Early morning.
As he pried the two of them away yet again, Wen Yanyu's brow twitched, and he finally snapped, "I'm just boiling dumplings. Why are you two getting in the way?"
Holding one in each hand, Wen Yanyu tossed Lu Mingxu and Duan Mufeng out of the kitchen.
The two men who had been thrown out exchanged a look, then simultaneously looked away.
Carrying two cartons of milk and humming a tune, Jiang Keyan brushed past them. "Yanyu! I brought you milk!"
At last, he managed to get the dumplings into the pot.
Wen Yanyu turned his head, his long hair tied back behind his shoulders. Perhaps because of the sunlight, his originally jet-black hair looked as though it had faded to grayish white.
"Have some milk first. I'll mix the dipping sauces for you." Jiang Keyan inserted a straw into the milk carton and held it out to him.
Wen Yanyu took the milk. "Thank you."
"No problem." Smiling, Jiang Keyan took a few small bowls out of the cupboard and mentioned casually, "I noticed you like sweet things, and your stomach doesn't seem too good, so I won't put any chili in yours. How about I make it a little sweeter?"
Wen Yanyu froze. "Oh, okay. Anything's fine with me. Thank you."
"Why do you keep thanking me? You're being so distant." Jiang Keyan put her hands on her hips and gave Wen Yanyu a look of feigned displeasure.
"Aren't we good friends? Why don't you call me by my name? I'm Jiang Keyan. Ke Yan."
Wen Yanyu repeated it hesitantly. "Okay, Ke Yan?"
Jiang Keyan nodded in satisfaction, two dimples flickering at the corners of her mouth. Her eyes curved into crescents, making her look sweet and adorable.
Wen Yanyu: ૮₍•ᴗ•₎ა
[Two sweet little babies snuggling! Snuggle!]
[Next to dazed little Bunny Baby, even Ke Yan looks scheming, hahaha.]
[They fought to help out, only to both get rejected.]
[Wen Yanyu (confused bunny face) ૮₍•᎔•₎ა: I'm just boiling dumplings. What are these two doing?]
[All it takes is snipping open a bag and boiling some water, but these two came in to make trouble, hahaha. I feel like baby's face is nothing but exasperation. He can't understand what these two are doing.]
[Does anyone else think Yanyu hasn't looked too well these past two days? He looks like my older sister did when she was in the hospital for surgery. I'm a little worried.]
[I think so too! He used to be pale, but now he's deathly pale. And baby's hair color looks weird. Why does it look whitish, like the color's faded? I remember he never bleached his hair before.]
[If baby really felt unwell, he would've said something already. Maybe he isn't used to sleeping here and couldn't sleep.]
Having finally finished the dumplings in his bowl, Wen Yanyu put down his chopsticks and started to get up to wash his hands.
Lu Mingxu grabbed him.
Wen Yanyu: "?"
"Are you full after just those few dumplings?" The wrist in his palm was absurdly thin. Lu Mingxu unconsciously knitted his brows and said worriedly, "You're so thin it's unhealthy."
Wen Yanyu: "..."
"I'm full."
As Jiang Keyan ate her seventeenth dumpling, she said worriedly, "But you only ate six dumplings."
The girl pushed a side dish in front of Wen Yanyu. "Have a couple more bites of this. I'll find you some little bread rolls later."
Looking at the greasy meat dish before him and recalling his lesson from last time, Wen Yanyu fell silent for a few seconds. "My stomach's bad. I can't eat too much."
"If I eat any more, I might throw up everything I've already eaten too."
Jiang Keyan blinked, thinking back over what he had eaten these past few days. "All right."
I'll have to find a chance to nurse him back to health properly.
Jiang Keyan changed tack. "Then, babe! I'll send you the contact details for a traditional Chinese medicine doctor my family knows! Once we're done filming, I'll take you to see him. He's really good at helping people build their health back up!"
Wen Yanyu nodded, accepting her kindness.
Lu Mingxu frowned. "But if your stomach's bad and you still don't eat, won't that make it even harder to get better?"
Sang Yu said nothing, her gaze fixed on Lu Mingxu, who was still holding on to Wen Yanyu's wrist.
Wen Yanyu sighed and tried to pull his wrist free. As though he hadn't noticed, Lu Mingxu only tightened his grip.
Duan Mufeng watched with a deepening frown, wanting to speak but holding back.
"I don't know when my stomach will get better, but I do know that if you hold on much longer, you might crush my wrist." Wen Yanyu cracked a helpless joke.
Lu Mingxu froze, then hurriedly let go.
"Sorry, sorry! Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine." Wen Yanyu rubbed his wrist, which had already begun to turn red and swell. "It's not broken yet."
Lu Mingxu hung his head. "I'm sorry."
Duan Mufeng pushed the man back down as he started to rise. "Give it a rest."
[Why does this have me worried and laughing at the same time? Hahaha.]
[Doesn't anyone else find him annoying? He's always clinging to Lu for attention. He clearly ate normally on the first day, but today, sitting next to Lu, he only takes a few bites. Isn't he deliberately trying to get people to ask?]
[Exactly. All I can say is, don't make your little schemes so obvious.]
[? Huh??]
[Wait, didn't he say his stomach couldn't digest it? Then Lu Mingxu and the others showed some concern. Isn't that perfectly normal?]
[Who remembers that phone call on the night of the dare? Fu said Wen's stomach and esophagus were practically rotted through. Even someone who dislikes him sounded a little worried. Wen probably really is in poor health.]
[I've noticed that ever since Lu Mingxu started talking to Wen Yanyu yesterday, certain people in the comments have started losing it.]
[His bootlickers don't need to make excuses for him. I'm a scheming little innocent too. I get him.]
[You're nuts. Baby barely ate even back when he first started filming that challenge show. He only ever ate a little. On his first day here, he didn't even eat half a small bowl of rice, and he's been like that these past few days too. How come eating less today suddenly means he's trying to leech off Lu Mingxu? Some people need to stop being so ridiculous.]
[As a fan whose fave played a couple with Lu, I'm telling you bunny fans to get used to it. That particular ship's fans are just like this.]
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