Why is this Alpha like that?

Sheng Ming put down the book and looked up at the door.

Normally at this time, Sheng Yunze had already gone home.

"Dad hasn't come back yet?" Sheng Xi rubbed her eyes and hugged her brother.

Sheng Ming turned a page of the book, as if comforting himself and Sheng Xi: "Maybe we'll be back after we finish drinking the milk."

Sheng Xi couldn't wait to finish the hot milk brought by the nanny, then turned her head to look at the clock, feeling a little sad: "It's already seven o'clock."

The door was opened, Sheng Xi was shocked, and turned her head to look over.

It wasn't Sheng Yunze who came.

Sheng Xi stood up, stumbled and ran, and plunged into Xiao Duan's mother's arms: "Grandma!"

Xiao Duan's mother looked haggard, and her face was bloodless. Sheng Xi was keenly aware of her pain, wiped the wet tears on Xiao Duan's face with her hand, and tilted her head in doubt: "Grandma, why are you crying?" gone?"

Xiao Duan's mother kissed her on the cheek: "It's okay...it's okay..."

Sheng Xi kept wiping Xiao Duan's mother's tears, and innocently said, "Where's Dad?"

Xiao Duan's mother: "Dad will be back soon, will grandma accompany you tonight?"

Children's sensitivity to atmosphere is almost innate. After asking Sheng Yunze's whereabouts many times but failed, Sheng Xi showed an indescribable loneliness on his face.

Sheng Ming quietly took his hand, and the two children just stood there, looking at her with clear eyes.

Suddenly, Xiao Duan's mother couldn't stop crying, and said in an almost begging tone: "Go to sleep... go to sleep, okay?"

Sheng Ming felt as if he had touched a vague truth, which was very dangerous and unacceptable.

His heart was filled with confusion and fear for a moment.

Sheng Ming didn't say anything, grabbed Sheng Xi's hand, and the two went back to the room together.

After helping his younger brother to wash up, Sheng Ming also finished washing himself, changed into his pajamas, and the two of them sat on the bed, neither lying down to sleep.

Xiao Duan's mother gently covered them with the quilt, and Sheng Xi said, "Grandma, tomorrow is my brother and I's birthday."

Xiao Duan's mother looked at them tenderly. Time had not left traces on this beauty's face. When she looked at Sheng Xi like this, the angle was very similar to Duan Yi.

Sheng Xi grabbed her long hair and said in a low voice, a little coquettishly: "I miss my mother."

Xiao Duan's mother's heart throbbed uncontrollably for a moment, and restrained her strong desire to cry out loudly, she choked up and said, "It will be better tomorrow."

Sheng Xi persisted: "Grandma..."

Xiao Duan's mother pressed him on the pillow: "Go to sleep, it will be fine when you fall asleep."

She wanted to tell herself the same.

It's fine when you fall asleep, and you won't suffer when you fall asleep.

It's just that after the sun rises tomorrow, endless nightmares will follow one after another.

Sheng Ming handed the storybook to Xiao Duan's mother: "Grandma, can you tell stories?"

Xiao Duan's mother took the storybook, and Sheng Ming said, "Daddy tells it to us every night."

He hesitated for a moment, and said, "Is dad going to work overtime tonight?"

Xiao Duan's mother pretended to be relaxed: "Well, what do you want to hear, baby?" Sheng Ming hid himself under the blanket, only showing a pair of eyes, innocently: "I want to listen to The Happy Prince."

Xiao Duan's mother opened the fairy tale book: "...Why can't you be like the Happy Prince? A wise mother said to her little son who was crying for the moon: The Happy Prince never dreamed of crying for anything... ..."

She was a little surprised when she read this sentence, she looked up at Sheng Ming and Sheng Xi, their heads were leaning against each other, they had obediently closed their eyes and prepared to fall asleep.

"So saying, he kissed the Happy Prince on the lips, and fell dead at the Prince's feet."

"At this very moment there came a strange cracking sound from within the statue, as if something had broken. It was the leaden heart of the Happy Prince that was split in two. It has been a dreadful, unbearable winter..."

Xiao Duan's mother continued to read until she finished reading this sad fairy tale, and she couldn't cry.

In the quiet room, there was only the muffled sound of Duan's mother's suppressed sobs and the soft pat on the quilt.

After a long time, the door of the room creaked shut.

There is only a small night light in the house, which adds a bit of dispensable warmth to the empty room.

After a while, Sheng Xi opened her eyes and tugged at Sheng Xi's sleeve: "Brother, are you asleep?"

Sheng Ming himself had short arms and hands, but he tried his best to hold his younger brother in his arms: "Grandma said let's go to bed quickly, why don't you go to sleep?"

Sheng Xi lowered her eyelashes: "Brother, I feel bad."

Sheng Ming: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Sheng Xi shook her head: "I don't know."

He repeated blankly: "I don't know, I think I want to cry."

Sheng Xi buried her face in her brother's arms, sobbing softly for no reason.

Sheng Ming's heart was empty, and when Sheng Xi cried, his nose became sore, and he wiped his eyes hard with his hands.

"I want to see Dad..." Sheng Xi cried more and more sadly, as if someone had taken away a piece of his heart: "I want to see Dad, brother..."

Sheng Ming wanted to say that Dad might be working overtime, just like he used to.

Sometimes it was too late to come back after working overtime, and after the nanny fell asleep, he and Sheng Xi were the only ones in the room.

Obviously today is not an exception, but the fear in Sheng Ming's heart is getting stronger and stronger.

The strange expression of the grandmother, the hesitation of the nannies, and the father who had no news made the child feel naturally uneasy.

There is also a little unspeakable emotional connection in the dark, when Duan Yi lost consciousness, it made them feel sad and frightened, tossing and turning.

No one slept well that night, Sheng Xi was tired from crying, she closed her eyes twitching, unable to resist the strong sleepiness, she slowly fell asleep.

Sheng Ming hugged his younger brother and waited until he fell asleep before slowly closing his eyes. When he woke up the next morning, the eye sockets of the two children were red.

When Xiao Duan's mother saw her, she immediately knew what happened after she left.

But strangely, none of the three said anything about last night.

Sheng Ming and Sheng Xi behaved as usual, got up, brushed their teeth, washed their faces, and ate.

Just like any normal morning.

When Xiao Duan's mother was eating, she gently put down her chopsticks: "Baby, you don't have to go to kindergarten for a while, can you live at home with grandma?" Sheng Xi looked up, then nodded silently.

At noon, Sheng Yunxi called, and Xiao Duan's mother's bloodless face became even paler.

The two children sat on the sofa absent-mindedly, and couldn't even watch their favorite cartoons.

Every few minutes, he would turn his head to look at Xiao Duan's mother, his eyes fixed on her.

Although they were small, they also felt the unusual atmosphere at home.

It's just that they are too young to understand the meaning of such a heavy atmosphere. They only have a heart hanging up and down, as if they are waiting for the final judgment to come.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Duan's mother arranged for a driver to go to the hospital.

Sheng Ming and Sheng Xi didn't bring them into the car, the two of them were silent at the same time, only holding hands tightly together, as if to give each other some strength and comfort.

When the car arrived at the hospital, Xiao Duan's mother hugged Sheng Xi and then led Sheng Ming into the building next door. The elevator reached the eleventh floor and opened slowly.

There are almost no patients on this floor, the snow-white floor, the snow-white walls, and the doctors' clothes are all white, as if entering another world.

Sheng Xi looked at everything around him blankly, and then went to find his brother's eyes.

Sheng Ming's hands trembled violently, as if aware of what he was about to face next, even his breathing became cautious.

At the door of the intensive care unit, Xiao Duan's mother suddenly knelt down and hugged Sheng Ming and Sheng Xi in her arms.

Sheng Ming hugged Xiao Duan's mother quietly, trying to transfer his small and weak strength to Xiao Duan's mother who looked as fragile as a piece of paper.

Xiao Duan's mother kissed their foreheads: "Baby, I heard from grandma that Mommy went back to China last night, but something happened on the way..."

Sheng Xi listened quietly, her eyes fixed on Xiao Duan's mother for a moment.

Facing the child's eyes, Xiao Duan's mother suddenly couldn't say a word. She choked up for a long time and stared at Sheng Xi.

It was as if he had been waiting for the answer at this moment. After countless guesses and worries, Ling Chi's knife finally ushered in.

Sheng Xi's tears fell without excessive.

Huge teardrops hit the ground hard one by one.

There was no expression on his face, he just wiped his face vigorously, and then continued to look at Xiao Duan's mother.

Xiao Duan's mother lowered her head, then wiped away the tears on her face, and squeezed out a smile that was more sad than crying: "I am in the hospital now, and my father was also in the hospital last night. Grandma will take you in now, okay? You can go in for 15 minutes and come out when the time is up, you know?"

Sheng Ming turned his head and stared at the door of the intensive care unit, as if he wanted to stare a hole there.

The nurse couldn't bear it, opened the door, Sheng Ming walked in step by step, then slowly accelerated, stumbling, almost crawling and running in.

He didn't dare to make a sound, and even when he cried, he bit his lips hard until he saw Duan Yi lying on the bed.

Pale face, lips paler than face.

Duan Yi just closed his eyes calmly, as if he was dead, and his eyelashes never trembled.

The lower half of the face is covered with a ventilator, hidden under a thin sheet, and the ups and downs of life can hardly be felt.

Quietly, only the sound of the machine "di, di, di" can be heard.

The strange machine in the room, the terrifying long needle, the strangely colored infusion bag, and the long infusion tube falling down, did not seem to be infusing Duan, as if they were trying to take away the last bit of strength in his life.

Sheng Ming wanted to grab Duan Yi's hand, but there were infusion needles buried everywhere in his hand, he didn't know where to grab it, his hand paused in mid-air for a while, and only grabbed the corner of his clothes.

Duan Yi had already changed from yesterday's blood-stained clothes, and was wearing a strange sterile hospital gown that Sheng Ming had never seen before.

His hands trembled, and he wanted to look back at Xiao Duan's mother, but he saw Sheng Yunze standing at the door.

"Father..." Sheng Ming called out.

Sheng Yunze seemed to be Sheng Yunze, but at the same time he didn't seem to be Sheng Yunze.

Sheng Ming has grown so big, he has never seen Sheng Yunze showing such a side, powerless as if he will disappear in the next second.

There was fear in his heart, and tears could hardly stop falling. Fear caused him to plunge into Sheng Yunze's arms, and tugged at his clothes: "Father!"

Sheng Yunze brought Sheng Ming and Sheng Xi out, and the door of the intensive care unit was slowly closed.

Only then did Sheng Xi wake up, crying heartbreakingly, trying to break free from him, and ran to Duan Yi's side again, he struggled fiercely in Sheng Yunze's arms.

Sheng Xi wailed loudly, although she didn't understand the meaning of life and death, she also felt that a layer of glass separated the two worlds.

Duan Yi's world is very quiet, although his world is noisy, but he doesn't want it.

The child's tearing cries echoed in the corridor, Sheng Xi couldn't stop crying, as soon as he let go, he would run to the intensive care unit.

Sheng Yunze held him in his arms, as if he was holding his last hope. He tried his best to get some comfort from the child, and hugged Sheng Xi hard.

Sheng Xi felt that her shoulders were wet, and gradually stopped struggling, and quietly opened her eyes, staring blankly at a blank wall.

"Father, I won't cry anymore." Sheng Xi seemed to have not recovered from the great grief, her voice was still pausing, her speech was still stammering, and she said in a crying tone, "You don't cry anymore..."

Sheng Yunze still hugged Sheng Xi fiercely and remained motionless. Sheng Xi moved a little away and wiped his face carefully.

He had never seen Sheng Yunze like this before, so he could vaguely realize that Duan Yi might not simply be sick or catch a cold.

Because of this, Sheng Xi couldn't restrain her body trembling with fear.

Like fallen leaves in the wind, trembling in Sheng Yunze's arms.

When Sheng Yunxi rushed over, she saw Sheng Ming standing in front of the intensive care unit, she paused, and said, "Honey, come to Auntie, and let Dad stay alone for a while."

Sheng Ming has been lying on the huge glass since just now. He is not as willful as Sheng Xi, but no one can pull him away. He just stares at Duan Yi, hoping to see him sitting on the hospital bed in the next second. Get up, greet him, or hold him in your arms and rub his face as usual.

"I'll just wait here." Sheng Ming stood stubbornly, resembling his father at the time: "He can see me at a glance when he wakes up."

While speaking, he raised his arm to wipe away tears, Sheng Ming turned his head: "Auntie, you can go, I will wait alone."

Sheng Yunxi squatted down, not knowing how to explain to Sheng Ming: "Baby..."

She glanced up and stopped the tears that were about to fall: "I called you here today just to take a look... Baby, you must always remember..."

"I don't want it." Sheng Ming refuted Sheng Yunxi for the first time. He seemed to know something, and couldn't help crying again: "I don't want...I don't want it! I don't want it!!"

It's like pressing pause to not see a favorite character die.

Duan Yi likes to do this, and Sheng Ming, like him, has learned to avoid it.

"You go, aunt, I'm going to wait here for my mother to wake up..."

While crying, Sheng Ming pushed Sheng Yunxi hard, trying to push her away.Then sit on the ground with your arms around your legs, curling yourself into a position that feels safest.

"Let's go, auntie, I can just wait alone..."

He kept sobbing, trembling all over, crying so sadly that Sheng Yunxi couldn't say a word.

Sheng Yunxi turned his head and couldn't bear to look, the windows in the corridor were obviously open, but the sunlight outside couldn't shine in.

She heard the children's cries getting quieter, Sheng Xi fell asleep peacefully in Sheng Yunze's arms, Sheng Ming leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, as if he was tired from crying too.

Sheng Yunxi gently hugged Sheng Ming, his hands were still tightly grasping the edge of the wall, Sheng Yunxi opened his fingers one by one, Sheng Ming was restless in his sleep, when his five fingers could not grasp things, As if feeling that she was about to be carried away, her brows were slightly frowned, and tears slid sideways into her hair.

"I'll take them to sleep for a while." Sheng Yunxi picked up Sheng Xi, and she looked at Sheng Yunze: "Brother... you can stay with Duan Yi for a while..."

Sheng Yunze didn't look at her, and didn't reply, Sheng Yunxi: "You understand what the doctor means, it's just happened in the past two days, I know it's hard for you to accept, bro—"

Sheng Yunze stood up and passed her by, Sheng Yunxi hurriedly shouted: "Brother!"

She wanted to say something more, but realized something, and swallowed it.

The door of the intensive care unit was opened again.

The nurse was a little hesitant, wanting to say that it would be bad for the patient to enter the intensive care unit so frequently.

But when he thought that the young man on the bed was about to die, he was relieved again, with a little unbearable expression on his face: he was about to die, let the family members see more.

To this day, there is no expert doctor in the hospital who can guarantee that Duan Yi can survive these two days.

He didn't escape from the 24-hour emergency mentioned yesterday. Just two hours after he came out, he was suddenly pushed back into the emergency room due to complications caused by heart failure.

During this period, the heart went into cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, and then it was urgently used on ecmo. The machines in the hospital airlifted a batch of top-notch machines from abroad by private jet in the early hours of last night, and they could burn thousands of yuan per second. Unfortunately, even if Even the most top-notch machine failed to last too much time for Duan Yi's life.

At [-]:[-] noon the next day, the doctor finally reluctantly informed the patient's family members that anyone who could come could arrange to come to see the patient for the last time before his death.

Sheng Yunze's legs were like lead, sitting next to Duan Yi, like a tight thread, was almost the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Any word can become the fuse for him to break completely.

Sheng Yunze clearly felt that he couldn't hold on anymore.

If Duan Yi couldn't wake up again, he really couldn't hold on.

Sheng Yunze didn't close his eyes for 24 hours, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse. When Sheng Yunxi left, he doubted without hesitation that if there was any way to cure Duan Yi now, his brother would definitely do it by all means.

But there is no other way.

Whether it is money or people, it is all to the extreme.

He sat on the edge of the bed, as if he couldn't find anything to do, so he raised his hand to straighten Duan Yi's hair.

He found that his hands were shaking violently, and when he touched Duan Yi, it was like touching a fragile glass product.

If only it was a dream.

Sheng Yunze thought of some incredible ideas countless times.

It would be nice if I died with him.

Only then did he realize how small and feeble a person is in the face of death.

He didn't expect that his fate with Duan Yi in this life was as short-lived as a flash in the pan.

Then in the next life, will I still meet him?

When Sheng Yunze took the last step, he even begged the gods and Buddhas over and over again, but he didn't see any turning point.

Sheng Yunze held Duan Yi's hand, closed him in the palm of his hand, lowered his head and kissed him.

He didn't know who else he could ask after asking the gods and Buddhas, so he sat by the bed and begged Duan Yi in the end.

"Don't die... Duan Yi... don't die..."

Sheng Yunze's heart was cut back and forth by a blunt knife, the pain was so bloody that there was no good piece of meat.

He wept bitterly, his shoulders trembling, and he lowered his head.

"Don't die...please...please..."