Chapter 41.1: Moonlight

The General Hospital of the Tibet Military Region of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

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“Doctor! Doctor!” 

In the hospital room, a man ran to the door impatiently after ringing the bell.

 “He moved! He seems to be awake!”

Doctors and nurses filed in, and after examining, they stated, “If he is awake, he will be fine. Don’t worry.”

“Thank you, doctor.”

Tang Zheng sat beside the bed, his chest heaving violently.

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“You can’t get up, you can’t get up.” Tang Zheng and a few teammates next to him held him down.

Blue veins burst out of Yan Xingzhi’s forehead. “I need to take a look at her.”

“Brother Yan, that girl is really fine.” One of the team members assured him. “You’ve been unconscious for two days. She came to see you this morning.”

After a pause, Yan Xingzhi’s expression finally calmed down.

Tang Zheng: “Why don’t I go and ask her to come over and show you!”

“Stop.” Yan Xingzhi gritted his teeth. “Let her rest.”

Tang Zheng sat back again: “Oh…”

“Speaking of which, isn’t this girl a little too brave?” the team member on the side sighed. “It would already be frightening for a normal man, let alone a delicate little girl.”

“Yeah, when we arrived, she was still holding you tightly, covered in blood, I almost thought…”

“Shh!” Tang Zheng glared at the man. “Almost what? Almost, you’re speaking nonsense.”

After speaking, he looked at Yan Xingzhi. “Brother Yan, this time, you owe her a life.”

Yan Xingzhi’s heart twitched hard, and he stared at the ceiling without saying a word.

During the coma, he had a very short dream. Although the dream was short, it kept repeating itself.

She was injured, she disappeared, she died… Over and over, repeatedly. How many times was he dismembered and died in the dream?

A life…

Did she want it?

She could easily take it away.

**

It was already dusk when Cen Ning woke up.

“Ningning, you’re awake.” Xi Xi and Da Bei came in from outside with dinner. “Eat.”

Cen Ning nodded.

Xi Xi: “Everyone else went back today, but don’t worry, Da Bei and I will wait for you before we set off together.”

Cen Ning: “Xi Xi, I’m fine. I don’t need you to take care of me. You and Da Bei can go back first.”

“How would that work? You are a patient now, and even if Da Bei and I go back two days earlier, we would have to bury our heads in front of the computer to edit pictures. It’s the same doing it here.”

 Xi Xi handed her the chopsticks. “Besides, I like Lhasa very much, and it’s good to stay a few days longer.”

Da Bei: “That’s right, that’s right.”

Cen Ning was moved. “Thank you…”

“We are colleagues, and also friends. This is no big deal.” Xi Xi said while eating. “And you are a big hero this time. You saved a soldier!”

Cen Ning: “…”

“Cen Ning, you know them, right?”

Cen Ning lowered her eyes. Now, Yan Xingzhi and the other soldier’s missions were over, so it was alright to reveal some things.

“Mhm, I didn’t mean to hide it from you guys before, but I saw that they seemed to be carrying out a secret mission, so I just…”

“Oh, I understand, I understand, but…” Xi Xi grinned meaningfully, “How familiar are you with each other? He must be… your boyfriend!”

Cen Ning’s eyes widened. “No.”

“Then you must like him.”

“…”

“Don’t deny it. If you don’t like him, how can you go all out to save him?”

It wasn’t until after eating that Da Bei and Xi Xi told her that Yan Xingzhi had woken up. Cen Ning hurriedly got out of bed and forcefully went out of her hospital room when Da Bei and Xi Xi tried to stop her.

In the hospital room next door at this time, in addition to Yan Xingzhi, there was also Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng got up when she saw her coming. “Well, I’ll go buy some fruit.”

Having said that, he slipped out of the hospital room very wisely.

There were only two of them left in the hospital room. Cen Ning looked up at him, and he was also looking at her.

The two were separated by a distance, and suddenly had a tacit understanding of not speaking.

After a long time, Yan Xingzhi raised his hand lightly. With this posture, he seemed to be waiting for her to place her hand in his.

Cen Ning’s eyes became warm, and she walked over slowly.

“Does it hurt?” Yan Xingzhi’s first words.

Cen Ning sat down beside his bed and murmured in a low voice, “It’s okay.” After a pause, she added, “It’s not nearly as serious compared to your injuries.”

Yan Xingzhi frowned. “How can you compare to me?”

Cen Ning: “…”

“Cen Ning, I don’t know when you became so courageous.” Yan Xingzhi’s tone was sharp, with a tendency to scold her.

Cen Ning gritted her teeth. “But do you want me to watch you die?”

Yan Xingzhi: “Then what about the situation back then? If you were just a little late, or if you weren’t able to pull me out, we would have died there!”

“Then we can die there together!” Cen Ning suddenly blurted.

Yan Xingzhi paused for a moment. “What did you say?”

Cen Ning’s hand, clutching the sheet, was trembling slightly. She looked at Yan Xingzhi with red and teary eyes. “I said, let’s die together then. If you die in front of me, how could I live normally? Instead of being entangled in nightmares forever, instead of going back and not knowing how to explain it, it would be better to die together!”

“Cen Ning!”

“You… Don’t go too far.” Cen Ning’s eyes couldn’t bear the tears any longer, and big tears flowed down and dripped on the back of his hands, instantly becoming wet.

Yan Xingzhi was stiff, and his heart felt like there was a knife twisting in it.

He reached out to wipe her tears and whispered, “You shouldn’t have gotten in the car in the first place.”

However, Cen Ning couldn’t hear anything. When he reached out his hand to wipe her tears, she seemed to wake up suddenly from the thrilling life-and-death battle and cried out. Growing up, it was the first time she cried so hard.

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