Twenty-One Degrees

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Today Wei Congying went to the racing track. There was to be a race early next year, and he planned to participate.

Just as well, Cheng Ge’s newly refitted car was about to go on the road for a test run. The weather was good today; the windy, cloudy, and rainless weather was Wei Congying’s favorite.

Everything went well today, they first found a tow truck and transported the modified/refitted car to the racing track. He changed into a racing uniform and got on the car, taking protective measures, and even the female staff who volunteered to wave the flag for him were pleasing to the eye.

There was no accident while cornering. Although after a few laps, he felt that the handlebars still needed fine-tuning, but overall it was very good. At night, he and Cheng Ge stayed in the auto shop to modify the car, and even Fang Qian, who would usually commence making a series of life-depleting calls, took a break.

They fine-tuned over and over again in the auto shop, failed over and over again, then tested over and over again, and finally climbed out of the bottleneck of debugging.

Initially, he thought it was a beautiful day, until Jiang Xuyang called him.

At first, Wei Congying thought he was calling to invite him to join in for cards.

But what he ended up hearing, was that Xiang Shaoyuan had fought with someone, but Lin Fang couldn’t stop him, and it seemed that they had passed out.

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Wei Congying looked at the person in the back row through the rearview mirror and rolled his eyes. The hospital was not very far away, but there was a bit of a traffic jam, and there was no traffic police on the side of the road to help clear the way. The person in the back row was snoring quite a bit, but his life was not in danger.

“So did Lin Fang say why they fought?” Wei Congying still remembered that when he looked at Moments this morning, he and Liang Mengyi went to Qinan Mountain to see the maple leaves. He seemed to be quite happy at the time.

Liang Mengyi?

Wei Congying felt that he had guessed the reason.

Jiang Xuyang, who was sitting in the passenger, was playing with his phone. He was sending a message to someone. The sound of typing continued. When he heard Wei Congying’s question, he asked back, “You don’t know?”

The corner of Wei Congying’s mouth twitched: “I got it.”

They soon arrived at the hospital. It was easy to go to the hospital, but it was very troublesome to get a drunk to see a doctor. Fortunately, the nurse at the triage desk¹[1] The triage desk is where the preliminary assessment of patients or casualties takes place in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required. gave them a push bed.

After finishing all the formalities, the doctors and nurses sent Xiang Shaoyuan to the debridement room. Wei Congying later realized that this seemed to be the hospital where Shi Yun was interning.

After making a brief phone call to Shi Yun, he and Jiang Xuyang went outside to smoke. With a cigarette in his mouth, he sent a message to Shi Yun with his phone, saying that he was outside the emergency building.

He raised his phone and took a picture, but he didn’t know if Shi Yun could find their current location.

During this period, Lin Fang called and asked about Shaoyuan’s situation, and said that if they couldn’t handle it, he would go over and help. The call was made to Jiang Xuyang, and Wei Congying snorted next to him: “You can come up with a good explanation for him to use to deal with his parents.”

A reason was not so easy to make up, but Wei Congying did not care whether Xiang Shaoyuan’s butt will bloom or not after being discovered by his parents, but he knew that Liang Mengyi didn’t care about this matter in the least.

A call was made; towards a person without morals, she was immune to moral coercion²[2] Moral coercion refers to using someone’s sense of right and wrong to make them do something they may not want to do. Source: LSD.Law.

“I rejected him clearly, isn’t it better than keeping him as a fallback guy and leading him on?”

A lighter was ignited twice, the light of the flame came on twice and finally went out, turning into two red dots.

They chatted idly with each other to pass the time.

Wei Congying: “It’s the most foolish thing to strive desperately for someone who doesn’t like yourself.”

“When other girls died and lived for you, you seemed to enjoy it quite a bit?” Jiang Xuyang refuted him.

Wei Congying disdained: “But do you think I got back together with them? Do you think this trick worked?”

Jiang Xuyang flicked the cigarette ash: “Then how about if the current one uses this trick?”

Wei Congying raised his hand and brought the yellow cigarette butt to his mouth. The smoke rings he exhaled stimulated the tear glands in his eyes. When he pressed his thumb against them, physiological tears were secreted.

Shi Yun?

He thought for a while: “It’s hard to say.”

Just when we were talking about her, Jiang Xuyang was positioned just so he saw Shi Yun approaching with a glance. He raised his chin to signal Wei Congying to look back.

Wei Congying turned his head, puzzled.

She was wearing a conspicuous white outfit. From a distance in an area illuminated by street lamps, she walked towards them step by step. The street lamps dragged out and shrank her shadow, passing it on.

Before, he had only seen her hair loose or casually put up. But today, her hair was tied into a ponytail, but after a day of being tied, the hair band no longer fixed the ponytail as it did when it was just tied, and it had loosened.

She walked over, her ponytail swaying from side to side.

She was probably the kind of person who looked better without makeup than with makeup, and she was prettier when she tidied up casually than when she carefully made herself up.

Seeing Shi Yun approaching, Jiang Xuyang wisely left.

“The two of you can talk, I’ll go in and see how that idiot is doing.” After speaking, Jiang Xuyang put out his cigarette, turned, and walked into the emergency building.

By the time Shi Yun walked over, Jiang Xuyang had already entered the emergency service building, and the smell of smoke in the air had subsided a bit. There was an osmanthus tree not far from him, but the scent of flowers mixed with the smell of tobacco made it smell even more unpleasant.

She stopped not far from him and asked him if something had happened for him to come to the hospital

Wei Congying confessed honestly: “Xiang Shaoyuan drank too much at the bar and got into a fight.”

Wei Congying looked at her standing a few steps away from him, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a sneaky-looking girl in the distance. He moved his gaze to Shi Yun’s face, raised his hand, and said nothing.

Shi Yun knew what it meant, and walked over. With his arm draped over her shoulders, the distance between the two of them shortened. The smell of smoke had mostly been blown away by the wind, and he didn’t have the smell of smoked pine on him today.

She put her arms around his waist: “Then is his condition serious?”

It was just a fight, and if he were in his shoes, he wouldn’t even need to go to the hospital. The injuries he encountered in the past competitions were much more serious than those of Xiang Shaoyuan’s.

The ponytail grazed his palm, and the skin felt a little itchy when the hair brushed against it. Wei Congying subconsciously wanted to touch her ponytail and held it lightly, just like when he loved to pull girls’ braids as a child. The bad habit was still there, but he didn’t exert any force.

The ponytail wrapped around his palm: “No need to worry about him.”

His eyes fell on her, who was wearing a white coat. The coat was very loose, and the curves of her body could not be seen.

Wei Congying searched his memory bank, and recalled all the memory fragments about her body. But what followed, was a fire that was lit inside him.

He played with Shi Yun’s hair childishly: “Is it okay for you to come out?”

Shi Yun shook her head: “It’s fine now, I’ve informed my colleagues. If there’s anything, my classmates will call me.”

Classmates?

Because of the height difference, when the two stood so close, she had to raise her head slightly, while he lowered his head. Upon hearing Shi Yun’s words, he raised his eyes and looked in the direction that Shi Yun had come from before. The sneaky-looking girl was still there.

He raised his chin: “That’s your classmate?”

When Shi Yun heard his words, she turned her head and saw the person half-hiding behind the pillar; it was indeed Shi Yuan. When she received Wei Congying’s text message and went downstairs, the two of them had just returned to the duty room with milk tea.

To start with, Shi Yun didn’t order milk tea because she had bought a cup of coffee. So when they finished sharing it in the office and the senior saw that Shi Yun didn’t have it, he offhandedly asked her why she didn’t order one.

Before she could explain that she had already had coffee, Shi Yuan was gossiping with a milk tea in hand: “Her boyfriend called her just now and asked if she was at the hospital. He’ll probably bring over a midnight snack. Therefore, doesn’t she need to leave some room for what her boyfriend is bringing over?

Being close, Shi Yun raised her hand and pinched her. It probably didn’t hurt, as Shi Yuan didn’t hold back.

The senior who was invested in matchmaking was the first to express his regret: “I had just mentioned that the new doctor in the department next door was good, and wanted to introduce you to him.”

When talking about this topic, you always have to ask what the other person does and where they are from.

The phone in Shi Yun’s pocket vibrated.

It was a new text.

[Wei Congying]: I’m at your hospital.

There soon was another new message, the picture loaded for a few seconds, Shi Yun opened it, and found that it was from the emergency building.

She lowered her voice amidst the conversations of the seniors, and tugged at Shi Yuan’s sleeve: “I’m going to step out for a bit, call me if there’s anything.”

Shi Yun quietly slipped out of the duty room with her phone, but her figure was still conspicuous, and she was seen at a glance. However, she had already stepped out of the duty room, and she could pretend to be deaf and dumb to their words.

But Shi Yuan booed inside: “It must be that the boyfriend has arrived.”

Shi Yun didn’t expect Shi Yuan to secretly follow her. She pouted and pulled Wei Congying to hide in Shi Yuan’s blind spot.

They went out from the light of the street lamp. He was all in black, well hidden in the night.

Wei Congying was dragged into the darkness by her: “What are you hiding for?”

Shi Yun put her arms around his waist, but she didn’t expect a grown man to have a slender waist. She pressed her chin against his chest and looked up at him: “I’m afraid she will see some pay-to-view images.”

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Notes:

[1] The triage desk is where the preliminary assessment of patients or casualties takes place in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required.

[2] Moral coercion refers to using someone’s sense of right and wrong to make them do something they may not want to do. Source: LSD.Law

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Translator Corner:

Anyone miss me? I didn’t intend to go MIA for the past few weeks. ٩(๑´‸｀๑)۶ My work schedule has just been wacky lately and I ran out of stockpile. (๑♡ ⌓♡๑) I’ll try my best to keep up with updates but work has been hitting me pretty hard lately. Anyway, enjoy the chapter! (ᗒᗨᗕ)