Chapter 11: Love's Great Reversal 4
Half a month has passed since Pei Haochuan's accident. Qian Mengmeng's emotions have gradually calmed down from her initial inability to accept it. Although she still cannot accept it from the bottom of her heart, Uncle Pei's condition is more serious than hers. Because of Pei Haochuan's incident, Uncle Pei's condition relapsed again and now needs long-term hospitalization.
After the misunderstanding was resolved, Qian Mengmeng and her father stopped talking about moving. Whenever she had time, Qian Mengmeng would go to the hospital to visit Uncle Pei. Today, she made lean meat porridge and went to the hospital. When she arrived, Uncle Pei was playing Go with his fellow patients. Qian Mengmeng quietly stayed by his side and waited for him to finish playing Go before pushing the old man to the hospital garden.
"I spent the whole morning cooking today's porridge. My dad is jealous. He said I treat you much better than I treat him. You are such a worry-free old man."
Uncle Pei was amused by Qian Mengmeng's words. He ate his porridge and said with a smile: "When I am discharged from the hospital, I will treat him to a good meal, and he will not say that anymore."
"Don't invite him to dinner," Qian Mengmeng said hurriedly, "My dad is now obsessed with starting a business again. He really wants to open a restaurant. If you invite him out for dinner, he will definitely talk to you from beginning to end about the rent, the chef, the planning plan..." Qian Mengmeng rolled her eyes, looking unbearable.
"But it's much better than before. This time I know I need to carefully examine the actual situation, and I'm saving money slowly. I just don't know if the final result will be good." Qian Mengmeng said slowly.
"Your father really wants to start a business this time, not because your mother despises him for not having money." Uncle Pei's old voice sounded, and he said gently, "If your father is short of funds, I can be a shareholder!"
"Don't do that," Qian Mengmeng quickly refused, "Our family already owes you enough, we really can't trouble you anymore."
Uncle Pei looked at Qian Mengmeng with his wise eyes. After a while, he said, "Mengmeng, are you...still unable to let go of Haochuan?"
Qian Mengmeng's eyes turned red when she was touched by the words. She lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry...Uncle Pei."
"Alas..." Uncle Pei sighed, "Child, don't always feel sorry for me. To be honest , it's because I asked your dad to vouch for me that all these things got involved. You and Haochuan like each other, and I didn't expect that it would involve the grudges of the previous generation. So Mengmeng, don't blame yourself too much. This is none of your business. Haochuan is like this... It's his bad luck, it has nothing to do with you. If you keep living with this matter, I'm worried that it will be bad for you."
"Uncle Pei..." Qian Mengmeng's heart was filled with tenderness, and she said softly, "I know you are doing this for my own good, but... this matter is really too sudden, and I have not been able to face it properly yet... Please forgive me, forgive my willfulness."
Father Pei looked at her for a while, and then sighed after a long time.
"You kid..."
Qian Mengmeng smiled at him with red eyes, but didn't say anything else in the end.
After visiting Pei's father, Qian Mengmeng went to Pei Haochuan's apartment, which has now been renovated. Since the incident, Qian Mengmeng has come here many times, and every time she would sit for a while before leaving. Sometimes she herself didn't know what the point of insisting like this was, as if the fire had not actually happened, and Pei Haochuan was just traveling, a trip that he didn't tell anyone about. The next second he would appear in front of the apartment door and tell her: "I just disappeared for a while."
Qian Mengmeng knew that this was impossible, but she still hoped for it in her heart. Sometimes she found it ridiculous. She had clearly lost everything, so what was there to regret? But she just couldn't help thinking that Pei Haochuan would appear again, that he was not dead, and that everything she had experienced before was just a false alarm...
"Meng Meng." Pei Haochuan's voice.
Qian Mengmeng laughed at herself, she thought she was thinking about Pei Haochuan too much and even had hallucinations.
"Mengmeng?" Pei Haochuan's gentle voice said, "I'm back."
Qian Mengmeng sat on the sofa in the living room. She turned her head and saw Pei Haochuan bathed in the sunlight, like an angel descending from the sky.
"Really... I'm dreaming again." Qian Mengmeng turned her head and said to herself, "It will disappear soon, right? What's wrong with me..."
"Mengmeng," Pei Haochuan's voice was getting closer and closer. Qian Mengmeng turned her head and saw Pei Haochuan standing in front of her. He looked at her tenderly and said to her, "Mengmeng, it's me, Haochuan."
She opened her eyes wide and couldn't help slapping her face: "What's going on? Why can't I wake up from this dream?"
Pei Haochuan in front of him suddenly smiled and said, "You are not dreaming, I am really back."
"What..." Qian Mengmeng was about to say, but the boy suddenly pinched her cheek gently, "It hurts..." Qian Mengmeng whispered , and then she suddenly looked at Pei Haochuan who was standing in front of her, "You, you, you..."
Qian Mengmeng was incoherent. She was so excited that she didn't know what to do. Tears just streamed down her cheeks. She covered her mouth, unable to believe this was true.
Pei Haochuan raised his hand to wipe her tears and gently held her in his arms: "Silly girl, it's not that easy for me to die. I left the apartment long before the fire broke out here."
One second before the plane to the United States took off, he suddenly regretted it. At the moment when he was about to leave this land forever, he suddenly realized that he could not give up Qian Mengmeng and their relationship, so he temporarily changed his itinerary and booked a flight to Switzerland. During the half month there, he did not contact anyone. He just relaxed quietly and focused on what he liked to do.
But just when he was about to go to another country, he saw the news about an accident at his family at the airport. Qian Mengmeng was crying in the news, and his father's old illness relapsed. Pei Haochuan felt heartbroken and decided immediately that no matter what had happened between them, he no longer cared. He only wanted Qian Mengmeng, as long as his love and family were fine.
"I'm not dead, I'm just traveling. Look, I'm fine, aren't I?" Pei Haochuan hugged Qian Mengmeng and told her the whole story.
Qian Mengmeng nodded desperately and cried with joy: "Haochuan, I have something to tell you too."
"Hmm?" Pei Haochuan raised his eyebrows.
"We, your father, and my mother...my father...it's not...your father didn't betray us, you know? This is all a misunderstanding. We shouldn't have quarreled in the first place, Haochuan, you know? I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
Qian Mengmeng hugged him and tried hard to talk about the grudge between their two families. Until the end, she desperately said sorry to Pei Haochuan.
"Silly girl," Pei Haochuan gently held her face, his gentle and affectionate eyes seemed to be able to see into her heart, "There is nothing to be sorry about, I won't blame you."
He smiled and said, "Have you forgotten what I said to you at the intersection where we parted?"
Qian Mengmeng looked at him silently.
The sun was shining brightly outside the window. Pei Haochuan leaned over gently and kissed the girl's soft lips.
"I still love you."
His mumbling flowed out from between their lips and teeth as they touched...
