Chapter 676: Chapter 676



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He had just opened his eyes and was not used to the light. He closed them and opened them again. It took him a few repetitions before he was fully awake. He remembered falling into a river. Then, he was almost run over by a small wooden boat. After that, he was hit. He could still feel the pain in the back of his head when he thought about it now.

He moved his body. He tried to sit up to see his surroundings. He remembered that the man who hit him was worried because he was blackmailing him, that’s why he hit him. However, how could he take him to the hospital? It didn’t make sense.

He realized he was being pushed when he tried to move his legs. He lowered his head and took a look. It was a familiar face.

Jasmine?

Why is she here?

Maybe it was because he saw her suddenly, so his heart was beating fast.

Jasmine also woke up slowly. She saw that someone was looking at her. She rubbed her eyes and said in surprise, “Are you awake?”.

Boyce looked at her for a long time before he said, “You? Why are you here?”

“You passed out and my students saw you, I brought you to the hospital, I’ll be the one to ask you, why are you here?” Jasmine sat up and rubbed her arms that were numb from padding them all night, “Is your head still hurting, are you hungry?”

Boyce didn’t say anything. He merely looked at her and gave an irrelevant answer, “Why did you drop out of college?”

Jasmine looked down, “I don’t want to study anymore.”

She used to work hard for her mother and to become a woman who could live up to her, but then, her mother had passed away and after hearing Officer Miller’s words, she understood that she could not become someone who could help her no matter how hard she tried.

He didn’t know who else he could work for. Suddenly, he lost all motivation and direction in his life.

After her bewilderment, she hoped that what she had learned would not be in vain, so she came to work as a teacher here. She did not charge any tuition. She had some savings that she had saved before.

While working as a teacher, she also worked part-time on the Internet, teaching online classes to middle and high school students to earn money, which she used to buy books such as notebooks for her students, and partly to live on.

Although she was not very wealthy, she was a good calculator. She did not spend money indiscriminately. Besides, living expenses in the field were not very high. If she taught more classes, she would still have extra money left over.

“It’s a shame to give up on a good college like that.” Boyce couldn’t understand her thoughts.

Jasmine smiled, “You’re not my father, leave me alone, are you?”.

After she left B-Town, she changed her calling card and even cut all connections with classmates she got along with.

He thought that since he had decided to leave, he would drop everything.

She thought she would never see him again in her life. “You…”

“Jasmine.” Keith walked in as he was carrying breakfast.

Keith was 21, a sophomore, tall and thin, wearing a very casual white T-shirt, his skin white and full of vitality.

Boyce wanted to ask Jasmine to lend him the phone so he could call Matthew to fill him in, but was interrupted by Keith and then forgot about it.

Seeing Keith bring Jasmine her breakfast and also seeing him smile tenderly at her, countless questions arose in his heart.

“Who is this man?

“Why are you coming so early?” Jasmine did not expect him to come so early to the hospital, how early did he have to get up to come so early from the village?

Keith smiled, “Let me guess, you didn’t eat anything yesterday, am I right?”. Jasmine said nothing.

“If you don’t say anything, then I’ve guessed right. Knowing you’re not going to eat well, I’ll bring you breakfast early so you can eat.” Keith put the breakfast on the table.

Seeing that Boyce had woken up, he said, “Hi.” Boyce replied.

“I bought breakfast for you to eat, it won’t taste good when it gets cold later.” He opened the box of breakfast he had bought. There was congee and fried scones.

He handed the fried scones to Jasmine, “This is delicious. When I was in county school, I ate this every morning.”

Keith was a big, sunny boy, clean and comfortable to look at, especially when he smiled, he was gentle and kind. Jasmine unconsciously lifted the corner of her lips and said, “Thank you.”

Boyce glanced at Jasmine’s smile toward Keith and frowned.

“Don’t always say thank you to me.” Keith didn’t like her taking off on him.

“The word thank you is like treating me like a stranger.”

Jasmine smiled faintly, “I’ll say no more, have you eaten?”

“I ate when I bought it,” Keith replied.

Jasmine walked in and handed the fried bun to Boyce, “Keith said this is delicious, try it.”

Boyce initially didn’t want to eat it and wanted her to eat it, but seeing Keith’s expression, she reached out and took one. He wasn’t sure what the intent of this action was, but he did.

The fried buns were filled with vegetables, but the flavor was really very good, the bottom was fried until crispy, the skin was thin and there were a lot of fillings.

The filling was made with leeks, noodles and eggs. Shrimp skin was also added, which gave it the fragrant flavor of the leeks and the freshness of the shrimp skin.

Jasmine opened the lid of the congee and held it out to him, “You’re going to choke if you eat this, aren’t you? Eat it with the congee.”

Boyce looked at her and asked, “You’ve given it all up to eat, have you?”.

Jasmine smiled and said, “I’m not hungry yet, if I am, I’ll go buy something, I’m not an injured person, I can walk around anytime I want.”

Boyce didn’t accept it, “I don’t like congee, you eat it.”

Jasmine put down the congee, “I’ll pour you a glass of water…”

“No need to wait on me, eat the congee first.” Boyce interrupted her.

Suddenly, she realized she was overzealous and making him uncomfortable. She quickly withdrew her hands, picked up the congee and took a sip.

Boyce handed her the fried bun, “You eat it.” Then he explained, “I have no appetite.”

“But how can you not eat?”. Jasmine didn’t understand his intention and said, “You have to eat, even if you don’t have an appetite.”

She picked up a fried bun and popped it into her mouth. Boyce froze for a moment. Soon, Jasmine realized that her action was a bit inappropriate.

As she was about to withdraw her hand, Boyce grabbed it. In the process, he accidentally touched Jasmine’s hand. They withdrew their hands at almost the same time.

It was as if they had received an electric shock.

Keith could see that they seemed to know each other very well.

Besides, Jasmine was very kind to him, so he took the initiative to say, “Jasmine, you must not have rested well at the hospital, you’ll go back to sleep after lunch, I’ll stay here.”

“I don’t need someone to take care of me.” Before Jasmine could say anything, Boyce spoke first. He swallowed the fried bun Jasmine handed him and lifted the blanket to get out of bed.

Jasmine put down the congee and said, “You can’t get out of bed, the doctor said you have to be under observation for 48 hours.”

“It’s okay, I know my body well.” insisted Boyce. He poured himself a glass of water and drank it.

“Do you want to leave? Let me call a cab for you,” Keith said.

Boyce raised his head and looked at Keith, who seemed to chase him away.

Why does he want to chase me away? Boyce glanced at Jasmine.

Is it because of her?

Is he in love?

Yet she said she liked him, had she changed her mind so quickly?

He couldn’t help but feel depressed.

“I can’t leave yet.” Boyce looked at Keith and said, “Her mother had entrusted me to take care of her. I have to know if she’s living well now before I can leave without worrying.”

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