Just in Time Chapter 76
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 76 Wound
“I’m fine,” Yi Chenliang said, holding up his hand to silence Qi Huo. “I just got home. My phone seems to be broken, I can’t type… Yeah, I’m fine. There was a kid on the road who couldn’t find his home, so I helped him to the police station. Yeah, you should go to bed early too, do well in your exam tomorrow…Yeah, good night.”
“I’m really fine, you should go to bed early.” Yi Chenliang hung up the phone.
Qi Huo stared in disbelief at Yi Chenliang, who was covered in wounds and had a fierce look on his face. He blurted out, “Big brother, you call this being fine?”
Yi Chenliang handed the phone back to him, cursed while clutching his stomach, and handed him the keys. “Do me a favor.”
Qi Huo caught him as he almost fell over, and with one hand supporting him and the other opening the door, he finally managed to get him onto the sofa and turned on the living room light.
The light in the living room was much brighter than in the hallway. Qi Huo finally saw the wounds on Yi Chenliang’s face and the blood on his clothes. He exclaimed, “Damn, how did you get these?”
Yi Chenliang took out his phone, found that the screen was shattered and indeed it wouldn’t turn on. He frowned and threw the phone onto the coffee table. “I was blocked on the way back.”
“Damn it, who did this!? I’ll find someone to help you fight back!” Qi Huo exploded, “This is a deadly attack!”
“It’s fine.” Yi Chenliang touched his swollen mouth corner and hissed in pain.
When he was blocked, there happened to be a demolished urban village nearby. One person against seven or eight, he had no choice but to take a beating. He fought back fiercely, then when he saw the situation was not good, he took the opportunity to run into the urban village. The alleys inside were complex and it was easy to lose someone in the dark. He ran around inside for a long time before he managed to get out.
If he couldn’t win, he would run. In Yi Chenliang’s view, this was never something to be ashamed of.
Qi Huo looked at the long purple-black blood-streaked wound swelling on his face. “What the hell did they hit you with?”
“A self-defense stick.” Yi Chenliang felt like his whole skeleton was about to fall apart. He suddenly remembered something and looked at Qi Huo, “Don’t tell Yun Fang about this.”
Qi Huo pointed at the wound on his face, “Summer camp will be on holidays in two days, this wound won’t heal in two days.”
Yi Chenliang, a bit irritated, ran his fingers through his hair. As a result, he found that his head had been cut open at some point, and he touched a handful of blood.
“Damn, let’s go to the hospital,” Qi Huo said, staring as blood flowed down his forehead and dripped onto his nose, his whole body numb. “Don’t move! I’m calling an ambulance!”
Yi Chenliang took his phone and put it in his own pocket, then went into the bathroom on his own. “It’s fine, I know what I’m doing.”
“Damn, you may know what you’re doing, but I don’t!” Qi Huo followed him in. “If something happens to you under my watch, my brother Yun Fang will definitely kill me!”
Yi Chenliang ignored him, pulled his hair away from the wound in front of the mirror, turned on the faucet and rinsed with cold water. He said to Qi Huo, “Could you do me a favor? The first aid kit is under the coffee table.”
Qi Huo, his scalp tingling, hurriedly fetched the first aid kit for him. He found that it was fully equipped. He watched in amazement as Yi Chenliang poured alcohol onto the wound on his head. “Hey — don’t — damn!”
Yi Chenliang’s rough and tough way of handling things left Qi Huo in awe. After treating his wound, he even had a big bowl of instant noodles. Qi Huo sincerely admired him, “You’re really a f*cking tough guy.”
Yi Chenliang threw his phone back to him. “Thanks for today, but don’t tell Yun Fang.”
“Are you really okay?” Qi Huo was still worried. “Are you sure you don’t want to go to the hospital?”
Yi Chenliang started to shoo him away. “It’s late, you should go home. I need to sleep.”
A few minutes later, Qi Huo stood at the bottom of the building, hesitating for a long time. He decided to call Yun Fang, but when he opened his phone, he found there was no signal and it showed that the SIM card was not installed.
“Damn it!” Qi Huo didn’t notice when Yi Chenliang had tampered with his phone. He shouted up at the third floor without any regard for his image, “Where’s my card? I still need to call my boyfriend!”
The response was the light in the third floor going out.
Qi Huo angrily gestured a fist at the third floor. “You’re ruthless!”
By the time Qi Huo went to the internet cafe to contact Chang Ziqi, who was also at the physics competition summer camp in Beijing, it was already half an hour later.
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Damn, what should I do?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [He looks seriously injured but he won’t go to the hospital, and he even took out my SIM card!]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [If he dies at home, how am I going to explain to my brother Yun Fang?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Why isn’t my brother Yun Fang online?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [I’ve already sent him dozens of messages!]
Chang Ziqi: [Don’t worry, he’s already on the high-speed train back. He’ll be there in two hours.]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [F*ck? Yi Chenliang clearly told him he was fine, why is he coming back?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Is he not participating in the assessment tomorrow?]
Chang Ziqi: [You don’t need to type so fast.]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Doesn’t your dormitory building close at ten o’clock? How did he get out?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Doesn’t he need to ask for leave?]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [My fast typing speed is natural! This fully expresses my urgency and concern.]
Chang Ziqi: […]
Chang Ziqi: [I helped him sneak out. The first-year assessment is at two-thirty tomorrow afternoon, he should be able to make it back if he tries hard.]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [I didn’t expect you, Chang Ziqi, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to do such sneaky things!]
Chang Ziqi: [Get your card back soon, I need to call you.]
Flower Blooming on a Rainy Night: [Shy][Shy][Shy]
Chang Ziqi: […]
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Yi Chenliang didn’t know when he had fallen asleep. He seemed to hear the sound of the door opening in his daze and suddenly opened his eyes.
The next second he heard a clear door closing sound. His heart jumped, and he grabbed the lamp on the bedside table and hid in the closet.
Click.
The bedroom light was turned on. Yi Chenliang was shocked at the intruder’s audacity. He gripped the lamp in his hand and swung it at the person’s head when the footsteps reached the closet door.
Then the person easily dodged and grabbed his wrist.
“Damn!” Yi Chenliang cursed, looking at Yun Fang in front of him, wondering if he was dreaming.
Yun Fang put the lamp back on the bedside table, looked expressionlessly at Yi Chenliang, who was covered in horrible wounds, and said in a surprisingly calm voice, “So this is what you call being fine.”
The statement tone, without even a hint of a question, made Yi Chenliang’s scalp tingle.
“There was a little accident on the road.” Yi Chenliang felt guilty and didn’t dare to meet his gaze, stiffly shifting his eyes away.
Yun Fang didn’t speak, and Yi Chenliang felt even more uneasy. He laughed awkwardly, “You have an exam tomorrow, right? I’m really fine, it just looks scary—”
“Come here, let me see.” Yun Fang pointed to the bed, indicating for him to sit down.
Yi Chenliang sat on the bed, looking at Yun Fang with some trepidation.
To be honest, when Yun Fang just looked at people coldly without speaking or smiling, it was quite scary.
“Take it off.” Yun Fang said.
Yi Chenliang took off the old man’s shirt he was wearing on his upper body, and touched his nose a bit awkwardly.
A large bruise on his stomach was already faintly turning purple. There were several blood-streaked wounds on his arm and side ribs from being whipped. He didn’t know what his back looked like, but seeing Yun Fang’s darkening face, he knew it probably wasn’t much better.
Yun Fang’s cool hand pressed on his wound, and Yi Chenliang hissed in pain, but didn’t dare to dodge.
Yun Fang patiently checked him over and found that no bones were broken. Yi Chenliang had some experience in fighting and knew how to dodge, unlike the last time he was injured so severely.
“Who did this?” Yun Fang asked after finishing the check, his face still very bad.
Yi Chenliang saw his murderous expression and his heart skipped a beat, “It’s really nothing, I found a chance to run in the middle, it was just a group of drunk punks.”
Yun Fang didn’t say anything after hearing this, went to the living room to get the first aid kit to treat his wounds, “Lie down.”
Yi Chenliang obediently lay down, Yun Fang applied medicine to the wound on his back, “Li Kai? Or was it Sun Yuan’s gang who fought in school last time?”
Yi Chenliang buried his head in the pillow and didn’t make a sound.
Yun Fang increased the pressure on his hand, and Yi Chenliang grunted in pain.
Yi Chenliang didn’t learn much from Yun Fang, but when it came to refusing to answer questions he didn’t want to, he had learned to be stubbornly defiant, just like Yun Fang.
Yun Fang finally realized how annoying he could be.
Yi Chenliang had treated his own wounds very roughly. Yun Fang pulled him up, pinched his chin, and looked at the wounds on his face. He didn’t know who the despicable person was who had specifically targeted his face.
As Yun Fang applied medicine to him, he asked, “Are you afraid that I’ll cause trouble for them?”
Yi Chenliang tilted his face to let him apply the medicine, “You just got out of the hospital, don’t get involved in these things.”
Yun Fang saw a bit of blood on his forehead that hadn’t been cleaned up. He parted his hair and sure enough, there was a wound. The blood had stuck to his hair. Fortunately, it just looked scary, the wound was not deep.
“Are you afraid that I’ll kill someone?” Yun Fang asked, looking down at him.
Yun Fang could always see through him at a glance. Yi Chenliang averted his gaze.
The last time he told Yun Fang about the people Yi Mingzhi had brought, those people had accidents within a few days.
Although they didn’t die, they were all seriously injured, especially Yi Mingzhi. If someone hadn’t happened to pass by and find him, he might have really lost his life. That’s why Song Lili was so panicked when she heard Yun Fang mentioned it before.
When Yun Fang was in the hospital, a detective named Wang Lianhua came several times, saying that Ge San accused Yun Fang of murder, but due to insufficient evidence, it was finally dropped.
Other people might think this accusation was absurd, but Yi Chenliang believed it.
The things Yun Fang said on the night of his birthday were not all true, but when he mentioned that he had killed someone, the casual tone left a deep impression on Yi Chenliang.
A cool finger gently stroked his lower jaw, gently yet forcefully forcing his gaze to move back. There was no emotion in Yun Fang’s eyes behind his glasses, just a deep darkness.
Yi Chenliang felt a dangerous and oppressive chill.
Yun Fang just stared at him, slowly asking, “Are you afraid that I’ll kill someone, or are you afraid of me?”