Bai Yuan and Zhou Wanting watched as Bai Yurou firmly rejected her mother’s suggestion in a resolute tone.
From childhood to adulthood, Bai Yurou had always been the family’s well-behaved daughter.
She basically listened to whatever her parents said and rarely rebelled.
The family’s excessive doting had not cultivated the arrogant and domineering personality seen in many young ladies from wealthy families.
Directly opposing her mother’s words like this seemed to be the first time in Bai Yuan and Zhou Wanting’s memories.
“Rourou, the school dormitory environment definitely won’t be as good as home…”
“That’s enough. Since Rourou wants to live in the dormitory, let her live there.”
Zhou Wanting still wanted to say something to persuade her daughter to change her mind, but Bai Yuan, as the head of the family, made the decision.
He loved his treasured daughter, and at the same time he respected his treasured daughter.
Since Rourou wanted to live in the dormitory, then let her live there.
“Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister, I want to be alone for a while.”
Having just woken up and already dealt with so many familiar yet unfamiliar family members, Bai Yurou was already a bit tired.
However, with the family present, she did not dare show any slack, so she made the request in the capacity of a patient.
“Alright. Rourou just woke up and needs some time alone. Dad and Mom will leave first. In a while the nurse will bring your dinner. If there’s anything, tell the nurse.”
As the head of the family, Bai Yuan saw that his daughter was a bit tired and issued the order, then stood up first.
Zhou Wanting looked at her daughter with a reluctant gaze, but still stood up and left.
Next was the second sister, Bai Mo. She said playfully to her little sister,
“Rourou, since you don’t want the perfume right now, Sister will keep it safe for now. Once you’re discharged, I’ll give you the perfume. At that time I’ll also give you other discharge gifts.
So Rourou must carefully recover from your injuries and be discharged soon.”
Gifts… they were probably those luxury goods her former self had liked the most.
Although she no longer liked them now, Bai Yurou still put on an innocent smile.
“Thank you, Sister.”
The last to leave was her older brother, Bai Sihan.
Facing this older brother alone, the current Bai Yurou was still a bit afraid.
After all, he was a domineering CEO, radiating an oppressive aura from head to toe.
When facing business opponents, he had always been decisive and ruthless.
Bai Sihan saw the subconscious panic in his little sister’s eyes and felt a bit of disappointment inside, but he did not show it.
He spoke in a gentle tone.
“Rourou, just focus on recovering. Don’t think about anything else.”
Then he took a phone out of his coat pocket.
The phone was the latest model of an iPhone, wrapped in a soft pink phone case, with a fluffy little cat charm hanging from it.
Bai Yurou knew that it was her own.
“Rourou, the screen of your phone was damaged because of the car accident, but Brother had someone repair it. If you want a new phone, just tell Brother. Brother will buy one for you.”
“No need, Big Brother. I’ll just continue using this phone for now.”
Bai Yurou rejected her older brother’s suggestion.
She knew this phone was something the former Lin Ye could not have afforded even with a full month of summer job wages.
Since the phone was not broken, she would continue using it.
The current Bai Yurou was different from the former young miss who had no concept of money.
Having fused with Lin Ye, who had never been particularly wealthy from childhood to adulthood, she knew that every single item she used would cost a considerable amount of money.
Although she also knew that this money was nothing to the Bai family, it was still better to save a little where she could.
This was actually because after Bai Yurou fused with Lin Ye, she had also inherited part of Lin Ye’s sense of inferiority. She would subconsciously feel that she did not deserve such good things.
“Alright.”
Her older brother did not say anything more. He simply handed the phone into his little sister’s hand.
“If anything comes up, call Big Brother.”
After Bai Sihan finished speaking, he also left the room.
Finally, she was alone.
Bai Yurou let out a deep sigh. Pretending to be her former self in front of so many family members was still too tiring.
She preferred being alone more.
Bai Yurou picked up the phone and unlocked the screen.
She remembered the password. It was her own birthday.
Then she logged into her QQ—Bai Yurou’s.
There was no need to log into Lin Ye’s account. Lin Ye rarely used QQ and only used WeChat. His WeChat contacts were only classmates and family, and she had no files that could not be seen that needed deleting.
Moreover, she estimated that her little sister, Ning Mu, would most likely log into the deceased Lin Ye’s account.
If she discovered an off-site login on her deceased older brother’s account, there was no telling what she would think.
She still did not want her little sister to know that Lin Ye had not completely died.
Bai Yurou’s QQ was different from Lin Ye’s.
Bai Yurou’s life was rich.
Bai Yurou was an otaku who had watched quite a few anime, so her QQ had joined many interest groups and added quite a few online friends.
Unlike the well-behaved daughter Bai Yurou presented in front of her family in real life, the Bai Yurou online was more cheerful and outgoing.
Because she frequently shared photos of numerous anime merch and figures in otaku interest groups and often held lotteries to give merch to online friends, she was a moderator in a two-thousand-person large group.
Because her QQ name was Lin Yue, many online friends respectfully called her Lin-jie.
Bai Yurou was also the group owner of one of the fan support groups for Bai Mo.
That’s right—her own older sister, the popular singer Bai Mo.
Bai Yurou often argued with online anti-fans because of her older sister.
Of course, Bai Mo definitely did not know about this. She would never have imagined that her cute little sister was secretly one of her lead fans.
Bai Yurou first used her former tone to post a few messages in the various QQ groups where her former self had frequently spoken.
Amid the repeated “Greetings, Lin-jie” and “Worship the big shot” from the group members, she went offline.
The current Bai Yurou was actually no longer interested in online chatting, but in order to maintain her former persona, it was still necessary to continue doing so.
After all, she could not show any flaws. What if one day she was discovered not to be her former self because of this?
Next, Bai Yurou opened a certain search engine.
After searching for keywords such as Moon City, university student, truck, and car accident, she found the news report about her own incident.
She read through the entire news article. It was not much different from what her older brother had said. Lin Ye had died on the spot just like that.
Then she looked at the comments.
The comment section was full of people saying how pitiful such a young person was, how he had sacrificed his own life to save someone else, and how he should not have saved the person in the first place.
Bai Yurou revealed a bitter smile upon seeing the comments.
Those comments were not wrong. The Lin Ye of that time really should not have saved her, a stranger.
If Lin Ye had been given a few seconds to think, he definitely would not have saved her either.
But at that time, the situation had been urgent. There had simply been no time for Lin Ye to think. It was purely instinctive. Lin Ye had chosen to lunge forward and save Bai Yurou.
However, she also had to thank Lin Ye for his choice at that time, which allowed the girl named Bai Yurou to survive.
At the same time, it allowed Lin Ye to become a part of Bai Yurou and live on in this world in another way.
The current her was Bai Yurou, but not only Bai Yurou.