"Your situation isn't easy to resolve," Zhang Yan sighed.
"I believe in you," Feng Qishi smiled.
Zhang Yan gave a dry chuckle and tossed the apple core into the trash.
"Heh, your smile is truly unsettling," Feng Qishi said, staring at Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan grinned, "You're truly the most composed mortal I've ever met."
"What do you mean?" Feng Qishi asked, his eyes flickering.
"Look, if it were a normal person who saw someone or something they shouldn't have, they'd be afraid for a long time. But you, you just accepted it calmly, even pestering that unidentified person to take you with them. And that's not all, you spoke so calmly about your past life," Zhang Yan paused, then continued, "The most important thing is, you actually looked down on your past life. Don't you want to know who you were in your past life?"
"I don't want to know. Anyway, to put it simply, I've been different from other kids since I was little. Maybe it's because my life has been too tragic, but I felt a special closeness to Mu Anxiao. I felt she was my savior. You saw what my mother looked like just now," Feng Qishi said. "Actually, she had already started thinking about matchmaking for me, but my father refused."
"How old were you when she started thinking about it?" Zhang Yan asked curiously.
Feng Qishi counted the days, "During junior high. Think about it, how old was I then? And my grades weren't bad. She still treated me that way. Me," he shook his head, "I don't want to stay here for another day."
"Can you tell me more about you and her?" Zhang Yan asked.
Feng Qishi replied, "If I talk too much, it's just a story, or rather, a complaint. Besides, I was just speaking casually. If you really want me to say bad things about her, I really can't. It's all in the past anyway, there's no point in talking about it."
"That's true. Who wants to dwell on how others wronged them? That kind of person is either psychologically twisted or a pervert."
"You can't say that. It's just that some people like to dwell on things, like to live in the past. Anyway, that's their business. Don't talk like that," Feng Qishi frowned, "It's not good."
"I wasn't singling anyone out, I was just speaking casually," Zhang Yan said unhappily.
"Alright, can I eat the duck feet now?" Feng Qishi pointed to the gift box on the bedside table.
Zhang Yan hesitated and said, "Forget it, you'd better not eat them."
"Why?" Feng Qishi asked, confused.
"If you eat them and die, I'll be responsible," Zhang Yan said.
Feng Qishi glanced at Zhang Yan's face and squinted, "Have you known someone like that before?"
"Mmm," Zhang Yan nodded.
"Who? Tell me?" This time it was Feng Qishi's turn to be curious.
"Someone I knew before. That person never remembered the good others did for him, only the bad. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here," Zhang Yan said, lowering his head.
"Are you the one who wasn't remembered for their good deeds?" Feng Qishi asked.
Zhang Yan sighed, "Yes. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Anyway, that person is so annoying."
"What about that person now?" Feng Qishi asked.
"Probably dead," Zhang Yan said casually.
"It's really pointless for you to hold a grudge against a dead person," Feng Qishi shook his head.
"I am pointless. Ever since then, I've hated people who don't remember kindness, who only live in the past, who only live in hatred. I detest them," Zhang Yan clenched his fist.
"Alright, if you're not going to eat them, I will," Feng Qishi said, intending to change the subject.
"That's fine. I don't want to eat anything when I get back anyway," Zhang Yan said, reaching for the gift box, opening it, and starting to gnaw on a chicken foot in front of Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi suppressed his desire to eat and quietly watched him, not saying a word.
In Hu Yuan's ward, Mu Anxiao tidied up the empty plastic bowl and disposable chopsticks left by Hu Yuan on the dining table and said, "Grandson, why hasn't your mother come yet?"
"You old hag, are you done?" the wolf demon asked, wiping his mouth.
Mu Anxiao pouted, "Not done."
"You're really annoying," the wolf demon said, tossing the paper on the ground.
At the same time, Hu Yuan's mother rushed into the ward, saying, "Yuan Yuan, Mom is late, I'm sorry!" As she spoke, she didn't see Mu Anxiao, who was bending down to pick up the paper, and walked to the foot of the bed.
The wolf demon looked at Hu Yuan's mother, who was covered in sweat, and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Nothing," Hu Yuan's mother shook her head.
"Did you run away?" the wolf demon asked, recalling that Hu Yuan's mother was pregnant.
Hu Yuan's mother shook her head, "I overslept this morning. Don't blame Mom." As she said this, she was about to walk around the bed when Mu Anxiao stood up.
"Hello," she said, looking at Hu Yuan's mother and greeting her politely.
Hu Yuan's mother looked at Mu Anxiao in surprise and asked, "Why are you here?"
"Oh, I came to see him. Then I saw he hadn't eaten, so I went to the cafeteria to buy him some breakfast. He just finished eating," Mu Anxiao pointed at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon didn't want to be rude to Mu Anxiao in front of Hu Yuan's mother and said, "Um, you brought food too." He pointed to the lunchbox in Hu Yuan's mother's hand.
"It's porridge," Hu Yuan's mother said, walking around the foot of the bed to the bedside and placing the lunchbox on the dining table.
Following that, the wolf demon, with a sharp eye, spotted a red booklet in Hu Yuan's mother's bag and asked, "What is this?" As he spoke, he reached out and directly pulled out the red booklet.
"What is this?" the wolf demon said, looking at the large characters on the red booklet and frowning.
Inside, Hu Yuan, looking through his body, saw the words "Marriage Certificate" on the red booklet and his eyes widened, saying, "That's a marriage certificate."
What is a marriage certificate? The wolf demon was confused.
Hu Yuan didn't know how to explain it to the wolf demon and said, "Let's switch."
Eh? While the wolf demon was surprised, Hu Yuan pulled him aside, and his body was instantly returned to Hu Yuan.
"Mom, what are you trying to do?" Hu Yuan asked, looking up.
Hu Yuan's mother looked at Hu Yuan's sudden change in expression and said, "Yuan Yuan, what's wrong?"
"You're not planning to get a divorce, are you?" Hu Yuan asked.
Hu Yuan's mother's eyes flickered, and she said, "No, I just have something to do, so I brought the marriage certificate out."
"Mom, you're pregnant now, you have to be careful, okay?" Hu Yuan said with concern.
Hu Yuan's mother smiled, "Mmm, I know. Mom knows Yuan Yuan cares about Mom. Don't worry, Mom will be fine."
"That's good," Hu Yuan smiled slightly and lowered his head.
Mu Anxiao, after throwing the waste paper the wolf demon had left into the trash can, turned to look at the big-headed fat demon and the small demon, who were staring at Hu Yuan in astonishment, and frowned.
"Master," they said in unison.
Hu Yuan heard their call, his expression stiffened, and he returned without even looking at them.
Immediately after, the wolf demon came out again.
"This porridge can also be eaten at noon," Hu Yuan's mother said.