The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

Zhu Tong was also frightened by his sudden movement, and subconsciously wanted to back away.

“Don’t move,” Shao Ming said suddenly.

His voice was very soft. He definitely didn’t want to hurt him. 

Gradually, Zhu Tong relaxed, but he was still silent. 

He couldn’t move anymore, there was a wall behind him. Shao Ming had already held his ankle and moved it slightly.

Zhu Tong reflexively tried to move his legs, but the sharp jolt of pain prevented it from actually moving. 

Shao Ming paused, raised his head and said, “Does it hurt?” 

“…”

The taller teenager was definitely trying to calm him down, but he still looked very intimidating. Looking directly into his eyes, Zhu Tong was stunned for a moment, then nodded honestly, “It hurts.”

Shao Ming immediately got up and said, “Let’s go to the hospital.”

Beyond this private bubble between these two, the others were watching in rapt attention. Luo Suo was dumbfoundedly watching Shao Ming squatting down to see Zhu Tong’s injured feet.

It was astonishing, for sure. But at the same time, he felt that this scene was very beautiful! 

–But also a little weird. 

Seeing their opponents standing up, Luo Suo quickly came back to his senses, and hurriedly said, “Ming-ge, what should we do?” 

Shao Ming seemed to think of something. He turned to look at Yuan Shaozhou who was being helped by his cronies, and was currently tidying his hair in embarrassment. His lips curled up in a mocking smile, and his voice was dripping with sarcasm, “Oh, is Young Master Yuan asking for another beating?”

Yuan Shaozhou: “…”

“Now, now, go to the boss and settle the compensation. It’s not easy for a small business.”

–And the police were coming soon.

The restaurant owner was already trembling outside the private room. Hearing Shao Ming’s righteous words, he wasn’t moved… or more accurately, he was too scared to move. 

Yuan Shaozhou stared at Shao Ming, feeling the injury on his back. With gritted teeth, he yelled, “You will regret this!”

Shao Ming gave him a meaningful smile. 

As Zhu Tong was helped out of the restaurant by Shao Ming, he looked back. Luo Suo said that this restaurant was new, right? Such a newly-opened store, and it already had to suffer through this kind of disaster.

Being a business owner must be hard. 

Zhu Tong inwardly promised to ask Uncle Liu to give the owner compensation later.

In this regard, the shop owner received three compensations after this matter finished. At that time, he inexplicably said to himself: ‘Will these guys fight again? Maybe I should give them a venue to duke it out…’ 

Of course, Young Master Zhu wouldn’t know about this.

Hospital, orthopedic clinic.

A young female doctor who wore glasses was holding a “freshly baked” X-ray in her hand, looking thoughtfully at the two people sitting across from her.

“Aren’t you just here a few days ago?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Less than a month after school started, this young master has entered the hospital for the second time.

–And had to be attended by the same doctor.

Such an amazing coincidence. 

Reluctantly, Zhu Tong nodded. He actually thought that this happenstance was a bit hilarious, in hindsight. 

Shao Ming helplessly said, “Doctor, how is his condition?”

The doctor looked at Zhu Tong’s leg and said, “Extend your leg, let me have a look.”

Zhu Tong stretched out his leg as she said.

His pants were rolled up, showing his swollen and bruised ankle. It formed a sharp contrast to his jade-like skin, and it looked like it hurt. 

Shao Ming’s eyes subconsciously darkened.

The doctor observed it for a moment, then looked at the X-ray result in her hand. “Your soft tissue and ligament is injured, but it’s not serious. Your bones are fine, thankfully. Minimize the time you spend walking. You can take some topical medicine to reduce the pain and swelling. After the bruises disappear, it should be normal again.” 

“…”

The doctor looked up at Shao Ming, saying, “By the way, you two are classmates, right?”

Shao Ming nodded, “We are deskmates too.” 

“Then your deskmate is very good to you,” The doctor said to Zhu Tong as she motioned him to put his leg back down. With a smile, she continued, “Didn’t he accompany you last time when you came for a checkup?”

Zhu Tong: “…Yes.”

He side-eyed the taller boy next to him. Obviously the doctor was just stating the facts, but he always felt that these words had a hidden meaning.

He looked around again, changed the subject and said, “Where’s Luo Suo?” 

He hasn’t heard of him ever since he arrived at the hospital.

Shao Ming replied, “He went back to school.”

Zhu Tong: “…Oh.”

Suddenly, he remembered that neither Shao Ming nor Luo Suo was obliged to accompany him to the hospital. Thinking about it this way, Shao Ming really treated him well. 

‘But why doesn’t the favorability bar move… huh?’

The system interface popped up suddenly, and Zhu Tong stared at the numbers on it in a daze.

15%.

‘When did it rise?’

System: ‘When you kicked someone.’

Zhu Tong: ‘But why is there no notification?’ 

System: ‘Because you are busy kicking someone.’

Zhu Tong: “…”

…Why did kicking cause the favorability bar to move up?

‘Is my posture very handsome when I kick them?’

The system quietly replied, ‘Well, you do look handsome when you sprained your ankle.’ 

Zhu Tong couldn’t think of a rebuttal to that. 

The doctor finished writing down her diagnosis and filled out Zhu Tong’s form. She handed it over to Zhu Tong, saying, “After you go back, pay more attention to rest. Actually, please be more careful with your health at all times. Your body is like a fragile glass bottle, honestly. That’s all, go get the medicine.” 

Zhu Tong responded and stretched out his hand. Before he could take the papers, the doctor withdrew her hand.

“Forget it, let your classmate help you get it. Since you two are deskmates, you should take care of him these two days and try to keep him from moving around as much as possible.”

“…”

Zhu Tong turned his head and wanted to say something, but Shao Ming had already accepted the medicine list with a smile, “Okay, I will take good care of him.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

He doesn’t need to be taken care of!

He was used to staying in the hospital, but why was this the first time someone made such a fuss? 

It’s just a sprained foot, no big deal!

While Shao Ming went to get the medicine, Zhu Tong stood up domineeringly on the chair, intending to walk out of the hospital gate by himself, but as soon as his injured foot stepped on the ground, he froze and almost burst into tears.

‘How can it hurt so much!’

He sat back down again.

When Shao Ming came back from taking the medicine, he saw a certain sickly young master sitting quietly like an obedient little chicken. 

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the young master looked up towards him.

The grievance in the eyes was about to overflow.

Shao Ming’s heart softened, and he walked over and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Tong looked at him and said nothing. He felt very useless.

Shao Ming sat down beside him, looked at him and asked again, “It hurts?”

This time, Zhu Tong responded with a nod. 

Shao Ming glanced at his feet. “I asked someone to give me an ice pack for you. Compress it first.” 

As he spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand, and Zhu Tong subconsciously stopped him, “I’ll do it myself…”

Before he could finish speaking, Shao Ming already got his leg up. He propped it up on his lap. 

Zhu Tong’s heart skipped a beat for no reason, and he looked up at the teenager who wordlessly rolled up his pants’ hem. 

Shao Ming didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with putting someone else’s foot on his own lap. With an ice pack in his hand, he directly stuck it to Zhu Tong’s swollen ankle.

Zhu Tong shrank his feet subconsciously, but a strong hand grabbed his ankle.

Shao Ming ordered, “Don’t move around, with this cold compress it will heal quickly.”

“…”

The ankle was imprisoned, and Zhu Tong didn’t dare to move.

The ice pack on the ankle was bitingly cold, but the palm on the ankle was warm. This contrast of temperature somehow made his heart ache. 

Even when his family doctor gave him a full body examination, he never let the doctor touch his body directly.

But now he put his leg on Shao Ming’s lap, and his ankle was still held in his hand. This skin-to-skin contact felt somewhat wonderful. His body, however, didn’t reflect his feelings. It was still slightly stiff, and his back was straight against the chair’s backrest. 

Suddenly, Shao Ming asked, “Does it feel better now?” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

It might be numb from the cold, or it might be really relieved. All in all though, it was no longer painful. Zhu Tong’s eyes lit up, “It’s better.”

Shao Ming glanced at him, continued to apply ice to him, and casually said, “Are you afraid of pain?” 

Zhu Tong didn’t respond at first. In his mind, nobody was unafraid of pain, so it wasn’t shameful in admitting it. In the end, he honestly nodded. 

Shao Ming smiled again. “And yet, you didn’t run away despite being afraid of pain? Or you can’t run this time also?” 

That time when he was faced with a bunch of gangsters also ended up in Zhu Tong not running away. At that time, it was because Zhu Tong honestly thought he wouldn’t be able to outrun time.

But what about this time? 

The purpose of Yuan Shaozhou and his lackeys was obviously not Zhu Tong. When the two sides fought, he could completely leave the room.

Zhu Tong didn’t know why Shao Ming said this, so he told the truth, “I didn’t want to run away this time.”

Shao Ming was startled, raised his eyebrows and asked, “Why?”

Faced with this question, even Zhu Tong himself didn’t know the answer. 

–Was it because it’s the right thing to do? Was it because he wanted to raise his favorability? 

…Both reasons don’t seem to be the answer. 

Zhu Tong thought for a while but couldn’t figure it out. In the end, he could only say as he frowned, “I don’t know why, I just don’t want to run away.”

Shao Ming: “…”

It was the first time he heard such a sincere answer. He couldn’t help laughing out loud.

The laughter confused Zhu Tong. “What are you laughing at?”

“I don’t know, I just want to laugh.”

‘Is this revenge, then? But I really don’t know.’

–In fact, Shao Ming laughed because he was just amused by the answer. He actually didn’t care much about the reason. 

This laugh wasn’t the polite laugh he did when socializing, or a sarcastic one when he was about to give others a beat-down. But it’s also not a purely genuine laugh when he was in a good mood. 

He pursed his lower lip and continued to apply ice for a while. He waited for Luo Suo to call before collecting the ice pack.

“Let’s go, deskmate.”

Just as Zhu Tong put his leg down, the taller boy lifted his right arm again. He raised his head to see Shao Ming’s strange movement and asked, “What are you doing?”

Shao Ming, seeing Zhu Tong looking at him with a blank face, only smiled while saying, “Do you want to jump back to school by yourself?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

The injured right foot could barely step on the ground. It’s a foregone conclusion that he needed help in limping out of the hospital. 

At the hospital’s entrance, he saw Luo Suo. He brought a bicycle with him. Most importantly, that bicycle looked very familiar.

“Isn’t that…” 

Before he finished speaking, he had already realized it.

‘Shao Ming said that Luo Suo went back to school, so he actually went back to pick up his bike?’

The moment Luo Suo noticed them, he went over while pushing the bike. “What did the doctor say? Is your foot okay?” 

Zhu Tong subconsciously shook his head and said, “It’s okay.”

“It’s fine? Great,” Luo Suo breathed a sigh of relief, “Then let’s go.”

Shao Ming had already hopped on the bicycle and gestured to Zhu Tong to sit in the back seat. 

However, the shorter boy only stared at the seat. His voice suggested that he was genuinely astonished, “You will drive me over?” 

As for the response, Shao Ming pointedly looked at Zhu Tong’s injured leg before asking, “Otherwise?”

Zhu Tong looked at him, hesitated for a moment and said in a small voice, “Didn’t you say last time… that you will only do this once?” 

Shao Ming was stunned, as if he didn’t remember when he said this.

Zhu Tong gracefully reminded him: “When you sent me back to the hotel last time…”

Shao Ming: “…”

‘…I remembered.’

As a manly man, the spilled water cannot be taken bac1— nope. Bullshit! 

Before Luo Suo had the chance to be nosy, Shao Ming calmly denied, “At that time, I’m only talking nonsense. Now sit.” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

It was already night when they arrived at school. The street lights were on, its shadows blurred as a bicycle sped under one lamp to another. Its warm yellow light cast a glow over the two teenagers’ faces, flickering and dancing. 

The bicycle drove straight into the school gate without hindrance.

Inside the school, the 1st Year students of Class 1 had just finished their information technology class and were about to go back to the classroom.

Xia Yang came out of the corridor surrounded by people.

“By the way, Xia Yang, what did you do in computer class at school before?”

“I know you’ve learned more, right? Tell us, tell us!” 

“I really envy you, you can go to such a good school.”

“…”

Voices of envy enveloped him, but it only fueled Xia Yang’s happiness. Patiently, he answered them all with a smile. 

Not far away, a bicycle slid towards the direction of the No. 2 teaching building, passing them by.

One of the students had a particularly sharp pair of eyes. The moment they caught on this, they inadvertently let out a “huh”.

“Isn’t that Shao Ming and Zhu Tong?”

basically, he said that as a manly man, he cannot go back on his word.