but none of those few encounters had been pleasant.
Su Jiu truly had not expected him to come while she was gravely injured.
So he's here to treat me? But why would he come in person...
With that thought, Su Jiu looked back at Chu Luohen. Could Junior Granduncle have persuaded him?
But Junior Granduncle isn't the sort to bother persuading anyone. In that case, the two of them must have struck some sort of bargain...
Just as Su Jiu became lost in thought, she suddenly felt his gaze upon her.
Indeed, Su Jiu was not the only one studying the Medicine Gate Sect Master. He was studying her as well.
He gave Su Jiu a slight nod and walked toward her. Noticing his movement, Su Mianmian and Jin Chen both stopped their divine sense transmissions.
Su Mianmian had always been lively. Although she started moving later, she reached Su Jiu's bedside a step ahead of the Medicine Gate Master.
She desperately wanted to hug Su Jiu, but recalling what Jin Chen had just told her, she forcibly checked the movement she could barely control.
Looking at Su Jiu's pale face, Mian Mian's eyes brimmed with tears.
"A Jiu, in all the years we've grown up together, I've never seen you hurt this badly. I've seen you carried back before, but