Peach-Orange! – Chapter 563 – I Will Not Leave Her Again

Early morning, when the sky was just turning gray, a garbage truck entered from the side gate of Jasmine Residential Quarter in an unnoticed corner.

“Here so early today, have you had breakfast?”

“My wife ran off with someone last night, couldn’t sleep all night. Started work early, life must go on.”

“Ah… Bro, don’t think too much about it. If you want life to go on, you gotta wear a little green on your head. Want one?”

“Thanks, bro.”

Accompanied by the dialogue of daily work, the garbage truck quickly drove into the residential quarter and soon stopped at an empty space.

The gate opened, and a voice finally reached Su Tao’s ears, dispelling her tense spirit, “Miss Su, we have entered Jasmine Residential Community. There’s nothing unusual nearby. We are starting to replace the trash bins from Unit 1 now. You all still need to endure for a bit longer.”

“Mm, try to be as fast as possible.”

She was somewhat anxious but dared not rush.

It wasn’t that the trash bin was particularly smelly and unbearable.

But Xiaocheng was comatose all night, breathing heavily and burning hot to the touch. Reaching out to touch her forehead, it even felt like you could fry an egg on it.

And on her shoulder, some blood was seeping out.

Su Tao suspected it was an infection and high fever caused by the wound tearing.

Not just Chi Xiaocheng, she herself also felt like she had a fever because her skin was cut by various debris in the river, and her back felt burning hot all night.

It wasn’t until late at night, after getting used to it, that it felt somewhat numb.

Now, both she and Chi Xiaocheng needed some treatment and care.

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Si Chen said there were stockpiled medicines at home.

Now, only the final step remained.

But often, this final step is the most prone to accidents.

Even though her body was very tired, Su Tao mustered all her energy.

Fortunately, this time the world didn’t seem to be targeting her anymore.

The garbage truck safely arrived below Unit 4. The man acting as the driver deliberately changed positions, positioning the side of the truck to block the camera at the corner of the wall.

Then, he and another person lifted down the trash bin, “Alright, Miss Su, we are right below your building now.”

Lifting the bin door, Su Tao saw the familiar residential quarter and building floor, a pang of sadness welling up inside.

She picked up Chi Xiaocheng in a princess carry and said very sincerely to this subordinate of Special Envoy Qiu, “Thank you, really, thank you so much!”

Upon hearing this, the subordinate immediately stood straight with his feet together and made a very standard saluting gesture, “Loyalty to Cheng!”

Then, he added, “From now on, we will come here every morning at 6 AM to handle the trash. If you have anything you need to pass to our boss, you can wait for us here.”

“Okay!” Currently, Chi Xiaocheng’s physical condition was urgent, and Su Tao didn’t want to delay. She turned around intending to head towards the elevator.

However, as she turned, she remembered something.

She turned back again, hesitated for a few seconds, and said, “Please convey to your boss that after this matter is over, we will definitely not treat him unfairly.

“Including you two as well.”

After saying this seriously, Su Tao turned around and quickly left.

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She didn’t notice that the two men handling the trash, after being stunned for a few seconds, slowly showed a touch of emotion on their faces.

Taking the elevator, returning to the door, the triple lock of fingerprint, facial recognition, and password opened this heavy metal door.

What greeted her eyes was the entrance and living room, feeling no different from before they left. But they could also sense that the interior of the house seemed to have become cold and oppressive because no one had lived in it for a full month.

However, now was not the time to think about these things.

Su Tao entered, didn’t even take off her shoes, and immediately said, “Xiao Hei, go check the storage room to see where Si Chen said the medicines are. I’ll check Xiaocheng’s physical condition first.”

Quickly found a thermometer, laid Chi Xiaocheng flat on the sofa, Su Tao immediately went to check every room, confirmed all curtains were drawn, then went to the bathroom and started filling the bathtub with hot water in advance.

Then came out and checked the thermometer.

39.4 degrees!

“Why so high!”

Su Tao was shocked.

At this temperature, a bit more severe and it could damage the brain.

Xiao Hei appeared beside Su Tao, “All basic medicines are available. He even separately prepared some more serious emergency medicines. Many of the medical instruments found in hospitals are also fully available.”

“Then I’ll take Xiaocheng to bathe first. If her wound is infected, it will need disinfection. As for treatment…”

“Relax, I can handle it.”

“Okay… Thank you, Xiao Hei.”

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“Then quickly take her to bathe. With her orange cells, she’s still burning up like this; she is indeed very sick.”

Although somewhat helpless, she felt considerably more at ease.

The world’s will didn’t cause trouble during this final period of returning.

As for treating illnesses and such, Xiao Hei could only say she wasn’t a proper doctor, but after countless cycles, both she and Chi Xiaocheng had been seriously injured many times.

Minor illnesses could be cured; for major illnesses, one cut meant starting over again.

The medicines provided by Si Chen were sufficient. With the system’s protection, a fever wouldn’t damage the brain. Even if left alone, the orange cells would take three to five days to fully repair the body.

She went to the storage room to prepare the medicines.

On the other hand, after simply grabbing two sets of clothes, Su Tao also carried Chi Xiaocheng into the bathroom.

Once again, both were naked.

Perhaps before, Su Tao would have already been excited and a bit shy.

But after seeing the infected part of Chi Xiaocheng’s shoulder where the wound had torn, her whole mind was solely focused on the health of the girl before her.

Apart from heartache and relatively obsessive self-blame and affection, there were no other feelings in her eyes.

It took about half an hour. Su Tao finished bathing Chi Xiaocheng and, with Xiao Hei’s help, performed initial disinfection on the infected wound.

Then, administered a fever-reducing injection and set up an IV drip for Chi Xiaocheng.

After busy work for a full two hours, until Chi Xiaocheng was lying quietly on the sickbed and her breathing became steady again, Su Tao finally let out a long sigh of relief.

She sat by the bed, her gaze fixed on the girl lying on the bed.

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Reached out and held one of Chi Xiaocheng’s hands, then leaned down and gently kissed the back of the girl’s hand, “Xiaocheng, it’s okay now. This time, I really did protect you.”

Even though you protected me first.

Even though it was because of me that you got injured this time.

Even though it sounds like hindsight, but… I finally managed to protect you a little bit.

Bringing you home safely and all… Forget it, it’s just self-deception, self-comfort. Perhaps this doesn’t even count as protection.

Su Tao straightened up again. A blush slowly appeared on her tired face, the corners of her lips curled up, and her pair of azure blue eyes were full of tenderness.

Seeing that Chi Xiaocheng’s injury had completely stabilized, Xiao Hei also walked to Su Tao’s side, “I’ll keep watch. You should go rest too. You must be quite tired as well.”

Su Tao gently shook her head, “If Xiaocheng wakes up midway and can’t see me, she will be sad. So I want to stay by her side.”

No matter how tired, I won’t let her disappear from my sight anymore.

At this moment, a touch of brownish-red tinged those azure blue eyes.

Author Note

Bedside (Artist: Natsuki Oo)