Ji Niancheng nodded.
When Pei Yucheng hesitated for a moment and took off the oxygen mask, Ji Niancheng's thin and weak voice, still with a childish tone, was weakly transmitted to Pei Yucheng's eardrum: "Are you my father?!"
Pei Yucheng's waist is usually straight and upright, and no one has the right to bend it even by 1 degree.
However, at this moment, Pei Yucheng remained bent over for a long time.
Before, because he was wearing an oxygen mask, Pei Yucheng couldn't see clearly.
Now that he was closer, Pei Yucheng took a closer look: Ji Niancheng's skin was very white. Every inch of his skin was an extremely unhealthy, sickly white.
That face is even more pitifully small.
Five years ago, Pei Yucheng had a dream on a plane returning to the imperial capital from Country M. In the dream, Ji Yuqi was wearing a white wedding dress and standing before a solemn and sacred statue. He knelt on one knee before her and asked her, "Ji Yuqi, will you marry me?"
Her eyes and eyebrows were filled with an endless warm smile.
She nodded at him, and her pleasant voice echoed in his ears over and over again: "I do, Pei Yucheng, I do..."
The scene changed, and she was pregnant with a round belly. After the prenatal checkup, she went from the hospital to his office. He frowned and was in a rage, scolding her for not telling him about the prenatal checkup and why he didn't accompany her to the hospital. Suddenly, she handed him a small four-dimensional color ultrasound photo. She pouted and looked resentful: "Today, when the doctor did the B-ultrasound, he secretly told me that it was a boy. Pei Yucheng, you said you are so handsome, why is the photo of our son so ugly?! Look at him, although he is chubby, he looks like an alien."
Ji Yuqi was in the office, muttering in disgust for a long time.
However, he took the four-dimensional color ultrasound photo and looked at it for a long time. After a very long time, he carefully put it into the left chest pocket of his clothes.
That place is closest to his heart.
For a very long time, Pei Yucheng could not wake up from that dream.
Even after he finally regained his sanity, the place on his heart where the four-dimensional photo in his dream had been pressed was still aching so deeply that he didn't even dare to breathe hard.
He drinks and smokes every day.
He almost resorted to self-harm to numb his painful nerves.
I felt dazed all day.
Neither human nor ghost.
Neither death nor life.
Pei Yucheng lowered his eyebrows and looked at the small face so close to him. He felt something warm flowing out of his eye sockets rapidly.
When Ji Yuqi was pursuing him for the first time, she asked him flatteringly, "Pei Yucheng, do you believe in love at first sight? It's the kind where you fall in love with someone at first sight and you absolutely cannot live without him."
With a cold face, he denied it directly: "I don't believe it."
However, the moment he saw Ji Niancheng, Pei Yucheng, who didn't even believe in love at first sight, suddenly believed deeply: There is such a person in this world, whom he has never met, but can love deeply.
Pei Yucheng moved his lips, but before he could respond to Ji Niancheng's question, Ji Niancheng's voice came again: "You are my father, I know you. When I was very young, I saw your photo under my mother's pillow. Every day after my mother coaxed me to sleep, she would stare at your photo and cry. Dad, can you tell her to stop crying? I asked Uncle Li, and he said that crying too much is bad for the eyes."
“…” Pei Yucheng’s throat felt a little salty and he couldn’t make a sound.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Ji Niancheng's dark pupils were suddenly covered with a thick layer of fear.
"Dad, am I dreaming?!"
"I must be dreaming."
"Mom said you would come pick me up when my cactus blooms."
"But I didn't protect my cactus well. It was smashed by the fat kid in the next ward."
"My cactus will never bloom again, and you will never come to pick me up again."
Ji Niancheng's eyes immediately turned red, and tears rolled down his eyes one by one.
Pei Yucheng raised his fingers and wiped them off bit by bit tenderly and gently.
"It's me, I'm your father. You're not dreaming. I'm really here to pick you up..."
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