Fu Xiaotang felt a pang of deep sorrow, “Don’t talk, the doctor is coming soon, you’ll be fine, you definitely will be!”
“You still… won’t forgive me?” Song Li’s face was filled with despair and grief, then he coughed up blood. Fu Xiaotang was terrified, looking around and shouting, “Doctor, where’s the doctor? Help, someone!”
She held Song Li tightly, as if trying to transfer her body’s warmth to his increasingly cold body, “You’ll be okay, you definitely will be okay.”
Song Li’s lips moved, seemingly smiling, “I… I always make you cry.”
Fu Xiaotang shook her head vigorously, “No.”
Song Li moved closer, with great effort, one word at a time, finally uttering, “Xiaotang, I… I love you!” After saying this, he seemed to have used up all his strength, his body went limp, his head tilted to the side, and there was no further response.
Fu Xiaotang felt the weight in her arms sink, looking at Song Li lying still in her embrace, time seemed to stand still. Her mind reeled, she tried to open her eyes, pushing him in disbelief, “Song Li, Song Li.” Finally, unable to control herself, she cried out in panic, as if trying to salvage something, “Song Li, don’t die, please don’t die, I forgive you, I forgive you, don’t die.”
The surrounding Song Li’s mother and sister, seeing Fu Xiaotang like this, also burst into tears. One called for her son, the other for her brother, the scene chaotic.
Liu Yi, watching Song Li close his eyes in a pool of blood, initially struggled to drop the gun, her face turning pale with fear, not daring to move. Later, hearing the cries, believing Song Li was surely dead, her expression changed several times before she started to laugh maniacally, tears streaming down her face, like a madwoman, “He’s dead, hahaha, he’s really dead, I killed him.”
Fang Junjie pushed through the crowd, squatted down, calmly checked Song Li’s neck pulse, and then looked at his eyes, before finding something to press on his wound to slow the bleeding, whispering with certainty, “He’s fine, he just fainted, he’s still breathing.”
