[Hearing the news, Nakajima Yohei was overjoyed, and you, who released the news, finally felt relieved. ]
[Last November, Nakajima Reina began to feel unwell. In the new year, her condition worsened further, and doctors at Chikusa University Hospital were urging her to undergo surgery.]
[Nakajima Yohei came to you and asked you carefully about the research institute and the surgery. He was nervous, afraid that he would get bad news.]
[You told him that everything was fine, and transferred Nakajima Reina to Lillian International Hospital a week later.]
[He happily took you out for dinner. Sitting in a high-end sushi restaurant, he talked to you, wondering how you had done it to convince Lillian Hospital to accept Reina Nakajima. Nowadays, almost all critically ill heart patients are seeking qualifications for surgical trials.]
[You brushed him off by saying that you knew someone related to the project.]
[A week later, Nakajima Reina was transferred to Lillian Hospital and began examinations and preparations for surgery. ]
[Two months later, the operation began.]
A short memory scene appeared. The protagonist in the memory was not Minami Yuki, but Nakajima Reina.
"Dad, is Yuki here?" As the operation was approaching, Rena Nakajima asked her father beside the bed.
"No, I can't get through to him on the phone. I don't know where he is!" Nakajima Yohei frowned.
"Didn't Yuuki say he had something to do today?" Honoka patted her husband's back.
Ibuki Yuko nodded, agreeing with her mother.
"I know he is a sensible child and he won't be absent without a reason, but today is the day Reina has surgery!" Nakajima Yohei was dissatisfied.
This dissatisfaction did not come from complaints about Nan Youxi's disappearance, but from the irritability transformed from the anxiety about the upcoming surgery. The irritability was like a flood that broke through the dam, drowning all emotions and turning everything into dissatisfaction.
"Yuuki told me last night that you can't send me to the operating room." Nakajima Reina defended her beloved boy, "The previous patients' operations were successful, and this one will definitely be successful too. When I wake up, he will be back."
"There's still some time before the surgery, maybe he can make it back." Honoka comforted her stepdaughter and pinched her husband's waist.
Nakajima Youhei closed his mouth, not wanting to infect his daughter with his inner annoyance.
"Yeah." Nakajima Reina responded to Honoka's words. She lay at the head of the bed, waiting quietly.
The time for the operation was getting closer, and footsteps were heard outside the ward. Rena Nakajima looked towards the door of the ward, her eyes full of anticipation, but the person who came in was a nurse pushing a cart.
She lay on the trolley and was pushed to the operating room by the nurse. The hard touch of the trolley and the rustling sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground made Nakajima Rena uneasy.
Two months ago, her father excitedly told her that she had been qualified for a trial of a new surgery, but she felt no joy in her heart.
When she was young, she had experienced many cycles of hope and disappointment, and had already learned to be indifferent. She understood that hope was like a ball thrown upwards, which would eventually fall and hit her head. The greater the force of hope, the harder the ball would hit her after disappointment. The best way was to throw the ball gently, without using any force.
However, during the two months at Lillian Hospital, she could not help but throw the ball a little higher under the extremely optimistic words of the doctor. When she threw the ball, Nan Youxi's figure was in her mind.
The cart turned a corner and entered the elevator. The elevator went down, and the brief feeling of weightlessness made her feel like her life was falling as well.
"Reina, how do you feel?" Nakajima Yohei and Honoka asked her with concern. They followed the cart and entered the elevator.
Nakajima Reina did not answer them. The elevator door opened and the cart moved through the corridor. Her eyes searched around, jumping over the patients in blue hospital gowns and the doctors in white coats. It was not him, not him, not him...
"Dad, is Yuxi here?" She asked her father beside her, fearing that she would miss the boy due to her increasingly weak body.
"No," her father answered her.
She lowered her eyes in disappointment. In what might be the last moment of her life, the boy she loved most was not by her side.
The boy said yesterday that he had something important to do and couldn't send her into the operating room. She was mentally prepared, but the closer she got to the hideous operating room door, the more she longed for the boy's presence.
The sound of the roller, her father's voice comforting her, and the conversations between the doctors and nurses surrounded her ears and then faded away. She felt that the only thing left in the world was herself, lying flat on her back as she entered the operating room.
The cart stopped for a moment, and it turned out to have arrived at the door of the operating room. She looked around again, but did not find the boy's face.
The flood that broke through Nakajima Yohei's heart also raged in Nakajima Rena's heart. However, what made Nakajima Rena uneasy was not only the operation, which was on the borderline between life and death, but also the disappearance of the boy.
Yuuki, where is he now? Does he really exist
The door of the operating room was closed and two nurses came forward to change her clothes.
She let the two young women manipulate her body, turning her neck and looking around for the person in her heart.
She couldn't find it, and her irritability turned into fatigue. She closed her eyes and the nurse pushed her into the anesthesia room.
"Relax."
A familiar voice sounded above her head. She looked up and saw the figure that had been haunting her dreams.
Although the surgical gown, mask and wig covered most of her figure, Reina Nakajima still recognized Minami Yuki at a glance.
There was no way she could mistake those eyes that were staring at her with a faint smile and reflecting her figure!
The irritability, worry and sorrow were washed away by the ripples in those eyes. Nakajima Reina opened her mouth and wanted to ask Minami Yuki why she was in the operating room, but she swallowed the words back before they came out.
She was afraid that as soon as she opened her mouth, this dreamlike reality would burst like beautiful bubbles in the sun.
"Yuuki." Her emotions turned into a simple call.
"I will perform your surgery." Minami Yuxi stroked Nakajima Reina's cheek and said softly.
"Yeah." Nakajima Reina didn't hesitate or get surprised. She was completely intoxicated by this dreamlike encounter. As long as she stayed by Minami Yuki's side, nothing else mattered.
Her thriving romance and love gave her firm confidence and courage. As long as she stayed by the boy's side, even death could not attack her.
"Come on, breathe in." Nan Youxi gently put the breathing mask on her face.
She breathed as the boy instructed. Her consciousness gradually blurred, and the boy's figure in her vision became increasingly hazy.
[In the operating room, you appeared in front of Nakajima Reina, and the girl was surprised by your presence. You gave her anesthesia and carried her to the operating table.]
[Even in an operating room that has nothing to do with the secular world, Nakajima Reina's sleeping face is still elegant and noble. You cut open her white chest and stare at her fresh, red heart.]
[The operation went smoothly, and you did it more perfectly than ever before. After the chest operation was completed, the assistant wanted to sew it up for you, but you refused her and completed the final touches for Nakajima Reina yourself.]
(End of this chapter)