Chapter 0054 Changes
"I...you...this..." Chen Yan stammered for a long time, unable to accept it for a moment.
He Caiyu asked, "You recognize me, but you don't recognize him?"
Ruyi looked Chen Yan up and down carefully, shaking her head and then nodding, making Chen Yan's heart flutter with unease.
"I vaguely remember."
Before Chen Yan could even breathe a sigh of relief, Ruyi coldly complained to He Caiyu, "Auntie, someone is harassing me in the classroom corridor. This person looks a bit like him, except he's a bit older."
She wanted to say sexual harassment, but for a 15-year-old girl, that word was really hard to say.
Ruyi woke up, but to everyone's surprise, due to the head injury, her memory had a gap of 11 years, stopping abruptly on the day she registered for her first year of high school.
To her, her aunt was still her aunt, but Chen Yan was just that nasty boy she had only met once who had harassed her. Because of this bad memory, she felt even more disgusted with Chen Yan than with a complete stranger.
When she learned that 11 years had passed and that she had a child with this villain, she was utterly shocked, to the point of disbelief. It wasn't until He Caiyu showed her the baby photos on her phone that she began to believe it, but belief was not the same as acceptance. She was extremely repulsed by Chen Yan and even forbade him from appearing in her sight.
From being bedridden to sitting in a wheelchair, and then to being able to walk with assistance, Ruyi got better day by day. The wound on her abdomen itched as it healed, constantly reminding her of the fact that she really had a daughter, and that the little one had been taken out from this wound.
She sat in a wheelchair, pushed by He Caiyu to the maternity ward. When she saw the baby girl in the incubator, the overwhelming feeling of motherhood and daughterhood touched her deeply, and she couldn't help but shed tears.
Ruyi fully accepted this fact and looked at her tenderly through the glass.
She asked the nurse, "How much longer will my baby stay in the incubator? Is she alright? How is she drinking milk? Does she cry?" The nurse patiently answered, "She's very well-behaved and doesn't cry much. Everything is fine. You're still on medication and can't breastfeed, so she's drinking formula that her father bought. We nurses will feed her at set times."
"The little girl is drinking milk and growing very fast. In less than three weeks, she's almost as big as a full-term baby, weighing over five pounds. Actually, she could be taken out now, but just to be on the safe side, let's observe her for another week."
She smiled and said, "She is the most beautiful child I have ever seen. She has thick hair, big, dark eyes, and is already fair-skinned even though she was only born a short time ago. She will definitely look like her mother and be a great beauty in the future."
Upon hearing this, Ruyi smiled gratefully at the nurse.
Several elders from the Chen family visited during this time. They were clearly not ordinary people, especially Chen Yan's grandfather, who had quite a presence. The hospital director personally accompanied him to comfort this ordinary patient who had long since passed the critical period. They visited her daughter and came back praising her for being very beautiful, combining the best features of both her parents. She didn't feel much about it; after all, they were all strangers to her. She only felt a sense of gratitude after He Caiyu mentioned that Grandpa Chen had helped her contact the surgeon, and that the two elderly women had waited outside during her emergency treatment. In addition to being polite to them, she felt a lot of gratitude towards them.
After visiting her daughter and returning to her ward, He Caiyu asked her to name her daughter. Ruyi thought for a long time and told her aunt, "Let's call her Xu Xingchen. It's simple and pretty to write, easy to pronounce and pleasant to hear, and it has a good meaning too."
That's good, but... He Caiyu asked tentatively, "Won't she take her father's surname?"
Ruyi frowned and said, "I don't even know him. Why should Xingxing have his surname?"
As if on cue, Chen Yan arrived, followed by Hao Jing.
Chen Yan had previously hired someone to threaten her and Zheng Zelin, and Hao Jing still holds a grudge. However, Ruyi is currently hospitalized, and out of consideration for her friend, she will not hold it against him for the time being.
She put down the fruit, sat down on the edge of the bed, pointed to herself with her fingers, and asked in surprise, "Ruyi, you really don't recognize me?"
Ruyi looked at her, smiled slightly, and said, "Although I don't know you, I feel a special warmth towards you. You must be a very good friend of mine, right?"
Hao Jing took Ruyi's hand, her eyes brimming with tears of emotion. She glanced at Chen Yan with a mixture of smugness and pity. "See? This sisterhood is so strong, you're drooling with envy, aren't you? Serves you right!"
Chen Yan stared longingly at the two women's clasped hands, his expression extremely depressed. During this period, let alone holding hands, he would be given the cold shoulder whenever he was in the same room with her. If he looked at her for too long, he would be called a pervert. She avoided him like the plague and discarded him like trash.
This is too bizarre. He can't accept that Ruyi has forgotten him, forgotten the love and hate they shared over the past ten years, and only remembers that he bullied her at the beginning of their first year of high school. Why? Even if she forgets what happened after college?
He went to ask the doctor, who also found it unbelievable. Selective amnesia is commonly seen in clinical practice as a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Patients experience significant physical or psychological trauma after a major event, and the brain selectively erases related memories as a self-protective mechanism; usually, it's just a small gap before and after the accident. For Ruyi to have amnesia lasting 11 years is extremely rare, not only in his professional career but also nationwide. Furthermore, comprehensive brain examinations, including MRI, cerebral angiography, EEG, and neurological function assessments, showed no structural, functional, or cognitive abnormalities in Ruyi's brain. The head injury and concussion from the car accident had also healed. Logically, this shouldn't have happened…
"However, it's not entirely impossible. After all, the world is full of wonders, and the human brain is intricately and comprehensively structured. Despite studying it for so long, many mysteries remain unsolved."
"As for when it will recover, no one can say for sure. Maybe it will be remembered tomorrow, or maybe it will never be remembered in its lifetime."
As time went by, Chen Yan gradually accepted the fact that Ruyi had amnesia. He stopped dwelling on why her memory was stuck at the worst point in his life. Instead, he encouraged himself – it's good that Ruyi forgot her love for him, but she also forgot the evil he had done. He decided to forget everything and start over.
He refused to believe that he couldn't win her back in love with him through legitimate means.
A month later, Ruyi recovered and was discharged from the hospital. Chen Yan put his work on hold, wanting to be on call at any time to serve Ruyi, but Ruyi didn't give him that opportunity. She seemed to have a deep-seated aversion to him, and would frown whenever he got close.
He reluctantly went to the crib to pick up his daughter. The little one looked like a snowball. She had just eaten and drunk her fill and had been burped. She was sleeping soundly in the crib, her tender red lips slightly upturned, as if she were having a beautiful dream in the baby world. Under her thin eyelids were a row of sparse, feather-like long eyelashes. She was only a month old and already had such long eyelashes. It was clear that she would definitely be a beautiful woman with captivating eyes in the future.
Like her father, Chen Yan thought with a smug smile.
"Don't touch her!" Ruyi shouted in a low voice.
Chen Yan pointed to the little yellow duck blanket on the bed, looking rather aggrieved, and said, "Weren't we supposed to put her in there?"
"What's it to you?" Ruyi said in a low voice, gesturing for him to stand further away, and then gently picked up her sleeping daughter.
Chen Yan said, "I'm her father! How can this not be my business?"
"I don't know you!" Ruyi always managed to shut him up with this sentence.
He Caiyu packed her bag and saw that Chen Yan was speechless because of Ruyi. She felt sorry for him and said, "Alright, stop talking. What if you wake Xingxing up? It will be difficult to breastfeed her on the way."
Ruyi gently wrapped the star up, and the star even smacked its lips twice along the way, which was so cute that she couldn't help but laugh.
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