Bear with it, it'll be over soon

"Doctor, please check on Brother Xuanze! He can't stand the pain anymore."

Lu Junjia kept talking, and Qi Feiyu was getting a little annoyed.

"Are you the patient's family? Could you please be a little quieter?" Although Qi Feiyu was annoyed, his tone remained gentle. Besides, the word "family" struck a chord with Lu Junjia, and he actually obediently shut his mouth.

Without anyone buzzing beside him like a mosquito, Qi Feiyu could settle down and examine Zhou Xuanze carefully.

The people standing beside the other bed, however, glared resentfully at Qi Feiyu because he had chosen to treat Zhou Xuanze first.

Wen Chi sat propped up on the narrow bed, feeling pain all over, especially in his chest, which throbbed in waves. But he gritted his teeth and made no sound.

His fingers, however, involuntarily tightened around the sheet beneath him.

Today's rain had come too suddenly.

The torrential downpour had blurred his vision. As soon as the rain hit his speeding race car, the tires had skidded out of control.

If he hadn't steered toward the rocky mountainside in an emergency maneuver, he would probably have been thrown over the cliff right then.

Even now, his heart tightened as he recalled that terrifying moment.

"Does it hurt badly?" A warm, gentle voice sounded beside him.

Still dazed, Wen Chi looked up to his side, somewhat surprised. "You..."

"His condition isn't serious. The others are bandaging him." As Qi Feiyu spoke, he prepared to lift Wen Chi's shirt.

"What are you doing!" Wen Chi grabbed his hand.

"Mr. Wen, I'm a doctor." Qi Feiyu waved his medically gloved hand in front of him. "I suspect your chest suffered an impact. I need to examine it carefully."

"Oh." Wen Chi let go in embarrassment, thinking regretfully, It's all this doctor's fault for being so good-looking. I almost got the wrong idea.

He cooperatively lifted his shirt, revealing his well-defined abs and pecs.

But in Qi Feiyu's eyes, he was no different from a pig. He calmly pressed gently around Wen Chi's chest, observing his reactions.

"Tell me if it hurts."

"Mm."

"Does it hurt here?"

"Mm."

"What about here?"

"No."

"Young Master Wen, there's a slight problem with your chest. You'll need a chest X-ray at the hospital, but I don't think it's anything major. Don't be too nervous."

Qi Feiyu reassured him gently, then looked at his legs. "The fragments in your leg and the external injuries need to be dealt with immediately. Rainwater can easily cause inflammation. With rain this heavy, there's no telling when the ambulance will arrive. If you develop a fever, it'll be troublesome."

"Okay."

"Relax your body. Don't put extra strain on your heart." Qi Feiyu looked at the people gathered around him. "You should all step outside first. You're getting in the way of my treatment."

"No! We can't leave Brother Wen alone..."

"Out!"

At Wen Chi's command, the men hunched their shoulders and turned to leave.

Qi Feiyu pulled the transparent curtain beside them across, partitioning off a small ward within the makeshift first-aid station.

Inside the little ward were only Qi Feiyu in his white coat and Wen Chi lying on the bed.

When Li Yi and the others arrived, Qi Feiyu was bent over, concentrating on treating the wound on Wen Chi's thigh.

"Kiddo, I told you it'd be fine. Look, isn't everything perfectly normal?" Peng Yuyan folded his umbrella and put it aside.

"Li Yi?" Lying on the bed, Zhou Xuanze vaguely caught sight of Li Yi and was just feeling happy that he had come to see him.

An instant later, he saw him turn and leave without looking back.

"..."

"Where's Dr. Qi?" Li Yi asked a medical worker at random.

"Dr. Qi is over there." The medical worker pointed him in a direction.

Li Yi hurried over, only to see quite a harmonious scene through the transparent sheeting.

Wen Chi sat propped up on the bed. Though his face was still pale, he was clearly doing better and even had the leisure to study the person in front of him, the corners of his lips lifting almost imperceptibly.

His hand resting on the bed secretly caught the hem of Qi Feiyu's white coat, toying with it out of boredom.

"Hiss!" The fabric slipped from his hand as his whole body tensed in pain, his fingers involuntarily curling.

"Bear with it, it'll be over soon," Qi Feiyu reassured him gently.

"Mm," Wen Chi answered in a muffled voice, his fingers secretly reaching again for the hem of Qi Feiyu's coat lying on the bed.

"Not worried anymore?" Shi Yan had appeared beside Li Yi at some point.

"It's fine now." Li Yi looked away and headed toward the entrance.

What had Wen Chi been doing just now?

Secretly playing with Qi Feiyu's white coat?

Li Yi frowned, but soon relaxed again.

From the look of things now, Qi Feiyu had indeed treated Wen Chi's wounds first. Surely Wen Chi wouldn't let his men retaliate against Qi Feiyu now?

They waited at the first-aid station for quite a while. The rain gradually began to ease, and the ambulances finally arrived after hurrying all the way.

Qi Feiyu helped the medical workers get Wen Chi into an ambulance.

The ambulance driver remarked from the side, "The rain was so heavy today. If you hadn't called emergency services ahead of time, you probably would've had a hard time getting an ambulance. All our hospital's ambulances have been dispatched.

"Some of them are stuck on the roads. There's too much standing water for them to get through.

"Good thing the rain's easing now, or we'd really be in trouble."

"I'll go with the ambulance. You guys head back first." Worried about Wen Chi's injuries, Qi Feiyu insisted on going along.

"Go ahead. We'll take your things back for you," Shi Yan said.

In another ambulance, Zhou Xuanze kept staring toward the door, but never caught sight of Li Yi. He seethed inwardly, feeling his wounds hurt even more.

"Brother Xuanze, do your wounds hurt? I'll blow on them for you." Lu Junjia had also climbed into the ambulance and sat beside him, beside himself with worry.

"Are you family?" the medical worker beside them asked. "Please don't interfere with our work. The patient needs emergency treatment. Please sit to the side for now."

"Oh, okay." Flushing at the reprimand, Lu Junjia hurriedly moved out of the way and sat in the corner, though his eyes remained fixed on Zhou Xuanze.

The ambulances left, and the remaining people prepared to leave too.

"I've got Feiyu's things. Let's go too," Peng Yuyan said. "While the rain's easing, let's hurry home and shower. I'm getting a little cold."

"Mm," Shi Yan answered, looking down at Li Yi. "Let's go."

Li Yi shared a car with Shi Yan again. This time, Shi Yan drove.

There were only the two of them inside the enclosed car.

"You seemed very worried today that Feiyu would get hurt," Shi Yan suddenly said.

"No... I wasn't." Li Yi looked down and picked at his fingers, panicking inside.

"When we were sheltering from the rain in the pavilion, you had Yuyan call him and specifically tell him to treat Wen Chi first. Then you still couldn't rest easy and wanted to go to the first-aid station in the rain."

Shi Yan said unhurriedly, "Ever since you predicted it would rain tonight, your aim seems to have been to keep Feiyu from getting hurt."