Chapter 35: The Man Has Passed Away

  Half a month later, Mo Wei came back.

  She dragged a dirty suitcase and stood at the door of Cheng Zhiyi's house, pressing the doorbell. The last rays of the setting sun shone on her, casting a golden glow on her pale face, making her look slightly more vibrant.

  Cheng Zhiyi walked in her slippers to open the door and saw a disheveled girl standing outside, she almost didn't recognize her! Was this Mo Wei? It had only been twenty-something days since they last met, how did she become so thin? Her eyes were sunken, her eyelids red and swollen, her face pale, her lips dry and cracked, and her beautiful eyes dull and lifeless.

  Cheng Zhiyi pulled over a suitcase from Mo Wei's hand, while gently putting her arm around her shoulder and asked with concern: "You're finally back! It's only been twenty or so days since we last saw each other, how did you become so thin?! Although it's inevitable to suffer a bit when one is away from home, but still, it shouldn't be to the point where she became as thin as a stick and didn't look like a person anymore!"

  Mo Wei stood still at the entrance of the door and did not follow Cheng Qiyin into the yard.

  Cheng Zhiyi turned her head to look back, but saw that Mo Wei's face, without any makeup, was already covered with tears. Her big round eyes looked at Cheng Zhiyi with unbearable sadness. "Holding hands and looking into each other's tearful eyes, yet unable to speak", in that instant, Cheng Zhiyi felt the immense sorrow flowing out from Mo Wei's innermost heart, enough to overwhelm all the happiness of this life!

  These days, Mo Wei has cried countless times! Every time she thinks of Shi Yi Xin, she can't help but burst into tears, as if all the tears in her life are going to be shed for him at this moment, and from then on, her heart will be dry and cracked, unable to nurture elegant lotus flowers or reflect floating clouds.

  On the way back from the airport, Mo Wei finally managed to hold back her tears. She didn't want to let Cheng Zhiyi see her in such a state of despair. However, when she saw Cheng Zhiyi, she couldn't help but burst into tears - seeing her dear friend who was like a sister to her made her heart soften instantly, and the sadness that had been lurking inside her was awakened - from now on, I only have Zhiyi to rely on!

  Seeing Mo Wei's great sorrow, Cheng Zhiyi was frightened and asked anxiously: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened?"

  However, Mo Wei bit her dry lower lip tightly and sobbed silently, but didn't say a word. Cheng Zhiyi became anxious, stretched out her hand to grab Mo Wei's shoulders and shook her, trying to wake her up from her sorrow: "Wei... what happened? You won't even say anything!"

  "He's dead...... Ahhh...... He's dead......" Mo Wei finally couldn't hold back, embracing Cheng Zhiyi and burying her face in her shoulder, wailing loudly while saying "Shi Yixin is dead...... Shi Yixin is dead...... This is real, it's really true...... He's dead, wuuu......"

  What's going on? How can this be? How could this happen?!

  Cheng Zhi was stunned, as if she had been cast a petrifying spell, her whole body stiffened and allowed Mo Wei to hold her, her mind a complete blank - how could this be? Shi Yi Xin was only thirty years old, he was still so young! How could he have died?!

  In front of him, a gentle and elegant figure gradually emerged. He always looked at Mo Wei with deep affection, as if she was the most precious treasure in the world; he always indulged Mo Wei's spoiled temper, his eyes filled with endless doting love; he treated people with humility and courtesy, always smiling at everyone, and when he smiled, two deep dimples would appear...

  Xi Yin is such a kind and excellent boy! Originally, after graduating from college, he could have been directly admitted to F University in Shanghai as a graduate student. However, for Mo Wei, he chose to stay at Baishui City First Middle School as an ordinary math teacher. Even when Mo Wei's parents strongly opposed their relationship, Xi Yin always bravely faced it...

  How could a boy with such courage and responsibility become a deserter in the battlefield of love? How could he disappear as quietly as the wind?!

  After crying bitterly, Mo Wei finally told the twists and turns of it all.

  It turned out that as a reward for helping Xu Shaoyan catch Cheng Zhiyi, Xu Shaoyan helped Mo Wei find the news that Shi Yixin was in Shanghai. After hearing Xu Shaoyan's "intelligence", Mo Wei rushed to Shanghai in a hurry, but after turning around and finding old friends, she heard the bad news that Shi Yixin had fallen ill and died last autumn!

  It is said that Shi Yi Xin died of stomach cancer, and he struggled for more than a year before dying alone in the hospital; It is said that when he was ill, he still thought of Mo Wei day and night, writing letters to her every day while lying on his sickbed; It is said that he often woke up at midnight, tormented by longing and pain, unable to sleep; It is said that before his death, he cried bitterly, not because he feared death, but because he could not fulfill the vow he made with Mo Wei "to hold hands together, and grow old together".

  Mo Wei naturally did not believe her friend's "lie", she insisted that Shi Yi Xin was trying to avoid her and deliberately let her friends make up such a big lie, besides, she had never received the so-called "letter written by Shi Yi Xin on her sickbed"!

  Finally, the friend took Mo Wei to the hospital and found Shi Yixin's "attending doctor", and checked the relevant medical records. However, Mo Wei still insisted that this was a scam and refused to believe that Shi Yixin had passed away until she traveled thousands of miles to Shi Yixin's hometown in Hunan...

  It turns out that all of this is true!

  The man who had been on her mind day and night, the man who made her love and hate intertwined, the man who was driven away by her parents, the man she had been waiting for in vain, it turned out that he had really lost his life to illness. And all of this, she only found out more than a year after Shi Yi Xin's death from someone else's mouth!

  We parted without a word, now we are on opposite sides of life and death, separated by the heavens and the underworld. Above, the blue sky is endless, below, the yellow springs are boundless, both places are vague and unseen. The long days and nights have an end, but this sorrow has no end!

  If it is said that distance can be traversed, and time can be waited out, then life and death are like summer and winter, forever unable to meet! "Deep feelings from the start, yet shallow fate", was it destined from the beginning that she and Shi Yi Xin would be a tragic tale?

  She had long since convinced herself that it was her parents who 'drove' Shi Yi Xin to death - if they hadn't forcibly separated her and Shi Yi Xin, how would Shi Yi Xin have become so heartbroken and died with resentment?

  At this moment, only a good cry can alleviate the pain and regret deep in Mo Wei's heart - the pain is their tragic love that ended with death, the sorrow is for Xi Xin's vigorous and lively life, the regret is for not being able to be by his side to face the cruel death, and the hatred is for herself not going to look for him!

  She ultimately still missed by a step, and thus was destined to regret for a lifetime!