About half an hour later, Yu, who was ready, heard the expected doorbell.

She put down the "Anatomy of the Human Body" in her hand and gracefully got up from her chair, walking to the foyer. After taking a glance outside through the peephole and confirming who it was, she calmly opened the door.

"Hey, good evening~"

Ziong MingDe, carrying Bai Xuyu on his back, greeted Yu with a smile.

Yu only nodded without expression and didn't say anything.

"Oh, you're not inviting me in?"

Ziong MingDe stood outside the door, feeling a little awkward.

"Just leave. Give me the person on your back."

Yu said seriously.

Ziong MingDe's expression stiffened for a moment, then he smiled again.

"If you don't let me in, I won't give you the person~"

A simple and effective threat, causing Yu to frown.

Frowning won't solve the problem, so Yu opened the shoe cabinet in the foyer, took out a pair of slippers, and threw them in front of Ziong MingDe.

"...Come in."

Without achieving her goal, Yu entered the room with a stern face.

Ziong MingDe put Bai Xuyu down, put on the slippers, and then lifted her shoulders and hips with his hands, carrying her into Yu's room in a princess carry style.

Once in the room, Ziong MingDe's attention was immediately drawn to the shelves filled with specimen bottles. After quickly looking around, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's like a miniature version of your room in the orphanage."

"Don't waste time with irrelevant talk. Put her down and leave."

Yu didn't engage in Ziong MingDe's topic and still insisted on sending him away quickly.

"Hey, hey, why were you so unwilling when I called, and now you can't wait?"

While speaking, Ziong MingDe took a piece of paper from Yu's desk and wiped off a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

Yu, noticing this action, had a subtle change in her mood, and her previously stern face relaxed a bit.

"In the past, you could easily carry someone your age for half an hour or an hour without breaking a sweat. But now..."

"After all, I've voluntarily given up this body for a long time. It's not easy to restore it to its previous level of control. As a doctor, you should understand this better than me."

Hearing Yu say this, Ziong MingDe didn't feel sad. Instead, her concern touched him, and his previous smile now carried a hint of genuine joy.

Several years ago, Ziong MingDe and Yu went out together once, and Yu sprained her ankle along the way. Ziong MingDe then carried her on his back for over an hour back to the orphanage without taking a break.

This event, which seemed to have just happened, had become an untouchable past.

"Put her here."

Yu pushed a white wheeled bed with restraints to the center of the room, and Ziong MingDe complied.

Then, Yu used the restraints on the bed to secure Bai Xuyu's hands, feet, and neck, and she sat near the end of the bed.

"Okay, is there anything else?"

Yu looked up at Ziong MingDe, her eyes saying, "Leave quickly, leave quickly, leave quickly..."

Ziong MingDe smiled mysteriously, as if finally getting rid of a burden, waved his hand to indicate that everything was fine and also as a goodbye gesture.

"Don't let me stop you."

Confirming that Ziong MingDe was leaving, Yu went straight to the work table and started tinkering with various tools, and Ziong MingDe, knowing better than to disturb her, left Yu's house.