At the hospital near the Medical University, Jiao Bai had X-rays taken and the abrasions on his elbows and knees treated. He came out of the clinic with the report and kept looking at Zhang Zhen who was answering the phone.
To patients passing by, this is like a toad wanting to eat swan flesh, which is disgusting.
Jiaobai ignored those glances. He was strolling around the school tonight on purpose. It was the start of school, and Zhang Zhen, who was particularly sentimental about his brother, might come for a stroll. As a result, he actually ran into him.
By now he had gotten over the reunion.
In fact, for Jiaobai, a year is just a blink of an eye. He just saw Zhang Zhen yesterday, and was made to cry by Qi Yilao last night.
Jiao Bai waited until Zhang Zhen hung up the phone before expressing his gratitude: "Sir, thank you for sending me to the hospital."
"Nothing." Zhang Zhen said, "Are you a student at the Medical University?"
Jiaobai nodded and listened to him ask, "How old is it?"
"Junior year." said Jiaobai.
"You're a junior," Zhang Zhen asked casually, "Which department are you from?"
"clinical."
Zhang Zhen was stunned for a moment, then gave a friendly smile: "Then you and my brother are in the same department."
Beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin. Even though she is thin, corroded by drugs and the pain of nostalgia, she is still beautiful. When those peach-shaped eyes look at people, they are misty, gentle and blurred, and there seems to be a bay of spring river water in her eyes.
Jiaobai wanted to hug Zhang Zhen, but he couldn't even lift his arms, just like he was being held by a group of big men. He made a surprised expression: "Sir, your brother is also in the Medical University?" "Yes." Zhang Zhen murmured, and he quickly suppressed his sadness, "Can you go back to school by yourself?"
Jiaobai pursed his lips. So far, except for the idea of hugging Zhang Zhen being forbidden, everything else was fine. This meant that his conversation with Zhang Zhen was in line with Chen Wang's character perspective. He whispered, "It's OK."
Zhang Zhen nodded. Before he took a step, he heard the student's voice in his ear, "Give me your WeChat. I will pay you back the medical expenses as soon as I return to school."
There was no bank card linked to the payment app on Jiaobai's phone. He really had no money to pay for the medical bills, so it was Zhang Zhen who paid for it. This was a great opportunity to get the contact information.
Zhang Zhen was tired and wanted to go back to take medicine and sleep. He waved his hand, his attitude was much more indifferent: "No need."
"Of course not," Jiaobai said seriously, "You weren't the one who hit me. You were kind enough to send me to the hospital, but I can't ask you to pay for the medical expenses. We are not related, and I feel guilty for receiving such a great favor. Please understand."
Jiaobai didn't get banned for his words, so he struck while the iron was hot, bowed to Zhang Zhen, and said sincerely, "If you don't want to have anything to do with a nobody like me, then you can rest assured that I know my own limitations and won't cause you any trouble."
Having said this, the atmosphere has become a little tense.
Zhang Zhen didn't mean that, so he didn't waste time explaining. He just said, "Since you insist on paying it back, add me on WeChat."
Jiaobai successfully got Zhang Zhen’s WeChat.
After Zhang Zhen left, Jiao Bai sat on the chair for a while before getting up. The barrier card assigned to him by the system was an ordinary life, which was not in the same world as the upper class.
How can a small person get in touch with big people? It’s too difficult, there is no chance at all.
Unless the big guys notice the little guys.
Jiaobai rubbed the bruise on his cheek. As long as Zhang Zhen mentioned what happened tonight to Qi Yiliao, given Qi Yiliao's sensitivity, there would definitely be some movement.
Qi Yilao will most likely not reveal himself immediately, but will investigate first, then send people to monitor him, looking for similarities, and if there are none, he will lay bait.
Today is the first day of Jiaobai's rebirth. Tonight he has taken a successful step. The situation is too passive for him. He cannot take the initiative to do anything. The rest can only be left to Qi Yilao.
He wanted Qi Yilao to provide him with an opportunity.
This gives him the opportunity to say what he said before and do what he did before from the perspective of Chen Wang.
This way he won't be banned and can be exposed.
I figured out the tactics of the barrier card right after using it, haha.
When Jiaobai returned to the dormitory, he was greeted by a hot-blooded fight. There were so many places to fight, but he had to do it in such a small place as the dormitory. His suitcase died tragically.
When the two roommates with red faces and thick necks saw him come in, they spat at him and kicked the chair legs. They were like roosters and wanted to do it again.
Jiaobai glanced at the character introduction on the barrier card. He put the medicine in his hand on his desk and bumped into the suitcase with a large dent and a broken wheel. "Who did this?"
The dormitory was filled with a tense atmosphere. The two handsome academic masters packed their things separately, and no one acknowledged them.
"Okay, I've used this box for many years anyway, it's time to replace it." Jiaobai had just finished speaking when he picked up the broken wheel and threw it out.
This behavior is not banned and is consistent with the character's setting.
Chen Wang would not be inferior or cowardly because of his appearance. He has a strong temper, otherwise he would not have become a barrier card for Jiaobai.
The system will not arrange people with very different personalities.
The wheel hit the door of the dormitory, bounced back, and flew to the balcony like a bullet, knocking a plastic bucket to the ground. The guy with a crew cut sitting at the table next to Jiao Bai was shocked: "Fuck, Chen Wang, what are you crazy about! It's just a broken box, I'll compensate you!"
"You should have told me earlier. Thanks." Jiaobai was satisfied.
The guy with the crew cut had a bad temper and started cursing again. He pointed his finger at the young man near the door: "You fucked me on the first day of school? You're sick."
"Who's sick? Aren't you the one looking for trouble first?" The young man straightened the books in his hands and said coldly.
"Am I wrong? That guy took two leave of absences at the beginning of his freshman year. Once he didn't show up on the reporting day, and once he disappeared in the middle of military training. With his broken body, he still went to college. He must be blessed with a bad fate," the crew-haired boy said disdainfully. "You, on the other hand, are you your mother or father? Why are you barking so much?"
Jiaobai had a strange expression on his face. Hearing his own name out of the blue was really...
The two roommates started fighting again.
Jiaobai watched the battlefield spread towards him. As soon as he stood up, he felt a sharp pain in his right eye.
Grass.
Jiaobai covered his eyes, picked up a chair and threw it on the ground: "Stop hitting me!"
There was silence for a second, and then the sound of fighting was heard again.
Jiaobai didn't care. The barrier card revealed that the two were in a relationship of having a crush on one and being crushed on. He just did it. He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself closely. One of his eyes was black.
It's so annoying. You'd better recite some books and calm down.
The dormitory's bathroom facilities were very good, and Jiao Bai took a hot bath. Chen Wang was much shorter than him, and his clothes were seriously ill-fitting. He couldn't buy his own size, which would be considered revealing, so he wore the same clothes he wore before his death. He hadn't changed them since he woke up, and his clothes were all full of the smell of sunken wood from Qi Yilao's cloakroom.
Jiaobai washed several pieces of clothing and hung them on the balcony. In the eyes of his roommates, they were all Chen Wang's clothes. The barrier was amazing.
It was a bit chilly on that September night. Jiaobai sneezed and slipped onto the bed naked. Although he was the only one who could see himself, he still pulled up the quilt to cover his waist. He leaned against the wall to read a book, occasionally turning the pages with one hand and rubbing the tattoo on his ankle with the other hand.
Jiaobai was so engrossed in watching that he didn't notice that the boy in the lower bunk had gone out. A younger student came into the dormitory, and he was none other than the most handsome boy in his class in his previous life.
The school hunk and the playboy are brothers.
"Brother, let's find someone to beat up Huang Heng. I've been here three times and he's been acting weird twice. It's really disgusting."
"Why bother with a idiot?"
"Well, brother, he seems to always be the top student in the class, and he's on the forum."
"… "
"What did you fight about this time?" "He ate shit and his mouth stinks."
“… Tsk.”
When Jiaobai heard the voice, he moved his eyes away from the book and looked down.
The classmate was caught off guard when he saw the ugly face and the red birthmark, and there was clear fear and rejection in his eyes.
Jiaobai smiled nonchalantly and sat back down, continuing to read. From below, he could vaguely hear the department head muttering, "Brother, what's going on? It's been a year, why hasn't Bai returned to school yet?"
"Brother? I'm talking to you about my classmate!"
"I know he will definitely come back to school."
"Why are you so sure?"
"intuition."
"When Bai comes back, I'll tell him that my brother is his fan."
"Stop it."
Jiaobai threw the book away, wiped his face, and rubbed the shallow groove in the middle of his chin with his hand. It seems that Qi Yiliao has left a way out for his return. The outside world doesn't know that he is "dead" and has not revealed it. Instead, he is taking a leave of absence to recuperate.
This is good and saves a lot of trouble. Once the barrier card expires, "Chen Wang" will die and Jiaobai will return to school.
Zhang Zhen went to Qi's company in the morning and was pulled into the tea room by several people from the secretariat to share the melon with him, and it was his own melon.
The scene of him saving a medical student on the roadside last night was filmed and posted online.
In order to attract attention, the marketing account deliberately used controversial titles and content, and made up stories based on pictures, revolving around the difference in appearance between the two people. The comments below were also full of malice, and some were provocative and fanning the flames.
Zhang Zhen didn't care, he just didn't know what the student would think after seeing it, and whether his classmates would talk about it. He took out his cell phone and wanted to contact the other party, but then he thought they were not familiar with each other, so he gave up.
"My dear Zhen Meiren, a company has been involved in trouble and is trying to bring the topic back to our Qi Group." An assistant said angrily.
Others also came over to watch and made various comments.
"We should take the cold approach?"
"Leave it to the public relations department. We need to give a heads up to the chairman, right?"
They all turned their heads towards Zhang Zhen.
Zhang Zhen quickly went to report to his third brother: "I saved a student last night, and was photographed and used."
"The public relations department will handle it. It's not a big deal." Qi Yiliao was fiddling with the pendant on his keychain. There were dark circles under his eyes. He didn't sleep last night.
"Then I'll go make some sugar water for Third Brother," Zhang Zhen turned around and walked out, muttering to himself, "I was planning to ask in the car last night, but I got out of the car because of what Bai Bai said to me before he died."
The sound of an office chair being thrown away came from behind him. He turned around and saw his third brother striding towards him, his aura like a whirlpool.
"Third brother, you..."
Qi Yiliao grabbed Zhang Zhen's arm and said, "Say it again."
The muscles on Zhang Zhen's arm where he was grabbed tensed up, a defensive reaction. He exclaimed, "Ah?"
"I got off the car because I remembered what Bai Bai said?" Zhang Zhen said uncertainly, and he gripped him more tightly. His whole arm felt sore and weak, but he resisted the urge to fight back.
Qi Yiliao let go of Zhang Zhen's arm, and his voice was filled with unspeakable restraint: "Well, what else did he say?"
"Besides asking me to keep my goodwill, there is also..." Zhang Zhen tried to search for the corresponding memory fragments, but found that everything was blurry. The more anxious he became, the stronger his sense of powerlessness became. "It's gone. I don't remember it."
The air in the office seemed to be squeezed and sucked away, making it suffocating.
Qi Yiliao suddenly chuckled and said gently, "Azhen, think about it again. When did he say that? Don't be anxious. Think about it slowly."
Zhang Zhen held his head and hit it violently a few times. He walked back and forth, biting the corner of his lip and bleeding: "It seems to be the afternoon before the accident... I don't remember the exact time..."
Qi Yilao's throat tightened. During that time last year, he fell asleep on Xiaobai. Then he regained his memory and saw Baibai hang up the phone.
The call was made to Azhen.
Qi Yiliao went to his desk, lit a cigarette, took two puffs without restraint, and the bitter taste of nicotine filled his mouth: "Why didn't you tell me that he called you before the accident all year long?"
Zhang Zhen was confused. What was behind those words? Was it related to Bai Bai's death? He looked at his third brother's extremely dark eyes and said truthfully, "It's strange. I seemed to have forgotten it, but I suddenly remembered it."
"It was last night," Zhang Zhen wiped the blood from his lips, "I saw the student being hit, and wanted to roll down the window to ask a few questions. At that moment, I seemed to hear Bai Bai's voice faintly in my ears. I remembered that he asked me to keep my kindness, and then I got out of the car."
The cigarette fell on the document and burned a hole. Qi Yiliao said hoarsely, "Give me the information of that student."