Chapter 2 Next Day

Liu Feng didn't go out to class, nor did he deliver food. Li Qiqi, sitting in her wheelchair, looked at him in surprise.

"Today...aren't you going out?"

In the past two years, Liu Feng had never rested a single day, like a perpetual motion machine, constantly busy.

Li Qiqi had advised him many times, but to no avail.

So, seeing her beloved man actually staying home today, Li Qiqi felt like the sun had risen in the west.

Liu Feng shook his head with a smile, rummaging through the kitchen to cook for Li Qiqi.

"I won't go out these few days. I'll stay home with you. I feel like we're being stalked by a psychopath. I'm worried about your safety."

Li Qiqi chuckled.

"Are you talking about Lin Xian? He doesn't seem like a bad guy at all... If he really was, he would have already taken action."

"Besides, we're penniless, what could we possibly have that people would want?"

"Yeah, I find it strange too." Liu Feng turned down the heat on the porridge and took off his apron.

"He seems awfully fixated on the *Introduction to the Anomalies of the Cosmological Constant*. I don't understand where he gets his confidence."

"I've already told him plainly that it's wrong, but he still doesn't believe me… It's really strange."

"I'll return that bag of money to him next time I see him. I can't accept something for nothing. I can't give him what he wants, so naturally I won't take his money."

"What did he say to you yesterday morning?" Li Qiqi wheeled her chair over and helped set the table, turning to look at Liu Feng.

"I saw you two talking for a long time from the window."

"..."

Liu Feng didn't speak.

He silently scooped the stir-fried dish from the wok onto a plate, walked out of the kitchen, and placed it on the table.

"Nothing, we just chatted casually."

…

Liu Feng stayed home with Li Qiqi all day.

He truly realized the extent of Qiqi's illness…

She took painkillers like they were candy, almost non-stop, swallowing handfuls at a time.

But even so.

Before long, Li Qiqi's face would turn pale, and she would be in so much pain that she would be covered in cold sweat.

Liu Feng had been unaware of all this!

He left early and returned late every day. During the limited time he spent at home, Qiqi seemed fine, and he naively assumed she was like that all day.

Liu Feng felt regret.

For so long… he hadn't noticed that Li Qiqi's condition had deteriorated to this point.

He picked up the large bottle of painkillers, shook it, and found that it was almost empty.

"Qiqi…" Liu Feng's heart ached.

"When did you become like this?"

Li Qiqi coughed lightly and smiled.

"Cancer is just like this… It just hurts a little, nothing else."

"You should have told me." Liu Feng's expression was complicated.

"I'm really fine, it's usually not this frequent. It's just a coincidence that it's a little more serious today, and you happened to catch it."

Liu Feng looked away.

They had been together since college, and he knew Li Qiqi too well.

This was just one of her kind lies.

She must have been taking painkillers like this for a long time…

And to keep him from worrying too much, she always showed him her best side during his limited time at home.

When he wasn't home, what kind of agonizing days was Qiqi living?

At that moment, Liu Feng understood the sadness in Qiqi's expression when she heard about the meteor shower at the end of the year.

Judging by the situation…

Qiqi definitely wouldn't make it until then.

Her condition was even more serious than the doctor had said.

"I was still planning…"

Liu Feng's voice choked, and he took Li Qiqi's hand.

"I was originally planning to propose to you while we watched the meteor shower."

"We're not kids anymore, why propose?"

Li Qiqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She leaned forward and hugged Liu Feng.

"How could I hold you back…"

…

That evening.

Liu Feng pushed Li Qiqi into the yard, and they looked up at the sky in unison.

They both knew the meteor shower wouldn't come.

It was no use watching it how many ever times.

The formation of a meteor shower mainly relies on the particulate matter left behind when a comet sweeps through its orbit… This particulate matter is attracted by Earth's gravity and enters the atmosphere at extremely high speeds, burning up in a very short time, forming streaks of fleeting light.

Meteors might be encountered occasionally, but meteor showers don't appear out of thin air.

Neither of them spoke.

Liu Feng never told Li Qiqi what Lin Xian had said.

Because he knew very well…

Creating a meteor shower artificially was impossible no matter what. Lin Xian's inexplicable confidence in the matter was like his inexplicable confidence in the *Introduction to the Anomalies of the Cosmological Constant* – unrealistic.

But now, Liu Feng, who believed that mathematics and physics were absolute, had a glimmer of hope. He began to wish that Lin Xian could really bring down a meteor shower.

He knew this idea was absurd.

But was he really going to let Qiqi leave with such a regret?

If he could fulfill Qiqi's greatest dream and let her see a meteor shower before she died… Liu Feng was willing to do anything.

"Let's go back inside, Qiqi, it's getting windy," Liu Feng said softly.

"Okay."

Li Qiqi nodded gently and closed her eyes.

…

In the days that followed.

Lin Xian never showed up.

That man, like a plaster, had disappeared without a trace.

Every morning after waking up, Liu Feng would immediately walk out of the yard and look at the wall where the man had leaned.

He didn't know what he was expecting.

But the disappointment that washed over him every day also made him feel that Qiqi was drifting further and further away from this world.

…

Another week passed.

Liu Feng didn't know if it was his imagination or if he was only realizing it now, but he felt that Qiqi's physical condition was getting worse and worse…

Like an old bellows, like a flickering candle in the wind.

"Maybe I should spend more time with you."

Liu Feng hugged Li Qiqi in the wheelchair from behind, as if he couldn't feel her body temperature.

"I think I did a problem wrong…"

He said softly.

"I worked hard to make money, wanting to cure you, but in the end, not only did I not cure you, but I also wasted the time I could have spent with you."

"Looking at the result, it seems like I chose the wrong option, and I didn't leave anything behind."

"Life isn't a math problem, there's no right answer." Li Qiqi trembled as she reached out and stroked her lover's face.

"Not every problem has an answer, and not everything can be divided into absolute right and wrong."

Li Qiqi didn't touch her dinner on the table.

She couldn't eat anything, not a single bite.

Outside the window, the moon climbed up the treetops, and darkness enveloped the whole world. Tonight, the moonlight was very bright, not a good night for stargazing.

"I really… want to see a meteor shower…"

Li Qiqi closed her eyes. Two tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, dripping onto the white绒 collar, blending into the silk, disappearing without a trace.

I really want to make a wish…

This was the only thing she could do for Liu Feng.

Dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling————

The sudden ringing of the phone.

Liu Feng looked at his vibrating phone on the table.

It was a strange number… The caller ID showed the location:

Dragon Country, Donghai.

Could it be…?

Liu Feng widened his eyes, hurriedly picked up the phone, and pressed the answer button.

"Hello?"

"Liu Feng, push Qiqi into the yard." Lin Xian's voice on the phone was a little ethereal, sounding like the signal wasn't very good, but it was still clear.

"Remember to look at the southern sky."

Beep beep.

After saying that, the phone hung up.

Liu Feng was puzzled and exchanged glances with Li Qiqi.

But he still followed Lin Xian's instructions, put a thicker blanket on Qiqi, and pushed her wheelchair into the yard.

The two of them looked up at the southern sky together.

The moonlight was very bright, making the entire night sky dim…

Liu Feng was puzzled.

What could they see in such bright moonlight? Even if there really was a meteor shower, it would be impossible to see it clearly.

However!

The wheelchair under his hands suddenly shook!

"Feng Feng… quick, look! A meteor! It's a meteor!"

Li Qiqi's excited voice came, and she instantly burst into tears!

Liu Feng heard this and looked towards the sky on the right.

He was stunned in place, his eyes wide, unable to believe it—

A meteor with a yellow tail fell from the sky!

Like a firework in reverse, its tail trailing bright sparks, gliding into the distance at a weak angle almost parallel to the ground!

This…

How is this possible!?

Liu Feng couldn't understand this strange scene in front of him at all!

What exactly is this!?

This is definitely not a meteor!

It's too slow… and the duration is too long…

Normal meteors travel at speeds of tens of kilometers per second, fleeting in an instant.

But the gliding meteor in front of him was relatively slow… gliding in the sky for dozens of seconds, and still gliding horizontally!

Then.

Before Liu Feng had time to figure out what this was…

An even more spectacular sight appeared!

One!

Three!

Five!

Ten!

Dozens!

Hundreds!!

Countless yellow meteors suddenly appeared in the sky! Trailing long firework tails, like sparks igniting the entire night sky!

Hundreds of meteors streaked across the southern sky like weaving a net! The whole world was surrounded by yellow meteors!

Liu Feng and Li Qiqi opened their mouths wide, their pupils reflecting the meteor shower that filled the sky, too shocked to speak!

This isn't a normal meteor shower!

This is a meteor shower that can only appear in fairy tales and doomsday movies!

Its appearance would either destroy the world, or respond to the girl's prayers and fulfill the most beautiful wishes on earth!

"A meteor shower…"

The tears that suddenly welled up blurred Li Qiqi's vision, and the light of the meteors refracted by the tears made her feel as if she were bathed in holy light.

"Make… a wish! I have to make a wish quickly!"

Li Qiqi hurriedly closed her eyes, clasped her hands together in front of her chest, chanting words in her mouth, extremely devout.

Liu Feng was still staring blankly at the meteors and trailing fireworks gliding across the sky…

He didn't understand how Lin Xian did it.

But…

This fake meteor shower was more spectacular than all the real meteor showers in the world combined!

No naturally formed meteor shower could have hundreds of meteors falling at the same time! And each one lasting nearly a minute!

Until Li Qiqi finished making her wish and opened her eyes… the meteor shower with hundreds of meteors falling at the same time still hadn't ended.

The trajectories they drew in the sky wove a yellow dream catcher… holding the girl's wish, replying with hundreds of acknowledgments.

"This isn't a real meteor shower…"

In the end, Liu Feng, the rigorous science student, couldn't help but say his conclusion.

However…

Could Li Qiqi, who graduated with a degree in astronomy, not see it?

At this moment, as if all the pain had disappeared, she smiled and took Liu Feng's right hand, pressed it against her face, and said happily and cheerfully:

"This is a real meteor shower."

"Just like the meteor shower I imagined…"

"It's so nice, it let me make such a long wish."

Liu Feng looked down at Li Qiqi.

"What did you wish for?"

Li Qiqi shook her head.

"Doesn't the wish not come true if you say it out loud?"

She looked up and smiled, her pupils reflecting the gradually dissipating meteors, and looked at Liu Feng.

"Actually… I've had a gift for you for a long time, but I haven't found the right opportunity to give it to you."

"What is it?" Liu Feng was a little surprised.

"Wait for me for a moment, no peeking!"

Li Qiqi wheeled her chair and went into the house alone…