Moving up the surgery might be good news for others, but for Su Shuochi, it wasn't necessarily so.
'After the surgery, I'll be bedridden for a long time,' he thought, 'and my wife is leaving the day after tomorrow.'
This devastated him. It felt like something had brutally stabbed his heart, and a wave of sadness washed over him.
He shot up, and even his voice trembled.
"No… Jiaojiao… Are you trying to trick me into staying in Qing City by myself again?"
The man's reaction took Gu Jiaojiao completely by surprise. Her two thin eyebrows shot up in astonishment.
Her large eyes went wide as saucers, and her small mouth gaped open, as if she could swallow a whole egg.
It took her a long moment to recover. She quickly soothed him, "Silly, what are you thinking!
I just saw the condition of your leg tendons on the CT scan, and it's the most suitable time for surgery, that's all.
