After AFK for five years, I returned to be number one in the entire server.

After dinner, Shen Yi went back to her bedroom early.

Her blueprint for the future needs to be supported by solid professional achievements.

In order to secure a good internship opportunity in the future, she spends a lot of her free time reviewing the knowledge in her books every day.

The narrow soundproof door blocked out the sound of turning pages, leaving Lin Ye sitting quietly on the sofa in the living room.

Recently, Lin has not deliberately used magnetic fields to detect what's going on across the hall; he avoids observing other people's privacy.

However, occasionally the magnetic field would naturally unfold, and he could sense that Gu Qingxin was always in the room.

Lin put down her phone, stood up, walked to the entrance, pushed open the door, and went out.

The dim, motion-activated light in the hallway was still on, casting dappled shadows on the concrete wall. Lin walked to the security door opposite, raised his hand, and knocked on the door with his knuckles.

dong dong dong...

The dull knocking echoed across the silent walkway.

There was no immediate response from inside. After about half a minute, a soft "click" finally came from the lock, and the heavy security door was slowly pulled open from the inside.

Gu Qingxin stood behind the door. Today she wore a white silk off-shoulder nightgown, the fabric draping softly.

This style, which exposes a large area of ​​the shoulders and neck, is clearly only for the purpose of making it easier to treat the serious wound located above the arm.

Her right hand was tightly covering the area below her left shoulder, and a patch of pure white gauze that had just been applied could be vaguely seen between her slender fingers.

The light from the hallway fell on her lips, which were still deathly pale, but her breathing was much more stable than it had been a few days ago.

Through the open door, Lin Ye's gaze naturally fell on the living room inside.

A few steps away, on the coffee table, the familiar white first-aid kit was wide open, with several bottles of disinfectant and some discarded cotton balls stained with dark red scattered around it.

Clearly, before the knocking, she was sitting alone in the living room, struggling to treat her wounds and apply medicine.

Lin Ye looked at Gu Qingxin behind the door and explained his purpose: "I saw that you haven't gone out for a few days, so I came to check on you."

Gu Qingxin turned slightly to the side, widening the crack in the door, her voice still gentle: "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

"No need, let's get ready to go back." Lin also glanced at the furnishings in the room and did not intend to stay any longer.

"It's not very convenient for me to treat my wound myself. Could you please help me one more time?"

Her tone carried an undisguised sense of helplessness, which, combined with her pale and gentle face, made it hard for anyone to bear refusing her.

Lin didn't say anything, just nodded, and then stepped into the room that smelled faintly of disinfectant.

Gu Qingxin closed the security door and sat down on the sofa in the living room.

The white silk off-shoulder nightgown twitched slightly with her movements, the smooth fabric clinging to her body like ripples of water.

She already had a tall and well-proportioned frame, and now her collar slipped down a bit, revealing a large expanse of her snow-white collarbone and slender swan neck.

Coupled with her tranquility and gentleness, this unguarded homely demeanor exudes a mature charm that strikes straight to the heart in the quiet living room.

Gu Qingxin gently peeled off the old gauze covering the wound, exposing the injured area completely to the air.

Lin also picked up tweezers from the first-aid kit, his gaze lowered, but his movements paused slightly the moment he saw the condition of the wound.

Nearly five days have passed since the last bandaging, but the deep laceration that exposes the bone shows no signs of healing.

The torn flesh still had an eerie crimson color, as if time had stood still at this wound, and fine blood was still seeping out.

Instead of cleaning or applying medicine, he stared at the horrifying wound, as if in a different state, remaining motionless.

Gu Qingxin did not urge him, but looked at Lin Ye and her own wounds calmly and gently.

Time passed silently between the two of them.

About ten seconds later, a small wisp of pale blue light suddenly appeared in the previously calm air.

The light, like a firefly in the still night, shone precisely on Gu Qingxin's incurable wound.

Gu Qingxin clearly felt that the energy that had been lurking in her flesh like a bone-deep ailment, constantly and frantically destroying her tissues, was being rapidly disintegrated and extracted under the illumination of this ray of blue light, until it was completely wiped away.

As the destructive force dissipated, the blue light also vanished, as if it had never existed.

Lin also raised his hand and rubbed his temples. Every time he used this ability other than magnetic field, he would feel some fragmented things in his mind, which brought a faint throbbing pain and made him feel uncomfortable.

He lowered his hand, his gaze meeting Gu Qingxin's gentle eyes once more.

He suddenly realized that after using his ability, the sense of closeness he already felt for the woman in front of him had inexplicably intensified, as if some deep-seated connection in his subconscious had been quietly plucked.

Lin also reapplied medicine and bandaged Gu Qingxin's wound, as it needed time to heal.

Even without Lin Ye's intervention, that power could not threaten her life.

With her own abilities, she can gradually erode that power, though it may take a month.

With the source eliminated, Gu Qingxin's pale complexion visibly regained its color in the following days.

The weakness that made her sway after just a few steps was completely swept away, and she regained her usual gentle and serene demeanor.

On the second weekend of December, Gu Qingxin ultimately did not invite anyone out for dinner.

She paid for a minivan and suggested taking Lin Ye and Shen Yi to a newly developed hot spring resort in the suburbs for a day trip, with all expenses covered by her.

She extended the invitation in the warm tone of a neighbor's elder, and Shen Yi naturally accepted happily.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the sunlight seemed somewhat cold.

The three of them walked out of the rusty iron gate of the old apartment building. A black minivan was already parked by a dead tree on the side of the road, and the driver was standing at the back of the car opening the trunk.

Gu Qingxin was wearing a loose and elegant long dress today, while Shen Yi was wearing a fluffy warm coat and was talking to Lin Ye with a smile.

Just as they were about to walk towards the car door, a dull groan of wheels grinding against the asphalt came from a street corner not far away.

Su Nian was dragging a huge cardboard box with simple wheels at the bottom and layers of yellow tape wrapped around it.

These were winter supplies specially sent by Zhou Qiaoyun from her hometown. They were filled with handmade cured meat and thick quilts. She instructed Su Nian to make sure to deliver them to Lin Ye over the weekend.

Fang Cheng walked beside Su Nian, holding a cup of hot soy milk he had just bought, and was complaining animatedly about the heavy workload of the final exams.