The Love of Mermaid No. 39

  Xia Yi wasn't surprised to see Shi Mengru holding a large bouquet of flowers in the lobby of T University Hospital's inpatient department. He could understand why her bright apricot eyes were filled with sorrow. However, he couldn't quite grasp why Shi Mengru, who was usually so reckless and domineering, would be sitting alone by the flowerbed on the ground floor, looking so despondent, instead of rushing straight to Han Qi's hospital room.

  "Shi Mu Rou?" Xia Yi walked to the edge of the flower bed and called out in a low voice, confirming that he wasn't mistaken.

  Shi Mengru heard the sound and lifted her head, tears began to fall pitter-patter.

  Xia Yi blinked and sat down beside her. Han Qi was now sleeping in the hospital room, unable to move, so who was this pitiful, innocent, lovelorn girl act for?

  "Why won't you go in?" Xiaoyi asked softly, worried that a heavy tone would make her burst into loud sobs.

  Shi Mengru's eyes stared blankly ahead, tears falling like broken pearls, one by one, as she whispered: "I... I don't dare..."

  She doesn't dare?

  Xia Yi slightly furrowed her brow and began to retrieve memories of Shi Mu Rui from her mind.

  He and Han Qi, it seems that they met Shi Mengyue at the same time. Was it during the winter vacation of the first year? At that time, they and a group of friends were too bored to stay at home, so they went to participate in a three-on-three basketball tournament held by a certain business, and the venue was in a shopping mall. They only made it to the semifinals of the youth group before being eliminated, after all, they were still young on the basketball court at that time, and making it to the semifinals was already quite good. After the last game, an unfamiliar girl took the initiative to come over and invite them to a cold drink store. A group of boys naturally got excited and followed this girl to a fruit ice cream shop.

  After a simple chat, I found out that this lovely little girl was actually in the same school and grade as them, with a nice name, Shi Mengrui.

  After everyone finished drinking and eating, Shi Mengru smiled and asked Han Qi in front of everyone if he was willing to be her boyfriend.

  This sentence is roughly where their story begins.

  At that time, Han Qi was not a good person either. The pig neither said he was willing nor unwilling, and instead smiled gently at the little beauty, smiling but not answering, making Shi Meng Xue's face turn bright red, instantly losing her usual domineering and straightforward attitude.

  After that, the two of them didn't see each other during winter break. Because Han Qi stayed at his house every day. Either dragging him to play video games or calling a few people to play basketball, and then instructing Ni Qiao over the phone to help them buy water, food, snacks, and groceries. At that time, Ni Qiao was almost no different from the boys, hanging out with them every day, even discussing girls together. At that time, she seemed to have advised Han Qi not to miss the opportunity, saying how Shi Mengru was popular in school, and students from other schools would give her love letters.

  Han Qi listened to her endless gossip introduction and simply threw out three dull words: "Not interested." Then, Ni Qiao muttered to herself, saying that Han Qi had been spoiled by his beautiful celebrity mother and now looked down on all kinds of girls, which might hinder his healthy growth and ultimately lead him to come out... This naturally led to Han Qi's violent retaliation.

  That winter vacation was very happy, happy days always end too quickly.

  At the beginning of next semester, Shi Mengru started sticking to Han Qi's side. Except for attending classes, she spent all her time around him, even driving away his deskmate. She helped him collect love letters and gifts, making sure that any advances from others were in vain. It was said that she also secretly "negotiated" with several girls, causing them to take a detour whenever they saw her.

  Apart from Han Qi, Shi Mengxuan didn't put anyone else in her eyes. Not to mention Xia Yi's attempts to help Han Qi escape the devil's claws, even the school teachers didn't give her any face. She was so blatant in pursuing a boy that the teachers wouldn't be unaware of it, whether it was her own head teacher or the head teacher of Han Qi and Xia Yi's class, or the school's teaching director, league secretary, or psychological counselor. They all came out to advise her to focus on her studies, but unfortunately, they all fell from their horses, enraged by her "impertinence" and clutching their chests in frustration.

  She thus became Han Qi's acknowledged personal follower, and her position was unshakeable.

  Such a girl, dare not go to Han Qi's ward? What is she guilty of?

  Xia Yi looked at Shi Mu Rui's face filled with sadness, and those sorrowful eyes seemed to be saying "sorry"?

  "What... did you do?" Xia Yi lightly patted Shi Mengru's shoulder.

  Shi Mengyue hugged the bouquet of flowers and burst into tears. The sound of her crying attracted several passersby, who cast sympathetic glances: probably someone close to her had passed away.

  Xia Yi neither comforted nor asked, patiently waiting for her to cry enough. All these years, she had poured all her passion and energy into pursuing Han Qi, so devoted that she had ignored the harm she had suffered, only to have Han Qi ultimately choose to seriously guard another girl without hesitation. Even as a bystander, he would feel somewhat tragic. If she wanted revenge, it was understandable.

  "I...I knew they were trouble...it was me who brought them...to the riverbank...I thought that after sending her home...on the main street they wouldn't be able to do anything...I didn't know they would go up on the embankment...I didn't dare follow...and there was no way to call for help...because they were staring at me...until they left...then I heard the girl cry out for help...I didn't want to hurt him that badly..."

  Xia Yi sighed. It's said that love is blind, whether or not you've obtained it, as long as you're involved with love, people become blind. He could understand Han Qi's feelings for Xiao Mi might be due to some kind of spiritual dependence, he could also understand Xiao Mi's feelings for Han Qi might be because of a young girl's novelty, joy and persistence towards love, however, he didn't quite understand Shi Meng Rui's emotions, the one-sided, bitter and persistent thoughts that bordered on obsession, what was it from, and what was it for?

  Although he didn't understand, yet he could clearly see that this feeling was destined to become a bubble.

  "Don't think too much about it, it's just a stranger asking you for directions, and you answered that's all." Xia Yi put his arm around Shi Meng Rui's shoulder and patted her lightly.

  Feeling the warmth spreading from Xia Yi's body, Shi Mengru leaned against him lightly. She suddenly felt very tired, so tired that she didn't even have the strength to cry.

  It turns out that being held in someone's arms is such a comforting thing.

  "Let me help you put the flowers up." Xiaoyi patted the head in his arms, comforting a wounded child.

  "Uh-huh. Thank you." Shi Mengru nodded obediently.

  Xia Yi opened the door of Han Qi's ward and was stunned. Han Qi's father was having a fierce rock-paper-scissors match with Tong Xiao Mi.

  "They were deciding who would help me clean up the urine bag." Hanky explained calmly, "What kind of flowers do you buy as a big man?"

  "Uncle is good." Xiaoyi smiled and asked a greeting to Han Qi's dad, but didn't get an immediate response. He walked straight over to Han Qi's bedside and sat down, putting the bouquet on the bedside table. He glanced at the nearly full urine bag hanging from Han Qi's bed. People after surgery have to rely on urine bags to solve physiological problems.

  "Reminding you that the outside world is so beautiful." Xia Yi lightly explained the reason for bringing flowers, then joked, "It's great, your dad and girlfriend are competing to give you a urine bag, you're almost becoming a waste person but still so happy."

  Han Qi rolled his eyes and sighed, "Not at all. One is afraid of getting dirty," he pointed to his dad with his eyes, then pointed to Xiao Mi again, "and the other is shy."

  "Then it's called nurse swapping."

  "Xiaomi is not involved."

  "How embarrassing..."

  The two people who finished playing rock-paper-scissors responded to his suggestion at the same time.

  "Alright, since you've managed to get someone to save my son in time, I'll let it slide this once!" Han Qi's dad reluctantly bent down to clean up Han Qi's urine-soaked pants.

  "Alright, I admit defeat, uncle." Xiaomi said with a bit of dissatisfaction and pouted her mouth. "But I've always been a bit curious, who was it that made the emergency call at the time? We should thank them..." Xiaomi muttered to herself in a low voice, she had only managed to shout for help at the time, but the emergency call wasn't made by her after all.

  Xia Yi smiled but didn't speak. In fact, the one who saved Han Qi was also Shi Mu Rui.

  However, the princess that the prince saw when he opened his eyes was not her...

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