Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 285 You Must Love Yourself

She used money to buy family ties, just like she had always done in her previous life.

She once thought she had succeeded in her exchange because every time she gave away a large sum of money, her mother would smile and treat her exceptionally well, saving hot soup and tea for her, and her younger brother would call her "sister" affectionately, assuring her that her nephews and nieces would be her own children for life...

Yes, they are indeed her beloved children; she treats them like her own children…

But wasn't she reborn?

Why have we returned to this scene from our past life?

She floated in mid-air, feeling lightheaded, and saw herself returning from the hospital with her medicine, lying in a hospital bed. Her mother was cooking porridge and soup for her, while her brother, annoyed, said, "Mom, hurry up and ask her for the money! I need it urgently! Why are you still cooking porridge? By the time you finish cooking the porridge, it'll be too cold!"

"Fool!" her mother said to her brother, "If we don't treat her better, how will we get her to take out more money?"

Her brother dismissed it, saying, "She has no children and no man, won't all her money be mine sooner or later?"

A child was squatting next to her brother playing. Upon hearing this, the child immediately stood up and shouted, "Auntie's money will all be mine from now on!"

Her mother quickly covered the child's mouth, "My dear, please keep your voice down! You absolutely cannot let your aunt hear this!"

Floating in the air, Lin Qingping found it amusing. So, they were already scheming about her money at this point? She hadn't even earned much yet...

But how can one possibly laugh?

A smile, but my heart is full of bitterness.

She floated away.

But I don't know where to drift to.

She has no home, no family, where can she go?

She returned to her own side, sat on the bed, and wanted to say to her past self, "Lin Qingping, you must love yourself well, because no one in this world loves you. Your mother doesn't love you, your brother doesn't love you, nobody loves you..."

As she spoke, she found herself crying.

She sobbed, feeling tears streaming down her face.

When Gu Juncheng returned from buying food, he heard soft sobbing.

He strode over and saw the person lying on the bed with tears streaming down their face.

He put down the lunchbox in his hand and gently called her name, "Lin Qingping?"

She didn't wake up, but with her eyes closed, she murmured in her sleep, "Lin Qingping, no one in this world loves you, nobody loves you..."

He froze.

He reached out and gently stroked her cheek, his fingers quickly becoming wet with tears.

"Lin Qingping..." he called softly again, leaning down to gently touch her forehead. "Lin Qingping, I'm back. Wake up, okay? Get up and eat something."

Lin Qingping didn't know whether she had returned to her past life or was still dreaming. She sat next to her sick self from her past life and seemed to hear Gu Juncheng's voice. He was speaking to her, telling her to wake up and get up to eat.

She doesn't want to go back...

Gu Juncheng doesn't like her anymore!

Then she doesn't want Gu Juncheng either!

Gu Juncheng then noticed that Lin Qingping's tears were flowing even more, and because of her fever, her whole face was flushed, making her look pitiful. In her sleep, she was still murmuring, "No, I won't go back. I don't like Gu Juncheng. I don't want to go back to see him... I don't want... I don't want him anymore..."

Gu Juncheng's hand, which was stroking her cheek, paused slightly, and his pupils seemed to spasm for a moment.

Because of her illness, her voice was hoarse. Her hoarse voice as she spoke these words felt like a knife scraping against one's heart, causing a sharp, piercing pain...

“It’s okay if you don’t like me,” he said softly, “but you need to get better.”

"I'm fine... As long as Gu Juncheng doesn't show up again, I'll be alright..." Lin Qingping said this with a heavy pain in her heart, but it was precisely because she didn't want to suffer like this anymore that she didn't want to see him again...

Gu Juncheng ultimately did not wake Lin Qingping.

A patient, delirious with fever, was talking nonsense and was far from waking up.

But perhaps, nonsense is also the truth...

Her last words were, "Lin Qingping, shall I stay here with you? We love ourselves, we don't love anyone else, and we don't need anyone else to love us."

After that, he fell into a deep sleep and never made a sound again.

When Lin Qingping woke up again, it was already evening. She was in a daze, as if she had taken a trip in her past life. She couldn't tell whether she was dead or alive.

Until he looked down and saw the head with a buzz cut lying next to his bed.

She sighed and came back anyway.

That soft sigh actually woke him up.

The first thing he did when he looked up was to touch her forehead.

Cool.

He breathed a sigh of relief. "Lin Qingping, your fever has gone down."

She knew that being covered in sweat, as if she had been pulled out of the water, meant her fever had definitely subsided.

This was based on her experience from her previous life taking care of her brother's children.

At that time, she treated her brother's child as her own. Her sister-in-law was in poor health and her brother was irresponsible, so she treated the child as her own, taking care of everything from diaper changes to everything else. When the child was sick, she would stay up all night to take care of him. She knew exactly what a fever looked like and what it looked like when the fever had subsided without even taking his temperature.

"You're sweating a lot!" Gu Juncheng's hand, which touched her forehead, was wet.

Lin Qingping: ...

Well, here comes another problem.

“I won’t wipe it, it’ll dry in a bit.” Her hoarse voice defiantly took the initiative.

Gu Juncheng: ...

"Lin Qingping, please don't be willful, okay?" He tried to soften his voice. "I have no other intentions. Right now, I just want to take good care of you. If you don't want to see me, then get well soon. Once you're better, I'll disappear."

Lin Qingping: ...

It would have been better not to say those words at all, as they make people feel terrible!

"If you want to disappear, then disappear now." She twisted her neck, not looking in his direction. "There's a saying, I don't know if you've heard it, but a good ex should be like they're dead."

He was silent.

Lin Qingping regretted it as soon as she finished speaking. She shouldn't have copied that sentence. In his profession, the word "death" was the most taboo. Even if things were over between them, she really didn't want him to sacrifice himself. He might not have been a good husband, but he was definitely a good soldier.

She was about to apologize when she heard him say quietly, "If I die, who will save you?"

“Gu Juncheng, no one can wait for someone to save them forever. You saved me this time, which is my luck. But you can’t always be there for me by chance.” Because of her slip of the tongue, she still felt guilty, and her attitude was no longer so tough. “Anyway, thank you for saving me this time. Also, I take back what I just said. Gu Juncheng, listen to me, you won’t die.”

Yes, those dark days when she drew circles on his face are over. This time, he has truly escaped death.

He laughed, "Everyone dies."