My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

Shen Xingyao's soft and delicate hands gently touched Lu Qingwan's forehead and helped her tidy up her messy hair. Lu Qingwan turned her face away, and Shen Xingyao asked softly, "Are you hungry?"

Lu Qingwan didn't want to answer this question, so she shrunk back into the quilt and spoke weakly, "Didn't the doctor say I need to rest? Then all of you should go out. I need to sleep."

"Okay, you take a nap first. Mom and Dad will be watching you right here. If you feel uncomfortable, just call us immediately."

Lu Qingwan felt that they didn't quite understand what she was saying, so she repeated it again, her voice like it was squeezed out of her throat, "I said get out."

Two days passed like this. Although three caregivers were hired to take turns to take care of Lu Qingwan day and night, several people still came to the hospital to see Lu Qingwan frequently. Shen Xingyao would bring her meals that she cooked herself, and then sit aside and watch Lu Qingwan eat with a face full of love and care. From time to time, she would smooth her bangs hanging on both sides of her cheeks and gently wipe the oily corners of her mouth.

Lu Qingwan didn't eat much, and whenever Shen Xingyao got too close to her, she would subconsciously turn her head away.

When the other few people came over, they would always bring some novel little gifts for Lu Qingwan. They would be placed on the table and thrown into the trash can in front of Lu Qingwan after a few minutes. But they still brought them over happily. Lu Qingwan felt that this group of people came purely to cause trouble for her.

When they talked to Lu Qingwan, she would not respond most of the time. The few words she uttered occasionally were "be quiet", "shut up", "get out", "don't bother me" and so on.

One day at three o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Huaijin came to see her alone. Seeing Lu Qingwan lying on the hospital bed with a bad look on her face, he smiled and washed some fruit for her while sighing, "You look much better now."

Lu Qingwan ignored her and simply closed her eyes. Shen Huaijin shrugged and was too lazy to care about Lu Qingwan. He ate all the fruits he had washed for Lu Qingwan and curled up on the sofa next to him to play games.

About half an hour later, Lu Qingwan said in a hoarse voice, "When you come over tomorrow, bring the photo frame with the red peace knot in my room."

"Hey, what did you say?" Shen Huaijin snorted coldly, "You still have the time to beg me? That's really rare."

Lu Qingwan opened her eyes, turned to look at him, and told Shen Huaijin with her eyes that this was not a plea but a notification.

Shen Huaijin sneered twice, and the next morning he actually brought Lu Qingwan's photo frame with the red peace rope in it. "What kind of rubbish did you ask me to deliver in person? It's a cheap thing sold for twenty yuan a piece at a small stall."

Lu Qingwan took the knot out of the photo frame and rubbed it back and forth gently with her fingertips. When she heard Shen Huaijin say this, she raised her eyelids and glanced at him, and said in a light tone, "It's more valuable than your life."

"..." Shen Huaijin was so angry that he laughed. He could get such an evaluation by running errands for Lu Qingwan for free. "Okay."

When Lu Qingwan turned on her mobile phone, she would occasionally see news push notifications about her accidental fall from a horse. This incident seemed to have caused quite a stir. Lu Qingwan thought that perhaps Lu Zaozao also knew about this incident, but several days had passed, and Lu Zaozao was never among the people who pushed open the door of the ward.

When she thought of this, Lu Qingwan became a little annoyed again. She turned over impatiently, which brought another pain in her abdomen.

Jiang Shen saw Lu Qingwan's frown on the other side of the phone screen, and guessed that she might have pressed the wound again, "Lu Qingwan, please be careful. I don't want you to be dead by the time I return home during the summer vacation."

"If you want me dead, you can just send someone to murder me. There's no need to be so roundabout."

Jiang Shen really laughed this time. Sometimes he didn't know what to do with someone like Lu Qingwan. After a few seconds, Jiang Shen took back the smile on his face and stared at Lu Qingwan's expressionless, pale and thin face and asked, "During the time you were in the hospital, did your sister... come to see you?"

"No."

After Lu Qingwan said these two words, she laughed self-deprecatingly, "Am I an important and unique person to my sister now? Who has time to care about the life and death of an annoying stranger?"

Jiang Shen had always warned Lu Qingwan that Lu Zaozao might change and take back his precious love, but Lu Qingwan always told him firmly that she would not do so. But now she suddenly admitted this fact as if she had given up on herself.

It was a bit of an indescribable feeling. In Jiang Shen's eyes, Lu Qingwan should be the kind of person who is always proud and noble, always indulgent and willful, and always sure of herself, like the most beautiful flower hanging at the highest point of a branch that everyone needs to crane their necks to admire. But now, she actually said such words in a pitiful and humble tone.

Jiang Shen sighed. He couldn't even utter words of comfort like "Don't think so much. Your sister would never think of you that way." Because Lu Qingwan knew everything about the situation, all the words of comfort he could say seemed pale and powerless.

In the end, he just said, "Then you should have a good rest. I won't disturb you. I am also sleepy."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Qingwan hung up the phone.

The phone screen went dark, clearly reflecting a beautiful but cold face. Lu Qingwan felt the pain in her abdomen slowly shifting to her chest. Her heart ached, as if it was being tightly grasped by a pair of hands.

She glanced at the sky outside, then raised her hands and looked at the criss-crossing lines on them. She remembered that these palms had once been tightly pressed against the lines on Lu Zaozao's palms, and their destiny lines had overlapped with each other.

Lu Qingwan suddenly felt her heart ache even more. She curled up in the quilt and whispered the words she had said after falling off the horse, "Sister, I'm in so much pain——"

Unfortunately, no one responded to her.

Even though he was infected with Xie Huanian's cold, He Feng still ran to the other's house to play without fear of death.

"How is it?" He Feng sat on the sofa and raised his chin towards Xie Huinian, "I think I am a loyal brother. I still come to see you even in this situation."

"Don't you want to catch a cold again and ask your homeroom teacher for another week-long leave?"

"..." He Feng, whose thoughts were exposed by Xie Huinian, did not feel any shame at all. Instead, he smiled and said shamelessly, "Congratulations, Comrade Xie Huinian, your guess was absolutely correct."