Chapter 3 — Loving You Is A Lifetime Order

So in order to receive acupuncture faster, I bowed my head, pursed my lips and blew continuously. It took exactly two hours to finish taking the medicine, then called Lo Hanh Gian to apply the medicine for me. He suddenly said: "Tomorrow come a little early." I was about to nod, but suddenly shook my head: "I'm going back to Beijing tomorrow, two days later you'll have the medicine ready for me, I'll make it myself." Lo Hanh Gian silently looked at me, then went into the pharmacy to pick up a month's worth of medicine, wrapped it up and gave it to me, then turned to welcoming new patients. I gingerly approached and asked: "Didn't you come with any instructions?" His voice was calm: “No.” I said "oh" once. He turned and glanced at me again, sarcastically: "You don't listen anyway." I took the medicine home, put it in my suitcase, taking up half the box. In the evening, my parents also sat down and talked seriously, advising me to quit my job and go home or change to another job. I replied that I would consider it, and the next day I boarded the high-speed train back to Beijing. On the way, I suddenly remembered how Lo Hanh Gian once used the excuse of "a gift left by my grandfather" to lure me to go for acupuncture, but after completing the treatment, he still did not give it to me. After hesitating for a moment, I texted him: 【Please send my grandfather's gift to this address.】 Two hours later, when I got off the train, I received a response: 【Please pay the shipping fee in advance.】 10 Seeing that sentence, I felt angry. I was about to open the chat box to respond when editor Ngoc Me suddenly made a video call, asking if I had returned to Beijing. "I'm home, I'm home, I'll go to your house to pick up Tieu Linh Dang." I opened the car booking app and navigated straight to her apartment. As soon as Ngoc Me opened the door, Tieu Linh Dang jumped at my feet and cried "meow" repeatedly. It is the main character in my first work — The Lynx, about a girl who adopts a talking "lynx" and experiences all kinds of magical stories together. I held Tieu Linh Dang up and rubbed for a long time before remembering to ask: "My 'naughty son' isn't causing you any trouble, is he?" Ngoc Me pouted: "It's nothing big... just sleeping with my Tuo Tuo." I gasped, bowed my head and pinched the "naughty boy's" butt, then looked at Ngoc Me flatteringly: "So... the bride price is 100 bags of toilet sand and 1,000 boxes of pate, okay?" Ngoc Me turned around and called her Ragdoll cat, asking for its opinion. Just seeing him run straight in front of my white cat and kiss her right in front of everyone, made her heartbroken to death. Ngoc Me stopped me for dinner and asked if my hand was feeling better. I said I was almost cured, she wrinkled her nose, leaned closer and sniffed, then criticized: "You smell of Oriental medicine, are you being treated by that person again?" Hearing her mention it, I also remembered Lo Hanh Gian and immediately told the story of him checking my pulse. Ngoc Me laughed so much that she was about to fall to the ground, telling me to quickly uninstall the Quark app. So many resources, I'm sorry! Ngoc Me asked again: "Does he have a girlfriend?" I lazily replied: "Probably not." Surely no one would want to, otherwise why would they have to make eye contact with me? I still hadn't replied to Lo Hanh Gian's message, then he texted me: 【Have you applied the medicine yet?】 Me: 【Not home yet.】 Lo Hanh Gian: 【You should have gone home at this time, going to see a friend?】 Me: 【How do you know?】 Lo Hanh Gian: 【Yes.】 Yes my head! I immediately texted: 【My boyfriend is here.】 I intentionally sent it like that, the other party immediately showed "typing...", then disappeared, a few seconds later it showed "typing..." again. After repeating it a few times, Lo Hanh Gian finally sent it: 【I don't have a boyfriend, come home quickly. medicine.】 Me: 【Eye rolling JPG, rolling eyes JPG.】 11 The second week back to work, my wrist started to hurt again, this time even more severe than before. Because I'm busy, I often forget to apply hot compresses. When I'm in pain, I rush to do it and it only provides temporary relief. That day, I drew for eight hours straight without stopping. Even when I fell asleep, I woke up in pain and had to run to the emergency room in the middle of the night to get painkillers. Ngoc Me saw my medical record and felt heartbroken, advising: "You're working and drawing stories at the same time, your body can't stand it, I advise you to get rid of one thing." Actually, at first I just wanted to focus on one thing, but a few years ago the income from comics was unstable. The first series only earned fifty thousand yuan, the second series was interrupted because of the topic, and I almost couldn't pay the rent. For the sake of earning a living, I had to find a stable job - working as a designer at an advertising company, working at nine in the morning, leaving Saturday at night, off on Saturdays and Sundays, and after work I took the time to update stories. Fortunately, the third girl's comic series Waiting for the Flowers to Bloom that is currently being published has quite good numbers. When the series opened last year, it was slightly popular thanks to the drawings and theme. Ngoc Me encouraged me to maintain my posting schedule, and also asked for many promotional opportunities from the operations side, trying to make this series my long-term "fishing rod". I asked to stay home for two days to recuperate. My parents knew my wrist was hurting again and urged me to immediately quit work and go home to rest for a while. I opened Word, wrote my resignation letter — wrote it then deleted it, deleted it then wrote it, finally finished writing it but hesitated and still didn't send it to my boss. Carrying Tieu Linh I was going downstairs to buy ice cream. As soon as I walked out the door, I saw Lo Hanh Gian. He walked over in a black coat, his eyebrows furrowed so tightly that he could pinch a fly to death: "Eating cold food again." “Your body has become a freezer, you can even make your own cool drinks.” Me: “…” As soon as we met, there was a series of complaints that made me just roll my eyes. But thinking back, I still asked: "What are you doing here? Business?" Lo Hanh Gian softly said "yes", lowered his head to look at Tieu Linh who was lying in my arms staring at him, his deep voice rang out: "Even the cat that lives with me has bad breath, its fur is not even shiny." I really just want to use tape to cover this mouth! 12 Lo Hanh Gian followed me home. The first time I brought a man home, I suddenly had a strange, indescribable feeling. “You sit on the sofa, I'll make you some tea.” The apartment I rented was a studio, small but fully furnished. I took out a cute tea set, then rummaged through the almost untouched package of jasmine tea, scooped a handful and put it in the kettle, and added a few goji berries. Lo Hanh Gian sat on the sofa, holding a cup of tea, looking in from the outside for a long time, then suddenly raised his head: "Jasmine mixed with goji berries." I naturally replied: "It says on the internet that it's good for your health, isn't that true?" He didn't drink it, just said: "It's too much, it doesn't suit you." I was confused: "What's wrong?" Lo Hanh Gian explained: "These two things nourish the liver, brighten the eyes, clear heat and detoxify, but people with weak spleen and stomach should limit it, and should not drink any tea every day." "OH." I reached out to take back his cup of tea: "Then let me make another cup for you." He bowed his head and took a sip: "No need, I can drink." I sat down next to him and asked: "So why did you suddenly come to find me?" Lo Hanh Gian did not answer. I thought for a moment suddenly shouted: "Ah, I know, you came to bring the gift that Grandpa Lo left behind, right!" I happily held out my hands. Lo Hanh Gian put down the teacup: "I didn't bring it." I folded my hands and muttered in my heart: "Then why are you following me home?" He stared at me, perhaps not expecting me to say what was in my heart, then suddenly burst into laughter, a dazzlingly beautiful smile. My heart skipped a beat, I quickly turned my head away, but my hand unconsciously took out my phone, intending to secretly take a photo as sketch material. The move was too obvious so he noticed it and frowned slightly: "What are you going to do?" “No…nothing.” I put the phone back in my pocket, then saw him take out a familiar acupuncture set from his bag, opened it and said: "Hold out your hand." Thanks to my previous experience, this time I also obediently accepted the treatment. While I couldn't move, he checked the medicine package I brought home from home, counted it, then discovered that I hadn't applied the medicine on time. He immediately said a few words that touched my heart. Around eight o'clock in the evening, Lo Hanh Gian washed the dishes and chopsticks, put them in the cupboard, then washed his hands, put on his coat, and packed his bag to prepare to go. I walked out the door: "Do you still have a meeting tomorrow?" Lo Hanh Gian stood at the door, leaned over, looked at me, and said: "I'm not here for a meeting." Then turned around and walked out into the hallway. I was just about to run after him when he suddenly said: "If you want to go home, call me. I will come pick you up."