Chapter 268: Even Dreams Are Restless ⑦
She had always felt that first love and love at sixteen or seventeen were just whims. Or rather, for them, such relationships would never have an outcome. Because they knew this, they treated such love like playing house. Who took love in junior high school seriously?
But looking at her younger brother now, she understood. Her brother… was truly in love, truly smitten. It was different from the flutterings of adolescence; she knew that in her heart. Everyone falls in love with someone in their lifetime, and the first person he liked was the one he would love his entire life, clear and plain.
Ye Haifei stood at the corner outside the operating room. After hearing Peng Yu Yang’s roar, he stumbled to the ground. Then he got up and staggered outside, but after only a few steps, he collapsed again. He stood up and continued walking, but his legs had no strength left. He slid down along the wall, thinking of the four words he had just heard, his whole body trembling slightly.
Life danger.
The doctor calmly looked at Peng Yu Yang, as if he had long expected this person to refuse to accept the reality. He had encountered such situations many times. “I suggest you notify the patient’s family to sign as soon as possible, and then the patient will…”
“For the patient’s life, the doctor should perform the surgery immediately.” Li Ming Xue came to her senses and quickly walked towards the doctor. “Please perform the surgery immediately.”
The doctor glanced at Li Ming Xue. Thinking of the girl inside the operating room, he gritted his teeth, nodded, and turned to enter the operating room.
The operating room light turned on again. Li Kai said nothing, only looking at Peng Yu Yang, who was sitting on the ground. Li Ming Xue stepped forward worriedly, her throat dry. “Xiao Kai, don’t worry, Nie Qiu will be fine.” Although she didn’t know exactly what had happened, hearing the words ‘life danger’ told her that this was serious. Her younger brother’s state made her worried. While she was also worried about Nie Qiu, she was more concerned about her blood-related brother.
“Won’t be fine?” Li Kai suddenly turned his head to look at Li Ming Xue, his eyes filled with stubborn madness, as if he wanted to get a definitive answer from Li Ming Xue. “What are you saying?”
Li Ming Xue looked at the ‘Surgery in Progress’ light above the operating room, not daring to meet Li Kai’s gaze. She didn’t know what had happened, so she didn’t dare to make a definitive statement about Nie Qiu’s condition. “Yes, she’ll be fine.” She was answering Li Kai and praying.
“Yes, she’ll be fine.” Li Kai closed his eyes, looked at Peng Yu Yang sitting on the ground, and slumped to the ground too. The ground was cold, and it seemed to restore some of his senses. “Nie Qiu will be fine…”
The sound of splashing water reached her ears, along with the chirping of insects and birds. She heard the calls of many animals, a scene of joy, as if the forest was having a party.
Nie Qiu stood on the water, watching the little rabbits hop back and forth. Not a single white rabbit noticed her presence.
“Hey, hey, hey, Nie Qiu hasn’t come to the space for half a month. If you don’t cultivate harder, I’ll have Nie Qiu stew you all!”
“Damn Senior High School Entrance Examination! If Nie Qiu came to the space to see us, she would know we can talk by now, right?”
“Hmph, hmph…”
“Nie Qiu, you’re here?” A white rabbit appeared at Nie Qiu’s feet, its red eyes and red nose. “Is the Senior High School Entrance Examination over? When did you come?”
Nie Qiu? Nie Qiu stared blankly at the little rabbit at her feet, looking up at her from the water. She opened her mouth but couldn’t say a word.
“Nie Qiu, didn’t Yang Zi Hao murder you? Why aren’t you dead?” As the little rabbit spoke, red blood flowed from its mouth.
Yang Zi Hao… murder… dead? Was she dead? Yes… she was dead. She had been killed by a chandelier that suddenly fell while she was presenting her research topic in the auditorium of a prestigious university. And the culprit was her ex-boyfriend, Yang Zi Hao, whom she had broken up with a day earlier.
So she was already dead!
“I’m already dead.” Nie Qiu reached out her hand and saw a pair of transparent, ethereal hands. Although transparent, she could still recognize them as hands, but there were no lines on her palms. She looked down at the rabbit talking on the water. “I’m already dead.”
The red blood from the rabbit’s mouth caused Nie Qiu’s head to throb. She watched the blood-red mouth open and close, but she couldn’t hear a single word.
Her vision gradually blurred. As she sank into darkness, the figures of several people appeared in her mind: Nie Ai Fang making plastic flowers, Nie Ai Wen bringing her a gift, Li Kai earnestly confessing his liking, and Huang Yan excitedly gossiping with her. These were… her mother, her father, the person she liked, and her friend.
When Nie Qiu regained consciousness, her ears were filled with a cacophony of noise.
“What do you mean heart stopped? Get out, all of you, get out!”
It was Nie Ai Fang’s voice.
“Sister… don’t be sad. Qiu Qiu… Qiu Qiu… Qiu Qiu is very sensible. She definitely… definitely wouldn’t want… wouldn’t want you to be sad for her.”
It was Nie Ai Wen’s voice.
“It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault! You always said Qiu Qiu had grown up, you always said Qiu Qiu was sensible! I clearly… clearly told you not to let Qiu Qiu go out, not to let Qiu Qiu go out! It was you who said it was okay for Qiu Qiu to go out, and that’s why Qiu Qiu… Qiu Qiu…” Nie Ai Fang couldn’t finish. Her crying was heavy, so heavy. “Get out, you get out too, all of you get out! I don’t want to see you anymore, I don’t want to see you anymore!”
Looking at the grieving mother before her, Li Ming Xue pulled Li Kai, about to drag him out of the hospital room. Peng Mama also pulled Peng Yu Yang, wanting him to leave the room with her. In the face of a mother who had lost her child, everything… everything seemed pale.
But Li Kai broke free from Li Ming Xue’s grasp, and Peng Yu Yang also broke free from Peng Mama’s hand. Both of them knelt before Nie Ai Fang. The entire hospital room was enveloped in a thick atmosphere of sadness.
Nie Ai Fang, tears streaming down her face, gently held Nie Qiu’s hand. “Qiu Qiu, don’t leave Mama alone…” For so many years, her life’s goal and focus had been her daughter. Without her, she didn’t know how she would go on.
Li Kai knelt on the ground. On the other side, he tightly held Nie Qiu’s hand. “Nie Qiu… Nie Qiu… Nie Qiu…” He murmured incessantly, as if this could bring her back.
Nie Ai Fang didn’t notice Li Kai holding Nie Qiu’s hand. She felt as if her sky had collapsed.
“Nie Qiu… don’t leave me. We finally got together… don’t be like this…” Li Kai felt as if his heart was being torn apart. His voice became more and more choked, and finally, he broke down in tears. “I like you… no, I love you… I love you, so Nie Qiu, please wake up, okay? Please wake up, okay?”
Li Kai brought Nie Qiu’s cold hand to his face, as if to hide his loss of control, or perhaps wanting Nie Qiu to wipe away his tears. He sobbed uncontrollably.
Warm liquid wet Nie Qiu’s hand. Nie Qiu felt a sharp pain in her heart. Nie Ai Fang’s crying, Li Kai’s crying, and… Peng Yu Yang’s crying, all made her feel as if her heart was stuffed with cotton, a dull ache, a painful, even more painful feeling.
