Chapter 1449: A Triumphant Return

Gu Yuxin is taking a shower in the bathroom.

But it is not her own home, but the school's public bathhouse.

If she went home looking like this, wouldn't it break her family's hearts?

She had to go back clean no matter what.

In fact, she did not know that her family members were all in the welcoming crowd just now; the children were all covered in mud like little monkeys, and her grandmother and mother did not know how many tears they had shed.

After showering, everyone put on clean clothes and went to the Cafeteria to eat.

The head chef at the Cafeteria stir-fried, deep-fried, and braised several high-calorie dishes; the volunteers returning from the disaster area needed to replenish their nutrition, so it was fine to eat something good.

When Sheng Zichen swiped his card, he discovered—why isn't it working!

"Auntie, is the card reader broken?"

The Cafeteria auntie laughed: "It's not broken. You students returning from the disaster area don't need to swipe your cards for this month; the school is covering your living expenses."

Oh my!

There is actually such a good thing?

Everyone applauded immediately.

The first meal back at school was eaten very inelegantly by everyone, male and female students alike; they were all wolfing down their food.

During this period, they had eaten nothing but compressed biscuits or instant noodles; being able to fill their stomachs was already a luxury, and as for the food being colorful, fragrant, and delicious, that was simply out of the question.

After showering and eating their fill, the students returned to the dormitory and fell asleep the moment their heads hit the pillows.

This sleep lasted straight from the daytime until the afternoon of the next day.

Zichen was woken up by a phone call.

Gu Yuxin called to say she was waiting for him downstairs and told him to come down quickly!

"What for? We don't have classes these few days, don't bother me, I'm going to sleep a little longer." Just as he was about to hang up the phone, Gu Yuxin threatened: "Sheng Zichen, are you coming down or not? If you don't come down, you'll bear the consequences!"

"What do you dare to do?"

Gu Yuxin: "Given my friendship with the dormitory manager, it's not impossible for me to sneak into the men's dormitory without anyone knowing. As for what will happen later... Sheng Zichen, don't blame me for not telling you beforehand!"

Sheng Zichen:...

He was instantly energized, and all his sleepiness was scared away.

"Don't come up, I'm coming down."

He threw on a jacket, rushed into the bathroom to wash his face briefly with cold water, and went downstairs quickly.

That person's threats were never just to scare people.

She would actually carry them out; if she ended up splashing a basin of cold water into his bed, he wouldn't be able to sleep well for days!

When Zichen arrived downstairs, Gu Yuxin was pacing in circles, having waited a bit impatiently.

Seeing him, she handed over a large bag of nutritional supplements: "Carry this."

"Where are we going?"

"To the Hospital Ward to see Lu Feifei."

Zichen:...

He stuffed the nutritional supplements back into Gu Yuxin's arms and refused: "I'm not going. She saved you, not me; you go yourself."

"Hey! How can you be so cold-blooded? She's your old classmate, how can you not even consider the bond of classmates?"

"If we graduate in the future and I get sick and end up in the hospital, would you also not even go to see me once?"

Sheng Zichen would not take the blame for such an accusation.

He retorted: "Are old classmates all the same? If I go to see her, you'll keep scolding me as a scumbag and a rotten peach blossom from time to time in the future, saying things like how I don't like her but still give her hope..."

"I didn't, I wouldn't." Gu Yuxin didn't know herself at all; she was now denying everything she often had on the tip of her tongue.

"Fine, you never said it, it was all me saying it, okay? Goodbye!" Zichen turned around to go back.

Gu Yuxin called him to stop, her tone softening significantly: "Zichen, please accompany me, I'm begging you."

Zichen took the opportunity to set a condition and asked: "I can accompany you, but you are not allowed to call me a scumbag anymore in the future, agreed?"

"Fine."

"Alright, let's go then."

Actually, he wasn't that unwilling to go.

But he was afraid Gu Yuxin would be jealous, so he had killed that thought.

On the way, Zichen asked her why she insisted on him accompanying her.

Was it because she didn't dare to go alone?

Gu Yuxin spat at him: "Pah! Is there anything I don't dare to do? I asked you to accompany me because she definitely wants to see you. Even if I'm sharing my boyfriend with her for a while to repay a little bit of the favor, it can only be for a while..."

Zichen was overjoyed and asked: "What did you just say? You said I'm your boyfriend? You have to keep your word, you can't go back on it!"

"I won't go back on it, I'll keep my word."

She generously took Zichen's arm.

Hospital.

The two of them walked to the front of Lu Feifei's Hospital Ward with their fingers interlaced, and she let go of Zichen's hand: "You go in, I'll wait for you outside."

Zichen was full of vigilance: "What are you trying to do again? No way, I'm telling you, I'm here today to accompany you, not you accompanying me, get that straight."

"Oh, I know..."

Gu Yuxin bit her lower lip with her white teeth and said aggrievedly: "Do you think I want to? I just thought it wouldn't be very good for us to go in together, I'm afraid Lu Feifei would feel uncomfortable!"

She usually looked carefree, but in reality, she was very thoughtful at many times.

"It's fine, feeling uncomfortable is only temporary; it's better than giving people unnecessary hope." Zichen took the initiative to grab Gu Yuxin's hand and knocked on the door of the Hospital Ward.

"Knock, knock, knock."

A middle-aged woman in her forties opened the door: "Who are you?"

"We are Lu Feifei's classmates, here to see her."

"Oh, oh, come in."

Lu Feifei was lying on the bed with an English dictionary on the headboard, not wasting a single minute or second.

"You're here? Sit. Auntie, please go wash some fruit for my classmates."

Lu Feifei sent the woman away.

Gu Yuxin tried to shake off his hand several times; what was he doing, coming here to show off?

She sincerely wanted to see Lu Feifei to thank her for saving her life, and did not want to provoke her.

But Zichen was gripping very tightly, and after failing to shake him off several times, she just let it be.

Lu Feifei saw all the little movements between the two of them and smiled: "What did you two come here for? To see me, or to show off your affection?"

"To see you, purely to see you. How are your injuries?" Gu Yuxin made another effort, this time shaking off Zichen's hand.

"Recovering quite well, it's nothing. I'll be able to be discharged and return to school in a few days." She smiled very brightly.

Even though she had suffered very serious injuries, she spoke very lightly, as if the injuries were not on her own body.

Gu Yuxin thanked her sincerely: "Lu Feifei, thank you for saving me. If it weren't for you, the person lying in this hospital bed right now would be me..."

"Forget it, don't be so mushy; that's not the personality of you, Miss Gu. I didn't save you for your sake, but for his." Lu Feifei pointed her finger at Zichen.

He stood up straight, feeling nervous.

How was he supposed to respond to that?

There was no way to respond.

He secretly regretted it in his heart, regretting that he shouldn't have come.

Lu Feifei said to Gu Yuxin: "He likes you, I can tell. If you were injured or dead, he would definitely be very sad, so you don't need to thank me. Although I saved you, it wasn't for your sake."

"Zichen, you go out."

Gu Yuxin still regretted letting him come.