The 70s Novel: The Supporting Character Just Wants to Lie Down-Chapter 174: Awkward Encounters

"No need, you can sleep, I can handle it myself." Jiang Yan didn’t expect her to be so alert, but then again, she had just gone through three months of training, she should have gained something.

Wang Miaomiao ignored his refusal, stepped forward, and helped him out the door.

The hallway was silent, with only a few dim lights barely illuminating the empty surroundings.

The two walked neither too fast nor too slow to the end, to the men’s restroom. She naturally didn’t want to go in, so she let go at the door, instructing, "Go in yourself, can you manage? Be careful, watch your step, don’t slip."

"Okay." Jiang Yan’s heart felt sweet; he thought this injury was worth it.

Wang Miaomiao stood at the door for a while, and soon Jiang Yan came out. She helped him back to the room.

Lying in bed, looking at the shadows of the trees under the moonlight outside, and listening to the sounds of insects, it seemed that after waking up at midnight, he couldn’t fall asleep again.

"Brother Jiang, are you asleep?" Wang Miaomiao listened to the silence in the opposite bed and tentatively asked softly.

Jiang Yan had slept deeply before, but now he wasn’t at the point where he could fall asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. He was just resting with his eyes closed. Upon hearing her question, he replied, "No, are you having trouble sleeping?"

"Hmm..." Wang Miaomiao softly acknowledged, "Let’s chat for a bit."

"Sure, what do you want to talk about?" Jiang Yan was certainly ready to accompany her till the end once she said that.

"Let’s talk about why you didn’t arrange for Xiao Xue to come with you. You don’t know how badly she cried when she left that day." Wang Miaomiao felt a bit sad remembering that day and wondered how Cheng Xue was adjusting elsewhere.

"Her..." Jiang Yan said indifferently, "She has her real dad and brother, compared to them, I’m just an insignificant uncle with no say."

In truth, he didn’t want that little troublemaker around him, that would be asking for trouble.

Besides, if she came, she’d definitely be inseparable from the little girl, leaving him no chance to spend time with her. That little lightbulb wouldn’t break up all their moments.

So, he foresaw this and contacted Cheng Hongbing and Cheng Qi to ask their opinion.

"Don’t worry, someone is taking care of Xiao Xue. The place she went to is where her brother is stationed."

"Alright..." Wang Miaomiao sighed softly, feeling a bit relieved as long as someone was taking care of her, "What time does the supply store open tomorrow? I’ll go get you some toiletries."

Earlier, he didn’t seem willing to notify his family, and it was uncertain if Xiao Liu would bring things for him tomorrow.

"Eight o’clock, don’t go too early," Jiang Yan didn’t refuse, though when he was fighting in the wild, he sometimes went a month without proper hygiene, but that was under special conditions.

When conditions allow, no one wants to look shabby, especially with a girl he likes around.

"Hmm... sure..."

The room gradually fell silent, and Wang Miaomiao fell asleep again.

Jiang Yan only closed his eyes after hearing the steady breathing from across.

Early the next morning, the two woke up. Wang Miaomiao had developed her biological clock through training.

The hospital was quite busy in the morning, with nurses switching shifts and doctors doing rounds, the hallway was bustling.

Wang Miaomiao first got herself ready, then went to buy breakfast: two bowls of congee, three buns, two tea eggs, and a small dish of pickled vegetables.

When she returned from getting breakfast, she ran into Zheng Zhen. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Auntie, off to work?" Wang Miaomiao greeted with a smile.

Zheng Zhen looked at her with confusion for a while and didn’t recognize her at all, "Oh, hello."

After speaking, she forced a smile and walked away...

Wang Miaomiao was stunned for a moment, then shook her head with a wry smile and returned to the room.

"Brother Jiang, guess who I met in the hallway?" Wang Miaomiao asked teasingly as she laid out the things.

"My mom," Jiang Yan answered casually, adding, "She definitely didn’t recognize you."

"How do you know? Did you see it just now?" Wang Miaomiao asked incredulously, staring intently at Jiang Yan, trying to glean something from his face.

"No," Jiang Yan shook his head, "Don’t you realize how much you’ve changed compared to three months ago?"

"There’s a change, but it shouldn’t be so much that she can’t recognize me," Wang Miaomiao knew she had changed a lot, having cut her long hair short and her skin darkening from the sun, unsure when she’d get her fair complexion back.

"She can. She’s always been like that towards people she doesn’t care about; she never puts her heart into it." Jiang Yan snorted, realizing his state was off, he quickly shifted the topic with a smile, "Let’s not talk about her. What kind of buns are these? I’m hungry..."

"Two meat buns, one vegetable bun." Wang Miaomiao played along and handed him the two meat buns, "You can have these two meat buns, I’ll just eat the vegetable bun."

The two chatted and laughed as they ate breakfast, leaving the earlier episode behind.

However, sometimes things don’t go as planned.

After Wang Miaomiao returned from the supply store, they ran into each other again. This time, Zheng Zhen seemed to have remembered her from before. She threw an arrogant smile and asked with a superior air, "What are you doing here? Who’s hospitalized? Which room and which bed? I’ll have someone take a look."

Wang Miaomiao couldn’t help but twitch the corners of her mouth, forcing a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes, she replied perfunctorily, "No need, thank you, Auntie."

With that, she walked past her and left.

Zheng Zhen’s face fell, and she turned to watch the ungrateful girl walk into a room, snorting coldly.

At the nurses’ station, she saw them chattering away from a distance and immediately frowned, displeased, "What’s all the noise during work hours?"

The young nurses jumped and quickly dispersed, each focusing on their tasks, daring not to speak.

In their eyes, Zheng Zhen was a witch, getting increasingly difficult to deal with in recent years—liable to scold or even hit people at the slightest provocation. They stayed as far away from her as possible.

"Check the patient files for ward 105," Zheng Zhen ordered, tapping the desk, scaring the nurse she addressed into a shiver.

Zheng Zhen scoffed, "Even more timid than a cat."

She impatiently grabbed the files to check, and then...

"Yan Er," she exclaimed upon seeing the information, tossing the file aside and rushing to Ward 105.

"Yan Er..."

Opening the door, Zheng Zhen was shocked by the scene inside. She blushed and retreated, closing the door. Her face went from red to white, yellow to purple, changing unpredictably...