Chapter 38
"Click"
The apples this year are so delicious.
Thinking of this, Lin Mian took another bite.
But she couldn't ignore the strong gaze beside her.
"Stop looking at me, eat too."
He Xintong shook his head and continued to stare at Lin Mian. His gaze was so intense that if he met his eyes, his eyes would only shine brighter, as if it was a reward for him.
"Just let me feed you."
Lin Mian broke out in a cold sweat. She could already stand up and eat now, so why did she need He Xintong to do this?
Ever since she woke up, He Xintong has been like her loyal servant, waiting by her side with an IV drip, rushing to do everything for her, as if she was about to die.
Lin Mian lowered her eyes and looked at the white bandages on her hands. She could eat the apple by herself. It wasn't like she was dying and needed someone to take care of her.
In response to He Xintong, Lin Mian continued to bite into the apple with the crisp sound of "crunching", telling He Xintong with her actions that she did not need his care.
He Xintong lowered his head in disappointment. He really wanted to take care of Lin Mian, even though he was not able to move around easily now.
Originally, He Xintong listened to He Lang and wanted to recover so that Lin Mian could see him, but after learning that Lin Mian had woken up, he insisted on going to see her.
Due to his tossing and turning, the nurse had no choice but to lift him onto a wheelchair and push him to Lin Mian's ward.
Lin Mian was lying on the bed, not fully conscious yet. When she raised her eyes, she saw He Xintong sitting in a wheelchair, looking miserable. To be honest, she was a little scared.
He Xintong's head was wrapped in layers of white cloth, making it impossible to see his facial features. Combined with the white cloth wrapped around his body, he looked like a mummy. Lin Mian almost didn't recognize him.
It wasn't until he called her in a wronged voice that Lin Mian knew that this was not the right thing.
But now he comes here every day. If his father hadn't suppressed him, I'm afraid He Xintong would have wanted to move next to Lin Mian long ago.
To be honest, this is a bit annoying, especially since He Xintong's voice is not healed. Lin Mian seems to understand the psychology of the person who wrote "the vomiting and mocking are hard to listen to", and it is a bit tormenting to her.
But when Lin Mian met He Xintong's eyes, he couldn't say those words anymore.
He looked extremely sad.
His eyes were filled with a sense of powerlessness towards himself, and also seemed to be filled with guilt for not being able to protect her.
He was also haunted by the pain of the past.
Lin Mian understood this feeling, so she couldn't say anything unpleasant.
Moreover, since he came every day like this, Lin Mian could see that he became a little more cheerful because of the improvement of her wound, which made her feel more at ease.
"Knock knock knock"
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in"
The voice was equally hoarse, and actually not much better than He Xin's.
Through the door, the sound weakened a little and sounded hoarse and weak.
Zhong Yuqi suddenly felt uneasy.
What does Lin Mian inside this door look like now?
She gently pushed the door open, and the first person who came into her sight was not the person she wanted to see the most.
"Ah, it's you, Zhong Yuqi. What are you doing here?"
"Don't ask questions you already know the answer to, idiot."
Zhong Yuqi did not give He Xintong a good look. After the New Year's Day holiday, Lin Mian did not come, and He Xintong was also absent. Zhong Yuqi had a bad premonition in her heart at that time.
Later, she couldn't contact Lin Mian, and her mother finally spoke after her repeated requests. However, she only told her what happened and didn't tell her which hospital Lin Mian was in. She thought that she would let Zhong Yuqi go after Lin Mian was discharged from the hospital so as not to disturb Lin Mian's recuperation.
But how could Zhong Yuqi agree to do that? It didn't matter if her mother didn't tell her, so Zhong Yuqi asked her cousin Jiang Dan for help, but this also came at a price.
"Da Da"
Jiang Dan, following closely behind Zhong Yuqi, walked briskly to Lin Mian's bedside and sat down on the stool.
He looked at Lin Mian's hands covered in bandages, and a look of heartache flashed in his eyes.
These hands cannot be ruined like this. These are hands that create miracles. If Lin Mian's hands can no longer play the piano, Jiang Dan doesn't know what he will do.
However, he will not let go of anyone who hurt these hands.
When he looked up and met Lin Mian's calm gaze, Jiang Dan didn't know how to start talking for a moment.
It turned out that he could never say the words he had prepared in front of her, especially after Lin Mian chose to play the piano again and he found a way to make his teacher become her teacher, their relationship seemed to become closer.
In China, having the same teacher meant they had a pretty close relationship. Jiang Dan thought they could take it a step further and he could fully appreciate her talent.
But, no.
Once he met her eyes, he was speechless.
"Brother, you are here too."
It was Lin Mian who finally broke the silence and woke up the stunned person.
"Ah," Jiang Dan took out a bouquet of pink carnations and placed them on the table. "I was very worried about you after hearing about your accident, so I wanted to come and see you."
"Thank you," she said, her brown eyes reflecting his image as she smiled.
Before Jiang Dan could say anything, Zhong Yuqi came over and pushed him aside. She also brought flowers, sunflowers, wrapped in brown wrapping paper.
"I heard from the florist that bright colors can make you feel better. Xiao Mian, does this make you happier?"
Lin Mian raised his hand and tried to take the flowers from Zhong Yuqi's hand, but Zhong Yuqi dodged and said, "Your hand is still bandaged. Just look at it, don't take it."
"I think I'll be happier after seeing it, Yuqi."
"Then I will come and bring you a bunch of sunflowers every day so that you can see them every day."
Zhong Yuqi's words made Lin Mian laugh, which pulled the wound on her abdomen, causing her to cough uncontrollably.
At this time, He Xintong hurriedly ordered two people to pour warm water for Lin Mian. If he was not inconvenient to move now, he would never have asked these two people to do things for Lin Mian. He just wished he could do everything for Lin Mian.
"Your injuries are too severe, Xiao Mian. If I hadn't seen you wake up, I couldn't imagine what you would look like lying on the hospital bed. Fortunately, you don't look pale now."
Zhong Yuqi couldn't stop imagining the weak and pale Lin Mian lying on the bed in her mother's description. She couldn't bear it just by imagining it.
"I'm fine now. I just need to recuperate. Yuqi, don't be sad."
Lin Mian wanted to raise his hand to wipe away the tears that were about to fall from Zhong Yuqi's face, but was held down by Zhong Yuqi.
"Hey, talk less. Since you need to take good care of yourself, then move less and talk less. Let me do everything else!"
Lin Mian chuckled: "I was just eating an apple, how could I be so weak? Don't treat me like a fragile thing."
It would be fine if I didn't say it, but once I did it was like blowing up a hornet's nest.
Zhong Yuqi turned around and put her finger on He Xintong's forehead. "You idiot! Don't you even know how to feed Xiao Mian an apple? What's the point of you staying here? You're a useless person!"
In front of others, Zhong Yuqi has always been arrogant and precocious. She doesn't talk much if she can. Even if she is misunderstood, as long as the other person is not someone she cares about, she will never run to explain.
At Lin Mian's place, He Xintong also met Zhong Yuqi, who was different from the rumors. However, facing Zhong Yuqi's accusations, He Xintong did not want to refute. He accepted everything in silence.
No matter how you look at it, it was he who harmed Lin Mian this time.
Lin Mian suffered a complete misfortune this time. If he hadn't begged her to follow him, Lin Mian wouldn't have suffered this.
Moreover, it would have been great if Lin Mian had really run away as he saw at the end. Even if he had died on that snowy night, he would not have had any complaints.
On the contrary, he would be very happy. In this boring life, he at least finally did something extraordinary. He protected Lin Mian to some extent.
He finally became the strong man he longed for.
But this girl turned back in the dark night, found ways to knock the kidnappers unconscious, and then carried him on her back in the pitch-black night, walking down the mountain with determination.
What kind of wisdom and perseverance does this require? She looks so weak, but she is strong enough to withstand the darkness and welcome the light.
The moment she learned the whole truth, He Xintong wished she could bang her head against the wall before she passed out, so that she wouldn't have to suffer so much.
At that moment, Lin Mian did not choose to let him go, and He Xintong would never let Lin Mian go again.
Therefore, He Xintong can choose to accept all the accusations. In his opinion, this is all deserved because he is guilty.
His mother's health deteriorated due to giving birth to him, which was his original sin. And now Lin Mian has suffered such great harm because of him, which is even more of his sin.
He could no longer atone for his sins to his mother, so he had to atone for his sins to Lin Mian.
Seeing He Xintong silent and knowing that he was in the wrong made Zhong Yuqi furious, which made her hallucinate her father.
He always remains silent after doing something wrong, and his silence drives his mother crazy.
Although the current situation is not the same as before, it always reminds people of it.
Lin Mian didn't want them to have a conflict, so she hissed and pretended to pull her wound, successfully calling back Zhong Yuqi's attention.
"Ah, what's wrong? Did you pull the wound? I'll go call the nurse now. Xiao Mian, hold on!"
But the noise was a bit too loud, so Lin Mian grabbed Zhong Yuqi's hand.
"It's okay, the wound was just pulled, but it didn't break open."
"Yuqi, sit down. I'll peel an apple for you."
This calmed the flustered Zhong Yuqi down. She curled her lips and said, "Why do you need me to peel it for you?"
It’s okay to eat two apples. Now Zhong Yuqi needs Lin Mian and needs her, so Lin Mian has to pretend to be greedy.
Even though he was the youngest, he became the one who took care of everyone.
Jiang Dan's fingers moved slightly. He could never understand Lin Mian.
I don't understand why she didn't cherish her talent, why she loved Zhong Yuqi so much, why she was younger than everyone else but was so tolerant of everyone...
He really couldn't understand Lin Mian.
So when she practices or competes, he never wants to miss it. He wants to witness her growth every time.
However, Lin Mian was growing so fast that Jiang Dan always doubted whether he could keep up with her.
Zhong Yuqi said that when she was learning Go from a very famous player, Jiang Dan played the wrong note.
She was now making it very difficult for him to even follow her, but she was not fully focused on the piano.
He hated her willfulness and her talent, but what he hated even more was her current appearance. In her eyes, there were Zhong Yuqi, He Xintong, and many other people, but how many of them could be in her eyes?
Things that you can't understand actually already have answers.
Lin Mian cut the apple that Zhong Yuqi had peeled into four pieces and handed them to Jiang Dan. "Brother, thank you for coming to see me."
He took it silently, bit into it, and it was so crispy.
But it’s a bit sour. Is this what Lin Mian likes to eat?
He looked at Lin Mian and saw her making a sour expression at him with her back to Zhong Yuqi.
It turns out that it wasn't that she liked it, but that Zhong Yuqi had poor taste in choosing apples.
Jiang Dan smiled faintly and continued to bite into the apple.
Well, it doesn't seem so sour anymore.
Lin Mian finally finished eating the apple in her hand. Seeing that Zhong Yuqi wanted to peel it for her, she quickly grabbed Zhong Yuqi with the hand that was not pricked by the needle.
"By the way, how's everyone's rehearsal going? Xiao He and I are away, can you guys manage it?"
This sentence really made Zhong Yuqi forget about peeling the apple. She looked at her face as if to say, "Why are you still thinking about this at this time?" and said sarcastically, "You are really worthy of being like this. You still think of us even when you are injured."
Lin Mian wanted to play dumb, but unfortunately she had a smart face, so even if she did something stupid, people would see through her.
So, all she could do was stare at Zhong Yuqi with her eyes wide open. She knew what she could not bear the most.
As expected, Zhong Yuqi was defeated. She held Lin Mian's chin with both hands, stared at her and said, "Without the lead singer, how can we have the heart to practice? You must take good care of yourself and get well soon. Jin Zixuan and I will be waiting for you and that guy."
He Xintong pointed at himself. Then who was he?
Zhong Yuqi didn't want to see his miserable look; the more she saw it, the more annoying it became.
After staying for a while, Zhong Yuqi noticed the fatigue that was inadvertently revealed on Lin Mian's face. Knowing that she needed more rest, she had to say goodbye reluctantly.
When Jiang Dan was leaving, he couldn't help but remind Lin Mian: "Xiao Mian, you have to take care of your hands. They are very precious."
Lin Mian closed his eyes, and she ignored him and kept talking nonsense.
When the ward returned to silence again, He Xintong pushed the wheel rim hard with his palms backwards. There was no one around, and it was difficult for him to even get close to her.
"You should go back too. You need to rest too."
He Xintong shook his head: "I want to watch you sleep before I leave."
After hearing this, Lin Mian, who was lying flat, was at a loss. Fortunately, the IV was not in the same direction as He Xin, so she could lie on her side with her back to him.
"I'm going to sleep, so go ahead and get some rest."
Did she work so hard to get him to rest earlier?
He Xintong's face was covered in red clouds and could not be seen clearly due to the bandages. He looked as red as a cooked duck. He pushed the wheel stiffly and walked backwards.
As the door was gently closed, Lin Mian breathed a sigh of relief, lay back down, and stared at the ceiling.
She now had a slight aversion to the color white; it reminded her of that night.
Lonely, painful, and aimless, she was holding on to her last breath.
The moment he woke up, Lin Mian didn't know whether it was time for him to wake up or because he was woken by the pain.
The dense and belated pain made it impossible for her to tell which part of her body was hurting. Even her fingertips hurt when she moved them.
Although he disliked He Xintong, Lin Mian was actually happy when he saw He Xintong after waking up.
Everything she did was not in vain, she saved him.
The last look he gave He Xintong before running away was something she would never forget.
Even in a coma, those dark, lifeless yet smiling eyes kept reappearing, more terrifying than a nightmare.
But in reality, those inky black eyes were filled with countless fragments of light, as if the stars in the sky were melting into his eyes.
All this is more real than a dream.
Lin Mian clutched the quilt tightly, then slowly loosened it with even breathing and fell into a deep sleep.
So much so that she didn't notice that the door was quietly opened again.
Tu Yin brought the stewed pig's trotter soup and gently placed it on the table.
Seeing Lin Mian's eyebrows wrinkled even in his sleep, Tu Yin wanted to reach out and smooth them, but was afraid that doing so would wake Lin Mian up.
Lin Mei told her that Lin Mian had been having nightmares recently and that the kidnapping had scared her. Even though she acted as if nothing had happened, how could her mother, who was accompanying her, not see it?
After Lin Mian woke up, she told Lin Mei that she didn't need to stay with her anymore. Her mother was not only responsible for her, but also for her subordinates.
Lin Mei no longer stayed by her bedside and hired a nurse, but she stayed with her daughter every night.
Tu Yin had just finished her final exams, so she asked Lin Mei to fire the nurse and she would take care of Lin Mian.
Today, Tu Yin wanted to make soup for Lin Mian, and He Xintong came over again. Tu Yin asked him to keep an eye on Lin Mian and call a doctor if anything went wrong.
Tu Yin was not surprised to see only Lin Mian at the moment.
Her sister was always too independent and always so kind.
Being too considerate of others will only hurt yourself.
Tu Yin gently pulled up the quilt to cover Lin Mian's exposed arms.
Then she placed the thermos next to the radiator, thinking that her sister would have hot soup when she woke up.
She sat down by herself opposite the bed, gently pulled the table over, and placed the papers in the bag flat on the table.
Picking up the pen, she began her creation.
After being admitted to Beicheng, it was not surprising that Tu Yin, as a Chinese major student, wrote something.
She has submitted many manuscripts, some of which were accepted and some were rejected. She has been making continuous progress through the ups and downs, and now, more manuscripts are accepted than rejected.
And now, she wants to write a story for her sister, a story that belongs exclusively to her sister.
In the story, Lin Mian uses the pseudonym Xiaohong, a somewhat stubborn but well-behaved swordsman.
In the ever-changing world of Jianghu, she not only managed to stay safe, but also saved a confused swordsman, an embroiderer who was hurt by her lover, and an assassin who failed in his revenge...
She seems to not care about anything, but she stands up when everyone is afraid, and she possesses precious "chivalry".
In Tu Yin's eyes, Lin Mian is a child with "chivalrous spirit".
She sympathizes with the weak and helps the weak. Even if it means putting herself in jail, she will do it as long as she thinks it is right.
Tu Yin hated this kind of personality that made Lin Mian suffer, but she also liked this kind of Lin Mian.
She thought that no matter who it was, they would feel happy around Lin Mian.
As the story unfolded, Tu Yin became a little carried away and did not hear the sound of the door being gently pushed open.
He Xintong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tu Yin was there too.
He was very uneasy in the room, but he was also worried that Lin Mian would be unhappy when she saw him and knew that he didn't listen to her.
In the entanglement, time passed by minute by minute.
He Xintong couldn't fall asleep in bed, so he struggled to get up and see Lin Mian.
Now he felt a little relieved, and it was time for him to leave.
But he just stood there, unable to move, his eyes fixed on the figure lying on the bed.
Just looking at her, those terrifying nightmares seemed to never haunt him again.
After Lin Mian woke up, He Xintong no longer had nightmares.
Wherever she is, there is peace.
He just wanted to be with her, no matter where or when.
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