Looking at Gu Qingcheng, who had returned, Yun Liuli, who was writing something on the desk, turned her head, still holding a fountain pen in her hand.
"It's easier to fall asleep with a glass of milk!" Gu Qingcheng said as he brought the milk over.
Yun Liuli stared at Gu Qingcheng in a daze, until he walked up to her …
Gu Qingcheng bent over and put down the milk. He saw Yun Liuli's slender fingers holding the pen. There seemed to be only two lines written on the clean and beautiful paper. Her slender fingers blocked his view, and Gu Qingcheng could only see the beginning of the letter.
It was a letter Yun Liuli wrote to her late mother.
She smiled at Gu Qingcheng. "Thank you, Uncle Qingcheng."
Gu Qingcheng saw that the young lady's eyes were still red, so he said, "If you really can't sleep alone, why don't you sleep in Uncle Qingcheng's room?"
Yun Liuli shook her head. "Sorry, Uncle Qingcheng. I wasn't sensible in the past. Now, I understand what Uncle Qingcheng said to me. A girl can only sleep in the same bed with her husband. Uncle Qingcheng is my elder!"
Gu Qingcheng pursed his lips and nodded. "Then go to bed early! Otherwise, your wound won't recover well … "
"It's okay. No one will care anyway!" Yun Liuli's clear voice was deep. "I haven't received a single call from my father since I got injured! If even my biological father doesn't care, who else will care … "
Gu Qingcheng tasted bitterness in his mouth, but he couldn't tell Yun Liuli that her father was no longer around.
"Uncle Qingcheng, I want to go back to the hospital tomorrow." Yun Liuli looked at Gu Qingcheng. "I've really troubled Uncle Qingcheng during this period of time! It's been hard on you, Uncle Qingcheng! "
"Just stay at home!" Gu Qingcheng frowned. "It'll be troublesome!"
The young lady thought for a moment, then agreed obediently. "Okay, I'll leave once I recover. I'm really sorry to trouble Uncle Qingcheng for a while longer."
He was vexed by Yun Liuli calling him Uncle Qingcheng!
He knew that he shouldn't continue staying here, but Gu Qingcheng … couldn't bring himself to leave the young lady here alone.
"What are you writing?" Gu Qingcheng tried to find a topic for Yun Liuli.
"I'm writing a letter to my mother," Yun Liuli explained. "It's my biological mother. She has already passed away …"
Gu Qingcheng nodded, but he didn't seem to have anything else to say to Yun Liuli. He asked, "What did you write?"
Yun Liuli didn't mind at all. She moved her arm away and glanced at it, unable to hide the loneliness and sorrow in her eyes. "I want to ask Mom … if I go and look for her, will I feel so lonely? Will she accompany me forever?"
Gu Qingcheng's heart skipped a beat, as if someone had suddenly stabbed him with a knife.
"What are you thinking?!" Gu Qingcheng couldn't help but raise his voice in anger.
Yun Liuli looked toward Gu Qingcheng. Their eyes met, and they were exceptionally calm. "I've been thinking about this for a long time …"
Gu Qingcheng grabbed Yun Liuli's wrist, almost dragging her up from the chair. His gaze swept across the letter. On it was written …
[I want to look for Mommy. I wonder if Mommy will be happy to see me. Will she accompany me forever? Because Liuli is so afraid of being alone.]
Gu Qingcheng gripped Yun Liuli's wrist tightly, as if he wanted to crush her wrist bones.
"Take back your thoughts!" Gu Qingcheng's heart was beating very fast. That feeling was even more terrifying than having a brush with death.
Gu Qingcheng's voice and fingers were trembling.
He had never known that Yun Liuli would have such thoughts of committing suicide.
A suffocating fear engulfed Gu Qingcheng. He pulled Yun Liuli in front of him, his throat vibrating intensely. It was as if a large hand was clutching his throat, and he couldn't say a single word.
"Uncle Qingcheng … you're just a friend of my father's. I'm grateful to you for taking care of me, but what I write and think … Uncle Qingcheng, why are you interfering?"
Gu Qingcheng clenched his teeth, a fury that was more terrifying than a raging storm brewing in his deep and dark eyes.
"We haven't known each other for long. I can do whatever I want. As long as it doesn't affect you … I think …"
"Have you thought of your father when you have such thoughts of committing suicide? Can you face your father? "Gu Qingcheng clenched his teeth.
"If my father really cares, why don't you call him and tell him to scold me?" Yun Liuli's reaction was the exact opposite of Gu Qingcheng's. She was calm and serious, as if there was nothing else in this world that she cared about.
Her gaze was so empty that it made one panic.
Yun Liuli's lips curled up as she smiled at Gu Qingcheng. "No one cares about me, never! This world is too lonely. I go to school alone, return home alone, eat alone, sleep alone. It's really too lonely. My father often told me that when my mother was around, she quit her job to stay at home and take care of me in order to spend more time with me. So I think … my mother is probably the one who loves and dotes on me the most, the one who can't bear to see me lonely the most. So I want to look for my mother! I even … can't wait to find her. "
"Yun Liuli!" Gu Qingcheng's usually calm features seemed to crack. He said word by word, "I won't allow it!"
Yun Liuli only smiled and didn't say anything.
Gu Qingcheng's brain was throbbing in pain.
He couldn't possibly watch over Yun Liuli 24/7. If Yun Liuli made up her mind to do something, who could stop her?
"Uncle Qingcheng, aren't you afraid that I'll say that my memories are coming back bit by bit?" Yun Liuli asked. "Even now … my memories are coming back bit by bit, including … my feelings for you!"
Gu Qingcheng's dark eyes were frighteningly dark.
Yun Liuli's eyes were wet and red. "Uncle Qingcheng … you should be wishing for me to stay far away from you. After I recalled my hard-to-tell feelings for you … I also want to stay far away from you. In this world, isn't the furthest distance … between life and death!"
"Shut your mouth for me! Do you hear me? "Gu Qingcheng bellowed.
So, Yun Liuli hadn't slept because she remembered?
"Who are you trying to force with your death?" Gu Qingcheng gritted his teeth.
Yun Liuli endured the intense pain in her wrist and shook her head, tears gathering in her eyes. "My mother is gone, my father is gone, and my stepmother is gone. In this world … I'm the only one left. Who else can I force? I only hope that in the other world … my father won't be so busy, my mother will always be by my side, and that happiness is waiting for me in that world! "
"Uncle Qingcheng, if it weren't for you, I would've ended my life when my father wasn't around. This world is meaningless to me! There's only endless loneliness! It's too unbearable! " Yun Liuli's tears slid down her eyelashes. "Thinking that I might still have 40 years … 50 years, or even 60 to 70 years … I'm really scared!"
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