eurekapd Chapter 1231 Star Wish: Echo of Happiness
Chapter 1231 Star Wish: Echo of Happiness
The smell of disinfectant was crushed by the morning light, mixed with Su Xingya's light jasmine scent. Gu Yunqian half-knelt beside the bed, holding a cotton swab in his slender fingers, and was carefully changing her dressing.
The pink tender flesh of the healed wound was burning under his fingertips. He suddenly leaned over and placed a light kiss on the edge of the gauze: "If you take care of it for another half a month, you can go to the beach to watch the sunrise."
Su Xingya's cheeks flushed, and she grabbed the pillow and threw it at him, but he caught it steadily. While the two were laughing and joking, the phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated. It was a case closure notice from Yang Bin.
When Gu Yunqian locked the screen, Su Xingya caught a glimpse of the curve of his mouth reflected on the screen - unlike the tense look in the past, this time the smile flowed naturally from the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, like a thawing stream in spring.
The ceiling lights in the intensive care unit were pale as frost. Yun Han dug his nails deep into his palms, but he felt no pain - his limbs had long since shrunk from long-term bed rest, like dead branches that had been soaked for too long.
When the nurse replaced the pain pump, his cloudy eyes moved with difficulty. He stared at the jumping green line on the monitor and began to recall the moment when the gears of fate turned.
Yun Han's eyelashes suddenly trembled violently. In his imaginary world, Su Xingya was wearing a floral dress and walking barefoot on the beach, and the waves swept away her laughter. He chased her and hugged her by the waist. In the salty sea breeze, she turned around and kissed his lips, her fingertips entwined with the broken hair on the back of his neck.
"Let's get married."
On the wedding day, Su Xingya's veil was lifted by the wind, revealing the diamond ring on her ring finger.
Among the guests, he saw Gu Yunqian holding the stand-in's hand and raising a glass. The other person's eyebrows and eyes were 70% similar to Su Xingya's, but he did not have the stars in her eyes.
Outside the delivery room, he clutched the number tag soaked with sweat. The moment he heard the baby crying, he suddenly remembered an iron door that was always locked - it turned out that happiness could be so real.
The instrument suddenly emitted a long, shrill sound, and a red alarm flashed wildly on the wall.
The fantasy world in Yun Han's pupils collapsed. He saw himself lying in a pool of blood. Su Xingya's hand holding the scissors was shaking, and the chair that Gu Yunqian had knocked over when he rushed in was still spinning on the ground.
As memories and reality overlapped, he finally understood that from the moment he treated Su Xingya as Xiao Yuner's substitute, he was destined to be trapped in the cage he had woven.
"Rescues failed, declared dead." The moment the doctor took off the stethoscope, Yun Han's last consciousness was still in fantasy.
He held the baby in his arms, Su Xingya leaned on his shoulder and counted the stars, but in the real world, his electrocardiogram had already stretched into a straight line.
On the day Su Xingya was discharged from the hospital, the sunlight painted the hospital gate golden.
Gu Yunqian tidied up her hair that was messed up by the wind. The wedding ring on her ring finger reflected a tiny light - they had just ordered it yesterday.
The wind chimes in the flower shop on the corner rang, and Su Xingya suddenly stopped and stared at the white roses blooming in the window in a daze.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yunqian followed her gaze and saw only an ordinary bouquet of flowers.
"Nothing." Su Xingya shook her head, holding his arm tightly and continued to move forward. She would not tell anyone that just now, a gust of wind passed by, and she seemed to hear a voice in some distant place whispering "goodbye".
The electronic screen at the corner of the street was broadcasting the news. The picture flashed by - a vegetative patient in a private hospital passed away. Among the unclaimed relics was a yellowed diary with a half-finished white rose painted on the cover...
The late autumn sun shone obliquely into the courtyard of the Gu family's old house. Su Xingya was leaning on a rattan chair in the carved corridor, the baby in her arms was holding her hanging hair and babbling.
Gu Yunqian came over with the warm red date tea. He used his fingertips to test the temperature before handing it to her. His eyes were always glued to the child's chubby face. "The doctor said that the gauze can be removed next week. Then I will take you two to take a family photo."
Su Xingya smiled and nodded, the red rope amulet on her wrist swaying slightly with her movement.
Since being discharged from the hospital, Gu Yunqian redecorated the old house, removed all dangerous furnishings, installed soft anti-collision strips in the corridors, and even replaced the gravel roads in the garden with anti-slip wooden plank roads.
At this moment, the wind chimes hanging under the corridor rang, startling a few golden ginkgo leaves, which fluttered down on the pink cushion of the stroller.
"Is Ah Xiao making a fuss again?" Ye Muxue came out of the house, shaking a rattle in her hand.
Ever since the custody of the child was returned to her son and daughter-in-law, she still hasn't had a real moment of leisure. Instead, she is even busier than before!
A designer actually started learning to knit baby sweaters. Although the stitches were not neat, he changed all the patterns into Su Xingya's favorite colors.
The baby was attracted by the familiar voice and immediately waved his hands to ask for a hug. Saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth, leaving dark marks on the new tiger-head hat made by Gu's mother.
The sound of frying oil came from the kitchen. Gu Mingcheng, wearing an apron, poked his head out: "Yunqian, help me make a sweet and sour sauce! Your wife said she wants to eat the squirrel mandarin fish you made."
The man responded and kissed Su Xingya on the forehead before standing up. When he turned around, the wind lifted the strands of hair at her temples.
Su Xingya looked at his hurried but steady back, and suddenly remembered the simplicity and warmth that Yunhan had told her about - it turns out that true happiness never needs to be deliberately choreographed.
In another corner of the courtyard, Gu Yanxiao was digging earthworms with a toy shovel.
Although the little guy can only babble, his intentions can be seen!
"Wag wag...vegetables...baby eat eat..."
The dirt splashed on his trouser legs, but he didn't care. Instead, he ran towards Su Xingya with a giggle, and his little hands covered with grass almost smeared the baby's face: "Mah mah mah!"
"Baby, you are so smart. What vegetables did you dig?" Su Xingya smiled and reached out to wipe the mud off the tip of her son's nose.
The child suddenly became quiet, stared at the fading scar on her face and said seriously: "Cai Cai...baby...mommy...eat eat!!"
As Gu Yanxiao spoke, he opened his mouth wide, and his fingers switched back and forth between the food and his own mouth, revealing his image as a greedy boy!
The innocent words made everyone laugh. Gu Yunqian poked his head out of the kitchen holding a seasoning bottle, his eyes so gentle that water could drip out of them: "Baby, how about frying vegetables and fish together?"
“Ahahaha…”
The sun gradually sets in the west, and the afterglow dyes the courtyard honey-colored.
The dining table was filled with dishes made by Gu Yunqian himself. The sweet and sour sauce on the mandarin fish was glowing an attractive luster. Gu Yanxiao, who was sitting in the baby chair, was patting the high chair, staring at the pumpkin puree in the bowl.
He wanted to feed the pumpkin puree to Su Xingya but accidentally smeared most of the spoonful on his face, which made Su Xingya angry and amused.
After dinner, Gu Yunqian took his son for a walk in the garden.
When the moonlight climbed up the magnolia treetops, Gu Yanxiao suddenly reached out to grab the moon's shadow, waving his chubby little hands in the air. The man carefully supported her back and hummed Su Xingya's favorite nursery rhyme softly.
Su Xingya leaned against the door frame and watched this scene, when her phone suddenly vibrated. It was Yang Bin who sent a message saying that all of Yun Han's belongings had been dealt with, and that the half white rose in the diary had not been finished.
She looked at the father and daughter in the courtyard, saw Gu Yunqian gently wipe the saliva from the corner of his daughter's mouth, and saw the moonlight cast a gentle outline on them. Suddenly, she felt that all the thrilling past had turned into the warmth of her palms at this moment.
The night wind blew by, and the wind chimes in the corridor rang again.
Su Xingya walked over and put the blanket on Gu Yunqian's shoulders. Little Yueyue babbled and reached out for her to hold him.
The family of three bathed in the moonlight, with the lights of the old house behind them warm and bright. In a parallel time and space, the soul trapped in obsession, perhaps in his fantasy world, heard the real echo of happiness in this world...