In the afternoon, several people came to the hospital room.
However, this time the visitors were neither surviving family members coming to thank Xu Mo, nor media personnel or hospital nurses. Instead, it was Yang Jingxuan, Shen Manyi, An Youyi, and Li Jiaxin.
"Why are you all here?" Xu Mo was momentarily confused when he saw the four of them enter.
They had only asked about his whereabouts this morning, and now they had already arrived.
"Of course we're here to take care of you," Zhou Qiaoqiao said with a smile.
"I'm not even injured, why do you need to take care of me?"
"Does one need to be injured to be taken care of?" Zhou Qiaoqiao stepped forward and whispered in Xu Mo's ear: "Actually, it's because we're too scared to sleep at night without you at home. The villa feels so empty and frightening!"
She spoke very softly, but the room was small and quiet, so Chen Ke, lying in the adjacent bed, heard every word clearly.
Chen Ke: w(ﾟДﾟ)w
They're afraid to sleep without Xu Mo at home?
That statement contained quite a bit of information!
So Xu Mo was living together with these four women, in a cohabitation arrangement?
Thinking about this, Chen Ke's surprised gaze darted back and forth between Xu Mo and the four women... Were they all Xu Mo's girlfriends?
He didn't even have one girlfriend, yet Xu Mo had four!? And they were all so beautiful!
Moreover, it seemed that Xu Mo's four girlfriends got along very well with each other, entering arm in arm like best friends.
This was ridiculous!
Chen Ke's composure instantly crumbled.
How could this possibly make any sense?!
How did Xu Mo manage to achieve this? Did he possess some special talent that others didn't?
"This room is too small. Let me get you all a different room!" suggested the wealthy An Youyi.
Without waiting for Xu Mo's response, she immediately left the room.
When she returned, she had already arranged for a new room.
"Alright, let's go. I've arranged a high-grade VIP room. The environment there is a bit better, and it's more spacious than this one."
Led by a hospital nurse, they moved to the VIP room, with the girls making multiple trips to transfer all the fruits and nutritional supplements that had been given as gifts.
After changing rooms, Chen Ke was still lying in his bed, and Xu Mo was also resting in his.
However, the treatment they received couldn't have been more different.
Chen Ke could only lie there, passing time by playing with his phone.
Meanwhile, Xu Mo was surrounded by four beautiful women who were massaging his shoulders, rubbing his legs, and feeding him.
"Open wide, have a banana... ah..."
"Have some milk with that, eating dry food might make you choke."
"Is this pressure okay? Am I pressing too hard?"
"Sit up for a moment, let me adjust the bed higher. It'll be more comfortable to lean back."
"Would you like to watch TV? I'll turn it on for you."
"..."
Chen Ke: "╥﹏╥..."
This was meaningless, truly meaningless. This was the only thought in Chen Ke's mind.
Xu Mo wasn't even injured yet had people waiting on him, while Chen Ke could only use his uninjured hand to browse his phone to pass the time...
He suddenly understood the phrase 'human joys and sorrows are not shared.'
This was too much to bear!
Originally, Han Fei had asked Xu Mo to stay and keep the hospitalized Chen Ke company, since he would surely be bored alone, and Xu Mo had agreed to stay with Chen Ke.
With Xu Mo there, Chen Ke wouldn't be so bored - they could chat together and pass the time.
But now in this situation...
How was Xu Mo keeping Chen Ke company and helping him pass the time?
Wasn't he just making things worse?!
Here was someone who wasn't even hurt being treated far better than the actual patient - who could stand this?
First, there was a constant stream of visitors thanking Xu Mo and bringing all sorts of gifts, each person bringing several items until the room was packed full.
Then there was the nurses' preferential treatment, showing more concern for the uninjured Xu Mo than for Chen Ke, the actual patient.
That would have been bad enough.
But then it got even worse.
Yang Jingxuan, Zhou Qiaoqiao, An Youyi, and Li Jiaxin had also come to take care of Xu Mo!
The four of them gathered around him, massaging his legs and shoulders, feeding him food and drinks.
To Chen Ke, this wasn't care-taking - it was like being stabbed in the heart!
As someone who had been perpetually single, how could he handle this?
As a result, Chen Ke suddenly didn't want to stay in the hospital anymore. He wanted to be discharged - right now.
A broken bone didn't necessarily require hospitalization; he could recover at home just as well.
"Xu Mo, could you help me process the discharge paperwork? I... I don't really like the smell of disinfectant in the hospital. I'd rather recover at home. It's not like I have any serious condition anyway, so being here or at home makes no difference."
"Huh?" Xu Mo was surprised. "Discharge? You just got admitted, why are you in such a hurry to leave? You should at least stay for a while for observation."
"Trust me, stay a bit longer for observation. It's for your own good," Xu Mo refused Chen Ke's request to be discharged.
Chen Ke smiled bitterly, thinking to himself that if he stayed any longer, he wouldn't be able to take it!
His physical condition wasn't really a problem, and observation wouldn't make much difference. He could leave right away without any issues. The real problem was the emotional toll...
...
That night.
Only Chen Ke remained in the VIP room.
Using the excuse that they were scared to sleep at night, the four women had taken Xu Mo to stay with them at a hotel. Of course, they were staying in a suite with separate rooms for each person.
At eleven-thirty at night, just as Chen Ke was getting sleepy from playing on his phone and preparing to sleep, suddenly a scream echoed through the hospital.
"Holy crap! The dead have come back to life!! Murder!! Don't come any closer!"
The hospital was particularly quiet at night, and in such an environment, the scream was extremely penetrating, seeming to echo throughout the entire hospital.
"Rising from the dead? Murder?" Chen Ke was instantly alert, getting up to investigate the source of the sound.
The sound had come from the first floor. When Chen Ke arrived, he found several people lying in the corridor.
After rushing over to check, Chen Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief - the people lying on the ground had only fainted.
Chen Ke prepared to wake one of them up to ask about the situation.
However, the moment he managed to wake up one young man, the latter immediately pushed him away while shouting loudly: "Ghost! A ghost! Don't come near me!"
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