"Don’t cry... don’t cry..." Zhuo Wen frantically wiped away his tears.
Instead of calming down, this only made Tong Mo cry even harder. She directly clung to his arm, burying her head into it, and smeared her tears and snot all over it.
Because she was crying so earnestly, Tong Mo hadn’t noticed that she was gripping his injured arm.
"Tong Mo, fellow student..." Zhuo Wen frowned deeply, a hint of pain appearing on his handsome face.
"Huh?" Tong Mo, with tears blurring her eyes, absentmindedly lifted her head to look at him, "What is it?"
"My... my arm..." Zhuo Wen’s face was almost turning blue at this point.
"Oh! I’m sorry, teacher! I’m sorry!" It was only then that Tong Mo realized she was holding the arm he had injured before for her sake. She immediately let go with a loud yell.
Zhuo Wen inhaled sharply in pain a few times.
"Teacher, should we go to the hospital again?" Seeing the pained expression on his face, Tong Mo couldn’t help but ask weakly.
If it were a secondary fracture, that would be the end.
"Probably necessary."
Zhuo Wen sighed deeply.
That arm was really hurting unbearably.
"Then I will go with you, teacher." Tong Mo volunteered eagerly, both worried and guilty as she looked at him.
Zhuo Wen’s refusal was on the tip of his tongue, but seeing his student looking so guilty, he could only nod in agreement, "Alright then."
"That’s great!" Tong Mo immediately cheered like a little sparrow, hastily urging him, "Then let’s hurry, teacher, while it’s still a long break so it won’t disrupt the classes later."
"Mm." Zhuo Wen smiled faintly and went to the hospital with her.
At the hospital, they happened to run into Tong Nian, who was visiting for a facial treatment.
As the saying goes, enemies often cross each other’s paths.
Tong Nian immediately frowned upon seeing her older sister, looking at her disdainfully, "Are you here in the hospital to apologize to me?"
"Are you out of your mind!" Tong Mo almost laughed out in tears.
She hadn’t realized before that she actually had delusions.
"Teacher, let’s go." Not bothering with her, Tong Mo directly pulled Zhuo Wen towards the orthopedics department.
Left behind, the self-delusional Tong Nian’s face turned alternately red and white, utterly embarrassed.
But when she realized Tong Mo was acting like a girl in love, a smirk suddenly played at her lips.
Well, Tong Mo, so you’ve fallen for your own teacher!
Meanwhile, Tong Mo had no idea that her little secret had been discovered; she was just waiting for the X-ray report.
When the report came out, sure enough, it was a secondary fracture...
The bone hadn’t healed properly, and having been tightly gripped by Tong Mo just now, avoiding another fracture had been unlikely.
"Teacher, I’m so sorry..." Tong Mo felt so guilty she almost wanted to find a block of tofu to dash her head against.
The first time at the Science Museum, he had broken his arm protecting her, which could be said to have been an accident.
But this time, it was purely due to her carelessness.
Zhuo Wen comforted her with a wry smile, "It’s okay, it’ll heal in three months. It’ll just be inconvenient to do the housework, but it’s not a big deal."
Tong Mo, already thinking of how to compensate him, hurriedly said, "Teacher, let me come over to your house and do the housework after school every day!"
"That won’t do..." Zhuo Wen immediately declined, "It doesn’t make sense to have my own student do housework for me."
"Please, teacher, just let me help you. Otherwise, I’ll really feel terrible!" Tong Mo stepped forward, her clear, spring-like eyes blinking at him, as water mist welled up in them once again.