Qin Tiancheng looked at the person sitting next to him on the sofa, covering their swollen panda eyes, and felt a headache coming on.
Jiang Bei shot Qin Tiancheng a look. "Are you my brother or not? Huh? I got beaten up, and you didn't even try to stop it? Besides, wasn't his leg crippled? Why can he still hit me?"
Qin Tiancheng chuckled twice, seriously suspecting if Jiang Bei had some kind of flaw in his Intelligence Quotient.
As expected, Luo Zhaoyao spoke up, "My leg might be crippled, but my hands aren't. Dealing with you is still not a big problem."
Jiang Bei gave a dry laugh.
That was true.
"Alright, enough joking. What's the meaning of this? Luo Zhaoyao, are you really planning to retire?"
What kind of storms haven't these few brothers experienced? Yet, Luo Zhaoyao was going to retire. As soon as he got the news, he rushed over, afraid that Luo Zhaoyao had already submitted his Application, and if some Brain-farting Moment happened upstairs, they would surely approve it.
Luo Zhaoyao nodded.
"Retiring sooner or later, what's the difference between retiring early or late?"
Jiang Bei roared, "Nonsense! The difference is huge. If you retire at this stage, what kind of good Allocation will you get? Wait a few more years until you reach Old Huang's position before retiring, what rank will that be?"
Luo Zhaoyao was amused by Jiang Bei.
"What do you take me for? Old Huang's position? You really dare to think that high."
Jiang Bei gave a dry laugh.
It was just a metaphor.
He scratched the back of his head. "In short, what I mean is, don't retire. You're already resting for half a year anyway, will your leg really not get better? Qin Tiancheng, did you not treat him properly?"
Qin Tiancheng clenched his fists, wishing he could give Jiang Bei another punch in the eye. This guy was so rough and crude, why didn't he use his brain?
Luo Zhaoyao knew Qin Tiancheng wouldn't do that, and Jiang Bei wasn't truly trying to push the blame onto Qin Tiancheng.
"You two calm down. Speaking of which, Jiang Bei, why did you come over?"
Jiang Bei leaned close to Luo Zhaoyao. "Tell me first, were you forced by some girl?"
Luo Zhaoyao thought giving Jiang Bei another panda eye wouldn't be bad, clenched his fist, and was about to strike his remaining eye.
This time, Jiang Bei was mentally prepared and certainly didn't get hit, immediately stepping back a few paces to dodge.
He held his Shoulder and said very seriously, "It seems it's true."
After saying that, he let out a sly laugh. "Luo Zhaoyao, you have a day like this too? Which girl was so fierce? I need to see her."
Luo Zhaoyao pointed towards the door and said, "Turn left outside. Good riddance!"
Jiang Bei burst out laughing.
He threw an arm around Qin Tiancheng's Shoulder, looking like the best of buddies, and said, "Who is it? Is it one of the girls I know?"
Qin Tiancheng slapped the hand off his Shoulder. Knowing Jiang Bei wasn't very bright, he couldn't be bothered to argue.
"The girls you know, do you think they would know about this place?"
After saying this, Jiang Bei froze, then realized.
That was true.
Very few people knew that Luo Zhaoyao came to Luo Chaoyang's place to recuperate. If it weren't for his huge Contribution this time, shamelessly acting spoiled and cute to Old Huang, he wouldn't have known either.
He frowned as he looked at Luo Zhaoyao.
"Don't tell me you two tricked some girl into coming here?"
Luo Zhaoyao simply turned around, maneuvering his Wheelchair toward the room to rest, too lazy to deal with the slow-witted Jiang Bei.
Jiang Bei ignored Luo Zhaoyao and focused on Qin Tiancheng.
Compared to the tight-lipped Luo Zhaoyao, he really couldn't get anything out of him, but Qin Tiancheng was different; he was a chatterbox and couldn't keep quiet for long.
Luo Zhaoyao lay on the bed, thinking about what Tang Ruanruan had done today.
She was a bold and interesting little rabbit.
She was clearly very scared, yet she pretended not to care.
And her eyes when she looked at him—crystal clear, utterly pure, with only him reflected in them.
Any Man would probably find it hard not to be moved by those eyes.
He didn't care about the Honey Trap, but he was completely captivated by those eyes. However, he couldn't; the little rabbit wanted to marry her Cousin, not him, and he was a cripple.
He closed his eyes, suppressing all the turmoil. He would sleep, and when he woke up, none of this would matter anymore.
The next morning, Luo Zhaoyao was awakened by Jiang Bei's booming shouts.
He instinctively tried to get out of bed to kick the person, but only when he almost fell to the floor did he remember that his legs still had no feeling.
He slumped back onto the bed, taking a long time to recover. Sometimes he didn't want to accept fate, but reality forced him to.
After a long while, he managed to grab the Bed board and use the strength in his arms to move himself into the Wheelchair. Only then did he start getting ready. When he went out, he saw Jiang Bei and Aunt Huang talking over there.
They all knew Aunt Huang, as she doted on Luo Zhaoyao especially.
"Aunt Huang, if he's too noisy, just hit Jiang Bei."
Qin Tiancheng stuffed a Steamed Bun into his mouth, not forgetting to stir up trouble.
Jiang Bei cursed, "Aunt Huang, this kid is the loudest one! His mouth never stops moving. He's a chatterbox. I pity his future Wife; won't she be driven crazy by him?"
Aunt Huang just smiled. Seeing Luo Zhaoyao up, she placed breakfast next to him.
"Xiao Yao, I made chive and egg Steamed Buns today. Try them and tell me how they are."
Luo Zhaoyao didn't want to eat a single bite. Ever since his leg injury, he had been extremely repulsed by food.
Even though everyone cherished Grain now, wishing they could stuff all the Grain into their mouths, Luo Zhaoyao suffered from Anorexia.
Aunt Huang saw his almost expressionless face and knew the child was having an episode again.
"Then what do you want to eat? Tell Aunt Huang, and I'll go make it!"
Aunt Huang was genuinely afraid something would happen to him alone.
Luo Zhaoyao picked up a Steamed Bun instead. "Aunt Huang, don't trouble yourself. One Steamed Bun is enough for me."
Qin Tiancheng and Jiang Bei stopped what they were doing and looked at Luo Zhaoyao.
They knew about his Anorexia flaw. Every time he finished an Execute mission, he would be like this. Fortunately, during the mission, he would force himself to eat.
This was also what worried Jiang Bei and Qin Tiancheng. If it were before, they would immediately assign him a mission, and he would force himself to eat. But now that his leg was completely numb, there was no mission to think about, so his Anorexia became a major problem.
Aunt Huang was about to feel happy seeing Luo Zhaoyao eating the Steamed Bun bite by bite, but then she saw him quickly unable to hold it in and start vomiting into the nearby trash can.
Jiang Bei and Qin Tiancheng were very worried.
Aunt Huang even more so.
Luo Zhaoyao knew his Anorexia had worsened; he couldn't even endure it for a short while.
"That's not right. He could eat the Chicken soup and fish soup that girl brought, and he didn't throw that up."
Qin Tiancheng slapped his thigh and said.
Aunt Huang was overjoyed and turned to run outside to find the person across the way, but just as she reached the door, she saw Tang Ruanruan approaching, holding a Lunchbox and preparing to knock.
When Tang Ruanruan saw Aunt Huang, she thought she was Luo Zhaoyao's family and was scared into running, but Aunt Huang stepped forward and said, "Girl, you're here to see Xiao Yao, right? Perfect, hurry inside, he's home!"
Her gaze was eagerly intense, somewhat frightening, especially as she looked at the Lunchbox in Tang Ruanruan's hand.
Tang Ruanruan said "Oh," and was foolishly pushed into the courtyard, where she met Luo Zhaoyao's gaze as he sat stiffly on the other side.
"Have you eaten?"