You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Unexpectedly, Shen Jie closed her eyes and didn't ask him anything: "Go to sleep quickly, you still have an exam during the day."

Xiao Yao looked around tiredly. This was a large ward with six beds in total, and the remaining beds were already full.

It wouldn't be a good idea to climb onto Shen Jie's bed and squeeze in with her in front of everyone, right?

Xiao Yao held Shen Jie's hand, lay down beside the hospital bed, and fell asleep using his skilled sleeping skills in class.

……

It was Shen Jie who woke him up just after dawn and urged him to take the exam.

As a veteran poor student, Xiao Yao has become accustomed to the attitude that he can fail but must take the exams. Seeing that the girl seemed to be in much better spirits and complexion after being dripped with water, he felt that he would only be away for about 8 hours and there should be no problem.

Xiao Yao entrusted the matter to the nurse and took a taxi back home. He changed into his school uniform, took a few of Shen Jie's casual clothes, and then, following Shen Jie's instructions on the phone, he opened the drawer and took out a few sets of underwear.

He thoughtfully chose light-colored clothes and tried to match them as much as possible.

Is this washed or unwashed?

It smells like milk, soap, and, well, clean.

After stuffing all these things into the bulging cowhide schoolbag worth 990 yuan, Xiao Yao ran to school.

Daiyu rode the repaired bicycle to him, and Xiao Yao thanked him.

"I asked for you. Brother Long and sister-in-law both said you can come on your birthday." Daiyu said.

"Okay, okay." Xiao Yao responded, but in his heart he didn't even have the heart to celebrate his birthday.

Today's exam subjects are history, chemistry and English - oh, never mind, Xiao Yao just wants to get through it quickly.

After the exam at noon, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and called Shen Jie. Maybe because she didn't rest well last night, her voice seemed a little weak. Xiao Yao wanted to rush over to see her, but after calculating the round trip time, he found that even if he didn't eat, he could only stay in the hospital for five minutes at most. He had to tell Shen Jie to eat well and rest well, and he would go there as soon as the exam was over in the afternoon.

Oops...only 16% of battery left, so annoying.

In the cafeteria, he saw a group of girls chattering around a table. Yu Luying was among them, but she was obviously not in good spirits and kept yawning. He leaned over and wanted to explain the situation.

When I got closer, I found that the center of this group of girls was a girl who was wearing a school uniform but a hooded shawl on the outside and fiddling with a deck of long and narrow flower cards in her hands. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Ouyang Qianqian.

"What are you doing?" he asked Yu Luying.

"Tarot cards, do you want to play?" Ouyang Qianqian took over the conversation.

Xiao Yao waved his hand gently: "I didn't know you could tell fortunes."

"There are still many things you don't know." Ouyang Qianqian said with a smile.

Yu Luying shook her head: "Superstition, witchcraft and divination, please don't let these things into the campus, okay?"

"Let's have fun and relax." Ouyang Qianqian said nonchalantly, "I heard from my senior that if Christians are present, divination may not work. Yu Luying, do you want to step away for a while?"

"Okay, okay, step aside. Yu Luying, come with me." Xiao Yao tried to smooth things over and planned to ask Yu Luying to leave.

Yu Luying sneered and turned away.

"Hey——" Xiao Yao wanted to chase after him, but his way was blocked by several girls: "Make way, make way..."

"Yu Luying doesn't know how to draw, so I'll draw one for her first." Ouyang Qianqian wiped the cards on the table with her hand and arranged them in a fan shape.

"Ah, the High Priestess. Mysterious, dark, seemingly as quiet as a virgin, but actually undercurrents are surging. This is my favorite card - so let's see what I can draw." After Ouyang Qianqian said this, he turned over another card.

"THE DEVIL." The girl next to her read the words on the card softly.

"Devil, put on shackles for yourself, maybe I can buy a pair of horns to wear." Ouyang Qianqian smiled faintly, raised his head and looked at Xiao Yao: "So, brother... Hey, why are you leaving too?"

Xiao Yao finally squeezed out from the crowd of girls and left the cafeteria with Yu Luying.

Yu Luying wore a very artistic plain long skirt today, and brown leather shoes with buckles that exposed the instep. The buckle in the middle divided the skin-colored socks on the instep into two areas. This is not inconsistent with Yu Luying's usual aesthetics, but it is indeed the first time I have seen her wearing such socks. Moreover, school uniforms are not required during the exam days. It turned out that Ouyang Qianqian wore the school uniform while Yu Luying did not. I always felt like I had picked up the wrong script - but Xiao Yao did not have the attention to analyze why.

He explained Shen Jie's situation to Yu Luying. Yu Luying expressed full understanding and planned to go to the hospital with Xiao Yao to help after the exam. However, Xiao Yao declined the plan on the grounds that "you have to rest well for me."

The last exam in the afternoon was English. English was not difficult for those who knew it. Xiao Yao wanted to borrow Yu Luying's skills and quickly fill in the paper and hand it in. But the last big question this time was an English-Chinese translation question - this was very rare, because the test usually involved Chinese-English translation - the original text was something like a poem, which Yu Luying probably had never seen before.

Xiao Yao thought that he couldn't take advantage of Yu Luying in every exam, so he should try his best to make use of his ability in poetry writing, which he was quite good at.

"We are moved by this person, so this life will change. Death slowly enlightens people's wisdom, making us gradually realize how necessary it is to greet each other before meeting..."

What is this?

Xiao Yao spent some time translating the text, but he didn't quite understand it. When he looked up, the exam was almost over.

He handed in the paper hastily and took out his cell phone.

The battery was at 1% and there were several missed calls. Before I could check them, the phone automatically shut down.

Damn!

Xiao Yao rubbed his temples to relieve some of the dizziness, packed his things and prepared to rush to the hospital.

But as soon as he left the examination room, he ran into the annoying Wang Ming again.

The place where the enemies met was in the school corridor. Xiao Yao was walking towards the classroom and Wang Ming just came out of the front door. There was a dark circle around one of his eyes and his left cheekbone was obviously swollen.

Xiao Yao was startled and subconsciously took a half step back and formed a battle formation. However, Wang Ming just looked at him with hatred, lowered his head, and walked around him.

Xiao Yao ignored Song Haijian's request for everyone to go back to the classroom to listen to him announce the summer vacation arrangements, and rushed out of the school and rode his bicycle.

Fortunately, after being beaten, Wang Ming didn't dare to touch his valve core again.

"Xiao Yao!"

As he rode out on his bicycle, he vaguely heard someone calling him from behind.

Xiao Yao turned around and didn't see anyone. Maybe he was hallucinating?

do not care.

Xiao Yao rode quickly to the First People's Hospital of Shanghai. He felt that even a professional cyclist - for example, Shen Tianyun - could only ride that fast.

The emergency department is busier during the day than at night, with fast-paced medical staff and anxious family members everywhere. The smell of disinfectant in the air cannot completely cover up the uneasy atmosphere mixed with the smell of blood and smoke. The occasional wailing and crying coming from nowhere beats Xiao Yao's heart, forcing him to speed up his pace again and again.

"It's definitely not a good place to rest. Even if I can't be discharged today, I have to at least be transferred to a general ward." As he thought so, he looked up and saw that next to Shen Jie's bed, the equipment, sheets, and curtains were in a mess, but the bed was empty.

He asked an unfamiliar patient in the bed next to him. The man seemed to have a broken leg and was in a splint, groaning softly.

"It seems that his condition worsened and he was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. I think so."

"What?" It was supposed to be a mild case of pneumonia. How could the patient be rescued in just one day? Is this a joke?

He reached out his hand to stop a nurse who was walking by and asked viciously, "Where is the emergency room?"

"Go out, turn left, then turn right at the end. Enter the third door and head east. If you can't find it, look at the instructions on the wall." The nurse seemed to be accustomed to this situation and was not affected at all. She said quickly and walked away again.

"Where are the sign arrows?!" Xiao Yao stood in the hospital corridor, black and white figures swaying in front of his eyes, and he felt dizzy.

"This way, this way, turn right ahead." A chaotic sound of running feet approached Xiao Yao from behind. He instinctively stepped aside. Several nurses pushing a stretcher hurried over, surrounded by several panicked men and women.

Isn't this the direction of the emergency room?

They must be going to the emergency room!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yao hurriedly followed, and finally at the end of a long corridor, he saw the double doors with a dazzling red light rotating on the top of the door.

Xiao Yao pressed his hands on his knees, took a deep breath, then looked at the red light, leaned against the wall, and made the sign of the cross on his chest.

"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, you are blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus..." The prayer that Yu Luying memorized by heart came to Xiao Yao's tongue.

At this moment, he hoped that the light would go out now, but he also hoped that the light would never go out.

I don't know how long it took, but the monotonous rotation of the red light came to an abrupt stop, and then turned green. Xiao Yao felt that the depressing atmosphere in the corridor had dissipated a lot.

A moment later, he saw the double doors being pulled open and a stretcher being slowly pushed out, and Xiao Yao hurried over to greet it. Although the nurse pushing the stretcher was wearing surgical gowns and a mask, she could not hide her fatigue and helplessness when she looked at Xiao Yao.

Chapter 94 Melting Heart

2023-01-27

A moment later, he saw the double doors being pulled open and a stretcher being slowly pushed out, and Xiao Yao hurried over to greet it. Although the nurse pushing the stretcher was wearing surgical gowns and a mask, she could not hide her fatigue and helplessness when she looked at Xiao Yao.

When Xiao Yao saw the small figure on the stretcher completely covered by the white sheet, his legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

"Are you a family member? You're finally here." The nurse leaned forward and asked Xiao Yao, "Where are your parents?"

Xiao Yao stumbled to his feet, walked over, and tried to lift the white cloth off the girl's face with his trembling right hand.

However, the nurse reached out and pressed the back of his hand.

She lowered her eyes and shook her head gently, but her hands were firm and powerful.

"Now, go find Director Lin to get the signatures and missing paperwork for the surgery."

"But I still..." Xiao Yao was choked with sobs and couldn't speak.

"I understand, I understand. But the way she looks now is not appropriate. There will be staff downstairs to help her, um, tidy up so that she can say goodbye decently."

Let me find Director Lin? Who is Director Lin? It can't be Director Lin from the school.

The nurse pushed the stretcher away, as if pushing Xiao Yao's world away as well.

He now felt like he was in a thick fog with thin air, moving his leaden legs. There were only blurry figures in front of his eyes and a rapid heartbeat in his ears. He didn't know where to go.

Ten years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, unforgettable.Thousands of miles of lonely grave, there is nowhere to say desolate.

Going to Qiongbi and down to Huangquan, there is nowhere to be seen.

Don't worry, don't worry...

In this dead silence, random verses of poetry kept jumping back and forth in his mind, regardless of whether they were appropriate or not.

Impossible, impossible.

Shen Jie would grow up safely, marry him when she is 30, and then give birth to a smart, healthy and lively sports school student. This is the right thing to do.

Yes, the butterfly effect. As a veteran science fiction fan, Xiao Yao certainly knows about the butterfly effect.

But Xiao Yao also knows about the grandmother paradox.

Shen Tianyun's arrival could not indirectly lead to her mother's death, which would lead to the destruction of logic.

Moreover, if the butterfly effect really took effect, the world and the future should have been turned upside down in the more than one month since Shen Tianyun appeared.

How could he die just from being caught in the rain and contracting pneumonia?

Just because I didn't send her to the hospital immediately?

More than a month ago, I was still a happy bastard, a single teenager who could feed the whole family with one meal.

Then God told him that he had a daughter.

Now telling him that his daughter is gone?!

What is going on here?

……

Xiao Yao's eyes gradually brightened, and he found himself sitting on a chair with a table in front of him. Behind the table, a doctor in a white coat was concentrating on writing something.

"Fill out this form first." The doctor handed over a piece of paper but did not look up at Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao took the paper. There were many words written on it, but Xiao Yao couldn't see clearly. He had to squint his eyes and concentrate, and finally he could barely see the words in the upper right corner of the paper:

The deceased's surname and given name.

It is followed by a horizontal line representing a blank space.

Xiao Yao didn't know when a pen appeared in his hand. He should use this pen to write the correct name on the horizontal line.

But the pen had now become extremely heavy, so heavy that he could not hold it in the normal way. He had to put the paper on the table, hold the pen tightly in his hand, and struggle to write on the paper.

When Xiao Yao saw the two words "Shen Jie" appear crookedly behind the four words "name of the deceased", his heart suddenly ached, and then the pen, paper and his body fell to the ground.

When he woke up, Xiao Yao found himself lying on a clean white hospital bed. In front of him was a nurse with beautiful eyes, who was adjusting the infusion bottle hanging high up.

When she saw Xiao Yao open his eyes, she turned around and said hello, "Shen Tianyun, your boyfriend is awake, come over and take a look - your parents haven't come yet?"

What is Shen Tianyun's boyfriend? Even if I have to go to hell, you can't mess around with this couple.

Xiao Yao twisted his body and looked around, somewhat wondering what the Hell Hospital was used for.

Wait a minute, don't be in a hurry.

Shen...Shen Tianyun?

When I registered Shen Jie yesterday, it seemed that the name written was "Shen Tianyun"?

Realizing this, Xiao Yao woke up immediately.