Although the suicide alarm turned out to be false, Xu Yan couldn’t just leave the person lying there unattended.
The daytime temperature was over 20 degrees Celsius, making it nearly impossible to freeze to death, but spending the night outside was a different story.
Xu Yan stood still at the door for a few minutes before stepping forward to knock on Xiao Man’s apartment door.
He hadn’t known much about Xiao Man before, but after she saved him, he had learned everything he needed to know.
Logically, there shouldn’t be anyone in Xiao Man’s apartment, but since this friend of hers, Zhou Jiang, had been drinking there until she passed out, there might be one or more drunk people inside.
Xu Yan knocked for a full two minutes, but instead of waking anyone inside, the person lying outside suddenly sat up, startling him.
Zhou Jiang, still drunk but alert, asked,
“Who are you? Why are you knocking on Manman’s door?”
Xu Yan replied, “Xiao Man sent me to save you.”
Zhou Jiang frowned, scrutinizing the handsome man before her.
Her expression shifted from alert to relaxed, and she said happily,
“That’s great. Manman finally gets to enjoy something good.”
Xu Yan: “?”
Not wanting to deal with a drunk person, he pointed at the door and said succinctly, “Open it.”
The door had a code lock.
If she could open it, it would confirm that she was indeed Zhou Jiang, Xiao Man’s friend, and that they were close.
However, Xiao Man wasn’t there, yet Zhou Jiang was drinking in her apartment…
Perhaps their relationship was just that good!
Zhou Jiang, still drunk, instinctively obeyed Xu Yan’s words and clumsily got up to open the door.
Xu Yan stepped aside, politely avoiding watching her enter the code.
After a few beeps, the door opened.
Just as Zhou Jiang was about to enter, she saw the dog lying at the doorway and exclaimed,
“Xiao Bai? Xiao Bai, how did you die? Xiao Bai!”
Xu Yan looked inside and saw Xiao Bai lying motionless in the entryway, as if dead.
Zhou Jiang rushed over, picking up Xiao Bai’s limp body, her expression exaggerated with grief.
“Xiao Bai, how will I live without you? Xiao Bai, you died so tragically!”
Xu Yan wanted to suggest checking if the dog was actually dead before crying, but he didn’t dare get closer.
Scanning the room, he saw Han Shuangshuang passed out on the couch, clearly drunk.
Xu Yan’s eyes narrowed slightly, a thought crossing his mind: He had wondered why Xiao Man had asked him to get the address from Chen Yao instead of Han Shuangshuang.
Could it be that Xiao Man knew Han Shuangshuang was drunk and didn’t want him to waste his time?
Xu Yan couldn’t help but look around again.
If Xiao Man wasn’t in this room watching these two women drink, seeing one run out crazily and the other pass out, how could she have known so clearly?
He wanted to call out again, thinking maybe Xiao Man was here.
But then he noticed Zhou Jiang’s crying had stopped.
Looking over, he saw that Zhou Jiang had somehow fallen asleep with Xiao Bai in her arms by the entryway, breathing steadily.
Xu Yan:”…..”
He really didn’t know why he had come here today.
With two people and a dog lying motionless, it looked eerily like a crime scene.
Not wanting to invite unnecessary trouble, Xu Yan closed the door, found a pair of disposable slippers in the shoe cabinet, and walked in, sitting down on the single-seater sofa as far away from Xiao Bai as possible.
Still unwilling to give up, he called out to the quiet room,
“Xiao Man, are you really not here? I’ve done everything you asked. At least give me a response.”
The room remained silent.
Xu Yan leaned back on the sofa, casually thinking that it was quite comfortable.
Xiao Man really knew how to enjoy herself.
Seeing that he still got no response, Xu Yan sighed and said,
“At least tell me how you know when you wake up next time.”
His tone rose slightly at the end, sounding very helpless.
At this moment, Xiao Man, who had just woken up in Zhou Jiang’s arms:
Waking up to hear Xu Yan talking to the air, thankfully no one else was awake, or it would have been so awkward!
Xiao Man had already made up her mind.
She wasn’t afraid of showing abnormalities during her brief moments of waking, after all, she was a real vegetative patient.
If she was lucky enough to fully recover in the future, she could just say she didn’t remember anything.
A vegetative patient, with brain issues, not remembering some things, that’s reasonable, right?
Xiao Man, feeling Zhou Jiang’s warm embrace, relaxed.
She didn’t know what had happened during her coma, or how Xu Yan had found them, but regardless, she owed him.
She had saved him, and now they were even.
Once she fully recovered, she would repay him for the medical expenses he had covered.
Thinking of this, she thought of the expensive costs of staying in the special care ward, and her heart ached to the point of suffocation.
If she had to stay there for three to five years, her savings would be completely drained.
But thinking that as long as she could wake up, she could earn money again, she calmed down.
Compared to life, money was just a trivial matter.
Her head still ached from hitting the door, and Xiao Man didn’t want to approach Xu Yan, so she continued to lie still, pretending to be dead.
Xu Yan was quiet, silently scrolling through his phone, waiting for the two drunk women to wake up.
During this time, Feng Qing called with a video call, which he declined.
Feng Qing soon sent a WeChat message asking about the situation, but he didn’t say much.
It was better not to mention this matter except to those involved.
The first to wake up was Han Shuangshuang, who had passed out after just one can of beer.
She opened her eyes and saw Xu Yan sitting across from her, startling her as if she were in a dream.
Xu Yan, sharp as ever, looked up at her and asked, “Awake?”
Han Shuangshuang instinctively sat up straight, swallowing hard, and said,
“Yes, yes, Director Xu!”
Xu Yan put away his phone and stood up.
“Good, take care of the drunk one over there.”
Han Shuangshuang: “Yes, Director Xu!”
Although Xu Yan didn’t like to explain, he wasn’t foolish enough to leave any strange misunderstandings.
He said, “Xiao Man woke up earlier and said her friend Zhou Jiang was going to commit suicide, so she asked me to come and save her.”
“Zhou Jiang opened the door herself. If I hadn’t been here, she might have run outside again to freeze herself to death. Since you’re awake, keep an eye on her!”
Xu Yan’s words carried a hint of sarcasm; he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had been played.
In his view, the so-called “suicide” was probably just a drunken misunderstanding, but that was just his guess.
He had truthfully conveyed Xiao Man’s request, and how they dealt with the aftermath was their own business.
He had already wasted an entire afternoon.
If it weren’t for the fact that he owed Xiao Man his life…
Xu Yan didn’t stay long.
He walked to the door, carefully avoiding Xiao Bai, changed back into his shoes, and left.
Han Shuangshuang was still in a daze.
Seeing Zhou Jiang still lying on the ground, she hurried to help her up, and then saw Xiao Bai lying motionless, startling her again, only to meet Xiao Bai’s suddenly opened eyes.
Han Shuangshuang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly helped Zhou Jiang onto the sofa to lie down.
She turned to look at Xiao Bai, who had followed her, and said awkwardly,
“Xiao Bai, you don’t know how scared I was when I opened my eyes and saw Director Xu!”
Xiao Man thought to herself, I feel quite at ease.
Indeed, Xu Yan is very reliable!
She couldn’t help but walk over to Zhou Jiang and slap her face.
You jerk, you almost scared me back to life!
Han Shuangshuang was startled.
“Xiao Bai, why did you hit her?”
Only then did she remember what Xu Yan had said before leaving.
She had been too nervous earlier, but now, recalling it, the information was overwhelming!
Sister Man woke up again?
And she knew Sister Zhou Jiang was going to commit suicide?
Wait, why was Sister Zhou Jiang going to commit suicide?
When did this happen?
Han Shuangshuang felt her mind was in chaos, and in the end, she did the same as Xiao Bai, slapping Zhou Jiang’s shoulder and calling out,
“Sister Zhou Jiang, wake up!”
Han Shuangshuang called Zhou Jiang for a while, and after Zhou Jiang groggily opened her eyes, she quickly gave her some water, and Zhou Jiang finally sobered up.
Zhou Jiang, still groggy, looked at Han Shuangshuang blankly.
By the time it was dark, the two could finally communicate smoothly.
Zhou Jiang looked vacant.
“You’re saying I got drunk and wanted to commit suicide, and Manman somehow knew and notified your boss to stop me?”
Fragments of her drunken memories resurfaced.
She remembered mistaking their boss for Manman’s boyfriend and saying something inappropriate, then opening the door herself.
She didn’t remember much after that…
Had she really gotten drunk and wanted to commit suicide?
It didn’t seem like it…
A fragment of memory suddenly came back, and Zhou Jiang covered her face.
It seemed she had really wanted to freeze herself to death…
Zhou Jiang explained the situation with embarrassment.
Han Shuangshuang had already asked a familiar doctor about the situation.
Xiao Man had indeed woken up briefly and then fallen back into a coma.
Han Shuangshuang felt that Sister Man was like a superhero, always waking up in emergencies to help others.
Although, according to Sister Zhou Jiang, the suicide was a misunderstanding, lying drunk outside was still dangerous!
Han Shuangshuang deliberately avoided the awkward parts and said happily,
“Sister Man has woken up twice now. It seems her condition is really improving.”
Zhou Jiang nodded, her gaze unconsciously falling on Xiao Bai, who was lazily lying nearby.
Xiao Man noticed Zhou Jiang’s gaze but pretended not to see it, yawning.
As the two recounted the events, she also learned what had happened after she hit the door and fell into a coma.
It was all a misunderstanding.
Drunk people were indeed unreasonable, almost scaring her to death!
As for how Xiao Man knew about their situation, Han Shuangshuang couldn’t figure it out, just like last time.
But since she couldn’t figure it out, she decided not to dwell on it.
She thought she would know once Sister Man woke up.
The two tidied up the room together.
Han Shuangshuang went to the bathroom, and as soon as she left, Zhou Jiang squatted down in front of Xiao Bai.
Zhou Jiang’s eyes were bright, a stark contrast to her previously lifeless demeanor, now appearing particularly lively.
“Xiao Bai, I have something to ask you. Or perhaps, should I call you, Manman?”
Others who heard about Xiao Man waking up twice treated it as a mysterious event, but besides noticing that Xiao Bai was present both times and that Xiao Bai was mostly unconscious.
When Xiao Man woke up, she also sensed Xiao Bai’s familiarity with Xiao Man’s apartment and Xiao Bai’s inexplicable closeness to her, a first-time visitor who even knew which pair of her exclusive slippers were!
Then, there is only one truth!