"Good."
The two of them enter the dining room. Looking at the two steaming bowls of dumplings on the table,
Troy smiles, "How do you know I want to eat this? Can you see insight into all my thoughts now?"
"You liked it before. So I don’t need to see through your thoughts. It is just a tacit understanding
between lovers."
Troy takes the chopsticks over which she hands to him and puts a dumpling in his mouth. AFter he
chews it, he nods, "It tastes good as always."
"So, you will remember it, right?"
"Hmm?" He raises his eyebrows in confusion, feeling that he doesn’t get the meaning of her words.
"Even if you don't remember me, you will still remember this taste, right?"
Troy is stunned, feeling instantly in a daze. He reaches out and rubs her hair, dotingly saying, "Fool."
After eating dinner, Karin insists on forcing him to go upstairs despite his strong desire to go to see a
movie, saying that he can sleep well and get well enough to prepare for the surgery tomorrow.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" He pulls her hand as she is about to leave.
"I'll go to sleep later. I haven't washed the dishes downstairs yet."
"Then give me a kiss."
Karin smiles grudgingly, leans down, and kisses his forehead and all the way to his lips, passing all her
love to his heart with her lips.
"I want you."
"No, you have to do an operation tomorrow. You can't consume too much energy."
Karin covers him with the blanket, ignores his burning eyes, and ruthlessly walks out of the bedroom.
She comes alone to the rooftop. Standing by the parapet, she crosses her hands in front of her chest,
gazing at the hazy mountains in the distance. And suddenly, she hides her face and cries bitterly. She
can feel that the happiness is within her reach all the time. And she has been chasing after it as if she
were playing a merry-go-round, only to be always separated by a short distance that can’t be crossed.
As the tears flow through the fingers, Karin feels that she can’t be more depressed. If the moon can
shed tears s well, it surely will cry over this heartbreaking love between Troy and Karin with the stars.
All of a sudden, someone put his strong arms around her waist. Karin wipes away the tear stain at the
corner of her eyes in panic, saying at a loss, “Why did you get up?”
"If you are afraid that I will lose my memory and forget you, then I won't have this surgery."
"No, I'm not afraid of this. I'm just heartbroken for the fact that we have been having relationship where
we will always encounter a lot of hardship."
Every time she feels like happiness is close at her hands, she takes a step forward, only to fail to grasp
it all the time. The feeling of powerlessness is like a poisonous snake eroding her body, wounding her
to the bone.
"Promise me that in the future, no matter what kinds of sad things you encounter, don't hide them from
me and cry by yourself in secret anymore. Cry on my shoulders if you want to."
"Okay." She nods her head solemnly.
Karin cries for a long time. It is not until she finishes venting all the anger in her heart that she leans on
his shoulder, gazes at the brightest star in the sky, and says, "Did we indeed suffer a lot of pain?"
"Yes, a lot."
"Then you will choose to suffer amnesia to forget all this?"
"If I can choose not to love you, then I can choose that way."
Troy gives her the most reassuring answer. However, on the day after he gives her such an answer, he
disappears.
Karin searches for him everywhere as best as she can. Robert, Milan, and Lily are all looking for him.
The surgery is scheduled for ten o’clock in the morning. There are less than two hours to go before the
surgery begins. At this juncture, they can’t find him. Every one of them surely is anxious.
When Karin is going crazy with anxiety, she receives a call from Molly, saying that she saw Troy at the
beach.
She rushes over and sees him standing on the reef where she jumped into the sea last time. Karin's
eyes are hot as she runs to him with all her strength, hugs him tightly from behind, and complains as
she is in tears, "Now you're learning to be like me, right?"
Troy holds the hands circling his waist, saying blankly, "Last night, I gave you such a positive answer. I
am also afraid. I am afraid that I will forget you. You are right. I am only a human being rather than
God. There are times when I can’t do something. You followed me and suffered so much. And you
managed to have a happy life ahead after suffering so much pain. How can I bear to let you suffer
further..."
"So aren’t you going to do the operation? Are you ready to be separated from me forever?"
"I just want you to live a happy life first at the period when I still remember you."
"That will kill you. You can wait. So can I. But time won't wait. Your health condition won't wait!"
"And what if I forget you? Do you dare to say that the reason why you cried so sad last night isn’t that
you are afraid that I will forget you?"
Karin turns his body around and looks him straight in the eyes as she says, "Yes, I'm afraid. But it is
more than I am afraid of the possibility that you will forget me. I'm afraid of the probability that I never
see you again. For you, you are probably most afraid of forgetting me. But for me, I am most afraid of
losing you. I'm not afraid of your memory loss. If your memory is gone, I can spend a lifetime to help
you get back your memory. But if you are gone, then everything will be gone. I would rather live with a
broken heart than lose you. I absolutely won’t like to lose you..."
Troy is affected by her excitement. He takes her into his arms directly, shedding tears of heartache.
Before the surgery time comes, she finally manages to bring him back to the hospital. As Robert, Lily,
and Milan see the two of them, they, who have been nervous, are finally at ease, letting out a sigh of
relief.
Troy gets changed with a surgical gown and lies on the bed, planning to go into the operating room
within twenty minutes. Then the door of the ward is pushed open. Molly walks in with a haggard look on
her face.
She stands in front of the hospital bed, looks straight at Karin, and softly solicits, "Can I talk to him for a
few minutes?"
Karin nods her head, gets up, and says, "I'll go out first."
She walks out of the ward and closes the door with her. Outside the door, Robert and others have been
waiting in the corridor. She walks towards them. Suddenly, her legs go weak. And she almost falls to
the ground. Fortunately, Billie, who is sharp-eyed, rushes forward to hug her and says with concern,
"You have to take care of yourself. Otherwise, before Young Master Troy gets well, you will break down
first."
"Well, I am fine."
She steadies her pace and walks toward the end of the corridor, going straight to the obstetrics and
gynecology department on the third floor.
In the ward, Molly gazes at Troy without saying a word. Both her expression and eyes indicate that she
is in inexplicable distress.
Troy jokes, "It's not like I am dying. You don’t have to be so sad like this, okay?"
She sucks in her nose, ponders on it for a moment, and finally speaks, "Troie, I want to tell you a secret
in my heart."
"Oh? What secret is it?"
"I liked you a long time ago. I have been in love with you for so long that when I first saw you on that
night in the gloomy alley, your heroic posture when you fought with those gangsters was deeply burned
into my teenage heart."
Troy opens his eyes wide in surprise. And he asks incredulously, "Do you like me?"
"Yes, you are surprised, right? Over these years, I have never shown any of my feelings for you in front
of you. It is not that I am timid. Instead, it is that I am afraid. Because I know that you have always
someone in your heart. So I dare not to say it. I am afraid that if I say it, we can’t even get along with
each other like siblings. Do you still remember you once asked me for the reason why I didn’t have a
boyfriend?"
Of course, Troy remembers it. At that time, she answered that she liked someone and that she needed
to wait for him. At that time, he didn’t overthink it. Now, after listening to her confession, he comes to
his senses. So, it turns out that she has always been waiting for him.
"Originally, I thought that however sincerely and deeply a couple loves each other, with the fading of
time, one day, their love will be buried deep into the heart like the sand on the beach. So I have been
telling myself to wait. So I have been waiting. But I didn’t expect that in the end, I, who have been
waiting for him, won’t get the one I love. However, the one you love finally got you back to her side. I
am sure that you can imagine how sad I was at that time..."
Troy knits his brows and says apologetically, "I'm sorry."
"You don’t need to say sorry to me. You don’t have to be sorry. It's just my wishful thinking."
Molly smiles with tears, "Originally, I intended to put this secret rotten in the stomach for life. But I heard
that you might lose memory after your surgery. So I decided to say it before you might completely
forget me. If I didn’t say it now, I probably wouldn’t have the opportunity to say it in the future. Now,
after confessing to you, I have no regrets. Don’t worry. The reason why I said it is that I don’t want to
leave myself any regrets. It is not that I have other thoughts on my mind."
"You can deal with your feelings for me correctly. I am very pleased about it."
Troy sighs heartily. As soon as he finishes his words, the door of the ward is pushed open. And Karin
walks in, "Haven't you finished talking yet? It's almost time for the surgery."
"I'm done talking."
Molly gets up. And suddenly, she grabs Karin's hand and then grabs Troy's hand, putting their hands
together. Then she says with a heartfelt blessing, "You have to be happy. You have to be ruthlessly
happy."
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