Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 698 - 697: Stand to Death

No matter the process, in the end, Guan Manling received more effective treatment than before.

Guan Manling cooperated with the medical examinations. After Old Wu carried her back to the ward, she was very tired but didn’t immediately go to sleep. Instead, she took hold of Old Wu’s hand and said softly, "I owe him a lot... It’s my fault, not yours."

In her younger years, she only found Sie Yufei to be annoying. Even though she made it clear that she didn’t like him, he still hovered around her.

It was only after marrying Old Wu that she suddenly understood all that Sie Yufei did back then—what she had chased across a thousand miles and what he pursued day after day were actually the same.

Only, she was a bit luckier; her pursuit was rewarded.

Old Wu held her hand close to his chest, warming her with his body heat.

Guan Manling stretched out her other hand, the back of which was already bruised from repeated injections.

She gently caressed Old Wu’s eyebrows, stopping at the vertical line between them.

She said, "I have never regretted."

Old Wu’s eyes trembled, and he looked up at her, but the words "I have no regrets either" just couldn’t leave his mouth.

Doctor Chu had just told him that Guan Manling had delayed too long, and even if the Sie family spared no expense, curing her was as hard as ascending to the heavens.

He regretted it.

Not because he himself was tired, but because he felt that he had delayed her.

Guan Manling tried to lift the corners of her mouth, smoothing the furrow between his brows.

"Be it a year or half a year, even if it’s just one month, I want to be with you."

"I’ve always known that the Sie family is powerful and influential, but I still liked you."

For the first time, Old Wu’s eyes reddened in front of Guan Manling.

Sie Yufei was brought back home by Sie Yugu without getting beaten, surprisingly.

Even Sie Zhe, who heard about the incident and wanted to beat him, was stopped by Sie Yugu.

"Dad, I’ve talked to Laosi."

Sie Yugu grabbed two bottles of liquor and sat with his younger brother by the snow-draped window, silently drinking together.

After half a bottle, Sie Yufei, with bloodshot eyes, looked at Sie Yugu and asked, "Brother, did I make a mistake?"

Rarely, Sie Yugu did not scoff at him and simply asked calmly, "What do you think you should do now?"

"If I had married her back then, she wouldn’t have had to go to the Great Northern Wilderness, right? She wouldn’t have..."

Sie Yugu pinpointed the crux of the matter, "Did the girl want to marry you?"

"No, she didn’t want to..."

"Then how do you plan to marry her?"

"Uh..."

"By troubling her parents? Or by leveraging her younger siblings? Forcing them to marry off the girl to you?"

"That wouldn’t do, I’m not looking to make enemies..."

"Sie Yufei." Sie Yugu drank up the alcohol in his glass, his voice slightly hoarse, "The one thing that I find most satisfying about you in this life is that you don’t resort to such despicable methods when faced with problems."

The matter of the heart is a piercing and choking affair.

To love but not be loved in return is a lifelong regret.

Sie Yugu could understand his younger brother’s lapse today.

Hearing his brother’s acknowledgment, Sie Yufei gave a twisted smile but did not reply.

"I’ve looked into her husband." Sie Yugu suddenly said, "He too had his achievements before, and, he is only a year younger than me... Laosi, you can’t blame him; he has done all he could."

Sie Yufei gulped down the liquor, the sharp burn tearing through his throat and scorching his stomach, somehow easing the heavy pain in his chest.

"I know."

He said.

What can make a young man in his twenties as worn as a middle-aged man in his forties?

He saw it; he clearly didn’t want to bow his head, yet he accepted Sie Yuguo’s arrangement just because it could save Guan Manling.

He... must be deeply in love with her.

"I don’t want to lecture you about feelings, but have some sense of the situation. I can settle things for you once; it doesn’t mean I can always get you out of trouble."

Sie Yuguo gripped Sie Yufei’s shoulder, his fingers tightening, resolute in his words: "Sie Yufei, the Sie family raises no cowards. You’re a man; let go when you need to. Go crazy all you want behind closed doors, but once outside, you bear the Sie name, and even with broken legs, you mustn’t kneel to die."

The pain in his shoulder sobered Sie Yufei up from the haze of alcohol, and looking at his big brother, he nodded.

"Have you remembered?"

"Remembered."

"What will you do in the future?"

"Die standing."

"..."

The next day.

After sobering up, Sie Yufei felt pain all over, as if he had taken eighteen tumbles after drinking, or had been kicked around in a sack.

He stared blankly for a while, and when yesterday’s memories surged back, he jumped out of bed and rushed out of the house after washing his face.

"Sister He, Sister He... please help me ask the doctor, what do they say? Is there a cure?"

Lin Nianhe rolled her eyes slightly: "What, done with the foolishness?"

"I was wrong, truly wrong." Sie Yufei raised three fingers to his ear, "I promise, from now on, I... I will never, never show up in front of her again, alright?"

Lin Nianhe flipped a page of the newspaper: "So, you mean you’ll just watch her from a distance?"

"Uh..."

Sie Yufei touched his nose uncomfortably.

Lin Nianhe sighed silently.

The fact that they had been keeping Guan Manling’s situation from Sie Yufei wasn’t something she could manage; it was mainly Sie Yuguo’s intention.

Lin Nianhe was clear that Sie Yuguo didn’t want Sie Yufei to have any further entanglement with Guan Manling. If she wasn’t mistaken, Sie Yuguo was probably already pondering where to tuck Sie Yufei away out of sight.

She looked at the two white hairs that had emerged overnight on Sie Yufei’s head, reached out, and plucked them.

"I asked about it yesterday. Doctor Chu said Sister Manling’s body is somewhat weak. There are certain treatments she can’t go through, so it’ll mainly be conservative treatment."

Lin Nianhe continued, "This morning, your second and third sisters went to see Sister Manling; Old Wu is also alright now. You’d better hide away these days, don’t let Sister Manling bother thinking about these things."

Sie Yufei sighed deeply and sank into the sofa.

He buried his face in his palms, murmuring softly, "Xiao He, thank you."

"When asking for help, you call me ’Sister He’, and when all’s good you say ’Xiao He’. Wait till Sister Lan comes to Beijing, I’ll hammer you to death." Lin Nianhe’s tone was light, teasing him on purpose.

Sie Yufei tugged at the corner of his mouth, turned to look at her, and said, "When I returned, Uncle Team Leader gave me a lot of mountain goods... uh, he’s from the Northeast; he should like these things. Will you deliver them for me in the afternoon?"

Lin Nianhe stared at him in shock, even rubbing her ears, not believing that these words came from Sie Yufei’s mouth.

This awkward apology... it didn’t suit Sie Yufei at all.

Sie Yufei tugged at the corner of his mouth, the smile uglier than crying: "I can’t let you always clean up my messes, can I?"

"Alright, I’ll deliver them to him in the afternoon."

Lin Nianhe stood up, patted his shoulder, "You also don’t be causing any more trouble these days. The other day, I boasted in front of Grandpa Ji that you’re exceptionally good at filmmaking, and how challenging it was going to the forest... Hurry up and finish the film, Grandpa Ji is waiting to see it!"

"Ah?"

Sie Yufei looked at Lin Nianhe blankly, not expecting her to find him work so quickly.

"What ah, you didn’t film, did you?"

"I did film," Sie Yufei rubbed his hands, "but I haven’t been in the mood to deal with this lately..."

Lin Nianhe frowned at him, speaking seriously: "Comrade, love may betray you, but it’s different with your career."

"My career won’t betray me?"

"Mhm, your career is too lazy to betray; it will just coldly abandon you."

"..."

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