No? Can I read the mind of my mortal enemy?

When Shi Qiao arrived at the hospital, she rushed straight to the front desk.

"Hello, just now..." Her breathing was erratic, "There were two accidents on Haiwan Road just now, were two patients brought in?"

"Isn't one of them a bit tall and wearing glasses?"

The head nurse looked up. "Hmm, she is indeed quite tall, but I don't know if she wears glasses."

A trainee nurse beside him chimed in, "After all, with injuries like that, even with glasses..."

The head nurse immediately pinched the intern nurse's thigh and put on a smiling face:

"But please don't worry, Miss. We can't confirm the patients' identities yet. We've only heard that one of them is surnamed Lu, and we don't know the other one."

"But miss, could you take a look at these patients' belongings and see if you recognize any of them?"

She picked up the items she had brought back from the scene, and Pei Jingnian's phone, stained with blood, appeared before her eyes.

Tears streamed uncontrollably down my cheeks, the scalding liquid landing on the back of my hand.

One of them, surnamed Lu, brought back Pei Jingnian's cell phone from the scene.

Most likely, those two are...

It was even so badly injured that the facial features were no longer visible.

A sore, aching sensation welled up in her nose, making it hard for her to breathe.

She stammered out the words, her words unclear:

"I'm a patient's...family member." She weakly raised her head, her eyelashes fluttering with tears. "Could you take me to see them?"

Seeing this, the head nurse bent down and helped Shi Qiao up, saying, "Come with me."

"The patient surnamed Lu suffered less serious injuries and has been transferred to a regular ward, while the other patient is still undergoing surgery."

Shi Qiao had a breath stuck in her airway, unable to go up or down, and followed the head nurse like a lost soul until it finally stopped in front of the brightly lit operating room.

She sat shakily in the chair, her hands trembling uncontrollably.

It's all her fault.

The God of Love had so kindly hinted to her that her destined person was right beside her.

But she stubbornly persisted in that stubbornness.

From as far back as he can remember, Pei Jingnian had always been with her.

The person she had spent over ten years with was now separated from her by an operating room door.

Life or death is uncertain.

Perhaps, the person she's been secretly competing with isn't Pei Jingnian at all.

It was herself.

Her true feelings.

Tears flowed uncontrollably, like a burst dam, impossible to stop.

Suddenly, the doctor came out wearing sterile surgical scrubs and immediately spotted Shi Qiao, who was crying in a daze.

"Excuse me, who are you...?"

"Yes, it's me!" Shi Qiao immediately stood up, wiping away the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes. "Doctor, how is he now?"

The doctor's expression was grave. "The patient's condition is not optimistic. He's out of immediate danger, but..."

"You should be prepared that you may never wake up again."

thump.

She slipped and fell to the ground, her small body trembling.

"don't want……"

She doesn't want to.

Pei Jingnian originally had a very bright future.

How can he spend the rest of his life in bed?

"Doctor, is there really... really no other way?"

"He...he can't...spend the rest of his life in bed..."

"Doctor, I...I still have so much to say to him."

"I want to say... actually, actually I..."

She was breathing rapidly, her mouth agape as she gulped in oxygen from the air, but the more she breathed, the more oxygen-deprived she felt.

The oxygen rushing into her body spread throughout her entire being, as if pulling her down into an ice cave, leaving her feeling numb and chilled all over.

"This family member, you..."

Shi Qiao was suddenly pulled up, and her lips were covered by a warm palm, which restricted her excessive mouth breathing.

"breathe."

Take your time.

"I said exhale before I exhale."

"Inhale, exhale."

Shi Qiao adjusted her breathing little by little, following the sound, and her senses returned.

Immediately afterwards, a pleasant woody aroma filled my nasal cavity.

Before she could even react to what was happening, the attending physician in front of her smiled and nodded slightly.

"You were the student who carried out the emergency rescue, weren't you?"

"Wow, you're a medical student from Victoria Harbour University, thanks to your good handling of the situation, you bought us some time."

"That's wonderful, thank you."

"No, it's what I should do." He tightened his grip on Shi Qiao's arm slightly. "Then please excuse me."

Shi Qiao's body was still trembling from her earlier crying when the man pulled her out of the waiting area and placed her in the safe corridor.

She stiffened and looked up, her fuzzy hair brushing against her exposed collarbone.

"Pei... Jingnian?"

Pei Jingnian just tilted his head to the side and looked at her.

"Fool."

He bent down and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

A familiar touch.

An unpleasant nickname.

It really is Pei Jingnian.

She hurriedly distanced herself from him, and only then, under the light of the hallway lamp, did she notice that the cuffs of his arms were stained with blood, rolled up to his elbows.

She didn't believe it and reached out to pinch it from top to bottom.

There were no injuries whatsoever.

Finally, he pinched himself again.

Not a dream.

Great.

Pei Jingnian is fine.

After feeling relieved, shyness immediately took over.

She cried at the wrong grave!

Then what a mess she just made, all shattered and broken...

Wouldn't Pei Jingnian have seen everything?

Shi Qiao clenched her fists, her face flushed red. She turned her head away in embarrassment, not wanting Pei Jingnian to see her eyes, which were swollen like those of a sad frog.

"How long... have you been here?"

She still held onto a sliver of hope.

After all, he had almost said those words just now.

If Pei Jingnian heard this, he would be utterly humiliated.

Pei Jingnian squinted, "Hmm... let me think."

"It probably started when you were overbreathing and had an alkali poisoning attack."

Shi Qiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, she still managed to save face.

She cleared her throat strategically, turned her back, and said, "Oh, I see."

"Don't overthink it. I just feel that even though we often clash, we're still practically friends, so..."

Her waist was wrapped around her from behind.

Pei Jingnian was quite strong, clamping her so tightly that she couldn't move, and slowly pulled her back.

He gripped her chin with one hand, forcing her to turn towards him, his straight nose poking her cheek, his warm breath wafting around her.

"What...what are you doing, Pei Jingnian!"

Pei Jingnian suppressed the tremor in his voice, "You believed it just because it was said casually?"

"Just kidding."

He blinked slowly, his dark eyes fixed on her, churning with emotion.

The more she tried to escape, the tighter her embrace became.

To draw a circle on the ground and imprison oneself.

"Shi Qiao, what did you just tell the doctor? You actually..."

Shi Qiao was startled, struggling to stay upright. "You misheard me, I didn't just say that..."

His thin lips parted, almost touching hers; if he lowered himself a little more, he would kiss her directly.

She suddenly trembled, a tingling sensation from the back of her ear directly hitting her central nervous system.

"Would you be very sad if I died, Shi Qiao?"

The hot breath made her body go limp, and she kept sliding down, only to be caught and pulled back into her arms time and time again.

"Um?"

Shi Qiao gritted her teeth and said, "You really must have misheard me."

When she argues, she always bites her beautiful lower lip, her silvery tongue darting between her teeth, making one irresistibly want to go deeper.

Honey, I'm so happy.

I'm so happy I want to eat you right now.

I like you too, I like you, I like you...

I'll haunt you even as a ghost.