By the time Zeng Li met Ai Jing Chu again, and it was already a month later. To be precise, she didn’t go to see him, but went to the hospital for a follow-up visit – the day he made an appointment for her when he attached her braces.

She registered, handed over the follow-up card to the nurse, and then sat in the lobby and waited. There are too many people, probably because the new year break, so patients who have been sick for more than a month have piled up together.

Zeng Li arrived a little late, and ended up sitting there for over an hour, and it looked like there was no end in sight.

A beautiful woman next to her couldn’t help but start talking to Zeng Li, “Tell me, what’s going on!”

Seeing her speak, Zeng Li couldn’t help but marvel in her heart, and blurted out: “Your teeth are so white.”

Beautiful women are very useful, “Everyone says so.”

“It’s rare to be able to look so white with braces on.”

The beauty smiled, and confidently took out the cosmetic box in her bag to take a photo, “I wanted to embed some rhinestones.”

After a while, the beauty complained again, “It’s too annoying, waiting for so long, the hospital should also be a service industry, how can it be like this?”

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“Yes.” Zeng Li couldn’t help but sigh.

After eleven o’clock, Zeng Li’s name was finally called.

She hurried into the consulting room.

Seeing her, Zhou Wen greeted her and said, “Zeng Li, you have to wait a little longer, there is another one in front of you.” After saying that, she buried her head and continued to work hard on the stool beside the treatment bed.

The child in front of Zeng Li was still wearing a school uniform and seemed to have knocked off his braces.

Zhou Wen asked, “How many dropped?”

“Two.” The boy replied.

“How much delicious food did you eat during the Chinese New Year? How did you lose it?”

“I ate a piece of rib.”

“It seems that you didn’t remember any of the things that Dr. Zhou and Teacher Ai told you to pay attention to, did you?” Zhou Wen scolded the child in a good-tempered manner, “I said you can’t eat hard, cold, hot and cold food. If it falls again next time, I won’t care about you, you just add trouble for me.”

The child stuck out his tongue.

What she said made Zeng Li, who was standing beside her waiting, also feel ashamed. She was a round older than that child, but she didn’t remember it.

She looked around and found Ai Jing Chu in front of the farthest treatment bed. The appearance of him in a white coat is completely different from that of casual clothes, as if he is cold and alienated from others.

After a few minutes, another female student came over and asked, “Sister Zhou, what do you have for lunch? We are going to order food, and Teacher Ai is treating you.”

Zeng Li was surprised, “Don’t you rest at noon?”

“Usually we take an hour’s rest, pick up the food, and wait until one o’clock to continue working. There are too many people today, and I don’t think there is much time for lunch” Zhou Wen replied.

At this time, Zeng Li’s phone rang, and it was Zeng Li’s mother.

“Xiao Li, we are waiting for you.”

Mother Zeng asked someone to go on a blind date with Zeng Li, thinking that Zeng Li would ask for leave today to come to the hospital for a follow-up visit, and it happened to be an appointment for lunch. Zeng Li didn’t expect that she would wait for so long. After explaining to her mother on the phone, she still couldn’t shirk it. At this moment, both families have arrived, and she is the only one missing.

So she asked Zhou Wen how long it would take.

“Your braces are still there?” Zhou Wen asked.

“It’s gone.” Zeng Li replied shyly.

Zhou Wen wailed, “Why are you so disobedient? He still needs 20 minutes, so it will be at least half an hour for you.”

Zeng Li looked at the time, “It’s too late, can I wait in line and come back in the afternoon?”

“Why?” Zhou Wen said.

Zeng Li and Zhou Wen were about the same age, and they were familiar with each other. They didn’t beat around the bush, so she clasped their hands together and said to Zhou Wen, “I’m going on a blind date. It’s too late, or I’ll be scolded to death.”

Zhou Wen couldn’t help being happy, “Is that so?”

“Yeah.” Zeng Li frowned and nodded.

“Then go and ask Teacher Ai for leave.”

Zeng Li was taken aback when she heard that.

Zhou Wen smiled immediately, “I’m bluffing, remember to come this afternoon.”

Zeng Li got the permission and hurriedly went downstairs to take a car to go to the banquet.

Ai Jing Chu had just finished his work, so he took a breath and sat down. There were still several follow-up consultation cards left in line on the table, and Zeng Li’s one was on the top, and Ai Jing Chu saw the name with a glance.

He asked, “Zhou Wen, where is your next patient?”

Zhou Wen just finished the work in hand and stood up, “Zeng Li waited all morning, but there was something urgent, so she told me to come back in the afternoon.” She was afraid that Ai Jing Chu would not have a good impression of Zeng Li, and she was afraid that he might think on his own initiative, she hastily explained for Zeng Li.

Ai Jing Chu didn’t speak, but pulled out the card and put it aside.

After two o’clock, Zeng Li left and returned, and waited for more than an hour before it was her turn. At this time, there are very few patients, and she can almost be regarded as the last one.

As soon as she lay down, Zhou Wen invited Ai Jing Chu to come.

“Did you glue the bracket that fell off?” Ai Jing Chu asked.

Zeng Li heard his voice hoarse again.

“No.” After Zhou Wen answered, she glanced at Ai Jing Chu. She felt more and more that her mentor was unattainable. Before the patient opened his mouth, he could actually see that a bracket had fallen off. If She hadn’t told her this morning, she would have been caught off guard.

Ai Jing Chu sat down, changed a pair of gloves, took a mouth mirror from the sterilised dental tray and checked it for Zeng Li, then gave Zhou Wen instructions on what to do next, and went on to check on other patients.

Zhou Wen took the mouth mirror from Ai Jing Chu’s hand, and the first thing she did was not to get braces for Zeng Li, but to observe Zeng Li’s teeth back and forth, and then asked the students next to her to continue to look at them.

Zeng Li was stared at with horror, “What’s wrong?”

“Artwork.”

Seeing Zeng Li’s puzzled expression, Zhou Wen explained, “It’s not about you, it’s about your orthotics. Do you mean it, Fan Fan?”

The girl named Fan Fan nodded quickly, “Teacher Ai did it by himself, it’s so perfect.”

“It’s been a long time since I saw Teacher Ai’s full work, so I should take a picture.”

Zeng Li has black lines on her face, and a mouthful of black metal objects. Somehow it has something to do with beauty…

Zhou Wen said: “I originally made an appointment with you that day, but I couldn’t come because of something urgent, and I didn’t get through the phone, so I wanted to tell the nurse that when you came, I asked them to make another appointment for you. The teacher was very angry when he heard it.”

Zeng Li opened his mouth and waited for Zhou Wen to fetch her the steel wire, unable to answer the conversation, so she could only continue listening.

While moving the pliers in her hand, Zhou Wen said: “He often told us that to be a human being, we must be ‘trustworthy in words and resolute in deeds’. Doctors and patients must be honest. The word ‘integrity’ refers to ‘Inner sincerity in the heart, outer trust in people’.”

Zeng Li could finally shut up and rest, she asked curiously: “Is Teacher Ai a blunt person?”

“Excuse me? How could this man have anything to do with these two words. Usually, if you ask him to say one more word, he would probably think it’s a waste of words.”

“Then why are you so afraid of him?”

“The boss is so kind and friendly. He never jokes with us, and you don’t know how strict his exams are, and the papers are just too scary. There was a senior sister in our building who would cry when asked directly by him, and when it’s our turn, we might be frightened into a heart attack.” Zhou Wen looked at Ai Jing Chu’s absence and complained secretly.

When Zeng Li heard this, she couldn’t help but want to laugh, she remembered that night that Ai Jing Chu almost scared her out of a heart attack.

Then, Zhou Wen glued the nails, and Fan Fan Shou was stirring the cement and helping her. After a while, it was finished, and Zhou Wen went to ask Ai Jing Chu to check and arrange the next step.

Unexpectedly, Ai Jing Chu did not escape for a long time.

Because Zeng Li was Zhou Wen’s last patient, and there was nothing else to do when she got off work, she saw that Ai Jing Chu would take a while to get away, so she took the time to go to the bathroom first.

Zeng Li was also bored studying the sink on the left. She didn’t understand why the thin water pipe above the sink could flow water for a while and then stop by itself, so she frowned and pondered vigorously, but she didn’t expect that someone came by.

She quickly lay back and glanced at it, only to realise that it was Ai Jing Chu who sat down.

She wanted to say hello to him, but she didn’t know how to say hello.

On the last side, she lost her composure, as if she was acting out a bitter scene, and he certainly didn’t know how much trouble the “thank you” he left had caused her in the work unit.

“Uh—Zhou Wen went to the toilet.” Zeng Li said.

“Wait then,” he said.

At this moment, the rubber band that tied Zeng Li’s hair fell to the ground, she didn’t realise it, but Ai Jing Chu saw it, took off his gloves and picked it up for her.

While bending over, Zhou Wen ran back. She didn’t see Ai Jing Chu’s figure because she was separated by the partition between the grids, and thought he hadn’t come yet, so she asked Zeng Li excitedly as she approached, “By the way, how was the blind date at noon?”

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Wen saw Ai Jing Chu’s figure, and his mouth suddenly stammered, “Ai… Teacher Ai is here?”

“Yeah.” He paused for a moment, and slipped the rubber band into his pocket.

Then, it was that set of procedures again, Ai Jing Chu instructed, and Zhou Wen watched from the side.

At this time, the head nurse came in, “Xiao Ai, I found two of the No. 4 steel wires you want.” The head nurse is a slightly fat aunt, about fifty years old.

Ai Jing Chu thanked her and let Zhou Wen follow.

The head nurse took a glance and saw that this was the only patient left, so she leaned against the table and chatted with Ai Jing Chu. She talked about the Chinese New Year and the hospital, and Ai Jing Chu responded intermittently.

Suddenly the head nurse said, “Hey, Xiao Ai, I heard you have a girlfriend?”

When she asked this suddenly, everyone who heard it, including the students taking notes in the next room, stopped their movements and raised their ears to eavesdrop.

Ai Jing Chu was about to say something, but the head nurse said again: “Don’t hide it from us aunts. My old classmate told me, what’s her name? It’s a very distinctive name, look at my memory. “The head nurse pondered for a while.

The others, including Zeng Li, were waiting for the answer from the head nurse.

“Oh, yes!” The head nurse suddenly realised, “She’s called Zeng Li! My old classmate said that you picked from all the flowers in other libraries.”

When Zeng Li heard her name being spoken by the aunt, she was so frightened that she almost rolled off the treatment bed.

Even Ai Jing Chu himself was taken aback for a moment.

Also surprised – Zhou Wen.

Zhou Wen looked suspiciously at Ai Jing Chu, then at Zeng Li, trying to decide whether the “Zeng Li” that the head nurse said was really Zeng Li.

Fan Fan who had just walked over looked at Zeng Li and said, “What a coincidence, isn’t her name just Zeng Li?” Zhou Wen looked at Fan Fan with admiration. She used to think that she was quite introverted, but she didn’t expect her to stand up and block the bullet hole at the critical moment. She simply had no hesitation.

All of these students knew the name Zeng Li, because Ai Jing Chu also took out her medical records in class yesterday and explained it. Although they saw the black and white projections of the front and side of the skull, they didn’t know what she looked like, but everyone remembers the word “Zeng Li” clearly.

Zhou Wen pondered for a while, is Zeng Li the teacher’s wife?

Impossible, why didn’t she see it at all?

If it was true, she actually covered up the crime for the teacher’s wife and let her go on a blind date?

Then it’s not as simple as getting a heart attack, the boss has turned her into a pervert.

Zhou Wen was a little messy for a moment.

When all eyes were on her, Zeng Li wished she could dig a hole in the ground, and she also thought about how to excuse him. But she thought again, why did she explain for him? At the beginning, he didn’t speak clearly, which caused her to be gossiped by her colleagues, and she couldn’t speak clearly. Now that he has finally reaped the consequences, she can be regarded as revenge.

It’s a pity that she doesn’t have the aura and concentration of Ai Jing Chu after all. After holding back for a long time, she hurriedly waved her hands, “No, it’s not like that!”

Seeing everyone’s inquisitive eyes, Zeng Li continued to explain: “It’s definitely not what the people in our unit said, we just…we…” She was originally clumsy, and she didn’t know what to say when she was in a hurry.

Zeng Li finally got anxious, “Ai Jing Chu, say something!”

Zhou Wen’s heart skipped a beat, who else in this world would dare to speak to the boss with such an attitude except his girlfriend?

Ai Jing Chu didn’t expect that the “thank you” he said casually would bring her into a storm.

That morning, he was eating white rice porridge with pickles for breakfast, but a bunch of people sat around him asking for his phone number, chatting non-stop. He didn’t like to chat with people, but most of them were elders, so when he had to, he gave his number. Then they promised to take good care of Zeng Li, not to let her be bullied at work, not to let her leaders arrange tiring work for her, and not to oppress her to write summaries, experiences, and plans. He suddenly remembered the the doormat appearance she had when she talked about her past at the top of the mountain in the morning, so he said “thank you” casually.

At this moment, Ai Jing Chu glanced at Zeng Li, who was like an ant on a hot pot, and said slowly while taking off his gloves: “Did you charge for the bracket that you reglued her?” In the large and quiet consulting room There was still some echo, his hoarse voice was not too serious, so he sounded a little lower than usual.

But the object of his words was not Zeng Li, but Zhou Wen, as if the gossip they asked had nothing to do with him.

Be calm and calm.

Zhou Wen hurriedly shook her head in denial.

Ai Jing Chu said: “Then you open a bill for 20 yuan, and ask Zeng Li to go downstairs to pay the fee first, lest we can’t find someone after we get off work. We’ll do the next step when we come back.”

So, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zeng Li restrained his urge to strangle Ai Jing Chu to death, stood up, and left the consultation room with the payment slip.

Even in this situation, he still hasn’t forgotten to ask her to pay the money before others get off work!

Zeng Li gritted her teeth and walked to the toll window on the first floor. It seemed that everyone was rushing to pay at this time, and there were quite a few people queuing up. She stood for a long time before it was her turn. When she climbed up to the sixth floor and returned to Ai Jing Chu’s place panting, she found that the situation was different.

The head nurse is at a loss.

Fan Fan and several other students were making moulds.

Zhou Wen sat beside the treatment bed and waited for her.

And Ai Jing Chu was flipping through the medical records in front of the computer.

There was no sound in the consulting room, it was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop on the ground, it seemed that everyone had returned to their places, and all the thoughts of inquiry and gossip had calmed down.

She handed the receipt to Zhou Wen.

Zhou Wen collected the ticket, let Zeng Li lie down without squinting, quickly finished the remaining work one by one, and then invited Ai Jing Chu to check.

“Okay, you make an appointment with her next time.” Ai Jing Chu said to Zhou Wen.

All this made Zeng Li almost think that it was all her hallucination just now, so she was so curious to death, what happened after she left?

Zeng Li stood up, remembering that when she was lying down just now, the back of her head hurt because of the ponytail, so she took off the hair band, but now she doesn’t know where to go. She bent down and searched on the ground, but she didn’t find it. She rummaged through the bag, but it still wasn’t there.

“Is Wednesday okay?” Zhou Wen asked.

“Good.”

Zeng Li was still looking for her hair tie, when Zhou Wen blinked at her suddenly, Zeng Li showed a puzzled expression. Zhou Wen took a glance and found that Ai Jing Chu’s back was facing them, so she took the time to wipe her tears, looking pitiful.

When Zeng Li left, she glanced at Ai Jing Chu’s back hesitantly.

She still has one very important thing to do…

But in front of everyone, and after the situation just now, she really couldn’t ask. When she asked for leave yesterday, Director Li told her again, asking her to ask when Ai Jing Chu was free, and he wanted to treat her. When she asked him for leave before for follow-up visits, she was usually only allowed to ask for two or three hours, or at most half a day. Unexpectedly, this time it was very happy, and she directly asked her if one day was enough, so she was able to take advantage of Ai Jing Chu and go on a blind date at noon.

If she doesn’t succeed again today, Director Li will feel that she is not doing her job well, and if she doesn’t take care of his affairs, it will be troublesome if she doesn’t know when to wear her little shoes.

Zeng Li was so entangled in her heart, but she couldn’t say it in front of everyone, so she had to sigh in her heart and walk out.

After waiting for the elevator for a long time, as soon as she calmed down, she suddenly understood why Ai Jing Chu asked her to pay the fee. She walked back and stood on the side of the corridor, seeing Ai Jing Chu still sitting there through the glass. Finally, she mustered up the courage to pick up her mobile phone and dialed Ai Jing Chu’s number.

Zeng Li saw that he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and connected it, put it to his ear and said “Hello”. And the mobile phone is the same as last time, it is packed in a transparent plastic bag. If it looks like this, it will not get dirty when you use it at work. It is really clean.

“I’m Zeng Li.” She originally wanted to call him, what? Ai Jing Chu? too awkward. Teacher Ai, Doctor Ai? She had called him by his first name just now, but now she changed it back, which is too hypocritical.

“I know.” Ai Jing Chu’s computer was facing the glass, so when he looked away from the screen, he looked up and saw Zeng Li not far away.

Zeng Li was a little afraid that he would hang up the phone and come out to talk to her.

In that case, how will everyone react after seeing it?

But, luckily he didn’t.

The two looked at each other, talking on the phone through a glass and half a corridor away.

“When are you free at night? Director Li from our unit wanted to treat you to dinner last time.” Zeng Li said.

“You tell him no, I appreciate it.”

“I pushed many times, but he insisted on asking. If you don’t go, he will ask me next time.” Zeng Li said helplessly.

Ai Jing Chu was silent for a while, and replied: “Then tonight, if he has time.”

“hE’s definitely fine.” Zeng Li made the decision for Director Li, “Then I’ll call him first and ask him to contact the place?”

“Okay.” Ai Jing Chu said.

After Zeng Li ended the call, she quickly reported to the leader. Director Li was very happy and praised Zeng Li for a good job, and then asked Ai Jing Chu what he likes to eat, Chinese food, hot pot or Western food, so he can book a seat.

Zeng Li had no choice but to call again, “I forgot to ask you what you like to eat, so he can make an order.” At this moment, Zhou Wen got up to turn around, Zeng Li immediately turned around and hid in the elevator entrance.

If they saw that it was her who was talking on the phone with Ai Jing Chu, and she was still brazen enough to ask him out for dinner, then she would definitely not be able to clean up by jumping into the Yellow River.

“Chinese food, but no alcohol.” Ai Jing Chu replied.

“Oh.” Zeng Li said, “I’ll go first when I know the place, and I’ll send you the address later, and you’ll come over after get off work.”

Ai Jing Chu on the other end of the phone hesitated for two or three seconds, and then said: “I don’t have any patients here, let’s go together. Wait for me at the parking lot gate for a few minutes.”

Zeng Li didn’t wait long at the exit on the first floor, when he saw Ai Jing Chu’s SUV driving out, the car slid forward for a few meters, and then stopped.

After she got in the car, she said: “Director Li said that for your convenience, he will have dinner near the hospital. He will come over after picking up his wife and children, and will meet us there at 6:30.”

She and Ai Jing Chu glanced at the clock at the same time—it was just five o’clock.

How do they spend the remaining hour or so?

Zeng Li has never been in business, received customers or accompanied leaders, and has no social experience in this situation.

“How about I call Director Li and tell him that you are off work and ask him to count the time in advance?” Zeng Li asked tentatively.

“No, let’s drive around.” Ai Jing Chu said.

Then, the two of them really meandered along the street slowly in the car. It was already close to the evening peak at this moment, and the road was congested enough, and they continued to contribute to increase the congestion.

Zeng Li really had nothing to do, so she sent a text message asking Ma Yi Yi how to deal with this situation.

Ma Yi Yi replied: “It depends on what kind of person the target is. Generally, you can accompany the client to play cards, wash their feet, massage or drink tea to pass the time.”

Play cards? Two people can’t do it, two are missing two.

Wash your feet…massage…or drink tea.

Zeng Li had no choice but to choose the most reliable one to ask Ai Jing Chu for advice, “Why don’t we find a place to have some tea?”

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“If you want tea, I have a place.” Ai Jing Chu said.

So, they car drove to a secluded side street. In this season, the leaves of the sycamore trees are all bare, but it does not damage the silent beauty of the blue tiles and grey walls along the way. On the black door plaque of one of the courtyard gates, only the word “Yiwei1” was inscribed. If Ai Jing Chu hadn’t brought her in, she would have no idea that it was a tea garden.

The person who answered the door was a beautiful woman in a dark blue uniform, leading them around the courtyard to the side room.

When she sat down, the beauty said, “Teacher Ai, the tea you asked for last time is already available.”

“Then brew that first.” Ai Jing Chu said.

Afterwards, the beauty brought up the tea set and utensils.

Zeng Li didn’t know much about tea, but thought tea should be tasted in purple sand teapots, but she and Ai Jing Chu saw a transparent glass cup with no cover in front of her, so they picked it up and looked at it.

Ai Jing Chu saw Zeng Li’s question, “We’re drinking green tea. In addition to tasting and smelling green tea, you can use glassware to see its colour and shape.”

The beauty who made the tea smiled and explained softly: “This is the top-grade green tea. It is Mingqian tea2 grown near Dongping Temple in Dongdong. The altitude can’t be too high or too low. Each one is a single bud Choose one from ten thousand buds.” As she spoke, she scooped up a spoonful of tea leaves, showed it to Zeng Li, and evenly divided them into the glass cups of the two.

Zeng Li took a closer look, and found that the tea leaves were flat and slender, green and oily, one by one, full and distinct, and she immediately thought of a thing that was not very poetic but the closest to it—the long and thin version of green tea melon seeds.

Afterwards, the beauty tested the temperature of the boiling water on the side. When the temperature was right, she washed the utensils once, and then poured water along the edge of the cup. After she made a “please” gesture with a smile, she quietly backed out.

The two of them were left in the room, and Guzheng music played softly on the stereo, but she didn’t know where the speakers were.

Those long and narrow leaves were immersed in the water, first they floated on the surface, and gradually one or two stood upright, and the soup slowly changed from colourless to light green. All these changes can be seen clearly through a thin layer of glass, and the fragrance of tea spreads in the air as the colour of the water spreads.

He doesn’t like to talk.

Neither did she.

Suddenly, Zeng Li’s cell phone rang, and a text message came. She opened it and looked, it was an unfamiliar number, and there was only one line in it: Is it Zeng Li? I am Zhou Wen.

When she saw this sentence, she looked up at Ai Jing Chu nervously.

Ai Jing Chu then cast his gaze over.

Zeng Li said, “I’ll go out and make a call.” Then she went outside, closed the door, and dialed back the number.

“Zhou Wen, I’m Zeng Li.”

“It’s really you?” Zhou Wen said, “I secretly checked the number on your profile, and it turned out to be correct.”

“I have used this number for many years, and I just have something to ask you.”

“What?”

“When I went to pay the fee, Ai… did the teacher say something? Did he explain it for me?” Everyone was so wrong.

“Oh, don’t mention it. After you left, does the old man still need to use his words to deal with us? Just one glance at us, and we do what we should do. Even if we have nothing to do, we should pretend to be very busy, lest he find something for us to do.” Zhou Wen replied, “Then the head nurse saw that he actually charged you, and thought she might have misunderstood, because even the students themselves don’t need to pay for dental work at Teacher Ai’s, let alone his girlfriend. Later, when the head nurse saw that we didn’t respond, she lost her enthusiasm, said something else and left.”

“It’s that simple?”

“Yes.”

Zeng Li originally thought that Ai Jing Chu dismissed her, but she was afraid that his description would become darker, and it would be easier for him to explain alone.

“But Teacher Ai is quite abnormal today.”

“How?”

“We charge 20 yuan for regluing a bracket. This is the hospital’s regulation, but Teacher Ai rarely asks us to charge. The head nurse never knows about this. Sometimes I am too busy to remember, and sometimes I really feel It’s embarrassing to accept a little money from others. Teacher Ai never asks, and we don’t bother to caring about it. So we feel that he actually asked you to pay the money, either because he has a grudge against you or because he has a ghost in his heart. The analysis was clear and logical, and she finally couldn’t help but ask, “Tell me, why is this?”

“Yeah, why?” Zeng Li played sloppy eyes with her.

When Zeng Li was waiting for the elevator just now, she thought about it. Ai Jing Chu didn’t explain that in Dongshan because of her face. If faced with such rumours, the first person to deny it is not the woman but the man, the woman may be more embarrassed in front of her colleagues. So, in front of his colleagues and students today, he deliberately dismissed her, so what else is there to say?

Or-

Is he a person who is dismissive of such things?

“Are you our teacher Ai’s girlfriend?” Zhou Wen asked.

“I said it all, no.”

“I felt that he was going to punish us severely after he got rid of you.” Zhou Wen said, “Anyway, I called to ask you for help.”

“What?” Zeng Li wondered.

“Say a good word for us in front of Teacher Ai, you don’t know how we will die.”

“I said it all, I…”

“Whether you are his girlfriend or not, we will all die tragically, really. If you are not, and we dare to gossip in front of him and watch his good show, he must be very upset; and if you are indeed the future teacher’s wife, but I still let you go on a blind date without telling him for you. The old man will probably kill me. Seeing that I understood you so well at noon, can you tell him about it, Zeng Li?” Zhou Wen had a cheerful personality, and knew everyone well, so she begged so cheekily, whether Zeng Li agreed or not.

“He…isn’t such a person who pretends to be self-serving?”

“Shi Mu3!” Zhou Wen wailed.

This title made Zeng Li’s forehead twitch, and she almost threw his phone on the ground in fright, “Stop shouting.”

At this time, the beautiful woman who was making tea just now came from the other side of the yard, smiled at Zeng Li, knocked on Ai Jing Chu’s door and said “excuse me”, and opened the door with a pot of water.

Zeng Li was turning sideways to avoid that person, and happened to see Ai Jing Chu’s face through the gap he pushed away, and Ai Jing Chu also happened to cast his gaze over.

“Shi Mu,” Zhou Wen saw that Zeng Li hadn’t spoken, and called out again, “Today, Teacher Ai went to the locker room to change in a hurry after he got off work, and didn’t say a word, and when we went back to the dormitory just now, my junior sister said that she saw a beautiful woman in Teacher Ai’s car, could it be you? If it wasn’t you, then we should check it out, our boss never…”

“Stop, stop.” Zeng Li had a headache. She rarely lied, and she didn’t dare to open her eyes and tell nonsense. At this moment, she really didn’t know what to do, so she made haste and hung up the phone.

The beauty brewed a second cup of tea and left quietly. At the same time, Zeng Li returned to his seat.

“Drinking tea here reminds me of the cafe I opened together with my friends.” She remembered Zhou Wen’s entrustment, so she thought about the topic and chatted with Ai Jing Chu.

“Where is it?” Ai Jing Chu added some water to the cup by himself.

“It’s just outside the headquarters of your school.” Zeng Li replied, “Compared with this place, it really seems to be in the mundane world.”

Ai Jing Chu didn’t answer, so Zeng Li sighed secretly in his heart, and said, “Why is it called ‘Yi Wei’ here?”

“Maybe it is taken from the four words ‘Chan Cha Yi Wei4‘.”

“Our cafe is very vulgar, and my English name is used directly.” Zeng Li suddenly remembered something when he said this, and the expression on his face became lighter.

Ai Jing Chu turned to ask: “How is the business?”

“Barely making a profit, just enough to fulfil the dreams of the few people in our dormitory when we were in college,” Zeng Li murmured, “At that time, I just felt that opening a small coffee shop with the people you like is the happiest life in the world.” When she said this, the corners of her mouth curled up, showing a helpless smile.

Zeng Li suddenly felt that she had some emotions that she shouldn’t have, and said instead: “There is also a student from your medical school who works with us. She knows you and always says that you are too cruel to students.” Finally, we got to the point.

“How?” he asked.

“Say there was a dissertation defence, and you made a girl cry.” In order not to betray Zhou Wen, Zeng Li had no choice but to pull Dou Dou on his back.

“Actually, not just once.” Ai Jing Chu answered honestly.

Zeng Li was stunned, “So fierce? In the past, when we were defending graduation, the teachers were always going through the motions and were very kind.”

“It’s different,” he said.

“Why is it different?” Zeng Li didn’t understand, could it be the difference between a famous brand and a third-rate university?

“Sometimes, institutional issues are beyond the control of ordinary people, but what I can do is to teach them well, otherwise every bit of it will be life-threatening.”

“But…” Zeng Li wanted to continue, but he didn’t know how to start.

He put his hands on the table and stared at his teacup.

Those leaves have spread out, no longer floating on the water, but all stand upright.

Then, he flicked the glass wall lightly with his fingers, making a thumping sound. After being shaken, the leaves floated up and down in the cup again, and the color of the soup became thicker than before.

Just as Zeng Li was immersed in it, he heard Ai Jing Chu slowly say: “There is an old saying that ‘a small doctor heals a disease, a Chinese medicine cures a person, and a great doctor cures the country’. There is another way. Do not seek to govern the people and the country, but seek to be honest. I hope that every student I teach, they can understand this.”

After Ai Jing Chu finished speaking, he had no other words.

At this moment, all the leaves in the water stretched out and sank vertically to the bottom of the cup. With the green tea soup, it was like a piece of emerald melted by clear water.

He closed his long and narrow eyes, quietly lowered his head and took a sip of tea.

Because of the shaking of the cup, the tea fragrance diffused again.

Suddenly, Zeng Li felt that the man in front of him was very much like this tea. It was light and tasteless at the beginning, but as time went by, it became more and more mellow.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Director Li’s family of three had already ordered food in the private room and waited.

Director Li stood up with his children and his wife, and arranged for Ai Jing Chu and Zeng Li to be seated. The chubby boy sat between his parents, Zeng Li was next to Mrs. Li, and Ai Jing Chu was next to Director Li. The children were obviously much more obedient than before.

Mrs. Li said to Zeng Li: “Let the men sit together and let them drink theirs. Xiao Zeng, see what else you want to order.” After speaking, she asked the waiter to open the wine.

Zeng Li said that enough is enough, smiled and pushed down the menu, looked at the bottle of white wine that had just been opened, and glanced at Ai Jing Chu again. She passed the message for him about wanting to eat Chinese food and not drink.

Sure enough, Director Li was rejected by Ai Jing Chu when he poured the wine himself.

Later, when the food was served, the five of them had a clink of glasses together after the official start. Except Director Li, the other three adults all drank drinks. Director Li tried to pour it for him again, but Ai Jing Chu still stopped him.

“I’m going to work tomorrow, so I really can’t drink.” Ai Jing Chu said tactfully.

“Drinking something won’t affect your work, right, Xiao Zeng?”

Zeng Li was not easy to answer, so she only dared to smile.

“I came here by car.” Ai Jing Chu had no choice but to say again.

Director Li used his eloquence skills, “It’s no problem, ask Xiao Zeng to take you off, she can drive, absolutely no problem.”

Ai Jing Chu let him know that he was still not ready to drink.

“Then have a drink, little Zeng.” Director Li turned his target to Zeng Li.

“Director, you know, I’m not very good at it.”

“It’s not like I haven’t seen you drink before.” Director Li said with a smile, “Come on, let’s have fun together.” After speaking, he picked up a small glass and filled a glass full of wine.

The cup turned half a circle on the glass plate, and turned to Zeng Li, which made her extremely entangled.

Why do you have to drink alcohol before you have really eaten?

If Ai Jing Chu doesn’t drink, it’s already very embarrassing to Director Li. If she doesn’t drink anymore…

While hesitating, Mrs. Li stood up, and glared at her husband pretending to be reproachful, “Old Li really, how can you persuade other young girls to drink?” She picked up the wine dispenser and poured it into her glass. “How about this, as a housewife, I have something to say, and if I say something wrong, Professor Ai don’t mind.”

Afterwards, she raised her glass to Ai Jing Chu across the table, “If it wasn’t for Professor Ai’s help, I don’t know how much hardship the child would have suffered that day. It would be a life-saving grace if it was shown on TV. During a period of time, Lao Li taught the children how to bow, and also taught a lot of auspicious words, and wanted to recognise you as a godfather. But we later heard that Professor Ai’s family background is extraordinary, and we dare not be so casual. Finally, we asked Xiao Zeng to help, and Professor Ai I only gave you a piece of thin noodles to have a meal with us. A thousand words are nothing more than a word of thanks, but now I have a glass of thin wine.”

After saying that, Mrs. Li raised her hands, raised her head and drank the white wine in the glass in one gulp.

Although she was talking about letting Ai Jing Chu do whatever he wanted, as an older woman, she actually drank the wine first, so that Ai Jing Chu had to stand up and pick up the glass of wine that was transferred to Zeng Li just now, he also drank it in one gulp. Zeng Li frowned when he saw him swallowing.

Persuading people to drink at a dinner party is difficult at the beginning, once it happens, there will be another time.

In the end, the bottle of liquor had been disposed of by three people.

Director Li asked the waiter to get the wine again, but Zeng Li hurriedly stopped him.

Mrs. Li also persuaded: “Just enjoy yourself, Lao Li, if you drink any more, Xiao Zeng will be in a hurry.”

Zeng Li wanted to argue, but this time she didn’t say anything.

In the end, it was still the same as Director Li’s previous assignment. Ai Jing Chu drank and couldn’t drive, so Zeng Li was responsible for taking him back.

She was a little nervous sitting in the driver’s seat. She had never driven such an expensive car before, so she asked how to raise the seat, how to start it, and where the lights were…

After Ai Jing Chu explained one by one, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at her.

“I’m good at driving.” Zeng Li assured him.

After the car slowly got on the elevated road, Ai Jing Chu believed her words. She is skilled and has a good sense of direction. He roughly told her how to get there, and she never made a mistake.

He drank about three or four ounces, not drunk, but still a little over the top, so he closed his eyes slightly and leaned lazily on the seat.

“I’m sorry.” Zeng Li said guiltily.

“For what?” He asked with his eyes closed.

“If I hadn’t had the cheek to beg you, you wouldn’t have come.” Like her, he probably hated this kind of dinner the most.

“Then I should say thank you.” Ai Jing Chu said.

After drinking, Ai Jing Chu was not the same as usual, his words were much more kind, and he chattered a lot, which made her feel a lot more relaxed, as if she had returned to that snowy night, on the cold black road, only the two of them. From time to time, she could say something.

“Anyway, every time I meet you, I either say sorry or thank you,” she said.

This time, he didn’t answer.

After a while, she said again: “Are you going to teach or work on patients tomorrow? It won’t delay work, right?”

After asking, she remembered that he goes to the clinic every three or five days, so she should know very well.

“Do you have class tomorrow morning?”

After a while without getting his answer, she couldn’t help but glanced at him and found that he hadn’t opened his eyes.

“You won’t fall asleep again, will you?”

“I won’t care about you this time,” she murmured.

After saying this, she slowly slowed down the car, finally stopped, and glanced at him again, but there was still no movement.

“I haven’t pleaded for Zhou Wen yet.”

She sighed.

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“It’s better for you to take take a pornographic photo for Zhou Wen. You must give her up in the future, and then I’ve paid her back.”

Unexpectedly, Ai Jing Chu couldn’t help laughing at this.

He smiled very shallowly, his lips raised slightly, the left and right corners of his mouth were sunken a little, forming two small dimples, his eyebrows were slightly curved, and there was something in that broad smile that made people blush. With a smile on his lips, he opened his eyes and said in an idle and hoarse voice, “Is that how you thank me?”

“I…I…” Zeng Li didn’t dare to look at his face anymore, turned her head away and didn’t know what to do, so she started the car and continued to move forward.

He sat up straighter, “Zhou Wen called you?”

“Well, she said you would deal with them and asked me to intercede for them.” Zeng Li confessed honestly.

“They screwed you,” he said.

“Ah, why?”

“They didn’t get an answer from me. They know you are easy to deal with, so they came to test you.”

“Really?”

“Eighty percent…eighty percent.” He replied.

When Zeng Li heard this, she couldn’t laugh or cry. They teased her, and she was still worried about them.

She drove the car seriously, and kept silent all the time, so she looked a little serious, which gave others a sense of distance, which was completely different from the shyness and timidity that often appeared on her face. Ai Jing Chu couldn’t help but look at her more, she didn’t have long nails, but they were painted with pink nail polish, and the small pair of studs on her ears flickered in and out of her hair, which reminded him something in his pocket.

He thought she was angry, so he said, “They’re all children, don’t take it seriously.”

“They are around my age.”

“You have been working long ago, and they haven’t been exposed to society yet.” Ai Jing Chu explained.

“You really protective. When you drink tea, you still say you want to be a strict teacher!” Zeng Li said.

At this time, Ai Jing Chu touched something from his body and handed it to Zeng Li, “Is it yours?”

Zeng Li looked sideways and saw that it was a black hair tie, very similar to the one she tied on her head today.

“Where did you find it?” Zeng Li took his hand away from the steering wheel and took it.

“I picked it up off the ground.” Ai Jing Chu replied.

Because the patient had to lie down, he often encounters people dropping things. He seldom picks them up for the patient not because he is too lazy to bend down, but because there is too much bacteria on the floor, once the hands are dirty, gloves have to be changed, so he usually only reminds them. However, he accidentally picked it up for Zeng Li, and even put it in his pocket when Zhou Wen’s voice appeared.

After Zeng Li thanked him, she thought of something and said hesitantly, “Actually, I used to…”

Ai Jing Chu suddenly interrupted her and said, “You have passed the intersection.”

Zeng Li hurriedly slowed down and changed lanes, “I was talking to you, I didn’t pay attention.”

“It’s okay. You go forward. There is a small road at the next intersection where you can go back. It’s very close.” Ai Jing Chu said.

So, following Ai Jing Chu’s instructions, she turned off the main road in front of her and drove into a one-way street. That road is next to the river, it is an old street. Recently, the government is carrying out the Binjiang image project, all the residents have been relocated, and the surrounding houses are waiting to be demolished. There are almost no street lights, and there are no pedestrians and vehicles. If Ai Jing Chu was not leading the way, Zeng Li would not dare to go here.

The light was too dark, so she turned on the high beams, walked a little further, and suddenly saw a car parked in the middle of the road ahead.

“This car really has no sense of public morality.” Zeng Li said.

“Is it okay?”

Zeng Li stopped and looked over there, “I’ll try.”

She leaned the car slowly, always felt that the car seemed to be moving, and felt that it was her own illusion.

Ai Jing Chu suddenly said: “Forget it, let’s turn around.”

“Why?” This is a one-way street. If you go back in the wrong direction, if you are photographed at the traffic light at the intersection, you will be fined and deducted points.

Ai Jing Chu looked at Zeng Li’s bewilderment, and wanted to explain, but couldn’t open his mouth. This question really defeated him. He tried to find a euphemistic and implicit word from his dictionary to express it, but unfortunately it was difficult.

At the same time, the rear window of the car was rolled down, and a man and a woman poked their heads out.

In a blink of an eye, Zeng Li understood what happened just now, and froze in place.

T/N: hahahahahahaha!

Ai Jing Chu said quite calmly: “Now that it’s all over, just wait.”

So they remained silent for about two or three minutes.

After Zeng Li figured it out, his cheeks became redder and redder.

She actually sat here with a man and waited for someone else’s car to stop shaking. Fortunately, the other party knew they were there, so they was probably just doing the aftermath. The crux of the problem is that they still have the same model and the same colour as them.

Zeng Li felt that it was not good to shine on others so brightly, so she quickly turned off the headlights in front of the car.

Ai Jing Chu said, “Don’t close it.”

Zeng Li wondered.

Ai Jingchu explained: “In case others misunderstand.”

Zeng Li was even more puzzled, “What is the misunderstanding?”

After asking, she had an epiphany.

By the river without street lights, two cars, two pairs of men and women, stayed in the dark car…

T/N: OMG! hahahahahahaha!

Fight in pairs – when Zeng Li thought of this idiom, her heart trembled.

The ancients who invented this word should cry.

They sat for a few more minutes, but the other party still didn’t come out to move the car, and it seemed that they were in a stand still. In this embarrassing situation, the seconds felt like years, and Zeng Li even felt that they could hear each other’s breathing.

Instead of observing the aftershocks of the other party in silence, it is better to find something to do, so Zeng Li turned on the radio a little helplessly.

She didn’t know which channel it was, but when she turned it on, she heard a middle-aged male voice say with a thick accent: “The spongy body is composed of cellular fibrous tissue, and its growth is caused by the proliferation of tissue…” Because the technical terms are too many, she didn’t understand what the man was talking about on the radio at first, until the words “the second development of male genitalia is about to usher in” came out from the man’s mouth, she realised it.

Zeng Li felt that her mind was going to explode, so she reached out and pressed the next station in a panic, but when she listened to the similar health program, she turned off the radio a little annoyed, and then honked the horn.

Ai Jing Chu glanced at her and sensed her emotion, “Wait, let’s turn around.”

Instead of doing so, she honked the horn again.

Just as Zeng Li was about to go back the same way to no avail, the rear door of the car in front opened, and a man and a woman got out of the car. The man was a short, fat middle-aged man, wearing a shirt, staggering on his feet, as if he was a little drunk, and hid in the co-pilot’s seat at an extremely fast speed. But the woman was very young, walked slowly towards the driver’s seat, turned around disheveledly and gave Zeng Li a middle finger. Seeing that Zeng Li’s light was still shining on her, she couldn’t help but become angry and cursed loudly.

The woman spoke extremely fast, her voice was loud and clear, resounding through this dark alley, and what she spit out was the most obscene words in the market.

Zeng Li was the same as before, blood rushed to her head suddenly, her face was flushed with anger, but she didn’t know how to deal with it, she could only use ten fingers to firmly grasp the steering wheel, unable to refute a word.

Seeing that Zeng Li didn’t reply, the woman just waited in silence, not only did she not stop, but her arrogance became even more emphatic.

Under such circumstances, Ai Jing Chu suddenly said to her: “Have you been bullied since childhood?”

“Huh?” She was at a loss.

He looked at her and unfastened the seat belt on his side.

Zeng Li hurriedly asked: “What are you doing?” She reached out her hand to stop him.

“Don’t do anything, take two CDs.” After he finished speaking, he took out two CDs from the CD case, opened the door and got out of the car.

Zeng Li looked at his actions in puzzlement.

Seeing Ai Jing Chu get out of the car, the woman thought that he would take revenge for her companion, so she immediately closed her mouth and took a step back vigilantly.

Unexpectedly, Ai Jing Chu did not go there, but just walked to his car, bent down and stuck the CD on the outer frame of the license plate number, then circled half a circle, walked to the back of the car and put the remaining CD on the frame of the license plate. Stuck the same way.

He didn’t look at the woman from the beginning to the end, and after completing this series of actions fluently, he returned to the car silently.

“Sometimes you don’t have to rely on eloquence to fight back.” After he glanced at her, he fastened his seat belt.

Zeng Li was still at a loss, not knowing what he was going to do.

“You have good skills, can you turn around once you turn the direction?” Ai Jing Chu made a turning gesture.

Zeng Li hurriedly observed the next four weeks, “It should be possible.”

“Then step on the gas pedal and run towards her.” He said calmly.

“But…but…” Zeng Li’s mind was confused, “I will be arrested, I will lose money, what should I do if the car crashes?” At this moment, Zeng Li understood that Ai Jing Chu went to cover up the license plate number just now. Premeditated hit-and-run.

And the woman seemed to be taken aback by Ai Jing Chu’s sudden getting out of the car just now, and shrank into the driver’s seat by the front door.

“Why do you care so much? Hurry up.” Ai Jing Chu urged.

When Zeng Li was hesitating with his hand on the gear lever, Ai Jing Chu reached out with his left hand, held her right hand from above, and put the gear on the forward for her.

Zeng Li took a deep breath, held the steering wheel tightly, and stepped on the gas pedal with his right foot, only to hear a bang, the head of their car hit the rear of the car in front, the other was pushed half a meter away, and a piece of the rear bumper was dented.

Zeng Li was startled by the shock she created, and was stunned for a moment.

“Turn around.” Ai Jing Chu reminded her at the right time.

“Oh.” She hastily turned the steering wheel quickly and turned. Unexpectedly, she was too nervous and her technique was not up to standard. She almost hit the flower bed on the side of the road in the first drive. She reversed the car quickly and managed to make a 180-degree adjustment the second time.

When they walked away, Zeng Li saw from the rearview mirror that the man and woman got out of the car again angrily. The woman was still yelling, but she couldn’t hear what she was cursing.

Because she had a ghost in her heart, she drove very fast, and even couldn’t turn left at that intersection, so she rushed over impatiently.

After several kilometres, seeing nothing unusual behind her, Zeng Li chose a secluded small street, stepped on the brakes and stopped.

The first thing she did after she parked the car was to run to the front to look.

Ai Jing Chu’s car was not much better than the opponent’s, not to mention that the paint was peeled off, and a piece was also dented. The angle was a little crooked at the moment it hit it, so the outer cover of the right headlight was also broken.

Zeng Li’s hands were still trembling nervously, but she couldn’t hide the excitement in his heart. She turned to look at Ai Jing Chu who was standing beside him and asked, “How did I do?”

Ai Jing Chu raised his eyebrows, “It’s a little more ruthless than I expected.”

Afterwards, Zeng Li went to Carol’s again. This was the first time she was so happy after being scolded by someone, and she couldn’t help but want to tell Ma Yi Yi about her good mood.

“You didn’t say to fix it for him?” Ma Yiyi asked.

“I said it, but he won’t let me.” Zeng Li replied.

“Ai Jing Chu is such a weirdo. A big man actually encourages you to do such a crazy thing.” Ma Yi Yi frowned while wiping the glass.

Zeng Li smiled, and put the translucent cups away one by one.

If he didn’t say a word or do anything at that time, then she would think it was normal, because he was a man after all, and couldn’t participate in the women’s war; and if, like when she grabbed him at that moment, she felt as it was misunderstood, Ai Jing Chu got out of the car to vent her anger on her behalf, so she would think that this person is quite a friend.

But no matter whether she chooses the former or the latter, maybe when she calms down, the impression this man left on her is either too disloyal or too impulsive.

He is neither.

If he could be guessed right, it probably wouldn’t be Ai Jing Chu.

He taught her that if you can’t scold someone, you can fight back in other ways. For some reason, she realized the simple rules a little later than others.

“You’re killing three thousand enemies and injuring yourself eight hundred. You’re harming others and not benefiting yourself.”

“But it’s really fun.” Zeng Li smiled.

“Xiaoyu,” Ma Yi Yi said with a sudden smirk, “If you continue like this, be careful that you will not fall in love with him.”

Zeng Li’s face changed slightly.

Just now, after Zeng Li helped Ai Jing Chu remove the two CDs, he continued to complete the task assigned by Director Li. His family lives in the family courtyard of the Air Force Command, and after parking the car, it is still a long way to go outside to take a taxi.

So Ai Jing Chu accompanied her and sent her back to the street.

The night wind was a little strong, and Zeng Li’s hair was blown into a mess, covering her face. She flicked it a few times with her hands, and then put the hair tie he returned to her just now on her wrist, then raised her hands, and randomly combed her hair with her fingers.

She was still holding her own bag on her wrist, because she had gone out early in the morning, and the bag contained the toothbrush, toothpaste, cups and so on before the follow-up visit, which was heavy and large. Her actions became clumsy, and she made a bad ponytail two or three times.

From the beginning to the end, Ai Jing Chu didn’t take her bag over in a gentlemanly manner, but stood by and observed her.

Zeng Li found that the actions just now seemed not very ladylike, and he didn’t take into account the emotions of the people around her, so he smiled at Ai Jing Chu embarrassedly.

As soon as she grinned, the metal aligner was exposed. As the smile unfolded, the canine tooth and the gap left by the tooth extraction appeared. Her canines were not very prominent, but they were not in the right position, and almost squeezed the front two teeth into it, so it was very eye-catching. Before that, he always thought that all teeth should be in their proper positions to be considered healthy and perfect, but he never thought that defects can actually make a person unique.

Finally, an empty taxi drove by.

Zeng Li quickly stopped it, but when she hurriedly said goodbye to Ai Jing Chu and ran over, Ai Jing Chu took a few steps forward and called her to stop.

She turns around.

Ai Jing Chu stood in the wind, facing her, with a distance of three or four meters between him, and there was endless traffic in front of him. His deep eyes were shining brightly, but he didn’t speak for a long time.

The taxi driver said impatiently: “Xiao Mei1 do you want togo? Or not?”

“Yes, Shi Fu2 wait!” Zeng Li hastily bowed his head in response, opened the car door, and looked back at Ai Jing Chu.

Ai Jing Chu turned his head sideways, frowned and said, “I remember coming back for a consultation in four weeks.”

Zeng Li smiled, “I’ll never forget it.” Then, she got into the car.

A normal person has twenty-eight permanent teeth in addition to the four wisdom teeth that occasionally come out of mischief.

The ancient Chinese believed that there are twenty-eight stars in the sky.

Four weeks also equals exactly twenty-eight days.

Women’s menstrual and metabolic cycles average 28 days.

Sometimes the skin care product slogans on TV commercials often say things like “Twenty-eight days can bring about total change.”

There is an American literary film called “28 Days3“. The heroine received a twenty-eight-day psychotherapy. What’s even more strange is that there is also a zombie movie called “28 Days Later4“, the hero wakes up after being in a coma for 28 days in a car accident, and finds that the world has changed.

However, twenty-eight days—

It is also a cycle in which Zeng Li and Ai Jing Chu meet.