If the Deep Sea Forgets You

“Are you bored?” Xia Qingyi asked.

“Still okay.”

“I’m going to take you for a spin, sit on the wheelchair and I’ll push you outside for some fresh air.”

“It’s you who wants to go out, isn’t it?” Mo Han said.

Xia Qingyi froze for a moment, and then nodded her head. “The hospital smell doesn’t smell good, I don’t like it.”

Mo Han glanced at her, peeled away the blanket and moved to get out of bed. “Let’s go.”

“I’ll go and get the wheelchair,” Xia Qingyi stood up.

Mo Han stopped her. “No, I’m fine, I didn’t injure my leg.”

His stomach no longer hurt and he only felt a little tired, so he kept sitting on the bed to rest. Mo Han stood up and looked outside the window only to realize that it was windy outside and that it seemed to be pretty cold, so he took his coat placed at his bedside, wore it outside his hospital gown and said to Xia Qingyi, “It’s cold outside, wear more clothes.”

Xia Qingyi said, “It’s not cold, I just came from outside.”

“Wear it.”

Xia Qingyi looked at the windbreaker on her and said, “But I only wear just this one piece outside.”

“Why didn’t you put on more clothes when you came out?”

Xia Qingyi gave him a dirty look in her mind, thinking I had to rush back and forth today, if I’m not at the hospital then I’m at school, when would I have the time to go back and get more clothes to wear. But she still replied calmly, “Forgot.”

Mo Han sighed, took out the coat that he just wore and put it on Xia Qingyi. Xia Qingyi only looked at him disbelievingly. “I don’t need it.”

“Wear it,” Mo Han said, his tone a little strong, his hands buttoning the coat one by one.

Xia Qingyi thought of saying something, but Mo Han had already walked out of the ward so she had to follow. “Where are you going?”

“Where do you want to go?” Mo Han turned his head around and asked her.

Xia Qingyi thought for a while, and said smilingly, “Let’s go and take a look over there.”

“Where?”

“The baby room.”

Mo Han did not understand why she wanted to go to the baby room but he followed her anyway. He walked over to Xia Qingyi’s side in a few big strides. “Do you know how to get there?”

“I do,” Xia Qingyi had already entered the elevator. She pressed the button for the third floor and said, “I went there once before.”

Mo Han stood beside her and looked at her, feeling as though she was beaming with happiness. He did not understand why the baby room could make her feel so happy.

“We’re here,” Xia Qingyi brought Mo Han along the corridor, walked a few turns and they finally reached the baby room. At this moment, she was standing in front of the glass window and was looking smilingly at the babies tucked safely in their beds.

Xia Qingyi looked at the babies smiling and kicking around on their beds and said, “This is the only place in the hospital that I like.”

Mo Han walked to her side, and only looked at her. “Why?”

Xia Qingyi shook her head and said, “I don’t know.” She gently stroked at the glass window, as though she wanted to touch the babies, “Didn’t I stay in the hospital for a very long time? After I woke up and was able to walk I roamed around the hospital by myself looking for a place where I could be alone and discovered this place.”

Xia Qingyi’s eyes were filled with delight. “Don’t you think that they’re really blessed?” Xia Qingyi’s eyes never left the babies for a single moment, “They have long lives ahead of them, with so much time for them to try many things, so much time for them to grow, so many possibilities in their future.”

Mo Han twisted his head around to look at Xia Qingyi, and only then realized that she was crying.

He gently wiped the tears away from her face and said, “Why are you crying?”

Xia Qingyi blinked, touched her face and froze. “I cried?” Mo Han did not speak, and only looked at Xia Qingyi’s face.

Xia Qingyi wiped away her own tears, smiled and said, “I’m really strange.”