Before he died, my grandfather forced me to marry the richest man in the capital.

At this moment, Ji Xinyu's mind was filled with the image of Ji Xinhan standing in the living room before going to the foreign school, patting her chest and assuring them that nothing would happen to her, and even walking around the living room.

To show off her skills, Ji Xinhan even practiced boxing in the living room, making everyone laugh.

That was the day her father finally agreed to let her study abroad, and Hanhan happily made the promise to everyone in the living room.

Overjoyed, Ji Xinyu vividly recalled the scene from that day, as if it were yesterday. The joyful moments she shared with her sister every day played in her mind. She wished so much that the person lying here was her, not her sister.

Ji Xinyu held her sister's hand and cried for a long, long time until her voice became hoarse. Ji Jiale reached out and hugged her mother, while Tang Junyao covered her mouth and wept silently.

When Lu Yiyue came out of the room, she saw this heartbreaking scene, and her eyes also reddened. She hugged the crying Tang Junyao and comforted her.

No matter what Ji Xinyu said, Ji Xinhan on the bed didn't react at all. Ji Jiale stepped forward, half-knelt on the ground, reached out and hugged his sister, his large hands cupping the back of her head against his chest. His hoarse voice, restraining his emotions, said, "She'll wake up. Let Hanhan sleep for a while. She's probably tired from catching the bandits and wants to rest."

Ji Xinyu turned around and hugged her brother, crying loudly and heartbrokenly. Ji Jiale knelt down and hugged his sister to comfort her.

Ji Hancheng came up much later. He smelled of cigarettes. Tang Junyao smelled the cigarettes on him when she stopped crying and knew that he was using cigarettes to relieve his heartache. "Go take a shower and rest for a while. Let Xiaoyu and Lele watch for a while. Yueyue, you go back and rest for a while too."

Lu Yiyue shook her head, "Mom, I'll watch it with you. I've already slept."

Tang Junyao nodded without forcing Ji Hancheng into the room, while Lu Yiyue closed the door, walked to Ji Xinyu's side, took out a tissue to wipe Xiaoyu's tears, and said with a nasal voice, "Let's chat with Hanhan and talk about what Hanhan wants to hear."

Lu Yiyue pulled out a chair for Ji Xinyu to sit on, and helped her stand up. Then, when she was about to get another chair for Lele, Ji Jiale grabbed her wrist and said, "I'll get it."

Looking at Yueyue, who had lost a lot of weight, Ji Jiale felt a little guilty. However, Lu Yiyue was also stubborn and would never go to sleep alone if she had promised to stay with him.

Ji Jiale pulled up a chair for Lu Yiyue to sit next to Ji Xinyu, and then pulled up another chair for himself to sit on the other side, helping Hanhan tidy up her blanket.

In the early hours of the morning, the room went into chat mode. Ji Xinyu and Lu Yiyue were talking to Hanhan, who was unresponsive on the bed, trying to talk her up and get her to sit up.

Ji Jiale sat upright, holding his sister's hand under the covers, pursing his lips and listening quietly as his sister, fiancée, and Hanhan chatted.

Sometimes when talking about how naughty Hanhan was when she was little, Ji Jiale would unconsciously curl his lips into a smile. Perhaps it was because he had stored Hanhan's mischievous image in his mind, and at this moment, the memory was even more vivid and he missed it especially.

As dawn broke, the fish's belly turned white.

Tang Junyao pushed open the door and saw that the three children had stopped chatting and were resting their chins on their hands by the bed. "Lele, why don't you and Yueyue go to sleep for a while? Xiaoyu, you go to sleep too."

The three of them stood up. Ji Jiale tucked his sister's hand back under the covers, helped tidy the blankets, walked to Lu Yiyue's side, and whispered, "Go back and get some sleep before going to the company."

Lu Yiyue shook her head. He hadn't slept enough either, and she couldn't let him go to work alone; she was worried about him. "I'm not sleepy. I went to bed early last night and got enough sleep. I can't go back to sleep. I'll go to bed early tonight."

Meeting her determined gaze, he helplessly patted Yueyue's head and told his sister to go eat breakfast before going to sleep.

Ji Xinyu wanted to sleep in her sister's room and keep her company, but Tang Junyao pushed her to the room, saying, "Be good, don't you have class today?"

"I've asked for leave, I'll go on Monday." With her sister in this state, how could she possibly be in the mood to go to school? She sent a message to the teacher asking for leave in the early hours of the morning.

Hearing that her daughter had asked for leave, Tang Junyao didn't know what to say. She just advised her daughter to rest, "Have breakfast first and then go to sleep. Be a good girl."

"Mom, I think I'll go to sleep first. I don't want to sleep if I'm full." After I wake up, I'll go to my sister's room to eat together and try to tempt her with the food.

Her heart started to ache again, and she felt a sour feeling in her chest. She turned around and went back to her room. Tang Junyao always went along with her daughter and didn't force her. She carefully closed the door for her daughter and told her again to get some sleep.

In another room, Tang Junyao had tampered with the water she had given Ji Hancheng the night before, putting a sleeping pill in it, which was why the man slept so soundly.

On the stairs.

Tang Junyao instructed, "Lele, if you feel tired, hand over some of the projects you're working on to your Uncle Xu."

"Um."

After breakfast, Lu Yiyue and Ji Jiale went to work, while Tang Junyao had already handed over her work to other doctors. She was a neurosurgeon, and since Hanhan was in a coma, her specialty was a perfect fit, so she definitely wouldn't leave her daughter to go to work.

Yan Zhun would also come every day. Although Yan Zhun was a breast and thyroid surgeon and did not have much knowledge about Hanhan's condition, as Ji Hancheng's brother, he would still come to see Hanhan whenever he had free time.

Ji Hancheng and Xiaoyu were still asleep. After finishing her breakfast, Tang Junyao went to her daughter's room to keep her company. She brought a basin of hot water from the bathroom, wrung out a towel, and helped her daughter wipe her body.

The tiny wounds on her face had already begun to scab over. She wiped them very gently, afraid of hurting them. She spoke slowly, as if her daughter were having a normal conversation, "Hanhan, let Mom wipe your hands. You can rest if you're tired, but don't rest for too long. Everyone is waiting for you."

She continued talking to herself, "Xiaoyu took the day off to wait for you to wake up so she could play with you. Yueyue's wedding with your brother is on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and they're waiting for you to be their bridesmaid. Don't rest too long and miss your brother's wedding. You always say it's a pity your brother doesn't like Yueyue, but that's not true. Your brother and Yueyue are in love with each other. Your brother is lying. Get up and go beat your brother up yourself and settle the score with him."

She wiped very carefully, even wiping behind her daughter's ears. After wiping, she threw the old towel into the basin and took it into the bathroom. When she came out again, she rolled down her sleeves, opened the curtains, and a ray of warm sunlight shone into the room.

It was like seeing hope, and my mood improved a lot.

She pulled the stool closer to the bedside, took a cotton swab from the bedside table, moistened it with water, and began to apply it to Hanhan's lips, murmuring softly, "Hanhan, don't sleep too long. I'm afraid your father won't be able to hold on. Your father feels too guilty. He always feels that it was his indulgence in your ideas that led you to send you abroad, which has resulted in what you are today. The more he thinks, the more gray hair he gets. Can we talk things out and resolve them? Don't shut yourself off. If you shut yourself off, what will happen to your parents, grandparents, and all the people who love you?"

As she spoke, she massaged her daughter's body. She talked for a long time, but the person on the bed remained motionless, as if completely isolated from the world and unable to hear anything around her.

After Ji Xinyu woke up, she and her father massaged Hanhan together and chatted. The burden of the company fell entirely on Ji Jiale's shoulders. Lu Yiyue also worked very hard to help Ji Jiale with his work. She was so busy that she had to attend management courses, learn from Director Ni, and ask Lin Yuan for advice.

At night, she would get up in the middle of the night to chat with Ji Jiale and her sister. Ever since Hanhan's accident, Ji Jiale's sleep has been very light, to the point that she only sleeps for a few hours a night and goes to Hanhan's room as soon as she wakes up.

I was afraid of missing the time when my younger sister woke up.

Lu Yiyue felt sorry for him, but it seemed like she couldn't do anything but stay by his side silently.

Ji Jiale has been too busy lately. Lu Yiyue is sensible and doesn't want to bother him with anything. She just wants to help him lighten his burden.

Around 10 o'clock, the Lu family couple, the Su family couple, and the Yan family couple all came to the Ji residence to see Hanhan. They stayed for several hours before leaving. After leaving the Ji residence, all of them had mixed feelings.

In the afternoon, Tang Junyan brought his wife and children to the Ji residence to see Ji Xinhan. No sooner had they left than Xu Mingkai arrived with his wife and son, accompanied by Lin Yuan.

Tang Junyan was informed by Tang Junyao. Her close friends and family all knew, and she knew that Tang Junyan would be heartbroken if she kept it from him, so she chose to tell him herself.

Xu Mingkai found out about the incident while he was questioning Lele, and once Xu Mingkai knew, Lin Yuan could no longer keep it a secret.

After dinner, a group of people entered the Ji residence: Su Xue, Lu Qingchen, Lu Jinnan, Han Guoguo, Su Yu, Su Can, Lan Yunxi, and Han Yue.

After a few days of adjustment and a good night's sleep, Ji Hancheng seemed to have accepted that Hanhan was asleep. He slowly walked downstairs and happened to see a group of people entering through the door.

Lu Jinnan and Han Yue sat down on the sofa on their own. Yuan Shu called the maid to bring up tea and snacks, and not wanting to disturb the young people's conversation, she helped Ji Hang upstairs.

Ji Jiale stood up from the sofa, supported his grandfather on the other side, and helped him to his room. Ji Hang said, "It's okay, you chat with them for a while, Grandpa can go up by himself."

"No rush."

Seeing his grandson say this, Ji Hang didn't say anything more. The whole family knew his grandson's temperament.

Lu Qingchen rushed upstairs, "Uncle, I'm going upstairs to check on Hanhan."

Ji Hancheng nodded in agreement, "Go ahead, Xiaoyu is upstairs."

Hearing the commotion downstairs, Tang Junyao came out of her daughter's room and saw a group of people already sitting downstairs. Feeling both touched and apologetic, she quickly went downstairs and said, "You don't need to come every day, it's really okay."

Everyone is quite busy. Xixi has two children in her family who are about to take the college entrance examination, and Xiaochen is so naughty. Guoguo is even busier, with three children studying at home.

Tang Junyao and Ji Hancheng were unaware that ever since Hanhan's accident, Han Yue and Xixi had asked Han's mother to hire two tutors to come to their home to tutor the two children, in case they needed help.

They just didn't tell Yao Yao and Ji Hancheng about this.

Han Yue picked up an orange and started peeling it himself. He glanced at his friend's expression and asked, "How's today?"

Tang Junyao: "It's fine, all the indicators are normal." She just hasn't woken up.

Everyone else nodded. Su Yu remained silent. From his angle, he could just see a strand of white hair at the end of Ji Hancheng's hair. He sighed inwardly, feeling that any words of comfort would be pale and powerless.

Lu Jinnan was in low spirits and had no interest in joking. Lu Yiyue sat next to her father and whispered something to him, probably about Hanhan's condition these past few days.

Lu Jinnan never smiled, and his jawline remained taut.

Just as everyone quieted down, Lan Yunxi looked around at everyone's faces and said, "Sister, Dad, Mom, and my brother will be coming over tonight."

Tang Junyao held onto a sliver of hope that Hanhan would wake up in a few days, so she didn't want to tell her aunt and uncle about it, lest they worry and run around. "I'm thinking of waiting a few more days."

Ji Hancheng received a message from Yan Zhun on his phone: I have surgery tonight, Xiao Ni is away on a business trip, I'll come over tomorrow morning.

Reply: You don't need to come every day, it's fine, just go about your business.

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