"Hello, Auntie. I'm Bo Junyi."

Before he could finish his words, the woman suddenly grabbed her handbag and threw it at him.

Li Susu instinctively moved sideways to block him, but was protected behind him by Bo Junyi's long arms.

The leather strap brushed past his ear.

"It's all because of you!"

The woman cried and pointed at Bo Junyi with red eyes.

"My daughter was bullied to the point of becoming deaf! She locked herself in her room every day and tried to commit suicide. I jumped off a building to stop her and ended up crippled!"

Tears streamed down her wrinkles, she gasped heavily, and her wheelchair made a harsh sound on the ground.

"If you had come forward to explain back then, how could Ningning have become like this? You must be responsible for her!"

Chu Wanning's mother's scream pierced the silence of the hospital, and many people looked sideways.

Li Susu stood in front of Bo Junyi and argued: "Auntie, it's been so long since it happened. He was also a student back then... The one who should be held responsible is the perpetrator."

Before she could finish her words, the woman suddenly started coughing violently, then her eyes rolled back and she collapsed in the wheelchair.

Bo Junyi almost reflexively held onto the tilted wheelchair, and amid Chu Wanning's exclamation, he picked up the unconscious old man and rushed to the emergency room.

After taking two steps, he turned around and said to Li Susu, "Susu, wait here. I'll call Zhou Ning to pick you up later."

The implication is that he will stay here.

Chu Wanning also quickly followed.

Li Susu looked at their quickly disappearing backs, and a chill ran through her heart.

Until dinner time, Bo Junyi still showed no intention of coming back, so Li Susu finally called him and asked him if he would come back for dinner.

Bo Junyi said apologetically, "I might be back a little later, so don't wait for me for dinner."

It was twelve o'clock before Bo Junyi returned to the apartment.

When I opened the door, the room was pitch black.

Bo Junyi's heart suddenly tightened, thinking that she might have gone to Tang Yixin's place, so he strode upstairs.

The voice-controlled lights in the apartment lit up and Bo Junyi knocked on the door gently.

After a long while, rustling footsteps were heard, and Tang Yixin rubbed her eyes and opened the door.

"Is Susu here with you?"

Bo Junyi went straight to the point.

Tang Yixin finally woke up, "Susu is already asleep, otherwise, don't call her..."

"Excuse me, I'll go in for a moment."

As he spoke, Bo Junyi had already walked in sideways.

The figure of Li Susu curled up in the corner of the bed in the half-open door of the second bedroom made him breathe hard.

"Let me go!"

The moment he picked her up horizontally, Li Susu suddenly woke up.

After a while, I could see clearly that it was Bo Junyi.

"You're back?"

Bo Junyi tightened his arms and said distressedly, "Well, I'll carry you back."

As the elevator went down, neither of them spoke and the atmosphere suddenly became stagnant.

When they walked into the living room, Li Susu asked softly, "How is Su Wanning's mother?"

Bo Junyi gently placed her on the sofa and said, "She's stable now."

"Are you still going tomorrow?"

"Need not."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and kissed her lips until Li Susu's breathing became a little rapid.

"Bo Junyi, how are you going to be responsible for her?"

After a moment of silence, Li Susu asked.

"I just wanted to..."

"You just want to make amends, right?" She continued with red eyes, "The responsibility for what happened back then is not yours. Bo Junyi, even if you want to help her, don't sacrifice yourself."

Bo Junyi's Adam's apple rolled and his voice was soothing.

"I have contacted the rehabilitation center and will transfer money to them regularly every month." He reached out to hug Li Susu, but she dodged him sideways.

"Material compensation?" Li Susu's eyes were red. "Can't you see? Chu Wanning doesn't want these at all! Unless you can marry her, she will haunt you forever!"

As soon as the words fell, the air froze.

Bo Junyi looked at the grievance and anxiety surging in her eyes, and his heart ached as if it was being clutched.

Li Susu's voice was choked with a barely perceptible sob.

She looked up at him, her eyes red and her eyelashes stained with tiny drops of water.

"Bo Junyi, give her some money and solve all the problems at once, okay?" She paused, a suppressed sigh escaping from her throat, "I don't want to face another Shen Qingyao again. It's really tiring. I'm worried about losing you..."

The more I spoke, the sadder I became, and tears finally burst out and rolled down my cheeks.

Bo Junyi felt so distressed that he gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips.

He placed his palm against the back of her neck and pulled her into his arms.

"I didn't do it well, and I made you feel wronged." He tightened his arms and placed an apologetic kiss on the top of her head. "From now on, I won't see her again."

Li Susu's fingers, clutching the hem of his shirt, trembled slightly, and she nodded muffledly into his chest.

The man noticed her uneasiness, bent down, picked her up, and walked towards the bedroom with his chin against her head, coaxing: "Don't think about it, okay? Have a good sleep."

"I know I'm narrow-minded..." The person who was placed on the soft bed grabbed his collar and muttered softly, but he pressed his fingertips on his lips.

When Bo Junyi leaned over, his eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes. His voice was low and gentle: "This is not pettiness, it's care. Baby, I am the one who should reflect on myself."

-

Since then, Bo Junyi has completely cut off contact with Chu Wanning.

He returned home from get off work on time every day and even turned down all social engagements. Chu Wanning seemed to have evaporated and never appeared in their lives again.

The days passed slowly, and the New Year was over in the blink of an eye.

Li Susu's due date is only two months away. She is on leave from school and stays at home, writing and taking walks every day.

Bo Junyi would accompany her whenever he had time, so she didn't feel bored at all.

March soon arrived, and Jiangcheng gradually woke up from the afterglow of the cold winter, and it was another sunny day.

The sun is shining outside the window, but Li Susu always feels like something is missing in her heart.

Bo Junyi went on a business trip to an overseas branch and was scheduled to be back in a week.

During their daily video calls, he would smile and remind her to eat on time and share his experiences on the streets of foreign countries.

But after hanging up the phone, the empty silence in the room always made her miss him.

In order to dispel this longing, she could only keep herself busy, counting the days waiting for his return amid the sound of keyboard tapping and housework.

One afternoon, Li Susu went to the hospital with Tang Yixin because of stomach discomfort.

I saw a doctor, who said I had a stomach upset and it wasn't serious.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief. Just as they turned the corner of the outpatient building, Tang Yixin suddenly remembered that she had left her cell phone in the outpatient department and hurried back.

Li Susu was standing alone downstairs waiting.

Just then, a familiar figure walked out from the door on the other side of the outpatient clinic.

She froze in her tracks.

Bo Junyi was half-supporting Chu Wanning towards the car.