Li Xiaoming rarely blushes when he eats anything. He doesn’t even blush when he’s drunk, but because of my cup of kidney-enhancing tea, his cheeks are red to the tips of his fingers.

“Ge, Ge, I’m a little sleepy,” Li Xiaoming’s eyes began to drift. “…I’m going back to sleep.”

I watched Li Xiaoming’s faltering back with mixed feelings in my heart.

At that time, I specifically consulted with my classmates. The tea mainly plays a role in health care, so the effect is far less than those drugs. Drinking it also doesn’t cause harm to the body. Li Xiaoming shouldn’t have much of a problem, right—

I only heard a loud noise as I was thinking. Li Xiaoming heavily closed his bedroom door.

I was so frightened that I couldn’t care about replying to Da Ge’s message. I rushed over and vigorously banged Li Xiaoming’s door in a hurry while asking, “Xiao Ming, are you okay? Are you allergic?”

Li Xiaoming’s muffled response came inside the room, “Ge, it’s okay, don’t worry about me…”

“I’m a little dizzy…”

As soon as I heard Li Xiaoming speak, it was as if he was being pinched by someone, biting his words with difficulty. I was immediately occupied by worry—Drinking too much tea won’t be poisonous but when I saw his appearance, I was afraid that he was allergic to the ingredients in it.

Li Xiaoming had already locked the door of his room and I couldn’t turn the doorknob to open it by twisting it hard, so I had to grit my teeth and gamble. I directly hit the bedroom door with my body.

The quality of the house we rented wasn’t very good, and some places were seriously aging, but because it’s located in the city and close to the company, the price was a little lower than the houses in the same area.

The little money saved from rent was also very important to me and Li Xiaoming, who had no savings at that time and had just graduated, so we could put up with all the defects.

This room’s bedroom door was even a thin wooden door. I was afraid that something might happen to Li Xiaoming if I was any slower.

I used all my strength to knock on it, with a bang bang sound. The door lock was still hanging in place, and the hinge on the top fell to the ground with small screws.

The attachment between the door and the door frame was already very weak. As soon as the hinge at the top fell off, the hinge at the back fell one after another like a dumpling, as the wooden door tilted.

The wooden door hung in the air for less than a second, then fell heavily to the ground.

After I stepped into his room, dust and dirt from nowhere fell on my face. I didn’t care about any problems. When I approached the bed, a thin layer of powder accumulated on my shoulders.

Li Xiaoming was already lying on the bed, his body wrapped in the quilt, and only his head was exposed. The loud noise just now made him open his eyes. He wasn’t fully awake yet. He asked me in his hazy drowsiness, “Cheng-ge, whose house did you pry open ah?”

“Why does it look a bit familiar…”

Li Xiaoming did seem to be sleeping, but I didn’t dare to be careless, and yelled in a panic, “Xiao Ming! Hold on, don’t sleep! If you sleep, it’s over!”

Li Xiaoming: ?

I couldn’t care less about whether there was a problem with drinking too much healthy tea. Just because Li Xiaoming didn’t look right, I quickly called an ambulance.

While I was on the phone, the cracks in the doorframe spread rapidly towards the ceiling, and the grayish siding fluttered down like rain—With a crackling sound, a large chunk of the ceiling grazed the tip of my nose and fell to the ground, exposing the roof’s rebar and wires.

Another half of the ceiling hit Li Xiaoming’s bed. He was so scared that he immediately bounced from the bed and sat up, staring all this in

My brain stopped for an instant, and Li Xiaoming didn’t say anything. The two of us looked at each other relatively speechless for a long time, until countless wallpapers peeled off and covered my head.

Li Xiaoming suddenly spoke, “Cheng-ge you, your head—”

At this moment, the doorbell rang.

I rushed out to open the door again. The medical staff had already stood in the corridor with a stretcher. They looked at me up and down and said, “Sir, is it you…?”

My tinnitus overpowered his voice. I couldn’t hear what he said as the warm liquid crossed my cheek and fell to the floor.

When I touched my face, my hands were bloody.

Hmm????

I just focused my attention on Li Xiaoming, only to find that my forehead was smashed at some point. Now, I’m covered with wallowing grime and smeared blood which looked quite gruesome.

I didn’t feel pain at all, and I didn’t know when my head was smashed. After I saw the blood dripping all over my hands with my own eyes, I started to get dizzy

“Sir, Sir…?”

When I looked up, I saw snowflakes all over my eyes.

I fainted.

—

I was originally planning to have Li Xiaoming get an ambulance to send me directly to the hospital. Instead, Li Xiaoming accompanied me all the way like a normal person. I had a slight concussion, but fortunately, it wasn’t serious. I was just dizzy for a while.

My condition wasn’t very serious and I didn’t need to be hospitalized, but I still had to get some ointment and medicine.

After the nurse bandaged my wound, she asked me to make my own arrangements. Li Xiaoming and I sat on a bench in the hospital hallway for a while to rest. Ning Yiheng came to pick us up in passing.

It was too late, we already missed the last subway, and we didn’t have a car. If there was no Ning Yiheng, we’d have to take a taxi home.

I deeply felt apologetic to Li Xiaoming.

Li Xiaoming propped his forehead with one hand, his mouth yawning uncontrollably.

We came out in a hurry and didn’t have time to change our clothes, so we wrapped a layer of down jackets to cover our pajamas.

I looked at Li Xiaoming, who was so sleepy that he nodded, and said worriedly, “Xiao Ming, why don’t you register, too?”

Li Xiaoming turned his head to look at me and said, “Why should I go to the doctor?”

“I’m not too sure,” I bit the bullet and said, “The cup of tea you drank is what I usually use… To replenish the kidney…”

Li Xiaoming: …

I said, “I asked the doctor. It’s okay to drink too much of this kind of thing, but I could see that you’re a bit weird now. I’m very worried about whether you’re allergic to the ingredients in it.”

“It’s my fault,” Li Xiaoming sighed faintly, “Cheng-ge, I shouldn’t have drunk it without your consent.”

“But I didn’t expect you to have gotten to this point. Even so, it’s good to have seen a doctor. Don’t worry, the disease will always get better…”

Me: …

Li Xiaoming was adamant that he was fine. He drank so much in one breath and didn’t feel uncomfortable, he was just sleepy. He didn’t know what he was allergic to. After repeated persuasion, he agreed to check for his allergies.

I was left alone in the lobby of the hospital with no one to talk to, so I started to swipe my phone anxiously.

After Ning Yiheng knew that I had a concussion, he rushed to the hospital immediately. He was still on the way at this time, but I didn’t have the heart to explain the cause and effect clearly to him.

I clicked on the chat box with Da Ge again.

Me: Da Ge, I have the opposite problem with you.

I didn’t want to talk about Ning Yiheng’s problems behind my back, and I didn’t want others to know what was wrong with him, so I put everything on myself.

Anyway, Da Ge doesn’t know me, so I can say it unscrupulously.

Me: I found that I have a problem in that aspect. The kidney-enhancing tea I drank for a week was useless. My boyfriend also drank it. When he saw me, his blood was tense while I was always indifferent.

If eyes could swallow people, I would have already gnawed Ning Yiheng down to the dregs.

Me: How can I get myself back to normal?