I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With-Chapter 1048: This Medicine Is Really Potent

Ji Yebai stopped in his tracks as instructed.

"Huh?" A monosyllabic retort.

Ning Xixi stepped forward and grabbed his arm, nervously saying, "You can’t leave! What if... what if that Anna really wants your life?"

"If I can’t live, then I’ll just die." Ji Yebai’s tone was flat, as if he was utterly disheartened.

Ning Xixi was thrown into disarray; was Dabai broken-hearted and despondent because of her? Why couldn’t she sense any will to live in him?

"No... I don’t want you to die..." She held onto Ji Yebai’s sleeve, sniffling as she spoke.

Ji Yebai remained expressionless, "I no longer have anyone to live for."

Oh my god!

Ning Xixi was utterly terrified, racking her brains before saying, "You have your parents, Brother Yemo, Miaomiao, Grandpa... Ji Yebai, how can you say you don’t want to live! If anything happens to you, how heartbroken your family would be!"

"And you? Would you be sad?" Ji Yebai countered.

He asked so swiftly that Ning Xixi didn’t have time to think and blurted out, "If you die, I wouldn’t be able to go on living."

As her words settled, the room was enveloped in silence.

Ning Xixi’s face flushed instantly red; what was she saying!

Oh no! Dabai didn’t hear, surely he didn’t hear anything...

"The wind was so loud just now, you definitely didn’t hear anything, right!"

Unfortunately, self-deception is futile as Ji Yebai’s thin lips curled into a smile, his eyes shimmering with a dazzling light, "I heard."

Ning Xixi: ...Ahhhhh!

"In any case, you can’t leave." Ning Xixi grasped his wrist, "I won’t just watch you go to your death!"

Ji Yebai blinked innocently, "Then tell me, what should we do?"

He tossed this thorny issue back to Ning Xixi, leaving her utterly flabbergasted.

The little girl stood there dumbstruck, bewildered like a child unable to solve a math problem.

"How about... we both fake our deaths and run away together? Or find a handsome guy to seduce Anna, make her fancy someone else... Ah, and, you eat more, get a little chubbier, uglier even, maybe then she won’t like you anymore!" The little girl’s imagination ran wild with all sorts of fantastic ideas.

Ji Yebai watched her with a smile in his eyes.

"Actually, there’s another way..." Ji Yebai, leaning in to her ear, lured her with his words but before he could finish, his body suddenly swayed and collapsed onto Ning Xixi.

A strong dizziness overwhelmed him, leaving only one thought in Ji Yebai’s mind: Brother Zhiyang, this medicine of yours is really potent...

By the seaside, wearing a straw hat while fishing, Song Zhiyang murmured, "Who’s thinking about me?"

...

In the bedroom.

Ning Xixi was scared out of her wits, "Dabai, what’s wrong with you?"

Using all her strength, she dragged Ji Yebai onto the bed, her small hands accidentally brushing against his exposed skin, finding it almost burning hot.

How can it be this hot... could it be a fever? Or...

Ning Xixi’s face turned pale, alarms went off in her mind as the dangerous words surfaced: infection!

Oh no... this is an island, without antibiotics or anything, if Dabai’s wound is really infected, what would they do?

The little girl bustled about, placing a chilled towel on his forehead and trying to feed him medicine, but with Ji Yebai barely conscious, it wouldn’t go down no matter how she tried...

Fighting her embarrassment, Ning Xixi steeled herself, put the medicine in her own mouth, then... pressed her lips against Ji Yebai’s...