LRAB Chapter 162
Chapter 162
Chapter 162: Chapter 9 Make a Wish Chapter 162: Chapter 9 Make a Wish The next day.
Liu Feng did not go out to attend classes or deliver takeout, which took Li Qiqi by surprise as she sat in her wheelchair:
“Aren’t you going out today?”
In the past two years, Liu Feng had never taken a day off, working tirelessly like a perpetual motion machine.
Li Qiqi had advised him many times to no avail.
So seeing the man she loved actually staying at home for the day had Li Qiqi convinced the sun must have risen from the west.
Liu Feng shook his head with a smile and bustled about the kitchen, making food for Li Qiqi:
“I won’t go out these few days, I’ll stay home with you.
I feel like we’re being haunted by a madman, and I’m worried about your safety.”
Li Qiqi burst into laughter:
“Are you talking about Lin Xian?
He doesn’t seem like a bad person...
...
If he were, he would have acted long ago.”
“Besides, we have nothing of value for anyone to covet with our stark poverty.”
“Yes, I find it strange too.” Liu Feng reduced the flame under the porridge and took off his apron:
“He seems to be unusually obsessed with ‘Introduction to the Cosmological Constant’; I don’t understand where his confidence comes from.”
“I clearly told him that the material is flawed, yet he refuses to believe...
It’s bizarre indeed.”
“The bag of money he gave us, I will return it to him next time we meet.
I do not accept rewards for no merit, and since I cannot give him what he wants, I naturally won’t take his money.”
“What did he say to you yesterday morning?” Li Qiqi wheeled herself to help set the table and looked back at Liu Feng:
“I saw from the window that you two talked for quite a while.”
“...”
Liu Feng did not speak.
He silently served the food from the pan onto plates, came out of the kitchen, and placed them on the table:
“Nothing much, just chit-chatted about this and that.”
...
That entire day, Liu Feng stayed home with Li Qiqi.
Only then did he truly realize the extent of Qi Qi’s illness...
She was taking painkillers almost constantly, as if they were her meals, handful after handful.
Still,
Every so often, Li Qiqi would be pale with pain, sweating from agony.
All along, Liu Feng had been oblivious to these facts!
He was out early and back late every day, and the only times he was home, Qi Qi seemed fine.
He naively thought that she was the same all day long.
Liu Feng was filled with regret.
For such a long time...
he had not noticed the deterioration in Li Qiqi’s condition to such a degree.
He picked up the large bottle of painkillers, shook it, and saw that it was nearly empty.
“Qi Qi...” Liu Feng’s heart ached:
“When did it get this bad?”
Li Qiqi coughed dryly and smiled:
“Isn’t this how cancer is...
It’s just a little pain, nothing else.”
“You should have told me,” Liu Feng said with a complex expression.
“I’m really fine, it’s not usually this frequent.
It just so happens that today it’s a bit severe, and you happened to see.”
Liu Feng looked away.
They had come a long way together since college, and he knew Li Qiqi all too well.
These were just her kind lies.
She must have been eating painkillers like meals for a long time now...
And to keep him from worrying too much, she always showed her best during the limited time he was at home.
But when he was not home, how agonizingly must Qi Qi have been enduring day after day?
At that moment, Liu Feng finally understood Qi Qi’s somber expression when she heard about the meteor shower at the end of the year.
Considering the situation...
Qi Qi definitely wouldn’t make it till then.
Her condition was even more serious than what the doctors had said.
“I was planning...”
Liu Feng’s voice choked up as he took Li Qiqi’s hand:
“I had planned to propose to you during the meteor shower.”
“We are not children anymore, why would you propose!”
Li Qiqi was at once tearful and amused, leaning forward to embrace Liu Feng:
“How could I hold you back...”
...
In the evening.
Liu Feng wheeled Li Qiqi out into the yard, and they both instinctively looked up at the sky in silent agreement.
They both knew the meteor shower wouldn’t come.
“Feng Feng...
look, look!
Meteors!
It’s meteors!”
Li Qiqi’s excited voice came through, instantly choking with tears!
Hearing her, Liu Feng turned his gaze to the right side of the sky.
He stood frozen for a moment, eyes wide open, in disbelief—
A meteor with a yellow tail was descending from the sky!
Like a firework flying in reverse, its tail sparkled brightly, gliding at a faint angle nearly parallel to the Earth’s surface towards the distance!
This...
How could this be possible!?
Liu Feng couldn’t comprehend the bizarre spectacle before his eyes!
What on Earth was this!?
It certainly wasn’t a meteor!
It was too slow...
and lasted too long...
Normal meteors travel tens of kilometers per second, gone in a flash.
But the gliding meteor in front of them was moving too slowly...
lingering in the sky for dozens of seconds, and it was still horizontally gliding!
Then.
Before Liu Feng could figure out what it was...
An even more spectacular event unfolded!
One!
Three!
Five!
Ten!
Dozens!
Hundreds!!
Countless yellow meteors suddenly appeared in the sky, trailing long fireworks tails, igniting the whole night sky like sparks from stars!
Hundreds of meteors crisscrossed through the sky from the south!
The entire world was enveloped by yellow meteors!
Liu Feng and Li Qiqi gaped, the reflection of the meteor shower filling their pupils, stunned beyond words!
This wasn’t an ordinary meteor shower!
This was the kind of meteor shower that appeared only in fairy tales and apocalyptic movies!
Its presence either meant the destruction of the Earth or it was answering a girl’s prayers, fulfilling the purest of human wishes!
“A meteor shower...”
Sudden tears blurred Li Qiqi’s vision, the reflected light from the meteors through her tears making it seem as if she were basking in a holy light:
“Make a wish...
you have to make a wish quickly!”
Li Qiqi hurriedly closed her eyes, pressing her hands together in front of her chest, muttering prayerfully.
Liu Feng, however, continued to stare dumbfounded at the gliding meteors and trailing fireworks...
He didn’t understand how Lin Xian had done it.
But this fake meteor shower was more spectacular than all the real meteor showers in the world combined!
No natural meteor shower could produce hundreds of meteors falling at the same time!
And each one lasting nearly a minute!
By the time Li Qiqi opened her eyes after making her wish, the shower of hundreds of simultaneously falling meteors still hadn’t ended.
Their trails wove a yellow dreamcatcher across the sky...
capturing the girl’s wish, replying with hundreds of ‘received’.
“This isn’t a real meteor shower...”
Ultimately, Liu Feng, always the rigorous science student, couldn’t help but articulate his conclusion.
However...
Li Qiqi, a graduate in astronomy, couldn’t have failed to realize this, right?
At that moment, it was as if all her pain had vanished.
She looked down with a smile, took Liu Feng’s right hand, placed it on her face, and spoke with happiness and contentment:
“This is a real meteor shower.”
“Just like the meteor shower I imagined...”
“It’s wonderful, allowing me such a long wish.”
Liu Feng looked down at Li Qiqi:
“What did you wish for?”
Li Qiqi shook her head:
“Wouldn’t the wish no longer come true if I told you?”
She looked up with a giggle, the pupils of her eyes reflecting the gradually fading meteors, and looked at Liu Feng:
“Actually...
I’ve had a gift prepared for you for a long time, I just never found the right moment to give it to you.”
“What is it?” Liu Feng asked, a bit surprised.
“Wait for me, okay~ And no peeking!”
Li Qiqi wheeled herself back into the house...