Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 547 Promise me

The nurse came to take Lin Qingping to the operating room.

The letter sealed with the little hand of the pearl cannot be brought in.

But Zhangzhu didn't know that, pointing to the letter, she wanted to give it to Lin Qingping, "Mom, take this with you: Zhuzhu, Dad, Brother, and Love!"

Lin Qingping should bring the love of her family of three into the project.

The nurse and the second sister went to great lengths to explain to Zhangzhu before she finally understood that their "love" was something their mother couldn't take care of.

Zhiyuan quickly took his younger sister and hugged her, placing the letter in Zhuzhu's palm. "Zhuzhu, please keep our love safe for Mom. When Mom comes out after her surgery, please give it to her, okay?"

The little girl suddenly seemed to have a sense of mission on her face. She pursed her lips and nodded very seriously.

"Is it good or not?" Zhiyuan asked again.

Zhangzhu's eyes hardened, and she said loudly, "Okay!"

Mei Li and Wu Tianjiao also arrived and together they took Lin Qingping to the operating room.

Lin Qingping lay on the bed leading to the operating room, being pushed along by a nurse. Her gaze swept over the faces of everyone who came to see her off, and each of them smiled and said to her, "Cheer up, it's okay, you'll be fine after the surgery."

She didn't know how much truth was in those words, but she knew for herself that her illness was very serious.

She stared at Zhiyuan and Zhangzhu for a long time, and the fear and sadness from the depths of her heart finally surged up like a tidal wave.

She reached out her hand to Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan, who was holding Zhangzhu, quickly freed one hand to hold her.

The second sister, standing next to Zhiyuan, took the pearl from him.

Zhiyuan then took his mother's hands in his own.

As Lin Qingping looked at the young man, an image flashed through her mind: herself lying in a hospital bed as an old woman, now middle-aged, holding her hand and calling her "Mother"...

Her tears suddenly fell.

Zhiyuan must be someone very, very close to her...

“Zhiyuan…” she called his name softly.

"Mom, I'm here." Zhiyuan tried his best to smile at her, trying hard not to cry and not let his mother see his tears.

"Promise me, Zhiyuan," she choked up, "you will, always protect your sister, forever and ever."

Just like the way they protect me in my dreams...

"Okay, I will, I definitely will, Mom, don't worry." Zhiyuan nodded vigorously. "My sister and I will stay here and wait for you to come out. We won't go anywhere else, Mom. You must remember, we'll be waiting for you here."

Remember this, Mom: Don't be a deserter! A voice inside Zhiyuan was shouting.

Lin Qingping smiled slightly and nodded.

She didn't really know if she could get out, but with Zhiyuan around, she felt a little more at ease—Zhiyuan wouldn't break his promise.

She's been very confused lately, unable to distinguish between dreams and reality. In those chaotic images, Zhiyuan is sometimes a child, sometimes a middle-aged man, and many people tell Zhiyuan: "Meeting your mother is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you."

Little did they know, meeting Zhiyuan was the luckiest thing that ever happened to her, both in her dreams and in reality...

Suddenly, a light weight appeared on her and Zhiyuan's intertwined hands—it was Gu Juncheng who placed his hand on theirs.

"Lin Qingping, and me, all of us, we're all here waiting for you to come out. You have to be brave, you know?" Gu Juncheng kept smiling, but his voice was trembling slightly.

Lin Qingping looked around at everyone one last time and nodded.

The nurse slowly pushed the gurney into the operating room. As the operating room door closed, Lin Qingping looked at everyone outside, and softly mouthed, "Goodbye..."

Goodbye.

I'm not cowardly, I'm just afraid that I won't have the chance to say goodbye again...

Finally, the operating room doors separated her from the outside world. The moment the door slammed shut, Zhiyuan turned around abruptly, her back to the operating room, and burst into tears…