Chapter 1586: Reunion After a Century
“Are you… really his granddaughter?”
Looking at the woman standing on the edge of the hospital bed, who looked a bit like Lu Zhou, Vera opened her mouth dumbfounded, not knowing what to feel.
Lu Xiaoqiao instantly guessed what Vera had misunderstood, so she quickly explained.
“Although we are related, it’s not what you think.”
Vera’s hands that were holding the sheets tightened as she said weakly, “I don’t mind…”
“I’ve told you, it’s not what you think.” Lu Xiaoqiao pressed her glabella and sighed in her heart. She continued, “Basically, I am probably considered his collateral descendant, from Lu Xiaotong’s line.”
“Xiao Tong…”
Lu Xiaoqiao nodded calmly.
“Yeah.”
The little hands that were squeezing the sheets loosened slowly, but they then tightened.
Xiao Tong isn’t here anymore…
Although this was inevitable, Vera still felt a little bit lonely in her heart.
Maybe because Vera was the quiet type, she had a good impression of that lively girl.
Especially when she was a professor at Princeton, the relations.h.i.+p between the two had always been very good.
Also, because of a certain person, she had always treated Xiao Tong as her own sister.
Lu Xiaoqiao read the expression on Vera’s face and guessed something, so she spoke softly.
“Please don’t feel sad for her. According to my father and grandpa, she was a very kind person who lived a happy and beautiful life. Life itself is a journey with a beginning and an end. If there is a beginning, there must be an end. Everything is inevitable.”
“… I just can’t control my emotions right now.”
After taking a deep breath, she calmed the sad emotions in her heart a bit and showed a reluctant smile.
“Thank you for your kind words… To be able to nurture a kind-hearted child like you, I believe she must have been very proud during her lifetime.”
A shy smile appeared on Lu Xiaoqiao’s face, and she said embarra.s.sedly, “In fact, it’s nothing… I haven’t met her before, I just listen to grandpa talking about her.”
The door of the ward suddenly opened, and Qian Xiuxiu, who was wearing a nurse’s uniform, walked in.
“Vera, someone is here for you, is now a good time?”
“Who is it?”
Qian Xiuxiu said with a smile, “It seems like he is a big celebrity. His name is Lu Zhou, although many people call him Academician Lu.”
Vera, who was leaning on the pillow, sat up with excitement.
“Yeah, yes! Can you please let him come in as soon as possible?”
Seeing Vera’s reaction, Qian Xiuxiu smiled.
“Well, you have to give him time to walk over.”
Looking at the nurse standing at the door, Lu Xiaoqiao glanced at her watch and muttered to herself in a low voice, “I thought he was going to come when he had spare time…”
After calling Lu Zhou this morning, he arrived before noon, which really surprised Xiao Qiao.
After getting the patient’s permission, Qian Xiuxiu nodded and walked briskly to leave the ward. It didn’t take long for a man in clothes that were slightly boring to walk on.
Looking at the person who appeared at the door, Vera’s pupils were filled with teardrops; the excitement turned into a murmur like a trickle of water.
“I must be dreaming…”
“But you’re not.” Lu Zhou gulped while looking at Vera sitting on the hospital bed. He said softly, “I told you, like I said, it was just a blink of an eye.”
Vera: “But actually, I had a long, long dream.”
“Oh?”
Vera blushed and said, “I dreamed that I was lying in a frozen crystal coffin and saw a beautiful princess through the mist. She said a lot to me. Told me to take care of you… As for the rest, I don’t remember clearly.”
Take care of me…
Lu Zhou smiled in his heart.
He didn’t think he needed to be taken care of.
“Um…”
“What?”
After being silent for a while, Vera whispered, “Why haven’t you changed at all?”
Are people immortal now?
But this couldn’t explain why Xiao Tong pa.s.sed away.
She felt that during the time she was sleeping, a lot of things had happened either by her side or in a place far away from her.
This strange feeling gave her a trace of panic, but for some reason, after seeing the familiar face, the feeling of peace of mind filled her whole body again.
“A lot of things have happened in the past 100 years, and all aspects have exceeded my expectations.” Lu Zhou cast his eyes out of the window with a bit of worry. After pondering for a while, Lu Zhou continued, “After you are discharged from the hospital, I will take time to tell you everything.”
Not only did she need time to rest, he felt that he also needed some time to collect his thoughts.
For her, everything might be just a blink of an eye, but in this blink of an eye, a lot of things had happened to him.
The kiss on the front of the forehead was enough to make him feel guilty. He did not expect that there would also be a million-word love letter.
He even regretted his visit to Princeton…
Looking at Lu Zhou intently, Vera said in a very soft voice, “Um… thank you.”
“Don’t thank me. In fact, I didn’t do anything, I really don’t deserve your—”
“No, you gave me knowledge, warmth, and courage that I never thought I could get.” After a pause, her eyes trembled as she added, “Also, I also really miss you.”
For some reason, the word “miss” made him feel weird, but he couldn’t describe this feeling.
He did miss her, and he even investigated her whereabouts, but because of various reasons such as age, he couldn’t find any news about her.
According to the available information, during the duration of her frozen dormancy, someone modified her hospitalization information, as well as multiple safety settings including the time limit of cryosleep and the activation conditions for the wake-up program.
Otherwise, Vera would have woken up 20 years ago or even earlier.
As for who did this and for what purpose, it was unclear.
Although this was the information age, in the face of the barrier of time, even Xiao Ai couldn’t be omniscient and omnipotent in an absolute sense.
Changing back to the original topic, Lu Zhou spoke with a light cough.
“Did you think about where to go now that you are awake?”
Vera: “I don’t have a home, nor anyone that I know… This world is too foreign to me, and I don’t know where to go.”
“Sorry… I couldn’t help but throw you into this era, but under the circ.u.mstances at that time, that was the best way.”
“Don’t be sorry, you obviously saved me.” Vera smiled softly. She lowered her eyelashes slightly, and she was somewhat inexplicably happy. She then added in a quiet voice, “But I don’t know what to do…”
Lu Zhou nodded.
“If you have no idea where to go, just live with me for now…”
With Vera’s abilities, it was not a problem to find a job as a mathematics professor at Jin Ling University.
Even though she came from 100 years ago, her research in the frontier field might be a little behind, but the basic things would not change, whether it was 100 years ago or 100 years later.
Of course…
There was also his own selfishness.
He happened to lack an a.s.sistant who could help him study the wave equation of the Z particle, and Vera, who was excellent in both professional and thinking skills, was undoubtedly a suitable candidate.
As for other things…
He would find a suitable time to explain to her what happened after going dormant.
However, when she heard the first half of the sentence, Vera’s face turned red. She didn’t even hear what Lu Zhou said later.
Lu Xiaoqiao, who was standing aside, sighed.
I feel like, as the manager of the Freezing Human Rights Protection Foundation, there’s nothing for me to do here…
I should be the expert on dormant people…