Meanwhile, someone far away in the country saw this Weibo post. A smile crept onto their face. At first, it was a happy one, but gradually it turned bitter.
It had been so long, yet that person still took the trouble to tip them off.
Qin Chengyao put down his phone and slumped onto the bed.
"Ji Siyue..."
Qin Chengyao murmured this name softly.
Somehow, this name had become like a deep - rooted poison in his bones. When he thought about it, it hurt like hell, but if he tried to ignore it, it would itch unbearably. It was both exhausting and addictive.
He had no idea when that person would come back. Qin Chengyao could only wait day after day, waiting with no hope but full of love.
...
Five days later, at the airport.
Ji Siyue got off the plane, picked up her checked luggage, and hailed a taxi straight to the training base.
During her time abroad, she had sorted out most of the matters there.
At the same time, she had also learned some other truths.
For example, her mother had never been truly cured back then. That person had secretly communicated with her mother, and her mother had helped that person deceive her...
In fact, all the time she had missed with that person over the years had been in vain.
Everything didn't have to be this bad. It was just a deception...
When she learned this news abroad, she almost wanted to jump into the sea and swim back immediately to strangle the man in the hospital who was relying on machines to maintain his life.
But thinking that this man was the father of the one she loved, she knew that if she couldn't hold back, it might hurt them...
All these things made her so angry that she was almost going crazy.
Although Ji Siyue was usually a person who could let go easily, when it came to that person, she felt like a fool.
To put it simply, she seemed unable to face the son of the man who had deceived her for five years with such a calm attitude anymore.
It was already late at night when she returned to the base.
Everyone seemed to be asleep at this time. Ji Siyue sat there quietly until dawn the next day.
Everyone came out of their rooms yawning. When they saw Ji Siyue, their expressions were as if they had seen a ghost.
Especially Xingxing. She stood there, rubbed her eyes in disbelief several times, and then came over crying and hugged Ji Siyue.
When everyone learned that Ji Siyue had come back, they didn't show much surprise. They just casually greeted her, as if Ji Siyue had just gone out for a short while instead of two or three months.
Qin Chengyao was the last one to come downstairs.
He had been doing a self - review and working very late last night, so his eyes were a bit blurry now.
When he came downstairs and saw Ji Siyue sitting on the sofa, he even had a moment of unreality.
"You're finally awake. It's not good for the team leader to be so lazy."
Qin Chengyao was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran downstairs. He walked up to Ji Siyue and hugged her tightly.
Everyone silently turned their heads, pretending not to care, but actually they were all secretly laughing. The calm team leader had finally lost his composure today.
"You're finally back."
Ji Siyue really wanted to raise her hands to hug him, but after trying for a while, she found that she couldn't do it.
Sure enough, she still couldn't get over that hurdle in her heart.
Ji Siyue gently pushed him away. "Hurry up and have breakfast, then start training. We can talk about other things later."
Qin Chengyao looked at her in confusion. Although he didn't know what had changed, he just felt something strange in his heart.
The others went back up to train. Since Ji Siyue had come back, it was as if the backbone of the team had returned. Everyone was very excited.
Ji Siyue sat in the monitoring room, watching everyone on the second floor getting ready for the competition with high spirits. She couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.
These passionate people were her teammates. They had once fought for a common goal together. Even if they were to go their separate ways in the distant future for some reason, they would surely cherish these wonderful memories in their hearts.
At noon, Ji Siyue went out again.
There was one thing she had to face.
The First People's Hospital.
It was very quiet outside the VIP nursing ward. Only two or three nurses passed by from time to time.
The nurse asked who she was and why she was here. Ji Siyue told her her name. Fortunately, this nurse was also a gamer and seemed to know Ji Siyue and Qin Chengyao. After learning that the person in the VIP ward was someone's father, she readily opened the door and let Ji Siyue in.
Ji Siyue pushed open the ward door. A strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine hit her face, and then she heard the beeping sound of a cold machine.
This kind of machine seemed to beep all day long, making people feel uneasy. But the man lying on the bed looked very calm, as if he was already used to this sound.
Ji Siyue closed the door and walked in slowly.
The man on the bed heard the movement, opened his eyes, glanced at Ji Siyue, and then smiled.
"I knew you would come. I just didn't expect it to be so soon."
"It's not soon. It's been four or five years, isn't it?"
The long - awaited truth had delayed her for four or five years.
The man lying on the bed was Qin's father, Qin Chengyao's father, and the one who she once thought had given her hope.
But she never thought that everything was just a deception.
Ji Siyue walked to the bedside, sat down on the chair, picked up an orange from the bedside table, peeled it casually, and then put it into her mouth and started to eat.
Qin's father watched her for a while and somehow smiled.
"You're still as carefree as before."
"You might as well just say I'm naive. If I weren't so naive, I might not have been deceived by you back then."
"Yeah, if you weren't naive, you wouldn't have been deceived by me..."
Qin's father knew this day would come sooner or later. He had imagined countless times how this little girl would scold him or even beat him, but he didn't expect her reaction to be so calm.
"Aren't you angry with me?"
"Yes, I am." Ji Siyue answered straightforwardly.
"Then why are you so calm?"