Chapter 94

Hearing the commotion in the ward, Kuang Ming and the other two thought something had happened and rushed in.

Then……

The three of them saw Xu Gui kneeling straight down beside the hospital bed, one hand still tightly gripping the railing at the foot of the bed. Judging from her appearance, she seemed to be gently gasping for breath.

The three of them: "..."

At that moment, the atmosphere in the ward suddenly fell silent.

"What are you doing?" Kuang Ming asked uncertainly, "Is this some kind of unique performance art?"

Xu Gui, who had actually tripped over his own right foot with his left: "..."

"I... I just wanted to see what the view from below this ward is like," Xu Gui said stubbornly, feeling somewhat embarrassed. After a couple of dry laughs, she remarked, "The hospital floor is quite clean, isn't it?"

Not knowing how to smooth things over, Jin Hong whispered, "The hospital on Jinding Mountain is indeed quite good. I saw the cleaning lady mopping it several times a day."

Xu Gui, as if he had found a kindred spirit, said, "Right? I was wondering why the floor was so clean. Turns out the cleaning lady is so diligent, haha..."

Jin Hong, unsure of what to say next, also laughed: "Haha!"

Kuang Ming, listening to the two laughing, thought, "..." In this quiet ward, he only felt that it was very noisy.

He thought to himself: These two, one dares to speak out, and the other dares to agree. Their conversation sounds really stiff and strange.

"You should get up first." He reached out to help Xu Gui up, his expression somewhat helpless. If he still couldn't tell that Xu Gui had fallen by now, he would be a fool—Xu Gui's excuse of being curious about the scenery on the ward floor was really lame.

Xu Gui stood up with a stiff face, but as he stood up, he couldn't help but grimac and rub his knee—it really hurt QAQ.

Yuan Lu reached out to support her and asked softly, "Teacher Xu, are you alright?"

Xu Gui said, "It's okay, I'm very strong."

Yuan Lu: ...Are you really that strong?

Beside him, Kuang Ming said goodbye to Jin Hong, "Then we'll be leaving now. If you need any help from us later, Mr. Jin, you can call me." While Xu Gui was alone with Jin Cancan in the ward, he had already exchanged contact information with Jin Hong.

Jin Hong saw them out, thanking them repeatedly with genuine gratitude on his face. He bowed to Xu Gui repeatedly, saying, "...Thank you so much, Miss Xu, for what happened to my Can Can. Thank you so much!"

He looked ashamed, regretting that his family wasn't well-off. Even though he wanted to thank Xu Gui, he didn't know how, so he could only keep saying thank you.

Xu Gui's knee pain had subsided slightly. She looked at Jin Hong and said, "No need for thanks. Just take good care of your daughter; that's the greatest gratitude you can give me."

Jin Hong nodded: "I will!"

He escorted Xu Gui and the others to the elevator, watching the elevator doors open and close before turning back to the ward. Once inside, he peeked into his daughter's bed and discovered she was already asleep.

Jin Hong was somewhat surprised. He slowly walked to the bedside and sat down. Looking at the sleeping Jin Cancan, his expression became somewhat worried.

He was very worried and afraid that his daughter would be awakened by nightmares again after falling asleep. Although Jin Cancan pretended that nothing was wrong every time she woke up, what could she hide from her pale face and slightly trembling body?

Jin Hong rubbed his face, waiting for his daughter to be awakened by the nightmare. However, to his surprise, ten minutes passed, then twenty minutes, and Jin Cancan on the hospital bed was not awakened by the nightmare. Instead, she suddenly started giggling.

Jin Hong: ? ?

He couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Meanwhile, Jin Cancan, who had already fallen into a deep sleep, was indeed dreaming, but it was a strange and beautiful dream.

She still dreamt of herself on Golden Peak Mountain, but this time, the cold dream seemed to have changed... The cold, damp ground, filled with the smell of rotting fallen leaves, turned into a soft, plush carpet, and the insects crawling over her turned into a long-haired, soft cat.

No child can resist the attack of a fluffy kitten, at least not Jin Cancan. When she saw a soft kitten lying on her, her eyes lit up.

"Kitten!" She reached out and hugged the kitten, feeling its soft, plush texture.

The kitten looked up at her and made a soft, gentle sound: "Meow~" It even came closer and kissed the golden kitten with its wet, soft mouth.

Jin Cancan couldn't help but laugh: "Hehehe..."

Just then, she felt petals falling all around her. She looked up and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "Wow!"

She saw that the tall, dark trees around her had transformed into clusters of flowering trees, red, pink, and even rainbow-colored. At that moment, a gentle breeze blew, and the petals on the flowering trees were blown down in a flurry, like a dazzling rain of petals.

"Wow……"

Jin Cancan, holding the kitten, exclaimed in surprise once again.

The soft carpet was covered with flower petals, and she rolled around on the fragrant carpet, unable to stop laughing happily.

...

"Giggle..."

In reality, Jin Hong was both shocked and delighted when he saw his daughter suddenly laughing in her sleep.

This time, Jin Cancan slept the best she had since being rescued. She slept for a full day and night, which frightened her father. He was afraid something might have happened to her, so he brought the hospital doctor to check on her several times. In the end, the doctor concluded that she was simply asleep.

"...But she's been sleeping for so long, is that normal?" Jin Hong worried. "She's never slept this long before."

The doctor said, "For the patient, such deep sleep is actually a good thing. Good sleep not only allows her mind to get enough rest, but also promotes the healing of her wounds..."

Especially for Jin Cancan, who hasn't been able to get a good night's sleep during this period, being able to get a full and restful night's sleep now is definitely a good thing.

“Mr. Jin, you really don’t need to worry too much,” the doctor reassured Jin Hong.

Jin Hong nodded, but her brows were tightly furrowed. Fortunately, after sleeping for a day and a night, she finally woke up on the second night. The first thing she said upon waking was:

"I'm so hungry... Dad! I'm so hungry!"

Jin Hong was pleasantly surprised to see his daughter wake up. Before he could say anything, he ran to the hospital cafeteria to buy food for Jin Cancan. When he returned, he fed Jin Cancan while listening to her tell him about the wonderful dream she had just had.

"...I dreamed of so many flowers, and every single one of them was so beautiful!"

"And there's a cat, a calico long-haired cat... Dad, you don't know how cute it is, with its long fur and big eyes, it even kisses me."

"And also, the carpet under me is super soft and smells amazing. It can even carry me flying, carrying me so high and high..."

Jin Cancan chattered away. If she weren't in splints and confined to bed, she would surely be jumping around excitedly by now.

Looking at the expression on his daughter's face where the gloom had completely disappeared, Jin Hong was so shocked that he could hardly put his mind to words. Just a day and a night before, before his daughter fell asleep, she had been in a particularly low and negative state, and looked extremely depressed. At that time, Jin Hong was even afraid that she would commit suicide.

But after just one night's sleep, Jin Cancan's spirits improved significantly... no, not just significantly, she practically returned to her pre-accident state—sunny and positive.

Jin Hong: Is this reasonable? Or rather, is this even possible?

After Jin Hong told the doctor about it, the doctor said it was nothing short of a miracle. As the saying goes, physical injuries are easy to heal with medicine, but mental problems are difficult to treat. Otherwise, we wouldn't often hear news like "a child committed suicide by jumping off a building because of mental problems."

But now, Jin Cancan's spirit is completely renewed.

The doctor asked curiously, "Did something happen to the patient before this? Otherwise, how could her mental state change so drastically?"

Upon hearing the doctor's question, a figure flashed through Jin Hong's mind in that instant.

He thought of Xu Gui, who had said he wanted to spend time alone with his daughter that day, and he thought of his daughter, who had suddenly fallen asleep after Xu Gui left. It was during this sleep that his daughter slept for a whole day and night, and when she woke up, her mental state was completely different...

At that moment, Jin Hong seemed to realize something.

"No, nothing happened..." he said calmly to the doctor, shaking his head. "That day was no different from usual, except that my Cancan slept for a long time."

The doctor frowned and muttered, "That's strange... While good sleep can indeed restore a person's mental state, the effect is a bit too good, isn't it?"

—Jin Cancan's condition is not just a recovery of her mental state, it's a complete cure.

Upon hearing the doctor's words, Jin Hong blinked nervously and asked, "So, my daughter's condition is a good thing, right?"

The doctor snapped out of his daze and nodded, saying, "That's certainly a good thing. At least for now, your daughter's mental state has completely returned to normal... But just to be on the safe side, we still need to give her a psychological evaluation later."

Jin Hong nodded, thanked the doctor, and then got up and left the doctor's office.

After going outside, he stood in the corridor, took a deep breath, and then quickly returned to his daughter's ward. At that moment, Jin Cancan was watching cartoons and was laughing out loud at the plot.

Seeing her father return, she turned her head slightly and exclaimed happily, "Dad! You're back!"

Jin Hong smiled and nodded at her. He walked to the bedside and sat down, taking an apple in his hand and peeling it. As he peeled, he hesitated and asked his daughter, "...Can Can, do you remember what happened on Jinding Mountain?"

Previously, whenever he mentioned the events on Golden Peak Mountain, Jin Cancan reacted strongly. It wasn't the kind of overt emotional outburst, but rather a fear that, despite her efforts to suppress it, still emanated from her every pore.

But this time, when he brought up the events on Golden Peak Mountain again, Jin Cancan's expression was calm. She tilted her head slightly and said, "I remember." Her tone was very cheerful.

"You were very scared when we talked about what happened on Golden Peak Mountain before," Jin Hong asked tentatively. "Are you not scared now?"

Jin Cancan was taken aback, then said somewhat strangely, "Oh yeah, I don't think I'm scared anymore..."

She clearly remembered what happened at Jinding Mountain, and all the terrible things that happened there, but when she thought back on it, she didn't feel scared at all; instead, she felt quite relaxed.

Jin Cancan really wanted to reach out and scratch her face, but unfortunately her hand was also in a splint.

"Huh, this is really strange," she said seriously.

Looking at her performance, Jin Hong seemed to confirm a certain suspicion in his heart. He smiled, and the slight tension in his heart finally subsided completely.

"Alright, have an apple. It's the best apple Dad picked out for you..."

"Thank you, Dad! You're the best, Dad."

The atmosphere in the ward was very warm.

*

Meanwhile, let's rewind to when Xu Gui and the others left the golden ward.

Xu Gui and the others took the elevator downstairs. In the hospital lobby, after Xu Gui slipped on a banana peel that someone had accidentally thrown on the ground and almost fell flat on her face, and then almost got hit in the face by a bag someone had picked up, they finally walked out of the hospital gate safely.

Standing in the sunlight, Xu Gui felt as if he had been reborn.

"Why do I feel like you've suddenly become really unlucky?" Kuang Ming looked at her suspiciously.

Xu Gui's face was filled with sorrow as he said, "I think so too!"

Last time she was unlucky, it was just that Tang and Qiu spread rumors about her, and she didn't suffer any physical harm. But this time, it seems like the opposite is true... Xu Gui felt that the latter made her even sadder.

Xu Gui frowned, feeling that things couldn't go on like this. She had to think of a way to stop being so unlucky.

"I've decided, I'm going to see my best friend!" she said earnestly.

Kuang Ming asked in confusion, "...Your good friend? Who?"

Xu Gui clapped his hands and said with certainty, "Of course it's Mr. Lu Baiyi!"

Kuang Ming was puzzled again and asked her seriously, "Does Mr. Lu know that you two are now good friends?"—He had asked Yuan Lu before, and Xu Gui and the other party had clearly only met a few times.

So, how did they become good friends in the blink of an eye?

Xu Gui replied, "It's okay. We'll become best friends of best friends in the future, so we'll still be good friends!" So it's perfectly normal for her to ask her best friend for help when she needs something, right?

"Kuang Ming, if you need anything, I can come over by myself!" she said understandingly.

“…I’ll still take you there,” Kuang Ming sighed, then added, “Also, please call me Brother Kuang, or Brother Ming. I’m your manager, and I’m older than you, so please show me more respect!”

Xu Gui casually replied, "Oh, I see."

Kuang Ming: ...It's obvious you didn't take my words to heart. The next time you see me, you'll definitely be calling me "Kuang Ming" again.

...

They are currently on Jinding Mountain, where there is a hospital. Although the hospital is not very big, it is small but complete, with all the necessary equipment. Moreover, since it serves wealthy people, the doctors it hires are all so-called experts.

After all, if a doctor doesn't have a certain status and reputation, how can wealthy people be persuaded to pay money willingly?

So after Jin Cancan was rescued, she was sent directly to the hospital in Jinding. Now it was very convenient for Xu Gui to go find Lu Baiyi. In just twenty minutes, they arrived at the door of Lu Baiyi's villa.

At this time, Lu Baiyi was still at home. After Xu Gui and the others rang the doorbell, he came out to open the door.

Lu Baiyi was somewhat surprised to see Xu Gui and the others. He first glanced at Kuang Ming and Yuan Lu, and then focused his gaze on Xu Gui. His expression seemed a little puzzled, but even so, he didn't ask Xu Gui and the others why they had suddenly come. Instead, he opened the door and invited them in.

"Please come in!" he said.

After Xu Gui entered the room, he waved to Kuang Ming and the others, saying, "You guys go back first, I'll call you when I get back!"

She felt that it was already very impolite of her to bother Lu Baiyi, and it would be even more impolite to bring Kuang Ming and Yuan Lu, two people that Lu Baiyi barely knew.

Therefore, it's better for her to visit alone.

Yuan Lu looked at Kuang Ming questioningly, and Kuang Ming replied, "...Okay."

...

Xu Gui followed Lu Baiyi into the villa. This was her second time here, only three or four days apart, so she was quite familiar with the layout of the house.

Lu Baiyi gestured for her to sit down and poured her a cup of fruit tea he had made himself. When he poured the tea, he added two extra spoonfuls of honey—he had noticed before that Xu Gui seemed to have a slightly sweet tooth.

The fruit tea was made by Lu Boyi for his own consumption. It was rather mild in sweetness, and he felt that adding two more spoonfuls of honey would probably make it the flavor Xu Gui would like.

Sure enough, Xu Gui took the fruit tea, took two sips, and said that the sweetness was just right.

"Miss Xu, is there anything I can do for you?" Lu Baiyi asked her.

Xu Gui looked up from his cup, his eyes slightly unfocused, and said, "I just came here to visit someone who is sick, and I also came to see you, Mr. Lu... After all, we're friends, right?"

She emphasized the word "friends".

Lu Boyi smiled and nodded, "Yes, we can be considered friends." In fact, they had met several times before.

Hearing his answer, Xu Gui felt relieved, thinking that her next request was sure to be successful. She looked at Lu Baiyi and said, "Aren't you going to ask me who I came up the mountain to see?"

Lu Baiyi then asked, "So, who is Miss Xu here to see?"

Xu Gui relaxed a bit and said, "I came to visit the child I rescued a couple of days ago. Her father said that this incident may have left a deep shadow in her heart. After she was rescued, she had nightmares as soon as she fell asleep and basically never had a full night's sleep."

"The doctor said that in this situation, she is likely to have some psychological problems... and may even develop more psychological disorders later."

The shadow of this tragedy could very well stay with this child for the rest of his life.

Lu Baiyi listened attentively to Xu Gui's words. After listening, he frowned and said, "Psychological problems are indeed difficult to treat, but the doctors at Jinding are all very skilled, so Miss Xu, you don't need to worry too much."

Upon hearing this, Xu Gui said, "I'm not too worried... because I've already cured her!"

Under Lu Baiyi's astonished gaze, Xu Gui said, "I gave her a little bit of my luck, turning her painful memories of the Golden Summit into a beautiful dream. In the future, when she thinks about what happened on the Golden Summit, she will still remember what happened, but she will no longer remember that fear."

“However…” Xu Gui’s expression turned troubled. She glanced at Lu Baiyi, then at him, and said meaningfully, “After I shared my luck with her, my luck turned bad. You have no idea how many things happened to me when I left the hospital!”

"First I slipped and fell in the ward, then I stepped in water outside and almost slipped again. Someone else was carrying a bag and it almost hit my face..."

Anyone who heard about Xu Gui's ordeal today would think she was unlucky, but Xu Gui's tone remained quite calm, after all, she had already anticipated this possibility before she did this.

After listening to what Xu Gui said, Lu Baiyi's heart stirred, and he seemed to know why Xu Gui had come to see him.

"...So, is there anything I can do to help?" he asked with a smile. Before Xu Gui could speak, he extended his hand to her and asked gently, "If I let you hold my hand again, like last time, and borrow my luck, would that make you less unlucky?"

Hearing his words, Xu Gui looked at him in surprise and asked in a low voice, "You know what I want to do?"

That's right. All that she said and laid so much groundwork was to absorb Lu Baiyi's luck. After all, his luck is so strong that absorbing a little bit won't matter much, and he can replenish it later.

Lu Baiyi said, "I'm just guessing. After all, practice makes perfect."

Xu Gui was a little embarrassed.

“Although I don’t know how lucky I am…” Lu Boyi offered her his hand and said, “But if my luck can help you, that would be great.”

Xu Gui glanced at him, sensed his seriousness, took a soft breath, and reached out to grab his hand.

"Thank you, Mr. Lu." She thanked him and praised him, "Mr. Lu, you are such a kind person! No wonder you are so lucky. You must have been a good person in your past life! That's why you have accumulated so much good luck."

She praised him earnestly and sincerely.

Lu Baiyi was amused by her words. He looked at the hand that Xu Gui was holding, and his gaze stiffly shifted to the side. He twitched his fingers, trying hard to suppress the urge to move his hand.

The sensation of Xu Gui's hand landing in his hand was incredibly vivid.

Unlike his cold, hard, and large hands, Xu Gui's hands were small and soft. Falling into his hands felt like a cloud had landed, soft, light, and warm, with an extremely strong presence.

Lu Boyi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. The last time he held hands with a girl like this (it was just Xu Gui holding his hand) was the last time... oh, that time was also with Xu Gui.

In short, before this, he had only ever held hands with girls like this during class team-building activities when he was in school.

Lu Boyi: ...It feels a bit strange, I just feel like my hands are itching.

"...By the way, Miss Xu, you said you came to N Province to work. What kind of work is it?" Lu Baiyi started to find topics to chat with Xu Gui.

Xu Gui, who was trying to attract good luck, said, "Ah, this is about doing the work of a celebrity. Do you know the brand 'fashion'?"

Lu Boyi hesitated for a moment, then apologized, "Sorry, I'm not very familiar with this brand."

Upon hearing this, Xu Gui wasn't angry.

"Oh, it's okay, because I didn't know this brand before!"

"……puff."

Lu Boyi was suddenly amused by Xu Gui's words. He said, "So, Miss Xu, is your work this time related to this brand?"

"Yes." Xu Gui nodded and said, "They want me to be their model for their autumn new products. I came to N Province this time for this photoshoot. By the way, the person in charge of the photoshoot, my agent, is very famous internationally!"

"His name is Mom Bell!"

“Momm Bell?” Lu Boyi’s face showed a look of sudden realization. “Is he that famous photographer from Country Y?”

Xu Gui looked at him with surprise: "You know him?"

Lu Boyi nodded and said, "Our family has business dealings with the Bell family in Y country. I have met Mr. Bell before and seen his works. His works are very inspired."

Spiritual energy is something ethereal and intangible, but once you see someone's work, you will definitely understand the meaning of those two words.

Xu Gui asked curiously, "Is the Bell family very powerful?" She had been curious about this for a while.

Lu Baiyi said, "The Bell family is considered a major noble family in Country Y..."