Chapter 759: Chapter 608: I Don’t Think Anyone Can Stay Lucky Forever
"It would break my heart." Only then could Shi Wangyue slowly, smoothly let his feelings spill out bit by bit.
Ning Youguang reached out and gently touched Shi Wangyue’s thin face. "You’ve lost weight."
Shi Wangyue rubbed his face against her Soft palm again. "I’ll eat more."
Ning Youguang asked him again, "You haven’t been resting well lately, have you?"
"I’m not used to the bed. I wake up a lot at night." Shi Wangyue carefully picked only what he could say.
"Get in bed." Ning Youguang patted the mattress and chuckled lightly. "Let’s see if with me by your side tonight, you still can’t sleep in this bed."
Shi Wangyue turned around, locked the door of the ward from the inside, then took off his coat and pants and got into bed.
The single hospital bed was very narrow; squeezed together like this, they could just barely lie flat.
Shi Wangyue pulled Ning Youguang into his arms, his hold neither too tight nor too loose, keeping it at a level that felt comfortable for her.
His face rested against the hollow of her neck. After a long silence, his voice came out soft and lingering. "I hope the girl who loves the universe never gets into a car accident again."
Ning Youguang’s heart went soft into a complete mess. "Today was just an accident that was unfortunate yet still very lucky."
"I only want you to be lucky." No misfortune of any kind.
In the pitch-black, cold late night, Shi Wangyue’s voice was gentle yet resolute.
Ning Youguang gently squeezed Shi Wangyue’s hand. "I’ve received the love and blessings from our little one."
Then she gave a small laugh. "But I don’t think anyone can stay lucky forever."
—"If anyone can, they’re probably someone who amassed a great, great deal of merit in their past life, or a deity."
Unfortunately, she wasn’t.
Shi Wangyue knew about accumulating merit.
His sister had told him very early on, "Practice the Six Paramitas in all actions."
So-called generosity, morality, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom.
From the moment he found out that her car accident happened because she’d gone out to buy medicine for him, he started regretting it, even feeling a kind of cold dread—if the car crash had turned out to be more serious this time...
Once the mind starts to associate, it can’t stop its terrifying imaginings.
Even though on the way here he’d already donated several sizable sums in his sister’s name through major charity platforms and the philanthropic organizations he knew, he still couldn’t feel at ease.
After holding Ning Youguang quietly for a while, Shi Wangyue reached over to the bedside table, felt for his phone, and very deftly pulled up a certain charity group, then moved his fingers to donate a large amount of money.
At the same time, he made a silent decision in his heart.
He decided that from now on, every single day, he would do "one good deed a day" in his sister’s name.
Especially these days—every day he would try to do as many good deeds as he could, to accumulate merit for her.
From this point on, for the rest of this life he would ask for nothing else, as long as she could remain safe and sound.
"Do you still have things you haven’t finished?" Even with her eyes closed, she could feel the faint glow rising beside her, and Ning Youguang asked softly.
"Now I’m done." Shi Wangyue gently put his phone back on the bedside table. "If you want to sleep now, you can sleep for a bit."
"I don’t want to sleep right now, I just want to be held by you." Ning Youguang’s voice softened into something almost like a spoiled plea. "Today I suddenly felt just a tiny bit fragile, and I really wanted you to hold me, for someone to take care of me."
"This isn’t fragility, this is how it’s supposed to be." Shi Wangyue answered quietly. "When a person is hurt or sick, they turn into a little kid who needs looking after."
He could understand this layer of it because he’d once been ill and injured and had been so well cared for by her.
Ning Youguang thought for a moment and said, "The way you put it suddenly makes me feel like I’ve discovered a secret."
"What secret?"
"There are no grown-ups in this world. Everyone is a child. It’s just that when they reach a certain age, under the pressure of society, they start performing the role of an adult and hide themselves away in secret. Only after getting sick, getting hurt, getting drunk, when alone, in the love of parents, or in a lover’s arms, do they dare to reveal their real identity and return to being a genuinely sensitive, fragile little kid who needs to be loved."
Shi Wangyue tightened his grip on the hand he was holding of Ning Youguang’s, just slightly.
Then he let out a soft sigh. "Then Little Ning, promise me that from now on you won’t go out alone at night to buy things, okay? It was raining so hard tonight, the tires could easily slip. If I’d been awake, I never would’ve let you drive out..."
"The moment I got home I saw you lying unconscious on the sofa." Ning Youguang couldn’t help laughing. "Even if knives were falling from the sky, if I had to go out, I’d still go."
Even after what happened tonight, Ning Youguang felt that in future...
Heaven willing, may there be no "next time."
But if there is.
She felt that if she ran into something like this again, she would still rush out without the slightest hesitation.
To do her utmost to take care of everything he needed, everything concerning him.
Shi Wangyue’s heart instantly turned scorching hot, like magma erupting.
"I’m sorry, Sis." He closed his eyes deeply and opened them again. His low voice sounded especially serious. "From now on, don’t go out on a rainy night because of something as minor as my fever."
"A fever isn’t a minor thing." Ning Youguang had her own stance. "Try switching places in your head—if the one who was sick today were me, what would you have done?"
He would also throw everything aside for her.
Shi Wangyue said, "We’re not the same. My body can take it."
You can’t. You’re a girl.
But Ning Youguang didn’t see it that way.
She said, "I think the way we love each other isn’t any different."
Both are willing to go all out for the other, to disregard everything, to set the self aside.
So Shi Wangyue could only straighten his attitude and solemnly make a promise. "I promise that no matter what when I’m on business trips in the future, I’ll definitely behave and take good care of myself, go to bed early, get up early every day, and keep exercising."
"That I think we can arrange." Ning Youguang let out a small yawn. "Did you bring a thermometer?"
"No." When he was packing at home, his mind hadn’t been on himself at all; he’d completely forgotten that he was sick with a fever and could’ve thrown a thermometer into his bag on the way to the hospital. "I’ll ask the nurse to bring me one tomorrow."
It was very late now, and they’d both taken off their clothes. He didn’t want the nurse coming in and interrupting them.
Ning Youguang simply reached out and felt his forehead. "You’re still hot. Take another dose of antipyretic."
"You sleep first." Shi Wangyue said. "I’ll take it a little later."
"You just don’t want to take it." Ning Youguang knew him too well. "You’re afraid that once you take the medicine you’ll fall asleep."
If he fell asleep, he wouldn’t be able to take proper care of her through the night.
Shi Wangyue sighed. "Yeah, I’m afraid I’ll fall asleep."
Even more afraid that I won’t have taken good care of you.
"Don’t be afraid, really, trust me, I don’t think there’s much wrong with me." Ning Youguang said. "How about we set an alarm, have it go off every two hours?"
"This smart head of yours has already suffered enough. Let’s not torment it any further, okay?" Shi Wangyue helplessly reached out and patted Ning Youguang on the head. 1314