Ni Pingsen and Huo Shenyan both got out of the car.
Huo Shenyan walked over and pulled Ni Jingxi back. He reached out and hugged the girl in his arms, gently stroking her back with his palm. He could feel her body trembling slightly.
So cautiously.
After being hit, Liu Hui didn't think of fighting back. She just looked at Ni Pingsen quietly, and suddenly her eyes filled with tears. She whispered, "Pingsen, I'm just that bad. I want you to remember me for the rest of your life."
She turned to leave.
Finally, Ni Pingsen stepped forward and pulled her back. He looked at Liu Hui with a pained expression. Even though he had left her, he still hoped that Liu Hui would live a good life instead of giving up on herself like this.
Ni Pingsen grabbed her and whispered, "Liu Hui, stop doing this. I don't deserve it. You deserve a better life."
"A better life? What is a better life? You know I'm thirty-four years old this year, but the only happy life I've had is this stolen time with you. Without you, what right do I have to be happy?"
Ni Pingsen looked at her, his face full of sorrow.
He shook his head: "It's impossible between us now. All I can do is wish you happiness."
Liu Hui was completely devastated. No matter what she did, this man would never turn back; she should have known that. Liu Hui turned and walked across the street. It was a small road with no traffic lights, but as she crossed, a piercingly loud sound suddenly rang out.
When they turned around and saw a car turning the corner, Ni Pingsen rushed over and shoved Liu Hui aside.
Then he was hit by the car and flew straight away for several meters.
Huo Shenyan and Ni Jingxi, who were standing behind, didn't even have time to react before they saw Ni Pingsen fall to the ground with a thud.
Ni Jingxi screamed, "Dad!"
Finally, everything seemed to return to calm in the sky.
When Ni Pingsen was taken to the hospital, Ni Jingxi didn't say a word. She didn't even have an expression. It was as if her soul had been emptied out, leaving only a quiet shell.
After a series of examinations, the doctor came to them and said in an incredulous tone, "Based on the current examination results, apart from the superficial wound on the arm from the fall, the patient has no internal injuries."
Huo Shenyan frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"
Although his words weren't exactly polite, the doctor wasn't angry, because he himself was quite surprised. According to the medical records in the ambulance, the patient had been hit by a car and thrown three meters.
Logically speaking, such an impact should not leave no damage.
But machines don't lie; the scans in his hand all showed that the patient was indeed fine.
At this moment, even Ni Jingxi seemed to slowly come to her senses again. She raised her head and looked at Huo Shenyan, murmuring, "Is Dad alright?"
"It's okay, Dad is really okay." Huo Shenyan reached out and hugged her.
Just now, he couldn't even imagine what would happen if Ni Pingsen really got into trouble. The thought kept flashing through his mind, but he didn't dare to think about it any further.
I really can't imagine it.
The thought of such a possibility made him stiffen. Huo Shenyan, who never ran away from anything, was even running away from this thought.
Because he knew that Ni Jingxi couldn't bear it, and he couldn't bear her inability to bear it either.
When the doctor told them the results, Huo Shenyan felt as if he had been brought back to life. The stiffness in his body gradually warmed up, and his numb mind started to function again.
He nodded in agreement and said, "We are willing to be hospitalized for observation."
Although the examination showed no problems, the doctor felt that this situation was too rare, so Huo Shenyan decided to have Ni Pingsen observed in the hospital for one night.
Ni Pingsen did not wake up that night.
He seemed to be asleep, having a very deep and sweet dream.
He still hadn't woken up when Ni Jingxi and Huo Shenyan came to see him the next day. Ni Jingxi saw Liu Hui at the door, but she didn't say a word to her, not even sparing her a glance.
She didn't drive Liu Hui away either, because to her, Liu Hui meant nothing anymore.
When Ni Jingxi pushed open the door and went in, the person on the white hospital bed was sleeping so peacefully.
Even the doctors and nurses found it very strange, but he really was just sleeping. Ni Jingxi sat by the hospital bed, quietly watching Ni Pingsen, while Huo Shenyan reached out and touched her hand.
But the next second, Ni Jingxi saw Ni Pingsen's eyelids twitch, as if he was about to wake up.
She watched quietly until, after an unknown amount of time, Ni Pingsen opened his eyes.
He looked at Ni Jingxi, and Ni Jingxi looked down at him.
Then Ni Pingsen suddenly chuckled and asked, "Stars."
Even though he was just calling her name, for a few seconds, Ni Jingxi's heart skipped a beat until she whispered, "Dad."
Ni Pingsen suddenly narrowed his eyes, slowly looked up at the ceiling, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Dad could have forgotten you for so long."
I'm sorry, my daughter, for keeping you waiting.
This time, Ni Jingxi's heart really started pounding wildly. She swallowed hard, her throat trembling slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Dad, do you remember me?"
He clearly knew who she was all along, but all his memories of them came from Ni Jingxi.
Ni Pingsen's memories were left behind in Israel, in that place filled with pain, struggle, sadness, and even despair.
Until this moment, when he opened his eyes again, he finally remembered everything—his stars, and his pearl.
Suddenly, Ni Pingsen lowered his eyes, cupped his face in his hands, and whispered, "I miss your mother so much."
"Star, Daddy misses you so much, Mommy."
As the doctors filed into the ward, Liu Hui stood up nervously. Ni Jingxi and Huo Shenyan came out and asked the doctors to examine Ni Pingsen carefully.
Liu Hui asked nervously, "Didn't you say there was nothing wrong? Why is the doctor still doing this examination?"
Ni Jingxi did not answer her question.
When the doctor came out again, he still looked at Ni Jingxi with a bewildered expression and said helplessly, "Ms. Ni, I can only say that the human brain is the most intricate and complex thing. Even the most experienced medical scientists probably don't understand even one percent of the brain."
Ni Jingxi understood that he meant Ni Pingsen's current situation, which he couldn't explain, and the doctor didn't understand why he had suddenly regained his memory.
Ni Jingxi didn't make things difficult for the doctor, because some things were indeed unbelievable, but they really did happen.
After the doctor left, Liu Hui, who had overheard their entire conversation, looked at Ni Jingxi with a puzzled expression and asked, "What were you talking about?"
Ni Jingxi looked at her calmly and said in a low voice, "It's just what you heard."
"He remembered everything?" Liu Hui stared longingly at the hospital room, her voice suddenly choking up. "Has he finally remembered his Gu Mingzhu?"
What she once feared day and night, what he longed for most, the name he called out even on his deathbed.
Now, this nightmare that had haunted her had finally arrived.
After Ni Jingxi re-entered the ward, she and Huo Shenyan left shortly afterward, until Ni Pingsen walked to the door and looked at Liu Hui.
When he looked at her, he was still the same person, but Liu Hui felt that his gaze had changed.
Until he whispered, "Liu Hui, let's go back."
Liu Hui looked at him, her voice choked with emotion: "Do you remember everything?"
Ni Pingsen was silent for a few seconds, then finally nodded. He said softly, "I remember the first time I saw Mingzhu, she was wearing a white shirt and a red skirt. The red skirt was a particularly bright color, and she looked like an elf."
Liu Hui burst into tears. He remembered, he really remembered everything.
She once said she wanted Ni Pingsen to remember only him, even the bad things about her. But now he remembers everything. He saved her, and fate has repaid him for everything it owed him.
His memories, his Gu Mingzhu.
They've all been returned.
She truly lost this time, utterly and completely.
Liu Hui stood there for a long time, then slowly turned around under Ni Pingsen's gaze, and finally silently looked back.
From this point on, our paths in life will no longer intertwine.
*
When Ni Jingxi and the others arrived home, Su Yiheng's agency had just sent a lawyer's letter refuting yesterday's live stream content. The letter stated that Su Yiheng did not know the woman in the live stream at all, and did not understand why the woman would slander Su Yiheng in this way. They reserved the right to sue the other party.
Ni Jingxi naturally saw the news push as well.
So much happened that day that she didn't even have time to pay attention to Su Yiheng.
She genuinely thought the other party had learned her lesson, after all, Su Jingxuan was still in jail. Could it be that Su Yiheng wanted to go to jail to keep her brother company?
It wasn't until Huo Shenyan took the phone out of her hand and glanced at it casually that she understood.
"Leave this to me."
Just half an hour after Su Yiheng sent out the lawyer's letter, a post suddenly appeared online exposing the relationship between the man who appeared in Liu Hui's live stream video last night and Su Yiheng.
Because Su Jingxuan had posted quite a few photos of him and this driver before.
After comparing the photos, it is clear that it is the same person.
The fact that her own brother's driver appeared in Liu Hui's live stream video, and that he was stopping Liu Hui from continuing, makes it easy to understand why he was stopping her.
Moreover, it was discovered that this driver had been working for Su Jingxuan for at least three years.
After such solid evidence was exposed, Su Yiheng was completely devastated and subjected to all sorts of mockery from netizens. Already affected by Su Jingxuan's drug use, her popularity plummeted, and even her official fan club experienced a loss of support, prompting them to proactively expose several of Su Yiheng's alleged crimes on their official account.
So, half a month later, Su Yiheng quietly left the country.
Before she went abroad, the elders of the Su family actually came to the Huo family to plead for her. However, Zhong Lan flatly refused, because at present, public opinion was going to destroy Su Yiheng, and it really had nothing to do with their Huo family.
Besides, Su Yiheng has been targeting Ni Jingxi time and time again, and she had already said there would be no next time.
So this time, Zhong Lan directly stated that she would not forgive her. She said, "Your daughter is young and made a mistake, right? But have you thought about why Jingxi has been hurt time and time again? Now that the media has exposed these things, you don't need to come here to beg for mercy."
The person on the other end seemed to want to say something more, but Zhong Lan didn't want to listen anymore.
It would be a lie to say she wasn't heartbroken. After all, Su Yiheng was once her favorite girl. She had watched her grow up since she was a child, and now she was watching her make the wrong choices step by step.
But no matter what, Zhong Lan didn't want to hear any more reasons, and no matter what the reasons were, they were not the reason why Su Yiheng had done anything wrong.
Subsequently, the Huo family officially began to sever ties with the Su family. In fact, they had sold Su's shares before, but only on a small scale. This time, however, it was a large-scale sale, even a complete sell-off.
Even Old Master Huo called to inquire about this matter. After all, the Su family and the Huo family used to have such a close and friendly relationship.
Huo Shenyan answered decisively, saying, "Someone is bullying your granddaughter-in-law, so I have to go and help her get revenge."
The old man paused for a moment on the other end of the phone, then suddenly burst into laughter: "Not bad, you have the same domineering spirit as Grandpa back then."
Su Yiheng went to New York to study directing, but now she's tarnished by scandals, and no one dares to work with someone as calculating as her. Even her agency can only say that her only option right now is to keep a low profile.
Therefore, she left the country soon afterward.
It's said that she won't be returning to China for at least three years. Perhaps she'll find peace of mind while she's abroad.