Chapter 109: Memoirs of a Late Wife

Ying Huai froze in place.

Xin Wan beside him didn't understand what was happening, assuming Ying Huai was still feeling unwell, and leaned forward with some concern.

"What's wrong, shidi? Where does it hurt........"

".......Nothing."

Ying Huai spoke in a daze: "But I might........be about to die."

Xin Wan: ?

He didn't react for a moment, startled by Ying Huai's words, and somewhat frantically reached out to pull him into an embrace.

"What's wrong with you, shidi? Don't scare me, where does it hurt, is it your heart or can you not catch your breath........"

Ying Huai was staring at his phone screen, struggling to think of a plan, and was startled by Xin Wan's sudden action.

His body trembled, and he shifted half an inch to the side somewhat inexplicably: "What are you doing, I told you I'm fine........"

Xin Wan froze for a moment.

He raised his head somewhat blankly, saw that Ying Huai's complexion really wasn't that bad, and finally calmed down a little.

But Xin Wan was still a little uneasy: "Then why did you just........shidi?"

His gaze slowly fell onto Ying Huai's phone screen, gradually realizing something, and raised his head in disbelief.

"You didn't tell Ying-dage about being hospitalized either........?"

Ying Huai broke free from Xin Wan's arms.

He gave the person in front of him a complicated look, said nothing, and after a while somewhat irritably put the phone face-down on the table again.

The phone ringtone automatically hung up again, then persistently rang once more.

Xin Wan glanced at Ying Huai somewhat cautiously: "Shidi........are you sure you won't answer?"

"Answer what? Answer and tell my brother that I just got sick and had surgery, that the reason I haven't shown up for the past two weeks and used traveling as an excuse to deceive him is because my body was too weak to get out of bed?"

Ying Huai pressed his brow, speaking somewhat irritably.

The moment his words fell, the next second he saw Xin Wan's expression turn strange.

"You even had surgery?!"

Xin Wan gritted his teeth, his expression unusually carrying some displeasure and disapproval: "You can even hide this from Ying-dage, shidi, you........"

Before he could finish, he saw the person in front of him raise his head and look at him expressionlessly.

Xin Wan's words of reproach instantly stalled.

His eyes flickered, and in the end he didn't dare say it directly, just turned his eyes away and said softly: "You're being too reckless."

Seeing Ying Huai lower his eyes without answering, he couldn't help but speak again: "Did you hear what I said, shidi?"

Ying Huai casually hummed "mm" perfunctorily, thought of something, and raised his hand to look at his phone again.

"I know, I probably have at most one hour left, we'll talk about these things later."

Xin Wan instantly raised his head alertly: "Why at most one hour?"

He thought Ying Huai had secretly taken some medicine again, but didn't expect Ying Huai to glance at him and speak slowly.

"At this time ge should be at the company, even if he can't hold back and has someone investigate me and then rush over, it would still take at least half an hour to an hour."

He paused, seeing Xin Wan's incredulous expression, thought for a moment, then spoke again.

"This place is also quite far from the Hospital, if my brother runs to the Hospital first.......it can buy me a little more time."

Xin Wan felt the veins at his temples bulge.

He suddenly stood up: "No, I'm taking you back to the Hospital right now, shidi, you can't........"

Before he could finish, he suddenly heard the person in front of him speak softly: "I was wrong, shixiong."

Xin Wan's body instantly stiffened.

He watched Ying Huai slightly tilt his head up, his peach blossom eyes, usually brimming with laughter, seemed faintly reddening.

"Shixiong, just help me this once, okay? Once it's over I'll definitely obediently go back to the Hospital with you."

The café door was pushed open, cold wind from outside blew in, Ying Huai's body trembled slightly, he covered his lips and coughed, "Shixiong doesn't want me to stay outside too long either, right?"

Xin Wan froze in place.

After a while, he took a deep breath, and in the end silently sat back down beside Ying Huai.

"Three questions."

Xin Wan gritted his teeth, took out his phone, opened the timer, and placed it on the table.

"Just half an hour, after half an hour I'll immediately take you back."

Xin Wan took a deep breath, folded his arms and leaned back in his seat, deliberately not looking at Ying Huai.

"Otherwise I'll personally help you contact your brother."

Ying Huai instantly straightened up, smiling brightly: "Deal!"

........Xin Wan watched his reaction, and for a moment suspected he had been tricked again.

But before he could carefully recall, he heard Ying Huai speak first.

"I actually only have one question for shixiong."

"Shixiong can tell me, after Liang Shining's incident in the last life........what exactly did he do?"

Xin Wan's expression paused.

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In the last life, when Liang Shining placed the evidence directly in front of him, Xin Wan nearly broke down completely.

He couldn't believe what Liang Shining had presented, but the facts proved........he was indeed terribly wrong.

"Impossible, are you lying to me, Ying Huai couldn't have done these things........"

Xin Wan stared at the person in front of him with red-rimmed eyes.

He grabbed Liang Shining's collar, gritting his teeth: "You're lying to me, right? Ying Huai told you to do this."

He suddenly thought of something, and suddenly laughed with red eyes.

"Right, you must be lying to me, actually Ying Huai isn't dead at all, right? He must be secretly manipulating all this behind the scenes, is he still secretly laughing at me right now........"

Xin Wan looked around, speaking almost frantically: "Ying Huai, where are you? You tricked me, you tricked me, right? Come out, are you happy seeing me like this, come out—"

Before he could finish, he suddenly felt a sharp pain at his neck.

Immediately after, a sudden pain struck his back.

With a muffled "bang," Xin Wan was slammed hard against the wall behind him by Liang Shining.

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it."

Xin Wan listened to Liang Shining's slightly hoarse voice coming from in front of him.

"Ying Huai is already........gone."

"You should be grateful........he never knew until his death that you were this kind of person."

Xin Wan's voice was forced to a halt, his face flushed red from lack of oxygen.

Liang Shining stared at him for a few seconds, his fingers loosened slightly, and Xin Wan instantly collapsed to the ground.

He knelt on the ground in a sorry state, listening to Liang Shining's gradually receding footsteps, with no intention of getting up at all, and after a few seconds, instead burst into a fit of wild laughter.

"Impossible, he knew, of course he knew what kind of person I am........an ungrateful one."

Xin Wan lowered his eyes, his fingers tightly gripping his own hair.

"You lied to me Ying Huai, you lied to me, it's you who let me down........"

He lay prostrate on the ground, his manic laughter gradually fading, turning into sobs he couldn't suppress.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Ying Huai, it's my fault, I'm sorry........"

Xin Wan didn't know what methods Liang Shining used, but after a few days, he received long-awaited messages from Lu Jing and Su Xin.

The three of them, after years of not being in contact, gathered together for the first time in such a silent and calm manner.

—And for the first time in all these years, reached a consensus.

Lu Jing practically turned the entire Lu Family upside down, exposing all the dirt behind the scenes.

Xin Wan and Su Xin contacted authoritative experts in the industry like Mu Heguang, and jointly signed a statement.

The dirt on Ying Huai was quickly cleared within half a year.

The internet was in an uproar, sparking countless heated discussions.

[Aren't Liang Shining and Ying Huai rivals? They argued so fiercely about that incident before, what are they doing now?]

[How ironic........Ying Huai helped so many people before, but in the end after his incident, the only one who helped him was his rival.......]

[Really, oh my god........]

[I'm a fan of Teacher Liang, actually when the rumor first came out that Teacher Liang was going to help Teacher Ying Huai, I even went to clarify it, and for a while couldn't understand why Teacher Liang would wade into this muddy water, but now I seem to understand a little........Teacher Ying Huai was really good.]

[Wuwuwu, when is Teacher Xiao Huai's funeral, can we also go to pay our respects?]

For Ying Huai's funeral, Liang Shining didn't invite anyone.

He held the funeral for Ying Huai in silence, not even telling anyone the location of the gravestone.

A year later, on Ying Huai's 25th birthday and the first anniversary of his death, Liang Shining's agency suddenly announced that Liang Shining had unfortunately died in an accident.

A week later, in a quiet cemetery, two gravestones standing side by side were added.

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Ying Huai sat in place in a daze.

Xin Wan glanced up at him, speaking carefully: "........That's all I know, shidi."

Ying Huai lowered his eyes and still didn't speak.

Xin Wan looked at his somewhat pale complexion and began to regret, having not reacted in time and really told Ying Huai everything.

"What happened in the last life........we were wrong, don't be angry shidi, whatever you want me to do now I can........"

After a few seconds, Ying Huai slightly shook his head.

"I'm not angry."

Xin Wan heard this and felt even more panicked instead.

—He wasn't worried about Ying Huai being angry at him, that way at least there would be an outlet.

But Ying Huai was so calm and peaceful now, Xin Wan instead worried that he was keeping something uncomfortable to himself without saying.

He gritted his teeth and continued: "But your complexion isn't good right now, shidi, is there anywhere uncomfortable........"

Before he could finish, he suddenly heard the phone beside them ring sharply.

Xin Wan instinctively pressed the phone to silence it, but the next second saw Ying Huai, as if suddenly coming back to himself, tremble and abruptly stand up.

"Let's go."

Xin Wan was stunned.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Ying Huai had already braced himself against the table and stood up, walking slowly outward step by step.

Xin Wan hurriedly stepped forward to support his arm: "Wait a moment, shidi, rest a while before going out, it's windy outside today, if you go out like this you'll easily catch cold........"

Ying Huai's current condition was clearly off, and although Xin Wan didn't know the specific reason, he absolutely didn't dare let him leave like this.

"Didn't shixiong just say we'd go back when time was up?"

Ying Huai subtly broke free from Xin Wan's hand, turned his head and smiled slightly.

There was an abnormal flush on his face: "I should go back to the Hospital........thank you for today, shixiong."

Xin Wan silently opened his mouth.

He had no choice, gritted his teeth, stepped forward and draped his coat over Ying Huai, speaking softly: "Then wait a moment, I'll call a car to take you back."

Ying Huai shook his head.

He opened his mouth as if to say something more, but the next second heard the door in front of him suddenly pushed open.

A gust of wind blew in unobstructed through the open door.

Ying Huai was caught off guard, choked on a breath, turned his head and couldn't help but cough.

The next second, he heard Song Si Lan's exasperated voice ring out from in front.

"Grown some nerve, haven't you, Ying Huai? You've even learned to pay lip service while doing the opposite, have you?"

Song Si Lan gritted his teeth and closed the door, quickly walking to Ying Huai and pulling him aside.

He pressed Ying Huai's pulse, quickly slipped a pill into his mouth, frowned as he watched the person's breathing gradually stabilize.

Xin Wan beside them didn't react for a moment.

He followed Ying Huai somewhat flustered, speaking anxiously: "Doctor Song, please slow down, shidi's complexion hasn't been good, he might be uncomfortable now........"

"I know."

Song Si Lan cut him off, released his hand from Ying Huai's pulse, and glared at Ying Huai with annoyance.

"He should have realized this himself when he snuck out of the Hospital."

Xin Wan was stunned.

He realized something, suddenly turned his head: "You snuck out of the Hospital? Shidi?"

Ying Huai caught his breath.

He leaned against Song Si Lan, somewhat guiltily turning his eyes away: "No, I just........"

"He just said he'd go out for a walk nearby, then disappeared without a word."

Song Si Lan let out a cold laugh, directly cutting him off.

Ying Huai's breathing was still somewhat fast after this long, Song Si Lan frowned and went to the first aid kit beside him to look for a Medicine Bottle for relief.

But Ying Huai turned his head and shook his head, indicating he didn't need it.

"It's fine, I just got a bit emotional earlier.........I'll be fine after resting a while."

He covered his lips and coughed, glanced toward the door, and asked hoarsely: ".......Where is Liang Shining?"

Song Si Lan pressed his pulse, jaw tight: "Can you say less? Don't you know how fast your own heart rate is? Aren't you uncomfortable?"

He looked at Ying Huai, who was still gazing toward the door wanting to say something, and spoke again, annoyed.

"Focus on yourself. He's angry at you. He didn't come over."

The moment his words fell, he saw Ying Huai turn his head to look at him and suddenly laugh.

"Impossible."

Song Si Lan was stunned for a moment.

Ying Huai covered his lips and coughed, his tense body gradually relaxing.

"If Doctor Song says that, it means Liang Shining has already come over, hasn't he........."

Before he finished speaking, the next second he saw the café door pushed open again in a hurry.

Liang Shining walked in quickly with a bag of Hot Water Bottle in his arms.

He didn't have time to look carefully, first quickly closed the door, then surveyed the surroundings, his gaze falling directly on Ying Huai.

The moment Ying Huai looked at him, his eyes suddenly curved.

Liang Shining didn't notice this.

He furrowed his brow slightly, quickly stepped forward to Ying Huai's front to block the wind behind him, and stuffed the Hot Water Bottle directly into his arms.

"Doctor Song said it's cold today. If you stay outside too long, your stomach might feel uncomfortable."

Liang Shining pulled Ying Huai's hand out and held it in his palm, and as expected felt his fingertips especially cold: "When we left the Hospital I was too anxious and didn't have time to bring a Hot Water Bottle. I just went to buy you one, look........"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a weight on his neck.

He raised his head somewhat blankly, but the next second felt a softness on his lips.

Liang Shining's eyes widened slightly, and he instinctively reached out to hold Ying Huai's waist.

Beside them, Song Si Lan lightly tsked, reached out to grab Xin Wan who was about to step forward, and forcibly pulled the person aside.

Liang Shining was also somewhat surprised.

He worried about Ying Huai's body, leaned back slightly wanting to avoid first, but heard the person in his arms let out a dissatisfied low hum, and deepened the kiss on his own.

Liang Shining didn't dare move anymore, could only hold Ying Huai tighter, letting his full weight lean into his arms.

After an unknown amount of time, Liang Shining finally felt the touch on his lips gradually disappear.

Ying Huai rested his head on his shoulder, turned his head to pant softly, gradually adjusting his breathing.

Liang Shining looked down worriedly: "Shifu?"

Ying Huai responded with a low 'mm'.

He didn't seem to have any intention of speaking proactively. Liang Shining was still uneasy, and after a few seconds spoke first: "Just now what happened........"

"Thank you, Liang Shining."

Ying Huai's voice, carrying a slight sigh, suddenly came from beside his ear.

Liang Shining was stunned for a moment.

He quickly realized something, glanced at Xin Wan not far away.

Xin Wan had now mostly calmed down.

He met Liang Shining's gaze with a somewhat complicated expression, and after a while nodded.

Liang Shining silently closed his eyes.

He didn't say anything more, just turned back, silently holding the person in his arms tighter little by little.

Ying Huai now seemed to have completely relaxed, just silently leaning in his arms without speaking, and unwilling to move.

Liang Shining waited a few seconds, worried that Ying Huai standing too long would be uncomfortable for his heart, and finally couldn't help but speak again: "Let me take you back to the car first, okay, Shifu, you've been out a long time today........"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt the person in his arms gradually sliding down.

Liang Shining was stunned, suddenly lowered his head, and met Ying Huai's somewhat dazed eyes.

"Ying Huai?"

Ying Huai seemed to already have somewhat unclear consciousness.

He let out a somewhat blank 'hm', wanting to hold Liang Shining's shoulder to stand steady, but his body instead swayed weakly first.

"I'm dizzy, Liang Shining........"

Liang Shining quickly realized something was wrong.

He looked at the unnatural flush on Ying Huai's face, and quickly reached out to touch his nape.

Ying Huai let out an uncomfortable low hum, couldn't help but cough in a muffled voice.

"You have a fever, Shifu." Liang Shining said in a low voice with some urgency.

Ying Huai's reaction was somewhat slow.

This bout of high fever didn't know when it started, but in just a while it burned his consciousness into a stupor.

He felt somewhat drowsy, buried his head in Liang Shining's neck, and rubbed uncomfortably.

"........I'm so hot, Liang Shining."

Liang Shining responded with a slightly trembling voice, squatted down wanting to carry the person horizontally.

But just as he raised his hand, he heard the person in front of him let out a low 'mm', and immediately after, the originally slow breathing suddenly became rapid.

Liang Shining suddenly lowered his head: "Ying Huai!"

Song Si Lan, who had been facing away from them nearby, heard the sound and instinctively turned his head.

Song Si Lan's face instantly changed.

He quickly walked over, but by the time he arrived, he only saw Ying Huai lose consciousness in an instant, his whole body going limp in Liang Shining's arms.

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Ying Huai felt like he'd fallen into a giant furnace.

Even though his whole body was hot and stuffy, his heart and stomach area was ice cold, so cold it hurt.

Ying Huai vaguely knew he was probably running a fever.

After his surgery, for almost a week because of wound inflammation, he'd been running frequent fevers, and almost every night when he fell into a stupor it was this feeling.

Ying Huai didn't pay much attention, just let the high fever swallow him once again, and tiredly fell into darkness again.

After an unknown amount of time going back and forth like this, he suddenly felt as if someone pulled him.

Ying Huai only felt his body sink.

A strong sense of weightlessness came, Ying Huai suddenly opened his eyes, and before he could react, he uncontrollably lunged to the bedside and dry heaved violently.

"Xiao Huai!"

Ying Qi's exclamation sounded at the same time, Ying Huai's body stiffened for a moment, and instinctively wanted to suppress the violent coughing somewhat.

But the nausea in his stomach was still surging wave after wave, Ying Huai was too anxious, and instead did the opposite, bringing on a stronger wave of urge to vomit.

"It's fine, if you feel uncomfortable just let it out, don't rush, be careful of dizziness."

Ying Qi beside him reached out to let his younger brother lean on his arm, and spoke half heartache half helplessness.

Ying Huai didn't dare act rashly again.

He obediently lay on Ying Qi's arm, waited for this wave of nausea to pass, and finally patted his older brother's hand, indicating he was fine.

"Ge......."

Ying Huai was helped by Ying Qi to sit up against the headboard, and barely smiled: "How did you come over? Ge?"

"If I didn't come over, who knows what else you'd dare to hide from me."

Ying Qi pretended to be slightly angry and glared at him, but meeting his younger brother's fawning smile, he finally couldn't help but soften his expression.

"Fine, I'm not really angry. Is anywhere else still uncomfortable? Does your stomach hurt?"

Ying Huai quickly shook his head: "It's fine, that just now should be a side effect of the fever reducer, it's a bit stimulating to the gastrointestinal tract."

He seemed afraid Ying Qi wouldn't believe it, and hurriedly continued:

"Doctor Song already said, the surgery was very successful, my recovery these past few weeks has been good too, if I stay a while longer I can be discharged soon........"

"Recovery was good but you still had a fever yesterday?"

Before Ying Huai finished speaking, he heard Ying Qi suddenly speak and directly cut him off.

He looked at his younger brother somewhat displeased: "Do you know you had a fever all night last night, and it only broke this morning?"

Ying Huai's words instantly choked.

He silently opened his mouth, and after a while could only weakly defend himself again in a small voice: "It really was just an accident........"

Ying Qi silently sighed.

He stared at his younger brother for a few seconds, then suddenly stood up.

Ying Huai instantly raised his head: "Ge, where are you going?"

"To find someone for you."

Ying Qi spoke unhurriedly without turning his head.

Ying Huai was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a while: "Find who........."

"Find the person who watched over you all night, and then this morning when Doctor Song said you were about to wake up, went straight out to hide."

Ying Qi turned his head.

He looked at Ying Huai, and slightly sighed: "Although Xin Wan didn't specifically tell me what you asked him, he did say it was about Xiao Ning."

Ying Qi spoke gently: "If there's something, say it clearly to Xiao Ning, Xiao Huai, don't always hide things by yourself."

Ying Huai lowered his eyes and didn't speak.

He heard the door being gently opened, and shortly after, a burst of hurried footsteps came, then abruptly stopped at the door.

"Shifu......." Liang Shining stood nervously at the door.

Before he could say anything, the next second he saw Ying Huai prop up his body and scoot to the side, and gently pat the bed.

"Come here."

Liang Shining was stunned for a moment.

He hesitated for a moment, met Ying Huai's calm expression, and finally slowly walked over.

"Shifu......."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Ying Huai directly curl into his arms, find a comfortable position, and carefully lie down.

He heard Ying Huai suddenly speak softly: "When Yu Wu was Hypnosis-ing me, I dreamed I returned to my previous life."

"I dreamed that in the last period of time, I came back to be with you, watching you help me........clarify everything bit by bit."

Liang Shining suddenly turned his head.

He silently opened his mouth: "Then does Shifu know what I finally........"

His voice was somewhat hoarse, but Ying Huai shook his head.

"No, Xin Wan didn't tell me anything in the end either."

Ying Huai's eyes were clear.

He raised his head to look at Liang Shining, and suddenly slightly curled his lips.

"That doesn't matter, does it?"

He thought of the Liang Shining he saw during the Hypnosis, and gradually a trace of sorrow appeared in his eyes.

—He knew why Liang Shining had always been unwilling to tell him what happened after he died in his previous life.

Because every time those things were recalled, it reminded Liang Shining that during the time he lost Ying Huai, he had persisted for a whole year.

Hypnosis amplified the subconscious emotions of the person being hypnotized.

And Ying Huai's Hypnosis imagery was shaped through Liang Shining's words.

Ying Huai could feel the uncontrollable pain and suppression within it.

Ying Huai at that moment felt that the fact he'd been stubbornly wanting to know no longer mattered.

Liang Shining silently exhaled.

He lowered his eyes to look at Ying Huai, hesitated for a moment but still spoke: "If Shifu still wants to know, I can........"

"No need."

Ying Huai shook his head,

Liang Shining's heartbeat was steady and strong, Ying Huai leaned against his chest, and his consciousness gradually blurred again.

He shifted his body further down, placed his palm gently on Liang Shining's chest, and softly yawned.

"Anyway, I won't leave you again."

—What happened to Liang Shining in the end in the previous life also no longer mattered.

Liang Shining's hand hanging at his side suddenly tightened.

Ying Huai's breathing gradually became even, and drowsily almost fell asleep again.

In a daze, he felt the person beside him lean down, and gently place a kiss on his forehead.

"You never left me, Ying Huai."

He heard Liang Shining speak softly: "Never........have been."

Ying Huai's body trembled slightly.

He seemed to vaguely realize something, but immediately after felt the corner of his eye being gently kissed again.

The previous doubt was instantly thrown out of his mind, Ying Huai let out a low hum, uncontrollably and quickly fell into a dark dream.

He had a rare dreamless night.