The sun hid behind the clouds for several days in a row, and finally came out from behind the clouds today.
The golden moon illuminates the azure sky, as if it is welcoming something.
A flock of pigeons flew past the window, making a series of low and rhythmic cooing sounds in the air.
The sunlight was blocked by the shadows, and then released again, becoming even more dazzling. Lu Shizhen frowned, seeming to be very dissatisfied with the flickering environment.
The smell of disinfectant was strong yet calm, and it just fell into Lu Shizhen's nose. He was used to it.
After a pause, she slowly opened her eyes and let the sunlight fall into her eyes.
Before Lu Shizhen had time to see the scene clearly, a familiar and joyful voice came to his ears: "Shizhen, you are finally awake!"
The young nurse had her hair neatly tied up and looked at Lu Shizhen with a smile on her face when she opened her eyes.
Lu Shizhen was at a loss for a moment, but his mouth reacted faster than his blank mind.
She opened her dry lips and asked, "Am I unconscious for a long time again this time?"
"Yes." The young nurse nodded. "After you came down from the operating table, you were in a coma for five days. I was scared to death."
Although she is called a young nurse, she has actually been working in the hospital for quite some time and is particularly familiar with Lu Shizhen, a frequent visitor to the hospital.
There was no sense of distance between a patient and a doctor. She spoke cheerfully, clasping her hands together and shaking them: "Fortunately, fortunately, you're fine now that you're awake. I'll call the doctor to check you again. Please wait a moment."
"Okay." Lu Shizhen nodded and watched the nurse open the door and leave.
But compared to the joy he had felt in the past when he knew he had escaped death, this time Lu Shizhen's eyes were a little more confused.
She looked at the single room that was almost becoming her home, at the computer and digital tablet placed in the small living room, at all these scenes that were so familiar to her, and somehow she felt a sense of strangeness as if she were in another world.
Lu Shizhen had a feeling that she had been away from here for a very long time.
Not just five days, more like five years.
The sound of the monitoring equipment sounded regularly, and her memory went back to the blank five days. The last scene Lu Shizhen could remember was the operating light that flickered in her sight, and the last question the anesthesiologist asked her after injecting anesthetic into her body.
She asked her where she wanted to go after the operation.
But where can she go in this state
Lu Shizhen lowered his head silently and looked at his legs under the quilt.
Yeah, where can she go like this
She can't go anywhere.
The young nurse moved quickly and almost dragged the doctor to Lu Shizhen's ward.
The doctor gave Lu Shizhen a simple checkup and the result was good. The operation on Lu Shizhen was very successful, just as they had initially judged. As long as he woke up, there would be no problem.
Lu Shizhen listened to the doctor's instructions every time after her surgery, which were almost the same, and her attitude remained serious.
Just as the doctor finished the examination and gave all the instructions and was about to leave, Lu Shizhen's family finally arrived.
"Zhenzhen, are you awake?" Father Lu asked in a nonchalant tone.
"Well, I'm sorry for making mom and dad worry." Lu Shizhen nodded, with some apology in his voice.
I don’t know when it started, but being sick seems to have become a kind of guilt for her.
But these are obviously not what she wants.
"What's there to be sorry about? I'm glad you woke up." Mother Lu smiled, but her expression was a little forced. She kept repeating the same words, "Take good care of yourself when you wake up. Take medicine on time and listen to the doctor's advice."
"Okay, I remember it." Lu Shizhen nodded.
The long-term illness created an invisible and strange barrier between them. The atmosphere in the ward was even worse than when the young nurse was here just now. Not much was said and the atmosphere quickly became cold.
Just when the atmosphere in the ward was getting tense, a little girl pushed the door open and jumped out like a rabbit: "Sister!"
Lu Shizhen was very surprised when he saw the person coming in.
This is her sister Lu Xi, Xi of hope.
Lu Shizhen: "Xixi, you are here too."
"Yeah, I'm so worried about you." Lu Xi came up and hugged Lu Shizhen, "How are you? Are you in pain? If I lie in bed for so many days, my body will be stiff."
When Mother Lu heard the second half of Lu Xi's words, she quickly pulled her and said gently, "Xixi, what are you talking about? You have a competition next week. Can you say something auspicious?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Xi pursed his lips and secretly stuck out his tongue in Lu Shizhen's direction.
They say fire reveals what people care about most.
Actually, there is no need to do that. One sentence that includes both daughters will do.
Lu Shizhen didn't seem to notice this. Looking at her sister hugging her, she asked, "Xixi is going to compete next week?"
"Yeah." Lu Xi nodded. "By the way, sister, do you want to see my entry? I asked the teacher to record a clip for me, and he said I have a good chance of winning first prize!"
"Okay." Lu Shizhen agreed happily.
This is an unwritten agreement between the sisters.
Whenever there was a competition or dance rehearsal, Lu Xi would show her dancing video to Lu Shizhen. She liked to share her things, especially with her sister.
Melodious classical music came from the phone, and the girl's slender hand reached out.
Lu Xi has long arms and legs and is very talented. Her pure white dance skirt rises and falls with her movements, like a white swan floating gracefully in the water.
Mr. and Mrs. Lu were watching from the side, their eyes filled with satisfaction and pride.
They are very proud and satisfied that they have such a daughter with a promising future.
Lu Shizhen sat in the center and admired Lu Xi's ballet, smiling with pursed lips as usual.
But I don’t know why, while I was acknowledging her, I suddenly felt that there was someone who was more like a swan than Lu Xi.
Mist rose from the ground, floating thickly in Lu Shizhen's world.
who's that person
Lu Shizhen couldn't find the answer at all and frowned subconsciously.
Then Lu Xi's voice rang in her ears: "What's wrong, sister? Is there something wrong with my dance?"
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment.
Then she looked at the video still playing in front of her and whispered, "The last section of your cello seemed a little wrong. Did you play it wrong?"
Lu Xi's face immediately showed surprise: "Sister, you can hear this!"
She didn't care at all that the video she was showing was interrupted, and confessed to Lu Shizhen: "Yes, this piece of music was recorded for me by a classmate who studies cello. At that time, she played the last part wrong. Sister, you are amazing!"
"also not… "
Lu Shizhen smiled faintly, but before she finished her words, she heard the nervous voice of Lu's mother: "Xixi, what's the matter? If you are wrong, why are you still using it?"
Then Mr. Lu asked nervously: "Yes, Xixi, what if this affects your game?"
"Oh, it's okay." Lu Xi didn't take it seriously and waved his hand carelessly, "Don't worry, Cheng Cheng will send me the standard accompaniment tomorrow, and it won't affect the competition next week."
"That's good." Mother Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
Father Lu looked down at his watch and said with a serious expression: "Well, it's getting late, Xixi, you still have to go to rehearsal today. Teacher Liu just called me and said that your competition uniform is ready, and you have to try it on today. If it doesn't fit, you have to make changes. Time is very tight."
As soon as these words came out, the excited expression on Lu Xi's face immediately fell.
She uttered a small "oh" and waved to Lu Shizhen in disappointment: "Then sister, I'm leaving. Take care of yourself. I'll come to see you in a few days."
"Okay, good luck in the game."
Lu Shizhen nodded, sat upright on the hospital bed, and watched the backs of the three of them as they left.
Then they were separated by a closed door.
The sunlight passed through her eyes, and her half-closed eyes were dark.
It’s not that she felt lonely. Lu Shizhen was used to these things a long time ago. What she was not used to was the thing that was suddenly pointed out just now.
Why could she immediately tell that the cello tune was wrong
She has never been exposed to this thing...
In less than an hour, too many problems arose.
Lu Shizhen always had a feeling that he had forgotten something, so he reached for the phone beside him to search for it.
However, she had just unlocked her phone when a series of messages popped up on the screen one after another.
And all this information came from the same person - her good gay friend, the first friend she had the courage to make on the Internet in all these years.
Lu Shizhen remembered that she had told her before the operation, and she, as usual, calculated the time to send a message to ask her how she was doing.
At first, her tone was extremely calm, and she even said some jokes, but then she looked at the message box on the other side which was completely silent, and she panicked. She slowly started to get anxious and scared, and even sobbed and sent a lot of crying emoticons.
Lu Shizhen could imagine how nervous this person had been these days, and replied: [Alive.]
After a pause, perhaps less than two seconds, Lu Shizhen's words were pushed up, and in return, a long string of "woooo" words: [Oh my God, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. You scared me to death, you stinky pomegranate, how did you just come back to life? woooooooooooooooo. ]
Too many "woo" words almost drowned out the serious text. Lu Shizhen finally showed a genuine smile when he looked at these words.
She just looked at the long string of words, her smiling eyes narrowed slightly and stopped at the word "pomegranate".
Pomegranate, sixteen, why is it sixteen, not sixty? It should be sixty at Lu Shi.
She has used this name for a long time, but this is the first time she has felt this kind of hesitation.
She didn’t know if it was because she had a lot of sleep and her mind was confused, but she suddenly felt that her name seemed to have a special meaning for some reason.
Lu Shizhen frowned and expressed to his friend the confusion he felt after waking up: [I feel so strange. I slept for five days, but I feel like I have experienced a lot of things but have forgotten them. But I did sleep in bed for five days.]
[What? Did you travel through a book?] The friend said half-jokingly, and before Lu Shizhen could take it seriously, she said again: [I think you slept for five days and lost five days of time, so you feel something is wrong? Five days is almost a week, a quarter of a month, which is also quite long.]
[Here, here are the Black Moonlight fanfiction and fanart that you missed in the past five days. I have prepared them all for you. I promise that you will not have this feeling again after reading them. ]
Before Lu Shizhen had the time to finish reading the messages sent by her gay friend, she was immediately pushed to the ground by files one after another.
She looked at the colorful blurry boxes in front of her in surprise, unable to believe that this was the speed of her procrastinating friend: [So fast? So complete? ]
My friend scratched his head, a little embarrassed: [You know, how can I be so fast? ]
[Do you know that if you don’t reply to me, I’m going to print these things out and burn them for you qaq]
As if she was finally relieved, her friend started to talk excitedly, telling Lu Shizhen about her mental journey these days, "I put this together after begging everywhere these days. You don't know that if I hadn't told them that a friend of mine was dying, they wouldn't have looked for my previous saves. It's not easy for me, you have to draw a big picture for me to recommend it!"
"… "
Lu Shizhen was very touched and speechless. It turned out that she overestimated her.
Her finger hovered over the screen, and she had a lot of complaints prepared in her mind.
But before she could knock, the blurry picture at the bottom of the screen finished loading.
Brilliant lights filled the entire painting. Right in the center of the magnificent ballroom, a girl with swaying skirts intertwined her fingers with another girl. Their jet-black hair fluttered and intertwined with their dance moves.
They looked at each other, and the intimate and ambiguous atmosphere overflowed the screen.
This is the classic cocktail party dancing scene between Xu Shiyue and Shen Yanxing in the book.
They fell in love that night.
The room was so quiet without anyone sending messages that the shadows reflected on the wall just stayed there quietly.
Lu Shizhen's eyes were fixed on the screen on the phone, but there was not a trace of excitement in her pupils.
This is a very strange thing.
Lu Shizhen found that she was jealous of the person in the picture.
Not long ago, she was crying bitterly over this couple.
(End of this chapter)