Chapter 150: Fever
Bright sunlight pierced through the clouds, and the first ray of light announced the arrival of morning. A few sparrows, with their fluffy wings curled up, were chirping on the rusty clothes rack.
White clouds wiped the sky, and the blue sky was as clear as if it had been washed. It was as if the harsh winter had passed and spring had quietly arrived. Everything was as beautiful as a dream, or perhaps the fierce and violent wind of last night was just a nightmare that had already passed.
Xia Qian Ge slowly opened her eyes, struggling to open her sleepy eyelids. The bright sunlight was a little dazzling for a moment. She squinted her eyes and twitched her nose. The fresh scent of sunlight was mixed with a hint of the pungent smell of fireworks. The fireworks that had bloomed in the darkness last night had left a mess that was now visible in the daylight.
Her consciousness gradually returned. The coldness of the morning made her shrink her neck and bury herself deeper in the blanket. She subconsciously moved closer to the warmth, her forehead gently touching something hot, as if it would burn her skin.
Xia Qian Ge suddenly opened her eyes. She saw the boy lying by the bed, covered only by a thin blanket. He had even put his down jacket on her blanket.
She was suddenly flustered. She reached out with trembling fingers and pressed them against his forehead. The increasingly hot temperature was transmitted to the surface of her skin. The boy was panting, and a few drops of cold sweat rolled down his forehead. A thin, pale blush spread across his face. He had a fever, a high fever.
“Wake up, Su Yu. Are you okay?”
Xia Qian Ge’s warm palm caressed the boy’s cheek, her fingertips gently sliding over the flushed corners of his eyes. She bit her lip, wishing she could bear this burning pain for him. After all… she was used to it.
“I…”
The girl’s cold and warm touch was like a basin of ice water poured over Su Yu’s head, making him struggle in the scorching lava. He subconsciously grabbed the warmth on his cheek and forced his chaotic thoughts to open his eyes. The girl’s bright and beautiful face came into view.
He was stunned for a moment, and then he slowly realized something. He let go of the smooth and greasy feeling in his palm. He was a little dazed and pulled away from the two of them, asking.
“You’re awake?”
“Yeah, I see you…”
“It’s good that you’re awake. Your condition was not right yesterday. Fortunately, I came…”
Su Yu gathered some strength and struggled to stand up from the chair. But his strength was draining fast, and his body seemed to have a mind of its own. His half-bent knees suddenly knelt on the ground. Fortunately, his elbows were on the edge of the table, so he didn’t fall.
“Don’t move. I think you have a fever.”
Xia Qian Ge reached out with her still-warm hand and touched Su Yu’s forehead again. Her tone became particularly serious, her dark eyes staring at Su Yu. “Let’s go to the hospital. I’ll help you.”
“I…”
“Listen to me.”
“Thank you. Sorry to trouble you.” Su Yu smiled a little embarrassedly. “I was originally here to help you, but in the end…”
“Yeah, it’s okay.”
Xia Qian Ge looked at the boy deeply, as if she wanted to carve his handsome and elegant appearance into her eyes. She only said half of her answer.
Ah Yu, you saved me.
Before I met you, I was just a piece of seaweed in the deep sea that no one cared about, soaked in the salty seawater, salty and bitter. But the sunlight pierced through the bottom of the sea when I was about to despair and suffocate, illuminating my cold and dark life. It was so bright… so warm. I don’t want to give you to anyone.
…
“I said it’s okay. I’ve already had an IV drip at the hospital. Um… I can go back later.”
“Su Yu, you bastard. Go to hell… go to hell. I couldn’t see you in the morning, and now you’re telling me you’re in the hospital. Liar… big liar. I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”
Su Yu listened to the girl’s scolding, which was slightly tinged with a cry, and his reason became pale. He could only smile helplessly. “What liar? Do you know I saved a life yesterday? This is called a hero…”
“Pfft, pfft, pfft. I don’t want to hear your excuses. I’m coming to find you now… right now!”
“Aren’t you supposed to be in class today? Studying is important.”
“I’ve taken leave. I’m on my way. I’ll be there soon.”
“But… I have…”
He Mu Qing was stubborn and refused to give in. Before he could finish speaking, she hung up the phone.
Su Yu sighed helplessly and stared at his phone, which was about to die. The hospital on New Year’s Day was particularly deserted. The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant. He held his phone tightly in his palm. He still hadn’t changed anything. So what if the girl hadn’t died on this desolate New Year’s Eve? Living alone… was just adding to the baseless pain.
“Who are you talking to?”
Xia Qian Ge knocked on the door of the hospital room and smiled at Su Yu. “I bought some white porridge and steamed buns. Fortunately, there’s a breakfast shop downstairs that’s open. The owner is a local and is open today too.”
“Nothing. A neighbor was worried about me because I wasn’t at home in the morning.”
“Haha, I’m sorry. It’s all my fault.”
Xia Qian Ge smiled and apologized. She took out the packed white porridge and opened the lid. The hot white porridge was steaming. The porridge was very thick and had some vegetables in it. The rice grains were crystal clear and appetizing.
“Qian Ge, I have something to ask you.”
“What? Why are you suddenly so serious?” Xia Qian Ge scooped a spoonful of porridge and blew on it carefully, her tone casual. “Go ahead and ask.”
“If, I mean if, I hadn’t gone to find you yesterday, would you have… committed suicide?”
The hospital room was instantly filled with a terrifying emptiness.
Xia Qian Ge put the cooled white porridge back in the bowl. She didn’t answer immediately. Her pure black pupils stared at Su Yu.
“If you don’t want to talk about it, it’s okay.”
Su Yu was a little at a loss. His Adam’s apple rolled. He regretted asking such a sensitive question.
Xia Qian Ge was still silent. She lowered her head and stirred the white porridge in the bowl. “Fortunately, you came… didn’t you?”
“You…”
Su Yu’s face froze for a moment. He had already gotten the answer… but he would rather not have asked this question. The short answer turned into a rusty steel rod, stabbing into his living heart, drawing out gushing blood, so painful that he wanted to grit his teeth.
“Have some porridge. It’s not hot anymore.”
Xia Qian Ge held the porcelain spoon full of porridge to his mouth, her dark eyes staring at him, a bright smile on her lips. “Thank you, Su Yu.”
Su Yu didn’t speak. He bit the porcelain spoon and drank the spoonful of white porridge.
…
“Get some sleep. The fever will be gone when you wake up.”
Xia Qian Ge leaned over and cleaned up the mess on the table, putting the finished bowls and chopsticks into a bag.
“Yeah, I’m a little sleepy.”
The bright sunlight was reflected in Su Yu’s sleepy eyes. He hadn’t had a good rest since last night, and his body was already exhausted. Every nerve was limp. He leaned against the hospital bed, and fatigue rushed into his mind. His cheek touched the soft pillow, and he fell into a deep sleep.
Xia Qian Ge stopped cleaning. She sat by the bed for a while, staring at the boy’s serene sleeping face in a daze. She called his name a few times, but his breathing was steady, and he showed no signs of waking up.
She reached out with her slender fingers and rested them on the boy’s cheek, slowly tracing the gentle contours of his face, the corners of his lips, the bridge of his nose, and finally stopping at his eyebrows, which were particularly soft and even a little alluring when he was asleep. She traced the bones of his eyes, her dark and deep pupils at this moment only able to hold the boy’s image.
Xia Qian Ge looked down at the leftovers in her hand and suddenly felt disgusted. She felt that she was really going crazy. She could do anything disgusting. The disgust of a cornered person was probably not as fierce as hers. To fall into the eighteenth level of hell and suffer the torment of purgatory would not be too much.
She could have easily wiped away her pain and given a happy answer. But she had to make the boy bear such a heavy result.
A human life!
Whether it was self-blame or sympathy, as long as the boy’s gaze was on her, nothing else mattered.
Xia Qian Ge brushed aside the hair from her ear, leaned over, and placed a moist kiss on the corner of the boy’s lips, as gentle as the first spring breeze that came after the winter melted away.
She felt the boy’s warm and sunny scent, as if she were running in an endless green field. The downpour in her heart suddenly paused. A ray of sunlight pierced through the dark clouds and hit the puddle on the ground, shimmering. The deep chasm that had been in front of her since ancient times was filled with the starlight from the scattered stars that streaked across the night sky.
She was intoxicated and couldn’t extricate herself. She was addicted. Whether it was by any means necessary, this was her redemption. It was the lonely island she had found in the boundless ocean. It was her terminally ill… cure.
“Clang…”
The iron thermos rolled on the ground, and the fragrant soup spilled out, forming a puddle on the floor.
Xia Qian Ge suddenly turned her head, but she only caught a glimpse of a somewhat familiar and beautiful figure disappearing into a blind spot.
Author’s notes:
Let me explain something. You might not have noticed if you didn’t read carefully. Xia Qian Ge’s mother in her previous life died a little later, but at that time, because she had already won over Su Yu, she had to maintain a superior attitude towards him. She couldn’t pretend to be pitiful anymore, so she didn’t tell Su Yu that her mother had died. In this life, she spread the news of the donation in the group chat, but Xia Qian Ge didn’t expect Su Yu to come that day. She thought she could hold on until the next day. But Su Yu came that day. Because this had never happened in his previous life, Su Yu thought that he had affected the timeline and caused Xia Qian Ge’s mother’s death, so he felt very guilty and ran over that day.
But if Su Yu hadn’t gone on New Year’s Eve, Xia Qian Ge would have really died. She felt that living was too tiring and envied her mother.
Xia Qian Ge just wanted to tell Su Yu that you saved me, you are responsible for my life, and you can’t get away easily in the future. In fact, if the two of them were ordinary people now, they would already be in an ambiguous period. But Qian Ge would definitely not take the initiative to confess. She would force the male lead to do it first.
TFTC