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Chapter 439 - 393 Dowry (Featured on QiDian)

Chapter 439: 393 Dowry (Featured on QiDian)

The closest star-rated hotel to the hospital.

The entire two floors had been booked by Jin Hai.

"I’m staying next door."

If it had been any other time, Miss Shi would have certainly led people into her own room, but she didn’t do so this time.

After pulling back the curtains, she stared out at the setting sun, standing silently in a trance.

Jiang Chen, who had traveled from afar, set down his luggage.

"What if my dad doesn’t wake up this time?"

Jiang Chen turned his head, and that silhouette, which was once willful and headstrong, now seemed especially fragile against the backdrop of tall buildings.

He could understand how she felt.

To everyone, a father is a towering mountain that shelters from the wind and rain.

But now, this mountain had fallen.

"Good people are blessed by heaven. Director Shi will surely turn danger into safety," he reassured.

Even though he knew that any comfort seemed bland, he had nothing else to say.

"The doctors don’t dare to say it outright, but I know my dad’s condition is not optimistic," Shi Qianxi’s voice was filled with confusion, helplessness, and uncertainty.

In her mind, her father was an omnipotent man, the superhero of her world, able to fix any trouble she caused, not even getting truly angry at the charity dinner where she deliberately caused trouble.

It seemed that all her life, her father had always played the "good cop," never angry with her no matter how silly her antics, at worst gently scolding her.

She thought this would go on forever.

But an explosion had jolted her awake.

Her father was also an ordinary person, also susceptible to injury, and even...

Shi Qianxi didn’t dare to continue the thought, her hands clenched tight, fingernails digging into her palms.

"How old are you this year?"

Jiang Chen walked over to join her.

Caught off guard, Shi Qianxi still turned her head and replied, "Twenty-five. Why do you ask?"

"Many people your age are already married with children."

Jiang Chen looked out at the setting sun and spoke softly, "Life is always full of various surprises, some good, some bad, some happy, some sad. Like the sunset, some find it melancholic, others find it beautiful, but whether people like it or not, it always happens, in an endless cycle. We can’t change it based on our personal tastes, all we can do is face it openly."

Shi Qianxi remained silent for quite a while.

"Have I really gotten old?"

Jiang Chen was at a loss for words.

"This is the first time you’ve said so much to me."

Jiang Chen changed the subject, "Hungry? I’ll have the hotel send up some food."

Jiang Chen turned to order the meal.

Shi Qianxi withdrew her gaze and continued to silently watch as the sunset faded into twilight.

"Jiang Chen, do you think love can really disappear?"

During the meal, Shi Qianxi suddenly asked.

"Why do you say that?"

"My mom insisted on marrying my dad against so many people’s objections, but she had to get a divorce. Now that my dad’s had such a serious accident, I can’t see any sorrow in her. Why can she be so cold-blooded?"

Jiang Chen was silent for a bit.

Before, with questions about other people’s family affairs, he would have certainly kept his mouth shut.

But now, this witch might be at the lowest point in her life, in need of some spiritual comfort.

"Some things you don’t understand now, but you’ll understand when you reach that age. It’s like when we were kids, and teachers always told us to cherish our school days, saying they were the days we’d wish we could return to but couldn’t. We scoffed at them, but what’s the result?"

"Aunt Meng and you are different. Now that Director Shi is lying in the hospital bed, with the whole Jin Hai watching her, you may think she’s not sad, but it doesn’t mean she’s heartless, it’s just that reality doesn’t allow her to show any weakness."

Jiang Chen gazed at her.

"Even if love has faded over time, if she really didn’t care at all, why would she fly here immediately? With Director Shi down, it’s time for her, as a mother, to step in and hold the sky up for you."

Shi Qianxi’s chopsticks paused, her gaze flickered, and after a while, she managed a smile with a bit of a hoarse voice, "You haven’t even finished college, where did you learn so much wisdom?"

"Life is the best teacher," he said.

Looking at the smiling young man, Shi Qianxi remembered that his parents had passed away a long time ago.

Before, the term "orphan" was nothing but a label to her, an adjective. But now, she was beginning to feel the weight of those four words.

"I’m full."

Shi Qianxi put down her chopsticks quietly.

"Are you going back to the hospital?"

"Yeah."

"Take this with you."

Jiang Chen picked up the packed meal next to him, "Aunt Meng probably isn’t in the mood to eat, but you should take this to her and persuade her to have something. In times like these, it’s important to look after one’s own health."

Shi Qianxi was taken aback for a moment, feeling a surge of acidity from her throat to her eyes, biting her lip, "Thank you."

"If there’s anything I can help with, don’t be shy."

Jiang Chen handed her the meal box.

"Okay, then I’ll be leaving first."

Shi Qianxi took the meal box and stood up to leave.

"Bang."

As she left the room and closed the door behind her, she leaned against it, wiped the corner of her eyes, took a deep breath, and then regained her composure before she briskly walked toward the elevator.

"Mom."

Outside the special care unit.

Seeing her mother put down the phone, Shi Qianxi finally spoke out.

There are no walls that the wind cannot pass through.

Although the media hadn’t reported the explosion due to the combined suppression by Jin Hai and government forces, such a huge commotion meant that hotel guests, staff, and passersby still knew what had happened.