"If I try my best but still can't make it, and I can't give you anything else, I can only give you these worldly things . If you really have our child, you will have to work hard to raise him alone. If you think it's too difficult to do it alone, find someone to help you. Mr. Wu is a good one. I was just joking with you last time. I'm relieved that you can follow him!"

When he said the last sentence, Si Nian's voice was hoarse and he was slightly choked with sobs.

After hearing Si Nian's words, Jiang Sui had already burst into tears in his arms.

Knowing that Jiang Sui felt as sad as he did, Si Nian held Jiang Sui's hand tighter.

When Jiang Sui had almost stopped crying, he fumbled to wipe the tears from Jiang Sui's face, and a smile appeared on the corners of his lips again.

He suddenly turned his head to look towards the window and asked Jiang Sui, "Sui Sui, how is the weather today? Is the sun out?"

Jiang Sui was still immersed in sadness. When Si Nian suddenly asked her this, she turned her head with misty eyes and looked out the window.

Today, the sky outside the window is overcast and there is no sign of the sun.

But she couldn't tell Si Nian that.

The sun represents daytime and hope. If she told Si Nian that the sun did not rise today, it would undoubtedly make him feel that he had lost hope and it would be unlucky.

So Jiang Sui lied again.

"Well, today's weather is nice and sunny. It's a good day! My brother's operation will definitely be successful."

"Um."

Si Nian nodded and curled his lips towards Jiang Sui.

The surgery was scheduled at 9 a.m., and at 8:20 a.m., an operating room nurse came to pick up Si Nian on a wheeled bed.

Jiang Sui, Wu Chunhao and others followed the wheeled bed all the way to the door of the operating room.

Just before entering the door, Si Nian suddenly stopped the nurse and said that he had something to tell his family, so the nurse stopped and waited for him.

Si Nian called Wu Chunhao first, and Wu Chunhao responded and walked forward.

Si Nian said to him, "Haozi, if I can't get out, remember to do what I told you before."

"Don't talk nonsense! Just go in without worry. I'll wait for you here. I'll wait for you till death. You must come out!"

Wu Chunhao is a grown man, but there was something wrong with his voice when he said this. Li Ai even turned her head away, not daring to look at him again.

Only Jiang Sui was standing blankly beside the wheelchair, without any reaction.

Si Nian smiled at Wu Chunhao, "We have been brothers for so many years and have been through so many things together. You know what I am most worried about. You have to promise me, then I can feel at ease."

Wu Chunhao's eyes were red, and he finally nodded, "Okay, I agree." After saying that, he turned his head away, not daring to look at Si Nian.

After explaining this to Wu Chunhao, Si Nian turned his head again, stretched out a hand, and called Jiang Sui with a blank look, "Sui Sui?"

Jiang Sui held his hand and responded in a low voice, "Brother, I'm here."

Si Nian held Jiang Sui's hands tightly and said to her with some difficulty, "If I don't have time to marry you in this life, then I will come to you in the next life. Let me confess to you first. Then you can reject me a few more times and make up for all the grievances you have suffered from me in this life. Then marry me, okay?"

Tears rolled down Jiang Sui's eyes again, and she wiped them away stubbornly.

Then he said to Si Nian in a cold voice, "No! Si Nian, I'm telling you, I only agree to marry you in this life, don't even think about the next life! If you don't come out to me today, I'll marry a cripple or a fool in the next life, but never you! Do you hear me?"

Si Nian was silent for a moment, then gave her a bitter smile, "I heard it."

Then the nurse who had been waiting on the side reminded that the time was almost up and that it was time to go in for preoperative preparation because Dr. Mark was already waiting inside.

Watching Si Nian disappear in the gradually closing door of the operating room, Jiang Sui's tense emotions finally couldn't be controlled anymore. She squatted on the ground and cried bitterly, but she didn't dare to cry too loudly, for fear that Si Nian, who wasn't anesthetized yet, would hear her. She curled up into a ball and trembled.

Li Ai looked upset and wanted to go over to persuade Jiang Sui, but was stopped by Wu Chunhao again.

"Let her cry for a while. She has been holding it in for the past few days, so she needs to let it out."

Jiang Sui cried for about half an hour. When he looked up again, the operating indicator light was on.

She stood up slowly, her feet feeling a little numb. Li Ai saw that she couldn't stand and hurried over to support her.

She wiped the tears from her face and immediately held Li Ai's arm.

"Sister Ai, Brother Haozi, I'll leave this to you. I have some things to do and need to go out for a while. Call me if there is anything."

Jiang Sui turned around and walked out. Li Ai called out from behind her, "Hey, Sui Sui, where are you going at this time?"

Jiang Sui didn't respond and took the elevator downstairs.

Suddenly there were bursts of thunder outside the hospital building. Jiang Sui stood in front of the building and looked up at the dark sky.

Reo, who had been waiting in front of the building, opened the car door for her. Jiang Sui got in the car, and the car started and sped out of the hospital immediately.

On the road, heavy rain finally fell, hitting the car body, making waves of metal-hitting sounds.

There seems to be a lot of rain in northern Beijing this summer.

Jiang Sui looked out of the car window with a serious expression. He could see the Welcoming Pine at the foot of the Puji Temple mountain in the distance.

Jiang Sui has done everything she could in the past few days. She has no other choice now. In order to keep Si Nian, she can only place her last hope on God.

The car stopped in front of the Welcoming Pine Tree, Jiang Sui got out, and Reo took a black umbrella and covered her head.

Jiang Sui took the umbrella and said to Reo, "You go to the parking lot and wait for me. I can go up by myself."

Reo nodded and said nothing.

Jiang Sui walked quickly towards the mountain gate with an umbrella in hand.

It rained heavily today and there were few people at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Sui entered the mountain gate and looked up to see the 1,080 steps leading directly to the temple.

When she and Xiao Wen came here six years ago, she would pant every time she walked up the stairs one step at a time.

Perhaps because he was not sincere enough that time, Ping An Fu was unable to ensure peace for the rest of this year.

This time, Jiang Sui was prepared to kneel all the way up.

Yesterday she saw the news that a woman was walking in the heavy rain, kneeling every three steps from the foot of the mountain to the top, praying for her family.

Jiang Sui also abandoned his umbrella in front of the first step, letting the heavy rain beat down on him mercilessly.

Even the weather cooperated, as if doing such a thing in the pouring rain would appear sufficiently pious.

Jiang Sui remembered that a netizen commented on the woman at the bottom of the video, saying that she could do this either for the person who gave birth to her or for the person she gave birth to.

But today Jiang Sui did neither. She climbed up the stairs, one step at a time, kneeled down every three steps, and kowtowed every nine steps, all for the sake of the sunny and carefree boy whom she had accidentally fallen in love with when she was young, so that he could safely survive the calamity today.

In the pouring rain, Jiang Sui kowtowed all the way up the 1,080 steps, holding up incense sticks and making a pious wish to the various gods and Buddhas, "If I can be safe today, I am willing to always burn incense and eat vegetarian food for the rest of my life to repay your kindness in protecting me."

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Reo waited at the foot of the mountain for two and a half hours, and it rained heavily for two and a half hours. Seeing that Jiang Sui had not come back yet, he couldn't help but get anxious. He was holding an umbrella and was about to go up to check, when he saw a thin little figure appear on the high steps. He limped down the mountain with difficulty in the heavy rain. His whole body was already wet, and his clothes were sticking to his body.

Reo was shocked and ran over to help Jiang Sui block the rain. He asked her , "Miss Jiang, what happened to you? Where's your umbrella? You're soaked."

Jiang Sui shook his lips at her and said, "I'm fine. Let's go back to the hospital. The operation time is already halfway through."

When Jiang Sui limped back outside the operating room, supported by Reo, everyone looked at her in shock.

I saw that her light grey sports suit had been soaked by the heavy rain and turned dark grey, sticking wetly to her body. Her knees were covered in mud, and her bangs were still dripping water onto her pale cheeks.

"Sui Sui, what's going on?"

Jiang Guodong, the old father, who arrived at the hospital at some point, couldn't help but step forward and ask after seeing his daughter in this state.

"Sui Sui, where have you been?" Gu Wan also followed and asked with concern.

Afraid that they would worry, Jiang Sui immediately pulled his lips and smiled at them, "I'm fine, I was just walking in a hurry in the rain and accidentally fell down, I'm not hurt, it's nothing serious."

Hearing her say this, Old Jiang's expression eased a little, and then he couldn't help but blame Jiang Sui again, "You kid, how could you not tell us about such a big thing as Si Nian's surgery today? If your aunt Gu and I hadn't seen that you hadn't been home for a few days and came to see you, we wouldn't have known about it."

Jiang Sui smiled foolishly at Lao Jiang, "Dad, I was afraid that you would worry, so I thought I would tell you after the operation is over."

Old Jiang helplessly pointed his index finger at Jiang Sui, "You, you, you look weak on the outside, but you're actually stubborn and obstinate. Sometimes you're so bold, I don't know who you took that from!"

"Of course your personality depends on you!" Jiang Sui immediately stuck out his tongue and continued.

"you!"

Seeing this, Li Ai, who had been standing nearby, hurried forward to rescue Jiang Sui.

"Uncle Jiang, Uncle Jiang, don't talk about Sui Sui right now. There's still some time before the operation is over. Let Jiang Sui go back and change clothes first, so as not to catch a cold."

Later, when Li Ai accompanied Jiang Sui back to the ward to change clothes, she couldn't help but ask Jiang Sui.

"Tell me quickly, what have you been doing for the past three hours? You are in such a mess, it must not be as simple as falling down as you said."

Jiang Sui pursed his lips and barely bent the corner of his mouth towards Li Ai, saying, "Sister Ai, I really have no other choice but to pray to the gods and Buddha."

Li Ai stood there in disbelief. She couldn't believe that a highly educated overseas scholar like Jiang Sui could be so helpless as to pray to God for protection.

Jiang Sui didn't dare to look at Li Ai's eyes, and turned around silently to change clothes.

As she was changing, she suddenly stopped, turned her back to Li Ai and said with sobs, "Sister Ai, you know, I'm so panicked right now. I'm so afraid that I'll lose him. I can't just sit outside the surgery and wait. I have to do something to make this four-hour surgery not take so long."

Li Ai sighed, pulled Jiang Sui over and hugged her.

"I understand, but you have to take care of your body too. Otherwise, if Si Nian's operation is successful, you will fall ill again. How can this be possible? Uncle Jiang is also old and in poor health. Aren't you making him anxious and angry too?"

Jiang Sui cried and nodded on Li Ai's shoulder. She understood the truth, but she was just afraid. She was afraid that Si Nian would not be able to come out of the operating room, and she was afraid that he would not wake up as scheduled after coming out of the operating room.

Jiang Sui leaned on Li Ai's shoulder and cried for a while. The estimated end time of the operation was almost approaching, so she washed her face again and hurried out of the operating room with Li Ai.