Although they are both in the same province, they have not been together recently. Chu Qianli is working in the Gobi Desert, while Tan Muxing is recuperating in the hospital. They cannot see each other and can only contact each other occasionally.

The two sides met again, as if it were a lifetime ago.

Tan Muxing was surprised by Chu Qianli's sudden appearance, while Chu Qianli was surprised by Tan Muxing's injury.

Chu Qianli was smiling and singing a nursery rhyme after knocking on the door. She saw Tan Muxing, who was tightly wrapped in the ward and had become noticeably thinner, and her face froze. She had never expected that he was so badly injured.

When Tan Muxing left, he was in good condition. Now I think he was just trying to hold on. He didn't talk about himself in detail when we contacted him, and didn't mention a word about the doctor's diagnosis. Falling from a height is not a small matter, and it will take several months to recover.

Chu Qianli thought about the reason why he was injured, her eyes flickered slightly, and she said sadly: "Ah, you can't play this now..."

Seeing that she was still huddled by the door, Tan Muxing said calmly, "Aren't you going to come in?"

Chu Qianli had been hiding at the door, just sticking his head in to look around, and was slow to step into the house, which made Tan Muxing feel quite strange.

She looked hesitant when she heard that, but finally went into the house obediently, but she slightly tilted her body, as if she was awkwardly hiding something.

Tan Muxing took a closer look and found that her right arm was wrapped in a white veil. He immediately asked in panic, "What's wrong with your arm?"

"It was just a slight bump. The nurse wrapped it too tightly..." Chu Qianli lowered her eyes. She just tried to put down her sleeves, but was blocked by the gauze, so she couldn't go in immediately.

Although Chu Qianli was not injured on the day she found Shuiyuan, she encountered some bumps and bruises during the acupuncture process, but fortunately, she was safe. She really wanted to meet her companions in good condition, but life is full of disappointments, and there are always some troubles that cannot be avoided.

Tan Muxing asked worriedly, "Is the wound serious? Is the wound deep?"

Since it was specially bandaged, it must not be a minor injury.

"No..." Chu Qianli faced his questioning, her eyes drifted to the side, and she stammered, "Not as bad as you."

Tan Muxing was stunned. He noticed her evasive attitude and felt that something had quietly changed after they parted.

This was the first time the two had truly separated since returning from Yinlong Village.

Although they contacted each other every day, Tan Muxing had no idea what happened to her later, nor did he know what kind of hardships she had encountered. It was completely a blank period.

Chu Qianli stood by the window, hiding herself behind the curtains, with her head down and not saying a word.

Tan Muxing opened his mouth. He wanted to ask something but didn't know where to start.

The room suddenly became quiet.

The ward was quiet, with sunlight pouring in from the window. A breeze blew in, blowing up the light gauze behind the heavy curtains, and dimly surrounded Chu Qianli who was leaning against the window.

After a long while, Chu Qianli spoke first: "I regret it."

"What do you regret?"

"I shouldn't have called you at that time." Chu Qianli huddled behind the curtains and said in a muffled voice, "I shouldn't have called Xingxing."

If she hadn't called Tan Muxing when she missed her step, maybe she would have been the only one to fall off the cliff, and he wouldn't have been dragged down with her. Tan Muxing was walking in front at the time, and he turned back subconsciously after hearing the sound.

Tan Muxing: "Why shouldn't you call me?"

"That's not good."

“But I think it’s great.”

"Not at all." Chu Qianli glanced at his left arm in plaster and whispered, "...It's better if I were injured."

She already has not much time left, and she shouldn't drag others down.

They had always lived in the city, so they had forgotten many details. Tan Muxing actually had no reason to suffer, because his birth determined that his life would be safe and smooth, and even if he had not achieved anything, it would be enough to make others envious.

But she is different, she has no future.

People with a future should not risk everything for people without a future. This is a truth that everyone understands.

Hearing this, Tan Muxing shook his head and said, "I am relieved that you would ask me for help."

Chu Qianli was puzzled: "What are you worried about?"

"Because sometimes I wasn't sure what you were thinking, and I didn't know if I would cause you trouble if I followed you." Tan Muxing said, "Although you have never complained, maybe you don't want others to know?"

Chu Qianli was stunned.

Tan Muxing spoke in a gentle voice, recalling, "When I was a child and lived with my grandparents, I often encountered a wild cat in the yard. It came every day to eat and treated the yard as its own home. Everyone thought it would never leave, but a few years later, it got older and disappeared one day, and no one could find it."

"They say cats will run away from home when they are afraid of hurting others. That's what the adults comforted me too. But later I looked it up online and someone said it's the nature of cats to hide away when they are weak because they are very defensive and have strong self-esteem. They don't want to be discovered for their weakness, even by familiar people."

When Chu Qianli left the village, Wang Ping and others did not know the truth; when Chu Qianli left home, He Shichen and others did not know the truth.

Tan Muxing even felt that she had planned everything so accurately, but might just leave him without saying goodbye one day.

He didn't know whether the cat left because it was afraid of making people sad, or because it believed deep down that the matter had nothing to do with humans. But if it was the former, he felt that it didn't matter if people were sad, at least they shouldn't be left alone to face it.

"When you were in the village and hoped that I would forget about it, I always felt that you would disappear one day, otherwise I wouldn't have made preparations in advance." Tan Muxing smiled, "But when you were in danger, you called me, and I finally felt relieved. I was sure that I didn't cause you any trouble, and I was also sure that you wanted to persevere."

She just wanted to survive, what was wrong in asking him for help?

"You've worked really hard, so it's okay to call me. I think that's great."

Chu Qianli shuddered: "...but you are injured."

"Yeah, but wounds always heal."

"That will cause more trouble in the future..."

"It will be resolved sooner or later."

The Hanged Man is tied up and suspended upside down, with the world turning upside down in his eyes, but he is not troubled. He peacefully observes the world from a new perspective and is ready to move on to a new direction in his life.

Chu Qianli was infected by his emotions. She suddenly didn't know what to say. She simply lowered her head and didn't look at him. She wrapped herself tightly with the curtains, leaving only a small part of her head exposed through the curtains.

After a moment, she called out, "Stars."

"Um."

"Stars, stars..."

"I'm here." Tan Muxing replied softly.

The two of them shouted and answered each other, and after repeating this several times, even the air became lighter, as if welcoming an unprecedented sense of comfort.

Chu Qianli finally poked her head out from behind the curtains. She was silent when she was working in the Gobi Desert, but now she has finally returned to normal. Just like when she was overwhelmed by homework at school, she complained pitifully: "Xingxing, the safety rope hurts me so much. That thing fell to the lowest point. I almost vomited my stomach. I feel like my whole body is falling apart..."

Chu Qianli said nothing at the time, but now that he met Tan Muxing again, he immediately started complaining.

"I fell down for no apparent reason and it almost became a murder scene." She looked aggrieved and pulled her trouser legs above the knees, revealing the dark scabs formed by the abrasions, recounting the hardships and difficulties along the way.

Tan Muxing didn't expect that her knee was also injured. He was shocked after seeing it and asked hurriedly, "Is it that serious?!"

He thought it was just the arm, but he didn't expect there was something else.

The two of them were just separated for a moment, and she ended up getting hurt all over.

Chu Qianli sobbed sadly: "Everything just went wrong. I shouldn't have gone out during that time, but I couldn't not go. My arm would be hurt even more..."

Chu Qianli is now like a little child. He would scream and shout if a bleeding cut was made by paper. He would run to the adults in a hurry to cry out about his misery, fearing that if he was delayed on the way, the wound would not heal and he would lose the chance to seek comfort from others.

When Tan Muxing heard about her experience in the Gobi Desert, he asked about her well-being with concern, and repeatedly comforted and consoled the suffering person with kind words.

At this time, Yu Ge came to visit his companions. He overheard a few words and said in disbelief, "Chu Qianli, you actually cried in front of someone with a broken bone. Isn't that a bit absurd?"

Yu Ge stood at the door and heard Chu Qianli whimpering. Tan Muxing was seriously injured and had a fracture, while she was just bumped and bruised. In comparison, it was obvious that Tan Muxing was in a worse situation. How could she open her mouth! ?

Although Tan Muxing was still in a cast, he looked serious and defended her earnestly: "But she is seriously injured."

Chu Qianli now had someone to support her, and she instantly became more confident, saying in a sad voice: "You don't understand me!"

Yu Ge faced the two and complained helplessly: "I don't understand you, and you don't understand medicine."

He really doesn't understand how today's high school students understand injuries. Who should be crying? Is this a mistake?

All three of them were injured to varying degrees, with Tan Muxing being the most seriously injured, but fortunately the injury was successfully resolved at work.

Chu Qianli was covered in wounds while searching for Lu to store water, but after going through the disastrous times, she also gained a lot and obtained a huge amount of karma, which is basically the same as the completion of the railway!

She speculated that this disaster was a critical node. If she could survive it safely, it would mean that she had completed the merit of building the road. If she couldn't survive it, then everything would be over.

This is just like a person's fortune. If you can get through certain moments, things will brighten up in the blink of an eye, but if you can't get through them, perhaps dust will return to dust.

The good news is that the huge amount of karma has eased the pressure, and she clearly feels that she has more time and should be able to survive past her twenties.

The bad news is that the death crisis has not been solved and still exists.

Chu Qianli rarely took risks when she was in bad luck before, but she had a new understanding in the Gobi Desert this time. She gained karma after experiencing hardships, which may mean that it is not enough to just seek good fortune and avoid disaster. Only by doing something knowing that it is impossible can there be a turnaround after the risk.

In her previous life, she always wanted to avoid accidents, but perhaps only by facing them head-on can she find a glimmer of hope for survival.

Not long after, Chu Qianli and others met with Professor Pan to discuss the next plan.

The two sides split up into two groups, with Pan Yicheng heading for the other side. He also sprained his ankle at the scene, and now he walks with a limp. He said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "What's going on? Are we a group of old, weak, sick, and disabled people?"

All four of them were injured, and Tan Muxing also suffered a fracture. It will take time for him to fully recover.

"Muxing, what are you doing..." Pan Yicheng already knew about Tan Muxing's matter, but he was still stunned when he saw the other person's expression. He asked in embarrassment, "What should I say? Is the food in the hospital not good?"

Tan Muxing's fall from a height was horrifying, but fortunately he only broke his left arm. You know, someone once became paralyzed.

The doctors were all celebrating his good fortune, but the injury still had sequelae. He lost a lot of weight during treatment, and no one could figure out the specific physical cause.

Pan Yicheng still remembered how fat Tan Muxing looked. When he saw him now, his first reaction was that he looked hungry.

Chu Qianli has been brooding over this matter recently, and said sadly: "The big white bear has lost its air!"

When she visited Tan Muxing, she found that he had become a little thinner. Who would have thought that people would become even thinner during the recuperation period, and they seemed to be losing a little weight every day, almost making people mistakenly think that he had a terminal illness!

Tan Muxing said embarrassedly: "I don't know what happened."

Taoist Master Xu Qian said that his body size was due to suppressed strength. He suspected that he did not consciously exert force when he fell off the cliff, which is why he did not end up in a terrible situation when he slid down.

Yu Ge raised his chin, pointed in the direction of Chu Qianli, and said helplessly: "It's because Tan Muxing became thinner and was fed crazily by this person for several days."

Chu Qianli now persuades his companions to eat every day, and he wishes he could watch him eat four bowls of rice in one meal.

Pan Yicheng looked Tan Muxing up and down. He was a little uncomfortable at first glance, but soon he liked her more and more. He smiled and said, "That's OK. It's not bad. It can be considered a blessing in disguise. It's better to be healthier this way!"

"Not good, not good at all, a white bear shouldn't be like this..." Chu Qianli was quite worried. She began to fumble in her pockets, took out chocolate from her bag, and asked tentatively, "How about some sweets?"

She now felt like she was seeing a skinny polar bear. She wanted to take out all the food she had to feed him, fearing that he was starving and that was why he became like this.

Tan Muxing knew that Chu Qianli was worried about him, but he had been fed so frequently recently, and after eating meals and snacks, he finally felt a little overwhelmed. No one could bear to be fed like this, he had never eaten so much before.

But a direct rejection would disappoint her, so a softer and more tactful approach is needed.

Facing the eager and expectant eyes of the bear child, Tan Muxing racked his brains to find an excuse and finally came up with a scientific reason. He even showed her a mobile phone website to popularize a little-known piece of knowledge for her: "Bears will die if they eat chocolate."