Su Meiqi covered her head and looked back, only to find Zhou Yi'an staring at her intently.
Su Meiqi: "..."
She said plaintively, "Sister An, when did you get here? You walked so quietly. And please, stop hitting me, you've made my head spin."
"You even know that you need a ten-star alignment to travel through time." Zhou Yi'an scoffed. "You don't seem stupid."
Su Meiqi: "..."
Speaking of this, Su Meiqi got really excited, her eyes sparkling. "Or the alignment of the nine stars would work, or at the very least, there are those legendary treasures, or newly opened wormholes. Usually, unusual celestial phenomena are good opportunities to travel through them."
"How did you study physics and politics in school?" Zhou Yi'an raised an eyebrow: "Did you pay to get into that prestigious university? Why do you believe in this kind of stuff?"
Su Meiqi instantly lost her composure and loudly retorted, "Existence is its own justification! You can't assume it doesn't exist just because you haven't seen it!"
"Do you know that it's very impolite to use a sick person to make assumptions?" Zhou Yi'an said coldly.
Su Meiqi: "..."
"Make bold guesses, but verify carefully?" Su Meiqi's voice lacked confidence as she said this. She looked at Zhou Yi'an, then at Xu Qingzhu, and finally said with a sneer, "Sorry, sis, I was just saying."
Zhou Yi'an grabbed her by the back of the neck, "You're skipping work and just messing around with your anime stuff, do you want your dad to find out?"
The moment her father was mentioned, Su Meiqi jumped up like a mouse whose tail had been stepped on, scolding, "Zhou Yi'an! You've gone too far! You're such a grown-up, yet you're still sue your parents. You're completely unreasonable!"
Zhou Yi'an pinched the back of her neck and threatened in a cold voice, "What did you say?"
Su Meiqi: "..."
The two left Xu Qingzhu's office.
Xu Qingzhu sat in her office pondering the possibility of what Su Meiqi had said.
During her precious working hours, she spent an hour researching those theories.
In the end, it turned out that I had really believed Su Meiqi's lies.
Putting aside the fact that celestial phenomena are extremely rare, the claims circulating online about special physical constitutions are clearly just nonsense meant to fool children.
It's mostly a case of desperate measures being taken without proper diagnosis.
Xu Qingzhu suddenly smiled at the answer displayed on the computer.
Then I saw a message from Zhou Yi'an sent an hour ago: 【Don't talk about time travel with a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) girl.】
Xu Qingzhu stared at the screen and laughed.
It's surprising that someone as eccentric as Zhou Yi'an can be so thoughtful.
She replied with an "Mmm" and then said nothing more.
//
Being busy with work can, to some extent, alleviate the longing for someone.
After get off work, Xu Qingzhu went to the hospital as usual.
While driving to the hospital, she noticed her phone kept ringing.
It's snowing outside.
Snowflakes danced and fell from the sky, landing heavily on her car window.
The windshield wipers kept wiping away the falling snow.
Xu Qingzhu felt a bit stuffy in the car, so she opened the window a little bit.
The wind and snow drifted into the car through the gaps, carrying the chill unique to this coastal city.
The car's heater was on, and any snow that drifted in would immediately melt into water droplets.
Xu Qingzhu suddenly thought, if Liang Shi were here, he would definitely ask whether this was for the sake of being cold or hot.
Xu Qingzhu murmured, "Maybe it's just boredom."
I feel so bored being alone.
It's so boring sitting alone in the car.
Even with music playing, it still feels very boring.
Xu Qingzhu picked up her phone while waiting for the traffic light to turn red. It was Sally who had posted a lot of snow scene photos in the group chat. She hadn't seen snow in so long and was having a blast playing in the snow.
Meanwhile, Lin Luoxi was filming Sally.
Sally caught snow with her bare hands, her ten fingers turning bright red from the cold.
Seeing that they were having a good time, Xu Qingzhu replied, "What are you doing? Luring the dog in to kill it?"
Sally: [It's slaughtered on the spot.]
Xu Qingzhu: [I'll blow you up.jpg]
After casually replying to the message, Xu Qingzhu drove off again.
As the number of cars on the road gradually increased and dusk approached, the streetlights suddenly turned on, illuminating the city's night.
A shooting star streaked across the distant horizon.
It's not a big deal to see Sally and Lin Luoxi showing affection every day.
She's been watching since college.
But lately, she has had countless moments where she thinks, "If only Liang Shi were here."
But Liang Shi was not there.
That's why she seemed so lonely.
Xu Qingzhu parked her car in a parking space in front of the hospital, holding a bouquet of flowers she had bought from the flower shop downstairs.
When she got off work, the flower shop was almost closing, and the flowers that had been there all day were being sold off on a clearance sale. So she bought a bunch of sunflowers, intending to replace the bunch of baby's breath that was about to wither in her hospital room.
The off-white long trench coat made her look tall and slender. The cold weather gave her fair face a blush, saving her the trouble of applying blush.
Xu Qingzhu walked into the hospital carrying flowers, attracting a lot of attention along the way.
It's rare to see someone with such outstanding looks.
She continued walking forward as always, her heart as still as a stagnant pool, undisturbed.
She was looking down at first, but after nearly bumping into someone, she finally looked up to see where she was going.
As she approached the entrance to the inpatient department, she suddenly stopped.
A figure darted out of the inpatient department entrance like the wind. She was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, with a light brown trench coat that Xu Qingzhu had left in the ward casually over it. It was a little small, but probably because she had been lying in bed for a long time recently, her figure had become increasingly thin, so it didn't look bulky on her. The color of the coat matched her eyes exceptionally well.
The swirling snowflakes seemed to drift rhythmically under the streetlights.
Blown erratically by the wind, it swayed aimlessly.
Xu Qingzhu gripped the sunflower tightly in her hand.
The figure stopped a few steps after rushing out of the inpatient department. The two stood still, looking at each other across the sea of people.
Her eyes were filled with glistening tears.
The swirling snowflakes landed on their eyelashes and melted instantly.
After a long while, Liang Shi's tears fell, but she didn't care. She just opened her arms and gently called out to Xu Qingzhu, "Xu Qingzhu."
Xu Qingzhu took a small step, afraid that this was just a dream.
She licked her lips and responded softly, "Hmm?"
Liang Shi said, "Come here."
She paused, then spoke the next sentence, her voice trembling and choked with emotion: "Don't you want to hug me?"
The sunflower in Xu Qingzhu's hand fell to the ground in that instant. She ran a few steps resolutely towards Liang Shi and then flew directly into Liang Shi's arms.
Liang Shi tightened his arms, bent slightly, and spoke in a gentle voice filled with tenderness and longing, continuing from the previous sentence.
"I really want to hug you, Xu Qingzhu."
Xu Qingzhu closed her eyes, tears falling onto her shoulder, and hugged her waist tightly.
"Liang Shi," Xu Qingzhu called her name.
Liang Shi released her and looked down at her.
Liang Shi's voice was low as he stroked her cheek, his fingers tracing her jawline, his eyes reddening. "Xu Qingzhu, did you not eat properly again?"
Xu Qingzhu's tears fell onto the back of her hand. "I ate it."
“But you’ve lost weight,” Liang Shi said with concern.
Xu Qingzhu stared into her eyes, then suddenly closed them, and tears fell again, like tiny pearls.
Liang Shi felt his hand burning; the spot where his tears had fallen felt like a burn hole from a cigarette, a sharp, piercing pain.
“I’m back,” Liang Shi said.
Xu Qingzhu's clear, cold voice almost blended into the wind and snow as she asked with extreme caution, "Is it a dream?"
“No,” Liang Shi said, “I’m back, I’m not leaving.”
She slowly bent over, while Xu Qingzhu slightly tiptoed.
Their cool lips met with a snowflake.
The snow is cold, but my lips are warm.
At this moment, they belong to each other.
Chapter 132
Zhao Xuning had just finished assisting with an operation and was taking off his sterile gown as he came out of the operating room.
Before I even had a chance to wash my hands, I overheard people chatting nearby.
"Those two downstairs are so beautiful."
"Watching this makes me want to fall in love too... It's like an idol drama coming to life."