She sighed softly and told Feng Yanzhou and Gu Qingqian to go back first.
Gu Qingqian saw Gu Chengfeng lying on the hospital bed, his head wrapped in bandages, looking completely lost and disoriented, only knowing how to cry, which annoyed Gu Qingqian to no end.
Feng Yanzhou hadn't slept for several days. He refused to go back, but he couldn't persuade Shen Sisi, so he finally agreed to go back and rest for a while and come back tomorrow.
"Then I'll trouble you to keep watch tonight."
"How can you say it's a hassle?" She pondered. After all, she was Gu Chengfeng's wife, and it was only right that she take care of him.
“I understand your situation. Anyway… thank you!” Feng Yanzhou looked at her gratefully, dragging his tired steps. As he passed Gu Qingqian, he paused: “Second sister, let me take you home!”
Gu Qingqian was about to refuse when Feng Yanzhou said, "You can't help here, so you might as well go back and let your family know."
"Okay, then I'll go back. This... I'll leave it to Shen Sisi."
“Chen Sisi, I’m warning you, don’t you dare try anything funny. If anything happens to my brother, I won’t let you off the hook.”
Shen Sisi was truly annoyed to the extreme. At this moment, she didn't care about saving face anymore and waved her arm, saying, "Just go!"
Soon, the room quieted down. Chen Sisi pulled over a small stool and sat down next to Gu Chengfeng.
She gently held Gu Qingfeng's hand, stroking the calluses on it.
“Gu Chengfeng…” Shen Sisi gently grasped his hand and pressed it against her cheek: “It’s me, it’s Shen Sisi…”
Upon hearing the words "Chen Sisi," Gu Chengfeng's fingers twitched almost imperceptibly.
The fingertips that were cupping her cheeks tightened unexpectedly, which she happened to notice.
Chen Sisi almost cried out.
This is not an illusion.
Gu Chengfeng reacted!
But this joy lasted only a few seconds before Gu Chengfeng fell into a coma again.
"Doctor, doctor..." Shen Sisi called out loudly for the doctor.
The on-duty doctor rushed in: "What's wrong?"
Chen Sisi squeezed Gu Chengfeng's fingers: "Doctor, my wife's finger moved just now!"
The doctor was also very excited. He immediately took out a small flashlight from his pocket, pried open Gu Chengfeng's eyelids, and shone it on him.
Those eyes, which were originally bright and exceptionally sharp, were now dull and gray, with the pupils almost unfocused.
Seeing this, the doctor sighed and shook his head. He then tested Gu Chengfeng's limbs and concluded that he had not woken up and had no stress response.
"Family member, are you seeing things?" the doctor asked doubtfully.
If your eyesight gets blurry while you're thinking, does that mean your senses are also going wrong?
impossible!
She clearly felt that Gu Chengfeng had reacted just now; his fingers twitched noticeably twice. So why was there no movement here?
She insisted that she hadn't misjudged the situation, and the doctor couldn't do anything about it. He could only say that perhaps she was special to the patient, and the patient became somewhat conscious upon hearing her voice, causing the body to react instinctively.
He encouraged Chen Sisi: "Then when you have time, you can talk to the patient more; perhaps you can really wake him up."
Shen Sisi held Gu Chengfeng's hand tightly and nodded silently.
Anyway, let's give it a try first.
So she leaned against the bedside, her warm fingers gently caressing Gu Chengfeng's cheek, tracing the contours of his cold, hard eyebrows.
She didn't know what to say, so she began to recall the scene of their first meeting.
That was a time when many young people were involved. Her father was the principal of Linxian No. 1 Middle School, while Gu Chengfeng was the most troublesome troublemaker in the school.
"Gu Chengfeng, do you know how bad your reputation was in Lin County back then?"
"If I had known that the boy who peeked at me while I was reading was you, I wouldn't have dared to talk to you..."
Chen Sisi's thoughts drifted away, eventually reaching back to that afternoon many years ago.
She sat quietly reading in the courtyard. The sunlight was just right, the shadows of the trees were dappled, and the air seemed so tranquil.
In the quiet courtyard, the only sounds were the rustling of leaves in the wind and the rustling of her turning pages.
Then, a strong feeling of being watched came from her side, making her instinctively alert.
As soon as she turned around, she met a pair of clear, bright eyes that seemed to hold the stars within them.
A boy wearing a white shirt and a military green jacket draped over his shoulders, looking rather roguish, leaned against a sycamore tree with a blade of grass between his teeth, quietly watching her.
She was startled at first, but the boy didn't seem to have any ill intentions. On the contrary, he was very handsome, with a row of white teeth when he smiled, and a youthful air about him. He must be her father's student...
Thinking about it this way, Shen Sisi's hostility towards him lessened considerably.
And then... they met that afternoon.
In the late-night ward, only the regular beeping of the monitor could be heard.
Chen Sisi gently moistened Gu Chengfeng's lips with a cotton swab soaked in warm water.
Under the dim light of the desk lamp, the man's pale skin had a bluish-gray tinge, and the scars on his wrists looked particularly menacing in the shadows.
"Do you remember that time you risked your life to save me?" she suddenly asked, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the scar.
“When I was leaving school, a group of people suddenly surrounded me, trying to search me and demand money. They also wanted to bully me. You rushed up and fought with them. Someone cut your hand with a broken bottle.”
"The scar was so deep, I could see the white bone, and the blood kept flowing... I was so scared I cried!"
Thinking back to those days, Shen Sisi wished she had been the one who got hurt.
The image of the boy who risked his life back then remained in her mind for a long time.
The shock made her heart race uncontrollably.
Because... aside from her parents, this was the first time someone had risked their life to save her.
Unfortunately, before she could properly express her gratitude, Gu Chengfeng was taken back to Kyoto by the Gu family, and her father was reported and imprisoned.
In fact, before Gu Chengfeng was injured and left, they had many beautiful memories together.
The first time Shen Sisi tried riding a bicycle, it was Gu Chengfeng who taught her.
He is a good teacher, but unfortunately Shen Sisi is not a smart student and has not yet learned anything.
She also received her first bouquet of flowers, which was picked and given to her by Gu Chengfeng himself.
Those flowers were especially beautiful, red, purple, yellow and white, just like the dazzling fireworks during the Chinese New Year.
She liked to follow Gu Chengfeng around back then, ostensibly to help her father keep an eye on him and prevent him from doing anything wrong. In reality, it was always Gu Chengfeng who took care of her.
Later, the relationship ended abruptly, and their lives went their separate ways.
Gu Chengfeng joined the army, while Chen Sisi, whose family had fallen on hard times, went to the countryside to become an educated youth.
Little did they expect that fate would be so wondrous, allowing them to meet again.
"Because of you, I've rediscovered the beauty of life and started to yearn for things that shouldn't have been mine... and people. But now that you've become like this, I'm really worried about you, I'm so scared..."
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