…If she asked Lao Chang, her leave request would be exposed. Tao Yu felt helpless, “Fine, I’ll come find you.” After all, she was using the pretext of checking on someone.
Zhou Ying immediately agreed and told her he was in the infirmary before turning off the walkie-talkie. Tao Yu sighed and turned to walk towards the infirmary.
Over here, Yue Linze was sitting boredly by the playground, feeling unusually bored for the first time. He used to find everything boring, thinking it was the same everywhere, but this time, he clearly felt the difference in boredom because Tao Yu wasn’t around.
He sat for a while longer before finally standing up to leave. The noise around Yue Linze grew fainter, and when he realized he was heading towards the prison guards’ quarters, he paused, then silently turned and walked in another direction. He felt he might be going crazy, so it would be better to see a doctor.
When Tao Yu arrived at the infirmary and pushed open the door, she was immediately hit by the smell of alcohol. She frowned and saw Zhou Ying with red-rimmed eyes, disheveled hair, and unkempt clothes. Remembering what Yue Linze had told her about some people going crazy on the island, disregarding gender boundaries, and considering Zhou Ying’s decent looks…
Her heart skipped a beat, and she sat down casually, asking, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Would Police Officer Tao like a drink?” Zhou Ying looked at her with swollen eyes, clearly having cried for a long time.
Tao Yu took the canned beer from his hand but didn’t drink, instead sitting quietly beside him, waiting for him to want to talk.
Throughout this time, she kept observing Zhou Ying, noticing no mechanical purple spots on his exposed skin, and her heart relaxed slightly.
Zhou Ying drank bottle after bottle, and after getting sufficiently drunk, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Tao Yu with teary eyes. “Police Officer Tao, didn’t I tell you before? My girlfriend was pregnant when I last returned to prison.”
“…You didn’t mention it. What happened?” Tao Yu felt her heart tighten seeing his expression when he brought up his girlfriend.
