Pfft~

The streetlights were dim, but the bright red color was still so vivid that it made people feel somewhat uncomfortable.

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He Ji lay in the VIP ward, his eyes vacant, watching the liquid gradually flow into his veins, and slowly closed his eyes.

Is she awake?

She must hate me.

How could I treat her like that?!

He Ji's mind was filled with the image of Li Baobei begging him to go to the hospital. She was so beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful, so beautiful that it seemed fleeting and unworthy of his possession.

How could I have treated her like that?

He Ji looked at the doctors coming in and out, and the way they looked at him was exactly the same as how they used to look at his sleeping mother.

His brows were furrowed tightly, and his lips were pressed together, as if the words he was about to say would drag him to hell.

Jiang De stood at the door of the ward, hesitant to go in. He couldn't accept it, he couldn't believe it...

But when the doctor laid bare the truth in front of him, he only felt that breathing had become difficult.

He Ji's mother married into the He family and worked there ever since, watching He Ji grow up little by little.

He watched He Ji go from cheerful and lively to silent and withdrawn, until that year, when the master also got married and the little boy went abroad alone...

Sigh~

Jiang De sighed heavily, feeling as if a stone was pressing on his heart, making it hard for him to breathe.

He Ji heard Jiang De's sigh, and his heart sank to the bottom.

7:32 AM.

Li Baobei opened her phone and saw no message notifications, which made her anxious again.

Type: "He Ji, are you alright?"

He Ji looked at the lit screen, where the name he had been longing for was displayed. He felt as if a withered tree had been revived and quickly clicked on it.

His heart was churning with emotions, but in the end, it all boiled down to a cold, emotionless sentence: "It's fine."

When Li Baobei saw his reply, she didn't know why, but she felt a chill run down her spine, and tears streamed down her face. She continued typing with difficulty.

:"I miss you so much."

These four words seemed too jarring, and He Ji trembled all over again. His eyes reddened as he tried his best to control the tears welling up in them.

It felt like being tortured on fire, the pain was excruciating and unbearable.

Li Baobei looked up at the chat history that hadn't been answered for a long time, trying to stop her tears from falling.

Suppressing the bitterness in her heart, she weakly tried to cheer herself up, "Everything will get better and better. The bad times are only temporary. Come on, Li Baobei."

As soon as I stepped out of the residential area, I saw a glaring red mark, which looked like blood.

Li Baobei glanced at it and felt a strange, uncomfortable feeling. Her heart seemed to be aching unconsciously, but she didn't know why.

She steadied herself and continued on her way to the company.

Sitting at her desk, Li Baobei looked at He Ji's office. It seemed he hadn't arrived yet. Was he not coming today?

She quickly opened her phone to ask, but when she saw the message that was the last one, she stopped what she was doing.

He must have been busy to not have time to reply to my message, that must be it.

Li Baobei strongly agreed with her own ideas and began to devote herself to her work seriously.

Perhaps He Ji will reply to my message this afternoon.