Chapter 698 — Top-Notch Good News
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"How about we go home and play hide-and-seek?" Shen Yushu suggested.
"Hide-and-seek? Don't tell me you're in heat and want to get wedged in that fence again so Wei Zhao can cop a feel?" Gu Mengyao shot the idea down. The house was only so big—hide-and-seek was fine once in a while, but playing it all the time got old fast.
"Fine, fine. Then what do you want to play?" Shen Yushu changed the subject without so much as a blush, as if Gu Mengyao hadn't been talking about her at all.
"How should I know? Let's just go home and play video games," Gu Mengyao said. Hearing Shen Yushu mention video games a moment ago had made her want to play.
"Yay, yay!" Shen Yushu nodded. Whatever it was, she was game.
As the two were talking, Shen Yushu's phone rang. She glanced at the caller ID, saw it was her brother, and picked up at once. "Brother!"
"Xiaoshu, where are you?" Chen Yuxuan's voice came through the line.
"Yao Yao and I are at the hospital. What's up, brother?" Shen Yushu said. "If you're free, come play games with us!"
Chen Yuxuan froze for a moment when he heard they were at the hospital—his first thought was that one of them had fallen ill. But then Shen Yushu mentioned playing games, which clearly meant nothing was wrong, so he didn't press further and said directly, "An Liwen drank too much last night and passed out on the street. A criminal gang cut out one of his kidneys. If you and Yao Yao aren't busy, why don't you come see him? We're at First People's Hospital, Inpatient Building Three, Room 218."
"Holy crap!" Shen Yushu's eyes went wide, and then she clapped her hands and cheered. "Oh, Yao Yao, I've got the most amazing news! An Liwen got a kidney cut out—he's just like Zhong Yongliang now! Your suitors are all so pitiful—every single one of them's had a kidney harvested!"
Chen Yuxuan was dripping with sweat. His little sister was way too much. Even if she didn't like An Liwen, there was no need to cheer so brazenly, was there? If An Liwen heard that, he'd die of rage on the spot! Good thing Chen Yuxuan was far away and An Liwen couldn't hear the call.
"An Liwen? A kidney harvested?" Gu Mengyao was briefly stunned. She didn't show the delight Shen Yushu had, but she wasn't exactly grief-stricken either. Her ties with An Liwen had been drifting further and further apart—that feeling of him being the boy next door from childhood was gone for good.
Gu Mengyao shook her head. Sure enough, once people grow up, they can never go back to the way things were.
"Xiaoshu, you and Yao Yao should at least come see him, shouldn't you? An Liwen is an old friend, after all—we've always gotten along well," Chen Yuxuan said.
"Oh, all right. Yao Yao and I aren't doing anything anyway, so we might as well go see him. It'll be fun!" Shen Yushu thought it over and agreed.
Chen Yuxuan didn't know what to say. Fun? An Liwen had a kidney cut out—how was that fun?
But there was nothing he could do about his quirky little sister. The old man at home doted on her and treated her like the family jewel—and, from a certain angle, she really was rather adorable.
"Yao Yao, we've got somewhere to go! Let's go to the hospital and see An Liwen—his kidney got cut out, it's so much fun!" Shen Yushu hung up and said to Gu Mengyao, "Hey, you think Arrowbrand Bro could've done it?"
"Wei Zhao?" Gu Mengyao was slightly taken aback. Could it have been Wei Zhao? Why would Wei Zhao cut out An Liwen's kidney? Because at dinner last night, An Liwen tried to pursue her and confessed his feelings? That seemed impossible—Wei Zhao didn't even like her, so why would he go cut out An Liwen's kidney? If she had ordered it, maybe, but she hadn't ordered him to do any such thing...