Quick Wear: Don't come over here, you are looking for trouble

Xu Bai watched coldly. He traveled through the world and saw too many ups and downs. Although he could not empathize with others every time, it was impossible for him to be completely without emotions.

Xu Bai: [How depressing. ]

Liu'er still didn't understand why Xu Bai let Qi Zhengze die so easily. He originally thought that this boyfriend who "had been there all along" had some other tricks up his sleeve.

Liu Er: [You said before that Qi Zhengze didn’t like Le Zhi that much? ]

Xu Bai pointed at Cui Yaoyao, who was like a hysterical shrew, and Qi Xin, who quietly apologized, "Look, Qi Zhengze, who grew up in such a family and was not valued, does he really know how to love others?"

When his consciousness was pulled back into his body, Xu Bai could not hear anything. His hearing aid had been taken away and his chest was burning with pain.

"It's a lung infection."

The doctors in this hospital have no scruples. They have no vested interests in Jiang Xunxing, so naturally they won't think too much. Xu Bai's condition is too dangerous, so dangerous that they have to tell the truth.

"I highly suspect ALS. I've done a muscle biopsy before. The vomiting blood this time is due to a lung infection. Be prepared. The situation... is not optimistic."

"…Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." Blood was still dripping from Jiang Xunxing's clenched fist. The corners of his mouth twitched as he repeated this very difficult name, "What is it?"

"It has another name." The doctor said with some regret, his voice heavy, "ALS."

silence.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Xunxing turned around. He seemed even calmer than before—if only he hadn’t staggered.

Jiang Xunxing called all the hospitals.

"Mr. Jiang, I really can't promise you anything. You can bring the test results here first. The follow-up treatment will depend on the results..."

Jiang Xunxing still held some hope at this time.

He also believed that nothing could be accomplished without money and capital. Even if there was no effective medicine in China, there was nothing wrong with trying it abroad.

[Jiang Xunxing Favorability: 95]

Qi Zhengjun stood there blankly.

He didn't react at first, but when he slowly pieced together the three words "ALS", he felt a strange sense of relief.

The prisoners who were waiting for the verdict finally received it. Knowing that their crimes were unforgivable, they were calm when they heard the death penalty.

Qi Zhengjun should be the first person to notice that there was something wrong with the boy's body.

Numbness of limbs, clumsy movements, difficulty swallowing, and choking when drinking water.

"Ah."

If Xu Bai paid attention to even one of them, his chances of survival would be higher, but what about Qi Zhengjun? He didn't care about any of them.

not a single one.

……

There were bloodshot in Jiang Xunxing's eyes, and Xu Bai blinked several times in panic - this made him feel as if he would be taken into the room that was carefully decorated as a mourning hall in the next second.

There was no light, no sound, as if it had been forgotten by everyone.

Jiang Xunxing thought it was his own hallucination.

He has always been decisive and resolute. He spread Xu Bai's case and report to all directions, just hoping to find the most reliable solution.

He didn't sleep all night, and several times he "saw" Xu Bai sitting up by herself, facing him either crying or laughing.

The breathing mask made Xu Bai unable to make any sound. Jiang Xunxing seemed to say something, but Xu Bai couldn't hear it because his hearing aid was taken off.

He just lay there, and after a brief panic, he calmed down. Xu Bai was no longer afraid of the silence. The person he cared about most had passed away first, and now he was just an empty shell, maintained by machines and drugs.

are you afraid?

Even Jiang Xunxing didn't know why he fell in love with Xu Bai. He was completely different from Xingxing, and he even had many characteristics that Jiang Xunxing once extremely hated.

But love itself has no reason. It can sprout when you don't even notice it, but unfortunately, it is born in the wrong place at the wrong time and will wither in the end.

The red light flashed faster and faster. Liu Er looked at the button, then at Xu Bai who was still looking "disheartened". [One day left.]

Jiang Xunxing put a hearing aid on Xu Bai. He spoke so much for the first time, talking about his past, his encounter with Liu Xing, his mental illness, and how he wanted to wait until Xu Bai was discharged from the hospital and no longer rely solely on painkillers to suppress his feelings.

As he was talking, his favorability level kept climbing up, and then stopped at 98.

"I don't care who you are." Jiang Xunxing paused, "Get well, let's... start over."

How is it possible to start over?

Jiang Xunxing broke it into pieces himself, and it couldn't be fixed together again no matter what he did.

Tears rolled down Xu Bai's eyes. He gasped and told him with difficulty, "Carry...Liu Juan, Sister Liu...and...Bryce, give it to him, he..."

"what?"

Jiang Xunxing didn't understand.

"...Hate, hate you..."

Tears were still flowing down, Jiang Xunxing's breathing was trembling, his expression was complicated, his brows were tightened and relaxed, and he nodded, "Hate me, hate me too." He placed his palm on the slightly deformed hand of the boy, "Even if you want to resist, you have to get better."

[Jiang Xunxing Favorability: 99]

I don't want to resist anymore.

He woke up again in the evening. The drip had just been put in. Xu Bai moved his fingers tentatively, but it was very difficult.

Qi Zhengjun wanted to see Xu Bai, but was stopped outside the door by the bodyguard.

The sounds coming into his ears through the hearing aid were sometimes high and sometimes low. Xu Bai coughed, and the sound he squeezed out became even more hoarse and sluggish, "...Boss Jiang." He smiled vaguely, and then disappeared in a flash, "...Do you know what Le Zhi means?"

The young man's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He seemed to have something else to say, but he couldn't say it anymore.

……

Lu Kang received a call from Jiang Xunxing.

Tell him that he doesn’t need to contact his professor who is abroad anymore.

Lu Kang's heart tightened, and then sank suddenly, and finally he covered his face with his hands.

……

Qi Zhengjun went to the house that Qi Zhengze had originally rented.

There seemed to be absolutely no trace of two people living together here. It was spotless and devoid of any worldly air.

He turned around in the empty room, and with his gradually blurry eyes he caught a glimpse of something flashing silver in the gap between the wardrobes.

……

It was a notebook. The glowing thing was the love sticker on it. There was no writing on the cover. There was some childish handwriting on the lower right corner of the first page.

"Zhengze & Xiaole's Love Diary".

I wrote "love" wrong, and I tried to write it several times but still couldn't get it right.

Qi Zhengjun held it.

My hands were shaking so badly that I almost tore the paper. I had to hunch over and spread out the notebook on the coffee table.

His handwriting is neat and regular. His characters are easy to recognize. When writing vertical strokes, he tends to drag them out longer. Unlike his appearance, each stroke is sharp and angular.

"He's so much like me. Would it be different if someone cared about him?"

"He said we were beginning a relationship and that as long as I pretended to like him, he would give me everything. How stupid."

……

Qi Zhengjun turned over quickly, bit his lips and tasted the blood.

"I just wanted to do an experiment, but I seem to know what love is. I don't want to be separated from Xiaole. When Xiaole is sad, I am sad too. When Xiaole is happy, I am happy too. I just want to see him smile. I think I have fallen in love with him."

"We will have a lot more in the future, let's start by getting him a new hearing aid."

This sentence was crossed out several times, followed by: "Maybe... we can find a way to cure Xiaole's ears."

Qi Zhengze never knew how to love others.

The hand he extended to Le Zhi was originally just a way to conduct a cruel experiment on "love".

It was Le Zhi who taught him what "love" is.

When I was finally moved and decided to treat him well, I no longer had the chance.

Qi Zhengjun put his fist against his lips, but still couldn't suppress sobs. Finally, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

……

Liu Juan received something very thin, and the person who delivered it reminded her to be careful when opening it.

She wiped her hands on her apron. The restaurant had been doing less and less well recently, and there were more and more white hairs on Liu Juan's head that were visible to the naked eye. She looked around and carefully opened the tightly wrapped package.

——There was a card inside with the password taped to it.

There was a smiley face behind the password.

Bryce was the same. He held the card and eagerly looked for the boy's contact information. He called repeatedly but couldn't get through.

Liu Juan received a text message.

There was a "ding" sound.

Everything is fine, don’t worry—Xiaole.

Bryce bit his knuckles. He had dyed his blond hair black and stared at the text message for a long time, silent.

maybe.

Bryce thought: Maybe Xiaole is just like his brother, just in some faraway place, and we will see him again one day.

……

[Jiang Xunxing's Favorability: 100 (Strategy Completed)]

What does Lezhi mean?

Be happy and know your destiny.

Accept your fate happily.

Fate plays tricks on people, Le Zhi is not happy about it. He came for fun, fell in love once, and then went back.