Seeing Bai Yurou cry, the rest of the family quickly stepped forward to comfort her.
They assumed it was their most beloved Rourou, who had woken up after facing life-threatening danger and was now crying out of fear.
Bai Mo took a tissue from her bag and handed it to her little sister.
“Dad, Mom, that boy who saved me… how is he now?” Bai Yurou finally stopped crying. She wiped her tears with the tissue as she asked.
“There’s no saving him. That boy faced the truck head-on and died before the ambulance even arrived.”
It was her older brother, Bai Sihan, who answered her.
Bai Yurou’s reaction upon hearing this was very calm, because she had already known the answer.
However, she asked this question mainly to pave the way for the next one: “Then what about his family? How are they?”
Her adoptive parents, and her little sister—Ning Mu.
Bai Yurou wanted to know how they had reacted upon learning of her death.
“They are extremely heartbroken. That boy’s little sister directly hugged the body and cried.”
Bai Sihan spoke truthfully, his tone carrying a trace of sympathy.
After all, if not for that boy, the one hugging a family member’s corpse and crying would have been him.
Bai Yurou lowered her head upon hearing this answer.
Ning Mu… today should have been a happy eighteenth birthday for her, yet she herself had left without a word like this, ruining what should have been the happiest birthday of her life.
“Brother, that boy’s family… can I meet them?”
Before Bai Sihan could answer, Zhou Wanting spoke first: “Meet them? Of course you can. Once Rourou is feeling a bit better and has been discharged, our whole family will personally visit them. After all, they saved our Rourou’s life. Their family are our benefactors.”
Her older brother thought for a moment and said, “Seven days from now is that boy’s funeral. Rourou, if you can be discharged by then, go attend it. See your life-saving benefactor off. You’ll also be able to meet his family there.”
A funeral? Attend her own funeral?
There probably weren’t many people in this world who got to experience something like that.
“Okay.”
Bai Yurou nodded at Bai Sihan. She would attend the funeral belonging to Lin Ye seven days from now.
This funeral would be her way of saying goodbye to her former self.
It was also a good way to meet her adoptive parents and little sister once more.
Bai Yurou had no intention of revealing her identity to them.
Her former self had already troubled them enough.
She had clearly been an orphan, yet the Ning parents had treated her as their own and always tried to divide their love relatively equally between the two children.
In order to repay them, Lin Ye had been very sensible and had never caused the Ning parents any trouble.
As for Ning Mu, she had always respected him deeply since childhood.
Every time she bought snacks, she would share half with Lin Ye.
Bai Yurou was certain that the relationship between Lin Ye and Ning Mu was better than that of many biological siblings.
Yet she herself had so irresponsibly died for the sake of saving a strange young girl.
Fortunately, in order to thank Lin Ye for saving his little sister’s life, Bai Sihan had provided the Ning family with generous compensation.
The Ning family had originally only been an ordinary middle-class household.
This compensation was enough to let them live a better life and have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their days.
This money could be considered repayment for the many years of upbringing her adoptive parents had given her.
She hoped the Ning family could quickly accept the fact of their adoptive son’s death and face a new life.
If she used this current body to acknowledge her former family, it would only cause even more trouble.
How would the Ning parents look at her?
Their adoptive son had become the girl their son had saved?
How would Ning Mu look at her?
The girl who had caused her brother’s death was also her brother at the same time?
And how should she treat the Ning family?
Still treat them as family like before and live together?
But she had a family now.
She was not only Lin Ye now, but also Bai Yurou.
Her memories, as well as the behavior of her current family, all told her one thing: the Bai family loved her very much.
She was the youngest daughter of the Bai family and had been cherished like a princess by the family since childhood.
Bai Yurou was also unwilling to abandon her original family.
So right now, she did not know how to handle the relationship between these two sets of family members.
Therefore, she chose to avoid it.
This was a decision made by both Lin Ye and Bai Yurou together.
She believed that simply forgetting her former self and accepting her current life was the best method.
Attending her own funeral and meeting the Ning parents and Ning Mu once more was only to give her former self a proper explanation.
“Rourou, didn’t you previously beg Sister to find a friend in Europe to buy you a limited-edition perfume? Sister has already found it. Want to try it?”
While the girl was deep in thought, her biological older sister Bai Mo spoke.
Bai Mo saw that her little sister’s mood had remained poor after being hospitalized, so she tried to bring up a topic her little sister used to like in order to cheer her up a little.
As she spoke, Bai Mo took out an equally luxurious limited-edition perfume from her luxurious bag.
Bai Yurou recalled her own memories.
This perfume had been created by the most famous perfume master of the current era.
It was pure natural and completely harmless to the human body.
Only ten bottles were produced worldwide each year, and the price of any single bottle was an astronomical figure that an ordinary family would find extremely difficult to earn.
Previously, Bai Yurou had known that her older sister was acquainted with that perfume master, so she had acted spoiled and begged her older sister to help buy her a bottle of this perfume.
At the time, Bai Mo had not immediately agreed, and Bai Yurou had forgotten about the matter.
Until now, when Bai Mo directly took it out as a surprise meant to comfort her little sister.
If it had been the Bai Yurou from before the accident—that naive young miss who knew nothing of the world—she would definitely have first hugged Bai Mo and said, “I like Sister the most,” then excitedly taken the perfume.
However, the current Bai Yurou was different.
With Lin Ye’s memories, she naturally knew how expensive this bottle of perfume was, which made her not dare to accept it.
She tried to force a smile onto her cheeks and answered in a weak voice, “Thank you, Sister. But I just woke up and my body doesn’t feel well. I don’t really want to use it yet.”
Seeing her little sister refuse, Bai Mo could only put the perfume back into her bag.
Looking at her little sister’s hesitant expression, she thought to herself.
My poor Rourou. It seems this incident has hit her especially hard.
She doesn’t even have interest in the perfume she once acted so spoiled over wanting.
No, in order to help little sister regain her passion for life, I have to give her more things.
I remember Hermès released a new bag design. When I get back, I’ll buy every color to enrich little sister’s collection.
Bai Yurou did not know what her older sister was thinking.
If she did, she would probably feel even more of a headache.
After fusing with Lin Ye’s memories, her former hobby of loving luxury goods could basically be said to have disappeared.
If possible, she hoped to sell all the brand-name clothes, bags, and cosmetics she had previously acted spoiled over and asked her family to buy, then convert them into money.
Although she had agreed to accept her identity as Bai Yurou, Lin Ye’s memories and personality still made her continuously feel inferior.
Do I really deserve such good things?
Speaking of which, she had gotten into the accident on the way to report to university, and Bai Yurou’s university happened to be the same as Lin Ye’s and Ning Mu’s—the best local school, Moon City University.
“Dad, Mom, university…”
“University, huh. Rourou, you don’t need to worry about this. Dad has already spoken to the university for you. It’s fine if you report a few days late. Just go after you’re discharged.”
The reporting period for Moon University was quite long, and the official deadline was not until late August.
It was just that Bai Yurou had originally had nothing to do and planned to report today.
As a father, Bai Yuan naturally knew what his daughter wanted to ask.
He answered her question before Bai Yurou could finish speaking.
“By the way, Rourou, do you still want to live in the dormitory at university?”
Bai Yurou’s university was local.
As the little daughter who had been held in the palm of their hands and carefully protected since childhood, her parents naturally hoped she would live at home.
However, they could not withstand Bai Yurou acting spoiled at the time and saying that her parents controlled her too much and that she wanted to live independently away from them.
“Live in the dormitory? What dormitory? Today we let Rourou go report to school by herself without a bodyguard, and something like this happened. Moreover, Rourou’s body has never been good. If her heart disease flares up, there won’t be anyone to take care of her. Rourou, listen to Mom and just live at home with your parents.”
The fiercely protective Zhou Wanting directly rejected the idea.
Today’s incident with her little daughter had already terrified her.
She had firmly opposed Rourou living in the dormitory before, but Bai Yuan had said they should respect their daughter’s decision and agreed to her request.
If possible, she even hoped her little daughter would simply not study and just stay at home accompanying her.
The family could support her for a lifetime anyway.
Live in the dormitory?
The fusion of the two personalities meant Bai Yurou was no longer the former Bai Yurou.
Many of the current Bai Yurou’s subconscious habits had been inherited from the former Lin Ye.
In the short term it would be fine—the family would brush it off by saying her mindset had changed after the recent incident.
But in the long term?
If those subtle living habits were discovered by the family to be different from her former self, and they realized she was no longer the former Bai Yurou, what would they think?
“Dad, Mom, I want to live in the dormitory.”
As Lin Ye, she wanted to avoid this possible risk.
As Bai Yurou, she also wanted to follow her original desire not to be controlled by her parents.
Both decided that she would continue living at the school for university.