Liang Shuyao had her suspicions, but she wasn't sure. Maybe she was just too sensitive.
She had loved Lu Yinbing for so many years, and even though she had let it go, it was almost instinctive for her to pay more attention to her than others. So when the other cousins were laughing, she had already keenly noticed that something was wrong.
- Where's the barbecue sauce? Is that up there
-It's in there, didn't you bring it up yourself
-Can't I forget
"Cousin Liang, it's your turn to speak." Liu Cheng nudged Liang Shuyao's elbow, "What are you doing? You're thinking about your girlfriend again. Who can't you bully?"
"I didn't bully you." Liang Shuyao said, "I'm just thinking about what to say."
Liu Cheng: "Look at how hesitant you are. You must be an undercover agent. I will vote you out in a minute."
Liang Shuyao asked what they were talking about and absentmindedly followed suit.
The game continues.
-Where's the brush
- Where are the bamboo sticks
-Um, what about that sweet noodle sauce I bought last time
-Did I just bring up the charcoal? Oh, I did, where did I put it
In the first round of voting, Liang Shuyao was eliminated due to accidental injury, and the game continued.
Liang Shuyao lowered her eyes and tapped her knees with her fingers. She changed the wording of the question, which was actually repeated completely. Lu Yinbing looked at Xia Yitong's little gesture and Xia Yitong's affirmative nod.
All of this proves that Liang Shuyao was not suspicious and something really happened to Lu Yinbing.
But such a simple clue was not enough for her to figure out the cause and effect of the incident. Even the surface was shrouded in mist and could not be seen clearly. Xia Yitong's hesitation to speak made her feel uneasy.
Liang Shuyao always failed when she played the game seriously, but now that her mind was wandering, she got green lights everywhere and was never caught and asked questions. Liu Cheng and a few others were anxious to know more details, and the plan was finally shelved.
Xia Yitong lost once, and Liu Cheng asked her to choose the truth: "If Lu Yinbing wasn't there, and all the people present had someone they loved, which one would she choose?"
Is there any need to think about this question? Xia Yitong replied: "I choose death."
Lu Yinbing curled the corners of his lips in satisfaction, pressed Liucheng's shoulders and spanked her butt twice.
Lu Yinbing was also asked the question: "Do you have any plans to come out in public? If so, when will it come out?" Liu Cheng is a fan, although the fans are not her cousin and sister-in-law, but she is always gossipy about such issues.
Xia Yitong also looked at Lu Yinbing. She herself had never considered coming out, and didn't know what Lu Yinbing's plan was. The two of them didn't take coming out as a big deal. Basically, everyone who should know knew about it, and they had received their blessings. It didn't matter whether outsiders knew about it or not.
Lu Yinbing: “Yes.”
Xia Yitong opened her eyes wide.
Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment, then asked excitedly: "When, when?"
Lu Yinbing said calmly: "This is your second question. Wait until you beat me again."
After playing games for an hour, they finished a bag of beer and were tipsy. They talked and laughed about the problems that followed. Lu Yinbing held the beer in one hand, and a few drops of beer dripped into his mouth. His eyes were a little red from drinking. "I haven't decided when to do it yet. Let it go. When the domestic situation is better, I will come out and it won't affect her career. Anyway, I will change my career after filming for a few years..."
Lu Yinbing was suddenly stunned. She chewed over the words she had long been accustomed to saying twice in her mind. Her eyes misted over and she quickly took a deep breath, opened her mouth wide, and slowly exhaled.
Xia Yitong's heart skipped a beat.
Liang Shuyao glanced at the two of them.
Lu Yinbing paused for a moment, pushed aside the cans beside him, stood up with the collar of his down jacket, and looked at the sky: "We've finished the wine, it's time to go downstairs, there's not even a star to be seen."
After she finished speaking, everyone got up one after another, and walked down the rooftop in a disorderly manner, with Xia Yitong supporting Lu Yinbing, and Liang Shuyao was the last one. Before entering the stairs, Xia Yitong looked back at Liang Shuyao, who nodded.
Lu Yinbing was in a bad mood and drank again. She tried to drown her sorrows but only became more sorrowful. She went back to her room, took a shower, said goodbye to Xia Yitong, and went to sleep. She didn't wait for her, and the alcohol really made her fall asleep quickly. This was just right for Xia Yitong. After she confirmed that Lu Yinbing was asleep, she quietly closed the door and went out.
Liang Shuyao's room was also upstairs, the second to last room at the end of the corridor, the office in the Lu family. Reeking of alcohol, she just took a quick shower and sent a message to Xia Yitong - knock on the door softly, don't wake up Lu Yinbing.
Due to Liang Shuyao's previous selfishness, her room and Lu Yinbing's room were adjacent, but the rooms were well soundproofed. Liang Shuyao waited in her room for a while, and felt uneasy about the wall between them, so she simply discussed with Xia Yitong to change the location to another room - the room with the piano where Lu Yinbing proposed.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Xia Yitong pushed open the half-open door of the piano room. Liang Shuyao, wearing long-sleeved pajamas, was sitting in front of the piano, her fingers about two centimeters away from the keys, playing the silent piano.
Xia Yitong closed the door and locked it.
Liang Shuyao stopped and raised her eyelids: "Come on, sit down."
Xia Yitong sat opposite her, tugging at her clothes with both hands. Before Liang Shuyao spoke, she sighed first.
Liang Shuyao: "...Your sigh almost made me gasp for air. What's wrong? Just tell me the truth."
If Liang Shuyao had doubts before, she was certain now, and the situation might be more serious than she had imagined.
Xia Yitong: "Although it's polite, I still hope you can promise me that you won't tell anyone else what I said, not even Lu Yinbing. It won't count if she knows it herself."
Liang Shuyao: "Okay, let's do it quickly."
Xia Yitong said: "Did you know the news that she was injured while filming a movie last year?"
Liang Shuyao shook her head, a little guilty, and said, "No, I deliberately didn't pay attention to her news, and I was abroad at that time, and no one around me talked about this matter."
"She fell very badly that time," Xia Yitong said. "She was in the hospital for three months and has been undergoing rehabilitation ever since. The nails in her arm have not been removed yet."
Liang Shuyao had mixed feelings. Even out of sisterly love, she shouldn't be completely ignorant of this matter.
Xia Yitong: "She sent people to block the news at the time. It's normal that you didn't know since you were abroad. Even Liu Cheng and the others said it was a minor injury. Injuries are common during filming, but she fell on her head, and the sequelae is a significant decline in memory. You just discovered that the shorter the time, the less she can remember. There is no hindrance to her memory before the injury. And it's not that she doesn't remember, she just wants to think about it."
If we use water as a metaphor, what Lu Yinbing did and said was like using a branch to draw a shallow line in the mud, and the water next to it would soon disappear without a trace. If she wanted to recall her memory, she had to recall it with all her strength, letting the sun dry up the water and reveal the traces underneath.
Liang Shuyao: "Wait a minute."
Xia Yitong: "What?"
Liang Shuyao: "Wait for me to sort it out." After a while, Liang Shuyao frowned and said, "Besides the fact that this memory is hindering her daily life, is there anything else? Is the movie she withdrew from last time related to this?"
Xia Yitong was slightly surprised. She didn't expect that she would think of it immediately. She hadn't planned to say so much about the lines. Xia Yitong's silence had already given Liang Shuyao a positive answer.
Memory loss? Liang Shuyao blurted out: "Could it be that you can't remember the lines?"
Xia Yitong was silent again.
Liang Shuyao covered her face with both hands, rubbed it hard, and said in a lost voice: "How could this happen?" She coughed, found her voice, and asked, "Have you seen a doctor?"
Xia Yitong: "I've seen it. Xue Yao went with her. The doctor said it's permanent damage and the chances of recovery are almost zero."
Liang Shuyao then asked: "Do all doctors say this?"
Xia Yitong was stunned for a moment, and said with difficulty: "I don't know... I saw several doctors."
Liang Shuyao's words were so inspiring that a huge void arose in her heart. Why didn't she think of such a simple thing? Even though she was a patient at that time, it was not a reason for her to ignore it. When she came back from the Northeast, she saw Lu Yinbing, Xue Yao, and Xiaoxi. Everyone seemed to accept the fact, so she accepted it too.
Liang Shuyao stood up suddenly, her expression gloomy, and she looked like she wanted to pin Xia Yitong to the ground and beat her up, "Don't you know what your relationship with her is? One doctor said so, do all the doctors say so? After seeing the doctors in China, there are also doctors abroad. Have you taken Lu Yinbing to see them all?"
Xia Yitong didn't argue a word and just listened with his head down.
"Have you watched the TV news? How many wives, husbands and children are diagnosed with serious illnesses? Their families still take them to seek medical treatment everywhere. There is no reason to let them wait to die at home even if there is no hope. But you are so different..." Liang Shuyao's chest rose and fell twice, and she waved her hands, "I'm not scolding you, but you're making me so angry. I'll go find her tomorrow."
Xia Yitong: "There's one more thing."
Liang Shuyao felt a toothache when she saw her hesitant look: "Speak."
Xia Yitong: "What if the worst result happens and all the doctors say that she cannot be cured and her whole life will be like this?" In that case, it would undoubtedly be too cruel to give her hope again and again and watch that hope shattered in front of her again and again.
Liang Shuyao replied sarcastically: "Look at her now. Can it be worse than now?"
You still don't understand her. This sentence was more pointed, Liang Shuyao held back and didn't say it.
Xia Yitong said nothing.
There were many reasons why she didn't take Lu Yinbing to seek medical treatment, not only because she was in a dark place. She didn't even mention that her mental health was in danger. She was cautious and afraid of making mistakes, and she didn't dare to touch Lu Yinbing's fragile nerves. This was the most important reason.
Would it be worse if I tried? I don't know. But if I don't try, even that one in ten thousand chance will be gone.
Then…
She raised her eyes and looked at Liang Shuyao steadily: "I will tell her in person tomorrow."