Lu Bojing wiped his forehead and shook his head hard. He just suddenly felt an urge to say it, but he didn't. Mingshen was the worst when he was furious. He would give him a slow, painful death that would make hell come on earth.

  He looked at her, who was questioningly staring back at him.

  Lu Bojing lowered his head. Even if he told her about Song Jia, it was useless. She wasn't going to live for long. Sooner or later, the time for the transplant would arrive, and she would be dead anyway.

  "Y-your sister m-must be beautiful…" he bit his tongue for saying nonsense.

  "How do you know?"

  "Be-because she likes flowers too…… Flowers are beautiful…"

  Lihua widened her eyes and then chuckled. "You are right. Sis was really beautiful. She was intelligent too, unlike me," she cleared her throat.

  "Don't worry, Lihua. I am here to compensate for your intelligence!" Bobo hopped in the garden and hugged her.

  "Bobo!" Lihua smiled and squished his cheeks.

  He giggled and kissed her cheek back. "Your future husband is really smart!"

  Then he shot a glare at Lu Bojing, and poor Lu Bojing jolted back.

  W-why is he looking at me like that?

  "The new neighbor…"

  "Y-yes."

  "The crybaby neighbor," he laughed.

  Lu Bojing burst into tears. "I am sorry for being a crybaby…I know I am useless."

  Lihua immediately scolded both of them. "Bobo! You shouldn't talk to him like that. He is like your elder brother. No teasing and taunting. It's bad to insult and laugh like that. Say sorry now."

  Bobo pursed his lips. "I am sorry."

  "En."

  She glanced at Lu Bojing and harrumphed. "Just now, I told you not to keep apologizing. You already forgot so soon! And if you hear someone talking like that to you, you should fight back too."

  Lu Bojing paled as if he saw a ghost. "Fi-fight back? And m-me? Impossible!"

  Lihua easily imagined him scurrying away like a squirrel. She imagined the squirrel's ears on his head and her heart was struck with an arrow.

  Aiya, he looks so cute!!!

  She cleared her throat. "It's not. It's not a physical fight. It's words. You should keep your stand and not let anybody insult you."

  "I-I-I will try…" his voice was hardly audible.

  "Good," she nodded her head in satisfaction. Then she asked, "How old are you by the way?"

  "Twenty-one."

  Lihua was speechless. "Wait, wait, what! Twenty-one?"

  "Yes…"

  "You are only twenty-one?" She asked again in disbelief. Even Bobo was shocked.

  "Yes."

  Her jaw dropped wide open. "H-How? I mean I am twenty-two and finally about to graduate. I haven't even started my career, and you are already a doctor?"

  Lu Bojing blinked.

  "Where did you study to become a doctor so soon? Doesn't it take at least five years in medical school?"

  "I never…… went to medical school."

  "Ah? Then how did you study medicine?"

  "My benefactor taught me."

  Lihua and Bobo looked quizzical. "Your benefactor?"

  "Yes……My benefactor is the……best doctor in this world."

  Lihua's mouth twitched.

  If Mingshen was here, he would have felt really insulted by that comment…


  "He taught me everything. N-Not just medicine. He taught me to read and write too…He taught me how to eat."

  Lihua widened her eyes.

  Bobo asked, "You never went to school?"

  "No…"

  Lihua found this very strange.

  "What about your family?" Then she quickly said, "I am sorry. I shouldn't have asked that."

  It is wrong to ask such a sensitive topic when we hardly know each other.

  "I-It's fine…" Lu Bojing hastily said, "I don't have a family. I-I was always in a dark place with o-other children…"

  Is he talking about an orphanage?

  "I-I don't remember much. It was dark, and it hurt."

  "Hurt what?"

  "E-everything."

  "Were you sick?"

  "No…but my body always hurts is what I remember," his gaze seemed like he went into a trance. "Then I remember my benefactor standing before me one day…I don't know what happened. But there was……b-blood everywhere…D-dead men……"

  Lihua widened her eyes. She anxiously looked at Bobo. But Bobo wasn't uncomfortable. She sighed.

  "Bobo…"

  "I am fine, Lihua. I will not get bad dreams!" Bobo harrumphed. "I am stronger than other kids! Bro Bojing, continue!"

  Lu Bojing curled himself. "My benefactor was smiling at me. His gaze was cold. I-I was really scared of him…"

  I still am! He sobbed.

  "Then?"

  "Then he-he just took me with him……And he taught me everything. Reading, writing, eating, talking, medicine - everything."

  "How old were you?"

  "Ten years old…"

  Lihua wondered if Lu Bojing had been kidnapped.

  "I see. So your benefactor must be quite an elderly now."

  Lu Bojing blinked. "Elderly? No. He-he is twenty-eight now."

  "……"

  What the hell!?

  "Your benefactor is twenty-eight? Then…… wasn't he only seventeen when you met him?"

  "Yes."

  Her jaw dropped open again. "How the hell did he teach you everything when he was just seventeen himself!?"

  "He-he is extremely capable."

  "……"

  That's your answer?

  Somebody was a doctor at seventeen already?

  Bobo frowned. "But you still didn't study from any school. You don't have any certificate. How can you be a doctor?"

  "Bobo!" Lihua glared at him.

  But Lu Bojing didn't cry this time for questioning his capabilities. "It's because of my benefactor. He is the best doctor. M-my benefactor says that I don't need a c-certificate if he has taught me everything…"

  Lihua's mouth twitched again.

  Mingshen would be really, really insulted by now. Why does this benefactor remind me of him? The confidence……

  "He says the person is a fool if he asks for a certificate."

  Bobo's gaze darkened. "I am not a fool! Your benefactor is! My Dad says that people without certificates are scammers!"

  Now Lu Bojing cried again. "I-I am not a scammer. I am just a doctor!"

  Lihua said, "No, no! Of course Lu Bojing isn't a scammer. Bobo…"

  "Sorry……But it's what Dad says!"

  Lihua looked at Lu Bojing, who was sniffling and wiping his eyes.

  Twenty-one……I thought he was older than me.

  But no wonder I felt as if I had to protect him…… He is so cute. Hehe, it feels like I have a younger brother now…