Chapter 269
Chapter 269
“It’s settled. Come on, let’s clean you up first!”
“Wait… Cleaning me up is fine, but look at me. How presentable can I become?”
Everyone: “…”
True. They resembled a disabled persons’ association on an outing. What woman would be interested?
“Sigh…”
Everyone sighed in unison. There was no entertainment left.
Liu Sibo: “…”
“Enough, all of you!”
“Um…”
A pleasant voice sounded nearby. Liu Sibo stiffened and slowly turned to find a girl looking curiously at them.
“Um… are you all right? Should I call an ambulance?”
“We’re… fine…”
“That’s an obvious lie. Do we look fine?”
Liu Sibo glared at Brother Biao, who instantly covered his mouth.
Xiaoshuai’s eyes darted. He suddenly clutched his chest.
“Ow, my chest hurts… Miss, please call an ambulance. I’m begging you. Save me!”
The girl was startled and quickly took out her phone.
“All right. H-hold on. The ambulance will be here soon!”
Everyone nearby moved away, apparently afraid he would scam them for compensation.
Liu Sibo anxiously rolled his wheelchair to Xiaoshuai and growled,
“What are you doing?”
“Helping you. Relax; we won’t rush the mission. We’ll leave whenever you’ve had enough. At the hospital, we’ll claim none of us brought phones, so they can only keep her number. Once we’re better, we’ll invite her out to thank her. After a few meetings, you’ll be connected!”
Liu Sibo: “…”
The viewers: “…”
This guy really knew what he was doing!
Everything unfolded as Xiaoshuai predicted. The girl accompanied them to the hospital and even paid their deposit.
“Girls this innocent are rare nowadays. You have a sharp eye.”
Liu Sibo blushed and said nothing. Over the following days, his relationship with Hua Xiaowan developed extremely quickly. A strange force seemed to make them perfectly compatible, as though they were destined soulmates.
But soon, everyone discovered something shocking.
Hua Xiaowan died, right before Liu Sibo. He was stunned. He had already dealt with the drunkard, so why had it still happened?
More astonishingly, time reset. They became trapped in an endless loop of the same week, and Liu Sibo repeatedly watched Hua Xiaowan die before him. Sometimes a car struck her, sometimes a dormmate killed her, and sometimes a falling billboard crushed her.
No matter what, Hua Xiaowan died at midnight on the seventh day.
“Why is this happening?!”
Liu Sibo stared ahead with empty eyes. His heart had been left in tatters.
Xiaoshuai and the others were silent. Finally, Xiaoshuai could not bear it and offered a solution.
“I know how to keep her alive.”
Liu Sibo stared in shock.
“How? Tell me! Tell me now!”
“The problem is… the side effects are enormous.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll bear them!”
“…Fine. Go ask Brother Liu.”
“Brother Liu?”
“Yes. Only Brother Liu can save her, but…”
Before Xiaoshuai finished, Liu Sibo ran to find Liu Ye, who was happily playing at an amusement park.
He could ride the drop tower for days, and time reset here, so even the greatest disturbance did not matter.
“Liu Ye!”
“Hm? Xiao Bo, what is it?”
“Liu Ye, please save Xiaowan!” Liu Sibo begged.
“What’s wrong with Sister Xiaowan?”
“Sister Xiaowan is in danger. Only you can save her!”
Liu Ye puffed out his little chest. Only he could save Sister Xiaowan. He was incredibly powerful!
“All right! Leave Sister Xiaowan to me to protec…”
Liu Sibo hurriedly covered his mouth. Good grief. She would be better off dead than with Liu Ye protecting her.
“Liu Ye, just say Sister Xiaowan can’t die in an accident.”
“Oh!”
Liu Ye repeated the sentence.
Satisfied, Liu Sibo went to meet Xiaowan. It was the seventh day again, and he wanted to confirm whether Liu Ye’s words had worked.
“Xiaowan! Sorry I’m late.”
“It’s fine. I just arrived.” Hua Xiaowan smiled sweetly.
“These are for you.”
Liu Sibo took out the flowers he had bought, only for a swarm of bees to fly out.
“Aah!”
Hua Xiaowan screamed and ran, but the bees pursued her relentlessly.
Several hours later.
Liu Sibo kept apologizing to Hua Xiaowan, whose face had swollen like a pig’s head.
“Xiaowan, I’m sorry. I truly didn’t know those flowers would attract bees.”
“I told you it’s fine. You didn’t mean it. All right, I’m going back to school.”
She had to leave; her eyes were swollen shut.
As she passed an alley, a drunkard jumped out. Liu Sibo’s expression changed. This was the man who had killed Xiaowan. He moved forward, but…
“A ghost!”
The drunkard screamed, stiffened, and fell flat. Hua Xiaowan hurried to help him, accidentally stepping into an open manhole.
The instant she fell, a car hurtled toward the spot where she had been standing.
Liu Sibo: “…”
The dormmate who planned to kill her abandoned the idea, deciding Hua Xiaowan needed the scholarship more. The school even began raising donations. The media reported her story and made her an inspirational example of perseverance despite disability.
A week later, Xiaoshuai and the others stared silently at Hua Xiaowan on television. She sat in a wheelchair and was dressed exactly like them. Brother Biao and the others turned to Xiaoshuai.
“…She’s alive, isn’t she?”
Everyone: “…”
Some people were alive, yet already dead inside. At that moment, the System sounded.
[Ding! Body puzzle piece found: Spleen!]
They appeared in the hospital. Xiaoshuai and the others looked at Liu Sibo and found him hugging his knees in a corner, his expression gloomy.
“What’s wrong? Why did we suddenly leave?”
“We broke up.”
“Why? Weren’t things going well?”
Tears streamed from Liu Sibo’s eyes.
He had thought so too. In recent days, they had been stung by bees and bitten by dogs together. Even watching the sunset at the beach resulted in a whale chasing them.
Then her dormmate visited him today.
“I’m here to break up with you on Xiaowan’s behalf.”
“Is that what she wants?” Liu Sibo asked calmly. He had expected this. Even if she said nothing, he would have ended it himself.
“It’s what our entire school wants! Brother, let Xiaowan go. Has she had a single good day since being with you?”