Be in low spirits

She accepted her father's advice, talked to him as much as possible, cared about when he would wake up, and ran around for him, looking like a loving couple.

Li Li was successfully transferred to another hospital with the arrangement of his mother.

Kong Zhixi always felt that his childhood friend's parents were a little strange, so he asked Li Li's mother: "Mom, why didn't Cheng Xi come by himself, and asked his parents to come to see Li Li? Is he abroad?"

"Alas, Xixi passed away eight years ago. His parents wanted to remember him, so they often asked about Li Li. Li Li would visit them whenever he returned home."

"Oh~" Kong Zhixi looked regretful, "Then where is Cheng Xi buried? I'll go check for Li Li."

"They said it's at Baiqi Cemetery. Your injury hasn't healed yet, so you can't overexert yourself. How about I ask his father to drive you there?"

"No, no, I can go by myself. I can talk to Li Li when I come back."

"Then you pay attention to safety."

Kong Zhixi was a little impatient, as her intuition told her that Cheng Xi might be related to the case.

When they arrived at the cemetery, they found Cheng Xi's tombstone with a bunch of white flowers placed on it not long ago. It should have been placed by her parents. She squatted down, poured her a glass of water, and said to her, "Li Li is lying in the hospital now, his life or death is unknown. If you are in heaven, please bless him to come back alive." She leaned in to look at her photo. She was a girl next door with a very sweet smile. She was the kind of girl who would make people feel distressed just by looking at her.

The sun was a little strong, and sweat flowed down her cheeks to the scar on her chest, making her feel a little uncomfortable. She hid under a tombstone to cool off. She wanted to talk to her about her parents, but when her foot touched the stone in front of the tombstone, she found that it was hollow. She stood up and knocked on it with her hand. After confirming that it was hollow, she moved the stone on top. Inside were some elementary school textbooks and a doll, with a USB flash drive next to it.

She took out the USB drive and examined it carefully. It looked new and must have been put in there not long ago. Who would put a USB drive here? What was stored in the USB drive?

She bowed to Cheng Xi, put new flowers on the table, and said to herself, "Xi Xi, I'll take this USB drive back to have a look. If it's yours, I'll return it. But if it's your brother's, I'll give it to the right person. If it offends you, you can vent your anger to your brother. If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent. I'll wait for your brother to wake up and ask him to hide and burn some paper for you."

She stayed here for a while before going back. When she got home and plugged the USB drive into her computer to open it, she found that she needed a password. She was a little disappointed, so she had to hide the USB drive and went to find Li Li.

Although Li Li didn't wake up, his vital signs had recovered. According to Doctor Jiang, it was only a matter of time before he woke up. But if, as Uncle Jiang or Uncle Qi said, this Dean Jiang was related to Cheung Kong Group, then he was in danger at any time.

Kong Zhixi sat beside him, holding her chin with her hand, and said vaguely: "Did you hide the USB flash drive? Brother, if you don't wake up, I really can't stand these things. So many people are waiting for you, and you are sleeping here? How can you sleep? Look at how worried your parents are!"

She quietly covered her mouth again, leaned close to his ear and asked, "Is there a traitor in the criminal investigation team? Why don't you tell me quietly in your dream?"

Seeing that he still had no reaction after saying this, she felt a little discouraged, and lay down on the chair, complaining: "If I had known earlier, I would have slept longer. If you continue like this, I should go to work..." She lay on his hands, thinking about what had happened in the past few days, feeling a little aggrieved. The pain in her chest still had not disappeared, and the doctor could not find any problems. She lay there for a long time, and then said: "Uncle Qi and Uncle Jiang are waiting for you, and I am waiting for you too. You will definitely wake up, right?" She stared at his face for a long time, but he still had no reaction.

Cheng Xi would go to Li Li's house every day to clean up and cook for him. He was still listless, lying on the bed where Kong Zhixi had slept, not letting anyone touch anything she had touched. He rebuilt the old small compartment, thinking that maybe one day she would be able to treat him like she did the first time she came.

Cheng Xi stood at the door and knocked, and asked softly: "Brother, don't you plan to continue investigating?" She had tried countless ways in the past few days, hoping to cheer him up again, but to no avail. It was not until he went to the chemical plant and stayed there for a few days that she learned that Kong Zhixi died there.

"You should be happy for her. This is what she has always hoped for, isn't it? She will come back. Don't you know that?"

Li Li was a little impatient, "I told you, can you please leave? I just want to be alone."

Cheng Xi was also very frustrated. They used to be able to chat from day to night and watch the stars and the moon together, but now everything has changed. They have become strangers and even speak harshly to each other. "I'll come over later."

Li Li sat up, changed his clothes, opened the door, put on his shoes, and said, "Don't come." Then he walked out without looking back. He bought a bottle of wine outside, took a taxi to the chemical plant, and sat at the door looking at the two pools inside. He suddenly felt a temperature on the back of his hand, and Kong Zhixi's voice came from the pool: I'm waiting for you too, you will definitely wake up, right?

He raised his eyes, and they lit up in an instant: "Zhixi, Zhixi!" She was waiting for him, he had to go back, he had to find a way to go back! He walked to the edge of the pool and jumped in, but it was useless. He ran back to the police station, found the file, and flipped through it again and again, trying to find some clues about the murderer.

When he got home, it was already late. When he opened the door, Cheng Xi was still sitting on the sofa, wearing Kong Zhixi's pajamas. "Didn't I warn you not to touch her things? Take them off."

Cheng Xi sneered, standing in front of him, stripped naked, Li Li picked up the pajamas that fell on the floor, returned to the room, and closed the door. At this moment, she completely became a joke.

Kong Zhixi took the key and opened the door of Li Li's house. A breeze blew the curtains on the balcony. The two chairs in front of the floor-to-ceiling window made her feel very familiar, as if she had sat here many nights. The pain in her chest became more and more obvious. She covered her chest, walked to the chair, sat down, and relaxed.

The house was very clean, probably because Li Li's mother had someone come to clean it. The clothes in the room were still hung as before. She didn't have many clothes, and she had put them here to hide them from others. They didn't live together, she slept in another room, and she didn't put many clothes in that room either, because she lived in the dormitory of the institute most of the time, and she only said that it was for the convenience of being on duty.

She opened the closet in her room, which was full of clothes. She looked through them and found that they were all light-colored clothes with the tags still on, of all styles. She took her pajamas and went home.

Li Li's mother called her and said, "Xixi, I heard from your mother that you went home today. Don't get me wrong. I bought those new clothes for you. I saw that you had too few clothes, so I wanted to buy some for you. If you don't like them, you can return them. They are not someone else's, so don't get me wrong."

"Mom, you don't have to do this. I can buy it myself, and I wear a police uniform most of the time, so you don't have to buy me any clothes." Her father was right. If they knew that she and Li Li were only nominally married, how would they deal with it? She looked at the pajamas on the passenger seat and turned around to put them back in place.

She sat on the chair in front of the French window, muttering to herself: "Li Li, when will you wake up?" After a long while, she suddenly straightened her back and remembered the note she had taken by mistake before, which had a phone number and password written on it. She walked into his room and looked through it, but couldn't find it. Of course, he wouldn't leave such an important thing lying around.

When she returned home for dinner in the evening, her mother and younger sister kept pestering her to talk about how she met, fell in love with, and married Li Li. She had no choice but to talk about the long process of how they met, and then made up some stories about their dates. Finally, she lied and said that they got the marriage certificate on a whim, and that he had just returned from a mission and they got married on a whim. The two of them were stunned by what they heard, and only her father was dismissive.