Chapter 126 The Last Blessing
Before Yu Zhi could put the letter back into the envelope, the sudden dull pain in her heart made her gasp and even her breathing stopped for a beat.
Lin Zhi quickly rushed over to help her, his voice trembling: "Husband, Madam? Are you okay?"
Yu Zhi suddenly broke free from his hand, her fingertips still clutching the page of handwritten letter, her knuckles turning white.
She looked up at Lin Zhi and Special Assistant Xu. There were still traces of tears on her face, her eyelids were bluish-gray, and she looked as disheveled as if she had been drenched by rain.
But his eyes were as sharp as ice, forcing people to not dodge: "You have been following him. Do you know what he planned that night?"
Is he crazy if he is willing to sacrifice his life to set up a trap?
Lin Zhi felt uneasy when he saw her. He opened his mouth but didn't dare to say anything.
On the other hand, Special Assistant Xu took a deep breath and replied in a low voice: "I guessed it."
He lowered his eyes, his tone filled with unconcealed helplessness, "Sorry, ma'am, it's not that we don't want to stop you, it's just that Mr. Pei's decision can never be changed by anyone..."
Yu Zhi followed his gaze and looked inside the glass curtain wall. Pei Yuezhou was lying on the hospital bed with a respirator on his face. His chest movement was so weak that it was almost invisible.
Tears fell uncontrollably again, hitting the cold glass window and creating a small mist.
She couldn't tell whether it was anger or heartache that was surging in her heart. She just felt a fear gripping her heart, tightening more and more.
She was afraid that he would never wake up again.
Special Assistant Xu stood aside with an extremely complicated look in his eyes.
No one could have imagined that his boss, who always made his plans flawless, would eventually fall into the trap he had set.
Or perhaps, even sacrificing his life was part of his other plan.
However, this is most likely the worst scenario among all the calculations.
As the days passed, Pei Yuezhou's condition became worse and worse. Even the attending physician talked to Yu Zhi several times, and his words were full of the meaning of being prepared.
Yu Zhi suddenly calmed down, sat in front of Pei Yuezhou's bed, and looked through the things that Assistant Xu had taken out of the safe.
Among the thick stack of things, the diary with a dark green cover on top made Yu Zhi stunned for a long time.
That was the notebook she lost in her senior year of high school. She didn't expect it to be with him.
The notebook is filled with her abstract daily life, including complaints about schoolwork and jokes with friends. At that time, her friends jokingly called it a top-notch antidepressant. Now, when she looks at it again, the pages have turned yellow.
Under the diary, there was another notebook with a black cover. There was no name on the cover, but the familiar handwriting made it clear who the owner was.
Yu Zhi took a deep breath and slowly opened the book. The slightly immature but powerful handwriting from her youth instantly caught her eye.
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April 12, 20XX, cloudy and rainy
My skin finally healed completely, but I still couldn’t help but book the earliest flight to Country Y.
I stood in the corridor outside her piano room at school and heard intermittent piano sounds coming from inside.
It was clearly a very simple etude, but I stood there stunned.
Or maybe it’s never the melody that attracts me.
But I didn't dare go forward. After my face was healed, I thought I could face it calmly. But when I really saw her, I still remembered how embarrassed I was in the rain that day.
I was afraid that she wouldn't remember me, and I was even more afraid that if she did remember, she would only remember that stranger with a face full of pustules.
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June 13, 20XX, sunny
I deliberately crashed her computer.
When I apologized, I softened my tone and said I would compensate her with a new one, and asked for her contact information.
She wasn't angry at all, and instead smiled and said to me, "Are all the male students in the Finance Department of Peking University as good-looking as you?"
At that moment, I felt my heart beating so fast.
Does she seem to like me a little bit?
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Yu Zhi's fingertips gently turned the pages until the last article, the date jumped to the autumn of her sophomore year.
September 13, 20XX, sunny
She confessed to me today.
My first reaction was to pinch my palm to make sure that this was not a dream.
She just felt... like someone was grabbing her heart and pulling it up, then slamming it back into her chest. Each thud was so loud that it almost drowned out her words, and even her fingertips were trembling.
Maybe I knew it was wrong from the beginning, but so what?
While I was planning to make her heart beat, my own love had already grown wildly, surging hundreds and thousands of times, and was no longer under control.
I know this is wrong, but I can't stop.
Because I can't live without her.
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Yu Zhi closed the diary, the warmth of the paper still lingering on her fingertips.
"Why are you so stupid..." she said softly, and her tears fell on the back of his hand again, leaving a small wet mark.
Pei Yuezhou's hands were as cold as ice. Yu Zhi wrapped her palm around his knuckles, and couldn't help but let her tears fall on the back of his hand, leaving a small wet mark.
She looked down at the diary that still smelled old, her fingertips stroking the words he wrote on the last page, and her throat was blocked and painful.
"You could have told me earlier."
Her voice trembled, as if she was talking to him, but also as if she was competing with herself, "No need to crash the computer to get the contact information, no need to hide outside the piano room to peek, and no need to... gamble your life on what will happen later."
Special Assistant Xu stood at the door of the ward, looked at the scene inside, and quietly took a half step back to leave space for the two of them.
Yu Zhi thought about the time when she confessed to him that year. He stood there in a daze for a very long time, so long that Yu Zhi thought he was making up an excuse and trying to reject her in a decent way.
Only now do I realize how much panic was hidden in there that I dared not express.
"If you dare not wake up..."
She leaned close to his ear and threatened softly, but with a hint of sob, "I will use the money you left me to support a strange man, and bring a bunch of 188 male stars to your grave to do the leg-sweeping dance every holiday."
After saying that, she gently touched his fingertips again.
It took a lot of effort to suppress the sourness in my throat.
"So you better get better soon, okay? I haven't settled it with you yet...you've been deceiving me for so long."
The ward was very quiet, with only the regular sound of the ECG monitor.
Yu Zhi was guarding the bed and fell asleep on the edge of the bed due to exhaustion. She didn't hear Xiao Shui's very light sigh in her mind, nor did she see the bell on her wrist suddenly flash a white light.
The light stayed beside her hand for a moment, then gently penetrated into Pei Yuezhou's forehead.
Yu Zhi was drowsy, as if she had fallen into a long dream.
My consciousness was floating in the air, with blurry light and shadows under my feet, but a warm light suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.
She was feeling strange when a familiar electronic sound suddenly came from the ball of light, but it was no longer a cold sound.
[Master Host, it's time for me to leave. I can no longer accompany you on this journey.]
"Where are you going?" Yu Zhi's heart tightened, and she asked hurriedly, "Did the Administration find a more suitable new host?"
【No.】
The ball of light shook and the sound became lower.
My energy has been unstable for a long time. I kept disconnecting for no reason before, and I just can't hold on any longer... Now I can't stay in this world anymore. I can only return to the Administration and sleep forever, waiting for the next person who needs me.
Yu Zhi suddenly remembered the days in the past, when Xiaoshui suddenly disappeared and then suddenly appeared, and her eyes instantly became hot.
Before she could say anything else, the ball of light shook gently again, with a hint of lightness in its tone.
[Don't be sad, host. I'm giving my last bit of energy to Pei Yuezhou. He'll get better... Consider this my final blessing to you~]
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a severe dizziness and the light and shadow in front of his eyes were instantly reversed.
Yu Zhi was so anxious that she wanted to call Xiaoshui, but her throat seemed to be blocked, and she could only watch the ball of light become lighter and disappear little by little.
The next second, she suddenly woke up from her dream, her chest still heaving violently.
Suddenly, there was a slight sound on the wrist.
The silver chain that I had worn for a long time broke at some point, and the small bell hanging on it fell to the floor, and the sound was particularly clear in the quiet ward.
Yu Zhi hurriedly squatted down to pick it up. Just as her fingertips touched the cold bell, a very soft but very clear sigh suddenly came from the bed: "Zhizhi..."
The voice was so hoarse, but it was like a bolt of thunder that struck Yu Zhi's heart.
Her body suddenly stiffened and she even forgot to breathe.
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