The atmosphere in room twenty was freezing. Fatty looked at Han Yu with tenderness, but he didn't know what to say. He felt that Han Yu was no longer the carefree girl eating rabbit legs from two years ago. Two years had created an irreparable sense of estrangement for Fatty.

The common problem with nerds is simplifying complex emotions. Han Yu didn't understand love, always treating Fatty like a brother. She was possessive of Fatty, but she didn't understand what that possessiveness meant. So, when Jennifer barged into their lives, Han Yu only felt disgust towards Jennifer, but she didn't fight for Fatty's affection.

Two years…

Han Yu had experienced too many emotional twists and turns in these two years. Sometimes she would think of Fatty, and sometimes she would miss the days when the four of them adventured together. But time was passing, and people were growing up. Han Yu couldn't escape this natural law.

Ever since Han Yu took over the Z organization from Strange with a mission, she couldn't afford to worry about so-called romantic feelings.

While Fatty was still thinking about his little Yu sister, Han Yu was worried about something else.

In the silence, the door to the ward rang. Someone was knocking lightly.

Li Decha opened the door, and a young man in a black suit and black sunglasses walked in. He was a bodyguard from the Z organization.

The man in black sunglasses whispered something in Han Yu's ear. Han Yu waved her hand, and the man in black sunglasses left.

Han Yu looked at her watch, frowning.

Han Yu sighed softly and said to Fatty, Rouyi, and Jennifer on the hospital bed, "You don't have to worry about the meteor anymore. The Z organization won't monitor you anymore either. You're free. You can go back to your normal lives."

Han Yu's announcement sounded like an order, making them feel uncomfortable. Even Fatty, who always compromised for Han Yu, felt uneasy at this moment.

Han Yu looked at her watch again. "I have something to do, so I have to leave. Brother Shi, take care of yourself. If I have time…"

Han Yu wanted to say something, but she stopped herself. She was ready to leave.

As Han Yu was about to leave the ward, Fatty suddenly stopped her. "Little Yu sister… we… go back to normal (lives), but what about you?"

Han Yu turned her head and forced a smile. She replied to Fatty, "If everything goes well, I can also go back to a normal life soon."

With that, Han Yu didn't linger and turned to leave the ward.

Li Decha followed closely behind.

"Han Yu…"

Rouyi looked at Fatty and said, "Fatty, don't you think Han Yu seems like a different person now?"

Fatty sighed and didn't answer, seeming to agree with Rouyi's statement.

Fatty turned his neck slightly and changed to a side-lying position, with his back to Rouyi and Jennifer.

Fatty's will was somewhat depressed. He asked Rouyi and Jennifer, "Do you… know what Little Yu… sister is busy with… in the Z organization?"

Rouyi answered, "I don't know either. Han Yu has always been secretive and unwilling to reveal anything. It seems like she doesn't treat us as friends anymore."

Fatty was lying on his side, only showing his back to Rouyi and Jennifer. They couldn't see Fatty's face, nor did they know the expression on his face.

Fatty sighed.

"My… phone… where is it?"

Rouyi took a brand-new phone from the cabinet next to the hospital bed and handed it to Fatty, saying, "The number is still your old number."

Fatty opened the phone's address book. As expected, the address book was blank, but Fatty still remembered Han Yu's phone number—the number that Fatty used to stare at every day and recite several times.

Fatty dialed Han Yu's phone number, waiting for the phone prompt—

"I'm sorry, the number you dialed is not in service."

Fatty thought he had dialed the wrong number, so he checked again and dialed it again—

"I'm sorry, the number you dialed is not in service."

Fatty asked Rouyi, "Little Yu… sister's phone number, what is it?"

Rouyi shook her head. "Don't bother. Ever since Han Yu took over the Z organization, everything has changed. We've tried to find her several times, but we couldn't find her in the end. She's like a person hiding in the dark now. She's the only one who can find you; you don't have the chance to find her."

"Is it possible… to find Little Yu… sister… through… your old classmate, Li Decha…?"

Fatty asked with difficulty, seemingly looking for one last chance to contact Han Yu.

"We looked for Li Decha from the beginning, but Li Decha is absolutely loyal to Han Yu. He didn't say any useful information and kept saying that Han Yu was busy, Han Yu wasn't there, Han Yu was on a business trip, and so on. I don't know if Han Yu instructed Li Decha to do so," Rouyi murmured.

"Li… De… Cha…"

Fatty said Li Decha's name word by word, not knowing if it was because of jealousy or something else.

Just now, Han Yu's hasty turn under Fatty's concerned gaze had already pierced Fatty's heart; now, Fatty couldn't dial Han Yu's phone number and couldn't contact Han Yu. His heart was about to break.

Fatty's heart was being rubbed. "Could it be that Han Yu now completely prioritizes the Z organization and has completely given up on me?"

"Am I… going to let go?"

Today is January 1, 2023, New Year's Day.

Happy New Year to everyone, and may everything go well in the new year!