"Awful"

Shen Jun noticed a hint of worry inside Lai Jiayi's voice, so he couldn't help but sigh for a bit before answering, 

"He is in a special room for continuous treatment. I'll bring you there shortly." 

Right after he spoke, there's a BIP sound in the background since he opened the door. 

"I'm heading to your place now, please wait, " Shen Jun spoke again. This time Lai Jiayi could hear the sound of his footsteps colliding against the floor. 

'He must have set the phone in the loudspeaker.' 

"Sure, I'll be waiting, " Lai Jiayi answered with a relatively soft, gentle voice without stuttering even once, stunning Shen Jun for a second. 

'I thought this girl always stutters...Maybe that day, she stuttered because she was panicking?' 

"Okay, see you there, "Shen Jun ended the phone call with his sweet, boyfriend-like attitude. 

Lai Jiayi, who knew the call already ended, immediately rolled her eyes. 

'He already started to play as my boyfriend!' 

This sent her goosebumps. 

"Where is your boyfriend, quack?" Yaya suddenly asked, pouting. 

He deliberately used the word 'boyfriend' just to irk Lai Jiayi further. 

'This man is Lai Jiayi's Achilles' heel. No one should know that she got into a relationship contract with this guy!' 

Hearing Yaya's tone of voice, Lai Jiayi immediately furrowed her eyebrows. 

"He said he's heading this way and what's with your tone of voice? Do you dislike Shen Jun?" 

'This AI is salty now. What a petty kid.' 

Lai Jiayi rolled her eyes. 

"Yeah, I don't like him, quack! He will be a dangerous existence for us, quack!" Yaya harrumphed as he sneaked inside Lai Jiayi's cap. 

'I don't want to see that guy. Just no!' 

"Ugh, you're so childish!" Just as Lai Jiayi scolded Yaya, the man came. 

Speak of the devil, Shen Jun waved his hand as he called Lai Jiayi with his sweet, "Jia'er!" 

When Shen Jun called her with an intimate name, Lai Jiayi instantly got goosebumps. 

But the girl only faked a smile as she spoke, still stuttering like usual, "D-doctor Jun…" 

Lai Jiayi felt like dying, calling this man with his little name instead of his family name. 

"Sorry to make you wait, shall we go see your father now?" Shen Jun asked in a somewhat hoarse voice. His chest moved up and down, and his breath was chaotic. 

'Ah, so he runs here. Not wanting to make me wait? Not bad.' 

"I-it's okay s-sorry to trouble you. Let's go, " Lai Jiayi flashed a sweet smile even though her voice was trembling. 

'Eh, why is her stuttering– sounds so cute? Wait, maybe Lai Jiayi is shy around me?' 

This thought somehow raised his mood. With a smile on his face, the man led Lai Jiayi to the special room no 567. 

"Here is your father's room. Please go inside through that door." Shen Jun pointed a blurry glass door in front of him. 

Lai Jiayi nodded and obediently followed his direction. She stood in front of the glass door, and the door suddenly disappeared into nothingness with a long BIIIP sound. 

'Sure enough, technology is great in this room.' 

The girl's eyes were glistening as she looked around. 

Once Lai Jiayi stepped in, the cool air in the room startled her for a second. The smell of medicine assaulted her nose, and a strange BIP BIP BIP noise kept ringing around. 

The sight of a pure white wall and floor looking as clean as the snow somehow made her uncomfortable.

Lai Jiayi gripped her left arm with her right hand as she walked further to the room. The room was quite big, it could sustain 2-3 patients, but now it's used to treat only a patient. 

So far, Lai Jiayi only saw various weird-looking machines. She didn't know the function of these machines. Thus, the girl ignored it. 

She just scanned her surroundings to find her father and found a monitor, a hologram machine, a medical machine, and so on, but– hasn't seen her father. 

'Where is he?' The girl's eyes darted around when Shen Jun suddenly spoke. 

"Turn left, your father is behind that glass box," Shen Jun told Lai Jiayi, where to find her father even before she asked. 

When she heard the word 'glass box', Lai Jiayi's heart stopped beating for a second. 

'What does it mean?' 

She couldn't help but think. Still, she didn't say anything. 

"T-thanks…" Lai Jiayi thanked the man stiffly as cold sweat began to drench her back. Her body turned cold, and her heart wouldn't stop beating fast. 

'What is this? I feel that something is wrong...what glass box...why are there so many machines here?' 

Lai Jiayi questioned in her heart, and soon, her question was answered once she arrived in front of her father's bed.

There, she saw a middle-aged man wearing white hospital pajamas laying on a tablet-like machine. His body was kept inside the transparent capsule, allowing others to see him. 

Not far from the capsule was a glass wall surrounding the tablet, making it look like a glass box, a giant one that reached all the way to the ceiling. 

Next to the glass box were various high-technology machines, and the BIP BIP sound around it became even louder here. 

The noise irked Lai Jiayi, but the sight of various machines attached to her father's body disturbed her even more. 

'This….what is this? How could it be? Father...father...is…' 

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