On the morning of the fifth Xu Ye set out early from school. He went to the Industrial University first and bought a few boxes of the frosted hawthorn Yang Fei had brought back the day before, then drove out to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

He arrived just as the first class was letting out.

Chen Qingqing got the message and came straight down from the teaching building. She trotted over to the car, all smiles. "How come you're here today?"

"There's a lot to do at the hospital and it'll probably mean running around. I'm worried your mom won't manage on her own. Classes have stopped at my school for exam review anyway, so I'll go over and help out later."

"Then why didn't you just go to the hospital?" Chen Qingqing knew perfectly well why, and asked anyway.

Xu Ye handed her one of the boxes. "My roommate brought some back to the dorm yesterday. I thought it tasted pretty good, so I got some for you to try."

Chen Qingqing took it. She would have liked to stay a while longer with Xu Ye, but with finals coming she didn't dare give her teachers a bad impression, so she took a quiet look around, then came up close to the driver's window and beckoned to him. "Come closer a second."

"What?"

"Oh — hurry up~"

Xu Ye leaned toward the window. Chen Qingqing seized her moment, put her head into the car, left the lightest kiss at the corner of his mouth, and then went off into the teaching building with the box of hawthorn, light on her feet.

Xu Ye watched her go, and left the Conservatory smiling too.

…… At the same time, Jiang Meilin and Yang Lin had already arrived at Renji Hospital, which is affiliated with Jiao Tong University. The paperwork was done, and there were a few last checks to get through before the procedure.

Once Xu Ye got there his job was mostly running errands. They had a plain lunch at the hospital, and a little after two in the…