Chapter 152: 152

152 "Go on, touch me again!"

However, what Tushan Jiu said was still that reasonable, and Wang Dongqing couldn't refute it.

Tushan Jiu answered Lin Xiu'er's earlier question: 「Today is only the second day since we started; yesterday I borrowed two sets, today my luck is good, so I borrowed a few more. 」

Lin Xiu'er nodded. 「I remember you guys don't seem to look at the quantity either, just like we, the Lofty Heavens Sect, when we open the altar for rituals each year, it's always those fixed days. 」

「We're the same, we only hold rituals on those fixed festivals, but our rites are all proper and quite elaborate. 」

Lin Xiu'er gave him a sideways glance. 「What, our Divine Heavens Sect isn't proper? 」

Zhou Yilan from the reception desk also asked: 「Is our Numinous Treasure Sect not proper? 」

A passing male staff member also interjected: 「I'm from the Pure Radiance Sect, and I think we're also proper. 」

Wang Dongqing went numb.

Today he went out to check the calendar.

But the calendar didn't tell him to keep his mouth shut at home!

Seeing Wang Dongqing's awkward look, Tushan Jiu couldn't hold back, burst out laughing, her shoulders trembling.

Lin Xiu'er was the same; her smiling face showed less fatigue.

Finally Wang Dongqing ran off; coincidentally, his next order was from Southern University. He rode out the back door of the office and arrived in a flash—very convenient.

Meanwhile.

Southern University male dormitory.

A male student lay weakly on the bed.

His face was deathly pale; even wrapped in a thick blanket, his whole body was still trembling.

Xie Jingting sat on the chair opposite the bed, glancing at the delivery location on his phone.

He turned the chair and said to the male student opposite who was about to close his eyes:

「Big bro, I ordered you congee; it'll be here in about twenty minutes. You haven't eaten anything since yesterday, and Second Bro said the doctor told you to eat even if you have no appetite, otherwise it'll get worse. 」

The male student spoke, his voice hoarse and unpleasant: 「Little youngest, I'm really not hungry, I don't want to eat, and I feel like vomiting. 」

Hearing his voice, Xie Jingting couldn't help but frown: 「You'd better stop talking—you have to eat even if you don't want to. 」

The male student felt awful and let out a grunt.

Xie Jingting got up to pour hot water and asked: 「Isn't it? Didn't you eat something unclean yesterday? You vomited all night, still vomiting this morning, now you're fine but suddenly ran a high fever—yet the hospital tests said there's nothing wrong? 」

After saying that, he then doubted himself, muttering: 「No, that's not right—I was in the dorm yesterday, and we ate the same things. 」

He wondered while carefully thinking about what else Yao Liang had come into contact with besides the food they shared.

But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of anything.

However, he did think of something else: these past few days Yao Liang kept saying he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.

Just the day before, Second Bro brought back a pack of stinky tofu from outside, and Yao Liang, who usually loves it, immediately spat it out.

Third Bro joked, saying he couldn't be pregnant, could he?

Just joking—how could a big man possibly get pregnant?

「Ugh... vomit~」 Yao Liang rolled out of bed, covered his mouth, and staggered toward the bathroom.

Actually, he couldn't vomit anything anymore because he hadn't eaten anything at all.

Xie Jingting quickly grabbed a bottle of water, went to the washroom, and handed it to Yao Liang, who had just straightened up: 「Big bro, drink some water and rinse your mouth. 」

Yao Liang turned on the tap with one hand and reached for the water in Xie Jingting's hand with the other.

Result: he missed the bottle and instead touched Xie Jingting's hand.

Instantly, Yao Liang felt all his discomfort disappear!

His stomach stopped churning, he wasn't cold anymore, and his headache vanished.

Yao Liang thought he was better, so he reached for the water in Xie Jingting's hand.

But as soon as he took the water, all those uncomfortable feelings surged back.

「Vomit~ vomit~」

Xie Jingting was about to step forward to pat his back when his phone rang in his pocket.

He pulled it out and saw it was an unknown number.

He answered, and with his other hand idly soothing Yao Liang, he said: 「Hello. 」

「Hello, your delivery has arrived; the pickup locker downstairs in the dorm is full. I'm downstairs in your dorm building—please come down to get it. 」

「That fast? 」 He had just seen it would take twenty minutes, but less than two minutes have passed!

「Uh... maybe there's a bug. I'm waiting downstairs—please come down now to get it, I'll wait for you. 」

Xie Jingting hung up, turned to Yao Liang, and said: 「Big bro, the delivery's here; I'll go downstairs to get it. Drink some water and rest. 」

Yao Liang stared intently at Xie Jingting's hand as he tried to pull it back.

That wasn't an illusion just now!

Xie Jingting was about to leave when Yao Liang hurriedly called out: 「Little youngest, wait a moment! 」

「Huh? What's up? 」 Xie Jingting looked at him, puzzled.

Yao Liang: 「Touch me again! 」

Xie Jingting stared wide-eyed in shock, instinctively stepping back two steps: 「Old... big bro, I, you, this... isn't appropriate? 」

Yao Liang, already deathly pale, gave Xie Jingting the strongest eye-roll he could manage and said: 「Little youngest, I'm straighter than steel—I have a girlfriend. 」

Xie Jingting thought, and indeed, Yao Liang has a girlfriend, one he struggled hard to win, and their relationship is great.

「Then why do you want me to touch you? 」 Xie Jingting's gaze was as clear as it was foolish.

Yao Liang leaned on the washbasin, weakly explaining: 「I know this sounds crazy, but when you touched me just now, I really did feel better; the moment you pulled your hand away, I started wanting to vomit again. 」

Xie Jingting pressed his lips together, silent, scrutinizing Yao Liang from head to toe, frowning.

Not to mention Xie Jingting, even he himself felt it was absurd.

"Forget it, just pretend I......"

"Wait a moment!" Xie Jingting stepped forward and placed his hand on his arm.

Sure enough, Yao Liang's complexion visibly returned to normal, and his furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Xie Jingting then withdrew his hand.

Yao Liang's face instantly lost color again, and his expression turned painful.

Xie Jingting found it miraculous.

When he placed his hand on, the person became full of energy; when he withdrew his hand, the person grew weak and sickly.

Again he placed it on, again he took it away.

Once more he placed it on, once more he took it away.

Yao Liang: "......"

Two minutes later, the two linked arms and went downstairs.

Downstairs.

Wang Dongqing, bored, lay sprawled on his electric scooter, scrolling through a beautiful-woman livestream, his face wearing a lecherous grin.

"Hello, here is the meal for order ending in 746494."

Wang Dongqing looked up in response, "Well...... gay"

He had intended to say "Well then," but upon looking up he saw two boys with linked arms standing before him, and he was so startled his voice went off-key.

"Well then——well gay"

He muttered, "I really shouldn't have opened my mouth today!"