42. Can you? Dare you? Are you worthy?

Lu Siming abruptly stopped, turned around, and looked with some surprise at the woman who had just stopped him, standing a few steps behind them: "Auntie?"

Mu Jia turned around as he spoke and saw Yuan Mei and Mu Xiangming standing behind her, staring at her in disbelief.

She took a few steps over: "Mom, Dad."

The ginseng that Yuan Mei prepared for Mu Meixi was forgotten by Lu Siming, so they chased after him to bring it down.

So from the moment the conflict started among those young people, he and Yuan Mei saw and heard everything.

He simply couldn't believe that Mu Jia could do something so outrageous, and in an instant, he was so angry that his eyes were practically popping out of their sockets.

He stared at Mu Jia, and after a few seconds, his right hand suddenly rose up unconsciously.

Mu Jia was over twenty years old, and he had never laid a hand on her.

"Dad, you have no right to hit me." Unexpectedly, Mu Jia suddenly stepped out from behind him, raised her head, and looked at Mu Xiangming. "I did lie, but didn't you do too? When we were little, you and Mom always said that actions speak louder than words, but I've known about your things since high school."

Without looking at anyone else's expression, she suddenly laughed: "Especially in recent years, I know exactly what time it is, what hotel it is, when it starts, and when it ends."

Everyone present stared at her in astonishment.

"By the way, do you want me to bring that woman's lipstick back to you?"

After saying that, she turned to Yuan Mei, who had a stunned expression, and asked, "Mom, do you want to hit me too?"

Yuan Mei saw her smiling and said, "Hit me, kill me, we'll die together. Anyway, you've never cared about matters of life and death. In your eyes, I don't even have the right to know, right?"

For a moment, her parents' faces showed utter shock.

"Yes!" She suddenly seemed to have reached her breaking point, and yelled at them without any restraint, "I know everything! You've been cheating on me! You hid your illness from me and went to get treatment! But I still had to cooperate with you, pretending to be stupid every day, pretending I didn't know anything, pretending I could still be happy. Actually, you've driven me crazy! I haven't been happy for a long time! Am I good at pretending? Are you satisfied?"

The paper bag in Yuan Mei's hand fell to the ground with a "thud".

After saying this, she took a deep breath, walked past the stunned crowd, took a few steps to Chu Chiyi, grabbed him and left.

Chu Chiyi was dragged a few steps away by her before he realized what was happening and hesitantly asked, "Where...are we going..."

"Go to the hospital."

In the waiting area of ​​the hospital outpatient department, the two sat side by side. The nurses had already treated all of Chu Chiyi's injuries.

As it turns out, all the injuries were just for show and did not actually damage any vital organs.

Mu Jia tore off a medical bandage and stuck it under the corner of his right lip, where Lu Siming's watch had left a shallow scratch.

The man lowered his head slightly, matching her movements.

The air was eerily quiet.

Mu Jia felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze. She carefully put away the band-aid packaging, clutched it in her hand, and turned her head, only to find that the man's gaze was still fixed on her. "What are you looking at?"

"It's nothing." He looked up and continued to look at her. "I remembered the time you helped me put on a band-aid."

Mu Jia hadn't expected this answer. After a couple of seconds, for some reason, she suddenly remembered Xiao Yu's "sun theory." "You also think I'm like the sun?"

Chu Chiyi looked at her with some surprise.

It seemed she had guessed correctly. She smiled, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes.

The two sat side by side for a few more minutes. Chu Chiyi looked at the person next to him and stood up, saying to him, "Even the sun has to set eventually."

She smiled at him again, and noticed that his eyes seemed to be red again.

How come I never noticed before that he was such a crybaby?

Don't cry, Chu Chiyi. Although the sun will set, you have indeed enjoyed the best sunshine.

Or rather, it was during the best of times, the sunny days that belonged to her, that they were together.

They squandered their money recklessly.

Chu Chiyi watched as Mu Jia turned and walked away.

When she reached a certain point, she suddenly stopped and threw the band-aid packaging and the remaining medical cotton swabs into the trash can leaning against the wall.

He kept staring at her back until the shadow completely disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The surroundings fell completely silent, and he suddenly began to think about the question Mu Jia had just asked.

Like those students who are always late to the party when they're in school, they only start thinking about answers after the exam is over and the papers are collected.

Is Mu Jia like the sun to him?

He hadn't actually considered it.

Perhaps at some point, that was true.

But then, long ago, from the moment he fell in love with her, he stopped caring who she was.

She can be the sun, the moon, the stars, or a fallen leaf, a cattail, or a speck of dust.

She can be anything she wants to be in this world, if she wants to.

Because after falling in love with her, she became almost his whole world.

He naturally didn't care whether the sun would set or not.

Because probably no one would want to escape their planet just because of the changing of day and night, right?

There weren't many people at the outpatient clinic late at night. The man sat alone on a chair in the waiting area, his dark pupils flickering as if he were lost in thought.

Suddenly, a small shadow appeared in front of me, blocking the stark white light from above for a moment.

Chu Chiyi's pupils dilated slightly. For a moment, she even wondered if Heaven had heard the voice in her heart, which was why she had returned.

At this moment, without even looking up, he could feel the other person's gaze gently falling on the top of his head.

But in the next instant, a hint of hesitation gradually crept into the ecstasy.

Can he still look up at her? Does he dare? Does he even deserve to?

But you should still look up, at least to tell her the answer to the question you just asked.

After catching his breath for two seconds, he raised his head.

His gaze suddenly sharpened.

There stood Lu Siming right in front of them.

The air seemed to freeze between the two for a few seconds. Chu Chiyi looked at the eyes opposite him that resembled Mu Jia's, and suddenly smiled, causing a sharp pain in the wound at the corner of his mouth.

"What, you still want to fight?"

The other person seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then continued to stare down at him, their expression remaining cold and hard.

After a few seconds of silence, Lu Siming finally spoke up: "Chu Chiyi, I just don't understand, what exactly do you think is wrong with her? Besides those few things she said before."