Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 189: Ming Yue Speechless

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Ming Yue Speechless

The stillness around her was so profound that Zhen Yu felt as if she could hear her own heartbeat.

She hadn’t yet begun to speculate when the white expanse in front of her suddenly started to sway.

Though everything was a blanket of white, Zhen Yu could swear it wasn’t an illusion!

She wasn’t the one moving; it was the scene before her that was in motion.

A face quickly appeared in her line of sight... Although it was just a fleeting glance, Zhen Yu saw it clearly.

It was Mrs. Han!

Had she returned to her past life? This time she could actually see the outside, but where was this?

The answer was swiftly revealed as a hospital bed appeared before Zhen Yu’s eyes; she was seemingly in a hospital ward.

Someone was lying on the bed, and as the scene shifted, Zhen Yu slowly made out his face, immediately overwhelmed by heartache.

It was Han Mingyue... His condition seemed dire, his entire frame so gaunt it was nearly unrecognizable.

It seemed as though he was responding to someone’s call, his eyes slowly opening.

When their eyes met, Zhen Yu almost thought he could see her!

Just as she was startled, Han Mingyue appeared to make a movement, and the next second, everything before Zhen Yu’s eyes darkened.

Once the brightness returned, she saw Han Mingyue propped up in bed.

"So he wanted to sit up."

Zhen Yu had just muttered to herself when she found herself drawing ever closer to Han Mingyue, until finally, everything stood still.

Han Mingyue was looking at her with his head slightly lowered; from this angle... it looked a bit like he was looking at a cellphone.

Could her soul be housed in the phone? Whose phone could it be?

While guessing, Zhen Yu watched Han Mingyue with aching tenderness.

—

How could he have fallen ill to such an extent? Could this be the reason for his untimely demise?

To die from an illness... No wonder Han Jiayang only asked her to pray for Han Mingyue’s health and longevity, and nothing more!

Like enlightenment, Zhen Yu suddenly grasped the crux of the issue.

What was the illness Han Mingyue suffered from? Could he once again...

Anxiety swelled in Zhen Yuxin’s heart; she must find out his illness from his past life early to prevent it in this one!

Han Mingyue suddenly moved his lips, but Zhen Yu heard no sound.

However, she made out what he was saying; he was calling her name! "Xiao Yu..."

The reluctance and longing in Han Mingyue’s eyes nearly overflowed, tearing at Zhen Yu’s heart, yet her eyes were exceptionally dry, not a single tear able to escape.

She watched Han Mingyue slowly reach out his hand towards her, seemingly to touch her face.

And he did touch her! Zhen Yu felt an icy sensation on her cheek! This was too strange! What was going on?!

Zhen Yu’s perspective was once again pulled close to Han Mingyue, as if she were being embraced, cheek to cheek!

"!" Zhen Yu suddenly widened her eyes at Han Mingyue’s gaze, seeing a photo frame reflected in his eyes! She was actually inside a photograph!

It was the one he insisted on taking after his college entrance exam, the only photo she had ’given’ him.

The next second, a feeling of pressure suddenly came from her lips! Zhen Yu’s face flushed ’bang’, although Han Mingyue couldn’t see it.

In his eyes, the photo was just an ordinary photo.

Han Mingyue’s touch was brief, and then he began to smile at the photo.

This long-missed smile stupefied Zhen Yu.

After distancing herself from him in their previous life, what she missed most was his clean, undisguised smile.

His smile seemed to have a healing power, giving her the courage and strength to carry on living.

—

Zhen Yu felt that Han Mingyue must have placed the photo frame on the bedside table, and specifically angled it to face the bed.

Because she could see an entire hospital bed and a large expanse of glass windows.

But she couldn’t hear the outside world’s Voice, only silently observing the person on the bed being arranged in various ways.

After the doctors and nurses came in and out for a while, Han Mingyue finally could lie down flat. Perhaps exhausted from the ordeal, he quickly closed his eyes.

Zhen Yu kept watching him.

As she watched, her gaze suddenly got drawn to a ’booklet’ by his pillow. It was bound with a stack of A4 papers, with seven bold characters printed on the cover, extremely eye-catching.

"Ming Yue’s silent thoughts of love..." Zhen Yu read out each word slowly, as if her heart couldn’t help but tremble with each syllable.

She really wanted to know what Han Mingyue had written inside this booklet...

After staring for a while to no avail, Zhen Yu shifted her target, beginning to observe any items in the room that might relate to Han Mingyue’s condition.

But after a long search, she found nothing! Zhen Yu eventually dropped her gaze in defeat.

"!" Unexpectedly, beneath a picture frame, there lay a medical report.

The part showing in front of the frame listed Han Mingyue’s name and age, examination item: neck, department: oncology.

The diagnostic results below were all medical jargon that Zhen Yu didn’t understand.

But that didn’t matter, she could memorize it! She could seek the answers later.

——

Han Mingyue woke up after only a short nap, and Han Jiayang, from outside of Zhen Yu’s line of sight, walked over to the bed and helped his brother sit up.

Han Jiayang’s mouth moved a few times, clearly talking. After listening, Han Mingyue gestured the motion of playing the piano with his hands.

Soon, Han Jiayang placed a laptop before Han Mingyue and helped him open a new document.

"He is going to..." Zhen Yu murmured to herself, focusing her gaze on the computer screen.

Han Mingyue typed very slowly, pausing to rest after every dozen keystrokes or so.

"The last time we met, we were like strangers.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t contacted her in a long time.

Originally, I wanted to propose to her directly when she graduated!

But who could have foreseen, the unpredictability of life, the tricks of fate...

It took several discussions with my family before they agreed to arrange a short meeting with her before my surgery.

A very brief meeting.

She hardly spoke, and so did I.

Words failed us.

In the end, I could only reluctantly call her name, concluding with a sigh.

Xiao Yu...

——End of text——"

During the typing of this passage, Han Jiayang tried to take the laptop away several times, but Han Mingyue refused to let him, even picking up the booklet by the pillow and tapping its back.

Zhen Yu, originally immersed in the just-typed text, was first surprised at this scene, "Why is he communicating with his brother like this? Can’t he speak!?"

Then she quickly connected the dots with his examination item being the neck, "He can’t make a sound!"

"Unable to speak... tumor... surgery..." Zhen Yu thought, continuing to watch Han Mingyue type.

"Postscript

Xiao Yu, I’m sorry! I have to break my promise to you.

I can’t take care of you anymore, and you will have to look after yourself in the future.

You have a long life ahead, while I am critically ill.

I am grateful that I participated in the medical checkup organized by the school.

I was able to pull back from the brink before your graduation, promptly increasing the distance between us.

But I really want to tell you, growing apart from you was not my intention."