Chapter 48 I don't want to leave you. I just want to feel each other...

Li Xi had a dream that was both long and short.

He saw his childhood in this dream. He was walking on the road holding Li Mo's hand. There were rows of low buildings here, which were crowded, narrow, closed and noisy. When they were almost home, Li Mo called him softly, "Brother..."

"What's wrong?" Li Wei turned to look at her, only to see that she refused to move forward. She looked ahead with a look of fear on her little face.

Li Xi looked in the direction she was looking and saw two boys squatting downstairs, seemingly taking pictures of slides. They were having a lot of fun and were talking very loudly.

"Did they bully you?"

Li Mo shook her head, then nodded, looking at Li Xi with a bewildered look.

The two boys also lived nearby. A few days ago, they saw Li Mo alone and stopped her to ask her if she had any money.

Li Mo shook her head in fear. One of the boys said, "Look at how shabby she is. How can she have money?"

The clothes she was wearing were very old, but not torn and very clean. Li Xi had washed them for her yesterday and praised her for looking good in them.

Li Mo was actually very scared, but when she heard this she retorted: "It won't break!"

"What's your name?" They probably didn't expect to be refuted. After a moment of hesitation, they said angrily, "It's just broken!" "Broken!"

Li Mo's tears rolled around in her eyes, but she couldn't help but let them fall. She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes with the sleeve of her clothes.

Seeing that they couldn't get the money, the two men snatched the lollipop hidden in Li Mo's pocket. Li Mo went home without telling Li Xi.

"Don't be afraid, brother is here." Li Xi led him over. The two boys saw Li Mo, stood up and smiled at her in confusion. But when they saw Li Xi next to them, who was taller than them, they kept silent, but they still did not hide the mockery in their eyes.

Li Xi walked over and picked one or two from the broken bricks piled on the roadside. He picked up the largest brick that was only half broken, weighed it in his hand, and looked at the two of them.

"You, what are you doing?" The two boys took a step back.

Li Xi didn't say anything, but just took two steps towards them holding the brick.

"You, you, if you dare to do anything, I'll call my dad to beat you!" said one of them, raising his neck, but then taking a step back.

Li Xi took two steps forward again, with no expression on his face.

He took two steps forward and the two men ran away in fear. They didn't even pick up the pictures on the ground. They walked so fast that they almost tripped, as if they were afraid that a brick would fly at them from behind.

“Picture cards!” One person remembered and shouted, but the other ignored him and panted: “Come back and pick them up later!”

Li Mo walked over, picked up the picture on the ground and threw it into the trash can on the side of the road.

Li Xi smiled and rubbed her face.

Then time quickly fast-forwarded, and Li Xi saw herself sitting in front of the mirror in the practice room again, with a large spot of sweat on the front collar of her white T-shirt. He was the only one in the empty practice room, and it was already early in the morning.

He got up and walked out the door, turned off all the lights in the practice room, and walked downstairs alone. The wind was very cool, and it made his sweaty body shiver. Li Xi folded his arms and walked slowly towards the dormitory. Tonight was a waxing moon, and the crescent moon was very clear. Li Xi suddenly felt very relaxed. He decided to give himself a rest tomorrow and go see his sister.

Halfway through the walk, he saw a person sitting on a roadside flower bed, looking down at his phone. Li Xi looked for a few seconds in the darkness, but wasn't sure who it was.

The man looked up at him when he heard footsteps, and Li Xi confirmed that it was Tang Ruining, a more famous trainee.

Tang Ruining saw him but didn't say hello to him. Li Wei smiled at him to show his friendliness. Tang Ruining nodded and returned his eyes to the phone.

Why are you sitting outside by yourself so late? If she was more familiar with him, Li Xi would sit next to him and ask him this. But Tang Ruining gave off an aura that said "keep away from strangers", so Li Xi just passed him by.

Tang Ruining... Li Wei took a few steps, looked up at the moon, and suddenly stopped.

No, no... How could he and Tang Ruining not be familiar with each other? He had held Tang Ruining's hand and kissed his lips. They had hugged each other tightly and done the most intimate things. He had heard him say "I love you" to him and promised him "We will be together forever."

Li Xi turned around and saw Tang Ruining still sitting there with his head down, looking like he was crying.

Li Xi ran towards him, but could not reach him even though he was a few steps away. The harder he ran, the lighter his body seemed to become, as if his soul had left his body and was floating in the air.

"Tang Ruining!" He shouted with all his might, and only after shouting did he feel as if he had landed on the ground, no longer floating away aimlessly.

Then he heard Tang Ruining's voice, sometimes far away, sometimes near, with intermittent sobs, saying: "You said that we would be together for the rest of our lives, and you can't leave me..."

I'm not leaving you...

The night faded away, and all that was left before Li Wei's eyes was a sea of ​​white. He blinked blankly, and the first thing he felt was wetness on the back of his hand.

He realized that the white patch was the ceiling. He was lying on the bed. He turned his head and saw Tang Ruining lying on the side of the bed with his eyes buried in the back of his hand.

Are you really crying?

Feeling the movement, Tang Ruining jumped up instantly. The look in his eyes when he looked at himself was first filled with joy, and then with fear. It was not until Li Xi raised her hand to touch his face and wiped away the tears from it that he felt as if he was saved. His suppressed sobs turned into sobs, and his tears flowed even more violently.

"What's wrong?" Li Xi asked in a hoarse voice. Why are you crying like this? Is he critically ill?

Tang Ruining just lowered his head even lower. Li Xi then touched his head. The hairspray he had used during the photo shoot was still there, and it didn't feel good to the touch.

Li Wei looked at his messy hair and it took her a while to react. Was Tang Ruining afraid that he would experience another soul-destroying experience? He did have the illusion of his soul leaving his body just now.

That's why he looked at me with such fear when he saw me wake up, fearing that the person who woke up was not Li Wei.

Li Xi didn't know how long he had been unconscious this time. During this time, Tang Ruining stayed by his side in fear, hoping that he would wake up, but also afraid that he would wake up. Every second was extremely torturous. There was no one who could share his fear. He had no one to talk to and could only face it alone, as if waiting for a verdict.

"I'm sorry." Li Xi said, her voice soft and trembling, "I must have scared you."

"Don't do this again... Don't scare me like this again..." Tang Ruining was shaking so much that she could hardly form a complete sentence. She held his hand tightly.

Tang Ruining had had this kind of nightmare before, more than once. He dreamed of different scenes of Li Xi's soul leaving. Tang Ruining searched for Li Xi's soul like crazy in his dream, but could not find it.

Every time I struggle to wake up from such a dream, I am covered in cold sweat and can hardly breathe. The person beside him was breathing evenly. Tang Ruining turned over and gently hugged him. Sometimes Li Xi would hum softly when hugged, and then find a comfortable position in his arms and fall into a deep sleep again.

"No, no." Li Xi was thinking at this moment, if Tang Ruining didn't know the truth, he wouldn't have to go through such a cruel wait.

Rong Xiao and Yuan Zhiyan came in and were relieved to see that he had woken up. Just now, they were both frightened by Tang Ruining. After they left, Yuan Zhiyan quietly asked, "Brother Ruining, are you afraid that Brother Lan will hit his head and lose his memory again, and forget about him?"

"It's possible, but she wouldn't cry like this." Rong Xiao was extremely puzzled. After all, he had seen Yuan Zhiyan cry, Wu Xingye cry, and Jiang Yilan cry, but he had never seen Tang Ruining cry, and he couldn't imagine what Tang Ruining looked like when he cried, let alone crying so hard.

They all knew that Jiang Yilan was fine and would wake up soon, and they also knew that Tang Ruining would definitely not want them to see him cry, so they left Tang Ruining alone in the room. Now that they came back, they saw that Jiang Yilan had woken up and did not seem to have any brain damage, so they were relieved.

Rong Xiao brought back some food for Tang Ruining, "Eat something, are you tired of crying?"

Tang Ruining remained silent. Li Xi, who was lying on the bed, smiled softly and said to Tang Ruining, "Eat something quickly."

Tang Ruining asked him: "Are you hungry?"

"He can't eat this even if he's hungry. You should eat first and stop staring at him. Yilan can't run away."

Yuan Zhiyan sat down at the end of the bed and said in fear: "Brother Lan, let's go to the temple to pray tomorrow. Why do you have so many disasters?"

"Bah." Rong Xiao scolded him, "Shut up."

Li Xi was still a little dizzy, and smiled: "Well, let's go and worship."

Rong Xiao said: "When you fainted, Zhiyan was also scared and cried."

"It's really scary, a head full of blood!" Yuan Zhiyan looked at the gauze wrapped around his head and said with a flat mouth, "It's okay, it's just that the wound is a bit big, it's not too serious."

Tang Ruining finished a meal in just a few minutes, and then sat back next to Li Xi.

"Does your wound still hurt?" Tang Ruining asked.

Li Xi subconsciously wanted to shake his head, but still told the truth: "A little bit."

"But just one thing, really." Seeing his frown, Li Xi quickly added.

After the person wakes up, the doctor will definitely come to check on him again, ask him if he is feeling unwell anywhere else, and do a simple examination. I also told him that he might develop a fever later and it was an inflammatory reaction, so he shouldn't worry too much, and I prescribed him some antipyretic medicine.

The fact that he was injured was kept secret for the time being and not made known to the outside world, but it was hard to say whether it could be suppressed or not. Mother Jiang had not been told about it either. Li Xi leaned against the bed and closed her eyes to think for a while, then said to Tang Ruining, "Let's video chat with Momo later, otherwise she will blame me again when she finds out."

Tang Ruining was peeling an orange for him. He smiled and said, "It's good that you know."

The others had already left. Tang Ruining sat next to him on the bed, letting him lean on his arms, carefully avoiding the wound on his head. Neither of them spoke.

Tang Ruining hugged him without communicating, but occasionally tilted his head to kiss his face and lips. When he turned his head, Li Wei would take the initiative to move forward and kiss him with her eyes closed. They didn't kiss too deeply, just lightly, as if they just wanted to feel each other's presence and warmth.

By the evening, Li Xi had indeed developed a fever.