After dealing with the wounds, Qin Luo sat next to Ji Yanyu, quietly without saying a word, without asking where these wounds came from, and without asking why they ran out of the ward and appeared in the outpatient hall, he simply accompanied her, looking in the same direction as her.

I don't know how long it took, Ji Yanyu suddenly jumped out of bed, and Qin Luo also stood up:

"Want to get out and about? I can accompany you. ”

Ji Yanyu turned around and looked up at him:

"Are you pitying me?"

"Why do you feel that?"

"Didn't you just leave saying you had something to do? Is it just a moment to get busy? ”

Qin Luo smiled:

"Yanyu, people don't need to be so smart sometimes."

Ji Yanyu didn't speak, she didn't even quite understand what the man in front of her wanted to express to her, she turned around again and walked towards the outside of the nursing station, Qin Luo didn't speak, just followed her quietly.

Ji Yanyu came to the back garden of the hospital again, although it was almost noon now, and there were few people, but there were still people who greeted her when they passed by, but unlike the last time, Ji Yanyu was not interested in dealing with others, and only cared about walking with his head down.

Qin Luo had no choice but to take charge of the work of smiling, patiently explaining something to some people who felt that Ji Yanyu was impolite.

Ji Yanyu sat down on a bench, Qin Luo and an old man also walked over after speaking, stood in front of her and looked at it for a while before sitting down on the bench, but still did not speak.

"You don't have to explain it to them, leave this place, who knows whom."

Qin Luo smiled:

"But you can't leave this place yet."

"Why?"

"Because of your wounds, because you don't want to." Even if Ji Yanyu didn't tell him the reason, Qin Luo, as a doctor, could still see that the wounds were cut with a sharp weapon, which was obviously different from the stab wounds of broken glass before.

Others won't do this, and Ji Yanyu won't allow it, so these wounds of the old and the new can only be scratched by herself.

I can't say that I'm not shocked, it's not that I'm not curious, I just don't want to be the one who forced Ji Yanyu to say the answer, the too lonely living environment makes her mind too mature, and she has understood a lot of truths that she doesn't understand at this age.

Ji Yanyu glanced at the wound on his arm:

"Actually, I don't want to do that."

If there is another choice, no one will choose to cut one wound after another on their body, and it is not masochistic, there is no need to treat yourself so cruelly.

"Smoke and rain." Qin Luo said a little seriously: "You are only 7 years old, there is no need to carry so much, you can be coquettish, you can cry, you can make trouble, you can make mistakes, you can do anything, but you shouldn't hurt yourself." ”

"Don't you want to know why I'm hurting myself?"

Qin Luo looked at her:

"I want to get more people's attention and care."

Ji Yanyu blinked his big eyes:

"You know?"

"I've read some books about psychology and there are speculations about self-abuse."

"Do you know who I want to get involved?"

"Qingluan's?"

Ji Yanyu smiled slightly, and asked instead of answering Qin Luo's words:

"When you first met me, did you think I was a particularly cute little girl?"

Qin Luo nodded:

"You're really cute."

"But I'm pretending." Ji Yanyu showdown: "I think only if I'm cute, everyone will like me." ”

Ji Yanyu's words would not feel anything if they were put on an adult's body, after all, this society has forced us to make some changes to cater to others, but Ji Yanyu is only 7 years old, and her whole life has not yet begun, but she is already changing herself for the eyes of others.

Ji Yanyu is indeed smart and has inherited Ji Qingluan's super high IQ, but what does these IQs bring her?

It's not happiness, it's helplessness in the world.

"But in front of Ji Qingluan, cuteness doesn't work, this time I finally found out when I was sick and hospitalized, it turned out that she would be worried when I was injured."

Qin Luo stroked her hair:

"Actually, she cares about you."

Ji Yanyu shook his head:

"I don't understand how you adults care. Dad cares about Sister Xia Chu, but in the end it made her sad and ran abroad, Ji Qingluan cares about Dad, but he wants to fight with him for my custody, you care about Ji Qingluan, but you are just by her side, and let her love others for more than ten years, is this what you adults care about? Why do you care in this way? Wouldn't it be better to just say it? ”

Qin Luo couldn't answer this question, he also knew that what Ji Yanyu said was actually difficult for people to understand, in fact, if they could, everyone wanted to be able to express their care in the most simple and direct way. But there are too many things around that make people helpless and worried, so they will become more and more complicated, and even more and more hypocritical.

"Actually, I know why I was born, it was to save my grandfather so Ji Qingluan gave birth to me, she didn't want me because she loved me, she was also forced, I don't blame her, but I can't love her." Ji Yanyu lowered his head and was silent for a long time.

She said lightly, as if she was telling someone else's story, but Qin Luo knew that Ji Yanyu also knew who the protagonist of her story was.

Qin Luo couldn't speak, he felt that he was also a failure, this was his daughter, but he was helpless, he didn't even dare to say 'I am your father', he had never owed anyone in his life so far, but now he felt that he owed this little girl the whole world.

"Smoke and rain--"

Ji Yanyu raised his head and looked at him:

"You owe me a word."

"What?"

"If you don't want to say I love you to me, then you owe me a word of sorry!"

Qin Luo didn't really understand what she meant, and just wanted to ask out loud, but Ji Yanyu said first:

"You're my dad, aren't you?"

Qin Luo was shocked, her eyes looked at Ji Yanyu without blinking, she also looked at Qin Luo, and slowly pulled out a smile, and then her eyes turned red, and after a few seconds, her tears flowed.

It dripped on the back of her small hand, and it also dripped on Qin Luo's heart.

He hugged Yanyu violently, holding her tightly in his arms, he wanted to say a lot of things to her, but in the end he just shouted over and over again:

"Smoke and rain, smoke and rain, smoke and rain--"

Ji Yanyu was unprecedentedly well-behaved in Qin Luo's arms, like a cat asleep after eating and drinking.

It took a long, long time before Qin Luo let go of her and looked at her red eyes:

"How do you know?"

"I guess." Ji Yanyu looked at Qin Luo: "I don't know if my guess is right or not, but you have proven me right just now." ”

"Guess?" Qin Luo was a little unconvinced.

Ji Yanyu smiles:

"Daddy Qiao loves me very much, and he doesn't hesitate to annoy Sister Xia Chu for me, so if I really am his daughter, why wouldn't he come to the hospital to see me for so long?"

"Then why am I your father?"

"Because there are 4 suspicious men by Ji Qingluan's side, if you exclude the most likely one, you will be the best alternate."

Qin Luo: "――-"

Ji Yanyu didn't feel that she had said anything excessive, she looked at Qin Luo:

"Why don't you recognize me?"

Qin Luo said honestly:

"Because I think Jo Yusen is your ideal father, I don't want to disappoint you."

"You're great."

“――－”

"Why do you like to be so self-righteous when you are an adult? I think it's good for me, I think I'm going to think about it, but what the hell do I think, you know? You too, so is Ji Qingluan, you never ask me what I want, and stuff all the things you think are good for me. ”

Ji Yanyu's words were not wrong, he and Ji Qingluan did make such a mistake.

When Ji Qingluan and Qiao Yusen were fighting for custody, they never thought to ask who she wanted to live with, and Qin Luo also used the way he thought it was good to deal with these things when he knew that he was Ji Yanyu's biological father, and never asked if she wanted a father or a Qiao Yusen.

No matter what, he is her father, and they will recognize each other sooner or later, and this simple truth, Qin Luo didn't understand until this moment.

He smiled slightly and looked at Ji Yanyu:

"It's me who did wrong, can Yanyu forgive me?"

Ji Yanyu nodded, then shook his head again:

"It's not impossible to get my forgiveness, but there are conditions, and if you fulfill my conditions, I will call you dad."

"What conditions."

"Catch up with Ji Qingluan!"

United States

After Jo Yusen finished two classes, it was time for lunch, and Carl left his seat and came to Xia Chu when the bell rang and Jo Yusen just announced the end of class:

"Penny, shall we go to lunch together?"

Xia Chu subconsciously glanced at Qiao Yusen's direction, and found that Qiao Yusen was also looking at her, his eyes were not at all as indifferent as before, but told him to refuse Carl's invitation with a warning look.

Xia Chu felt ridiculous when he saw Qiao Yusen's eyebrows and eyes, so he couldn't help laughing, Carl didn't know why:

"Penny, what are you laughing at?"

At the beginning of the summer, she remembered that Carl had been waiting for her answer, and she had agreed before the morning class that she wanted to eat together and meet a few more friends, and there was no reason to refuse at this time, she didn't want to leave others with an impression of being untrustworthy, so she nodded and smiled slightly:

"Okay, let's go to dinner."

Hearing this, Qiao Yusen's face instantly lost his smile.