Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Cousin-Chapter 452: Sicker than before_1

I guessed that when Big Brother returned from Jiangling, he had already decided to take her back with him.

After getting off the plane in the city, they took a car to Jiangling County City. They didn’t rush to take her back to the villa; Big Brother arranged for Ji Yunhuan to stay in a nearby hotel. They even had a meal.

Ji Yunhuan watched Big Brother’s unhurried manner and was very anxious. Big Brother was eating, while she sat to the side without any appetite.

Big Brother didn’t force her.

If she wasn’t anxious, he would be disappointed in her. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

After their meal, Big Brother walked with Ji Yunhuan toward the villa where they used to live.

They didn’t drive, just the two of them. Big Brother’s bodyguard followed them from a distance. At the villa entrance, the door inside was closed. Ji Yunhuan anxiously wanted to go in, but Big Brother stopped her.

Ji Yunhuan looked at Big Brother in confusion. Didn’t he bring her here to see Qi Cheng?

Big Brother glanced at Ji Yunhuan and said, "Don’t you want to see how Qi Cheng lived while you were gone?"

Ji Yunhuan paused.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was the sound of the door opening. Big Brother pulled Ji Yunhuan to hide behind some plants.

After the door opened, Qi Cheng came out.

The moment she saw him, Ji Yunhuan felt the urge to cry. Considering Big Brother was there, she forcibly held back.

She hadn’t expected that in just ten days without seeing him, Qi Cheng would become so disheveled.

His bangs were a bit messy, covering his eyes, making him look rather haggard, completely unlike his previously glamorous self.

When she was with him, although their financial situation wasn’t good, he always paid attention to his appearance.

Qi Cheng was thinner than before, and his face paler...

Even from a distance, Ji Yunhuan could feel that his health was in terrible shape.

He coughed while locking the door and then walked out.

Ji Yunhuan hid behind the plants. As he passed by, she could see him looking even more miserable.

Big Brother, standing beside her, was not too surprised by this scene. He seemed to have known all along.

Qi Cheng wasn’t walking quickly, but he still walked far away.

Ji Yunhuan looked at Big Brother. Big Brother said, "Let’s go!"

They slowly followed.

Qi Cheng didn’t go anywhere else, just walked along the path he used to take with Ji Yunhuan for their walks.

Even though she had already left with Bai Liyan, he still repeated the things he did with her every day.

Ji Yunhuan followed Qi Cheng from a distance, watching him. His body was in poor condition; he seemed too weak to walk properly, yet he stubbornly continued walking. After leaving that path, he walked forward, heading straight to the seaside...

That was the restaurant they had visited a few times.

Although it was already spring, Jiangling was still cold, especially since he was coughing continuously, with the strong wind by the sea...

Big Brother’s voice came from beside her: "Since you left, he has walked this route every day without fail. One day, he was so sick that he couldn’t get out of bed. I had someone take care of him, but when it was time, he forced himself up and ran out. He fainted and had to be carried back to the villa."

Ji Yunhuan felt her heart wrenching with pain.

She glanced at Big Brother, "You should have stopped him. How could you let him..."

"Do you think it would have made a difference?" Big Brother said, "He wouldn’t listen to anyone. I wanted to take him back to City A, but he refused. There’s nothing I can do. To him, you are his life’s entire meaning. You’ve given up on him. How do you expect him to keep going?"

"..."

Qi Cheng walked along the beach step by step. His illness was so severe that he seemed ready to collapse at any moment.

The wind blew like knives against him, but he didn’t seem to feel the cold, walking along the beach.

She and he used to walk here together. She had said to him, "If one day we grow old, we could still come here to enjoy the scenery. How wonderful would that be!"

He had listened to her, replying earnestly, "For a lifetime."

"What if I die before you?"

"I’ll follow you."

"Don’t you dare!"

"Then I’ll fulfill our dream on my own."

Those fragments of memories slowly spread before her eyes.

The sound of the waves echoed in her ears, those memories, sometimes clear, sometimes blurry...

Even if she wasn’t by his side, did he still remember these words?

They were just casual remarks she had already forgotten, but he took them seriously.

Ji Yunhuan said, "What do you think I should do? If I could, I would never want to leave his side. But... being with him, he has to work nonstop every day and endure all kinds of difficulties from Grandpa..."

"That’s still better than abandoning him like this," Big Brother said. "You should think about it. If you leave him and continue like this, he will really die. I found a doctor for him, but he refused all treatment. He has a death wish."

"..." Ji Yunhuan looked at the distant figure of Qi Cheng, her eyes already blurred with tears.

She thought if she left him, he would at most be sad for a while and then get over it. She hadn’t expected that he would deteriorate so much without her knowing.

Even though he was no longer a child, he was doing such childish things.

From the villa to the seaside took about two hours.

Big Brother told Ji Yunhuan that after she left, Qi Cheng walked this route every day, and only after finishing it would he return to the villa area.

He was always waiting, waiting for Ji Yunhuan to come back, even though he knew she might never return.

But apart from that, he didn’t know what else he could do.

From the seaside back to the villa took another two hours.

Thinking about all the time he wasted on this every day, Ji Yunhuan felt a pain like a knife cutting her heart.

At the door, Qi Cheng took out his key to open the door. Although Ji Yunhuan left when his illness had improved a lot, because he hadn’t taken care of himself, Qi Cheng was now gravely ill, constantly feverish and coughing.

Yet despite his condition, he still held on to his belief, walking that same path every day.

He inserted the key into the lock. Before the door opened, he collapsed.

Having followed him for hours, Ji Yunhuan could no longer hold back. She stepped forward and helped him up from the ground. Big Brother pushed the door open, and they helped Qi Cheng into the villa, placing him on the sofa.

The house was very cold, with no heating on, cold and empty like it wasn’t a home at all.

He was torturing himself in this way.

Big Brother turned on the heat and said to Ji Yunhuan, "You’ve seen it all. Don’t leave him again. Stay here and take care of him. I’ll handle the rest."