"I'm fine. Everything's fine. You've all seen my message, right?"
He wasn't sure if Tian Tian knew, and if she did, then she...
"Yes, we all heard the news from TV. How could you!" Ji Quanzhou held back his tears: "My son..."
Ji Yuzhi's nose also tingled with tears, but he couldn't cry or collapse.
"Dad, where's Tian Tian? Does she know too?"
Ji Quanzhou quickly wiped away his tears and said, suppressing his emotions, "No, don't worry, we're keeping it from Tiantian. If she finds out now, Mom and Dad are afraid she won't be able to handle it."
Ji Yuzhi knew this was the best method.
"Oh, right, son, wait a minute, let your mother talk to you for a bit. She hasn't been able to sleep for days. You can chat with her... Are you feeling alright?"
“Okay, Dad.” Ji Yuzhi suddenly wanted to laugh.
"Okay."
Ji Quanzhou started running around the house; he hadn't been this unruly in many years.
Liu Ye locked herself in her room and cried all the time.
When Ji Quanzhou went in with his phone, his wife was still crying.
"Quick, stop crying, your son is calling."
Liu Ye was as if she had been suddenly struck by a boulder of surprise. She quickly turned her head and snatched the phone from Ji Quanzhou's hand: "Son! Yuzhi!"
"Mom. It's me."
Upon hearing her son's voice, Liu Ye couldn't stop her tears from falling.
"My child, your voice sounds so weak. Are you in pain? Are you hurting?"
As a mother, no matter what her child does, whether it's good or bad, right or wrong, her first concern is always her child's health and feelings.
"It doesn't hurt, Mom. Don't worry." Ji Yuzhi chuckled softly. "Dad told me you cried. My mom shouldn't be such a weak person."
“Your mother is just not strong enough. You don’t understand your mother at all.” Liu Ye cried even louder.
"Alright, alright, it's my fault. When I get home this time, I'll definitely get to know Mom better." With each word Ji Yuzhi spoke, he felt it became even harder to breathe.
However, he still managed to comfort his mother with a few words.
"Mom wants to see you, son, let Mom see you."
Ji Yuzhi looked at himself on his phone; he looked extremely haggard.
"Mom, my phone hasn't been charged for two days, and it's about to run out of power. I need to call Tian Tian's brothers. Can I show it to you after I've fully charged it in a few days?"
"Okay, okay! I'll do whatever you say."
Liu Ye was still crying, and Ji Quanzhou, with his arm around his wife's shoulder, was also silently shedding tears.
"Take good care of yourself, and also help me take care of Tian Tian."
"Um."
"I'm hanging up now. Get some sleep."
"knew."
After hanging up the phone, Ji Yuzhi felt completely drained. He had never known that breathing could be so difficult. For the first half of his life, nothing had ever been difficult.
As he lay there recovering, his mind was filled with the ups and downs of his life.
When he felt a little better, he initiated a video call in the group.
The group chat was full of Zhen Tian's brothers and uncles.
There were no elders, and no Tian Tian was there either.
He was able to freely show his vulnerability to these men.
Everyone on the other end of the line seemed to have been waiting for this call to come. They all answered the phone immediately.
But when they saw Ji Yuzhi on camera, looking haggard and with a ventilator in his ear, they all choked up and couldn't speak.
“You… Ji Yuzhi, you…” Lu Lin spoke first, clenching her teeth to suppress any sobs.
Ji Yuzhi smiled weakly: "To make a long story short, I don't know how much longer my body can hold on. Tian Tian is still fourteen days away from her due date, and every day during this period is dangerous. You must help me take care of her emotions."
“My story is being reported online now, which is an inevitable result of the policy of information transparency. I know I can’t keep this from Tian Tian for long. But I want to keep it from her at least until she gives birth smoothly. If I really can’t keep it from her, you all need to help me comfort her.”
"Don't worry," Lu Kai replied firmly.
"If something happens, I mean if... I don't make it through. Please apologize to Tian Tian for me, tell her that I'm sorry. And tell her to live a good life."
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Lu Yiran clenched his fist. "You better hold on tight. Our research has made a breakthrough. You have to endure until I find a solution. You must."
Besides being Zhen Tian's older brother, Lu Yiran is also Ji Yuzhi's good friend who has always been in the same class.
“Yes, you know perfectly well that Tian Tian can’t live well without you. She won’t learn to live well either.” Zhen Yan pursed her lips repeatedly: “Don’t say those things to us, we don’t want to hear them and we can’t hear them. You have to live.”
"Alive." Lu Xian nodded.
All the men stood on the same side at this moment: Ji Yuzhi had to live. He could only live.
That way, the family won't lose their beloved younger sister just because they lost him.
"I will try my best."
Ji Yuzhi's phone really was out of battery.
The video stopped there, so when people saw their phone screen go black, they thought something had happened to the other person.
Finally, Lu Kai spoke up: "He's in the hospital, where he'll have the best medical care."
Everyone understands that worrying is pointless.
The more pressing issue now is how to keep it a secret from his younger sister, who is extremely sensitive whenever anything involves Ji Yuzhi.
"Let's keep it a secret as long as we can."
They didn't know when the end would be, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly.
Her brothers and parents kept it a secret for several days, and finally, on the eve of Zhen Tian's outburst, they agreed to let her answer a phone call from one of her best friends.
Ye Qingyan and Yang Tao appeared on the video call at the same time.
Seeing Zhen Tian's radiant face, and even her enjoying a peach, everyone was momentarily stunned.
Is my friend really that mentally strong?
Ye Qingyan tentatively tried to coax her with a couple of words.
"Sweetie, don't worry too much."
"Hmm? I'm not worried." Zhen Tian tilted her head.
"Not worried?" Yang Tao's eyes widened, then she exchanged a glance with Ye Qingyan. "How could I not be worried?"
"Why worry?" Zhen Tian took another bite of the peach, and Yang Tao felt a pang of regret.
"This is truly one in a million; no one was prepared for it."
"Yes, we weren't prepared."
“I know you must be sad, and you’re just pretending right now, but you have to be strong. He needs you.”
Ye Qingyan and Yang Tao were exchanging glances and exclaiming in distress.
But Zhen Tian was still completely confused.
"I understand, but it won't take more than a few days."
"Just a few days!" Ye Qingyan exclaimed in surprise. Was Brother Ji going to pass away so soon?
Is this virus really that powerful?
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