Chapter 69

On the wedding day, Shen Yuqing stood alone in front of the small window in the ward, not knowing what he was thinking.

Although the weather was still very cold today, it seemed to be a rare sunny day. He could feel the sunshine hitting him, that warm feeling.

Although he did not attend their wedding, he could guess that it would be Shen Qingli and Gu Zijin on the stage, talking about their love story.

I guess before the two protagonists even got hurt, Xia Ruirui below was already crying her heart out.

Although Xia Ruirui is a person who is warm on the outside but cold on the inside, she becomes particularly emotional when she hears some happy endings.

Shen Yuqing could already foresee her crying with tears and snot.

He remembered that once when they watched a movie together, she cried so much that her eyeliner was smudged, and he bought her wet wipes.

I wonder if there are wet wipes on the table at the wedding banquet.

Thinking that she didn't have the habit of carrying tissues with her, Shen Yuqing subconsciously worried about her.

He was still in a daze when he heard someone knocking on the door outside the ward.

The young boy had taken a day off today. He was still guessing who was outside the door. He walked to the door with his blind stick and opened it for him.

The errand boy outside the door was stunned for a moment when he saw his blind stick, then handed him the meal in his hand and even kindly helped him open the box before leaving.

After the young man left, the ward returned to its original silence.

Shen Yuqing was eating alone, and for the first time he felt that the ward was terribly cold and lonely.

He originally thought that the little voice was particularly noisy, and occasionally when she was not around, he felt that it was a paradise.

Now that she had taken leave, he felt a little lonely.

Even he himself did not expect his own change, and subconsciously he rejected this idea.

For some reason, he was unwilling to leave the ward alone without her.

Shen Yuqing stayed in the ward alone from day to evening, and finally when the sun was about to set, he heard the loud voice of Shotayin outside the corridor.

He listened to her push the door open and walk towards him with somewhat unsteady steps.

She seemed to have been drinking, her voice sounded a little tipsy, and her breath had a faint smell of alcohol.

"Have you been drinking?"

"Yes, I drank."

Her mood was exceptionally high, and she seemed to be extremely happy. Feeling her happiness, Shen Yuqing also felt a little happy for some reason.

He was just about to ask her to go back today, but she stuffed something into his hand, and he didn't know what it was.

He felt around with his fingers and realized it appeared to be a memory card from a camera.

"What's this?"

"It was sent by your friend through express delivery."

Xia Ruirui lied without blinking, this was clearly the wedding replay that Shen Qingli stuffed into her after the banquet and asked her to show it to Shen Yuqing.

As if realizing something, Shen Yuqing's hand holding the memory card became a little stiff, and he asked her to open it on the computer.

Xia Ruirui's tablet computer happened to be right here, and it read the memory card in front of him.

A few seconds later, the voices of Gu Zijin and others were heard in the ward.

“This cake is right here.”

"Where is the bouquet?"

"There's some lint on the groom's suit. Use a lint remover on him."

…

It seemed to be the makeup artist and staff on the groom's side, but there was no voice of Shen Qingli.

Then the scene shifted to the bride's dressing room.

Then Shen Yuqing heard Xia Ruirui's voice: "Although I think I am the most beautiful, I allow you to be more beautiful than me today."

"Xia Ruirui, you are so shameless."

Then, there were the two people's unceremonious laughter and fighting sounds...

*

In the ward, Xia Ruirui looked at Shen Yuqing with a smile on her face, and suddenly sobered up.

She knew he couldn't see her looking at him, so she stared at him unscrupulously, her eyes hardly moving away from him.

She had just returned from the wedding, but she pretended that she was watching it for the first time as well and watched the wedding replay with him.

But her attention was all focused on the person in front of her.

In the replay, Shen Qingli, who was always careless, did not make a single mistake, but Gu Zijin made a lot of jokes.

Even when taking the oath, his eyes were red in public.

The emcee laughed and made jokes, and then asked the bride's friend to come on stage to speak.

Hearing Xia Ruirui's voice in the playback, Shen Yuqing laughed out loud, a very relaxed laugh.

He looked at the 'nurse' beside him and asked with a smile: "What color dress was she wearing?"

Xia Ruirui stared at his face closely and asked in a hoarse voice, knowing the answer: "Who is she?"

"That's the prettiest girl standing next to the bride and giving a speech."

Xia Ruirui didn't know whether she was drunk or the atmosphere was too good, which made her feel a little sad.

She looked down at her pink dress and said calmly, "Pink."

Chen Yuqing on the opposite side laughed and lowered his eyebrows: "You don't know, she has liked pink since high school."

"I wonder if she will be unconventional and wear a pink wedding dress when she gets married in the future."

"It's a pity," he said, his voice gradually fading, as if he was just talking to himself, "I won't be able to see her in her wedding dress."

He didn't cry, but his voice sounded full of regret.

Beside her, Xia Ruirui burst into tears, not even daring to let him hear her nasal voice, and wrote in Braille: "Do you like her?"

Shen Yuqing fumbled with the Braille paper with his hands, shook his head and denied it: "I don't like her."

She then wrote in Braille: "Why?"

Shen Yuqing's voice was very calm, as if he was just joking with her, and he even smiled.

"That heartless guy never came to see me once."

Xia Ruirui wanted to defend herself, but he seemed to just want to narrate and had no intention of hearing her response at all.

He didn't even touch the braille paper where she wrote her defense, and his voice was muffled.

"Actually, it's better that she didn't come." Shen Yuqing paused, "If she saw me in such a mess, she might not like me anymore."

Xia Ruirui felt sad and wanted to defend herself, but she held back and listened quietly to what he had to say.

"If she hadn't come, at least she would still like the me from high school."

He seemed to be complaining to outsiders, but in fact he was secretly praising his lover.

He was clearly talking about her shortcomings, but his words contained a hint of indulgence and protection that he himself was not aware of.

"You don't know how much she judges people by appearances. She's always looking at people based on their appearance."

"She's been teasing me since high school, but I've actually been in love with her since before she even noticed me."

"We have already confirmed our feelings for each other, and we are just short of getting married." As if mocking himself, Shen Yuqing gently touched his eyes with his hand.

"It's a pity I'm blind now."

Xia Ruirui, tears already streaming down her face, quickly wrote on the Braille paper, "Maybe she doesn't mind?"

He touched the ridges on the Braille paper, pondered for a moment, and said calmly, "But I do mind."

"How could I let her spend her whole life with a blind man?" His voice revealed a hint of determination. "She deserves a brighter life."

Xia Ruirui could no longer hold back her emotions and ran out without even saying goodbye.

She broke down and cried in the stairwell on the first floor, slid down the wall and sat on the ground, covering her face and crying.

On the other side, Shen Yuqing sat quietly in the ward, as if he had no emotions at all, but also seemed to have reached the critical point of going crazy...

*

The next day.

Perhaps because he heard Xia Ruirui's voice yesterday after a long time, Shen Yuqing had another dream.

He dreamed that he turned into a dog, but he could no longer remember what happened in the dream.

I only remember that I seemed to have saved Xia Ruirui, but I was still blind in the dream.

He woke up after only a few hours of sleep because of a nightmare.

He half leaned on the edge of the bed, quietly feeling the afterglow of the rising sun.

He could no longer see and had no idea what the sky looked like today.

The only thing he remembered was the sunrise he saw when he was waiting downstairs at Xia Ruirui's house that morning.

Every morning after that, the light of the rising sun shone on his eyelids.

Feeling the changes in light and shadow before his eyes, all that emerged in his mind was that day, when he was eager to see Xia Ruirui while waiting.

Shen Yuqing sat on the edge of the bed, quietly feeling the passage of time until it was afternoon.

That shotaone hasn't arrived yet.

In these few months, except for the day she took leave, she was never absent, not even late or left early.

But considering the smell of alcohol on her body yesterday, Shen Yuqing guessed that she must have been drinking and still sleeping.

So he didn't take her lateness to heart, but wanted to go for a walk in the back garden alone with his blind stick.

Although I have learned how to walk alone.

But in the past, Shotane always followed behind him, but this time he was really alone.

He walked very slowly.

Although he had already constructed the floor plan of Ryan Hospital in his mind, he still went the wrong way.

Listening to the continuous screams in the corridor, Shen Yuqing subconsciously pursed his lips, guessing that he must have gone to the wrong anorectal department.

He was about to leave with his crutches when someone called him from behind.

"Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen..."

It was a very enthusiastic female voice. Shen Yuqing felt somewhat familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember who the other person was.

Because he couldn't see and wasn't sure if the person he was calling was Mr. Shen, he just stopped but didn't look back.

Until the other party rushed to him enthusiastically and introduced himself.

"Mr. Shen, I was the nurse from the anorectal department when you accompanied your girlfriend to have hemorrhoid surgery last time."

Shen Yuqing nodded, remembering that the other person was the nurse he asked to bring the potassium permanganate lotion to Xia Ruirui.

"Hello."

The farce that happened in Beiyi was extremely serious in nature, and one of the victims was a well-known e-sports blogger.

This incident quickly caused a huge uproar on the Internet and became the number one trending topic in social news shortly after it happened.

The popularity remained high for a long time.

The news of Shen Yuqing's blindness has also caused many netizens to sigh. The studio issued a statement that the time of the next live broadcast is still to be announced.

Many fans also strongly requested that he appear on the show, and Zhang Xiaotiao also contacted him, but he refused.

Therefore, the outside world only knew that Shen Yuqing was blind, but no one had ever seen him.

The nurses would know that Shen Yuqing was in Rui'en Hospital, and it was also the hospital's internal gossip.

Ever since she last saw Shen Yuqing and Xia Ruirui, she has completely become their CP fan leader.

She had not missed any of his live broadcasts, so she felt a little surprised to see Shen Yuqing in person again.

"I know you're recuperating in our hospital. I saw you trying rehabilitation exercises before, so I didn't bother you."

“…”

Shen Yuqing nodded again, thinking of the dream he had yesterday. On the surface, he seemed to be listening to her carefully, but in fact, he was distracted.

Although he remained polite, he was somewhat lukewarm and distant. When the nurse offered to push him for a walk in a wheelchair, he politely refused.

Unexpectedly, the other party thought that he was embarrassed, and after he refused several times, he still went to the department to get a wheelchair.

“Mr. Shen, you’re welcome.”

“…”

He felt that the other person was just like Xia Ruirui, sometimes not understanding the implicit meaning of other people's words.

He wanted to find another excuse to leave, but after hearing what the nurse said, he sat on the wheelchair she pushed over...