Bai Yurou played on her phone for a while.
Before long, the older sister dressed in a pure white nurse’s uniform gently entered.
She was also pushing a meal cart.
On the meal cart were porridge, soup, and two small side dishes.
The bowls and plates were all extremely exquisite white porcelain, and even the chopsticks were silver.
Although they looked like the most ordinary home-cooked dishes, they still radiated an overwhelming sense of expense.
At the same time, there was a special plate with several pills of different colors on it.
Beside the plate sat a cup of plain boiled water.
“Third Young Miss, it’s time to take your medicine and eat first.”
The nurse called out.
Bai Yurou recognized this nurse.
Every time she had been hospitalized from childhood to adulthood, this nurse had taken care of her.
She was the exclusive nurse the Bai family had hired for their treasured pearl.
“Alright.”
Bai Yurou spoke in a soft yet cool tone.
She chose to take the medicine first.
She placed the several pills in her mouth, then took a sip of water and swallowed them all at once.
She knew these medicines.
Bai Yurou had suffered from congenital heart disease since childhood, and taking medicine every day was a fixed routine.
After finishing the medicine, Bai Yurou began to enjoy her dinner.
Fortunately, because she was still in the hospitalization period, her parents had not prepared any overly expensive dishes for her.
They were all the most ordinary dishes, although the tableware holding the food was still very high-end.
With the nurse present, Bai Yurou still had to maintain her persona as a young lady from a wealthy family.
Relying on the table manners in her memories, she picked up a small amount of food with her chopsticks, chewed slowly, and finally sipped the soup in small mouthfuls.
Fortunately, Bai Yurou’s performance was seamless.
The nurse simply watched as Bai Yurou finished her dinner without revealing any strange expression, then finally pushed the meal cart away.
“Good night, Young Miss. If there’s any problem, press the button to call me.”
“Mm. Good night, Nurse.”
Seeing the nurse leave the room, Bai Yurou let out a breath of relief.
Fortunately, she had not shown any flaws.
Being a young lady from a wealthy family was really not easy.
Yet merely performing to deal with a nurse she did not meet often was already this tiring.
In the future, when eating and interacting with her family, would she expose herself?
If she had known earlier, she should have pretended to have amnesia.
Bai Yurou lightly sighed.
The remaining time today should not have anyone else coming, right?
Bai Yurou thought this as she opened her phone again.
***
Ning Mu and her parents returned home.
Today should have been the happiest day of her life, yet it had turned into the worst day.
Today was originally her eighteenth birthday.
She should have happily spent her birthday at home with her parents and older brother.
Lin Ye had also ordered a cake for her very early.
But her parents had both taken leave and returned home early, yet they had waited and waited without seeing Lin Ye appear.
“Maybe he’s working overtime?”
Seeing her daughter call their son for the fifth time only to still get no answer, Ning’s mother found a reason to comfort her.
“Impossible. He clearly promised me he would finish work on time today just to spend my birthday with me. And even if he is working overtime, why won’t he even answer the phone?”
Ning Mu refuted.
She vaguely felt that something had happened to Lin Ye.
Just as she was about to go out and look for Lin Ye, Ning’s father’s phone rang.
Ning’s father took a look. It was the police.
Ning’s father seemed to also realize that a call from the police at this time should have something to do with Lin Ye.
After answering the call, he put it on speaker.
“Hello, is this Lin Ye’s father?”
After receiving an affirmative answer, the devastating news came from the other end of the line.
“We regret to inform you that your son, Lin Ye, was involved in a traffic accident at the XXX intersection this afternoon. Despite rescue efforts, he died on the spot.”
***
Ning Mu did not know how she had come to the hospital.
After hearing that Lin Ye was dead, she had remained in a numb state the entire time.
How was this possible?
How could Lin Ye just die like this?
That Lin Ye who had always been optimistic and faced life with enthusiasm.
That Lin Ye who had always studied hard and seriously in order to attend the same university as her.
That Lin Ye who had once saved her from danger.
That Lin Ye she liked the most……
Ning Mu had actually always liked Lin Ye.
It was not the kind of liking a little sister had for an older brother.
She did not know when it had started.
Perhaps it was from the very beginning, on the night Ning Mu and Lin Ye first met.
When Lin Ye had saved her from the hands of the thugs, and she had heard him say he was an orphan, then brought him home and begged her parents to adopt him, she had already fallen for him.
Perhaps it was after becoming siblings with Lin Ye, through the accumulation of daily interactions, that she had fallen for him.
In any case, Ning Mu had finally discovered that she had fallen in love with Lin Ye.
After clarifying her own feelings, Ning Mu’s way of addressing Lin Ye had gradually changed from the former “Brother” to “Lin Ye,” wanting to use this to reveal her affection.
But Lin Ye was a block of wood and had not sensed Ning Mu’s feelings in the slightest.
Instead, Ning’s father and mother had discovered their biological daughter’s feelings.
On a day when Lin Ye was not present, Ning’s father and mother had a heart-to-heart talk with Ning Mu.
Ning’s father and mother actually also liked this child Lin Ye very much.
Although he was an orphan, his personality had always been very good and kind.
They had also raised Lin Ye as their own biological son.
However, since their own daughter liked him, treating him as a son-in-law was not bad either.
That day, the Ning parents had told their daughter that if both of them were admitted to Moon City University in the college entrance exam, they would allow the two of them to be together after both had reached adulthood.
This challenge was not difficult for Ning Mu at all.
Although Lin Ye did not know, he had also always hoped to be admitted to the same university as his little sister.
Finally, under Ning Mu’s frantic tutoring in the months before the college entrance exam and Lin Ye’s hard work, both of them successfully got into Moon City University.
They had completed their parents’ requirement.
Next, she only needed to wait until her eighteenth birthday.
Ning Mu had originally planned to wait until that day—today—to confess to Lin Ye.
She knew Lin Ye liked her.
She just did not know whether this was only an older brother’s liking for a little sister or the same kind of liking she had.
She was also afraid of failure, but she hoped even more to successfully obtain that answer and become lovers with Lin Ye.
Unfortunately, before she could wait for that answer from Lin Ye, she first heard the news of Lin Ye’s death.
When they arrived at the morgue, Ning Mu saw Lin Ye’s body.
Looking at Lin Ye’s forever closed eyes, Ning Mu immediately burst into tears.
“Why? Why did you abandon me for the sake of saving a girl you didn’t even know?”
Ning Mu spoke to Lin Ye’s body.
On the way here, she had already met the police and learned how Lin Ye had passed away.
She had also met the older brother of the girl Lin Ye had saved, Bai Sihan, and heard the gratitude and guilt he expressed toward them.
So she could not understand.
Was her relationship with Lin Ye not even as good as that of a strange girl?
Behind her, Ning’s father and mother were equally heartbroken.
Although he was not their biological child, they had raised him as their own son for so many years and had developed quite a bit of affection.
Yet now he had suddenly passed away.
Ning Mu cried as she looked at a rack beside the body.
On it were placed the clothes and other items Lin Ye had been carrying when he died.
There was a very ordinary phone, a wallet, and a…… hair clip.