At the same time the female secretary's face turned very unpleasant, Chu Ge's hands suddenly shook, and five bills fluttered to the ground.

"Oh, how did this money fall? Five hundred yuan, how many buns can that buy? Looks like I'm really lacking in financial luck!" Chu Ge shrugged, glanced at the money on the ground with a look of regret, and said.

"You!" The corners of the female secretary's eyes trembled, her face turned livid, and she finally realized that Chu Ge was teasing her.

Seeing the female secretary's expression, Chu Ge found it very amusing. What kind of intelligence is this? It took her this long to realize it? Her reflex arc is just a bit too long, isn't it? And with this kind of intelligence, she can still be a secretary?

Chu Ge glanced at Lin Bin again and was quite satisfied with the expression on his face at the moment.

Swept by Chu Ge's gaze, the female secretary became even more annoyed, but just when she was about to speak, Lin Bin's voice came from behind her, "Enough."

Glaring fiercely at Chu Ge, the female secretary picked up the five bills from the ground, mumbled "What quality", and returned to Lin Bin's bedside.

"Quality?" Chu Ge chuckled to himself and muttered, really not knowing what qualification she had to talk about that with him. He never considered himself of high quality, but at least better than her.

Under Lin Bin's unfriendly gaze, Chu Ge lay on the bed, crossed his legs, and began to hum a little tune.

Actually, if these two had been a bit more reasonable and discussed things nicely with him, Chu Ge might have switched rooms. But since they were so good at pretending, he wouldn't coddle their bad habits either.

Taking a few more glances at Chu Ge, Lin Bin also lay down on the hospital bed, turned his gaze to his secretary, and instructed, "Make the call."

The secretary nodded and started dialing numbers one by one.

"Hello, is this Director Li? I'm Minister Lin's secretary. I'm really sorry, but I'm afraid our Minister Lin can't meet with you today. He's a bit injured and is in the hospital now."

"Hello, is this Director Song..."

The female secretary made phone calls for more than ten minutes with mostly similar content, notifying people about Lin Bin's hospitalization until she felt she had called enough. Then she closed the curtains of the ward, sat down beside Lin Bin's bed, and snuggled with him.

Glancing at the couple, Chu Ge was indeed a bit annoyed. What did these two think the hospital was? Were they treating him like he didn't exist?

Seeing Chu Ge looking over, Lin Bin didn't restrain himself at all; instead, a hint of pride appeared on his face.

At that moment, the phone on Chu Ge's bed suddenly rang. Taking a look, it was Shu Lulu's number.

Even though he hadn't seen this little girl for just a day, Chu Ge kind of missed her. Just the fact that she could express concern for his safety over the phone showed she was a decent person.

Using the hand wrapped in bandages, he moved the phone to his ear and with some effort pressed the answer button. Shu Lulu's voice immediately came through the line.

"Hello?"

"Oh, since when did you learn to be so polite when talking to people?"

"Wow, Uncle, it's really you?"

"Nonsense, who else would it be?"

"Oh, don't mention it. You have no idea how much effort it took for me to get through to you. I lost my phone yesterday and didn't remember the last four digits of your number clearly. I don't even remember how many numbers I dialed. By the way, Uncle, where are you? I have something I want to ask you."

"I'm at the First People's Hospital."

"What? Uncle, what happened to you?"

"Nothing serious, just a minor injury. If you can come by, we can talk in person."

"Okay, give me your ward number, and I'll be there right away."

Chu Ge happened to be feeling bored, so when he heard Shu Lulu say this, he gladly told her his floor and ward number. Having a young girl to chat with was indeed a pretty good way to pass the time.

While Chu Ge was on the phone, Lin Bin and his secretary glanced over. When they saw Chu Ge's antique-level shabby phone, their faces showed even greater disdain and mockery.

After a while, footsteps could be heard coming from the corridor, followed by a knock on the door.

Upon hearing the knock, Lin Bin and his secretary immediately separated and tidied their collars. The secretary then went to open the door.

Chu Ge, however, didn't even glance at the door. He was convinced that given Shu Lulu's personality, she would definitely just push the door open and come in, without being so polite.

As expected, a middle-aged man carrying fruits and nutritional supplements walked in, said a few formalities, left the stuff, and left after a few minutes.

Then, several middle-aged men and women came to the hospital room one after another, all carrying flowers, fruits, and nutritional products, with fawning smiles on their faces.

While these people were visiting, Lin Bin always had a sanctimonious look on his face, but once they left, he would glance at their gifts and reveal a knowing grin.

Even with just a bit of thought, Chu Ge knew that among the things they brought, there must be money stuffed in there; otherwise, why else did this guy make all those phone calls?

Once all the people he notified had come by, the female secretary picked up a bunch of grapes, washed them in the hospital room's bathroom, and then leaned against the bed, continuing to stick close to Lin Bin, feeding him grape by grape.

With grapes fed by his secretary in his mouth and looking at that poor devil wrapped like a mummy in the adjacent bed, Lin Bin was feeling great, the anger he felt earlier now transformed into satisfaction.

So you won't change rooms? Fine, then see for yourself what it means to have a gap!

I just burned one hand, and people immediately come bringing food, drinks, and money. Meanwhile, look at you, wounded like that, and yet no one has come to see you for half a day.

Lin Bin felt increasingly smug, feeling that just using his eyes to humiliate Chu Ge wasn't satisfying enough, and he should probably say something.

"Hey little bro, I saw you answering a call earlier, someone was coming to see you, right? It's been so long, maybe they aren't coming after all?"

Chu Ge glanced at the complacent Lin Bin as if looking at an idiot, ignored the jab, and continued lying on the hospital bed watching the IV fluid drip.

Seeing Chu Ge silent, Lin Bin took it as a lack of words and felt delighted.

This is what you get for not changing rooms and messing up my good time. How's that? Jealous, aren't you? Feeling stupid, huh? Hahaha!

"Hey little bro, you look pretty badly hurt with all those bandages wrapped around you. Tut tut, are you hungry? Want me to share some food with you?"

Lin Bin mocked Chu Ge again, but just as he finished, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open with a "bang".

Immediately afterwards, a girl with a ponytail burst in energetically.

"Uncle, how... how did you end up like this?"

Seeing Shu Lulu's face full of concern, Chu Ge laughed, "What do you think? Do I look like an unfinished mummy? You always said I wasn't cool before, how about now?"

"Gee, I mean uncle, you have such a big heart; you're hurt like this, yet you can still laugh. But... you really do look so cool now that I can't even look directly at you!"

At first glance, Shu Lulu was indeed startled when she saw Chu Ge, but seeing his good mood now, she figured he wasn't hurt as badly as she'd imagined—maybe it just looked scary—so she relaxed, smiling and giving Chu Ge a thumbs-up with a little twist.

"Haha, to make you say I'm cool even once, it's worth getting hurt. Come, sit for a while."

Chu Ge laughed again as he moved over on the hospital bed to make room for Shu Lulu.

As Chu Ge and Shu Lulu chatted and laughed, Lin Bin's gaze was fixed intently on Shu Lulu.

Dammit, this girl looks only about eighteen or nineteen, how is her figure so well-developed?

Looking at Shu Lulu's ample bosom, slender waist, and those long, white beautiful legs, Lin Bin suddenly felt ill at ease, and that sense of superiority he just had vanished a lot. The grapes that tasted so sweet and delicious a moment ago suddenly didn't seem as tasty.

It wasn't just Lin Bin sizing up Shu Lulu, his female secretary was too, with jealousy bubbling in her gaze and heart.

From head to toe, she couldn't find anything superior to the girl except maybe her clothes being more expensive.

Even though she wore a fairly classy office suit and the girl wore clearly cheap blouse and casual shorts, still no doubt if they were to walk on the street together, all men's eyes would be drawn to this girl, while she would be ignored.

The more Lin Bin's female secretary looked at Shu Lulu, the more sour she felt; a grape intended for Lin Bin's mouth ended up shoved under his nose, until it burst and she still hadn't realized it.

"What are you doing!?"

With Lin Bin's breathing, he suddenly felt a rush of sweet and sour juice flooding his nose, choked by the grape juice, causing anger to flare up as he glanced at the still daydreaming secretary, subconsciously lifting his bandaged right hand to swat the grape aside.

However, when his fingers pressed on his cheek, there was a burning pain from the injured spot, and he let out an "ouch".

Hearing Lin Bin's cry of pain, Shu Lulu turned her head in confusion to glance over.

Noticing Shu Lulu looking his way, Lin Bin hurriedly tried to smile gentlemanly, but was again choked by the grape juice, leading to a huge sneeze that shot two grape seeds from one nostril and a bubble from the other.

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