Hospital 444
Chapter 322 - 9 Implementation and Repayment

Chapter 322: Chapter 9 Implementation and Repayment

Yueyin eventually decided to resign from her internship.

After all, she was just an intern, and there wasn’t any complex handover process required. She left the company after settling her final salary.

At this moment, all she could think about was that red balloon.

Since she was no longer working at the internship, she went back to attending classes at the university.

At noon, when she arrived at the dormitory, she saw Peipei playing a game on her laptop.

"Xishi?"

"Zhaojun, why are you here at this time?" Peipei said without looking back, "Is something the matter?"

"Not really..."

Yueyin sat in front of her bed, watching Peipei engrossed in the game.

She rarely saw Peipei revising her lessons, but Peipei always ranked among the top in every exam, which gave her the confidence to consider graduate studies. As for herself, getting into this university had been a struggle, and she just couldn’t keep up with the subsequent academic workload. Her parents wanted her to pursue graduate studies, but she was well aware of her own limitations.

She wondered, if she were Lan Ying, when choosing between herself and Peipei, he would most likely choose the well-off and academically excellent Peipei, right?

Peipei seemed to sense something and turned her head to look at Yueyin.

"What’s wrong? You seem to have a lot on your mind?"

"I quit my job."

At that moment, biting her lip, she said, "Xishi, if... if there really were..."

She simply couldn’t bring herself to tell anyone about the red balloon. After all, whoever heard about the red balloon would either disbelieve or think she got entangled with some scam gang.

She couldn’t think of any reasonable explanation that Peipei could understand for the situation she was in.

"You look terrible, let me get you a glass of water." Peipei took a cup from nearby, walked over to the water dispenser, and poured water for Yueyin.

Just then, someone rushed into the dormitory!

"Something big has happened! Xishi!"

Both girls looked up. The person who barged in was their roommate, Li Junyi.

"Mulan, what’s wrong?"

Li Junyi looked at Yueyin and Peipei. When she saw Yueyin, she paused.

"Zhao... Zhaojun, you are here too?"

"What, what’s wrong?" Yueyin was stunned for a moment and asked, "Mulan, what big thing happened?"

"The football club... over at the football club..." Li Junyi said, terrified, "You might not know, but big news came from the football club today. They’re saying that you’re the one Lan Ying fancies?"

What?

"You’re joking, right?"

That was Yueyin’s first reaction.

And Peipei... the paper cup she had just filled dropped straight to the floor, spilling water everywhere.

Peipei went up to Li Junyi, swallowed hard, and said, "You, you just mentioned Lan... Lan Ying? The Lan Ying from the football club?"

"In our university, apart from the football club, there isn’t a second Lan Ying, right?"

Yueyin and Peipei both knew that Li Junyi was not someone who spread unfounded gossip. If she said so, it mustn’t be groundless.

"Where did you get this news?" Peipei looked visibly tense, "Wasn’t it always said that Lan Ying doesn’t have a girlfriend?"

As the most famous player in the football club, Lan Ying had a certain level of fame throughout the university. A handsome and athletic guy was a big draw for the ladies, and there were plenty of girls who liked Lan Ying. He had no shortage of admirers but had never been involved in any romantic rumors with any girls.

"It was people from the football club who swore to me," Li Junyi said conclusively, "They said Lan Ying himself said it. The football club went out for dinner tonight to celebrate their win and started playing Truth or Dare. Lan Ying chose truth, and the people in the club asked him to come clean about whether he had a girlfriend or someone he secretly liked. And then... and then he said..."

Li Junyi and Peipei immediately looked at Yueyin.

"Zhaojun... this isn’t true, is it?"

"Zhaojun, Lan Ying said that the person he’s secretly in love with is you..."

"Could it be that he was drunk?" Peipei clearly found it hard to accept, "They must have drunk alcohol at the dinner, right? Maybe it was just the alcohol talking..."

"If it was a joke, there would have been an explanation afterward. But more than one person from the football club told me that Lan Ying didn’t offer any explanation afterward and let the club spread the news. Obviously, he has a secret crush on you, Zhaojun, and is too shy to confess, so he’s using this way to let you know!"

Yueyin was completely dumbfounded at this point.

Without a doubt, she knew this was the power of the red balloon.

As a member of the cheerleading team, she had encountered Lan Ying more than once. Whether he secretly loved her or not, she could definitely sense it.

The wish I made back then had come true.

Peipei collapsed onto the table, looking at the water cup that had spilled all over the floor.

About five seconds later, she raised her head and looked at Yueyin with a forced smile.

"Yueyin, what about you? Do you like... Lan... Ying?"

Yueyin clenched her teeth, suddenly feeling that what she had done was somewhat immoral.

"I... I need to think about it."

She realized that she wasn’t as happy as she had originally thought.

Lan Ying didn’t truly like her; his feelings were forcedly changed by some supernatural power she had used. This meant that she could never earn his affection through her own efforts again. Men might be content just to have a woman’s person, but as a woman, she wanted to earn pure emotion. Yet, under these circumstances, she still made a wish upon the red balloon because she lacked the confidence to succeed on her own. The story of Jiang Zhishu and Yuan Xiangqin was, after all, just a story.

Even now, she vividly remembered when the manager fell to the ground, blood spilling from his head. That blood was like a warning, cautioning her with what had happened to the manager.

So what price would she have to pay this time? It couldn’t possibly involve physically harming a child, could it? What would happen if she couldn’t bear the cost?

"You need to think about it?" After hearing these words, Peipei was stunned and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"I... I don’t know."

After speaking, Yueyin ran out.

She knew that the red balloon could arrive at any time.

Li Junyi approached Peipei, patted her shoulder, and said, "Mulan definitely likes Lan Ying. I could tell from her expression just now."

Then, looking at Peipei’s dim expression, she added, "Xishi, you..."

"Mulan, I... I’m a bit... My mind is a bit scrambled..." Peipei raised her hand to her temple and said, "I’m a bit tired from playing games, I want to rest a bit."

Li Junyi nodded, patted Peipei’s shoulder again, and said, "Okay, good, Xishi, don’t think too much."

Yueyin ran all the way to the playground, leaned against a tree, and caught her breath.

After a while, she looked up and saw...

A crimson red balloon slowly descending from the sky.

She immediately jumped up, grabbed the balloon’s string, and ripped open the envelope attached to it.

As she read the letter inside, Yueyin’s face turned pale as paper.

That evening.

She came back home, opened the door, and saw Abao running happily toward her.

"Good boy, Abao."

Yueyin crouched down, picked up Abao, and then started crying.

"I’m sorry, Abao, I’m sorry... I’m so sorry..."

...

The next day.

Peipei was wrapped in the dormitory’s blankets, playing games on her phone.

She no longer played "Honor of Kings" but was playing "Beast Soul Continent."

Suddenly, she heard the sound of the door opening.

Peipei peeked out from under the blankets and saw Yueyin.

"Mulan?"

"Xishi. Yesterday, I talked to Lan Ying on the phone," Yueyin sat down on the bed and told her, "We’re together now."

"Is that so?"

"We’re going to live together."

At this, Peipei subconsciously covered her chin.

"What about... Abao? Are you taking him with you?"

"Abao... is dead."

"Dead?" Peipei was shocked, flinging off the blanket and saying, "How could that be?"

"He... accidentally took Chloramphenicol Tablets... so..."

Peipei stared blankly at Yueyin and at... the red balloon tied to the backpack behind her.

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