Chapter 4 Kneeling and Kowtow to the People at the Hospital

• I tried hard to move to the doorway, opened the door, and lied on the bed that I had been sleeping on for three years.
• I gradually dozed off...
• I had a dream about the first time I met Ji Zeyan twelve years ago. That time, I was only ten years old and I went to a construction site to be completed near the orphanage.
• It was winter, and there was nobody on the site.
• At there, I met the dying Ji Zeyan who was covered in wounds. I had tried to call him for a long time, but he didn't respond. I thought he was dead and I was about to go back and look for a teacher at the orphanage, however, I heard a weak voice, he said: "Help me."
• I was so skinny at the time, but I used a for transporting on the construction site, took him out of the construction site, and brought him to the nearest hospital.
• Because I didn't have any money, the people at the hospital wouldn't take him and give him treatment. So, I kneeled and kowtowed to the people at the hospital.
• At last, a young doctor called the vise principal in, and they agreed to send him into the operation room.
• And I waited outside.
• Sometime later, he woke up, asked about my name, and he said that he remembered me and he would come and find me later.
• However, a dream was a dream, it was not the reality.
• The reality was that Ji Zeyan woke up later. But I was forbidden from entering the room. I could only see him from afar. Not long after, a group of men in black suits came, pushed his bed, and transferred him to another hospital.
• His bed passed by me. He saw me, smiled at me with his beautiful lips, and slightly grabbed my cloth with a hand.
• That was our last meeting.
• But his smile was craved into my heart; although twelve years had passed, the memory was like yesterday.
• I woke up. My tears permeated all over the pillow sheet. It was long after dark.
• I was thirsty and hungry, but my body was less painful. I listened the sounds outside the room, and I thought that they were already asleep.
• It turned out, as I just walked to the stairway, I heard Qin Ziqin's voice coming from the living room: "How long will she stay here? Her room was said to be empty and used to store my clothes."
• As I was wondering why she didn't go home with Ji Zeyan, I heard mother saying: "Stay calm, I will figure out a way to get her sign the agreement and get lost. Just suck it up a little, for that four percent of share."
• Four percent of share?
• If they were talking about me, I had no idea about all that.
• But soon, Qin Ziqi gave me the answer: "You are unbelievable. Just to get the four percent of share grandma has talked about, you had to get her back. Four percent is so little. It cannot even be traded for money! And I have to call her 'sister', and pretend to be a good sister!"
• "Do you think that I am not disgusted by her? She is so low. Every time she eats, it's like she has never eaten a meal in her life. She leaves nothing in her plate. Every time there is a visitor, I am shamed by her!"
• "Exactly. I gave her a few pieces of clothes that I don't wear, and she took them like treasures. I am ashamed to call her my sister. Seeing her getting beaten up today was such a relief for me."
• "That's enough. Tomorrow morning, as soon as she wakes up, I will get her sign that agreement. As far as your grandma is concerned, she won't look into this due to the wedding."
• I stood upstairs and heard what Qin Ziqi and mother said. My hands on the stair railing shook so hard.
• I ate every bit of my food because the principal of the orphanage told me this would please the cooker.
• I didn't like most of the clothes Qin Ziqi gave to me, but I was afraid to let her down and I had no other clothes to wear. So I took them every time with gratitude.
• In order to not be disliked by the people in Qin family, other than my tuition fee that was sponsored by kind people in the orphanage, I did manual work and earned all my living expenses.
• The family affection, which I cherished and took care of, turned out be this.
• It was all about four percent of share!
• And a carefully planned replacement wedding was just an excuse to kick me out of the Qin family.
• Only I was stupidly dreaming about family affection.
• It turned out that family affection could be so clumsy.
• I bit my lips hard, tried to control my emotions, walked and limped downstairs, and asked: "Is this the case?"