I Really Like My Sister

Chapter 33. Which School Do You Want to Attend in the Future?

“Home? “Which home?”

  

Chen Du froze, “Just our home, ah.”

  

There was nothing to say. Chen Jiashu never went home unless it was important. She usually went to school and stayed at school, and in the summer, she would enrol in a ballet class that included food and accommodation. It was, in essence, similar to a daycare centre for older people.

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Chen Jinan occasionally made painstaking efforts to visit her. Chen Du once went to see her in his father’s car. He saw Chen Jiashu among a row of neat and slim ballet girls. She was wearing practise clothes, with slender lines. It was white and stretched into a straight line with the backs of her feet standing tautly as she lightly turned in circles. Her toes tapped the ground, and her arms opened and closed, lifting and falling. The sight of her cool, bright face was like a splash of oil in front of his eyes for a moment, and the picture came alive.

  

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Within a minute of the end of the call with the driver, Wen Yun’s call came in angrily, “What are you doing at the hospital for no good reason? Her roommate won’t help her get up when she’s sick? It’s none of your business! Where’s the school nurse?”

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“She was helping me with the food and fainted when she brought it in. The school nurse had already finished work in the evening, so she had to go to the hospital. The doctor said that her heart rate was low due to thyroiditis and she needed to be observed overnight.” Chen Du’s face did not change, and the story was made up in a seamless way.

  

He didn’t know anything about medicine or how thyroiditis was inflamed, and he certainly didn’t know how resting could cause a low heart rate. But what he didn’t know, Wen Yun would naturally know even less.

  

The reason was very professional and it sounded serious. Wen Yun paused for a while, still dissatisfied, and said, “It’s okay to send the person to the hospital. It has doctors and nurses watching. What are you doing there? Let the driver pick you up and take you home. A small child is not afraid of being unsafe outside at night!”

  

“Should I let her, a girl, be here alone? In case something happens and word gets out to the school, won’t I be in more trouble?” He was calm and stubborn, “My classmates saw it, so even if it’s for my own sake, I should stay.”

  

“What the hell kind of a place is a hospital? How are you going to sleep there?”

  

“There are beds for companionship, and quilts and pillowcases for one-time use are available.”

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Wen Yun was silent and had nothing to say. She sighed helplessly, “Xiao Du, mum knows you’ve always been very understanding. Since this is already the case, I respect your decision, but just this once. It won’t happen again. Focus on your studies at school and have less interaction with her.”

  

“Yes, I know, mum. Good night.” Chen Du answered and hung up the phone.

  

You must never refute Wen Yun. The more you argued, the more she would become furious, which would not help anyone. You could only go along with it and use your logic to convince her.

  

Chen Du gradually understood the rules. It was only by taking all the mistakes on himself. He took Chen Jiashu out of the picture, putting himself on the wrong side. Only as the person benefiting from it, could he make Wen Yun empathise with him. This was her logic. Everything was only about her own interests and face.

  

He had never lied before, and it felt bad to tell lies, but now he had found something that made him feel even worse. A fish bone stuck like a stalk in the mouth of a blear.

  

After so many years of eating fish, he suddenly felt a bit like throwing up. [1]

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The hospital was crowded with people at all times. He saw a young mother with a baby in the front lounge area. Her baby was about three or four years old, with a little star from  kindergarten on her head. She had a Grimm’s fairy tale book in one arm, reading softly in her voice.

  

In the aisle away from her, on a bench on the side of the corridor, sat a cold, tired-looking woman. Her brow was furrowed and her head was lowered on her mobile phone. The child next to her was hungry and sleepy, clutching at her mother’s coat and screaming. She raised her face impatiently and sternly scolded them. The child was frightened and cried louder. The world was falling apart. It was a vicious cycle.

  

The people on the whole floor were awakened from their naps, and there were sideways glances to show their displeasure. What a filthy little child, so uncultured.

  

However, children were just children. For the first 18 years of their lives, it was not their choice to decide whether they were dirty or not, happy or unhappy.

  

Chen Du walked through the corridor where the cries were ear-splitting. He went to get takeaway from downstairs and gave the crying child a sandwich and a bag of Bang-Bang candy. The crying stopped instantly, and the noisy corridor finally quieted down.

  

He didn’t care about the child’s dumbfounded expression or the woman’s suspicious gaze. He just thought he’d finally cleared his ears and carried the takeaway back to the ward.

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The water had already been hung. The nurse had removed the needle and pressed a cotton swab into her wrist. She packed up the instruments as she gave her orders, “For about three to five minutes, press until you stop bleeding. Cover up well tonight. It’s best to sweat a little. You’ll be fine when you wake up in the morning.”

  

“Okay, thanks.”

  

Chen Jia Shu whispered in response. Chen Du pushed the door open and met her eyes. Her eyes seemed to say, “Why haven’t you left yet?”

  

“I went downstairs to pick up some takeaway and did some shopping on the way.”

  

Chen Du opened the porridge and put it on the bedside table, along with a clear plastic bag with a convenience store logo. It contained toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, disposable underwear, and other daily necessities.

  

She was in an ordinary ward of an ordinary university hospital. The hospital certainly did not provide towels and slippers for washing up, and even if it did, he would not dare let Chen Jiashu use them.

  

He took out another tablet, “Drink the congee while it’s hot. If you can’t drink it, don’t drink it. Call me if you want to go to the toilet.”

  

“I have a fever, not a fracture.”

  

Chen Du smiled and unwrapped a packet of milk to drink. He hadn’t eaten dinner either, but wasn’t very hungry. His attention was all on Chen Jiashu. Her fever had just gone down, but her body was still weak. She couldn’t lift her hand after the injection, so he could only feed the porridge to her mouth, spoon by spoon, blowing it cold.

  

The solar term has entered the late autumn, and the temperature suddenly dropped at night. The quilt that matched the hospital bed was still a thin summer quilt. Chen Jiashu was slender. Her resting temperature was lower than normal, and she was afraid of the cold, so one quilt was not enough to cover her.

  

She sneezed lightly. Chen Du, who was already lying down, immediately sat up and moved his quilt to Chen Jiashu’s bed, and moved himself into her quilt as well.

  

“What are you doing?” His shoulders were wide, and the single bed was already narrow. When he came in, he took up most of the space. He grabbed her with his hand and hugged her, making Chen Jiashu look like a shrunken bunny. She pushed him out, “Lean over, it’s crowded.”

  

“Why are your hands so cold?” He took her hand off his shoulder and held it in his palm. The right hand was a little better, but the left hand had just had two bags of fluid pumped into it and was as cold as ice.

  

He probed her cold feet again, “Why are they so cold too?” They were freezing, even through his socks, causing him to shiver slightly from the cold.

  

“It’s like that when it’s during this season.” She had cold hands and feet. It was a problem brought up in her mother’s womb. Chen Jiashu had gotten used to it over the years, and she said it with no surprise.

  

Chen Du did not know she would be like this, otherwise he would have bought a hot water bag just now.

  

Chen Jiashu’s head was almost squeezed into the bedside table, and her waist was still encircled by him. She kicked him on his leg, “How can I sleep like this? I’m going to fall down. Ask the nurse to bring in another quilt.”

  

Chen Du turned to his side and took Chen Jiashu into his arms with her head on his arm and her foot on his warm fleece, as if he was holding her in his arms. “Is this okay? You can’t sleep when your feet are cold like that. Do you have an electric blanket in the dorm?”

  

“The dorm doesn’t allow these big heat-generating items.” The hair dryer was barely a privilege that only the girls’ dormitory had.

  

Chen Du was dumbfounded and his heart sank. “There’s no heating either, so how do you spend your winters?”

  

“I have hot water bags, stupid.”

  

How long would a hot water bag last? Chen Du could almost imagine her waking up in the middle of the night every day in winter. It was very unpleasant, so he hugged her a little tighter and said, “You can try Chinese medicine to soak your feet and acupuncture or something. There must be a way.”

  

“Oh, heartbroken for me, huh?” Chen Jia Shu smiled a little.

  

“Hmm.”

  

“….” Chen Jiashu looked out the window at the hazy night, and her smile became looser, hanging sparsely on her face. She said, in a low voice, “Let’s not talk about it.”

  

With the lights out, the ward was dimly lit and dark. The headlights of the river flowing in from outside were reflected along with the moonlight, casting an obscure and baffling glow on the ceiling.

  

Chen Du looked at the ceiling. The knot in his throat was pacing up and down in the light moonlight, and after a long hesitation, he asked.

  

“Chen Jiashu, which university do you want to go to in the future?”

  

[1] He means that for the first time after so many years of knowing his mother, her selfishness and lack of concern made him truly sick to his stomach.


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  1. YueAi999

    His mother was the mistress, who seduced his father. Yet she treated as if Jiashu’s mom was the third wheel in the relationship, putting all the blame on Jiashu.

    Tbh, had she treated Jiashu well, this incest might never happen.