Chapter 306: Maybe I’ll find my other half faster than my brother
There was only a warm yellow ceiling light in the hotel room, but it couldn't illuminate the darkness in front of Qu Qingluo.
She groped her way to the sofa and sat down. Listening to the footsteps beside her ear, she tilted her head and spoke softly in the direction of the sound.
"Brother Are, thank you for bringing me back. It's getting late, you should go now."
Are stood two meters away from her and looked at her.
Her eyes were slightly closed, and her drooping eyelashes could not hide the faint redness in her eyes.
Those were the marks left by the recurring pain in her eyes caused by inflammation.
Yesterday, he went to Lantai to pick up Qu Qingluo without telling Lin Zhi.
When he pushed open the door of Lantai's simple clinic, the smell of disinfectant mixed with dust hit him in the face.
Qu Qingluo lay on the wooden bed, his hands tightly clutching the corners of his clothes, with fine beads of cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
It has been two days since she had her cornea removed, but the pain has not subsided. Even though her eyes are so painful that she can't even open them a crack, she has not regretted her decision.
Only when I heard his voice did I ask in a low voice, "Is that Brother Are?"
Living corneal donation is not allowed in China, so we could only secretly contact illegal institutions abroad and do a matching test in a small clinic that could not even meet basic sterile conditions.
Because the operating environment was too crude, the risk of postoperative infection increased exponentially. It had been two days, and she couldn't even open her eyes normally.
But since she came back from Lantai, she has never cried out in pain.
Before, he was actually very unfriendly to Qu Qingluo and often hinted to Lin Zhi that she was a little burden.
Fragile, a princess in a greenhouse, a little brat who can't endure hardship.
This is the label he gave to Qu Qingluo.
But after this incident, Qu Qingluo's image in his mind was completely reversed.
She is brave and resilient.
It was only because she donated her cornea to Lin Zhi without hesitation that he truly understood.
Why has Lin Zhi never looked at any other woman except her over the years?
Qu Qingluo's love is pure and full, completely worthy of Lin Zhi.
Arei bit his cheek and suddenly thought deeply about whether he was doing the right thing.
Never mind, it’s already been done…
There is no room for regret.
He opened the medicine box on the table, packed the pills into two small piles, pushed a cup of warm water to where Qu Qingluo could reach, and said to her.
"Luoluo, remember to take your medicine. The one on the left is for inflammation, two tablets at a time. The one on the right is for pain relief, take it when the pain gets severe. After I leave, the hotel staff will come to take care of you. You should get some rest early. I'll pick you up at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and take you to the airport."
Qu Qingluo followed the direction of the voice, and slowly reached for the water cup with his fingertips. When he felt the warm wall of the cup, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll remember that. Brother Alei, you should go back and rest early too. You have to make another trip tomorrow."
Arei replied "OK" and turned to walk towards the door. His hand had already touched the door handle, but he stopped.
He looked back at the lonely figure on the sofa, which looked quite pitiful.
Finally, he couldn't help but turn back and sit on the chair opposite her.
The chair cushion made a slight sound, and Qu Qingluo noticed it.
"Brother Alei, you haven't left yet?"
"Luoluo, do you regret this?" A Lei suddenly asked, "For Brother Qi, you made yourself blind and even left Jingbei... Do you regret this?"
Qu Qingluo didn't speak immediately, but just smiled slightly. The smile was reflected in the warm yellow light, calm and firm.
“No regrets.”
She said these three words lightly, but it made Arei feel guilty.
Are looked at her calm appearance and thought deeply.
Confirm with her: "Have you really thought it through? Leave Jingbei and start a new life. If you go to another place, you won't be able to see, and even daily life will become a problem. Can you... do it alone?"
Qu Qingluo: "Many things are learned from failure. Although I don't have many advantages, I have been a good student since I was young, I am quite smart and have a high ability to comprehend. Slowly, I will always adapt."
"It's like when I was a kid learning to ride a bike. I fell several times and cried and said I'd never learn again, but didn't I learn it in the end? Now it's just a more difficult thing. It's no big deal."
Arei felt heavy-hearted as he watched her pretending to be relaxed.
He still felt something was amiss: "Luoluo, listen to Brother Lei... Or, why don't you just go home? I'll contact your parents and tell them you disappeared because of an eye injury. I'll find a good excuse for you. I'll also keep it a secret from Brother Qi and never let him know what you did for him. I'm really worried about you going out on your own; it's too dangerous."
As soon as he finished speaking, the smile on Qu Qingluo's face disappeared, and he became serious for once: "Brother Alei, don't forget what my conditions were when I took out your cornea."
Although she couldn't see Arei, her eyes were filled with determination. "I want to completely 'disappear' from their world. Let Mom and Dad think I'm no longer in this world, and let my brother stop thinking about me. You promised me that you would help me cover up the lie, like... like an accident, or some other reason. In short, make everyone believe that 'Qu Qingluo' is gone."
Are: "I promised you, but I don't understand why you have to do this? You are the only daughter your parents have. If they knew you were 'gone', how sad would they be? And if Seventh Brother knew..."
"Sadness and sadness are only temporary." Qu Qingluo interrupted him: "But if I don't disappear, brother will never come home."
As she spoke, she leaned back on the sofa, rubbing her fingers back and forth on her thighs, as if sorting out her chaotic thoughts, and continued after a moment.
"You should know how good my life has been over the past twenty years. Daddy spoiled me like a princess, Mommy held me in her arms, and I could get whatever I wanted immediately..."
"But what about my brother... He's been wandering around for years... I can't even imagine how much he's suffered, how much hardship he's endured. He should have had a stable home like me, with parents who loved him, but because I insisted on being with him, we completely destroyed our family..."
Are frowned: "In the final analysis, it's not your fault. The reason why Seventh Brother went to Lantai was precisely because of the incident with Lin Yan..."
"But he doesn't want to go home... It's because of me, that's the truth. If I'm gone, Mom and Dad will no longer have me to worry about, and they'll focus on him. If I'm gone, my brother will know that he's their only child, and he'll feel at ease going home and be willing to stay with them."
"Brother Alei, I was actually very naive before. Don't worry if you laugh at me. I even cut my wrists and tried to commit suicide and ended up in the hospital several times... Now that I think about it, I was so stupid. I dragged my sickly body around and made my parents worry, and I was always angry with them..."
"From now on... please help me persuade my brother to come home more often. Mom really misses him and always cries at night holding his picture, but I don't dare say anything because of my dad's expression. After all, he is Mom's biological son, blood is thicker than water, and Mom can't live without him..."
"Brother Alei, don't worry. I will live my life seriously, study Braille diligently, and then find a job that suits me..."
Arei is a real man, and after hearing what Qu Qingluo said, his eyes were a little wet.
A long silence fell in the living room.
After a long time, Qu Qingluo saw that he was silent and smiled: "Brother A Lei, go back quickly. You have to pick me up tomorrow morning!"
Arei clasped his hands together, stopped trying to persuade her, and said in a deep voice, "Okay."
"By the way, when will my brother have the surgery?"
"The doctor said next week."
"Take good care of him, please."
"Sure." Arei asked her patiently, "Luoluo, is there anything else you want to say?"
Qu Qingluo turned the diamond bracelet on her wrist and lowered her eyes.
"After I'm gone, please help me persuade him to get married soon. In a few years, he'll be a forty-year-old uncle, and he'll need someone who understands his feelings and cares for him... My brother... has a dull personality and doesn't like to talk much... If there's a suitable person, please try to match them up..."
"Of course, I will slowly let him go. From now on, he is my real brother."
"Brother Are, even though I'm disabled now, I might be able to find my other half faster than you."
"I believe... one day, there will be someone who will try his best to come to me and love me well..."
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