Why it never ends

Chapter 846 Drastic changes

"Isn't this too...not caring about books?"

Ksenia laughed a few times and joked, "What's wrong? Do you want to burn incense and take a bath before turning the book?"

"No," Hestad replied, "What I'm saying is, if this book is important and it's not treated properly... then maybe, the book will also feel a bit... um, lost?"

After saying this, Hesta's speaking speed became slower and slower. Twenty percent of her was stumbling to finish the sentence, and eighty percent of her was screaming in her head: Please, what stupid things are you talking about?

Ksenia was also having difficulty digesting what Hesta meant. After a moment, her confusion turned into a faint smile.

She looked at the person in front of her with some disbelief: "So, our Jane... is still a child who maintains animism?"

Hesta suddenly stretched out her hand in a panic. She blocked Kseniya's sight, as if her gaze was scorching.

"...Don't look at me like that." Hesta whispered.

"Books are tools," Ksenia said with a smile. "The most important value of a tool is to be used. People use books, not books using people. I really don't care about the preservation of books. They really wear out my books." Will I buy a new one? Your time is the most important thing."

Hesta sat aside silently, her eyes falling on the edge of Ksenia's coat.

……

The days passed peacefully, and Hesta continued to go to Yu Xuekun's consultation room every Wednesday. During this period, due to the recurrence of Xu Ruyi's back injury, she accompanied Ding Xueyang for a prenatal check-up. The prenatal check-up here is different from that in the third area. During the ultrasound, the mother is not allowed to see the image of the fetus. After the process, all they get are some test sheets and a black B-ultrasound result.

This somewhat disappointed Hesta. She heard Turan talk about her experience during her rotation in the obstetrics and gynecology department. The process of life from the beginning of birth to the gradual formation is very wonderful. The outline of the child's image gradually changed from a gray-white pea pod into a small fish bone, and then gradually the limbs and organs could be distinguished... The only thing that remains unchanged is the constantly beating fetal heart, and this powerful sound will accompany it. Pregnant women are cared for until delivery.

Hesta asked why District 14 had such a bizarre rule that did not allow mothers to watch fetal images. Ding Xueyang said that it was because of the gender imbalance in District 14. But the more things went like this, the more everyone wanted to have a son. In the end, the government had to order hospitals to ban gender disclosure in order to prevent inhumane abortions.

"There is such a thing." Hesta was greatly surprised, "I don't understand."

Ding Xueyang could only smile bitterly.

On the way back, Hesta shared this anecdote with Rico and Turan, thinking that they would be as surprised as him. Unexpectedly, the two of them only replied with a string of ellipses without making any comments.

When the two walked to the downstairs of their home, they met Shi Pingchuan coming back in a dusty way. It happened that Ding Xueyang was still a little short of today's walking mission, so Hesta went upstairs alone, leaving the two people chatting and walking downstairs.

When he got home, Ding Jiali was about to go out. Hesta greeted him, Ding Jiali nodded very coldly, and the two of them parted ways.

"You're back," Ding Yuqing walked out of the room, "Did you just meet Ding Jiali?"

"An encounter," Hesta replied, "a face-to-face encounter."

Ding Yuqing walked to Hestad's side and whispered, "Do you think he has changed? It seems that there is a new core inside..." "It's just a bit slovenly," Hestad said, "Not as good as before. I love dressing up.”

Ding Yuqing frowned and walked to the window, overlooking the downstairs as before. Is it just that you don’t like dressing up? It doesn't seem that simple.

She watched Ding Jiali walk out of the corridor, and within a few steps she met Ding Xueyang and Shi Pingchuan who were walking. Neither of them spoke much. They seemed to just nod to each other before parting ways.

Ding Yuqing looked at Ding Jiali's pea-sized figure and watched him disappear at the end of the community.

"I even doubt if someone traveled through time and space on him," Ding Yuqing said softly, "I took his body away from him."

……

Ding Jiali realized very clearly that he was going through a drastic change.

This was so clear that Toki Pingchuan also noticed some differences. When the two of them passed by each other downstairs, Shi Pingchuan even felt a little conflicted with Ding Jiali's gaze - now the eyes that this brother-in-law looked at him no longer had the same passion that was mixed with desire and envy before.

For Shi Pingchuan, this feeling was terrible, as if he had become an equal to Ding Jiali.

However, now Ding Jiali is too lazy to care about what Shi Pingchuan thinks. He is concentrating on experiencing the new changes in his life.

This Monday, he showed up at the graduate student group meeting unkempt—that morning, he didn’t shave, put on hairspray, sprinkle men’s perfume on his body, and didn’t carefully match the color of his shirt and tie. He just randomly took a few pieces of old clothes draped on the chair and put them on. However, during the group meeting that afternoon, several girls came over to care about what was wrong with him and whether anything bad had happened to him.

He also has several female friends who are very close to him. Recently, they all told him that they all like him better now compared to his previous exquisite outfits - "Of course the way he was before was also good, but it feels like You seem more reliable and concrete now...I don’t know, maybe you look a little more fragile now than before?"

Ding Jiali wasn't quite sure what these friends had imagined, but he also clearly felt that he seemed to have become more attractive than before. He knows how to observe girls' reactions, so he can vaguely distinguish which girls have a crush on him. Among them, there was a girl who had the most obvious reaction. She came to him without warning and asked him how his relationship with his girlfriend was. She said she wanted to treat him to dinner and asked him about his experience in long-distance relationships. However, Ding Jiali felt that this girl was not good-looking enough, so she still found reasons. Refused.

"Okay, then you must tell me when you are free," the girl said, "I was shocked when I heard people say you have a long-distance girlfriend recently, haha."

"Why," Ding Jiali said with a smile, "don't I look like I have a girlfriend?"

"I thought you liked boys." After the girl said that, she ran away with a smile. After running a few steps, she turned back and waved vigorously towards Ding Jiali like a heroine in an idol drama, "When you are free. You must remember to tell me!"

Ding Jiali was extremely proud.

(End of this chapter)