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In the past few days, since Li Yeheng’s return, Cheng Mi hadn’t seen his phone stop ringing.
He had always been busy, but not this busy.
Li Yeheng generally didn’t talk to Cheng Mi and Li Chu about company troubles.
Later, Cheng Mi and Li Chu learned from a conversation between Si Huiru and Li Yeheng that Li Yeheng’s company was having some problems.
And the problems were not small; they were already affecting the company’s survival.
That’s why Li Yeheng was on the phone all day and night, sometimes even in the early morning.
But last night, Li Yeheng was uncharacteristically not frowning while on the phone.
At that time, Cheng Mi had finished showering at home and returned to the hospital to relieve Si Huiru so she could rest at home.
When she got to the hallway, she heard Li Yeheng telling Si Huiru that Li Chengxun’s side wanted to help and that they should have dinner together tomorrow.
Si Huiru’s face had been clouded for the past few days. She was pleasantly surprised to hear this. Her fatigue was somewhat gone.
“Did Mr. Li really say that?”
Li Yeheng said: “He did, but there are some fundamental issues. We need to stick to our principles.”
Cheng Mi understood this sentence.
Not to mention Li Yeheng and Si Huiru, even she knew that Li Chengxun wouldn’t help clean up a mess for no reason.
Businessmen don’t talk about favors; they talk about interests. A partnership would naturally be for profit.
But it was unknown whether the interests the other party wanted would cross a line. If it did, a person like Li Yeheng would still consider sticking to his principles.
Cheng Mi told Si Huiru to go home and rest. Si Huiru felt uneasy whenever she couldn’t see Si Tingyan for a moment. At first, she wanted to continue guarding the intensive care unit.
But she hadn’t slept for two consecutive days. If she didn’t go back, her body would collapse before Si Tingyan got better.
There were doctors and nurses here 24 hours a day, so in the end, Li Yeheng took Si Huiru home to rest.
Cheng Mi was alone in the hallway. She didn’t sit on the chair. She walked over to the window of the room.
Through the glass, his face was still and his breathing was also still.
It was as if she could lose him at any time.
If she held on, Cheng Mi would hold on with all her might.
If, unfortunately, the consequence she never dared to think about happened and she couldn’t hold on to him.
Then Cheng Mi would hold on forever, too.
She would be with him even after she had been dead for decades.
Outside the building, the fine rain drizzled, washing over the entire city. Until the dawn in the distance appeared on the horizon and the dark night was replaced, Cheng Mi didn’t close her eyes.
She stayed awake in the hallway all night, never taking her eyes off Si Tingyan inside.
Usually, Li Chu would buy her breakfast at this time, but Li Chu had a test at school this morning, so she went back to school last night.
But Li Chu didn’t come. Someone else did.
Li Zhiyu came out of the elevator in a hospital gown.
His hospital room was upstairs, not far from Si Tingyan’s. He had already been here a few times.
Every time Li Zhiyu came, he would run into Cheng Mi. He wasn’t surprised to see her at all. He walked straight to Cheng Mi’s side, glanced inside, and asked her: “Has he woken up?”
Cheng Mi was still looking at Si Tingyan: “No.”
The relationship between Cheng Mi and Li Zhiyu had always been lukewarm. Although they weren’t at odds with each other because of past grievances, they weren’t close either.
But Cheng Mi suddenly asked him: “What was Si Tingyan like as a child?”
Li Zhiyu looked at her when he heard that.
He didn’t answer her. He asked her: “Got a cigarette? I forgot to bring one when I came down.”
Cheng Mi had some but wouldn’t give them to him: “Look at where we are.”
Li Zhiyu almost forgot that he couldn’t smoke here. He had injuries and couldn’t stand for too long, so he leaned against the window in the hallway.
“If I told you that Si Tingyan was exactly the same as he is now when he was a child, would you believe me?”
Cheng Mi also turned around and leaned against the wall slightly: “I would.”
The person opposite her, in a hospital gown, couldn’t hide his arrogance.
The Li family’s genes were indeed impressive.
Li Zhiyu said: “There was one difference, though. He was very clingy to me when he was a child. My mom passed away early, and I was the only one who could take him out to play.”
Cheng Mi looked at him: “Are you sure it wasn’t that you insisted on bringing him with you?”
She felt that with a face like Si Tingyan’s, he must have been loved by everyone when he was a child.
Li Zhiyu smiled: “You’re right.”
He hooked his arms on the window behind him: “But sometimes it was annoying. I was young then and only wanted to play. I would dislike that he couldn’t run or jump. I had to watch him, and I couldn’t play with my friends at all.”
“But he didn’t let me bully him. He didn’t get sad when he knew I was annoyed. Instead, he bullied me back.”
Cheng Mi had heard about this before. She had once overheard a conversation between Li Zhiyu and Si Tingyan.
At that time, Li Zhiyu said that Si Tingyan had put the snake he was most afraid of in his quilt.
“What happened afterward?” Cheng Mi asked.
“What do you mean ‘afterward’?”
“That little snake that he put on your bed.”
Li Zhiyu: “...”
“I apologized to him, and he took it away.”
Cheng Mi smiled.
Li Zhiyu probably found it funny too and was laughing.
After a while, he said: “But he was also very well-behaved. He never cried or said he was in pain when he had a heart attack.”
Cheng Mi looked up.
Li Zhiyu also looked at her: “He was born when I was two years old. My mom had just given birth to him when they found out he had a severe congenital heart disease. At that time, medicine wasn’t as good as it is now. The complete transposition of the great arteries surgery was difficult and very dangerous. He was just a child who could only breathe. My mom was crying the whole time during the surgery.”
Without any warning, a hollow space formed in Cheng Mi’s heart.
Li Zhiyu continued: “It’s unclear whether the surgery was a success or not. His life was saved, but there were complications afterward. He had been undergoing treatment intermittently.”
“He didn’t get proper treatment?”
Li Zhiyu looked at her: “Later, my dad went bankrupt. The family couldn’t even afford to eat, let alone pay for his illness. It was delayed, and as it was delayed, some things only got worse, and his body got weaker and weaker.”
Si Tingyan was adopted by Si Huiru. Cheng Mi asked: “So you threw him away?”
This was a direct hit to Li Zhiyu’s wound. He turned his head away and turned back after a long while: “It was my mom.”
He said: “Chang Mei.”
If he hadn’t trusted her so much back then, Si Tingyan wouldn’t have gotten lost.
Cheng Mi knew who Chang Mei was.
The woman next to Li Chengxun, with an elegant demeanor.
Li Zhiyu: “Si Tingyan’s medical fees were expensive. The family’s financial situation wasn’t good at the time. She thought he was a burden.”
Cheng Mi felt a sense of powerlessness toward everything that had happened in the past.
“You probably know the rest of the story. He got lost, was almost trafficked by human traffickers, and was saved by Auntie Huiru. At first, she sent him to an orphanage, but then she took him back to raise him.”
Cheng Mi didn’t know about this. She asked: “How do you know?”
Li Zhiyu: “Of course I asked his mom. I’ve been to Auntie Huiru’s house a few times.”
“How did you find him later?”
Li Zhiyu smiled. It was unclear if it was mockery or something else, but there was definitely no pride in it. He sneered: “What person can’t my dad find now?”
“Si Tingyan wasn’t willing to go back?”
Li Zhiyu nodded. He looked at the window behind Cheng Mi. Cheng Mi knew he was looking at Si Tingyan.
He said in a slow, low voice, as if sighing: “But he has to go back sooner or later.”
Cheng Mi didn’t hear him clearly: “What?”
Li Zhiyu had already changed the topic: “I told you, nothing good would come of you liking him.”
Cheng Mi looked at him: “Did he like me first or did I like him first?”
Li Zhiyu smiled again, resigned: “He liked you first.”
All the suffering he was enduring today was Si Tingyan’s own choice.
It was all because of Cheng Mi.
Li Zhiyu remembered something: “No wonder when I ran into him the day I was with you, I called out to him, and he completely ignored me. Was it because he fell in love with you at first sight?”
Cheng Mi smiled slightly.
Not only was it love at first sight, but it was also a long-standing unrequited love, from three years ago at the hospital in Jiacheng.
She gave him a can of Wangzai Milk, and from then on, he only drank Wangzai Milk.
Just then, Li Zhiyu’s phone suddenly rang. He took it out and looked at it, frowning slightly.
The frown hadn’t eased up yet, and the elevator door in the hallway opened.
Li Zhiyu looked over, and Cheng Mi also looked in that direction.
A girl with slightly wavy, long hair came out of the elevator. She had curved eyebrows and almond eyes. Her red lips were moist, but she didn’t have a soft appearance. You could tell that she was a noblewoman from the inside out.
She was around the same age as them and was clearly from a distinguished family.
Li Zhiyu frowned even more when he saw her.
It turned out that the girl had indeed come to find him. She said to him: “Auntie Chang said you were here.”
Li Zhiyu looked annoyed but didn’t make the girl feel too bad.
He said to Cheng Mi: “I’m leaving.”
After saying that, he got up, pressed the elevator door open again, and went in.
The girl followed him in.
Cheng Mi looked away.
The hallway became quiet again. She turned back to look at Si Tingyan inside.
White walls, white pillows, and white sheets.
Si Tingyan was in a sea of white. He was pale and quiet, but his facial features were still strikingly delicate.
Cheng Mi’s gaze roamed over his face, carefully tracing every detail.
How much he must have suffered as a child.
Suddenly, Si Tingyan’s eyelashes moved slightly.
Cheng Mi’s gaze paused.
Si Tingyan’s eyelashes were very black and long. They lay on his pale skin and didn’t move again.
Cheng Mi stared intently at that spot.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely—
In the next second, along with the slight movement of his eyelashes, his brows furrowed slightly.
That action was like a sudden contraction of Cheng Mi’s heart. She stared intently at Si Tingyan, forgetting to breathe.
After a long few seconds, Si Tingyan’s eyelashes moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
The eyes that had been in a coma in the darkness slowly saw the light.
It was also like a dazzling beam of light that pierced into Cheng Mi’s eyes. They were instantly filled with a sour ache, and a thin layer of moisture covered her eyes.
She was about to call the doctor but noticed Si Tingyan’s next move and stopped.
Si Tingyan became lucid very quickly. His gaze first searched the area nearby.
Regardless of whether there was anyone there or not, Cheng Mi knew he would continue to look outward.
Sure enough, Si Tingyan quickly looked out and met her gaze accurately.
He was looking for her.
Cheng Mi’s heart softened.
Si Tingyan’s gaze was as it always was. His dark eyes were cold and clear, with that unbearable quality that had never disappeared from his bones, and they fell directly into her eyes.
The two of them stared at each other through the glass.
Cheng Mi put her hand on the glass. Her fingertips traced the side of his face. She smiled slightly at him.
Si Tingyan looked at her.
But he seemed a little tired. He quickly frowned and closed his eyes, but this time Cheng Mi could tell that he wasn’t falling back into a coma. He was enduring some kind of severe pain.
The heartbeat on the cardiac monitor began to fluctuate.
Cheng Mi immediately went to call the doctor.
When she turned around, the doctors and nurses had already run over and quickly entered the intensive care unit.
Cheng Mi’s vision was quickly blocked as the curtains were drawn.
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Half an hour later, the doctors and nurses came out from inside. At the same time, the elevator in the hallway arrived.
Cheng Mi looked to the side and saw Si Tingyan’s father, Li Chengxun.
Li Chengxun came out of the elevator with his usual steady and composed pace. This time, he didn’t have his wife with him. He only brought an assistant.
Someone had probably notified him that Si Tingyan had woken up.
Although Li Chengxun was similar in age to Li Yeheng, their auras were very different. Li Yeheng was gentle and polite, while Li Chengxun was sharp and mature. Although his expression was sometimes as gentle as a spring breeze, in reality, he had an edge that made people afraid to look directly at him.
Li Chengxun was on the phone. And when the doctors came out of the intensive care unit, they saw him and rushed to greet him, so Li Chengxun didn’t notice Cheng Mi.
The hallway was empty. Cheng Mi could hear everything they said clearly.
The doctor said that Si Tingyan’s condition had improved but was still not optimistic. The surgery still needed to be done as soon as possible.
After a discussion, Li Chengxun seemed to glance at the intensive care unit.
The curtains on the window were drawn, and he couldn’t see anything.
Cheng Mi heard Li Chengxun ask the doctor: “Is he resting?”
The doctor said he was resting for now.
Li Chengxun nodded and told the doctor to pay more attention to Si Tingyan. The doctor nodded repeatedly.
After giving his instructions, Li Chengxun turned to leave and noticed Cheng Mi on the chair.
Cheng Mi met his gaze. As a junior, she greeted him first: “Hello, Uncle.”
She was poised and generous, without any hint of being rushed.
Li Chengxun smiled at her, which was surprisingly easygoing.
He nodded: “I was just about to have dinner with your uncle and auntie. Do you want me to give you a ride?”
Cheng Mi also smiled slightly. Just as she was about to say that it wasn’t necessary to trouble him, the elevator door opened.
Si Huiru had arrived.
Cheng Mi’s gaze went to Si Huiru.
Si Huiru probably hadn’t expected Li Chengxun to be here. After a moment of surprise, she nodded to Li Chengxun from a distance and then hurried over.
“Mr. Li, did you come to see Si Tingyan?”
Li Chengxun said: “He just woke up.”
Si Huiru hadn’t heard this news yet. A look of joy immediately appeared on her face: “Si Tingyan woke up?”
As she said that, she couldn’t wait to go to the intensive care unit to see Si Tingyan.
Li Chengxun didn’t stop her. He only said: “The doctor said he’s resting.”
Cheng Mi watched as Si Huiru’s footsteps stopped: “Oh, is that so? Si Tingyan needs to rest well.”
Even though she was the mother who had raised Si Tingyan from a young age, Si Huiru seemed as humble as an outsider in front of Si Tingyan’s biological father.
But Li Chengxun didn’t actually do anything.
He was gentle and polite, and one could even say he was considerate. Cheng Mi saw his gaze fall on her again and he said to Si Huiru: “There are doctors and nurses here 24 hours a day. Someone is watching him. Take the child with you and come over. The two families can have dinner together. I’ll give you a ride.”
Si Huiru said it wasn’t necessary: “Yeheng is downstairs.”
Li Chengxun nodded: “Then I’ll be going.”
After saying that, he and his assistant quickly walked into the elevator.
Cheng Mi looked away.
Si Huiru had come to pick up Cheng Mi to go home. Cheng Mi had been guarding him all night. She and Li Yeheng wanted to come to the hospital to pick up Cheng Mi before their dinner with Li Chengxun.
Dinner was already made and was on the table at home.
But it was also not good to refuse Li Chengxun’s invitation, and Cheng Mi was naturally aware of that.
She said: “Auntie, I’ll go with you.”
“Okay. We’ll pick up Li Chu from the station on the way.”
She then asked about Si Tingyan. It was clear that she was thinking about him every second: “Si Tingyan just woke up. Is he doing okay? Did he say anything?”
Cheng Mi had just heard what Li Chengxun said to the doctor.
She said: “The doctor said his condition has improved.”
She also didn’t hide the truth from her: “But he needs to have the surgery as soon as possible.”
When Si Huiru heard that Si Tingyan had improved, the joy on her face was more than if she had won the lottery: “That’s good.”
She added: “He needs to have the surgery.”
The two of them went downstairs. As they were leaving the inpatient building, Cheng Mi caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye.
She looked over and saw a girl in a Fenggao school uniform.
High ponytail, oval face, delicate eyebrows, and cold eyes. She had an aloof demeanor and was Chu Xinhe.
She didn’t notice Cheng Mi and was looking in a certain direction.
Cheng Mi followed her gaze and, as expected, saw Li Zhiyu on a bench not far away.
The girl who had just come to find him was sitting next to him.
They had their backs to her and didn’t see Chu Xinhe at all.
Chu Xinhe just stood there and didn’t go forward.
In Cheng Mi’s memory, Chu Xinhe wasn’t the kind of girl who would get jealous in a relationship. Instead, she was rational and restrained.
Just like when Cheng Mi and Li Zhiyu first got together, Chu Xinhe never targeted her or got jealous of her.
Because she knew Li Zhiyu liked her.
But now, she was standing there motionless.
If this girl was just a stranger, she wouldn’t have this expression.
There was a hint of sadness in Chu Xinhe’s calm expression.
It was very clear that this girl had a relationship with Li Zhiyu, and it wasn’t a family or friendship one.
It could only be a romantic relationship.
But just now upstairs, Cheng Mi remembered that Li Zhiyu didn’t seem to like that girl very much.
Before she could figure anything out, Chu Xinhe turned and left.
Li Yeheng’s car arrived downstairs at the same time.
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