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Wen Xu found a beautiful “doll” at the hospital, who also had a nice name, Fu Tingwen.

She found him one day when she was bored and followed her mother to roam around the ward.

He was sitting quietly on the bed staring out of the window, his face was sickly pale, but his lips were a bright red. Wen Xu was captured by his beauty on the spot.

Afterwards she came to the hospital from time to time and made a random excuse to run to his ward often. The nurses teased her every time by saying, “Ward 602 is going to change the IV again, is there anyone who wants to go?” Wen Xu would follow with a thick face and her mother couldn’t help but laugh behind her. 

Later on, when Wen Xu spoke with Fu Tingwen, she realized that he only looks cold and aloof on the outside, but he was actually very well behaved. Often it’s just Wen Xu rattling off a bunch of words and he would just look at her with a quiet smile.

Wen Xu felt that she had started to like him a lot.

Other day, she brought a bunch of homework and crawled to Fu Tingwen’s ward. Fu Tingwen pursed his lips and asked with a smile as he looked at her sorrowful face.

“What’s the matter?” 

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She leaned over to him and asked, “Fu Tingwen, what do you usually do in the hospital?”

Fu Tingwen turned his head towards her and his eyes regained a little color.

“You know the sound of an IV drip coming down, drop by drop,” he curled his eyes and smiled, “I can listen to it all day, from early morning to sunset.”

Wen Xu blinked and couldn’t hold back from saying a foul word, “…fck, I thought studying every day was boring enough. I didn’t think there was anything more boring.”　　

Fu Tingwen was amused by her, and the expression on his face was so vivid for the first time.

Wen Xu poked his chin with a pen and suddenly said to him,

“Fu Tingwen.”

“Hmm?”

“The holidays are almost over, so I won’t be able to come to the hospital as often from now on.”

Fu nodded obediently as he listened, and Wen Xu blinked and asked again,

“Will you miss me?”

“I will.” 

“Hey,” Wen Xu smiled triumphantly, “Then let’s exchange WeChat¹ WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose instant messaging, social media and mobile payment app., so we can chat during the week.”

Fu Tingwen raised his hand and picked up the mobile phone placed at the head of the bed and handed it to Wen Xu. He said in a warm and gentle voice, “You can add it directly.” 

“Wow.” Wen Xu took his phone like a baby and when she opened it, she saw that the wallpaper of the phone was the scenery of a vast ocean.

As she maneuvered to add herself as a friend, she asked, “Fu Tingwen, do you like the sea?”

“It is okay.”

“I’ve never been to the beach, even though I live in a coastal area, have you?”

“I’ve been there before.”

“Wow! Can you take me there when you are discharged from the hospital?” 

After Wen Shu asked, Fu Tingwen did not answer immediately. This was the first time he did not immediately agree to Wen Xu’s request.

Wen Xu waited for a while and raised her head somewhat strangely, only to find that Fu Tingwen was quietly looking at her, his ink-like eyes were as deep as if there was an ocean in them.

Wen Xu was stunned. Just when she thought he was going to refuse, he smiled and curled his eyes, saying softly but seriously.

“Okay.”

The school day seemed boring and long without the company of Fu Tingwen.

She was wilting in the sun on her desk when she suddenly remembered Fu Tingwen’s almost transparent white face and felt a pang of sadness in her heart.

She felt as if Fu Tingwen was wandering outside from this world and could leave at any moment. She was a little scared, yet she didn’t know how to catch him.

Wen Xu opened her eyes and saw the bright sunlight outside, and quietly made a wish in her heart.

Sunshine, can you sprinkle a little more on Fu Tingwen, tell him that this world is very warm so that he doesn’t leave.

After finally waiting, the weekend came easily. Wen Xu got up earlier than for school, and after a few bites of food, she urged her mother to go to work.

Her mother said with a smile, “This weekend, your mother have a day off and won’t go to work.” 

Wen Xu was a bit dumbfounded when her mother teased, “Unlike some people who go to the hospital more diligently than they go to school.”

Wen Xu scratched her head and went out alone.

She arrived at the hospital in a hurry, but Fu Tingwen was not in the ward. She was baffled and suddenly saw a piece of paper left on the table. She walked over and saw that it read: “I am on the rooftop.”

Wen Xu lifted her feet again and ran towards the rooftop.

The weather was good that day. The sun covered Fu Tingwen in a warm color, and his wide hospital gown was slightly bulged by the wind.

Wen Xu pushed open the rooftop door and saw such a sight. After she saw Fu Tingwen, the strange feeling of panic in her heart did not disappear, but grew stronger.  

She stood still and looked at Fu Tingwen, who was not far away and felt a little stuffy in her heart. As if he sensed something, Fu Tingwen turned around to see Wen Xu standing at the doorway and smiled at her gently.

Wen Xu pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying and made Fu Tingwen laugh.

She didn’t know why she was so upset, so she just stood there and looked at Fu Xinwen with resignation.

Fu Tingwen looked at her face and curled his beautiful eyes, and did not ask her what was wrong, but just quietly extended his hand towards her.

He extended his hand towards her.

This realization made Wen Xu inexplicably want to cry a little.

It was as if he had reached out towards the world and he finally had a connection with it.

She ran towards him, and then hooked her fingers hard around his.

“Fu Tingwen” she shook their two hooked little thumbs together, “you need to get better soon, say yes ah.”

Fu Tingwen listened with lowered eyes and wagged his finger as she did.

“Okay.”

Ever since that day, Wen Xu has shared her day to day experiences every night on the phone to him. Most of the time she crackles out a whole bunch of them and Fu Tingwen dutifully replies.

Wen Xu felt not quite satisfied.

“Fu Tingwen, this is so boring, I want to hear your voice.”

Fu Tingwen quickly replied, “Okay.”　

Wen Xu excitedly typed, “Let’s voice call!”

Fu Tingwen sent a smiling face emoticon, “Okay.”

Wen Xu immediately dialed his number and after connecting, she flopped down on the bed and spoke to him happily.

“Fu Tingwen!”

“Mmm.”

She thought his voice sounded better over the phone and couldn’t resist calling him several more times. Fu Tingwen answered her in a good-natured manner every time.　

Feeling a little bored after calling out, Wen Xu embarrassedly said, “Hey, have I been annoying.”　

“No.” After giving a quick reply, Fu Tingwen added again after a pause, “You’re very nice.”　

Wen Xu giggled into the receiver, and Fu Tingwen heard her laugh quietly.

Wen Xu laughed for a long time and then stopped and said to him, “Fu Tingwen, you are also very nice. You are the best person I have ever met in my life.”

Fu Tingwen laughed, “Wen Xu, you have a long life ahead of you.”

Wen Xu muttered in a small voice, “There won’t be anyone better than you.”

She had planted this person inside her seventeen-year-old heart, and no one would ever be able to take his place again.

Wen Xu always felt that she was forgetting something, and finally remembered it one day after talking to Fu Tingwen.

She ran over to her mother and asked curiously.　

“Mom, what kind of disease does Fu Tingwen have?”

Her mother put on the mask and glanced at her, “Why do you ask?”　　

“I want to know!”

“It’s nothing, it’s just that he has some heart problems.”

“Ah,” Wen Xu was a bit nervous, “Is it serious?”

“It can’t be said to be serious. After an operation he will be fine,” her mother sighed again at the thought, “But his health has not been good no matter how he recuperates, that’s why the operation has been delayed for so long.”

Wen Xu was a little confused, and her mother looked at her with a complicated expression.

“Some doctors in the hospital feel that his own desire to live is not strong, so… alas, after all, this child is also very bitter. He has been hospitalized for so long, except for a nanny who comes every day, he has never seen his parents.”  

Wen Xu didn’t say anything but she felt her heart throb with pain.

It doesn’t matter, Fu Tingwen still has her. 

That weekend morning she had to help her aunt to look after the child, so she delayed until after lunch to rush to the hospital.　

When she arrived, the hospital was quiet. Wen Xu carefully opened the door, and found that Fu Tingwen was lying in bed for a morning rest.

She walked in quietly, sat on the edge of the bed and watched his quiet sleeping face.

Wen Xu suddenly felt that this ward was too empty and he was all by himself, so he would be very bored during the week.

She thought so, and her thoughts drifted away again. When she came back to her senses, she found herself staring at his long eyelashes and couldn’t help lying beside him and whispering.

“Fu Tingwen, do you know what the sunrise on the top of the mountain and the sunset by the sea look like? I have never been there to see it. I want to go with you to see it, and many more places.”

She didn’t wait for Fu Tingwen to wake up and slipped away to the nearby shopping mall and bought two large bags of things, all of which were gadgets that could be used to decorate the room.

When she returned to the hospital, she was surprised to find a doctor standing by Fu Tingwen’s bed.

When the doctor saw her enter, he smiled and said,

“Oh~ Isn’t this our Xiao² Xiao is one of the most common terms of endearment used to refer to the person who is considered younger in a particular group. Wen Xu?”

Wen Xu scratched her head in embarrassment and greeted, “Hello uncle.”

The doctor closed the medical record book with a smile and patted Wen Xu’s shoulder.

“Xiao Wen Xu persists for a while, and it won’t be long before you don’t have to run to the hospital.” 

Wen Xu froze, not knowing what he meant.

The doctor looked back at the faintly smiling Fu Tingwen and said with a sincere smile, “This young classmate is recovering quickly and he will be ready for surgery in no time.”

Wen Xu’s mind was so overwhelmed by the news that she felt she was very happy, so happy that she couldn’t help but want to cry.

All the way until Fu Tingwen came over to take the bag in her hand, her tears suddenly fell uncontrollably, baring her eyes.

Fu Tingwen didn’t get very flustered when he heard the doctor, he just bent down to look at her levelly, his dark eyes glowing with light.

He said, “Want to go to the beach, Wen Xu?”

He called her name for the first time, with a loving and gentle smile.

Wen Xu nodded indiscriminately, and asked him sobbingly, “Fu Tingwen, can I give you a home?”

Fu Tingwen smiled all of a sudden, his eyes like gentle deer, “Are you proposing?”

“Wooohoooo” Wen Xu didn’t know why she just couldn’t stop crying and said vaguely, “When I am of legal age, can I marry you, Fu Tingwen!”

Fu Tingwen nodded with a gentle smile.

“Alright, I’ll fulfill every promise I’ve made to you.”

What Wen Xu didn’t know was that their first meeting wasn’t an unintentional round in the ward when she had followed her mother.

One day, a few months ago, Fu Tingwen walked aimlessly around the hospital’s gardens like a machine with a heart that was gradually losing interest in survival.

In the midst of a crisp green, Wen Xu stood right by the flower bed in a simple school uniform laughing and hugging a little boy who was also wearing a hospital gown.

She held him in place and spun him around several times. The sound of their laughter reached his ears a little through the flowerbeds and up to his heart.

One startling glance under the blazing sun that day and he knew he should have met the most searing colour of his life.

Later that day, she leaned over his doorframe, forced down her nervousness and said with a smile, 

“Hello, my name is Wen Xu, as in vivid and lifelike.”³ Character xǔ is from the idiom xǔ xǔ rú shēng which means vivid and lifelike; true to life; realistic.

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