Mu Mu hadn’t even woken up the next morning when Yan Gui Xing carried him to the Fourth Legion’s hospital.
The reason for choosing the hospital was that this examination involved many items and required several large pieces of equipment. Gongsun’s small building had limited space and lacked those instruments, leaving the hospital as the only option.
Incidentally, the military hospital was under the Fourth Legion, and the director was Gongsun himself.
Since it was Yan Gui Xing’s own territory, he wasn’t afraid of information leaks being used as leverage against him.
Information might not leak out, but that didn’t mean the hospital staff wouldn’t gossip.
From the moment Yan Gui Xing, accompanied by Gongsun, entered the hospital with Mu Mu’s unfamiliar face that morning, gossip about Yan Gui Xing spread throughout the hospital.
It started with the basic rumour: The General had changed his taste, finding a youthful, possibly underage, pretty little lover.
It escalated to the pretty little lover not being able to handle the wolfish General and being injured and hospitalized.
Finally, it reached the most wild rumour: The General’s lover was pregnant and wanted to use the child to force the General into marriage!
The General was furious and personally brought the lover to the hospital, with Director Gongsun personally performing an abortion!
For a time, all sorts of absurd news flew around in the military hospital’s gossip group.
Sha Xia, who had accidentally joined the internal gossip group years ago and became addicted to gossip, saw the rapidly scrolling messages, his eyes widening like a cow’s and his scalp tingling.
He sighed with emotion, the doctors and nurses in the military hospital were the most powerful in the Fourth Legion. They dared to gossip about the boss so openly, not afraid of him seeing and letting them experience the horror of the S-menu.
Sha Xia was truly scared; with a trembling hand, he took a screenshot and decisively left the group, pretending he’d never been there.
Then, with another trembling hand, he forwarded those screenshots to the Honor Guard group and the Fourth Legion high-level group (without Yan Gui Xing).
Sha Xia had no other intention; he just wanted his colleagues to appreciate the courage of the military doctors and marvel at it.
Gongsun, who was in the high-level group and a big fan of the boss’s gossip, was personally accompanying and conducting the examination for Mu Mu at this moment.
A dozen or so examinations, conducted one after the other, took the entire morning.
Since a few tests couldn’t be immediately processed, Gongsun, knowing Yan Gui Xing’s impatience, suggested he take Mu Mu home and wait until the next day when the results were ready.
Yan Gui Xing also didn’t want Mu Mu to know the treatment plan before it was finalized, so after Gongsun suggested they leave, he took Mu Mu away without objection.
Due to Liuli Star’s expensive medical conditions, Mu Mu had only received treatment at a hospital after the accident at the age of ten. He hadn’t been to a hospital since.
It could be said that Mu Mu was unfamiliar with everything about hospitals. This unfamiliarity led to instinctive fear.
Mu Mu disliked hospitals; even staying for a second made him feel uneasy, like needles in his back. He forgot to ask Gongsun about his condition and the probability of regaining his hearing.
After learning that he could leave the hospital, he forgot about the questions entirely, holding Yan Gui Xing’s hand, eager to leave.
The next day, when Gongsun arrived with the test results, he only faced Yan Gui Xing.
Gongsun sat on the genuine leather sofa in Yan Gui Xing’s study, watching Yan Gui Xing, elegantly crossing his legs, calmly looking at the holographic screen suspended in mid-air, and furrowed his brow in worry.
Doctors in the Empire were privately divided into three factions on whether or not to inform patients of their condition.
The first faction firmly refused to inform the patient. They would tell the family the truth but choose to sugarcoat the condition for the patient.
They justified it as humanitarianism, allowing the patient to spend their last moments carefree.
In contrast, the second faction firmly believed in telling the patient the truth. Their reasoning was that every citizen of the Empire had the right to know, especially about their own body.
They believed that patients would accept their condition, after all, no one knows themselves better than themselves.
The last faction took a case-by-case approach, deciding whether to tell the truth or lie based on the patient’s personality.
Gongsun, due to his own personality, upbringing, and the fact that he mostly dealt with military personnel,
was firmly in the second faction; he always told the truth, regardless of the patient.
However, looking at Yan Gui Xing’s blurry face through the translucent screen, his long fingers tracing the seam at the bottom of his pocket, Gongsun hesitated and asked, “Boss, are you really not letting the little madam come along to hear this?”
Yan Gui Xing didn’t look up. On the screen in front of him, the leftmost side was a human body’s perspective drawing, marked with various values. On the right were two X-ray images of the lower legs, front and side views.
The bones in the images were thin at both ends, and the middle section was about two palms wide. Like two thin tree branches tied together with rope, the thicker middle section being the overlapping branches and the securing rope.
Any layman could see from this X-ray that the owner of the legs had a problem.
His cold gaze traced the image, adding tendons, flesh, and skin to the leg bones in his mind, transforming them into the pale, thin legs with ugly scars that he had touched countless times.
Yan Gui Xing finally turned the examination report to the next page and finally remembered Gongsun’s question, asking faintly, “What would he be doing here?”
Gongsun was taken aback, momentarily stunned before looking at Yan Gui Xing, blinking, and saying matter-of-factly, “It’s the little madam’s examination report; he should be here.”
Yan Gui Xing raised his eyes unhappily, looking at Gongsun, “Aren’t I here?”
Gongsun’s lost intelligence finally returned. He understood Yan Gui Xing’s meaning. Muttering about this damn need for control, he looked at Yan Gui Xing disapprovingly.
“Boss, I think the little madam has the right to know about his own health condition, including the subsequent treatment plan.”
Yan Gui Xing leaned back against the stiff sofa, his lips curled into a smile as he looked at Gongsun through the screen, raising an eyebrow. “No need. He’s mine; everything about him is naturally up to me. Good or bad, he just needs to accept it.”
Gongsun thought about how Yan Gui Xing obtained Mu Mu and secretly gritted his teeth. He took off his rimless glasses, sighed softly, rubbed his temples, and unusually disapproved, “Boss, this need for control will eventually screw you over.”
Yan Gui Xing looked at Gongsun with a strange expression, making Gongsun’s back prickle until he withdrew his gaze and sneered, “Alright, come and advise me again when you’re married. A perpetually single person talking about relationships really has no credibility.”
Gongsun, who had been well-meaning but ended up humiliated: “…”
Gongsun put his glasses back on, grumbling resentfully, “Boss, I was being kind.”
He paused, recalling an encounter with Mu Mu in the glass greenhouse. After Mu Mu learned he was looking for a Rose Star Starlight Rose for an experiment, he put down his watering can and enthusiastically helped him find the flower.
Gongsun actually knew where the Starlight Rose was, but he hadn’t interacted much with Mu Mu before, nor had he interacted with such a beautiful child with head injuries, so he decided to tease Mu Mu.
Mu Mu didn’t know flowers. Even though he had been to the glass greenhouse many times with Yan Gui Xing and Xiao Ting and had heard many introductions, he still couldn’t match the names and the actual plants.
Gongsun watched Mu Mu hobble around the large greenhouse like a headless fly, eventually picking out a pot of Azure Star Star Grass.
Seeing the little fool, whose face and hands were dirty, holding the pot of grass and mistaking it for a flower, Gongsun couldn’t help but laugh.
Gongsun took the Star Grass, his eyes twinkling, playfully teasing Mu Mu, saying it was Yan Gui Xing’s treasure and that Yan Gui Xing would be angry and beat him if he took it.
To be honest, he didn’t mean to test Mu Mu. Besides, with his status, he couldn’t really test Mu Mu.
But Mu Mu, without hesitation, patted his chest, saying that if Yan Gui Xing asked, he would say he accidentally broke it.
At that moment, Gongsun, holding the Star Grass, stared blankly at Mu Mu standing in the sunlight.
After that, Gongsun often helped Mu Mu change dressings and check his condition, and naturally, they interacted more. He genuinely felt that Mu Mu, a simple little fool, was very suitable for their boss.
Compared to the beautiful, intelligent beauties Yan Gui Xing liked, Gongsun truly hoped that Mu Mu, such a simple little fool, could always be by Yan Gui Xing’s side.
But given Yan Gui Xing’s stubborn, uncooperative nature, Gongsun’s eyes darkened, foreseeing a dark future.
“Boss, let’s talk about the little madam’s current condition,” Gongsun steered the conversation back to the main topic.
Yan Gui Xing nodded, closing the holographic screen, and leisurely looked at Gongsun.
“The little madam’s long-term use of nutrient solution has led to malnutrition. But this isn’t a major problem; it can be gradually improved.”
Gongsun looked down at the report on his datapad and continued, “The head injury is irreversible; neither the treatment chamber nor the repair chamber can treat it.”
Yan Gui Xing nodded, “I know.”
“The little madam’s deafness is due to severe trauma, and the repair chamber can treat it.” Gongsun paused, his expression turning serious. “However, the process is very painful; I don’t know if the little madam can endure it.”
Yan Gui Xing asked, “Can’t the treatment chamber do it?”
Gongsun shook his head, “For a complete recovery, only the repair chamber can.”
Yan Gui Xing lowered his gaze to the hand resting on his knee, moved his fingers, and nodded, “Good, I can decide for Mu Mu; just set the date.”
Gongsun pursed his lips and nodded in agreement.
Yan Gui Xing thought of the deformed leg and asked, “What about the leg? Can the leg be treated?”
