“You don’t want to! Have you ever tried to live one more day? No! You just want to be relieved quickly, to move into that damn cemetery! Go ahead and die, I’ll take the child and die with you, we’ll all be relieved together!”
Yuluo was already by his side, she lay on top of him and began to cry. After crying for a while, she raised her head, “Fang Yuzhe, everything I said is true, I’ve already decided to do it.”
“No matter how you push me, I’m powerless!”
“You can do it, I believe you can!”
“Tell me how I can do it! I’ll do everything you say! But if there’s still no way, you and the child should live well—”
“No! There’s no room for negotiation. Either you live, or we all go to the other world together.”
“Are you crazy? Are you trying to drive me to death?”
“What if I drive you to death? Your life isn’t worth much in your own eyes anyway!”
Yuluo firmly refused to let Fang Yuzhe stay in the hospital, and even Fang’s father couldn’t persuade her.
“Dad, let me go back.”
On the first night back home, Yuluo hugged Fang Yuzhe in bed and spoke some nonsensical words.
“Recently, I’ve been reading medical books. One book says the human body is like a country, the brain is the central government, blood vessels are transportation hubs, the digestive system is an energy station, the liver and kidneys are sewage treatment plants… basically, each organ corresponds to a department crucial to the country’s survival.”
Fang Yuzhe didn’t understand her meaning, he was only worried she might do something foolish and didn’t know how to dissuade her.
“If it’s a country, it has an army. Your body has an army too – white blood cells, phagocytes, and other powerful things I don’t know the names of! They can kill invaders and protect your life!”
“Maybe my army has been defeated.”
“No! It’s because you, the general, don’t know how to encourage them. You must believe they will win, that they are invincible, just like you said about weeds, with tenacious vitality!”
“I know you really want me to live—”
