Ye Qi closed the book, put it aside, looked up, and silently stared at her.
"Why?"
The girl was taken aback by her sudden question and didn't react at first, but quickly replied, "Other children are going to school to listen to lessons and doing their homework at home."
"How can you neglect your duties and slack off like this?"
Ye Qi: "..."
Under the girl's coercion and enticement, Ye Qi finally agreed to go to school, temporarily putting aside her fear and resistance to her peers.
Ye Qi followed the girl around, making sure to complete the registration process before 4 p.m.
On the way home, halfway there, the girl suddenly had a whimsical idea and enthusiastically decided to go to the bookstore to pick out stationery for Ye Qi.
In her words:
On the first day of school, you should go to a bookstore to get a feel for the atmosphere.
Ye Qi rejected the atmosphere; she didn't want to go in.
She always felt that the city's prosperity and noise were not suitable for her.
She couldn't fit in.
The girl tried to persuade Ye Qi for a while, but seeing that Ye Qi insisted on not going in, she had no choice but to leave Ye Qi at the door and go in to choose stationery herself.
Ye Qi stood at the entrance of the bookstore waiting for the girl.
She stood beside the bookstore entrance, watching the passing vehicles and pedestrians, her expression unchanged, as if it were just an insignificant matter.
Just as her legs were about to go numb from standing, she saw a speeding car suddenly rush out from the other side of the road.
The car lurched and swayed from side to side, traveling at an extremely high speed and unable to stop, crashing into the nearest vehicle and sending it flying.
The two cars collided with each other. The car traveling at higher speed severely damaged the passing car, shattering its windows and bending its door inwards.
Passersby saw the two cars involved in an accident and, driven by their curiosity, stopped to look at the vehicles involved.
After waiting for a long time and finding that no one came down, they gradually realized that something was wrong.
Some kind-hearted people rushed over to check the car window and found that the person inside had been hit and was bleeding from the head, with their eyes closed. The woman in the back seat was tightly protecting the little girl in her arms.
The girl trembled as she looked out the car window at the passersby, clutching her mother's clothes tightly, her eyes brimming with tears, her lips trembling: "Uncle! Please, please save my mother! And my father!"
A kind-hearted person who witnessed this immediately shouted, "Help! A child is stuck inside!"
His loud voice quickly attracted the attention of the onlookers.
The group rushed over in a panic, pried open the car door to rescue the child inside, and some even quickly called the police.
Ye Qi, who was watching this scene, kept observing the expressions on the faces of the group of adults. After her calm, still eyes finished reading their expressions, she looked at the little girl in the arms of the kind person.
The moment Ye Qi saw the little girl's face, her pupils widened suddenly, and her feet moved uncontrollably towards them, grabbing the hem of the clothes of the kind person holding the girl.
Ye Qi carefully examined the girl's face, and at a glance, she recognized the girl's face as the one she remembered smiling brightly a year ago.
Jiang Yihuan huddled in the arms of a passerby, countless shards of glass embedded in her flesh. Her face was flushed, her vision was blurry, and her breathing was rapid. Her eyes, which she barely managed to open, only caught a glimpse of Ye Qi before quickly closing again.
The passerby saw someone tugging at their clothes, immediately looked down, and saw it was a child tugging at their clothes. The child said in a slightly impatient tone, "Kid, don't delay me from saving someone!"
After saying that, the passerby shook off her hand, picked up Jiang Yihuan, and rushed into the ambulance.
Taking advantage of the crowd, Ye Qi secretly slipped into the ambulance.
The nurse in the ambulance saw a child running towards them and was about to shoo them away, but the doctor next to her told her to ignore Ye Qi and quickly check Jiang Yihuan.
Ye Qi sat beside Jiang Yihuan, who was frowning tightly because she was having difficulty breathing.
At this moment, Ye Qi was like a mute, anxious inside but calm on the outside, unable to utter a word, leaving others unable to understand what she was trying to do.
The ambulance arrived at the hospital quickly, and nurses and doctors pushed Jiang Yihuan into the emergency room on a stretcher.
Ye Qi, locked outside, stared longingly at the door that had been turned on.
The thought of the benefactor who had shown her kindness now being rushed into the emergency room, her life hanging in the balance, was unbearable.
She felt very sad.
If it weren't for Jiang Yihuan, she most likely wouldn't have survived that winter due to the cold and hunger.
She stood at the door, like a stubborn stone statue that never rests, waiting for the other person to come out.
When the girl rushed to the emergency room entrance, she breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that Ye Qi was alright. Then, she put on an angry face and scolded, "How could you run around like that? What if you had really been kidnapped if I hadn't been able to track you down?"
Ye Qi turned around and saw the girl's anxious face. Knowing that the girl was worried about her, she silently lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry..."
Hearing Ye Qi apologize, the girl's heart softened immediately, and she stopped being angry. She sighed and said, "Tell me, what brings you to the hospital?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Qi honestly confessed and told the whole story.
After listening, the girl remained silent for a moment.
Just as the girl fell silent, the emergency room lights went out, and a nurse pushed out a trolley. Jiang Yihuan, lying on the bed, had a peaceful sleeping face and a pale complexion.
When Ye Qi tried to chase after her, the girl stopped her.
Ye Qi looked at the girl with confusion.
The girl watched Jiang Yihuan walk away and said in a deep voice, "Prepare to see her one last time."
Ye Qi asked instinctively, "Why?"
The girl's expression was unusually grave: "She only has one hour left."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qi froze instantly, her mind went blank, and she seemed to hear herself say something: "Why?"
The girl calmly said, "She... seems to have been saved, but in reality, it was just a last burst of energy caused by her desire to survive."
"Her life is meant to end today."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qi suddenly looked up, staring at the girl in astonishment, hoping to find a hint of a joke on her face. Unfortunately, the girl's expression was unusually serious.
She grabbed the girl's sleeve, her voice choked with sobs, and asked, "You're so capable, can you save her? I... if there's anything I can do to help, I'll definitely do it!"
In her mind, the girl was very strong and could use magic to heal small animals; she was sure she could find a way to save Jiang Yihuan!
The girl paused for a moment, her gaze towards Ye Qi unusually complex. She took out a star coin from her pocket, tossed it to the ground, and the crisp sound of the star coin echoed in the quiet corridor. It spun a few times before finally landing on the ground.
The coin emerged from a black and white cloud invisible to others.
The moment she saw the clouds and mist, the girl sighed and closed her eyes.
After a while.
Anger flashed across her face, and she gritted her teeth, saying, "Damn it, it's fate!"
After calming herself down, she lowered her voice and said to Ye Qi, "There is another way, but it is a special one that I cannot do. Our fates are incompatible."
"This method is a risky one. If it succeeds, all will be well. But if it fails, you two will both be finished."
"Ye Qi".
Are you sure you have the resolve to save someone you've only met twice?
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