CHAPTER 532: 475 COMPLETELY DRUNK, HE FELL FLAT ON THE PORCH.

"I met Zhongli Wuzhi at a reception yesterday with Ah Nian," Xiaoer said seriously over the phone. "He looked really downcast, and that’s how I realized there were issues between you two."

There was a pause at the other end of the phone before Lu Xiaoer said earnestly,

"To be precise, he’s the one with the problem, not me."

"...Since you’re in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, can the issue really just lie with one person?"

Song Lili asked.

Lu Xiaoer took a deep breath,

"Lili, I know you care about me and want things to work out between me and Zhongli Wuzhi. Honestly, I want that too, but the truth is, we just don’t mesh well in too many areas. These past months, I’ve been exhausted, and so has he."

"..."

"If you think we both have issues, that’s fine too, it’s over anyway. Lili, let’s talk when you’re free. I’ve got to go now."

Lu Xiaoer hung up before Song Lili could even speak.

Song Lili stared at the disconnected phone, struggling to come to terms with what had happened.

...

At Anlin First Hospital, Lu Xiaoer, wearing a white coat, leaned against the wall, resting her forehead in her hand, her shadow on the floor betraying her weariness.

"Dr. Lu, the patient in room 302 has very unstable blood pressure, should you go check on them?"

A nurse hurried over and said.

Lu Xiaoer straightened up and placed her phone in the pocket of her coat, "Alright, I’m on my way."

The hospital was bustling, with patients and their endless problems. Being on the job felt like being a wind-up robot that couldn’t stop.

Lu Xiaoer had worked the night shift, but wouldn’t finish until noon. She was completely drained...

It wasn’t the first day like this, nor would it be the last.

If she got a rare day off or a rotation break, she wanted nothing more than to relax and rest.

This was the life she had chosen, the work she wanted to do, so she willingly endured the exhaustion, even if it meant her personal time was squeezed to almost nothing.

But...

While she could endure and quickly recover from physical fatigue, the same couldn’t be said for emotional strain.

Lu Xiaoer had thought that Zhongli Wuzhi knew what kind of person she was long ago, and that he understood what she truly wanted to do.

When her family objected to her becoming a doctor, Zhongli Wuzhi said he would support her.

But when she actually entered the hospital and embarked on this path of healing and helping, Zhongli Wuzhi’s once sworn "unconditional support" became the greatest obstacle.

Lu Xiaoer walked into room 302, forcefully blinking back the tears that threatened to spill from her eyes.

At the very moment she needed his support, he chose to question her.

What more was there to say.

Let it be.

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Song Lili had just finished lunch when she received a message from Wen Nian, telling her that Zhongli would visit soon.

What was Zhongli doing at the President Mansion at this time?

Song Lili immediately had a bad feeling.

Unfortunately, Wen Nian was too busy to come over to entertain his good brother, Zhongli Wuzhi.

You face the army that comes and deal with the water that invades; if Zhongli Wuzhi was to come, she couldn’t just leave him standing at the door.

After Princess Chinian had lunch, she wanted to ask Song Lili about the matter she mentioned last night to see if there was any update.

She couldn’t find Song Lili after searching high and low, and wondered if Song Lili might have gone out.

She walked to the porch, pulled the door open from the inside, just as Zhongli Wuzhi, at the same time, pushed in—

"Ah!"

Princess Chinian exclaimed as Zhongli Wuzhi entered the door and, losing the resistance he expected, stumbled into the porch and fell right in front of Princess Chinian.

Zhongli Wuzhi really took a bad fall.

Hearing from Wen Nian that Zhongli Wuzhi had been drinking, Song Lili personally went to the kitchen to have some sobering soup prepared.

Now leaving the kitchen, she saw Zhongli Wuzhi in a sorry state on the floor of the porch, in front of Princess Chinian,

"Zhongli!"

Song Lili was taken aback and hastened to help him up!

Lifting Zhongli Wuzhi – a tall man over one meter eighty with a strong, robust body – was not easy for Song Lili, whose strength wasn’t what it used to be, and she really couldn’t get him up immediately.