Chapter 960 Extra 1
No one expected that Ruan Qi would wake up from her deep sleep on the night of the Golden Man Awards Ceremony.
As she lay on the hospital bed and slowly opened her eyes, the instrument connected to her body began to make rapid beeps.
Xi Jiu, who was sitting next to him, stood up suddenly.
But before he could come to his senses, the ward door was slammed open and seven or eight doctors and nurses rushed in.
"Family members of the patient, please make way!"
Because the incident happened suddenly, the medical staff were a bit excited. One doctor was in a hurry to examine Ruan Qi, but accidentally used too much force and almost pushed Xi Jiu, who was blocking the way.
But Xi Jiu had no time to think about these things. He stared blankly at Ruan Qi's opened eyes, holding his breath, still in a dream.
"The patient's indicators are all normal."
"Heartbeat is normal, blood pressure is normal, and he has self-awareness..."
The doctors conducted the examination in an orderly manner and asked Ruan Qi some questions from time to time.
Ruan Qi had been asleep for a month, and just as she'd woken, she was surrounded by strangers, asking questions before she could even figure out what was happening. She was momentarily bewildered, scanning the ward for a moment before spotting Xi Jiu, huddled in a corner.
"Jiujiu..." She opened her mouth, her voice hoarse and weak.
After such a long time, Xi Jiu finally heard Ruan Qi's voice again. He stared at her blankly, as if in a dream, and his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Jiujiu..." Ruan Qi called him again with eager eyes, his tone sounding somewhat helpless.
Xi Jiu suddenly woke up from his trance.
He looked at the little girl's aggrieved eyes, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and said in a hoarse voice: "The doctor is examining you. Bear with me, baby. I'm here with you."
Fortunately, the doctors acted quickly and completed the preliminary examination in less than ten minutes.
"All indicators are normal. We'll draw a few tubes of blood for testing later. If the results are positive, the patient will be considered recovered."
Xi Jiu: "Xiao Qi, can you sit up now?"
"Okay. But don't overexert yourself, she's still very weak. Also, don't eat tonight. If you're hungry, drink some lotus root powder or orange juice. You can eat liquid food tomorrow, but avoid greasy food for now."
The doctor gave many careful instructions before leaving with the nurses.
After they left, the ward became quiet again.
But Xi Jiu still stood in the corner motionless, as if everything before him was just a dream, and if he moved, the dream would end.
Ruan Qi, lying on the bed, waited for a while, and when she saw that the man still didn't come over, she frowned in dissatisfaction.
She stretched out her hands and opened them: "Jiujiu, hug me."
With the little girl's order, Xi Jiu took cautious steps and walked to the bedside.
He sat down beside the bed, bent down, and hugged Ruan Qi and the quilt tightly in his arms.
Ruan Qi smelled the familiar scent on the man, and her somewhat panicked heart finally calmed down.
“I’m still alive…”
Ruan Qi was a little bit unbelievable.
She had clearly lost all her faith and life, and should be queuing for soup on the Naihe Bridge. But how come when she opened her eyes, she was alive again?
Ruan Qi was afraid that she was dreaming, so she pinched Xi Jiu's chest muscles hard.
"Jiujiu, does it hurt?"
The little girl had just woken up, her body was very weak, and her strength was pitifully small. Xi Jiu's chest muscles were trained to be as strong as steel, so how could it hurt if he was pinched?
But he felt the little hand that was making trouble on his chest, soft and with the warmth of a living person, and Xi Jiu's heart suddenly ached for some reason.
"It hurts." He buried his head in Ruan Qi's shoulder, his voice hoarse, "It hurts a lot."
Ruan Qi thought Xi Jiu was really hurt by the pinch, so she quickly let go of her hand and gently rubbed his chest twice.
"I rubbed it and it stopped hurting. It turns out I wasn't dreaming, I really wasn't dead. Jiujiu, I'm still alive!" The girl's eyes were full of surprise, "By the way, Uncle Bai Li..."
She felt the system in her mind, and the smile on her face suddenly froze.
What about the system?
Where is Bai Li?
"Why can't I sense the existence of the system? Where's Uncle Bai Li? Why can't I contact him?"
The surprise on Ruan Qi's face turned into panic.
She sat up from Xi Jiu's arms and tried to contact Bai Li again and again, but there was no response.
The panic on Ruan Qi's face became more and more intense.
Xi Jiu looked at her distressedly and raised his hand to support her shoulder: "Baby, listen to me, Mr. Bai may have disappeared."
"...What do you mean disappeared?" Ruan Qi's face was bewildered. "I clearly left him enough faith points. As long as he binds to another star, his spiritual power will eventually return to its peak. How could he disappear? Jiujiu, are you kidding me?"
Ruan Qi's expression was so heartbreaking.
Xi Jiu couldn't bear to tell her the truth, but had to tell her: "When I regained consciousness that day, I saw Mr. Bai turned into pieces. Zhuge Lang said that the reason you were able to be resurrected was because your chance saved you, so..."
"My chance is Uncle Bai Li. So, the reason I was able to be resurrected was because Uncle Bai Li exchanged himself for it?"
Xi Jiu was silent for a moment and nodded.
Ruan Qi's tears flowed out.
"Old Bai, this big liar, clearly said that he would unbind me and then bind other celebrities. How could he go back on his word?"
No wonder she was resurrected. It turned out that it was not because she was lucky, but because Bai Li exchanged his life for hers.
That is a divine artifact born from heaven and earth!
He lived freely and unrestrainedly for tens of thousands of years, but in the end he died because of her!
Ruan Qi blamed herself and felt regretful, tears streaming down her face, and her already pale face became even more bloodless.
Xi Jiu was worried that her excessive grief would harm her health, so he quickly held her in his arms and gently coaxed her, "Before he left, Mr. Bai asked me to tell you not to miss him too much. Honey, Mr. Bai has a free and easy personality. He doesn't make decisions easily. He's always carefree and happy. You have to live well and happily to be worthy of his efforts."
Ruan Qi understood what Xi Jiu said.
Bai Li is free and easy. Even though she didn't see it with her own eyes, she could imagine that he must have been handsome and cool before he disappeared.
But she still couldn't help feeling sad.
The old man who had been bound to her for two years, the old man who loved to eat spicy hot pot and snail noodles, no longer existed from then on.
In this world, apart from her and the Ruan family, no one else will know about the divine artifact Bai Li.
He was born from heaven and earth, and finally, he returned to heaven and earth.
…
The night Ruan Qi woke up, she fell asleep crying.
She was too weak and too sad to sleep until the third morning.
When Ruan Qi opened her eyes again, the first thing that caught her eye was the worried faces of Yang Liu and Ruan Fengmian.
The couple sat on either side of the bed, their eyes fixed on her face. When they saw her open her eyes, Yang Liu and Ruan Fengmian's eyes lit up.
"Daughter, how are you feeling? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Dad..." Ruan Qi's voice was hoarse from crying, and it was a little difficult to speak. "Why are you and Mom here? Where is Jiujiu? What time is it now?"
When Ruan Fengmian heard his daughter's voice, his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Silly girl, your mother and I are here to keep you company. Do you know you've been sleeping for a whole day and two nights? If Master Beilou hadn't repeatedly assured me that you were fine, you would have cried your eyes out."
Hearing this, Ruan Qi turned to look at Yang Liu.
Yang Liu's eyes were red and swollen, and it was obvious that she had been crying for a long time.
Ruan Qi felt a little guilty and reached out to Yang Liu: "I'm sorry, Mom, for making you worry."
"Mom is fine, honey, you don't have to apologize." Yang Liu held her hand, her tone gentle, "Mom knows you are sad for Mr. Bai. But honey, your life was bought by Mr. Bai at his own expense. Even for him, you have to take care of yourself."
, you know?"
When Bai Li was mentioned again, Ruan Qi's mood calmed down a lot.
She endured the soreness in her nose and nodded gently: "I know. I will live well for Uncle Bai Li."
Yang Liu and Ruan Fengmian immediately smiled with relief.
"By the way, Mom, where's Jiujiu?"
"Laojiu went downstairs to buy food." Yang Liu tucked in Ruan Qi's blanket and complained, "He hasn't had a good night's sleep during the days you were unconscious. If this continues, you won't be fine, but he will be the first to collapse from exhaustion. Honey, now that you're awake, quickly persuade Laojiu to get more rest and eat more. A young man in his twenties, but he eats less than a cat in a day. It's really worrying."
After going through so much, Yang Liu and Ruan Fengmian have completely accepted Xi Jiu as their son-in-law and truly regard him as one of their own family members.
For Xi Jiu's health, the couple complained to Ruan Qi many times. Ruan Qi's brows furrowed more and more as she listened, and in the end her eyes seemed to be spitting fire.
After Ruan Fengmian and Yang Liu finished their complaint, they hid their achievements and fame, waved their sleeves and left the hospital.
When Xi Jiu came back from buying food, he was alone facing an angry Ruan Xiaoqi.
The little girl leaned on the hospital bed, her eyes blazing with anger, and she looked at him with a stern face full of anger.
Xi Jiu sensed something was wrong, paused, and called out cautiously, "Baby?"
Ruan Xiaoqi snorted in anger.
Xi Jiu felt a sense of crisis.
He walked to the table and put down the lunch box, then sat on the bed and took the little girl's hand: "Why are you angry? You just woke up, do you feel uncomfortable?"
"No." Ruan Qi replied angrily, then asked him with a stern face, "Have you not slept or eaten properly for more than a month?"
Xi Jiu: "..."
No wonder my father-in-law and mother-in-law passed away so quickly.
It turned out that she had reported him and ran away feeling guilty.
"I don't stay up all the time. I do take a nap occasionally. I haven't had much appetite lately, so I'm eating a little less. But I'm a Guwu, so skipping a few meals won't have any impact."
Xi Jiu tried hard to keep the situation as it was.
But Ruan Qi wasn't so easily fooled. She pointed to the scale at the door and said to Xi Jiu, "Then go up and weigh yourself. I'll see how much you've lost."
Xi Jiu: "..."
Dare not claim.
Ruan Qi was a doctor, very sensitive to changes in the body's weight. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw that Shi Jiu had lost weight, at least ten pounds.
She had originally thought Xi Jiu was losing weight out of worry about her, but she hadn't expected him to actually ruin his body like this. He hadn't eaten or slept for over a month. Was he planning on making her a widow sooner?
Ruan Xiaoqi was very angry, the kind that couldn't be coaxed.
"From today on, you must double your average meal size, and if you don't get ten hours of sleep a night, you're not allowed to stay with me."
Xi Jiu was a heavy exerciser, and his meals were usually quite large. So, doubling his usual meal intake was barely acceptable.
But getting ten hours of sleep every day... this is really too much for an energetic young man.
"Baby, ten hours is too much, please reduce it a bit." Xi Jiu tried hard to get a reduced sentence for himself.
Ruan Qi refused to budge, her attitude firm, "No cutting back. I'll let you go when you make up for the sleep you missed this month."
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Ruan Qi, Xi Jiu had no choice but to accept it.
That night, he ate twice his usual amount of food and then helped Ruan Qi take a bath. When everything was done, Xi Jiu lay down on the nursing bed and turned off the lights.
"Baby, go to sleep."
"Okay. Good night, Jiujiu."
…
Maybe because she slept too much in the past month, Ruan Qi was a little insomniac tonight.
She lay in bed, closed her eyes, and counted sheep over and over in her mind.
When she counted three thousand sheep for the third time, heavy breathing suddenly sounded in the ward.
Ruan Qi opened her eyes and turned to look at the nursing bed.
Xi Jiu lay on his side on the nursing bed, facing this way. The bright moonlight shone on his face, highlighting his furrowed brow and sweat-covered forehead.
Xi Jiu was having a nightmare.
"Baby... Xiaoqi..."
“Don’t go…don’t go…”
Ruan Qi looked at Xi Jiu and suddenly thought of what Yang Liu had said during the day. Yang Liu had said that Xi Jiu didn't sleep because every time he did, he would wake up from a nightmare. He didn't want to be separated from you again in his dreams, so he would rather endure it than close his eyes.
Ruan Qi originally thought that Xi Jiu just had nightmares occasionally, but she didn't expect the actual situation to be so serious.
Her nose felt a little sore. After thinking for a while, she threw off the quilt, jumped out of bed, and walked barefoot towards the nurse's bed.
Xi Jiu was still mumbling in his nightmare, his cold face filled with panic.
Ruan Qi reached out and rubbed his furrowed brows, then lifted Xi Jiu's quilt and snuggled into his arms.
"Jiujiu, I'm here, don't be afraid."
She hugged Xi Jiu's waist tightly, her body pressed against his: "I'm here, I'm fine. Don't be afraid, Jiujiu, Xiaoqi is with you."
Suddenly there was another person in his arms, and Xi Jiu woke up from the nightmare.
The next second, he heard the girl's gentle voice and felt the warm temperature of her body.
Xi Jiu's tense nerves relaxed instantly.
He hugged Ruan Qi tightly, wishing he could embed her into his body.
Ruan Qi patted his back gently to comfort him, her voice soft: "Jiujiu had a nightmare again?"
Xi Jiu buried his head in her shoulder and uttered a low "hmm".
Ruan Qi: "Did you dream that I was dead?"
The word "death" once again touched Xi Jiu's nerves. His body suddenly stiffened, and even his breathing became heavier.
Ruan Qi stroked his head gently, as if stroking a large dog's fur. "Jiujiu, don't be afraid. Look at me. I'm lying right in your arms. I have body temperature, I can speak, and I can get angry. I won't die, and I won't leave you."
Xi Jiu didn't say anything.
He hugged her tightly. After an unknown amount of time, liquid flowed down Ruan Qi's shoulders and into her hospital gown.
Ruan Qishunmao's hand paused.
"Jiujiu, are you crying?"
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