Forced kiss
Fortunately, the Zhang family’s driver had been waiting outside. Su Tian took Yu Cai along, and the four of them hurried out of the amusement park and into the car to go to the hospital.
Thankfully the hospital wasn’t on holiday during the New Year. Otherwise, Su Tian really wouldn’t know what to do.
Su Tian opened a pack of medical-use wipes and scrubbed his exposed skin, hoping it would have some relieving effect.
When she reached his face, Yu Cai refused to let her take off his mask.
He blinked and spoke weakly like a puppy: “It’s too ugly. It will scare you.”
Su Tian: “I’m not scared.”
But Yu Cai still shook his head and turned his face away. He whispered: “You’ll dislike me.”
Su Tian inwardly rolled her eyes and softened her voice. “Be good, I won’t dislike you.”
Her voice was soft and coy, both coaxing and coquettish. As he listened, the youth’s exposed ears instantly reddened.
He reluctantly lowered his hands and removed his hat and mask.
Su Tian examined him. Fortunately, because his face had been covered by the mask, it wasn’t completely disfigured.
But the hat and mask… might also carry pollen.
The thoughts in her heart were revealed in her eyes. Yu Cai saw her intentions and quickly clutched the hat to his chest.
This was Tiantian’s gift to him. It couldn’t be thrown away.
Su Tian: “…”
She took a new wipe and swiped his face several more times, seeming to relieve her anger.
What a fool.
She thought to herself, not cherishing his body was simply too stupid.
Beside them, Zhang Yingni and Ren Zhenglin each looked more jealous than the other. If they’d known that having an allergic reaction could get so much of Tiantian’s attention, they would have triggered their allergies, too.
The wiping seemed useless, because even still, the tiny red spots on Yu Cai’s body continued to spread. By the time they reached the hospital, his entire face was covered in rashes.
Yu Cai’s primary care physician had gone home for the holiday, so when he heard that Yu Cai had another allergic reaction, he angrily rushed over. Before he even stepped through the door, they could hear him cursing:
“I told you to stay in the hospital and obediently accept the IV treatment, but you ran out without telling me, and you still dare to…”
He pushed open the door and saw three children about Yu Cai’s age standing in the ward.
Dr. Xu’s sight fell on Su Tian, who was standing closest to Yu Cai, and a lightbulb went off in his head.
He marched over and interrogated angrily: “What good thing did you run out to do again today?”
Yu Cai pulled Su Tian’s arm and smiled. “I bought a rose bouquet.”
Su Tian added: “There must have been 999 flowers. He was holding them for a long time.”
Dr. Xu sucked in and nearly choked himself to death.
“999 roses?! Why didn’t you just roll around in them?”
He clearly knew the state of his own body, yet he still dared to ruin it like this. Did he not want to live anymore?!
But no matter how he scolded, Yu Cai always looked cheerful and content. His unfazed1 look was able to anger people to death.
Dr. Xu took a deep breath and didn’t bother to scold him again. He prescribed medicine for Yu Cai and asked the nurse to administer it.
First set up the IV, then complete a series of examinations.
When the process finally ended, it was already past eight o’clock, but Su Tian and the others hadn’t had dinner yet.
Because of the New Year, many restaurants near the hospital were closed, and they would have to travel a long distance to buy dinner. Zhang Yingni and Ren Zhenglin volunteered to drive out to buy food.
Su Tian stayed with Yu Cai.
“It was my birthday the day before yesterday. You still haven’t given me a birthday gift.”
Yu Cai lay on the bed, looking pitifully at Su Tian. It was clear that he was trying to gain sympathy by relying on his status as a patient.
Su Tian: “…What do you want?”
“As long as it’s from you, I will like it.”
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the hat that he so dearly treasured.
Su Tian: “I will give you your gift after you recover. If you get sick again before then, the gift will be invalid.”
Yu Cai nodded, his eyes bright. “Okay.”
As they were speaking, Dr. Xu came over again.
He held the medical report in his hand as he asked: “Stinky brat, tell me the truth. Besides the roses, what else have you touched?”
Yu Cai: “Nothing.”
Su Tian frowned. “Dr. Xu, is there something wrong with the report?”
Dr. Xu answered, “There is something off. On top of the pollen allergy, there are bacterial and fungal infections and some minor damage to the respiratory tract.”
Yu Cai: “I really haven’t touched anything else.”
Su Tian’s brows furrowed together. After a moment, she asked, “He ate a sugar figurine earlier. Could it be because of that?”
Inside the car, Yu Cai had eaten Junior Brother Sha.
Dr. Xu: “Unlikely. If the problem was with the food, there should be damage to the esophagus, but there’s no problem there.”
Su Tian turned and asked Yu Cai, “What did you touch while you were coming over”
Yu Cai had a look of innocence. “Before I caught up to you, I really didn’t touch anything but money and the roses.”
He was just short of swearing an oath.
Dr. Xu: “Forget it if you can’t remember. Anyway, it’s not that serious. I’ll prescribe him medicine for now.”
Saying so, he turned to leave when Su Tian suddenly spoke up. “Please wait.”
She hurried to Yu Cai’s bedside, picked up the Kaka doll, and presented it to Dr. Xu. “He also touched this.”
Dr. Xu frowned. He received the Kaka doll and carefully examined it.
Su Tian: “It hasn’t been opened yet, and he only touched it once, but apart from this and the roses, he really didn’t touch anything else.”
Later, they got into the Zhang family’s car, but the Zhang family had an employee dedicated to cleaning it, so the interior was unlikely to have a lot of germs or fungi.
Dr. Xu offered, “Let’s open it up and take a look?”
Su Tian nodded. “I can do it.”
Dr. Xu was still holding various test reports in his hands, making examination inconvenient.
Yu Cai was a bit stunned. He did help Su Tian hold the doll for a while, yes, but it was only for a brief instant.
Su Tian tore open the transparent plastic box and frowned the moment she touched its contents.
“Dr. Xu, can we step outside to speak?” she asked.
Dr. Xu nodded.
Yu Cai helplessly watched as the two left, the doll in tow, and closed the door behind them.
Su Tian held out the doll and said, “This doll should be the cause. Please smell it.”
Dr. Xu took the doll and leaned in to sniff it. He caught a faint yet sharp smell.
Before, the doll had been isolated by the box and distance, so the average human’s sense of smell couldn’t capture it, but when he came closer and sniffed it carefully, the smell was extremely pungent.
Frowning, he smelled carefully a few more times, musing, “It’s a bit familiar. I’ve smelled it somewhere…”
But where?
Su Tian suddenly had an idea. “Is it bleach?”
Dr. Xu: “That’s right, it smells like bleach!”
Su Tian pursed her lips, her eyes darkening.
She recalled some news she had seen in her previous life. Some unscrupulous manufacturers collected medical fiber optics and discarded cotton threads and silk cotton, ran them through bleach, and used them as ‘new’ silk cotton to make stuffed toys, pillows, bedding, and so on.
Because the products were made of medical and domestic waste materials, they contained many germs and caustic chemicals. If used for a long time, they would cause serious damage to the body.
Everyone named these items ‘black-heart cotton.’
She didn’t expect there would be such manufacturers in this world, too.
Profits and human nature. They really were the same in every world.
She initially bought the doll to collect evidence and sue the business for copyright infringement in the future, but now, she decided to change her angle of attack.
Copyright infringement was simply insignificant compared to the endangered health and safety of countless children.
If not for Yu Cai’s special constitution, which produced visible abnormalities immediately after coming in contact with the doll, Su Tian wouldn’t have been able to find out about the issues with this doll so quickly.
Su Tian: “Dr. Xu, do you have a sealable bag? I want to place this in it.”
Dr. Xu was somewhat surprised: “You aren’t going to throw it away?”
Su Tian smiled: “I have other uses for it.”
The girl standing before him had a soft and gentle smile, but for some reason, Dr. Xu felt the surrounding temperature drop.
He said, “I have one, but Ji Hang has a special constitution. After sealing it, it’s best to insulate it further before bringing it in.”
Su Tian nodded. That was, of course, a given.
The doll had been kept in the ward for a long time. Fearing the spread of germs, Dr. Xu asked Nurse Hu to go inside and disinfect the room one more time.
Su Tian also went through a simple disinfection process and brought the sealed doll to Yu Cai.
Yu Cai was lying in bed, bored to death, reading over clownfish breeding information when he spotted Su Tian. Quickly sitting up, his brightly shining eyes fell on the doll placed in a sealed bag. He immediately made the connection.
“It was Kaka?”
Su Tian nodded.
She briefly summarized the ins and outs, including her suspicions of piracy and the use of black-heart cotton.
The black-heart cotton incident hadn’t been exposed yet in this world, so Su Tian could only say that she suspected that the cotton stuffing was unhygienic.
Su Tian: “Aren’t you from the Institute of Biology? Bacteria and fungi should fall within your scope of expertise. Get better quickly and help me check to see what other harmful substances are in here.”
Yu Cai dipped his head. “Okay, I’ll get better soon.”
After a pause, he continued, “And my gift, you can’t forget it.”
Su Tian laughed. “Alright, I won’t forget.”
In addition, Su Tian enlisted Bai Qiyuan for help.
Following the conclusion of Li Village’s women trafficking, Bai Qiyuan had been busy with completing the featured news report on the incident.
However, in order to not cause public chaos so close to the New Year, the program hadn’t been aired. According to the TV station’s plan, the matter was to be exposed after New Year was over and various departments were finished with their work arrangements. Then, the Ministry of Public Security would be able to conduct a wide-scale investigation.
If it really was black-heart cotton, this news would definitely become another big event that shocked the entire country.
She gave this good opportunity to Bai Qiyuan, while helping him create an opening to get in contact with the Eldest Young Miss in passing.
Su Tian leaned back into her seat and called You Pinyan.
The Eldest Young Miss had been bored at home the last few days. She didn’t know what had gotten into You Zanfeng and the mother and daughter. Not only did they not try to provoke her, but also each one was quieter than the next, flattering her whenever they met eyes.
Could it be that they knew the matter of the family inheritance was a foregone conclusion, so they began to take the route of flattery and fawning?
You Pinyan didn’t know whether her guess was correct.
Still, whether she was right or not, she nearly died from disgust.
She would rather these three cheap people act the same as before—that way, she could still trade blows with them. Now, she was irritable all day long, and she was constantly on the verge of losing her temper.
You Pinyan finally felt better after receiving Su Tian’s phone call.
But as soon as she heard what Su Tian said, the Eldest Young Miss immediately teetered on the edge of exploding again.
“Fuck, why are those people so shameless?!”
Su Tian: “That’s why I want to ask you to contact Bai Qiyuan and ask him if he’s free at the moment and if he is, if he could expose this matter.”
For one, it could create a safer social environment for children. Of course, Su Tian also had her personal motives.
They could spread publicity and teach everyone that genuine products represent safety and better quality, while pirated versions were unreliable.
You Pinyan: “He must be free. It’d be weird if he wasn’t. He’s so idle all day long.”
Su Tian giggled and teased, “How do you know that he’s idle?”
You Pinyan: “If he’s not, where does he find the time to chit-chat with me?”
Su Tian responded with another ‘hehe.’
No matter who it was, there was always a bit of meanness and vulgarity in a ‘hehe’ kind of laugh, and Su Tian was no exception, but…
Yu Cai was reclining in bed, holding the clownfish breeding information in his hands, but his eyes weren’t fixed on the text.
He looked at Su Tian, thinking in incredulity, why is Tiantian so cute even when she laughs like this?
So cute, want to…
While talking to You Pinyan, she got up and moved to the bathroom.
After sitting on the toilet and finishing their conversation, she flushed and opened the door, where she was startled by the person standing right in front.
She didn’t know when Yu Cai had pulled the IV needle from his hand and run over in front of the bathroom door.
He stood there, staring at her in what felt like an instant and yet an eternity.
Su Tian asked him, “Have you finished with your IV drip?”
The youth nodded, still staring at her face.
Su Tian: “…”
She looked up in askance. Why didn’t he move aside to let her pass?
“Tiantian…”
He called her name.
Su Tian answered with an ‘en’ and lifted her head slightly, looking unknowingly seductive.
He blinked, eyes fixed on the girl’s lips, and mumbled hoarsely, “I want…”
“What what? Want to go to the bathroom?”
Su Tian asked as she prepared to move aside for him.
The youth shook his head.
Su Tian: “…”
Huh? If he doesn’t want to go to the bathroom, then what was it?
The medicine that Dr. Xu prescribed was extremely effective. The reddish rashes on his face had almost completely faded. Now he was a clean and handsome young man again.
He lowered his head, blushing, and said, “Tiantian, I want to kiss you…”
Su Tian: “…!”
Before she could react, the youth’s lips pressed down.
Lips and teeth connected for a brief instant.
The youth’s lips were soft and dry, and they carried a scorching heat and a faint scent of disinfectant.
A kiss as fleeting as a dragonfly skimming the surface of a pond.
Before Su Tian could react, he took a step back and scampered back to the bed like a frightened rabbit. He swiftly wrapped himself up with the bedding, tightly covering his head and feet.
But perhaps because he was too nervous, the hand that was clutching the quilt was exposed, revealing skin so red it was nearly giving off smoke.
Su Tian: “…”
She was the one who was forcibly kissed, right? What was the meaning of this frightened appearance?
Also, he had the guts to forcibly kiss her, so why was he so shy?!
The trace of anger smoldering in her heart was instantly snuffed out by his reaction.
Dammit, did he grow up eating cuteness?
[1] 不疼不痒: doesn’t hurt, doesn’t itch
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