Lu Zhou was startled by her sudden movement, but although he was blocked outside the bathroom door, he had just noticed that half of her face was not right, so he frowned and knocked on the door.

  "Liuyi, what's wrong with your face?"

  Qin sister said she didn't go out today and almost didn't eat lunch. He rushed back as soon as the meeting was over.

  Xu Liu covered her face and hid in the bathroom, pacing back and forth irritably. When she heard him ask that way, her heart almost fainted. He came up and asked what was wrong with her face right away, definitely noticing something was off. Damn it, he didn't come back early or late, but at this exact moment. If he had come back a little later, she could have still hidden in school.

  She looked at herself in the mirror again with a sullen expression, then sat down on the toilet with her face buried, completely disfigured. This was a devastating blow to her who had always been extremely particular about her image. She felt terrified and unable to see anyone, let alone him.

  You call him an outsider, seeing her in this stupid state... She thinks about it and feels like collapsing, this is really damaging to her image! Because she doesn't love him, so she always treats him as an outsider, even though they've had such a close relationship before.

  "What's wrong with you? Open the door and let me see!"

  His voice continued to echo outside, she felt increasingly annoyed, and the toothache at the root of her teeth was even more piercing, aching all the way to her ears and extending to her temples.

  "Xǔ Liú Yī!"

  He shouted her name loudly again, and she knew she couldn't hide anymore, covering her face and walking out with a stiff neck.

  She remembered a sentence she had seen somewhere, which said that when a woman exposes all her foolish faces to a man, the only options are either to marry him or kill him.

  It just fits her mood at this time, feeling extremely resentful and wanting to kill someone. Later, she thought that since she had already married him, there was no need to kill him.

  He opened the door and went out. He pulled down her hands covering her face with a gloomy expression, and after seeing her swollen cheek, he angrily threw two words at her:

  "Nonsense!"

  Then he grabbed her and went out, she didn't dare to open her mouth and speak loudly, so she followed behind him humming.

  "I don't want to go to the hospital!"

  He turned around and glared at her fiercely.

  "Your face is so swollen and you still don't go to the hospital!"

  She was stared at by him with some fear, lowering her head and muttering.

  "Even going to the hospital was no use..."

  She knew the taste of this toothache, which was incurable and had to wait until the pain passed before it got better, and could only endure it.

  In the end, she was still stuffed into the car and taken to the hospital by him. Once he had made up his mind, no one could change it. She sat in the car, wincing in pain, almost curling up on the seat. He turned around and looked at her with a faint smile, saying

  "Xu Liu Mei, I really wish I were your wisdom tooth... at least when you're in pain, I'd be aching too!"

  There was a hint of self-mockery, a hint of helplessness, and a hint of sorrow in his tone. As soon as Xu Liuwen heard it, her eyes suddenly felt hot for no reason, she buried her head in her arms and blinked hard, not letting those inexplicable tears fall.

  Still in the hospital of Tang Yuhans, after the dentist's examination, he said that her wisdom tooth was too stubborn, it had been growing for two or three years and only a little head came out. The best solution is to pull it out, so that it will not hurt again. However, even if you want to pull it out, you have to wait until the current inflammation subsides before pulling it out. In other words, she has to continue hurting like this.

  Moreover, the dentist also said that the other wisdom tooth on her side had signs of inflammation and it would be best to pull them out together. He listened and nodded solemnly.

  "Then wait for a few more days until the inflammation subsides and take them all out together!"

  "I won't pluck them! Since they grow on my body, they must have a value for existing!"

  She didn't know what was wrong with her either, but as soon as she heard that they were going to be pulled out, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart and couldn't bear to part with them.

  The dentist said to him very seriously,

  "Miss Xu, wisdom teeth are the last to grow but the first to fall among all our teeth. If they behave themselves, it's fine, but for someone like you with such severe inflammation, torturing people to death, there's no point in keeping them!"

  "But once I pull them out, I'll never be able to have them again..."

  She lowered her eyes and muttered to herself, as if something was tearing inside her heart.

  She's been too sensitive lately, how can she think of Chen Qingchu with just one wisdom tooth? She thinks that Chen Qingchu is like her wisdom tooth, knowing that its existence has no value anymore, yet it still tortures her every day, but she can't bear to part with the days when they belonged to her, and the days when she relied on them.

  A cold voice echoed in his ear,

  "You can't bear to part with others, but others may not necessarily feel the same way about you. They might have already moved on and found someone else they love!"

  She blankly raised her head to look at him, then pursed her lips and lowered her eyes, no longer speaking. His words had a hidden meaning that she could hear, but even though he said it so bluntly, she still refused to believe that her Qingchu would have someone else.

  She thought that she was stubbornly holding on to those sweet past memories and others would do the same. Even after she became someone else's woman, she never wavered for a moment.

  The dentist looked at the two people with their respective strange expressions, chuckled and broke the silence to hand over a prescription, "Miss Xu, you now have such severe inflammation, I suggest you get an intravenous drip to reduce inflammation and relieve pain, this way it will be more effective than taking medicine!"

  She hadn't even had a chance to express her opinion when he had already made the decision for her, taking the prescription from the dentist's hand and turning around to walk out.

  The prescription says to infuse the medicine for one hour every day, for three consecutive days. If the pain is gone after three days, then no more infusion is needed; if not, it will continue. Anyway, they even set up a separate room for her and gave her an IV drip, looks like there are some connections in this hospital, what good treatment indeed.

  After hanging up the water, the nurse left. For a while, the large ward was left with only two people, she and him. He pulled over a chair to sit beside her bed, she covered her face and glanced at him before awkwardly looking away. She had already lost her beauty, yet he still sat so close to her, wasn't that making her feel uneasy?

  "Alright, stop covering it, aren't your hands tired from holding them up?"

  He said helplessly to her.

  Since the swelling on that side of her face, except for the time when the dentist examined her just now, she had been covering that side of her face with her hand. Hearing him say this, she couldn't help but turn around and glare at him, covering it even tighter.

  He was amused by her childish behavior, but his tone was extremely serious.

  "Even if your face is swollen on that side, I still think you're the most beautiful!"

  Xu Liu's face suddenly turned crimson, she didn't think that even though she was so embarrassed, he was still teasing her. The crystal clear eyes instantly had a small flame of anger burning brightly, making her eyes look even more spirited.

  He didn't mind her glare, and instead stared at her with piercing eyes. Before long, she couldn't hold out anymore, gritting her teeth to squeeze out a few words.

  "You must be very busy at your company, why don't you go first, I'll finish up here and take a taxi back myself!"

  He raised an eyebrow.

  "No matter how busy I am, I can always spare an hour to be with you!"

  He said it as naturally as possible, she looked at his firm eyebrows and suddenly remembered Chen Qingchu's hurried hang-up call, her heart couldn't help but sigh for a long time, lowering her eyes and no longer speaking.

  An hour's time, saying long is not long, but for Xu Liuwei, who has to endure toothache and his gaze, it's like a year. Perhaps he sensed her awkwardness and boredom, he took out his phone and handed it to her.

  She took a glance at his latest trendy phone, looked up at him with some confusion, and his slender fingers slid across the keyboard to unlock it.

  "Take this thing, you can surf the internet and chat!"

  Her mobile phone was an older model that could only make calls and send texts, so when she was bored, there was no way to pass the time. She pressed it for a while and then said,

  "Just take a look, Xia Wei Liang isn't writing online? What's her pen name, I'll find it for you!"

  Xu Liu thought of Xia Wei Liang saying he wanted to write their story, and was so scared that he snatched his phone away, muttering a few words from between his teeth.

  "No need, her style isn't what I like, I'll just look at others!"

  After snatching it over, I felt embarrassed again.

  "What were you doing while I was playing with your phone?"

  "I've had enough of you!"

  He gazed at her with a deep and mysterious look, his mouth curled up in a smile, she almost vomited blood, and threw the phone back to him.

  "Never mind!"

  He chuckled and stuffed it back into her hand, pulling out another phone from his pocket.

  "You play with it, I'll use another phone to make a call!"

  Then he got up and walked out.

  Let's update one chapter today and add another one tomorrow.

  Happy Dragon Boat Festival!