Chapter 11: Are you jealous?

Seeing her approach, Yi Lan struggled to get up from the bed.

Seeing her unusually enthusiastic, Jiang Wenting quickly leaned over to help, stuffing the gift into her arms.

“Quick, take a look. Do you like it?”

Yi Lan didn’t open the gift.

Instead, she pushed the gift bag aside and anxiously grabbed her arm.

“Jiang Wenting, help me to the latrine!”

Before Jiang Wenting could react, Xiao Ru, who was nearby, had already started to flare up.

“What the hell do you mean? Why didn’t you say anything when I asked you? You only want to go to the toilet when she’s here?”

She was already dissatisfied when she heard Jiang Wenting call her “baby.”

Coupled with Yi Lan’s reaction at this moment, it was like stepping on her landmine.

She immediately dropped the half-unpacked meal box, turned around, and pointed at her nose, cursing, “I see you’re not just stupid, you’re also a green tea b*tch. You deserve to be in this state today!”

“Xiao Ru,” Jiang Wenting was also provoked by her words and sternly advised, “watch your words!”

“What’s wrong with my words? Huh? Jiang Wenting, I’m your assistant, not her nanny. Who does she think she is! I was wondering why Director Qi was so anxious to pass the buck earlier. Now I know. A green tea b*tch like her could rot to death in bed and no one would care!”

When Xiao Ru’s temper flared, she started to speak without thinking.

Jiang Wenting was a little angry, but she patiently refrained from arguing with her.

“Alright, Xiao Ru. I know you’re in a bad mood after spending a day in the hospital. Just calm down for a bit.”

As she spoke, she helped Yi Lan up.

Faced with her insults, Yi Lan didn’t say a word from beginning to end.

Perhaps, in this world, besides seeking revenge on Jiang Wenting, other people and matters were irrelevant to her.

Jiang Wenting half-supported her into the bathroom, but Yi Lan refused to use the toilet.

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you just say you wanted to go to the toilet?” Jiang Wenting’s tone was gentle as she thoughtfully helped her unbutton her clothes.

She grabbed her wrist and shook her head in refusal.

Jiang Wenting was a little puzzled.

Yi Lan frowned and explained in a cold tone, “I need to do a number two. I’m not used to doing it in the room.”

Jiang Wenting was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

“You want to go to the public restroom?”

She pursed her lips and said no more.

Jiang Wenting said, “It’s the same. After you’re done here, just flush it and you won’t smell anything. Didn’t you see it yesterday?”

The other person still shook her head in refusal.

Jiang Wenting was helpless.

“Then wait for me outside for a bit. I’ll go borrow a wheelchair and take you to the public restroom, okay?”

She helped her out of the bathroom and saw Xiao Ru with her back to them, fiddling with something.

Jiang Wenting didn’t know if the other had calmed down, so she still spoke in a good-tempered voice, “Xiao Ru, she’s not used to going to the toilet in the room. Can you help me borrow a wheelchair?”

Xiao Ru didn’t say anything, nor did she seem to want to pay attention to her.

Jiang Wenting helped Yi Lan lean against the head of the bed, walked over herself, and gently touched Xiao Ru on the back.

The other person flinched like a little hedgehog and said in a very aggressive tone, “Jiang Wenting, don’t touch me. I’m not your servant!”

The hand on her back paused for a moment.

She hadn’t felt that tired after a day of filming, but at this moment, that sense of fatigue suddenly rushed over her.

She sighed, “Alright then. You play on your phone for a while, I’ll go borrow it.”

After she finished speaking, she briefly disguised herself and went out to borrow a wheelchair.

Only Yi Lan and Xiao Ru were left in the room.

Yi Lan had been holding it in all day and was a little uncomfortable.

Xiao Ru also rarely pointed at her nose and cursed her again.

Jiang Wenting was very fast.

After she came in, she didn’t say much more to Xiao Ru.

She just helped Yi Lan onto the wheelchair herself and pushed her to the public restroom outside.

In fact, her identity was not very suitable for walking around like this.

Usually, even if Xiao Ru was angry, she would still come out to help, even if she gave Jiang Wenting a cold shoulder.

But this time, for the first time ever, she didn’t care about Jiang Wenting anymore.

Jiang Wenting still felt a little sad, but nature called, so she first helped Yi Lan to the toilet.

“I’ll wait for you outside. Just tell me when you’re done, okay?”

No matter how angry or upset she was, her attitude towards others was always very gentle and patient.

Yi Lan was inside for a long time.

Jiang Wenting stood by the door, talking to her from time to time.

“Yi Lan, that’s just Xiao Ru’s temper. She’s young and I’ve spoiled her. She says things without thinking. Don’t think too much about it, okay?”

There was no response from inside, so she changed the subject and complained to her about some trivial things in her life, trying to distract her.

Xiao Ru’s words were like a blunt knife stabbing at one’s heart.

Even a close relative like her could easily be hurt, let alone a patient like Yi Lan.

Thinking of her lifespan of less than a year or two, she wanted to be as good to her as possible, even better.

“That partner I was working with was just not in the right state of mind, which caused me to be hung up and put down, hung up and put down over and over again. My bones are about to fall apart. Don’t you think that’s annoying?”

Even when Jiang Wenting complained about others, her tone was very gentle, without a hint of complaint, as if she were just describing a very tiring matter.

But as Yi Lan listened, her brows couldn’t help but furrow a little.

She could feel the other’s fatigue, even if she was just speaking calmly.

“Jiang Wenting.”

After a long, long time, there was finally a response from the cubicle.

Jiang Wenting immediately cheered up.

“Are you done? Yi Lan?”

The other person didn’t make a sound.

After waiting for a few seconds, she finally spoke, “Jiang Wenting, I’m on my period.”

Her tone was very calm.

Jiang Wenting was stunned for a moment, then comforted her, “Yi Lan, you’re on your period? Did you get it on your pants? It’s okay if you did. Don’t worry. Wait for me inside for a bit. I’ll go get you some sanitary pads. It might take a while, so don’t be scared. I’ll be as quick as I can, okay?”

“Mmm.”

Yi Lan thought for a moment and still responded to her with a word of gold.

There were no sanitary pads among the daily necessities they had brought earlier.

Jiang Wenting was not at ease leaving Yi Lan alone in the bathroom and thought of asking Xiao Ru to take care of her first.

But when she ran back to the ward, she didn’t see her.

She made a voice call to her, and the phone rang a few times before it was hung up.

The situation was urgent, so Jiang Wenting didn’t dial again and had to go downstairs to buy them herself.

The hospital elevator was a bit crowded.

She was afraid that Yi Lan would get anxious waiting, so she just gave up the elevator and ran down the four floors.

In the confined space, Yi Lan waited for several minutes, but Jiang Wenting did not appear.

She felt a little uncomfortable and her mind began to wander.

Although that girl’s words just now were unpleasant, they were not without reason.

Now, she was no longer a battle-hardened general.

A frail body lay on the hospital bed, and a gust of wind, a single needle, could take her life.

She didn’t even have the ability to take care of herself.

It would be easy for Jiang Wenting to get rid of her because of this.

She had no strength to seek revenge or demand an explanation from her.

Holding on with a single breath was at most just a temporary reprieve.

What could she do?

She didn’t know what else she could do…

Bang, bang, bang~

Just as she was feeling desperate and helpless, there was a knock on the cubicle door.

Jiang Wenting’s voice was urgent.

“Yi Lan, are you okay? I bought some sanitary pads.”

When there was no response from inside, Jiang Wenting slammed the door twice more, her whole body becoming tense.

“Yi Lan, are you okay? Say something, don’t scare me!”

The next second, the cubicle door opened a crack from the inside, and a slender, calloused hand reached out through the gap.

Jiang Wenting suddenly let out a sigh of relief and handed the sanitary pad into her hand.

“You scared me to death, Yi Lan. There were no sanitary pads in the room, so I went downstairs to buy them. The elevator was a bit crowded, so I ran down the stairs. It took a while, so I was worried something might have happened to you.”

Her voice was still slightly breathless.

Yi Lan could feel it through the door.

But just a moment ago, she was thinking about how the other person was going to get rid of her.

The next second, Jiang Wenting appeared here, out of breath, telling her how hard she had worked to find this sanitary pad, saying she was afraid that it would take too long and that something might happen to her…

A certain part of her heart was so easily squeezed in this person’s hand.

It hurt so much that she couldn’t breathe.

She looked at the beautifully packaged paper bag and only spoke after a long while, “Jiang Wenting, I don’t know how to use this.”

“Yi Lan, tear open the bag, and then…”

Jiang Wenting patiently taught her how to use a sanitary pad.

Yi Lan belatedly followed her description step by step.

After she was done, she used her remaining strength to put on her clothes, flushed the toilet from memory, and when she got up to open the door, everything in front of her was so dark that she couldn’t see anything.

She twisted the doorknob and fell forward with a thud.

Fortunately, Jiang Wenting was right at the door and caught her in time.

“Are you okay?” Jiang Wenting asked worriedly.

Yi Lan fell into her arms.

The scent of her body after her hurried exercise and the faint smell of osmanthus perfume filled her nostrils.

She took a while to recover before she could vaguely see her surroundings.

Jiang Wenting carefully helped her into the wheelchair and pushed her towards the ward.

The scent in her nostrils faded.

Yi Lan closed her eyes, enduring the waves of weakness that washed over her.

The two of them soon arrived at the ward.

After Jiang Wenting went in, she subconsciously looked around but didn’t see Xiao Ru.

A wave of disappointment washed over her, but it was quickly hidden.

She reached out, lifted Yi Lan from the wheelchair, and carried her to the hospital bed.

Then she went to the bathroom to wash a towel for her, wiped her hands, and tucked her in, meticulously.

Yi Lan saw the fine beads of sweat on her temples, thought of her running up and down the stairs, thought of her being hung up and put down over and over again.

These things didn’t have a concrete image in her mind at the moment, but she could still see her fatigue from those two strands of sticky hair.

After Jiang Wenting finished these things, she took out her phone again and made a call to Xiao Ru.

The voice call rang a few times before it was hung up again.

She put the phone back in her pocket and looked at Yi Lan with a smile.

“You’re hungry, right? Let me see if the fish soup is still drinkable.”

Her peach blossom eyes were curved, and the mole at the corner of her eye was lively and charming.

All her emotions were hidden well, but Yi Lan still keenly sensed the overwhelming sense of loss that swept over her.

She cared about her a lot, that girl named Xiao Ru…