Ji Mingxia looked behind him suddenly.
The underground parking lot was empty; one could see the bottom at a glance. Apart from him, there was no one else in sight.
"What's wrong?" Yu Ning immediately noticed Ji Mingxia's abnormality.
"I feel like someone is watching me." Ji Mingxia said.
The ring on Yu Ning's hand moved slightly. He looked around slowly and found nothing unusual.
"Please step aside, both of you." The driver said to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning.
Seeing that Ye Chen was already waiting on the side, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning retracted their gazes and followed Ye Chen to Ye Tian's ward.
Ye Tian was packing her luggage in the ward. When she saw Ji Mingxia and his group coming over, she was about to say hello, but then she keenly noticed that Ji Mingxia and Ye Chen were standing together, with the driver next to them, and then Ye Chen.
Ye Tian couldn't help but look at Ye Chen.
Ye Chen, who already had a sullen face, turned even darker when Ye Tian looked at him. He turned his face away on the spot and stared at Ye Tian.
When Ye Tian saw that Ye Chen was in a bad mood, she couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Ye Tian quickly put away his gloating expression, walked up to Ji Mingxia, and greeted him and Yu Ning.
Although Ji Mingxia and Ye Tian had met each other a few times, they were not very familiar with each other. On the other hand, Yu Ning and Ye Tian had never spoken to each other.
After a brief greeting, Ye Chen followed the nurse to go through the admission procedures. Yu Ning also came over to help him wash the fruit.
While everyone was there, Ye Tian immediately approached Ji Mingxia and asked gossipingly, "Are you and Yu Ning together?"
Ji Mingxia didn't expect Ye Tian to be so direct: "I think... almost..."
"I knew that you two were a perfect match, and my brother was so confident that he wanted to insert himself into your vagina. It seems so possible at the moment he thinks about it." Ye Tian said, and secretly dug out a gift box from under the bed and stuffed it into Ji Mingxia's hand.
Ji Mingxia was about to refuse, but Ye Tian said, "I asked a friend in the industry and he recommended it to me. He said it's very useful and suitable for you. I bought it especially for you, so you must accept it."
The gift box is packaged in dark blue, with no other text description except a small trademark.
"It suits me very well?" Ji Mingxia asked doubtfully.
"Yeah, you'll know when you open it when you go back. You have to read it now, otherwise my brother will be sad when he comes back. Hahaha." Ye Tian smiled and said to Ji Mingxia half-jokingly and half-explanatoryly, "My brother is a bad guy. He is so arrogant. He gets angry when he gets slapped in the face. I'm afraid he will lose face. But fortunately, his temper comes and goes quickly. If he has done anything wrong, I will apologize to you first. After a few days when he calms down, I will let him come and apologize to you in person."
Ji Mingxia quickly said: "He didn't do anything wrong, there's no need for him to apologize."
"He did nothing wrong. No matter what, you are my family's savior. No matter when and where, I should show you a displeased look. Look at his angry face just now. It was so childish. I couldn't stand it." Ye Tian said, looking past Ji Mingxia and looking at the direction behind him.
Ji Mingxia turned around as if sensing something, and sure enough, saw Ye Chen standing by the door.
After being scolded by Ye Tian, Ye Chen looked a little upset, but he had obviously calmed down at this time. He looked at Ji Mingxia in embarrassment and said to Ye Tian helplessly: "Ancestor, the hospital procedures have been completed."
Seeing that Ye Chen was no longer angry, Ye Tian smiled and said, "Thank you, brother."
With Ye Tian mediating, the atmosphere along the way suddenly became much better.
Ye Tian has a wide network of contacts. Once she is in hospital, friends come to visit her one after another. She has to have lunch with her childhood friends and have dinner with her good friends in the entertainment industry.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning had no interest in some of Ye Tian's friends, so after visiting them for a while, they decided to leave.
Before leaving, Ye Tian very considerately asked Ji Mingxia to take some gifts back.
Ji Mingxia looked at the gift box without any words written on it and felt that it was inexplicably hot. Ye Tian was so enthusiastic that he had no choice but to refuse. He could only pick up the gift box and go back to school with Yu Ning.
After Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning left, Ye Tian turned around and looked at Ye Chen.
Ye Chen quickly looked away and said, "Ding Jialin is coming soon..."
"Changing the subject doesn't work on me." Ye Tian said to Ye Chen, "Brother, you don't really like Ji Mingxia that much, do you?"
Seeing that he had escaped, Ye Chen looked at Ye Tian helplessly.
Ye Tian smiled and said, "You've only met him a few times, how can you say you like him? It's nothing more than that he has been with you through thick and thin and saved your life. It's just an illusion caused by the suspension bridge effect. I understand that feeling. I had the same feeling when I looked at Ji Mingxia."
"You too?" Ye Chen was surprised.
"Yes." Ye Tian nodded very frankly, "So this is why I kept talking about Ji Mingxia in front of you every day. But when I found out that you also liked him, I immediately came to my senses."
Ye Chen immediately understood Ye Tian's implicit meaning.
He is already old, and still needs his sister to comfort him when he is in a relationship. Ye Chen sighed and said, "It's time to rest. I can comfort your brother now."
"That's great." Ye Tian smiled and looked out the window, the expression on her face slowly fading.
Anyone who encounters such a series of things will grow up quickly.
Although the injuries of Ye's father and mother were not as serious as Ye Tian's, they were old and recovered slowly, and they are still lying in the hospital.
When they thought of the unexpected events at home, neither Ye Chen nor Ye Tian said anything, and the car gradually fell silent.
Until Ye Chen's phone vibrated, he picked up the phone and looked at it, then said to Ye Tian: "Jia Lin is here."
Ye Tian's eyes lit up when she heard this.
The Ye family and the Ding family are close friends, and the three children grew up together as childhood sweethearts.
For Ye Tian, as far as she could remember, she had two older brothers in her family, one was Ye Chen and the other was Ding Jialin.
Unfortunately, in the past few years, the two families were busy in their respective fields, and Ding Jialin even went abroad and there has been no news for a long time.
The Ding family has always been secretive about their actions, so Ye Chen and Ye Tian did not investigate the matter carefully.
Until the incident of the Ye family, Ding Jialin, who had been out of contact for several years, reappeared and even came to see him in person.
Ye Tian said expectantly: "I haven't seen him for several years. I don't know how he looks now. Is he more handsome?"
Ye Chen was in a good mood as he was about to meet his good friend. After the car stopped, they got out together and saw a person standing under a tree in the distance.
At noon in winter, all the leaves of the green plants on the roadside have fallen off, leaving only the branches with bared fangs and claws growing hideously and twistedly.
It was a cloudy day, and a gray light fell all around, making the whole world look faded gray.
The man standing under the tree was dressed in black. His overly thin body seemed to bring together a dying and withered aura, which was daunting.
The smile on Ye Tian's face froze a little. She turned to look at Ye Chen with certainty and whispered, "Is it him?"
Ye Chen also looked puzzled, and he immediately stepped forward.
The closer he got to the man in black, the weirder Ye Chen felt.
He and Ding Jialin grew up together and are very familiar with each other. Although they haven't seen each other for a few years, people's appearance will not change much after adulthood unless they have plastic surgery, especially their body shape and back, and they can always find familiar shadows.
But the more he looked at the man's back, the more unfamiliar he felt.
However, when he walked in front of him and saw his face clearly, Ye Chen's heart was shocked.
His face was pale, and his eyes, which used to be black and white and bright as stars, seemed to have turned dark gray. His lips were thin, but without any blood color, which instead made his bones stand out straight and sharp. He looked old and sinister, but also had a bit of evil in him.
While Ye Chen was looking at him, he also raised his eyes to look at Ye Chen and said slowly: "Ye Chen, long time no see."
Ye Chen felt an inexplicable chill in his heart.
It was Ding Jialin. Although he had lost a lot of weight and his appearance and temperament had changed a lot, his voice had not changed.
Just by looking at his face, Ye Chen could find some resemblance to Ding Jialin in the past. That heroic and confident young man seemed to have been drained of his life overnight and turned into a half-human, half-ghost thing.
But Ye Chen also felt that he was a stranger.
Because Ding Jialin at this moment reminded Ye Chen of another person.
Both his appearance and expression, including the pair of terrifying grey eyes, were extremely similar to Yu Ning!
"Jia Lin." Ye Chen felt himself speaking hoarsely, "See you in a long time."
Just at that moment, Ye Tian also came over.
She was as shrewd as Ye Chen, and the moment she saw Ding Jialin's face, she almost gasped and was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses.
Seeing this, Ding Jialin reached out and touched his face.
His face was pale, and his hands were like those of a zombie. The skin on his hands was white with a hint of blue, and his nails were black and gray, just like a zombie.
Ding Jialin said to Ye Tian apologetically: "Sorry, I scared you."
"Brother Jialin, how come you... have changed so much..." Ye Tian couldn't help but say.
"Something happened and it became a matter of fact. That's why I've always been willing to come back to see you." Ding Jialin said with a wry smile, "But I didn't expect that you also encountered an accident. I hid for a long time and really couldn't help wanting to see you."
Although he has a strange appearance, he is the person who grew up together after all. Ye Tian thought about what happened recently, and then looked at Ding Jialin's appearance, tears welled up in her eyes: "Don't worry, I'm fine, I've been hospitalized, and my parents are recovering well."
"That's good." Ding Jialin said, "Now you know who is so cruel and wants to harm you."
"Someone hurt me. It's hard to describe the whole story..." Ye Tian briefly recounted what had happened recently.
They walked towards home while chatting.
After Ding Jialin finished speaking, he slowly said: "In other words, the person who actually saved you was Yu Ning. Although Ji Mingxia is an ordinary person, he is very enthusiastic and kind."
"Yes." Ye Tian said, "My brother and I both like Ming Xia very much."
"What you said makes me curious about him." Ding Jialin said, "If I have the chance, I will go to meet him and thank him for being so kind and brave, so that I can see you again."
Ye Tian smiled and nodded, then opened the door and invited Ding Jialin in.
Ye Chen stood behind him. He had never spoken a word since he met Ding Jialin.
Just as Ding Jialin followed Ye Tian in, a gust of wind blew.
A faint smell of rotting flesh wafted from Ding Jialin's body.
Ye Chen smelled a faint stench and his expression became more solemn than ever.