boyutpedia Chapter 1443 Tomorrow Will Be Better
Chapter 1443 Tomorrow Will Be Better
Chapter 1443 Tomorrow Will Be Better
"Jingyuan, are you feeling any better? It seems to be getting worse."
Hearing the cough behind him, Cui Zhichang turned to look at Chi Jingyuan, frowning and asking with concern, "Should we... should we go to the hospital for another IV drip this afternoon?"
"Suck……"
Chi Jingyuan sniffed, his heavy nasal voice escaping from his throat with a hoarse and sluggish quality characteristic of a cold.
My nasal cavity felt like it was blocked with a soft, wet cotton ball, making it hard to breathe and a little itchy. I couldn't help but cough twice more.
"Cough...cough..."
Feeling weak, Chi Jingyuan shook his head helplessly.
A few days ago, while chatting with Kim Ji-won on the set of a film in Gangwon Province, the topic of the recent flu outbreak in Seoul came up. He confidently boasted, "I'm so healthy, I'll never get sick."
The confidence in his tone still lingers clearly in my ears.
Little did he expect that his words would come true. The next day, he felt unwell, started having a runny nose and a low-grade fever... and he really caught a cold.
When she left the film crew and returned to Seoul on the 9th, her cold not only did not get better, but became more and more serious. Her throat was swollen and painful, and her cough became more and more frequent.
Fortunately, I had an IV drip at a private hospital yesterday and I feel much better now.
But it's still quite uncomfortable.
Chi Jingyuan never expected that a casual remark would be so effective.
Some things really shouldn't be said carelessly.
"Let's wait until today's schedule is finished. I won't wander around this afternoon. I'll take a nap in the lounge."
Upon hearing this, Chi Jingyuan thought for a moment, then spoke in a low voice, which came through his mask with a slightly muffled quality.
Although I feel very unwell, being sick is a common occurrence for celebrities... Sana Minatozaki had a high fever before but still insisted on working, and Ji Kyung-won's condition is not even as serious as hers.
Fortunately, when he went to the hospital for a check-up yesterday, the hospital confirmed that his cold was not the flu, but just caused by catching a chill and not getting enough rest. So there's no need to worry too much. As long as he gets plenty of rest and takes his medicine on time, there shouldn't be any major problems.
Today is January 10th. Ji Kyung-won came to the KINTEX Peninsula International Exhibition Center in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province to attend the Golden Disc Awards for Digital Music.
The Golden Disc Awards are held over two consecutive days each year, with the first day focusing on digital music and the second day on record music.
EXO was not nominated for any awards in the digital music category, so they only attended the Record Awards on the second day. Ji Kyung-won, on the other hand, was nominated for awards in two categories thanks to his outstanding solo achievements, making him one of the few artists who needed to attend for two consecutive days.
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The lounge was quiet and warm, keeping out the chill outside.
After the rehearsal, Chi Jingyuan went straight back to the dressing room, leaned back on the sofa, found a comfortable position, and prepared to close his eyes and rest for a while.
But he had barely sat down when there was another knock on the door of the lounge.
"Dong Dong Dong~"
Assistant Cui Zhichang went to open the door. As the door cracked open, a small head peeked inside... It wasn't actually that small; the head of fluffy, soft, black wavy hair, swaying back and forth, almost filled most of the crack in the door, making it particularly eye-catching.
"Oppa~"
As soon as the door opened, Zhou Ziyu's gaze, as if equipped with a locator, instantly and keenly locked onto Chi Jingyuan on the sofa. Upon seeing him, she seemed to feel reassured.
She then immediately turned around, gave Cui Zhichang a sweet smile, and greeted him politely and cheerfully.
"Tzuyu's here~" Choi Ji-chang greeted Tzuyu with a warm and gentle smile, stepped aside to let her in, and then gently closed the door to the dressing room.
In the dressing room, the other staff members of Chi Jingyuan's team, along with his assistant and stylist, showed no surprise when Zhou Ziyu entered. They simply smiled and nodded at her from a distance before discreetly lowering their heads and continuing with their own tasks, deliberately remaining silent and becoming invisible.
Chi Jingyuan slowly raised his eyes, his gaze falling on Zhou Ziyu, where he saw her small, smiling face.
This dark-skinned girl is getting bolder and bolder; she even comes to the lounge to find him all by herself now.
However, this is also why Chou Tzu-yu knew that only Ji Kyung-won was participating today; if the entire EXO group were present, she would still be very low-key.
Although we keep in touch by text and phone every day to share our daily lives, we haven't seen each other for a while.
In view, Chou Tzu-yu was wearing a light-colored long coat, and her black wavy hair was loosely draped over her shoulders, with the ends slightly curled and swaying gently with her movements, giving it a very good shine.
She wore light makeup, with curved eyebrows and eyes, and her lips were coated with a light lip gloss.
With that smile that could be both beautiful and silly... she still has that bright and cheerful look.
She's still very pleasing to the eye. Seeing her makes Chi Jingyuan seem a little more relaxed... It's just that this girl seems to have lost some weight.
Chou Tzu-yu walked towards him step by step, her faint perfume scent mixed with the fresh fragrance of shampoo in her hair, creating a gentle and pleasant aroma that lingered in the air as her curly hair swayed.
Unfortunately... Chi Jingyuan couldn't smell it.
What are you doing here?
As Zhou Ziyu walked in with a smile and approached him step by step, Chi Jingyuan did not give her a friendly look.
Chou Tzu-yu had already sat down next to her, but Chi Kyung-won glared at her and coughed lightly under his mask.
At this moment, Chi Jingyuan was wearing a black mask that covered most of his face, revealing only a pair of slightly red and tired eyes.
She wasn't wearing makeup yet, and the shadow of her hat covered half her face, making her look like she was huddled inside her clothes, appearing listless.
Zhou Ziyu, who had been looking at Chi Jingyuan with her big, dark eyes, quickly patted him on the back when she heard him cough, saying, "You said it was nothing serious, how come it looks so serious?"
"I still have a bit of a cough and a low-grade fever, but otherwise I'm fine."
Chi Jingyuan felt the chubby little hand gently stroking his back, but he pulled back slightly, his eyes showing some disgust: "Didn't I tell you I had a cold and shouldn't meet me to avoid catching it? Why did you still come?"
"Oh, it's alright, it's alright~"
Upon hearing this, Chou Tzu-yu seemed completely unconcerned, casually stretching out her right hand and making a 'muscle' gesture.
Unfortunately, the coat was too thick, so you couldn't see any muscles at all.
Her big eyes crinkled as she looked at Chi Jingyuan with a naive, "I'm very strong" expression, and she said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm very healthy, I won't catch a cold so easily."
"..."
Hearing her words, and seeing the dark-skinned girl's eye bags curved like caterpillars, looking childish and boastful, Chi Jingyuan was suddenly stunned.
A feeling of déjà vu suddenly welled up in my heart.
He immediately glared at her, his tone turning stern, and he scolded her fiercely, "Shut up."
"Huh~?"
Chou Tzu-yu was happily flexing her muscles when Chi Kyung-won suddenly berated her, causing her to instinctively cry out in grievance.
She didn't understand why Chi Jingyuan was reacting so sensitively, so she pouted and glared at him.
However, she clearly didn't take it to heart. She pouted her fleshy lips twice as a gesture of reconciliation, and in less than two seconds, she had thrown her previous grievances to the winds and remembered her purpose.
"Hands out."
With her big eyes fixed on him, Zhou Ziyu reached out her hand and looked at Ji Jingyuan to make a request.
"what?"
Chi Jingyuan remained motionless, his hands comfortably tucked into the pockets of his down jacket.
"Stretch it out!"
The little black girl immediately pouted and started to exert her soft, sweet voice.
She appears wooden on camera, but in private, she acts incredibly naturally and skillfully in front of Chi Jingyuan.
"nerve."
Chi Jingyuan glanced at her, his tone somewhat disdainful.
However, his right hand, which was in his pocket, reached out to cooperate.
"Not the right hand, the left hand!"
Just as Chou Tzu-yu was about to take Chi Kyung-won's hand in hers, she immediately realized something was wrong and quickly shook her head.
"What exactly do you want? I don't have time to play with you!"
After a two-second standoff, Chi Jingyuan withdrew his right hand and extended his left.
"That's more like it!"
Upon seeing this, Chou Tzu-yu praised him as if she were taking care of a child, then wiggled her plump buttocks and moved a little closer to Chi Ching-yuan, placing Chi Ching-yuan's hand on her thigh.
A strange warmth emanated from her rounded thighs and seeped into the back of her hand.
"Ta-da~"
At this moment, she took out a thin red cotton thread from her pocket and showed it to Chi Jingyuan as if to show off.
Then, she lowered her head, held the red string in both hands, and began to fiddle with it in Chi Jingyuan's left hand, explaining as she did so:
"Didn't you say you had a cold?"
"I've had a cold for several days and it's still not better."
"That won't do!"
“Let me tell you, when I was a child, sometimes when I was sick, if it wasn’t serious enough to go to the hospital, my grandma would tie a red string around my finger.”
As she spoke, she lowered her head, fiddling with Chi Jingyuan's hands, her eyes fixed on him.
Serious and careful.
Wavy curls cascaded down from both sides like a waterfall, and the white light refracted bright arcs on the black hair.
Because she was looking down, her bangs cast a faint shadow over her forehead and eyes. From Chi Jingyuan's angle at that moment, he could only see her round, fleshy nose and her red lips that were opening and closing as she chattered incessantly.
The flesh-colored lip gloss has a strangely alluring sheen under the light.
Even though his sense of smell was affected by his cold, Chi Jingyuan felt the warm touch of Zhou Ziyu's two chubby little hands wrapping around his left hand, and he seemed to smell a warm, sweet scent.
"My grandma said that as long as you tie this red string around your neck, you'll be cured the next day."
As Zhou Ziyu spoke, she skillfully wrapped the red string around Chi Jingyuan's left index finger a few times and then tied a small, delicate knot, like a tiny, exquisite red string ring.
She looked at the red string tied to Chi Jingyuan's left index finger, clapped her hands as if she had accomplished something, and then seemed to remember something:
"Oh, right, and then you have to blow on it a few times. She said the more you blow, the faster it will heal..."
As she spoke, she quickly lowered her head a little further, reached out to Chi Jingyuan's hand, puffed out her cheeks, and blew hard, making "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sounds several times in a row.
The warm airflow hitting his hands made Chi Jingyuan feel a little itchy.
Before Zhou Ziyu could finish playing the flute, he raised his hand and held it in front of his eyes. Looking at the small red string that resembled a ring tied around his left index finger, he asked in surprise, "Your grandmother... knows magic?"
Chi Jingyuan finally understood Zhou Ziyu's purpose, and he was no longer fierce... Moreover, the black girl's words sounded so convincing that he actually began to believe her.
"How could that be? My grandma isn't a Taoist priest."
Chou Tzu-yu immediately shook her head, but she seemed quite satisfied with her result, a smile on her face as she happily looked at the red string on Chi Kyung-won's finger.
Why didn't you ever tell me when I was sick before?
"Didn't I say that? Well, you weren't by my side when you were sick before... Besides, this only works for minor illnesses, like a cold! For serious illnesses... you still have to go to the hospital."
"Oh? So what you're saying really works?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Jingyuan's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhou Ziyu with surprise and anticipation: "So when you were little, you tied this around your neck... did you get better the next day?"
Chou Tzu-yu blinked and lowered her voice slightly: "No... sometimes it's even worse, haha."
She seemed to sense something was wrong and gave a couple of awkward laughs.
"what?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Jingyuan's expression immediately changed, and he glared at her angrily: "It's gotten worse? Are you cursing me by tying me up like this?"
"Hehehe..."
Facing Chi Jingyuan's questioning gaze, Chou Tzu-yu puffed out her cheeks, her laughter both silly and crisp, like a fool.
"..."
Under Chi Jingyuan's questioning gaze, she could no longer laugh. Instead, she sincerely explained, "Although... it sometimes works. A few times, I was completely cured the next day!"
Chi Jingyuan's lips twitched a few times, and the surprise and anticipation that had just surged in his heart instantly vanished. He even felt a little guilty for actually believing her nonsense.
but.
"..."
He raised his hand again, looked at the delicate little red string, but didn't untie it.
He glanced at Chou Tzu-yu, who was staring at the red string alongside him, and his voice, hidden behind his mask, trailed off slightly: "Alright... I'll give it a try."
"Hehe, it'll definitely work..."
Upon hearing this, Chou Tzu-yu's eyes crinkled into a smile.
Before she could finish speaking, Chi Jingyuan felt a warm body getting closer and closer, and a soft strand of hair gently brushed against his ear, tickling him.
He turned his head slightly and realized that the two of them were now sitting very close together, almost touching.
He immediately interrupted Chou Tzu-yu, waving his hand as if he couldn't wait to get rid of her: "Alright, alright, hurry back, don't keep me from resting."
"And don't come here complaining after you get infected."
"Humph~"
Chou Tzu-yu gave a soft snort, seemingly a little dissatisfied, and bared her fangs, making a mock bite at Chi Ching-yuan.
"I'll be going now, you get some rest~"
However, she understood what Chi Jingyuan meant, so she immediately stood up and gave him a serious piece of advice.
Then he turned around, bowed politely to Cui Zhichang and the other staff in the lounge, said goodbye, and prepared to leave.
"..."
Chi Jingyuan pursed his lips beneath his mask, watching the dark-skinned woman's retreating figure.
However, Chou Tzu-yu had only taken a few steps and hadn't even left the house when she stopped, as if she had suddenly remembered something, and quickly turned around.
Under Chi Jingyuan's surprised gaze, she trotted up to him, lowered her head again, approached his left hand, puffed out her cheeks, and blew several breaths onto his fingers.
This time, from Chi Jingyuan's perspective, he could see her face completely. She was blowing air with a serious expression, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her cheeks were puffed out like a round little hamster.
Before Chi Jingyuan could react, Zhou Ziyu, having blew on his hand several more times, seemed to have completed some task and finally relaxed. She let go of Chi Jingyuan's hand and ran away, turning back at the door to wave goodbye to him with a smile.
"Hehe, it'll be fine tomorrow~"
Bye-bye~
After she finished speaking, she closed the door, her beautiful face disappearing behind it, leaving only the faint sound of footsteps fading into the distance.
A subtle silence fell over the lounge.
"Ziyu-xi, this is..." Assistant Cui Zhichang walked over from the side, looked at the red rope in Chi Jingyuan's hand, and asked with some doubt.
The two of them spoke entirely in Chinese, and no one else could understand them.
"..."
Chi Jingyuan remained silent.
He slowly raised his left hand, facing the white light overhead, his gaze fixed on the red string on his finger.
The light shone on the red cotton thread, reflecting a soft, gentle red glow.