Proud senior schoolgirl was tender and sweet, we fell in love

Xie Xiao looked at Yang Lan before him, her face unable to hide the fatigue and sadness.

She whispered to Xie Qingxiao that she wanted to talk to Luo Yanran.

Xie Xiao knew that his parents had always been kind, gentle people.

Such good people deserved a smooth-sailing life, yet in his past life, he had become their biggest burden.

This was one of the reasons he had lost hope before.

He didn't want to drag anyone down.

After hanging up the phone, Yang Lan walked to the entrance of the ward and looked inside, where she saw Luo Yanran walking over to help Xie Xiao into his wheelchair, ready to go out for a walk.

Just now, Luo Yanran had told her that her university was starting soon.

She wouldn't be able to come for at least a week.

Yang Lan curiously asked if her military training was only one week long?

The girl laughed and said, "No, it's fifteen days, but I've taken a day off to come here."

Yang Lan's heart ached as she looked at the girl's smiling face.

If her Xiao Xiao hadn't gone through this ordeal, how happy she would be to meet such a good girl.

But now it was different; she couldn't be a burden to someone for a lifetime.

Luo Yanran pushed Xie Xiao's wheelchair out, "Don't you get bored being indoors all day? Let's go out for a walk..."

These days, Xie Xiao had begun to let Luo Yanran make some decisions for him.

Like going out for a walk, which the previous Xie Xiao would definitely have refused to do.

He was very self-conscious about people looking at his legs, but Luo Yanran didn't think twice about it, "Let them look, you're quite handsome. What's wrong with people looking at you?"

She acted naturally, as if people were really looking at him just because he was good-looking.

"Besides, you can't stay indoors for the rest of your life, right? There's a new hotpot restaurant nearby that I want to take you to. I've heard it's really good..."

Despite it all, Xie Xiao leaned on her and sat in the wheelchair.

As they opened the door, they saw Yang Lan.

Yang Lan smiled, "Going out for a stroll?"

"Yes, Auntie, aren't you working overtime tonight? I'm here, that's enough. When Uncle arrives, I'll head back," Luo Yanran said with a smile, "Oh, and I ordered a meal for you. You definitely forgot, so I had it delivered directly to the emergency department. Remember to take a break and eat later..."

Xie Xiao watched Luo Yanran speak with his mother, and himself sitting in the wheelchair.

How harmonious and natural this scene was; in his previous life, it was also because of this that he seemed to slowly start accepting life again.

Life didn't seem so bad... at the very least, he still had people by his side who would always accompany him...

Yang Lan didn't say much that day.

But the day before Luo Yanran was due to leave for her report, she brought Xie Xiao a lot of books.

She also took his phone and downloaded many apps.

Only then did she leave.

As she was leaving, Xie Xiao who was on the hospital bed couldn't help but speak up, "Are you going to school alone?"

"Ah, I'll take a taxi. Everything is packed, don't worry," Luo Yanran said with a smile, unable to resist reaching out to ruffle his face, "I'll be back soon, I hope you'll put on some weight by then."

Xie Xiao spoke in an exasperated tone, "Can you please not treat me like a child?"

He looked at the girl before him, so radiant. At school, there would probably be many seniors willing to help her.

She would meet lots of new friends...

It was a world he could never reach.

From this moment on, the distance between them seemed destined to grow ever wider.

Xie Xiao felt a complex mix of emotions but said nothing; he shouldn't trap her, he shouldn't take advantage of her kindness.

Even though he really, really wanted to lock her by his side.

What base thoughts.

He whispered, "I heard that the sugar water on the third floor of C University's Cafeteria A is really good. You should try it."

Luo Yanran's eyes lit up. He was starting to pay attention to other things, even investigating his own school.

Luo Yanran's happiness was visible, "Then great, I'll bring some back for you when I return. We can try it together. Alright, I'm off~"

Yang Lan glanced at the time, "Xie Xiao, I'll take Luoluo out and check if your dad has arrived."

Xie Xiao nodded, watching them leave one after another.

Luo Yanran seemed to know Yang Lan had something to tell her, so she quietly followed behind.

The two headed towards the stairwell.

Yang Lan turned to look at her, smiling as she handed her a red envelope, "I hope everything goes smoothly with the start of the school term."

Luo Yanran quickly waved her hands, "Auntie, what are you doing?"

"It's just for good fortune. If Xie Xiao were going to school, we would have given him one too," Yang Lan said, her eyes welling up as she stuffed the red envelope into Luo Yanran's hand, "Lin Yu has one as well. It's not much, just for good luck."

Luo Yanran gripped the red envelope tightly, "Thank you, auntie."

Yang Lan, with a low voice, said, "It is we who should thank you, Luoluo. Thanks to you, Xie Xiao was able to accept reality so quickly."

Luo Yanran smiled, "It'll get better and better."

Yang Lan looked at her joyous smile, finding the words hard to say, but still she had to speak, "You, Luoluo, you're starting university, starting a new life, you don't need to come so often anymore. Your own life is the most important."

Luo Yanran's smile froze, her eyes becoming vacant.

She understood what Yang Lan meant, yet she was not adept at dealing with elders and felt at a loss after being rejected, "Auntie, have I, have I caused you trouble?"
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Her sensibility made it all the more heart-wrenching.

Yang Lan's eyes turned red, and Xie Xiao was filled with sorrow.

Her careful demeanor drove another dagger deep into Xie Xiao's heart.

All these things he had once been blind to, unwitting of, were like sharp spikes being ruthlessly driven into his heart.

It hurt a lot.

Yang Lan reached out to hold her hand, whispering, "It's not about you, Luoluo. We know we can't be so selfish. Xie Xiao is already like this, and we are so grateful you could accompany him this long, but it's truly enough."

"Luoluo, you're young and outstanding. You should find a better life for yourself. Xie Xiao has his dad and me, it's really enough."

Suddenly, Xie Xiao looked towards the stairwell's exterior. He walked over and through the crack in the door, indeed saw a wheelchair.

That's right, it was because of this that Xie Xiao thought about giving up in his past life.

Having Luo Yanran by his side once made him feel like life was still full of hope, but even his family thought he would become a burden to Luo Yanran.

How could he not understand?

It was precisely because he understood that he struggled in pain.

Trying to make himself just a little bit better.

But even if he could manage a wheelchair by himself, what of it?

He was still a wreck.

He couldn't even send Luo Yanran off to school or help her with a suitcase.

The wheelchair outside moved away.

The girl inside cried, her voice soft yet stubborn, "It's not like that, auntie. Xie Xiao isn't a burden. He, he will become as outstanding as he was before. We need to give him time."

The girl's eyes, brightened by tears, held a firm and stubborn light as she guarded the moon in her heart, telling everyone it still shone as brightly as before, that the moon shouldn't be deemed dim just because clouds had momentarily obscured it.

In her heart, he still radiated a gentle light.