Chapter 11: Sakura Death
Cherry blossom trees, cotton candy, glass greenhouse, pink ribbons... I want to take these everlasting memories to heaven and earth, to the ends of the earth, and let my departure become a kind of magic to protect you from any harm, but the price is that we will never see each other again in this life...
At that moment, Xia Ying pushed Bai Xichen away with all her strength, and looked back blankly. Her rapid heartbeat almost made her despair. She shook her head gently, wanting to explain to him.
The cold sea water submerged her feet. It was so cold, so cold.
Ji Xingyan's sudden action also made Bai Xichen freeze in place. He clenched the gardenia hairpin in his hand and looked up at him: "Ji Xingyan, things are not what you think..."
Hearing his voice, Ji Xingyan glared at him even more furiously, with a cold and indifferent look as if he wanted to torture him to death.
His Xia Ying, that’s his Xia Ying!
"Yin Xiaying, what did you do?" Ji Xingyan asked in a low voice, slowly approaching.
"I..." Under his sharp and cold gaze, Xia Ying had no idea how to explain.
"Ji Xingyan, it's not what you see." Bai Xichen said quickly, "Xia Ying and I are just friends, not the kind of relationship you imagine, and Xia Ying wouldn't..."
Suddenly, Ji Xingyan grabbed Bai Xichen by the collar and yelled, "Bai Xichen, shut up! I'm not asking you! Yin Xiaying, go ahead."
Xia Ying closed her eyes quietly, and her gentle voice reached Ji Xingyan's ears: "Senior Xichen and I are just friends. There is nothing between him and me. What you saw just now was just an expression of friendship. What happened between Senior Xichen and I is friendship, so don't let your imagination run wild."
"Xia Ying, you told me not to think too much?" Ji Xingyan asked, her eyes seemed to be spitting fire, "Since we are friends, why do you have to run to the beach to meet? Aren't you just trying to avoid me? Yin Xia Ying, have you forgotten what you promised me?"
"No, I haven't forgotten what you said." Xia Ying replied firmly.
"Then why do you still want to..." Ji Xingyan felt a huge pain in his heart. He pursed his lips which had turned purple, clenched his hands into fists, and lowered his head slightly, as if he didn't want them to notice.
The pain from his chest almost made him fall down.
“Xingyan, have you forgotten too?” Her eyes were sparkling with crystal clear water droplets, and a few strands of long hair stuck to her face. “You promised me… to believe me.”
"Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm fine..." Xia Ying closed her eyes and asked in a low voice, "Xingyan, if... I did something wrong, will you forgive me?"
Hearing this, Ji Xingyan frowned slightly, and he said softly: "Xia Ying, would you do anything wrong? In my heart, everything Xia Ying did was right. Including you leaving me three years ago, including you stopping me from competing with Bai Xichen... Everything you did, I now think, you did it for me, so you won't do anything wrong..."
"I'm talking about if." Xia Ying said stubbornly.
"No ifs..." Ji Xingyan lowered her head and deeply kissed the pink lace headband on her hair, then kissed her forehead, "Xia Ying will not do anything wrong..."
He wanted to reassure her!
"If one day, I do something that you don't want to see, you must forgive me, okay? Xingyan, you must forgive me..."
"Okay, I will definitely forgive you!" Ji Xingyan replied in a low voice, with a smile on her lips as soft as moonlight.
So, so...
This is what she was referring to...
But, this was a deception she had done to him, how could she forgive him...
My heart is aching more and more, I am almost feeling nothing...
"Xia Ying, how could you lie to me..." After saying that, Ji Xingyan covered his chest with his hands, and his body fell weakly to the beach.
"Starry Face..."
"Ji Xingyan..." Bai Xichen rushed over and supported his body which was about to fall.
Xia Ying held his hand in horror: "What's wrong with you? Are you sick? Don't scare me, don't scare me." Tears fell from her eyes and dripped into the silver sand.
Ji Xingyan knelt on one knee on the beach, tightly wrapped her palm, and slowly closed her eyes...
His heart aches...
I am dying from the pain...
The red light outside the emergency room door was still on.
He had been pushed in for a long, long time, so long that it felt like centuries had passed.
Xia Ying hugged herself, her whole body curled up tightly. Her eyes had lost focus, and she sat on the cold floor like a puppet, with many tears flowing from her lifeless eyes.
It's her, it's all her!
It's all because of her that he is like this!
Why does it always make him angry?
Why did she do that?
She hates herself like this!
Bai Xichen squatted down beside her, holding her slightly trembling shoulders and comforting her softly: "Xia Ying, don't be like this..."
It seemed as if Xia Ying didn't hear anything at all. She kept muttering his name: "Ji Xingyan... Ji Xingyan... Ji Xingyan..."
At this moment, her soul seemed to be no longer in her body, her thoughts were out of control, and her whole body seemed to be floating in a pure white world.
Can't find him...
Where is he...
“Boom, boom, boom—”
Ji Yelei ran quickly to the emergency room. Her face was pale with fright. The sound of her high heels hitting the floor became louder and louder, almost shaking the entire hospital.
The next moment, she saw Xia Ying.
Anger and sadness took over all her mind.
Ji Yelei walked past Bai Xichen and angrily pulled up Xia Ying, who was sitting on the ground with an expressionless face: "Stand up, stand up..." She used a lot of strength, and Xia Ying frowned tightly in pain.
"Do you know what you did? Yin Xiaying, how could you be so cruel..." Sad tears flowed endlessly from Ji Yelei's beautiful eyes. She tightly grasped Xiaying's arm, "Tell me, why did you do this? Do you want him to die?"
Do you want him to die?
Do you want him to die?
Do you want him to die?
No, no…
She hadn't thought about it that way...
Xia Ying suddenly came back to her senses, shook her head vigorously, and choked up: "I don't want to, I don't want to..."
“Pah—”
A loud slap hit her on the left cheek.
“Pah—”
Another loud slap landed on her right cheek.
Xia Ying was hit so hard that she turned her face away, and her whole body collapsed on the bench in the corridor. Her cheeks quickly became red and swollen, and crystal tears slowly flowed out of her big eyes.
Does it hurt?
But she seemed to no longer feel any pain, as if this body was no longer her own...
What she did...
She hurt him, she's a monster...
Bai Xichen held her shoulders lovingly. Her sad look made his heart feel as if it had fallen into hell.
He frowned painfully: "Xia Ying, Xia Ying..."
"I've never seen a girl like you. What are you going to do to him? I've already warned you not to hurt him..." Ji Yelei's angry voice echoed in the hospital corridor, and her beautiful face was covered with sad tears.
"Auntie, please don't blame Xia Ying." Bai Xichen stood in front of Xia Ying, "This is all because of me, it's not Xia Ying's fault, please don't blame her. Xia Ying is also very sad, very upset..."
"Very sad? Very sad?" Ji Yelei said mockingly, "Yin Xiaying, I think you wish he would disappear from now on, so that you can be with this boy, right?"
"No, no, it's not like that..." Xia Ying leaned on the bench and shook her head desperately. How could she bear to hurt him? How could she bear to see him like this...
pain……
The pain spreads from the bottom of my heart to my whole body...
She can hardly breathe...
He is everything to her...
"Auntie, please don't insult the relationship between Xia Ying and me." Bai Xichen said angrily, "Ji Xingyan's illness is not what we want to happen."
Ji Yelei ignored him and roughly pulled up the sitting Xia Ying, shaking her shoulders vigorously: "Do you know? Yin Xiaying, more than ten years ago, Xingyan's father left us forever because of your mother. He missed your mother too much and became sick due to grief, and finally left us! And now, every time Xingyan gets sick, it's all because of you, because of you - Yin Xiaying!"
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"If you knew how much I hated your mother, that damn woman, you would know how much I hate you now..."
Xia Ying wanted to shake her hand off in pain, but she had no strength left.
"You are as cruel and shameless as your mother! Your mother took away the person I loved the most, and now, you want to take away my beloved son. How far will you push me to..." Ji Yelei was already sobbing.
"Madam..." Butler Ji, who had been guarding the door of the emergency room, rushed over to support her, "Madam, please don't be like this..."
"Yin Xiaying, I beg you, please leave him. I will give you whatever you want as long as you return my son to me. Xingyan is everything to me..." Ji Yelei cried miserably. If it weren't for Butler Ji supporting her, she would have collapsed.
"Miss Xia Ying, please release the mistress and the young master for the sake of the master." In just a few hours, Butler Ji seemed to have aged by dozens of years. "As long as you release them, from now on, no matter what you need, I will help you, I will..."
a long time.
Xia Ying squatted quietly on the floor, staring at Ji Yelei absentmindedly: "Auntie, he is everything to you and everything to me, how can you ask me to give him up..."
He is everything to you and everything to me. How can I give him up ?
Xia Ying, do you know that you are everything to me?
Bai Xichen's chest tightened, unspeakable emotions surged in his heart, and his eyes were filled with sadness. He felt sorry for Xia Ying.
Suddenly, the door of the emergency room opened and a doctor came out.
"Who is Ji Xingyan's family member?"
Almost like crazy, Ji Yelei stumbled over, looking very embarrassed: "Doctor, how is my son? How is he?"
The doctor lowered his head and looked at the record sheet in his hand: "Madam, his heartbeat has recovered, but the situation is not very good. He is still in a coma. Please go and complete the hospitalization procedures. If he does not wake up within 24 hours, his life may be in danger."
Hearing this, Ji Yelei's body began to shake violently, and Butler Ji nervously supported her to prevent her from falling.
Similarly, after hearing the doctor's words, Xia Ying's whole body couldn't help but tremble continuously, as if she had fallen into an abyss of pain.
After a while, the nurse pushed the unconscious Ji Xingyan out of the emergency room.
Xia Ying pushed away Bai Xichen who was supporting her, rushed to the bedside, and murmured: "Xingyan, you will be fine, you will be fine, I won't let anything happen to you..."
Suddenly, Ji Yelei's sharp voice rang out——
"Yin Xiaying, listen to me. From now on, you will stay by his side and watch over him. You cannot leave until he is out of danger."
The hospital is very quiet at night.
On the hospital bed, Ji Xingyan was receiving an IV drip. He was sleeping soundly, his handsome face looked bloodless, as pale as the snow-white walls in the room. His breathing was so light that she could hardly feel it...
If his heart rate had not been still beating on the electrocardiogram, she would have thought he had died long ago.
Xia Ying stared at him intently. She looked very tired, and her dark eyes had sunken down. She had been by his side since he was sent to the intensive care unit, and it had been more than ten hours...
But she persisted and never left.
Suddenly, she discovered something, stood up quickly, carefully tucked in a corner of his quilt, and then sat quietly in the chair again.
For a long time, she didn't move and just looked at him.
The room was very quiet, and it seemed that only the beeping sound of the instruments could be heard.
Xia Ying raised her hand, gently touched his forehead, and smiled slightly, "Ji Xingyan, you have to wake up, you have to wake up..."
…
"You know what? I hate to see you lying lifeless on the hospital bed. You make me feel very scared, as if you are so far away from me that I can never touch you again..."
…
"Is this the nth time I've seen you like this? Although you're very quiet when you're asleep, I still like the way you look at me with your eyes open. I like the way you look at me. It makes me feel very warm..."
He was still asleep, showing no signs of waking up.
"I have loved the color of your hair since I was a child, a natural chestnut color. When the sun shines on it, it emits a very beautiful glow, very beautiful, so at that time I especially liked to follow behind you all the time..."
…
"I don't know if I've ever told you that your eyes are like stars, even brighter than stars..."
…
"I suddenly thought of three years ago when I was standing outside the ward and looking at you in a coma. I felt like the dumbest person in the world. I was the last person to know that your heart was not in good condition, and I seemed to be the one who caused you to get sick..."
…
"Today at the beach, you really misunderstood me. I went to see Senior Xichen because I wanted to make it clear to him, to let him know that it was you I liked, and to tell him that there was a girl who had always liked him, and that girl was Gu Yixue..."
…
"And that hug was just a hug between friends. It was the last request he agreed to give Yixue a try. So, you really misunderstood. We are not what you think, not like that..." Xia Ying's voice became softer and softer, and gentler and gentler.
On the hospital bed, Ji Xingyan's eyelashes suddenly moved.
"Please wake up soon, okay? If you don't wake up, all the leaves on the cherry trees will fall off... Xingyan, please don't be like Uncle Ji, who went to a place very far away from me without saying a word. You know how much I don't want to leave you, and how scared I am that I will never see you again... And Aunt Ye Lei, she loves you so much. She already has Uncle Ji, and if you don't care about her anymore, she will really have nothing..." Two lines of cold tears flowed from her deep eye sockets, shining like crystal stars under the blazing white light.
“Beep——”
“Beep, beep—”
The electrocardiogram machine suddenly beeped sharply, and the piercing sound seemed to pierce Xia Ying's body.
In an instant, doctors and nurses rushed into the ward to rescue the patient.
Xia Ying was pushed out of the ward, tears silently flowing from her eyes. Through the glass window of the ward, she clearly saw the doctor trying his best to save him...
"Yin Xiaying, what did you say to him?" Xiaying turned around and saw Ji Yelei who was furious.
She raised her hand and slapped Xia Ying in the face.
"Get out of here, the farther the better! I'm telling you, if he dies, Yin Xiaying, I want you to be buried with him!"
It's almost dawn.
Xia Ying ran all the way from the hospital to school.
The moonlight was cold, and her shadow reflected on the ground seemed a little unreal.
He will be fine...
On the back hill of Xuansheng College.
The mountain is covered with blooming gardenias, a large patch of snow-white flowers, emitting a cool glow under the silver moonlight. The rich fragrance fills the air, making the entire back mountain look exceptionally quiet and peaceful.
Under the wishing tree.
Yin Xiaying knelt on the ground sincerely, with her hands clasped together to form a "cross". She raised her head, looking at the pink ribbons fluttering in the wind on the gardenia tree, and said softly: "Wishing tree, please fulfill my wish..."
Xia Ying closed her eyes and made the most sincere wish.
——I hope he can wake up earlier, hope nothing will happen to him again, and hope he will be healthy and happy from now on...
——I hope that after he wakes up, he will no longer be angry with me...
——I hope this is the last time I see him so vulnerable...
—I hope that…
Xia Ying herself couldn't count how many sincere wishes she had made, she only knew that all of these wishes were related to him. The gardenia flowers that fell on the ground were suddenly blown up by the wind, and then flew away from her back one by one...
Xia Ying felt as if she was in a dream.
In the moonlight, her petite figure was like a beautiful and transparent phantom, shrouded in mercury-like light.
A long, long time passed, as if it were a century.
The bright sunshine shone on the white gardenias, and the warm golden sunshine surrounded her small body, but her delicate face still had a holy smile. She knelt there without any other movements, as if praying for him day and night without sleep was the only thing she could do in her life.
"Buzz, buzz—"
The cell phone in his pocket vibrated violently, and the words "Uncle Butler" continued to flash on the screen.
Xia Ying opened her eyes in panic and quickly answered the phone.
"Uncle housekeeper, is it Xingyan who..."
"Miss Xia Ying, the young master has safely passed the critical period and was transferred to the general ward this morning..."
“Pah—”
Xia Ying's hand loosened, and the phone fell to the ground. At that moment, she smiled slightly, and the tears in her eyes sparkled like crystals.
She knew that he would be fine, and would be safe...
First Hospital.
The first rays of sunshine in the morning fill every corner of the hospital with light and warmth.
In the ward, Ji Xingyan lay quietly on the bed. He seemed to be sleeping soundly, his lips were slightly pale but slightly raised, as if he had dreamed of something that made him happy...
Ji Yelei sat in the corner of the room, her back leaning on the sofa, her right hand weakly supporting her forehead, her tightly closed eyes making her look extremely haggard.
On the corridor, Xia Ying breathed softly. After receiving the call from the housekeeper, she ran to the hospital as fast as she could. She hadn't slept all night, and her face looked even paler than Ji Xingyan's.
Before she pushed the door open and walked in, Ji Yelei had already walked out of the ward, looking at her with a colder look, and a complicated expression in her eyes. Before Xia Ying could call out, Ji Yelei quickly walked over, grabbed her arm, and walked to the end of the corridor.
There were not many people in the hospital in the morning, so Ji Yelei pulled her into the hospital garden.
"Yin Xiaying, what are you still doing here? You are not needed here! Didn't I tell you to stay as far away from him as possible?"
"I..." Facing Ji Yelei's accusation, Xia Ying was speechless, "Auntie, I just want to come and see him..."
Seeing her panic-stricken look, Ji Yelei snorted coldly: "Are you here to see if he is dead?"
"No, no..." Xia Ying suddenly felt very aggrieved. The pain from her nose made her feel very uncomfortable. "Auntie, please don't say such things. I'm worried about him..."
"Don't worry, he's not dead, so..." Ji Yelei approached her, "Yin Xiaying, you don't have to be buried with him."
"That's not what I meant." Xia Ying subconsciously took a few steps back, then took a deep breath and said to her, "Auntie, you know what? I'm more afraid of him getting into trouble than anyone else. I'm afraid of seeing him lying lifeless on the hospital bed..."
…
"I know why Uncle Ji left us, so I don't want Xingyan to leave like this..." Xia Ying lowered her head and tears flowed from her eyes like two streams. "Why do you always think so strongly that I will..."
"Because you are just like your mother." Ji Yelei stepped closer, "Because you are just like her, both want to take away the most important person around me. Your mother used to be Yin Xiaying, and now you are the same. Why are you always like this?"
"Aunt……"
"After Xingyan's father passed away, Xingyan became my only relative in this world. He is everything to me, and no one can take him away from me, and you, even less can..."
"Auntie, I don't want to take him away. Xingyan will always be by your side. I love you because you will always be his mother..."
"Shut up, what qualifications do you have to say these things to me?"
Xia Ying was suddenly speechless. Yes, what right did she have to say these words? What right did she have to...
"You've hurt him time and time again, why do you still stay by his side? Is this revenge? Revenge for Butler Ji asking you to leave the Ji family before?"
When Xia Ying raised her head again, she saw Ji Yelei's face full of sad tears. Suddenly, Xia Ying felt as if she had fallen into a dark hole filled with sadness and disappointment, making it impossible for her to turn over.
"If this is revenge, is this enough? Yin Xiaying, Xingyan was almost killed by you..."
“Boom——”
Ji Yelei knelt straight on the hard floor, her face full of tears.
She looked straight at Yin Xiaying with empty eyes: "If it's not enough, take revenge on me! As long as you don't hurt him and don't take him away from me, you can do anything to me... He is everything to me, everything to me..."
At this moment, Xia Ying truly realized that she had seriously hurt a mother's heart.
Slowly, she also knelt down.
"I beg you, please, please leave him, please leave him, okay? I will agree to any request you make. I only beg you to leave him, the farther away from him the better, and don't hurt him anymore..."
She is a bad person...
This kind of her made Senior Bai Xichen sad...
Because of her, Ji Xingyan is now living in the hospital...
This made the heartbroken Ji Yelei kneel down in front of her...
"Ji Family, you can take anything with you, but please don't take him with you... You are his disaster. As long as you are by his side, he may get sick at any time, and he may be hospitalized and never wake up again..."
Xia Ying held Ji Yelei worriedly to prevent her from falling to the floor, and her crystal tears flowed endlessly.
"Yin Xiaying, I beg you, please, please understand a mother's feelings, please, please, please..."
What kind of girl is she that makes Xingyan’s mother beg her so humbly?
It was as if she was back to three years ago, when the housekeeper had also asked her to leave Ji Xingyan... And today, three years later, would she make the same choice again?
For him and his mother, Xia Ying had no other choice. Making such a decision was almost more painful than being slapped in the face.
"Aunt Ye Lei..."
"Xia Ying, Auntie begs you..."
"Aunt Ye Lei, please get up first..."
"Auntie, please..."
"Aunt Ye Lei, I promise you." Under the bright sunshine, Xia Ying's smile became transparent, and her long black hair was tightly tied by a light pink lace headband. She looked particularly beautiful like this.
"But before I leave, please let me see him one last time. I will leave here as quickly as possible and never let him see me again. Even if I disappear from this world, I will not become a disaster for him..."
In the ward, the warm sunlight refracted beautiful light from the transparent glass windows. Ji Xingyan's handsome face seemed to be glowing with golden light, absolutely beautiful and enchanting.
Xia Ying didn't say anything, just sat quietly beside the bed and looked at him. Suddenly, she held his hand, holding it between her two small hands, and a faint smile floated on her beautiful face.
"I left so that you would no longer suffer like this..."
…
Ji Xingyan stepped forward and grabbed her arm with such force that Xia Ying had to turn around and look at him: "Do you know what you are saying?"
Xia Ying nodded, enduring the pain in her arm: "Of course I know what I'm saying, even every word. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come to you and blamed you for what happened today, and we no longer have any relationship."
He was already angry when he heard this, and his anger intensified: "Yin Xiaying, do you think I don't know anything? Do you think I'm like a fool and will believe you just because you say a few words casually?"
"What?"
"On the evening three years ago, who said those unbelievable and heartless words to me under the cherry tree, and then cried for hours while hugging her body? It was you, Yin Xiaying, it was you. Have you forgotten? Do you really think that after three years, I still don't know the truth?"
The sour feeling coming from her nose made Xia Ying close her eyes in pain. How could she forget what happened that day? On that day, she said something extremely harsh to hurt him.
"Do you need me to tell you?"
Xia Ying began to shake her head vigorously: "No, I don't want to listen!"
"Don't you want to listen? I'm going to tell you!" Ji Xingyan approached her, anger burning in her chest, "You completely lied to me, Yin Xiaying. Three years ago, you left just because of my illness, just because of my congenital heart disease, right? Just because of a word from Butler Ji, you actually said that to me. Do you think you are so great?"
"No, that's not the case. Don't say that anymore." Finally, the tears that had been dormant in her eyes could no longer stop flowing down her face. "Why do you think so? Three years ago, everything I said to you was true. It was all true."
She had only one thought in her mind: this couldn't go on any longer, she couldn't let him continue talking...
"You still lied to me? How could you be so selfish, so selfish as to abandon the relationship we have had since childhood?"
No, that's not the case...
She wanted to explain herself so that he would stop talking, but the voice seemed to be stuck in her throat and she was so painful that she couldn't utter a word.
"Is a heart attack terrible? So terrible that you want to escape from me at all costs, right?"
"No, no..." That's not the case at all!
"No! I tell you, Yin Xiaying, no! You can never leave me again, no matter what the reason is, you can't leave me at all! Otherwise, I will go crazy, I really will..." Gradually, his voice became softer, his heroic face turned slightly pale, his anger subsided, and his eyes were misty.
"Ji Xingyan..." Xia Ying bit her lips and could no longer speak.
At this moment, Ji Xingyan hugged her: "You are mine, Xia Ying, you can only be mine..." His voice was extremely gentle. In his arms, Xia Ying heard his strong heartbeat.
…
Can you please let me be selfish for once?
This time, I will definitely go far away and never let you find me again...
Suddenly, Xia Ying let go of his hand and untied the pink lace headband tied on her long hair. Her long hair fell behind her like a waterfall. She gently stroked the headband, and her eyes suddenly turned red.
…
"From now on, without my permission, you are not allowed to untie it at any time, and you are not allowed to let ."
…
Xia Ying lowered her head, holding the two ends of the hairband with both hands, and wrapped it around his left wrist again and again. When she was almost at the end, she skillfully tied a beautiful bow, just like the bow he tied for her that day.
Then, Xia Ying gently stood up from the chair, bowed her head deeply, and kissed his smooth forehead deeply. She looked at him and whispered, "Brother, I hope... we will never see each other again!"
It was as if a light breeze blew past Ji Xingyan, the ward became quiet, Xia Ying was gone... Suddenly, Ji Xingyan, who was lying on the hospital bed, seemed to feel something, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
After returning to school, Xia Ying packed her things and went to the principal's office to handle the transfer procedures. Faced with the principal's kind invitation to stay, Xia Ying smiled and refused.
Gu Yixiu held Xia Ying all the way and wouldn't let her leave.
"Yin Xiaying, Xia Xiaoying, Xiaoyingying, if you leave, I will no longer recognize you as my friend!" Gu Yixue glared at her in dissatisfaction, "What will I do if you leave? Who will I talk to every day? Who will teach me how to do my homework and mark the key points for my exams? Xiaoyingying, why do you suddenly want to transfer schools? You haven't helped me to pursue Senior Xichen yet, how can you leave?"
Gu Yixue held onto Xia Ying's arm tightly: "If you leave, what about Senior Ji? Isn't he your boyfriend? Or... was it him who asked you to transfer to another school? Are you going to England with him? Will you forget me then..."
Xia Ying stopped.
"Is this really the case? Xiaoying, you'd better tell me quickly, otherwise I will be very uncomfortable..." She chattered on and on, not noticing that Xia Ying's face turned pale in an instant.
"Does Senior Xichen know that you are leaving?"
Xia Ying raised her head and looked at Gu Yixue, and said calmly: "It's best if no one knows."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple!" A very loud female voice came from behind her, "I already know, and Senior Xichen also knows..."
"Xia Ying, why do you want to transfer schools?" Bai Xichen asked in a low voice, with a hint of worry on his handsome face. "Why did you make such a decision? Is there any compelling reason?"
"No reason." Xia Ying turned and looked at them, "Just because I want to leave here."
"I don't believe you so easily!" Xia Tingxin said sharply. She rushed to Xia Ying and grabbed her shoulders unceremoniously. "You are transferring to another school and leaving here. Does that mean you are leaving Senior Ji?"
Xia Ying remained silent and did not answer.
"Really? Yin Xiaying, answer me!" Seeing that she didn't speak, Xia Tingxin began to shake her vigorously, "What will happen to him if you leave? What about Senior Ji? I finally convinced myself to listen to you. Liking someone doesn't require getting what he wants. Just seeing him happy is enough! But, Yin Xiaying, how can you be so irresponsible? He likes you so much and loves you so much. How can he be happy without you? He will suffer all his life..."
a long time.
Xia Ying pushed Xia Tingxin away and said to her softly, "You won't give up liking him, right?"
“Yes, never give up.”
Hearing this, Xia Ying smiled, very happy: "Then from now on, please take good care of him, love him, don't hurt him, his health is the most important, you must..."
"You have to take care of him yourself. I can't accept you giving him to me!"
Xia Ying shook her head: "This is not a let, but a please..." After saying that, Xia Ying clenched her fists tightly. In order to prevent them from seeing her tears about to fall, she resolutely turned around and walked towards the school gate.
"Sakura..."
"Yin Xiaying..."
"Xia Ying..."
The three people shouted her name in unison, and Xia Tingxin even shouted willfully, "Where are you going? Yin Xiaying, stop right there! You can't leave!"
Xia Ying did not look back. She moved the corners of her mouth slightly, as if she was talking to herself: "I am going to a very beautiful place now..." After walking a long way and approaching the school gate, she suddenly turned around, looked at them who were still standing there, smiled and said loudly, "I will not forget you! If there is a chance, I hope to see you again and become your friend..."
This might be her last time in this place.
Xia Ying stood outside the glass greenhouse. The warm summer breeze kept blowing across her pretty face. Her long hair was messed up and fluttered in the wind.
…
"This is where I want to bring you."
"Glass greenhouse?"
"Yes, it's a glass flower house that belongs exclusively to Xia Ying."
"Mine?"
"Come in and take a look."
"Does it really belong to me?"
"You don't believe me?"
"No. I feel that this place is as beautiful as a dream, and everything here will break easily like colorful bubbles..."
"Look, there are cherry blossoms, gardenias, butterfly flowers, Clivia, hyacinths, and lavender... Summer cherry blossoms, can you smell it? The fragrance in the entire glass flower room, in this world, is only summer cherry blossoms."
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"You have one set of keys, and I have one set. From now on, this place only belongs to you and me, only to Xia Ying and me..."
"Why are you so nice to me..."
"Because you are Xia Ying!"
"Why are you so nice to Xia Ying..."
"Because... I want to be good to Xia Ying and make her happy! I hope Xia Ying is the happiest girl in the world, so I want to keep Xia Ying by my side... Maybe my body won't allow me to stay by your side forever, but I still want to do my best to make Xia Ying smile and make her happy... Xia Ying's smile is the most beautiful smile in the world, a clear smile that no one can compare to."
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"So, no matter what happens, you must stay by my side and don't let me lose you, okay? You know, my fragile heart can't bear the pain of you leaving me again..."
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Xia Ying closed her eyes in pain.
She calmly took out the phone that had been in her pocket and flipped to the photo of her and him - he was kissing her cheek, and her face was a little confused, but happy and shy...
All this will become a thing of the past...
From now on, he and she will never have any intersection again...
A few minutes passed, and Xia Ying decisively pressed the power button... She wanted to cut off all contact with him, and she would never use the phone he gave her again...
Tears welled up in my eyes.
The pain and discomfort seemed to entangle Xia Ying's whole heart. She squatted on the lawn in despair, hugging herself tightly, and bitter tears flowed freely from her eyes. Xia Ying cried softly, and her petite body trembled uncontrollably.
The sunlight seemed to become particularly cold.
The light shining on Xia Ying was like the cold light of ice, and the golden color instantly turned into silver. In this beautiful place, she was the only one left...
At this moment, the air was so quiet that only her soft sobs could be heard.
"Xia Ying, are you here?"
"Xia Ying?"
Who is calling her name?
Whose voice is that?
Xia Ying raised her tear-stained face and trembled as she stood up from the grass, but she didn't dare to look back, her heart beating anxiously. She silently chanted his name, and a small flame of hope suddenly burned.
Could it be him?
Could it be him?
Could it be him...
"Xia Ying, are you really going to leave?"
Tears flowed more violently from her eyes, and her body turned away uncontrollably. However, when Xia Ying saw the person coming, her tears stopped instantly.
The one who called her was not him!
Bai Xichen read her disappointment from her eyes when she turned around and saw him. He immediately knew what she was thinking, but he still felt a heavy sense of loss in his heart.
He knew clearly that it wasn't him that she wanted to see, but he was still so stubborn in coming to see her...
"Xia Ying, are you really going to leave?"
Xia Ying pursed her lips and pretended to smile: "Yeah." She raised her hand and wiped the tears from her face, "Senior Xichen, I am making fun of you for being like this! I am leaving soon, you have to get along well with Yixue!"
The more she said this, the more her tears flowed, and no matter how hard she tried to wipe them away, they would never stop.
Looking at her, Bai Xichen's handsome face was also covered with a thick layer of sadness. Even calling her name once would make his heart ache: "Xia Ying..."
"Yin Xiaying, where are you going?"
A thunderous sound reached Xia Ying's ears. Hearing this sound, Xia Ying was so frightened that she didn't even know how to breathe.
It's his voice!
It’s Ji Xingyan’s voice!
He found this place!
What should I do? I can't let him find her!
Bai Xichen saw the panic in her eyes, and quickly walked to her side, saying softly: "Xia Ying, don't be afraid, don't worry, I'm here! I will help you."
The gentle tone blew into her heart like a breeze. Xia Ying looked at Bai Xichen, and her eyes slowly brightened up, as if she saw the light of hope.
Ji Xingyan was still wearing a loose white hospital gown. He staggered towards her step by step, his heroic face as cold as ice. His lips were tightly pursed, bloodless, and his eyes stared at her fiercely.
Being stared at so fiercely by him, Yin Xiaying's hands began to tremble, even her breathing became unusually heavy, her heart beat fast, and the tears on her face had been dried by the wind, making her feel very uncomfortable.
Without saying a word, he walked straight to her, grabbed her shoulders forcefully, and yelled, "Where are you going? Where are you going to leave me behind?"
"Let me go..." The tears that had already dried up suddenly welled up again. She didn't know if it was because her heart was too painful or because Ji Xingyan pinched her.
"Yin Xiaying, are you going to lie to me again? Are you going to leave me again? I won't allow it. Do you hear me? I won't allow it!"
"It hurts..." Xia Ying groaned in pain.
His grip really hurt her, more painful than any time before!
Bai Xichen saw that something was not right, so he quickly stepped forward to pull Ji Xingyan away. Since Ji Xingyan had just woken up and had walked a long way to find Xia Ying, she had used up all her strength, and when Bai Xichen pulled her slightly, she almost fell down.
"Tell me now, you won't leave me, right?" Ji Xingyan yelled at her as if he had lost his mind. His face was as pale as paper and his body seemed like it would fall down if the wind blew.
Xia Ying just looked at him, tears streaming down her face, unable to utter a word.
"Say it, Yin Xiaying, I beg you! Say it!"
"Don't be like this, it's bad for your health..."
"I don't care about that. Tell me, why did you leave me without saying a word? Why were you not by my side when I woke up? Why did the principal say you dropped out when I went to school to look for you? Yin Xiaying, I want a reasonable explanation!"
"I don't want to explain!"
Ji Xingyan was stunned and asked, "What did you say?"
"I don't even want to explain it to you!"
"Yin Xiaying, say it again!" Ji Xingyan was angered by her again.
Xia Ying looked at him with indifferent eyes and even spoke in a indifferent tone: "Do you want to hear an explanation? I will explain it to you."
After saying that, Xia Ying walked to Bai Xichen, put her arm around his, then turned to Ji Xingyan and said, "Ji Xingyan, this is the explanation."
Ji Xingyan was shocked by her actions, eyes and tone, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He heard Xia Ying say again: "Originally, there was nothing going on between me and Senior Xichen, but you just didn't believe my explanation, so I decided that I don't want a boyfriend who doesn't trust me at all!"
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"Also, your health is very poor. I don't want to be with you every day in fear. I don't know when you will leave me, how long you can stay by my side, and how far you can accompany me. When I was a child, I sent my mother away. I know what it feels like to lose the person you love most in your life. I don't want to send the person I love most away again."
Tears flowed down again and fell to Xia Ying's lips, bitter.
Bai Xichen looked down at her crying, his expression becoming more serious. He could only listen to her continue talking.
"Senior Xichen is very good to me, I want to be with him."
good!
very good!
He doesn't even blink or blush when he lies!
But Ji Xingyan wouldn't believe it!
"Then why did you drop out of school? Since you want to be with him, why do you want to leave?" Ji Xingyan looked at her aggressively, the eagerness in his eyes was particularly obvious.
Xia Ying was speechless after being asked this question. She didn't know how to answer for a moment. The palms of her hands holding Bai Xichen's were already sweating. She lowered her head, not daring to look into his eyes again.
"Yin Xiaying, raise your head!"
"Xia Ying did this for a reason." Bai Xichen glanced at Xia Ying who had been lowering her head, and then at the weak Ji Xingyan, "The reason is that I want to transfer to another school with her, and Xia Ying doesn't want to see you anymore!"
The only hope I held on to in my heart was shattered.
Ji Xingyan looked at her and suddenly laughed: "So that's how it is, so that's how it is! You were lying to me when you said you liked me..." As he laughed, tears flowed down his cheeks.
Xia Ying kept her head down, not daring to look at him.
Bai Xichen added: "Xia Ying didn't lie to you. She never lied to you at any time!"
"Is that so?"
Xia Ying remained silent with her head lowered.
"Xia Ying..." He wanted to hear her answer in person!
The air became quiet again.
Mixed in with the rapid breathing of three people.
Silent and indifferent.
Xia Ying suddenly raised her head, took out a bunch of keys from her pocket and walked in front of Ji Xingyan. Her indifferent expression made it impossible to tell what she wanted to say.
She took his hand, put the key in his palm, and said with a faint smile: "This, it's time to return it to you."
The moment the key was placed in her palm, Ji Xingyan's body suddenly froze.
"This never belonged to me in the first place. I should return it to you. Ji Xingyan, from today on, you and I will no longer have any relationship."
Her tone was light, revealing indifference and alienation.
Bai Xichen was also stunned at this moment. Xia Ying had changed.
"You should go back. Auntie and the others must be looking for you anxiously. It's very irresponsible of you to run away from the hospital without caring about your own health. This is what I hate most."
Ji Xingyan looked at her, and the glimmer in his eyes disappeared without a trace. He held the key tightly in his hand, and it was deeply embedded in his flesh, but he didn't feel it at all.
"Okay, okay, okay..." As he spoke, cold tears slid down from the corners of his eyes, dripping onto the grass. His eyes gradually turned red. "Go away. I never want to see you again! Yin Xiaying, I never want to see you again in my life. You'd better not appear in front of me again, ever!"
Xia Ying turned and left: "Take care."
He walked very quickly, as if he was trying to escape.
A long time passed.
Bai Xichen, who had been quietly walking with her arm around him, finally couldn't help but ask, "Xia Ying, why did you do this? Is it really like you said?"
"Senior Xichen, I'm sorry, I took advantage of you." Xia Ying let go of her hand and looked up at the clear blue sky. "He is the person I love most in my life. I have liked him since I was a child, and I would do anything for him."
"Xia Ying, why are you so stupid?" Bai Xichen looked at her with heartache, "I'm so jealous of him."
"If you truly love someone, you don't have to be together every day. If leaving him can allow him to live well, then why not?" Xia Ying chuckled.
From this moment on, everything that happened between us will become the past. All the pain, all the laughter, will become memories that we will never want to recall again.
Ji Xingyan, goodbye!
No, never again!