Chapter 1 I can't take care of you forever

Xia's house, in the empty audio-visual room.

Shelly Xia curled up on the sofa, her eyes were red from crying.

On the screen not far away, the heroine of the movie just said the last sentence to the person she loves the most in this life: "I love you."

It's a confession and a suicide note.

Shelly pressed her aching heart, and couldn't help but think of herself.

The same weak body, the same deep crush on someone...

At this time, the door of the audio-visual room was pushed open from the outside, and a man in a white coat walked in.

"Your heart is not good, don't watch movies that fluctuate too much." Herry Ji's voice gently slid into her ears.

Shelly looked back, Herry was meticulously dressed, and there was a faint scent of coldness on her body.

Ji's family and Xia's family are family friends. In order to take care of Shelly who was sick and weak since childhood, Herry chose medicine in university.

In a blink of an eye, they have been together until the age of twenty-five.

"Clear and shallow?" Herry called out in doubt.

Shelly came back to her senses, and pulled her to sit on the sofa: "It's just that I haven't watched it for a long time."

Herry didn't reply, and stretched out his hand to touch her forehead: "I have a little fever, let's go back to the room to rest."

Looking at his focused and gentle eyes, Shelly asked in a strange way: "Do you have someone you like?"

Herry paused, looked at Shelly in surprise, and said with a smile after a while: "I spend most of my time taking care of you, so I don't have time to like others."

"Don't think about anything else, go to sleep."

After he stood up, he led people into the bedroom.

After covering Shelly with the quilt, Herry turned to leave.

His finger was grabbed by someone, he turned his head and looked at Shang Shelly with a hesitant look: "I'm a little unwell, I'm afraid I'll get hot at night, can you stay?"

Even a minor illness may be a life-and-death calamity for her now.

Herry is also well aware of this.

But this time, he refused: "No."

Shelly was startled.

For more than twenty years, this was the first time Herry rejected himself: "Why?"

Herry took a deep look at her: "You may have to take care of yourself in the future. I will go abroad at the beginning of next month."

Shelly didn't know how strong her heart was at this moment so that it didn't stop suddenly.

She was stunned for a long time before she recovered her voice, "When was it decided, why... haven't you mentioned it?"

"It was settled last night."

Hearing this answer, Shelly felt mixed feelings.

If he didn't ask, would Herry tell himself the news? Did he not know until the day he left?

She suppressed the sourness in her nose and asked softly, "What about me? You're gone, what should I do?"

Herry's tone was cold: "I can't take care of you forever."

"We are not children anymore. I can always be your family doctor, but after all, I am not the one who will take care of you for the rest of your life."

Every word he said was like a knife blade wrapped around Shelly's heart.

Of course she understands that Herry takes care of herself only because of his childhood sweetheart's feelings, and eventually he will find someone he loves to spend the rest of his life with.

And I was never in that option.

So far, neither of them spoke.

Only the clock ticked.

"I'm leaving, take a good rest."

After a while, Herry dropped those words, opened the door and left.

Shelly stared at his back, without moving for a long time.

Suddenly, the roar of a car engine came from outside the window.

Shelly was stunned for a moment, she remembered that Herry didn't drive today.

Feeling inexplicably uneasy, she rushed out of the gate without putting on her shoes.

The land that had just rained was damp and cold.

Shelly stepped on it with her white feet, and the coldness ran straight to her mind along the soles of her feet.

But what was even colder was that she watched Herry get into a car of a strange woman with her own eyes.