Epilogue 5: "Begging for a chance"

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Chen Ting always saw Mu Chenghe as a strange being. But, of course, Mu Chenghe himself has never been aware.

Whether he buys a car or clothes, even if it's a cell phone, his choice will always be the latest fashion statement. He thinks there's nothing wrong with that, but the more usual it is, the weirder it gets. Simple, most people probably don't like that theirs appearance and belongings are exactly the same as everyone else's.

It was like that until one fine day, Chen Ting couldn't help it anymore and told Xue Tong about it.

"You have time to talk about him," Chen Ting said.

"Do you mean him as someone different? Or unconventional?" Xue Tong sneered at him.

"At least don't fall for the same thing," Chen Ting sighed, "It's also the emblematic *xiào cǎo of our university..." Saying the word xiào cǎo, Chen Ting paused, finally adding with some suppressed bitterness: "One of them".

"How did our Chenghe become one of them?" Xue Tong said as he scrubbed the rice and dried it with the help of a towel.

"There is another xiào cǎo in medical school," Chen Ting said.

Xue Tong didn't care, he removed the rice from the pot and started chopping more vegetables.

"It's just the four of us, why do you cook so many dishes? We're not strangers, feel free to cook as you like." Chen Ting asked Xue Tong leaning against the kitchen door.

Xue Tong looked at him blankly: "I did it for Mu laoshi, it's not just for you."

"It's not nice of you to treat guests like this. Anyway, I've been Chen laoshi for a long time too." Chen Ting shook his head.

"You stay warm and drink hot tea here, while Chenghe goes to the airport to pick up your wife and child in the wind and rain

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"You stay warm and drink hot tea here, while Chenghe goes to the airport to pick up your wife and child in the wind and rain. How do you expect me to be nice?" Xue Tong replied angrily.

Chen Ting's wife, Wen Qian, took their kid to Sanya for a vacation and booked a flight home for the afternoon. On New Year's Eve, the airport is often crowded and it is very inconvenient to return to the city. Chen Ting couldn't pick them up due to some unforeseen event, so he asked Mu Chenghe to pick them up for him.

Xue Tong was quite worried because Mu Chenghe hadn't been driving alone on the road for a long time now.

"I'll drive slowly," Mu Chenghe assured him before leaving.

"I'm going to get the hearing aid."

"I won't wear it, it's very uncomfortable." She said with a frown.

"No way," she insisted.

Mu Chenghe heard less and less from his left ear, so Xue Tong forced him to wear a hearing aid. But then, she heard people say that wearing hearing aids for long periods of time damages hearing more, there was no scientific basis for that, but she didn't dare to experiment with it either, so she just discarded it. He can still hear well in one ear, however he must be careful when driving.

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