Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

"It's alright, he won't die."

A tender, slightly arrogant child's voice entered Lu Ze's not-yet-fully-awakened consciousness.

The voice sounded very young, but the tone of voice deliberately acted like an adult, like a little adult who had been an attending physician for many years.

"See, he's awake now."

Lu Ze struggled to open his heavy eyelids, and his vision gradually became clearer.

The first thing that catches the eye is a pair of small, rounded white jade dragon horns, pure white as jade, with a light purple gradient at the top. From his angle, they are backlit by the light coming through the ward window, and their outlines are edged with gold.

Below the dragon horns was a chubby little face, and a pair of big eyes were staring down at him with obvious dissatisfaction.

"Where am I? What's this deer spirit doing here?"

Before Lu Ze's mind was fully clear, his mouth moved first.

He regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth, because he saw the dissatisfaction in those big eyes escalate into rage at a visible speed.

"You're the deer spirit! Your whole family are deer spirits! Watch me whip you into a deer spirit with my tail!"

Bai Lu immediately bristled, her tail flying high behind her, about to strike Lu Ze in the face.

She was a dragon maiden of the Vidyadhara clan, and the pair of horns on her head were dragon horns. Although they were a bit rounded, they were still genuine dragon horns, and anyone with eyes could see the difference.

Fu Xuan reached out and pulled Bai Lu back from her anger, preventing Lu Ze, who had just woken up from his coma, from being sent back to the emergency room.

Her movements were light but steady. She put one arm around Bai Lu's shoulder and pulled her back, while using the other hand to block Lu Ze.

Bai Lu persisted relentlessly, and Fu Xuan had no choice but to appease her.

"Bai Lu, don't take it to heart. I'll bring you ten skewers of Qiong Shi bird meat as an apology tomorrow."

Upon hearing that there was something delicious to eat, Bai Lu immediately stopped struggling, but stretched out her hand and held up two fingers.

"Twenty strings."

"Okay, twenty skewers it is." Fu Xuan agreed without even thinking.

After calming Bai Lu down, she turned to look at Lu Ze, her voice several degrees softer than usual.

"How are you feeling?"

At this moment, Lu Ze was wrapped in several bandages. The wounds on his shoulders, waist, and chest had been carefully bandaged. Under the white bandages, one could vaguely see dried dark red bloodstains, but at least no new blood was seeping out.

"Hmph, he's perfectly fine."

Bai Lu answered the question for Lu Ze.

She crossed her arms and swished her tail behind her in dissatisfaction, clearly still resentful of the earlier comment about a "deer spirit," but also had to fulfill her duties as a doctor out of professional ethics.

"He has a special energy in his body that protects his heart meridian. It must be an energy that he cultivated through some method."

"Furthermore, he must have taken some kind of medicine, making his recovery ability several times stronger than that of an ordinary person. Although it's not as exaggerated as that of the Immortal Boat people, this kind of injury should heal in a week at most."

"He's just weak from blood loss right now. When you get back, just make him some blood-nourishing food."

After Bai Lu finished speaking, she pointed to the door without any politeness, issuing an order to leave.

"Take him home if he's alright, don't delay other patients' medical treatment. Also, remember to bring twenty skewers of pheasant."

She had zero affection for Lu Ze, who called her "Deer Spirit" the moment he opened his eyes, and had absolutely no desire to keep him in her bed any longer.

Lu Ze opened his mouth, wanting to say something to salvage his image in the little doctor's eyes, but Bai Lu didn't give him the chance at all. She flicked her tail and turned around, leaving him with only an angry back view and a pair of dragon horns that read "Keep Out."