Hiss...

Chi Yueshan walked slowly with a crutch. Beside her, Chi Shui carried a bag of medicine, asking with a worried face.

"Sis, are you okay? Should I get you a wheelchair?"

Chi Yueshan was dressed all in black, with a hat on her head. From the side, only the pale lower half of her face could be seen.

Chi Yueshan endured the pain in her waist, hobbled forward with the crutch, and said with great resistance.

"I'm not a cripple. I can walk by myself!"

Chi Shui thought to himself, this isn't much different from being a cripple.

But his sister had never complained about professional matters. He had no choice but to follow her slowly.

"By the way."

Chi Yueshan suddenly thought of something and stopped in her tracks, startling Chi Shui.

"How was my singing today?"

Chi Shui immediately gave her a thumbs-up. "Professional, truly professional!"

Phew.

That's good.

Chi Yueshan let out a sigh of relief. "Thankfully, I didn't botch it."

Chi Shui was silently moved in his heart.

Boo-hoo-hoo, my sister is truly a dedicated and good opera actress.

Chi Yueshan murmured to herself, "Thankfully, I didn't botch it. Otherwise, Lu Xing would say I'm unprofessional again."

Chi Shui: ...

Get lost, you love-struck fool!

Watching Chi Yueshan slowly hobbling along, Chi Shui silently kept a three-meter distance from her, then said.

"Sis, do you know the difference between you and a turtle?"

Wasn't this just a roundabout way of mocking her for walking slowly?

Chi Yueshan glared at him.

"You just wait!"

When I get better, watch me sanction you!

The suppression from their bloodline instantly made Chi Shui chicken out.

Chi Shui looked up, his pupils dilating.

"Sis!"

"What, so annoying."

"Sis!!"

"Don't you have a mouth? Say it!"

"Sis!!!"

"Chi Shui, you're simply..."

Chi Yueshan looked up and suddenly froze as well.

Not far away.

Lu Xing stood by the window, looking at the scenery outside with a blank expression, his thoughts unknown.

Chi Yueshan fell silent.

Could it be that the god of opera really took pity on her and blessed her?

Gratitude.

As an atheist, Chi Yueshan now had to thank the arrangement of fate.

She stood there, took a deep breath, and her eyes instantly turned a circle of red, tears welling up, on the verge of falling.

This solid basic skill left Chi Shui dumbfounded!

Fine.

Really fine.

He now knows what an outstanding inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of face-changing is!

You terrifying women, when is the balance patch coming? You girls need a nerf!

Chi Yueshan took off her hat and threw it to Chi Shui. Her long black hair cascaded down like ink.

"Sis, should I comb your hair?"

Chi Yueshan glared at him. "What do you know?"

Messiness is also a kind of beauty!

It will even make one feel more heartache.

"Sis, what should we say when we go over?"

This was the first time he had formally seen his brother-in-law. He was still a little unaccustomed to it.

What to say?

Chi Yueshan was still brewing her emotions.

"My waist is injured. Isn't it normal to be at the hospital?"

"I'm a cripple. Isn't it normal for me to ask Lu Xing to help me?"

"I didn't make a single mistake in this performance. Isn't it normal for me to ask Lu Xing to praise me?"

Chi Shui: ...

That's not what you said just now.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

You women are really too despicable!

"Sis, should I help you over?"

Chi Yueshan smiled slightly, took out her phone, and tapped it a few times.

Ding-dong.

【Alipay arrival, one thousand yuan】

"Go play."

Chi Shui was stunned.

Chi Shui was shocked.

Chi Shui turned and ran!

Hehe!

Another sum of money!

After watching Chi Shui run far away, Chi Yueshan messed up her long black hair a little more.

The beauty's eyes were slightly red, her long hair scattered, exuding the feeling of a pitiful little thing.

Mm.

The flavor is right!

Chi Yueshan composed herself, using all her life's opera skills, and slowly walked past Lu Xing.

Mm, no reaction.

Chi Yueshan slowly walked towards Lu Xing.

Mm, no reaction.

Chi Yueshan slowly walked away from Lu Xing.

Mm, no reaction.

Lu Xing was like a blind man, which directly rendered Chi Yueshan speechless.

Good, good, good.

You're playing this game, are you?

Chi Yueshan walked to Lu Xing's side with her crutch and waved her hand in front of his eyes.

Lu Xing directly cosplayed as a sculpture, not moving at all.

Chi Yueshan: ...

Fine!

You're pretending, are you?

Chi Yueshan reached out her hand and waved it in front of Lu Xing's eyes again. Still no reaction.

The next second.

She grabbed Lu Xing's right hand, which was hanging by his side, and directly placed it on the back of her hand.

"Hey! Why are you sexually harassing a sculpture!"

Lu Xing immediately pulled his hand back and looked at Chi Yueshan warily.

"As expected! Boys also have to protect themselves when they're outside!"

Hmph, hmph.

Chi Yueshan secretly laughed in her heart. You're not pretending now, are you?

So annoying.

It's one thing not to reply to her WeChat. But to pretend to be a statue when he runs into her.

Her plan to act pitiful just now had failed again. Chi Yueshan found that whenever she ran into Lu Xing, she couldn't implement any of her plans.

But for now.

She felt she should first stack a life-saving buff.

Back at the theater, Song Junzhu's sentence, "You were following me," had left Chi Yueshan stunned.

Now she didn't want Lu Xing to misunderstand either, so she said first.

"What a coincidence. I'm here to treat my waist injury."

Lu Xing nodded. "Mm."

He had seen the crutch Chi Yueshan was leaning on.

Chi Yueshan choked for a moment, her beautiful face showing a look of asking for praise.

"I performed very well today!"

Lu Xing nodded. "Mm."

If she had botched it, it would have been on the trending topics long ago.

Chi Yueshan suddenly felt a little unbearable. She found that facing Lu Xing's indifference directly was even more heart-stabbing than on WeChat.

After a moment of thought.

Chi Yueshan opened WeChat and operated it a couple of times.

Then she blinked her eyes, her tone numbingly soft. "I've transferred four thousand yuan to you."

Lu Xing looked at her with amusement. "I said I don't take repeat customers."

"I'm not trying to do business with you," Chi Yueshan reiterated. "I need to see a doctor, but I walk too slowly, and my waist still hurts a lot."

Chi Yueshan's lifelong opera skills were all used here.

She looked at Lu Xing with a lost expression, her hand gently pinching a tiny bit of his shirt corner, and shook it.

"Please? It really hurts a lot."

Lu Xing looked at Chi Yueshan in silence. He didn't want Chi Yueshan to know that his grandparents were in the hospital.

Take Chi Yueshan to see a doctor, and then personally see her off in a taxi.

Only then could he be at ease.

After a moment of thought, Lu Xing accepted the payment.

"Let's go."

Chi Yueshan's face was filled with undisguised surprise.

She had been so numb from being rejected recently. She hadn't expected Lu Xing to actually agree!

Get paid to do a job.

Lu Xing supported Chi Yueshan's arm and asked with confusion.

"How did you do this?"

"How did you do this?"

Chi Yueshan and Lu Xing asked at the same time.

Lu Xing was asking about Chi Yueshan's waist, and Chi Yueshan was asking about the bandage on Lu Xing's hand.

Lu Xing suddenly felt fortunate that he had a reason to be at the hospital. So he said with a smile.

"Who comes to the hospital if they're not injured?"

"I was thinking of exercising recently, but I fell and got a cut on my hand."

Chi Yueshan looked at Lu Xing's hand with some worry.

Lu Xing didn't want her to look too much, so he asked, "What about you?"

Chi Yueshan's attention was instantly diverted. She said in great detail.

"I had a waist injury at the opera school. It got much better after I switched to singing qingyi, but it still hurts from time to time."

(TL: Qingyi literal translation "blue-green clothes" is a significant term, primarily used in the context of Chinese opera, particularly Peking Opera. It refers to a specific type of female role.)

"Today, when I was singing The Legend of the White Snake, I don't know how I twisted it during the martial arts part, and my waist injury relapsed."

In professions like athletes and opera actors, injuries are a constant companion from a young age.

Lu Xing was confused. "What do you mean, 'switched to singing qingyi'? You weren't in this role before?"

From the time he met Chi Yueshan, she had been singing qingyi.

In order to understand the client, he had even specifically searched for her information on encyclopedias and asked around in the opera fan circle.

The conclusion he got was the same!

Lu Xing suddenly felt that his professional integrity was being questioned!

Hearing this, Chi Yueshan's lips twitched with loss.

"We met too late."

"If you had seen me at the opera school, I could have performed a segment of The Bamboo Forest for you."

"At that time, I was the best daomadan."

(TL: A female warrior role in Chinese opera.)

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