Chapter 54
Three months passed quietly.
Bai Siang teased Little Q in his arms and casually asked Song Shiyu, "Speaking of which, why is your company named 'HERMEZ'?"
Song Shiyu looked out the window and was silent for a moment before he whispered, "HERMEZ means 'guardian'. I chose to start a company here simply because... Ji Zhiqi's home is here. I wanted to be closer to him and be the one protecting him in the dark."
Bai Siang smacked his lips upon hearing this. "Tsk, that makes me so jealous. I really should have let Zhou Yue get rid of Ji Zhiqi right away, so you wouldn't be obsessed with him now."
Song Shiyu just smiled faintly and did not make any excuses.
They didn't know that what lay between him and Ji Zhiqi was not just hurt, but also the secret of reincarnation of life and death.
At night, Song Shiyu drove alone and unknowingly arrived at the villa where he had delivered medicine for Ji Zhiqi.
He stopped the car and silently lit a cigarette. The scarlet flame flickered in the darkness, just like his mood at the moment.
He didn't start the engine until the cigarette butt burned out, then he drove away quietly.
What he didn't know was that shortly after he left, another car pulled up at the same spot.
Ji Zhiqi got out of the car and stood where Song Shiyu had just stayed, his eyes filled with sorrow.
His assistant Xiaohua once told him that when he was seriously ill, it was Song Shiyu who sent him medicine again and again.
As long as it was a place where Song Shiyu might have appeared, Ji Zhiqi would stubbornly search for it again and again, trying to capture a trace of the breath that had long dissipated.
Having stayed abroad for long enough, Song Shiyu wanted to go home.
"When are you leaving?" Zhou Yue, still showing his unconcealable ruffian attitude, asked him while leaning against the door.
"The flight is in the afternoon." Song Shiyu held the well-behaved little Q in his arms.
Bai Siang immediately rushed over: "I'll go back with you!"
Zhou Yue's gloomy voice sounded immediately, carrying an unquestionable threat: "Bai Siang, you can try to see if you can walk out of this door today."
Bai Siang shrank his neck and retreated angrily. He knew Zhou Yue's methods too well.
In the afternoon, Song Shiyu set out on his journey home alone without anyone seeing him off.
However, his first stop after returning to China was not home, but another place——
M City.
The city that carries the most beautiful and heartbreaking memories for him.
He walked into the familiar aquarium, passed through the blue tunnel, watched the colorful fish swimming leisurely, and finally, he stopped in front of the huge viewing glass.
It was here that he put on a fishtail and gave a unique underwater performance for his beloved.
At this moment, behind the glass, another actor was wearing a gorgeous mermaid tail and dancing gracefully in the water.
Song Shiyu stood quietly, his eyes following the graceful figure. Scenes from the past overlapped with the scene before him, and his eyes became moist involuntarily.
Every day, he missed Ji Zhiqi madly, and his heart ached.
"Ah...Ayu...?" A choked voice filled with disbelief sounded from behind him.
Song Shiyu's whole body suddenly froze, as if he had been cast under a spell.
He turned around mechanically and extremely slowly, and saw the figure he had been thinking about day and night, just a few steps away from him.
Ji Zhiqi had lost weight, so thin that he looked as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.
But fortunately, his complexion was no longer sickly pale, but instead had a healthy rosy complexion.
When their eyes met, time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Ji Zhiqi stared at the face he missed day and night. His throat seemed to be blocked by something. All the words he wanted to say turned into silent sobs. Only those beautiful eyes quickly turned scarlet.
"Ayu..." He finally found his voice, trembling with extreme fragility and ecstasy, "I missed you so much... I finally found you."
The moment Ji Zhiqi opened his mouth, Song Shiyu's tears, which she had been holding back, burst out completely.
All his strength collapsed at this moment, as if all the tears in his life were prepared for this person.
The next moment, Ji Zhiqi hugged him fiercely and with all his strength. The force was so strong that it almost crushed him and melted him into his bones and blood.
"You didn't disappear... You're still here... I heard every wish you made and every word you said..." Ji Zhiqi's voice was broken, and hot tears slid down, soaking Song Shiyu's shoulders. "How could you be so stupid... How could you use your life to exchange for mine..."
Song Shiyu buried her face in his neck, rubbing her snot and tears onto his expensive clothes without any hesitation, and said in a sobbing voice, "What do you care about me?"
Ji Zhiqi carefully held up his face, as if holding the most precious and fragile thing in the world, with great relief and humble begging in his eyes: "Then I'll let you take care of me, for the rest of my life, okay?"
Song Shiyu turned his head away, brushed his hand away, and said in a deliberately disguised cold tone: "I don't want to care about you either."
Ji Zhiqi's heart suddenly sank, falling into an icy cave, his eyes instantly filled with panic and pain: "You...you don't want me anymore?"
"It's you, Ji Zhiqi, who doesn't want me." Song Shiyu raised her tearful eyes and looked straight at him.
Ji Zhiqi's pupils suddenly shrank, and the immense pain almost tore him apart: "I'm sorry, Ah Yu... I apologize for all the stupid things I have done to you, and all the nonsense I have said to you... I'm sorry..."
Song Shiyu looked at his increasingly thin and sunken cheeks, and his heart was filled with intense pain, but he still couldn't bear it.
"Ji Zhiqi, you didn't tell me you were sick, and you didn't tell me about Song Zhi's situation. How many other things are you hiding from me?"
Ji Zhiqi gently held his hand, not daring to use force, as if afraid that he would pull it away at any time: "I'm sorry... I was the one who asked someone to teach Song Zhi a lesson. My illness... I just don't want you to worry about me and suffer with me."
"So, you knew that you didn't have much time left, so you asked Zuo Dancheng to act with you and force me to leave in the most cruel way, right?" Song Shiyu's tone was unusually calm, but it made Ji Zhiqi even more heartbroken.
Ji Zhiqi nodded with difficulty: "Yes... I have already explained everything to her. There is only cooperation between us, no relationship at all. I shouldn't have hurt you in such an extreme way... Ah Yu, I was wrong, very wrong..."
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