Chapter 41: Fingers interlocked. A secret visit to the patient.
"Have a good rest, Hanhan. I won't be studying lately. Take a good rest. When the time comes, just graduate. You can do it. I'll come visit you later, or when you return home after your final exams, I'll give you tutoring, either online or offline. We'll pass our A-Levels together. Trust me."
Yu Han pursed her lips, lowered her head, and said nothing.
Qin Yi coaxed her, "Okay? Hanhan, I don't have to go to school so often. After you graduate in October, we can see each other often. I won't lie to you anymore. Every time I see you, it will be the real me. If you return to China, I can see you anytime. I don't need to go to class, and even if I'm at school, you don't have to worry about disturbing me. I have plenty of time to play with you, so don't worry about you running back to China on your own and getting into danger."
The little princess was silent and conflicted. She didn't have the confidence to take the exam but he did. However, she didn't push him away in frustration or reject his plan with righteous words.
It wasn't him who rejected her like this, but she who had been struggling and secretly regretting it these past few days, and it was her who had endured the hard work and expectations of each other through daily phone calls over the past few years.
It was the rejection of the future with that graduate student he mentioned.
Rejection will make both people sad and hurt their lungs.
To put it bluntly, he did nothing wrong in this quarrel. It was just that their decisions were contradictory from the beginning to the end.
Qin Yi rubbed her little face.
Yu Han's cheeks instantly turned red and she shrank back.
Qin Yi stood up at this moment and loosened his arms around her.
Yu Han took a deep breath and glanced back.
Qin Yi walked around to her, straightened her clothes, and looked at her face.
I don’t know how weak my body was. My nose and eyes were red from crying just now. In the blink of an eye, except for a little shy blush on my cheeks, the rest of my face turned pale again. I looked like I was about to collapse at any time.
Qin Yi held her left wrist and led her out.
"Can't you be discharged from the hospital yet, Hanhan?"
"Hmm." She followed him closely, staring at the shadow on the ground, feeling a little empty and unreal at this moment.
Qin Yi glanced sideways: "Headache, or other problems?" He knew that she had mentioned the date of discharge a few days ago, and it would be almost these two days.
"Headache."
"Because of me." Qin Yi's heart was instantly filled with regret. He couldn't understand himself three days ago. He knew clearly that she was angry but still quarreled with her.
"It has nothing to do with you." Yu Han said subconsciously. She felt pain even before they quarreled, because it hurt when she looked at the computer while studying, and the possibility of having to take a leave of absence made it even more painful.
The quarrel with him was nothing more than these two fuses being ignited, not the root cause.
The two of them walked out of the hotel quietly and through the corridor.
Their shadows sometimes overlapped and sometimes separated as they walked; as the light dimmed, she was sometimes clearly aware that he was holding her hand, and sometimes her mind became hazy, and she kept stealing glances at the person next to her to make sure it was real.
That person really came to "deal with" her, and it was someone she had met before. Her guesses and suspicions were not groundless, and the truth and lies of the past two years became reality at this moment.
She has a pretty good brain and can withstand such a big shock.
Qin Yi suddenly approached her and asked, "Will your family...stay with you in the ward 24 hours a day?"
Yu Han tilted her head, a puzzled look in her eyes.
Qin Yi coughed lightly and said, "If they are not here sometimes, tell me and I will go to the hospital to find you tomorrow."
"..." Yu Han stopped in her tracks.
She lowered her head shyly and murmured in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "No, I will probably be discharged in two days." She thought she should have a good rest today, and she wanted to be discharged before her mother's birthday.
Qin Yi said, "No, I have to cherish my time. I have to go back to China in two days." At this point, his tone became guilty, "I'm sorry, I can't stay with you for that long this time."
Upon hearing this, Yu Han puffed up her cheeks quietly, "Don't senior year students have to take make-up classes? My classmates are all taking them. Why are you here at this time?"
"I didn't go. I couldn't contact you that day."
The make-up classes started on August 1st. He had finished the competition and returned home that day. Normally, he would have gone to class after two days of rest. However, he could not contact her from that day on.
Yu Han understood the reason and felt guilty, but couldn't help but say, "We're just online friends. Why would you delay your studies because of me?"
"Netizens."
“…”
The moment he turned around, Yu Han sensed danger and ran past him.
Qin Yi was frightened: "Don't run, don't bump into anyone." He strode forward.
He can hold the person down in just three or two steps.
It was only when Yu Han started running that she realized her hands hurt whenever they moved, and she couldn't run at all. Based on her previous speed, Qin Yi thought she was like a track and field athlete, but it was impossible for her to succeed so quickly.
She was like a little rabbit that had been caught, lightly held in a corner by him, unable to move.
Qin Yi forced her to face him and confirmed tomorrow's schedule with her: "Tell me tomorrow, okay? I'll come to see you, baby."
“…”
Her entire soul seemed to be frozen and she couldn't even blink.
There was a huge difference between shouting over the phone and shouting in person, especially to this face. She was like a mute, unable to react.
Yu Han suddenly wanted to take a closer look at him... She had been too familiar with this flawless and perfect face in the past, but she never expected that the person who was so far away would be right in front of her.
She was now clearly certain that her previous guess was correct, it was him. In the past, she had also thought of him as Qin, but she felt that the familiarity and intimacy she had experienced with him over the years had disappeared, and she simply could not speak sweet words to this real face.
The Internet and reality are completely incompatible.
She was as timid as a stranger.
Qin Yi seemed to know what she was looking at, so he stood quietly and watched her.
Her eyes were very serious, like a beam of light shrouding a painting, like a paintbrush slowly refining his features, confirming bit by bit, is this really him? Isn't this fake?
"Where are you spending the New Year this year?" she suddenly asked.
"Here. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, you went to watch the fireworks at Gardens by the Bay, and I went too."
Yu Han's eyes flickered twice for a split second, and then she thought of last year's New Year's Eve: "Was it really a chance encounter in Kuala Lumpur before that?"
"No, I saw your Instagram post about making an appointment with your classmates to go to Kuala Lumpur, so I went."
Yu Han was extremely shocked. He actually followed her. "Then why are you on the same floor and in the same hotel as me?"
"You asked your classmates in the comments section if Junhua was okay, so I booked the same hotel. As for the same floor, I guess you'll probably stay in a suite. You stayed in a suite in Italy before. Plus, we wanted to watch the fireworks from the Twin Towers, so the two rooms with the best views were the ones we stayed in."
Yu Han exhaled, lowered her head, and suddenly became angry: "Then why don't you contact me?" Her nose was filled with a sour taste again, and tears filled her eyes.
Then he looked up and said aggrievedly, "Why did you run into me when you haven't contacted me for half a year?"
Qin Yi was unusually calm. Compared to his earlier panic, he felt remarkably composed at this moment. "I'm sorry, I couldn't get in touch. If I had contacted you before then, you wouldn't have gone to Kuala Lumpur during the New Year's Eve holidays, but would have returned to China."
Yu Han's breathing rose and fell, and she couldn't utter a word. She was angry with herself. Why did he know her so well?
Qin Yi: "But I missed you so much that I went. I don't know how you became after coming to Singapore, so I wanted to try and see if we could meet by chance. I just wanted to run into you by chance and see how you were, whether you were used to it or not, whether you were happy or not. I didn't want to have any further contact with you. I'm sorry."
If there is still some anger accumulated deep in my heart, it will not dissipate for a while.
But at this moment, Yu Han knew that she was powerless to care, to be angry, or to refuse any recognition.
See how she is, whether she is used to it or not, whether she is happy or not. I don’t want to have anything to do with her anymore, I just want to meet her by chance.
Yu Han turned her head away, lowered her head, and a tear rolled down to her feet. She really hated this special disease of hers, hated it so much...
At this moment, the phone rang with a WeChat message from her mother, asking her where she was meeting her friend and whether the meeting was over.
After Yu Han finished reading it, she led Qin Yi forward without replying.
He knew without even looking that it was her family looking for her. After all, she was a patient who had not yet been discharged from the hospital, and her family would not let her go out alone for too long.
After walking a few steps, he let go of Yu Han's wrist.
He slowed his pace, gradually slowing down her pace. She was two meters ahead of him, silently glancing at the familiar tall figure across from her.
The distance between them gradually widened as they moved forward and backward, until they reached a point where they seemed like strangers.
Ms. Xia Yue, who was walking towards them, did not notice anything wrong at this moment. It had been almost three years since she met Qin Yi in Italy, so she did not recognize that the young man walking behind her was the one who had taken her daughter Hanhan to see a doctor in Florence.
Ms. Xia put her arm around her daughter's shoulders and asked gently, "Who are you meeting? Did you meet Chen Cheng?"
"Oh, well, yes."
"Then let's go shopping again, or go back to the hospital."
"Go back."
"OK."
Her mother hugged her and the mother and daughter walked out together.
Along the way, Yu Han was paying attention to the people behind her. He was at a distance, with his hands in his pockets, walking leisurely as if he was taking a walk, but he was always walking behind them.
He stood not far away looking at his phone until they got in the car.
The car drove past him, and he suddenly raised his eyes, with the corners of his mouth raised when he saw her.
Yu Han's heart was pounding.
…
After being out for half a day, Yu Han had exhausted all her energy for the day, and she went to bed early at night.
I had a very distant dream that night, and I dreamt of Italy in 2015.
When she dreamed that she was about to be beaten to death, Qin Yi appeared and saved her. Later, when she returned to China, they met again, before they separated.
Afterwards, she came to Singapore as usual and stayed there for three months. On New Year's Eve of 2016, she returned to China to find him. On the way, she had a car accident and was knocked over by the car. She broke her hand, suffered a severe concussion, and had some intracranial injuries. Not a single part of her body was healed.
Wake up in the middle of the night.
Feeling the familiar rainy night in Singapore quietly approaching again, she touched her sweaty head under the warm orange light, pushed back the quilt, and touched her broken hand.
Fortunately, I’m almost well again and my head doesn’t hurt tonight.
"Hanhan?" Mom woke up from the bed where she was accompanying me and got out of bed to go over to me. "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yu Han murmured hoarsely, "I had a nightmare."
"You had a nightmare." Ms. Xia sat by the bed, pulled up the quilt for her, and gently patted the soft bedding with her hands. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Mom is here. Mom will be with you. Close your eyes and sleep. It won't happen again."
Yu Han didn't have the energy to talk about this dream. It was half true and half false. Except for the wrong time, everything else was the same. There was nothing much to say. She just couldn't help but feel relieved.
These past few years have been difficult, but we’ve gotten through it.
She was sure that if she kept going back, there would inevitably be some problems, big and small. They were not so serious, but they would always make her family and Qin Yi worry.
Fortunately, his long three years and her two years are over.
The dream was that he said during the day that she would go back on New Year's Eve, and she thought about it during the day and dreamed about it at night.
The rain poured down all night until dawn, and it was dark outside the window all night, but the early morning sun visited Yu Han's ward as promised.
Both parents stayed in the hospital at night. Mom and Yu Han were in the same ward, and Dad was resting next door.
During the daytime in the hospital, Dad usually has to go to work. Since she has been feeling better these past two days, he even went to work overtime today, the weekend, and had delayed a lot of things before.
My mother didn't go to the company. She has been staying in the hospital to take care of me since the accident.
Yu Han felt that her mother probably wouldn't leave the hospital today. After thinking about it, she sent a message to someone saying, "If you want to come, then come. I'll go downstairs to the garden to meet you."
When Qin Yi received the news, he was actually already downstairs in the hospital, sitting on the corridor where they had watched the rain before.
He also felt that it would be difficult to wait for her without her family, so he also thought that after he came, he would see if she could go downstairs for a walk without her family following her.
Anyway, he had already practiced it once, so he felt it was feasible and safe.
When Yu Han upstairs received the news, she was surprised because she was still receiving an IV drip and couldn't get out yet.
The water would take about half an hour to come, and she thought it would take some time to get to where he lived, but she didn't expect that he was already downstairs.
What should I do? What should I do... Let him wait down there?
Just as she was racking her brains, Ms. Xia Yue received a phone call. She went over to her daughter and said, "Hanhan, Mommy's going to the company. You stay here with the IV. Mommy won't be gone for long."
"Ah..." She raised her eyes from her phone, "Going to the company?"
"Yes. Your father has something to discuss with Mom, and it's hard to explain over the phone. Mom will be gone for a while, don't worry."
She was stunned and didn't react. Is it such a coincidence?
Seeing this, her mother asked her, "Can't bear to leave me?" Ms. Xia joked, "Then I won't go. I'll tell you on the phone."
Yu Han came back to her senses. Frankly speaking, she was reluctant to let him go, but she still shook her head.
"It's okay, go ahead and do your thing, Mom. I'm going to go downstairs and take a walk after I finish my input. Some classmates are visiting me, so you don't have to rush back."
"Is that so? Then be careful." Ms. Xia approached and stroked her furry head. "Wear a coat when you go out. It rained last night and the temperature dropped three degrees today. If anything happens, call mom or dad right away."
"Hmmmm."
Ms. Xia smiled, went over to say a few words to the Filipino maid, and then walked away gracefully in her high heels.
Yu Han immediately sent a message to someone.
Qin Yi got up and went to take the elevator, and just happened to pass by Ms. Xia. He looked back at the familiar person and walked into the elevator with a guilty conscience.
Go up to the twelfth floor.
Yu Han was bored and was counting the number of times the sunlight jumped onto the shutters.
When the doorbell rang, her eyes flashed and she turned to the Filipino maid and said, "Auntie, go open the door. My friend is here to see me."
The Filipino maid will be there soon.
Unexpectedly, when the door opened, it was a boy.
He was very tall, dressed in black, with a black cap, and holding a bouquet of white roses.
The Filipino maid was a little surprised, but still made room for the person to come in.
Yu Han leaned against the hospital bed, tilting her head to look at the entrance corridor.
The footsteps were familiar. Although she hadn't heard them for a long time, she knew very few opposite-sex people, and he still left an impression in her heart from their past interactions.
Unexpectedly, the first thing that caught my eye was not a person, but a flower...
The snow-like rose was held by the young man's slender fingers, with its branches slightly tilted, and the fragrance seemed to flow out from the petals.
Then, there was a glimpse of a figure.
Her eyes moved upwards involuntarily, like the sunlight, climbing up onto her bed inch by inch as time passed.
And he climbed into her heart.
He walked slowly to begin with, and walked in leisurely from the door. After appearing, he stopped and stayed there, facing her on the bed from a distance of three or five meters.
The pair of peach blossom eyes under the black baseball cap had a rare...unnatural look.
Compared to the firmness when we recognized each other yesterday, today we feel a sense of unfamiliarity, as if we had just met.
Just like Yu Han.
So both of them stopped moving.
The maid had originally thought it was a bit strange for a boy to visit the patient, and now, seeing the two of them looking at each other from a distance without saying hello, as if they were unfamiliar with each other, she couldn't help but ask Yu Han: "Hanhan, isn't he your friend? I don't know him."
"Oh, I know him."
The maid was still a little skeptical: "Then why don't you ask them to sit down?"
Yu Han scratched her hair awkwardly.
Fortunately, someone stepped forward on his own.
The Class A ward was large, and he was standing far away from her, taking the few steps towards her slowly. He was wearing a black robe wrapped in white flowers, and his handsome eyebrows were hidden under the brim of his hat, but he couldn't suppress the smile that was faintly visible under the corners of his eyes.
Yu Han was so taken aback by his handsomeness that she forgot yesterday's "hatred" for a second just by stealing a glance at him from the corner of her eye. However, she didn't dare to face such a scene head-on.
Her hands felt a little hot for no reason.
But he is really handsome, this scene reasonably explains why Shen Man and Bao Tong have been talking about him time and time again. They are obsessed with this man's appearance, a face that she thinks looks like a big star at first sight.
Suddenly she envied them. They could even see him every day, while she was able to be open and honest with him for the first time in several years.
In just a few seconds, she regretted breaking her promise in high school.
Arriving at the bedside, he placed the flowers in her arms while she was at a loss. This completely made Yu Han unable to move her hands, and she could only stiffly hold the bouquet of flowers that were as soft and weightless as moonlight.
Today it’s roses, but they’re just as pretty as lisianthus.
Qin Yi sat down on the chair beside the bed, but at that moment he did not lean back. Instead, he reached forward and touched her pale face: "It's so cold, are you cold?"
"A little. It's okay, it's the water." She was so uncomfortable that she responded immediately when someone spoke and took the stairs as soon as they were needed.
She pointed to the tube where she was receiving the IV and said, "It's because of this yellow water. It turns cold as soon as it's infused."
Qin Yi tilted his head. Fortunately, only one-third of the water was left. He pulled the quilt higher and touched her head with a distressed look.
Yu Han was a little shy. Even though she had something in her hands, she still didn't know what to do.
"Do you have a headache today?" Qin Yi asked.
She immediately replied obediently: "It doesn't hurt. It hurt a little last night, but it's much better today."
Qin Yi felt uncomfortable: "That's good. Don't study for the next few days."
Yu Han looked at the flowers, then at the sunlight beside the bed. Suddenly, she thought of a topic and started with it: "You, um... when will you return to China?"
Qin Yi: "I'm fine with that. I'll leave when you're almost discharged."
"I'm fine, you don't have to wait for me." Yu Han didn't expect to hear an answer related to herself, so she said without hesitation, "If I stay any longer, it will be September 1st, and school will officially start."
"It's okay, I won't go to the extra classes. I'll go when school starts." The boy's calm eyes were like a gust of wind, floating across her body in the room, peaceful and gentle, calm and composed, and firm.
Yu Han met his eyes unknowingly.
It was the first time since he came in that she met his eyes, staring at him without avoiding or avoiding him.
Qin Yi's originally calm expression turned slightly up at this moment, almost imperceptibly.
"I wanted to wait. You don't know how I spent those twelve days without being able to contact you. I want to see you discharged from the hospital, Hanhan."
Yu Han lowered her head: "I'm sorry."
Qin Yi tilted his head to look at the potion.
Didn't he want to hear this? She was lying here seriously injured and running a fever, and he wanted her to apologize?
He took the flowers in her arms and placed them on the bedside table, picked up her cold hands and stuffed them into the quilt, but he did not take his hands out of the quilt.
Instead, he gently placed it on the cold little hand where no one could see.
Yu Han didn't notice it at first, and it took her several seconds to feel his movement. Then, she moved her hand and shrank back.
But he chased her under the quilt, covered her hand and pressed it gently.
Yu Han gritted her teeth and appeared calm on the surface as if nothing had happened.
Then, the little hand that was as cold as an ice cube under the quilt was pried up one by one by someone's fingers, and then, the ten fingers were interlocked.
She gasped, yes, she gasped deeply, and her eyes fluttered as if something had entered her eyes and was trying to blink away the discomfort.
She didn't dare to speak or make any big movements because the Filipino maid was in the living room. Although the room was large, the layout was open and there was no separation between the living room and the ward, so her every move was broadcast live.
However, she didn't know why she didn't ask him to stop from the beginning to the end, but had no other reaction except shyness.
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