Chapter 27: Illness

On the surface, the relationship between the two might not seem good, but as the older sister, Bai Zhi cared deeply for her younger sister—she practically doted on her to the skies. When she made mistakes, as her elder sister, she would also guide her.

“Sorry, Jiaojiao, yesterday was my fault.”

Bai Ningbing wanted to reach out and touch Lin Guanqi’s face, but as her hand neared her cheek, she pulled back.

She knew she didn’t have that right.

“Bai… Ningbing?”

In her haze, Lin Guanqi’s eyes narrowed to slits, and in her drowsiness, it seemed she saw Bai Ningbing’s silhouette. However, the name she called out was so soft that Bai Ningbing didn’t hear it.

Bai Ningbing fetched a basin of warm water, washed a towel clean, and placed it on Lin Guanqi’s forehead.

“Still so hot…”

Suddenly, Bai Ningbing realized that Lin Guanqi had been lying in bed for so long—she must not have eaten.

So, she went to the kitchen and made a bowl of noodles. This time it wasn’t tomato and egg, but plain noodle soup—of course, a sick person should eat something light.

“Hoo~ hoo~”

Bai Ningbing brought the noodles out while blowing on them to cool them down.

She set the noodles on the small table by the bed, then removed the towel from Lin Guanqi’s forehead and refreshed it with new water.

Just then, the aroma of the noodles roused Lin Guanqi, and she propped herself up.

“Bai Ningbing?”

Seeing Lin Guanqi wake up, Bai Ningbing froze for a moment.

So it wasn’t a dream just now? Was it really Bai Ningbing taking care of her?

“Mm… I’ll leave now.”

Just as Bai Ningbing was about to leave, Lin Guanqi suddenly said, “Are you going to leave a sick person here alone? If you do, I’ll never forgive you.”

“So that means, you’ve forgiven me?”

Her tone was even more excited, tinged with delight.

“Well, let’s see how you behave?”

Why did Lin Guanqi suddenly say this? It was because, while she had a fever, she had a dream—a dream where her name was Xu Jiaojiao…

That’s right, she remembered now—in her previous life, she was called Xu Jiaojiao.

She and Bai Ningbing had been close friends, and in this world, she had died two years ago.

“Bai Ningbing, let me ask you something. The Xu Jiaojiao you talked about—is that me?”

Lin Guanqi asked, and Bai Ningbing was momentarily stunned, not expecting her to ask this.

Bai Ningbing didn’t plan to hide anything from Lin Guanqi anymore, so she told her everything she knew. After all, she would have had to explain it to Lin Guanqi sooner or later.

“We were once best friends. You might wonder how I recognized you?”

After saying this, Bai Ningbing cooled the noodles and fed them to Lin Guanqi, talking as she ate.

“I had a dream too, and in that dream, my name was Xu Jiaojiao. But I got cancer, didn’t I?”

What Lin Guanqi said matched perfectly with her memories. Bai Ningbing couldn’t help but wonder if she had already regained her memory.

“Everything you said is correct, exactly as you remember. But it seemed you couldn’t recall it at all until now—yet you suddenly did while running a fever. That really surprised me.”

Now, Lin Guanqi finally understood why she’d always been called Xu Jiaojiao before—this was the reason.

In her memory, she’d died young because of cancer.

The two of them had been very close, but the moment she got sick with cancer, she’d died in her best friend’s arms.

How powerless she must have been in that moment.

Thinking of this, Lin Guanqi couldn’t help but sob.

Bai Ningbing had waited for her for so long, and yet yesterday, she’d treated her like that.

She hadn’t really believed in past lives and reincarnation before, but now that it had happened to her, she finally believed.

“After I died two years ago, how did you get through these past two years?”

Lin Guanqi suddenly found herself concerned about Bai Ningbing. She also suddenly felt a bit out of place.

“Mm… Jiaojiao, these two years have been so hard for me. You have no idea how I got through them.”

Suddenly, Bai Ningbing started acting spoiled toward Lin Guanqi, which left the sick patient herself a bit unprepared.

She was the patient here, wasn’t she? Why was someone else coming here to act spoiled to her??

Wasn’t this a bit strange?

“If I’m not mistaken, I’m supposed to be the sick one, right? Aren’t you the one who’s supposed to be taking care of me? Why are you acting spoiled to me?”

Bai Ningbing scratched the back of her head and said, “But it’s been so hard waiting for you to remember you’re Xu Jiaojiao. Of course, I want to act spoiled to you! You have no idea how much I’ve suffered waiting for you all these years.”

Lin Guanqi patted her head and said, “Alright, alright, you’re the best. See, I’m back, aren’t I? It’s all fine now, everything’s okay.”

“No wonder you remember exactly what I like to eat. So, you’ve known all along. But have you ever thought—what if you recognized the wrong person?”

“I’d never mistake you for anyone else. Your habits, your gaze—no one else has them. In my eyes, you’re the only one with those traits.”

That made Lin Guanqi a bit shy.

What did she mean by “only you have those habits”? Wasn’t that just saying her habits were so weird that nobody would bother to imitate them?

“Now tell me honestly, did you start liking me way back then, but just never dared to say it until now?”

She couldn’t take it anymore—this side of Bai Ningbing was actually pretty cute.

Compared to the cold beauty she’d first met, she actually preferred her like this.

“I guess so. But I only realized how I felt about you too late—by then, you already had cancer, and in the end, you died in my arms. That’s why the Ferris wheel affected me so much—because that’s where you died.”

She remembered a Ferris wheel in her memories, but not the scene of her own death.

So, in her previous life, she’d died on the Ferris wheel?

No wonder she could still accept going to the Ferris wheel again with her lover!

“Sorry, I didn’t remember. Back then, when I asked you to ride the Ferris wheel with me, you must have found it unbearable?”

Bai Ningbing shook her head.

“I don’t see it that way. You’re back now, aren’t you? What’s wrong with riding the Ferris wheel again together? This time, you didn’t leave my side—you left me with beautiful memories.”

“That scene—I’ll never forget it. I’ll cherish it as the most beautiful memory of my life.”

As Bai Ningbing said this, the embarrassing memories in Lin Guanqi’s mind turned over and over.

“But you’re so skilled at kissing. Did you have a boyfriend before me?”

“I’ve never seen a sheep run, but just because I can’t eat it doesn’t mean I can’t practice in front of the TV, right?”

Practicing in front of the TV—why did that sound so strange?

Wait, in front of the TV?

The only kind of TV show with scenes like that are those naughty movies.

“So, you mean you were watching Category III movies?”