28: Chapter 28 Go to sleep

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Jianxin's face was pale and his eyes were vacant.

He wanted to cry.

But with his good brother watching, he couldn't bring himself to cry.

"Did you know all along?" For a moment, Xiao Jianxin felt that living was just too exhausting.

Suddenly, a flash of realization hit him. Connecting it to the strange things Zhao Jian had said when they met, he instinctively felt that his brother must know something.

Zhao Jian's heart skipped a beat.

He had been so focused on saving him that he'd forgotten about this.

He couldn't reveal that he possessed an Intelligence System; no one would believe him, and they'd just tell him to stop reading so many novels.

He deliberated for a moment before nodding and explaining:

"A friend of mine lives near your fiancée's place. He heard about it and told me."

"I knew it!" Xiao Jianxin didn't suspect Zhao Jian was lying.

He slammed his fist onto the table resentfully, his eyes reddening as he said, "I knew she had been planning this for a long time!"

"How could there be such a coincidence? I come to Kyoto for work, and just after I break up, I happen to run into a junior high classmate who just happens to like me. It was all meticulously planned!"

Zhao Jian wanted to comfort him.

But he didn't know how to start.

"Old Zhao, come have a few drinks with me!"

"Sure."

Xiao Jianxin's current state wasn't suitable for drinking; drinking while sorrowful hurts both the body and the heart.

But if he stopped him from drinking, he was afraid the man might do something drastic.

The two of them found a random bar.

Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp.

After a few glasses of hard liquor, Zhao Jian was still fine.

He didn't have a high tolerance, and his metabolism was slow.

So he got drunk slowly.

Xiao Jianxin couldn't handle it and collapsed onto the floor.

Even lying on the ground, he kept shouting about why no woman truly loved him.

Then he started humming a song, "Single Love Song."

Zhao Jian thought to himself: This guy is quite the nostalgic romantic.

He tried to drag him outside.

He was dead weight, making it very difficult.

"Do you need some help?" A girl who had good features and would probably look quite pretty if she lost some weight stood nearby.

Though she was being kind, she acted very cautiously.

"Sure, help me support one side of him. Thanks, beautiful."

Being called beautiful didn't make the chubby girl happy.

She just pursed her lips and gave a faint smile.

She was no weaker than Zhao Jian. The two of them supported Xiao Jianxin by his arms and finally made it out of the bar.

By now, Xiao Jianxin had moved on from "Single Love Song" to "Sad Pacific."

Zhao Jian supported him with one hand and took out his phone to call a ride with the other.

Almost all the weight fell on the chubby girl.

"Bleah!" He vomited.

The vomit soiled the chubby girl's clothes.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Zhao Jian was about to offer her money for the damage.

But then he saw the panicked and terrified look in the girl's eyes.

Could she have a germ phobia?

Following her gaze to Xiao Jianxin.

Zhao Jian panicked as well.

He saw that his brother, who had been singing just a moment ago, was now struggling to breathe, his face turning a bright red.

"He's choking on his vomit! Get him to a hospital, quick!" the girl shouted anxiously.

Just then, the taxi he had ordered arrived.

"Driver, take us to the nearest emergency room!"

The three of them got into the car.

They were very close to Kyoto People's Hospital.

It only took five minutes from getting in to getting out.

Zhao Jian paid while the chubby girl dragged Xiao Jianxin toward the emergency room.

The hospital security saw them and came over to help.

Once the medical staff took over the emergency treatment, a sweat-drenched Zhao Jian looked at the equally sweaty girl and asked:

"What's your name, beautiful? You saved my brother's life. When he wakes up, I'll make him work like a dog to repay you."

"No need, really. My name is Wang Dan."

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

After getting Wang Dan's contact information, Zhao Jian stayed at the hospital to look after his brother, who had just been resuscitated.

Xiao Jianxin was fine; it was just a coma caused by intoxication and suffocation.

He needed to be hospitalized for observation for a day.

He completed the hospitalization procedures for him.

Zhao Jian didn't stay by the bedside but went out to buy a fruit basket and some light side dishes.

He felt that eating greasy food after a hangover wasn't good.

It could easily cause indigestion.

When he returned to the hospital, what a coincidence—he ran into Su Wanyin again.

"You didn't have to bring anything." Su Wanyin took the fruit basket.

She turned around to lead the way.

Although it was a misunderstanding, fruit is fruit; it doesn't matter who eats it.

There was no need to explain.

When they reached the ward, Su Wanyin's mother was still unconscious.

This was a private VIP ward with no other patients.

"Sit. I didn't expect you to actually come. I thought you never wanted to see me again in this lifetime."

She handed him a stool.

"It's not that short." Zhao Jian sat up straight.

Su Wanyin didn't understand.

It took her a moment to catch his dry joke.

She couldn't help but wrinkle her nose and make a face.

"Actually, the reason I insisted on coming to Kyoto after graduation was to make it easier to treat my mother, and the salary is a bit higher too."

It sounded like an explanation.

Yet it also seemed like simple melancholy.

Zhao Jian didn't respond.

Her eyes shimmered as she gave him a charming glare.

She continued, "I thought I'd never see you again. I never expected the company to open a Xiong City branch. Do you know how happy I was when I heard the news?"

Zhao Jian thought: I don't want to know.

"I went to Xiong City just to see you, Zhao Jian."

"Would you have gone if they didn't raise your salary or give you subsidies?"

"Of course not."

See? Hardly a word of truth out of her mouth.

They didn't chat for long before the nursing assistant arrived to help clean her mother.

Zhao Jian stood up to take his leave.

He went back to Xiao Jianxin's ward.

By now, Xiao Jianxin was awake and was clamoring to be discharged.

Seeing Zhao Jian, he jumped off the bed to greet him.

Zhao Jian thought: We're brothers, why be so polite? You're even putting on a show of rushing out to meet me.

Xiao Jianxin's first words were, "Old Zhao, where's that girl?"

What girl!

"The one with the round face, the one with good features who brought me to the hospital!"

Seeing the confused look in Zhao Jian's eyes, Xiao Jianxin patiently prompted him.

"She left. It was kind enough of her to bring you to the hospital; how could we trouble her to look after you too?"

"Aww! I wanted to thank her in person!"

"Is it really just a 'thank you'?"

After Zhao Jian asked, he saw Bao Bao give a shy chuckle.

It seemed he wouldn't be doing anything suicidal anymore.

Zhao Jian handed him Wang Dan's contact information, and an excited Xiao Jianxin wanted to hug Zhao Jian and give him a kiss.

Zhao Jian dodged him with a look of disgust.

Now that his brother was safe, Zhao Jian set off to return to Xiong City.

The train arrived at the station a few minutes before the intelligence was set to refresh.

[Today's Intelligence (White): Yesterday, a tourist named Qian Dahai wanted to play a prank on his friends while visiting White Lake. He threw an entry-level rolex watch worth 40,000 yuan into the lake, claiming that whoever retrieved it could keep it. After a brief, unsuccessful search, they gave up. Current coordinates of the watch are ****.]

Rich people really know how to have fun.

It was midnight when he got off the train, and Zhao Jian didn't dare explore White Lake at night.

He returned to his rental and prepared to go to sleep.

"Jian-zi, back so late? What kind of work is it?" As he opened the main gate, he saw the Landlady in the courtyard, drying her wet hair with a towel.

"I went to see a friend. Landlady, you're still up? Staying up late will give you wrinkles."

"Shoo, shoo! Go to sleep!"