The three who came in from the courtyard after hearing the commotion walked in on this scene.
Jiang Wanrou jumped in fright.
Lu Mingxu, who had been beside her, had already rushed inside.
"What happened?" Lu Mingxu asked her.
Jiang Keyan cried in fright. "I just came in and accidentally-I bumped, bumped into Yanyu. He was taking medicine and choked. Quick, quick, what do we do?"
Wen Yanyu clutched his throat, repeatedly trying to cough up the medicine lodged there. Almost all the color had drained from his face, and his hands shook too badly to support his body.
Duan Mufeng was in a complete panic. Apart from patting his back, his mind was blank, and he could not think of anything else to do.
"Let go! Stop patting him! Give him first aid!" Lu Mingxu took one look and immediately took Wen Yanyu from Duan Mufeng.
He wrapped one arm around his waist and pressed his other hand, clenched into a fist, against his abdomen.
Amid agonizing coughs, Wen Yanyu threw up the pills along with blood-tinged fluid.
With the obstruction finally out of his throat, fresh air flooded his lungs. Wen Yanyu collapsed into the arms of the person behind him, gasping for breath.
His face was as white as paper, the corners of his eyes red and his face covered in still-wet tear tracks. His head felt heavy and muddled, as though filled with lead, and his unfocused eyes could barely focus on anything.
Twisting pain rampaged through his body. Wen Yanyu's vision went white, leaving him unable to see clearly.
The people around him half-supported, half-carried him onto the sofa, his body still shaking uncontrollably.
Lu Mingxu held him in his arms and took the tissues Duan Mufeng handed over. It took him a while to clean up the mess, and then he helped the person in his arms drink a little water.
Feeling him tremble, he thought Wen Yanyu was still frightened.
"It's all right. You got it out. You're fine now that it's out." Lu Mingxu kept soothing him, patting him while wiping the tears from the young man's face with a tissue. "Don't be scared. Don't be scared."
Wen Yanyu lay limp on the sofa for quite a while before his breathing gradually steadied.
[Holy shit, that scared me to death. I thought something bad was going to happen.]
[Please stop putting my baby through this, sob sob. That scared the life out of me.]
[Wasn't that reckless of him, though? Taking so many pills in one go. The moment I saw it, I thought something would happen.]
[For fuck's sake, did my baby throw up blood?!]
[Probably coughed too hard and burst the capillaries in his throat. It shouldn't be a big deal.]
[What a scare.]
[Bro Lu, you're fucking amazing!]
[The Heimlich maneuver! The GOAT!]
Jiang Keyan bit her lip, her face covered in frightened tears. "S-sorry. Are you okay? I-I didn't mean to."
Jiang Wanrou patted the young woman's shoulder, then looked down at the scattered pills mixed with bloody fluid on the floor.
She could not help frowning. "What medicine is this? Why is Wen taking so much at once?"
Only at the woman's question did Duan Mufeng come back to his senses.
"I don't know. Yanyu poured out a whole handful as soon as he got back. I was just about to ask when Ke Yan accidentally bumped into him."
He picked up the still-uncapped bottle and examined it carefully.
"There's nothing written on the bottle."
At that, Jiang Wanrou took the bottle and shook out two pills for a closer look, until she spotted familiar letters on them.
Jiang Wanrou froze. Her unreadable gaze slowly shifted from the few pills remaining in the bottle to Wen Yanyu, who lay beside Lu Mingxu and clearly had yet to recover.
After a few seconds of silence, she put the pills back.
Sensing something was wrong, Duan Mufeng grew alert.
He pressed her. "What is this medicine for?"
Jiang Wanrou said nothing. She crouched down and took the young man's still-trembling hand.
It was ice-cold.
He took a long while to recover.
Wen Yanyu sat at the edge of the sofa, holding a cup of hot water, drinking and responding intermittently to the others' fussing.
Jiang Keyan kept shedding pitiful tears. "I'm sorry. I came in to check on you. I'm sorry, I-Yanyu, go ahead and yell at me."
The girl hung her head. Her usually smiling eyes were now filled with self-reproach and guilt, and she did not dare look at him.
Jiang Wanrou sat silently beside him, reaching out to gently pat his back and ease his breathing.
"It's okay. It wasn't your fault. I took too many at once."
Wen Yanyu shook his head. Pain traveled along his nerves straight to his brain, cold sweat soaked half his back, and his ears rang.
Had the pain tolerance he developed through his repeated reincarnations not been so astonishing, he would probably have started screaming by now.
His consciousness hazy, Wen Yanyu drew another breath and suddenly remembered what that person had once told him.
Rabbits were the creatures best at enduring pain.
Words that had once terrified him had now become reality.
He did not know whether to laugh or cry.
The others surrounded Wen Yanyu, chattering nonstop.
His already hazy consciousness was thrown into even greater confusion by this sudden turn of events.
Wen Yanyu straightened, wanting to reach for his medicine again, but the moment he moved, his vision kept going dark and cold sweat streamed down.
Lu Mingxu immediately steadied him. "Don't move. Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
He had sensed something was wrong on the way back, but at the time, he had only thought Wen Yanyu was carsick.
But now.
The person before him leaned against the edge of the sofa, making no large movements or pronounced expressions. Yet his face was so terribly pale that even the slightest furrow of his brows made one's heart clench.
Choking alone should not have left him like this.
Lu Mingxu clenched his hands, his anxiety and unease so intense they almost became tangible.
Sang Yu stared blankly at the man who had seemed off ever since returning, her heart inexplicably skipping a beat.
Jiang Keyan immediately asked with concern too, "Baby, where else do you feel unwell? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Shall we go to the hospital?"
She was so guilty she could barely speak coherently.
Wen Yanyu pinched his arm and waved a hand at her. "It's nothing. The mountain road was just too bumpy. I have a little heatstroke."
His hoarse voice was distinctly different from how it had sounded in the car. Lu Mingxu immediately caught the exhaustion in it, and his heart trembled.
He was about to press on.
Holding Jiang Wanrou's arm, Wen Yanyu pushed himself up, picked up the medicine bottle, and started toward his room.
"Let's have the production crew take us to the hospital for a checkup."
Wen Yanyu refused outright. "No need. I'll go to my room and just r-rest for a bit. I'll be fine."
Lu Mingxu frowned. "But..."
"All right, all right. Since Yanyu said he's fine, stop worrying needlessly." Duan Mufeng slung an arm around Lu Mingxu's shoulders and pushed him aside.
"Little sister Xiao Yu is still crying. Hurry up and comfort her. What are you doing standing around here?" Duan Mufeng waved him off.
He himself quickly followed Wen Yanyu.
Sang Yu walked over with reddened eyes and grabbed Lu Mingxu's arm.
Lu Mingxu opened his mouth, his expression helpless.
[Baby looks so pale. Is he sick?]
[He already looked a little pale when he got into the car. During the second half, when he was chatting with Bro Lu, he seemed completely listless.]
[Yeah, I think he really feels awful. I also noticed his leg seemed to keep twitching. My calves twitch too when I'm in a lot of pain. He probably feels so awful that his muscles are reacting involuntarily.]
[Someone save Bro Lu. I feel like he's about to fall apart, hahahaha. He just wanted to chat with Little Fish. He finally found his first love again. Let the boy talk to his first love, hahaha.]
[Stop talking nonsense, thanks. Bro Lu and Wen are, at most, ordinary friends who are close. They were friends in their youth and haven't seen each other in years. First love? Do you think you're reading a novel?]
[Uh, is this some new persona to grab attention? Acting like this as soon as he sees Bro Lu with Xiao Yu? Hard to know what to say.]
[Seriously, what did our Bunny Baby even do?! He went straight to the living room to take his medicine when he got back! What does this have to do with Lu Mingxu or Sang Yu?]
[A certain someone's fans came running the second they caught a whiff.]
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