Chapter 108: Heartbeat (2)

The young man heard the voice and turned his head slowly. His pale face was abnormally red at the corners of his eyes due to the fever, and he looked a little drowsy.

Yu Zhiwan frowned, but still pulled him to the infirmary.

The doctor took the patient's temperature and found that it was indeed a high fever. If the fever continued, the patient would faint.

The doctor found him a clean school uniform to change into and then gave him an IV.

Yu Zhiwan should have left after sending Xie Jingmo to the infirmary, but she always felt that something was wrong with him.

A bit like my old self.

She couldn't help but ask, "Are you in a bad mood?"

The young man closed his eyelashes, but opened them when he heard her words and looked at her in silence for several seconds before speaking. His voice was a little hoarse from being sick.

"Well, not good."

After the doctor finished the infusion, he went to the outer room to get busy.

Yu Zhiwan sat down on a chair in the inner room, glanced at his hand receiving the IV drip, then looked at his pale, bloodless face, as if asking what had happened.

The boy's tone was unclear, "I was told by the whole school about the fight, and the disciplinary notice was posted on the bulletin board. I felt ashamed."

Yu Zhiwan was stunned.

He doesn't seem like the type to care about such things.

"Are you sad about this?" Yu Zhiwan was skeptical.

"Well, I want to tear up the disciplinary notice." He looked up at the infusion bottle, his jaw stretched out in a cold, sharp line, but his expression revealed a sense of depression.

That kind of confusion, that kind of gloomy and world-weary feeling of self-contempt, can't be dispelled.

Yu Zhiwan looked at him quietly for a few seconds, said nothing more, and did not disturb him anymore. She stood up and left the infirmary.

The atmosphere quieted down.

Xie Jingmo glanced at the girl's back as she left, then turned his gaze away indifferently and looked at the drizzling rain outside the window.

It was probably just a few minutes, maybe more than ten minutes.

The door was suddenly pushed open.

Xie Jingmo tilted his head to look.

Not a doctor.

It was Yu Zhiwan who had just left and was back.

The girl had beautiful eyes and eyebrows, and in her fair, slender hands, she held a disciplinary notice that had been torn off the bulletin board.

Xie Jingmo's pupils trembled.

The whole person froze there.

Yu Zhiwan walked over and placed the disciplinary notice in front of him: "Tear it up."

"A disciplinary notice is far less important than you."

Xie Jingmo stared at her without saying a word, his chest heaving and his heart clamoring to jump out. The astonishment and surprise in his eyes could not be hidden at all.

Yu Zhiwan looked at him and said, "I just felt that something was wrong with you just now. It's a bit like my old self. I really need someone to help me."

"I don't know what happened to you, but I've been in a similar situation before. If you can't get over it, you'll tend to get stuck in a rut and even go to extremes."

If it is serious, if negative emotions accumulate too much, you may even have the thought of dying.

Xie Jingmo stared at the girl's bright face without blinking.

I thought of the terrible story about her family background that was circulating in school.

A gambling-related, domestically violent father who didn't even want her to go to high school, and a son-centric mother...

Xie Jingmo looked at her, his voice hoarse and trembling: "Who helped you when you were sad before?"

Yu Zhiwan sat down on the chair and said, "During the saddest time, I saw a rainbow and fireworks at night. They were very beautiful, and I felt a little lucky."

“Then, I found a goal for myself.”

Xie Jingmo thought for a moment and said, "Go to another city to attend university, the farther the better, get rid of them, and never come back?"

Yu Zhiwan was surprised that he had guessed it right.

"You guessed it right. That's what I'm thinking now."

She wanted to apply to the most distant university that she liked. She could work part-time to earn her living expenses, as long as she could get away from her original family.

Xie Jingmo stared at her for a few seconds, then looked at the disciplinary notice: "Take the disciplinary notice off the bulletin board, aren't you afraid?"

Yu Zhiwan: "Don't you always get first place in the grade? Tell the teacher that you can get first place next time, and everything should be fine."

Xie Jingmo: "..."

"Oh, right." Yu Zhiwan stretched out her right hand and placed a candy in front of him. "The doctor in the school clinic gave it to me. It's for the patient."

After putting the candy down, she stood up again and left the infirmary.

This time he didn't come back.

Xie Jingmo stared at the direction the girl left for a long time, then slowly unwrapped the candy and put it in his mouth.

Very sweet.

After the infusion, the doctor came over and removed the needle.

"Where did you buy the candy you gave me just now?" Xie Jingmo asked.

"Sugar?" The doctor was confused. "What sugar? I didn't give you any sugar."

Xie Jingmo was stunned.

It turned out to be her candy.

He looked at the candy wrapper in his hand and the torn disciplinary notice, and ripples began to form in his heart, which took a long time to calm down...

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At this moment, Xie Jingmo was holding Yu Zhiwan, stroking her face with his fingers, and whispering slowly in a low voice.

"The moment you came back with the disciplinary notice, I was so shocked. It really touched my heart."

"But starting from the next day, you acted like you didn't know me at all, as if what happened in the infirmary that afternoon had never happened."

"Later, I even wondered if you had forgotten what happened that afternoon."

Yu Zhiwan was held in the man's arms. She looked at him with her misty eyes and said hurriedly, "Of course I haven't forgotten. I remember it!"

"But I never mentioned this before. I have my reasons for not mentioning it before!"

Xie Jingmo frowned: "What's the reason?"