Chapter 55: The Little Writer Painfully Stops Updating
A gentle breeze brushed across the earth. Morning dew slid down dry leaves, softly nourishing them before dripping onto the ground drop by drop. The air was filled with the scent of nature.
“Mmm...”
The white-haired girl curled up under the blanket, her fair little face slightly flushed red.
Deep in her dream, she secretly returned to the hospital alone. Her goal was simple, she just wanted to confirm whether Gu Zhiren was alive or dead.
And just as she hoped, Gu Zhiren was alive.
Seeing this, she prepared to leave, but unexpectedly, Gu Zhiren suddenly grabbed her hand.
With ease, he pulled her onto the bed and restrained her. Not only that, he tied her hands with a belt and held them above her head with one hand.
Mu Yi had zero real-life experience, but her theoretical knowledge was excellent.
Almost instantly, she realized what was about to happen. But before she could struggle, Gu Zhiren actually revealed “the beast” right in front of her.
“I’ll repay you for saving my life together,” Gu Zhiren paused for a moment. “Tonight, I’m going to get very close to you.”
“I never asked you to repay me like this! Don’t come closer! Stay away from me—!”
But instead of stopping, he moved even closer. Mu Yi widened her eyes and kicked Gu Zhiren off the bed with one foot.
Yet in the next moment, Gu Zhiren suddenly split into three identical versions of himself. As they walked toward her, they threw out a choice.
“Come on. Which will you choose, writing chapters or me?”
Before Mu Yi could answer, she no longer had any time to think.
She was forced to twist her waist helplessly.
Sweat flowed freely down her body.
The hospital bed quickly broke apart under the pressure, but the battle was far from over.
Outside the dream, the sleeping girl unconsciously buried her face into the pillow, making soft sounds of resistance, as if she still did not want to wake up from the dream.
But not long later, she suddenly rolled over and sat up while opening her eyes.
“Ugh...”
Mu Yi turned her crimson eyes slightly, lowered her gaze, and tightly pressed her lips together.
What the heck!?
Why would I have a dream like that... and such an intense one too... Am I really that frustrated?
And why was the other person Gu Zhiren, that stupid pighead!?
She shook her head, then moved aside to check the bedsheets and blanket. After confirming there were no blood stains, she relaxed and walked toward the bathroom in her fluffy slippers.
Quickly pulling down her pants, she carefully lowered her underwear and saw that the overnight sanitary pad was already almost completely soaked with menstrual blood.
So she quickly changed into a new overnight pad. Then she lazily stretched, covered her mouth with her small hand while yawning, and walked toward the room with the computer.
She pulled out the simple wooden chair and sat down, supporting her cheek with her left hand as she turned on the desktop computer from sleep mode.
This was her father’s computer.
QQ was not installed before, but it had already been downloaded last night.
Planning to explain everything to “Bishoujo” as early as possible, Mu Yi skillfully opened the program. But after entering the account name and staring at the blank password box, she fell into deep thought.
Oh no.
She had always logged in by scanning a code. It had been years since she last typed in the password!
What even was the password again?
Come to think of it, the author account backend was the same...
Mu Yi almost broke down.
She could not remember Bishoujo’s phone number.
She could not remember Bishoujo’s QQ number.
Her rental room key was inside her backpack, which was probably still at the police station. And she could not remember her landlord’s contact information either.
After all, what were contact names for? If you could save someone’s number with a note, who would purposely memorize such a long string of numbers?
There was no other choice now. She could only painfully stop updating her novel!
“Dear readers, this really isn’t my fault. If you want to blame someone, blame the person who caused the car accident. Look at me, I can’t even go back to my rented room now.”
Mu Yi covered her face and let out a sad sigh.
Of course, with her current situation, even if she had the key, she still could not casually go back.
What if she happened to run into the police who were looking for her?
Then she would be finished.
Mu Yi felt terrible.
Even though she had already been forced to separate from the “little brother” she had relied on for many years, or rather permanently lost it, it still did not stop her from feeling miserable.
She tried entering passwords for quite a while.
After failing too many times, Mu Yi helplessly gave up.
“Mu Yi, breakfast is ready! Dad made your favorite grilled sausages and soup dumplings!”
“Coming~”
Mu Yi softly answered.
After arriving at the dining table, she first placed three soup dumplings into her father’s bowl. Then she used her chopsticks to stack two dumplings together and bit into them without caring about her image at all.
“Eat your own food, eat your own food. Don’t keep giving food to Dad.”
“But I am eating.”
Looking at Mu Rufeng’s loving fatherly expression, Mu Yi smiled until her eyes narrowed into slits.
But soon, her expression changed.
She remembered that her father was now working as a taxi driver. But with his qualifications, he could easily become a teacher instead. There was no need for him to drive a taxi.
After hesitating for three seconds, she gathered her courage and asked,
“Dad... can I ask you something?”
As if he had expected this already, Mu Rufeng stopped eating, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Mu Yi with a serious expression.
“Kid, do you remember your younger aunt? Last year, she was abandoned by a man.”
“She was even pregnant with his child, around five or six months along. She decided to have surgery to remove the child. But she didn’t have enough money for the operation, so she came to borrow money from me.”
Hearing this, Mu Yi had already guessed the outcome.
Sure enough, Mu Rufeng sighed.
“I gave her all the money from the land development payment, and even added more of my own savings. Only then was it barely enough for the surgery.”
“I see... Then... did that aunt ever say when she would repay the money?”
After those words, her father stayed silent for a long time before finally replying in a heavy voice.
“She already passed away. She didn’t survive the surgery.”
This time, Mu Yi also fell silent.
This was not an ending she had ever imagined.
In her memories, that aunt had once carried her in her arms and praised her piano playing. Mu Yi could not help feeling some sadness for her.
“By the way, Dad, these soup dumplings are really delicious. Where did you buy them?”
Mu Yi directly changed the topic.
She felt that a big reason her father stopped being a teacher was because he failed to stop her aunt from getting the surgery. Perhaps he believed that her death was partly his own responsibility.
She felt like she should say something, but for now, she could not think of the right words.
“They’re from a place not far downstairs. If you like them, Dad will buy more for you next time!”
Mu Rufeng understood why Mu Yi changed the topic, and he smiled with both comfort and heartache in his eyes.
The child had grown up...
But why did it have to be this child who suffered such a thing?
As a father, was he still unable to do anything?
Just like back then, when he divorced the child’s mother and could only watch as the child was taken away.
“...Kid, I thought more about the question you asked last night.”
Hearing this, Mu Yi widened her eyes and held her breath.
“Maybe this is Heaven’s way of letting you see the world from a different angle and learn to fit into it. Don’t be too pessimistic. No matter what happens, Dad will always stand on your side.”
“Mhm!”
Mu Yi nodded, smiling so brightly that her eyes curved into thin lines.