"I'm the kind of person who's easily knocked down by minor injuries and minor setbacks. Back when I was in school, I would even take several days off when I had my period!"
To distract her from the pain, I asked, with a particularly bored tone, "So you're really not afraid of dying?"
"I'm still a little scared, but then I think about how this is something I can just close my eyes and get through, so it doesn't seem like a big deal. Anyway, even if I die, I'll choose the most painless way to die. I don't care if I die with dignity! What I fear most is these kinds of minor illnesses and pains that I can't die from!"
"Um."
I gave a perfunctory reply, then focused on using a cotton swab to remove the small grains of sand embedded in her wound. Yang Sisi cried out in pain, then looked at me with teary eyes, but I remained unfazed and continued cleaning her wound with an alcohol swab… After I finished, I quietly took a box of fruit candies from my pocket and handed it to her, saying, “I admire your fearless spirit, so here’s a box of candies as a reward. I hope you can be even tougher in the future…”
Yang Sisi waved her hands repeatedly: "Take it back quickly, I dare not accept it, I dare not accept it..."
"What's wrong?"
"You're so good to me, I'll feel too embarrassed to scold you anymore!"
I was speechless for a moment before replying, "Whenever you feel like scolding me in the future, just buy me two boxes of candy."
"Do you think I'm stupid? I'm the one who's losing out!" Yang Sisi said, but she had already snatched the box of fruit candies from my hand and popped one into her mouth...
She ate while munching on her candy, then said, "When I wanted to yell at you, you thought I'd buy you two boxes of candy? You'd be lucky if I didn't poison you with Sanlu milk powder!"
I smiled, then lit a cigarette and sat down beside her. I was pretty sure that this was when I liked Dali the most, because after all the turmoil, it always seemed to compensate me with a lot of peace…
In this rare moment of peace, I suddenly thought about death. Since no one can escape this day, wouldn't dying in this bustling yet tranquil city be more dignified than dying in Shanghai?
Perhaps, but Wang Lei ultimately failed to set foot in this city even once in her entire life, so I must have an even stronger desire to "survive" here, because I want to live a beautiful life for two people in one body, and I must get more things in this city that I couldn't get before.
...
After resting for a while, I looked at my watch and said to Yang Sisi, "Let's just leave the motorcycle here and walk over. It's not far anyway."
Yang Sisi carefully placed the fruit candy I gave her into her small handbag before replying seriously, "Before meeting them, I have to ask you something: are you really confident you can keep me in Dali?... I really don't want to study abroad and then have to face that sissy Xiao Bao every day... He's incredibly good to me, but I won't fall in love with a subservient man, so I'm especially afraid of being moved by his kindness and then spending my whole life trying to make it up to him... Michael, do you understand what I mean?"
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