Chapter 1322 — She Left After All
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Xu Shilan was rather quiet. Feng Xiaoxiao had already made her peace with life and death, but Shilan herself could not help feeling wretched; watching a friend she had only just come to know about to depart, her heart hung heavy.
"All right, Xiaohan, let's not dwell on that... Wei Zhao says he can cure me, and he will, I know he will. Give it a few years, and maybe when you come back you will find I've come to life again..." Seeing Xu Shilan's low spirits, Feng Xiaoxiao instead set about comforting her.
"Ah?" Xu Shilan was taken aback. She knew nothing about the ice coffin, so it all sounded quite fantastical to her.
"It's nothing, really. So, what gift did you bring me? Let me see?" Feng Xiaoxiao steered the conversation to something else.
"An album I recorded for you myself. Most of the songs on it are covers, but it is one of a kind, unlike anything else, and I have never released it to the public." Xu Shilan held out the gift as she spoke.
"Wow, it's wonderful, I love it!" Feng Xiaoxiao happily took the gift in her hands.
Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, Kang **, and Xiaofen came back one after another, and the invited guests also included Ergoudan, Yu Yuanyuan, Fatty Lai, and Feng Tianlong!
Once the cake was ready, everyone sat around the round table in the dining room and sang the birthday song together. Though every one of them knew about Feng Xiaoxiao's situation, not a soul brought it up, nor let a trace of sorrow show on their faces; all of them happily offered up their own blessings.
"I'm so touched... this is the first time I've ever had such a lively birthday..." Feng Xiaoxiao said with feeling. "In the past, at most I spent my birthday with my father. But this time I have so many good friends beside me!"
"All right, time to turn off the lights and cut the cake!" Shen Yushu lit the candles on the cake, then ran off cheerfully to switch off the dining room lights.
In an instant the dining room went pitch black, with only the candle flames flickering and swaying; behind that glow, Feng Xiaoxiao's flushed little face was lovelier and more delicate than ever.
"Xiaoxiao, another year older. Have you a wish?" Feng Tianlong asked, gazing at his daughter with a smile.
Having heard that Wei Zhao had a way to resolve things, Feng Tianlong too felt the weight lift from his heart. Not only was there hope for Xiaoxiao, but even his wife might yet have hope of waking. The gloom that had shrouded him for twenty years had finally let in a little sunshine.
"Mm... I can't tell you..." Feng Xiaoxiao said, blushing a little, though in the candlelight no one could see the flush.
"Then let's do this: everyone keep quiet, and let Xiaoxiao make her wish in silence," Xu Shilan suggested.
"Yes, yes, Xiaoxiao, hurry up and make your wish, and once you have, tell me in secret." Shen Yushu said.
"Hehe..." Feng Xiaoxiao nodded, pressed her palms together, closed her eyes, and silently began making her wish...
Though outwardly Feng Xiaoxiao seemed to have made her peace with life and death, and no longer felt any fear of the death drawing near, in truth, deep in her heart, she did not want to die. Especially now that she had Wei Zhao as her boyfriend, and good friends like Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, Tang Zhi, and Xu Shilan, she was all the more unwilling to go...
So she meant to make a wish: that Wei Zhao could cure her, so that from then on she might stay with them all forever...
Feng Xiaoxiao began her wish with devotion, and visions of a beautiful future rose before her mind's eye... one day, marrying Wei Zhao and bearing his children, and Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, Feng Xiaoxiao, Xu Shilan... it was simply too wonderful, and Feng Xiaoxiao could not help feeling a little giddy...
In the dining room, no one spoke; everyone was waiting for Feng Xiaoxiao to finish her wish. But after a while, she still had not raised her head, and Wei Zhao suddenly sensed that something was wrong!
"Xiaoxiao!" he called to her.