That Little Fish Cared

After she finished crying, the young mother handed the child to his father and started to kneel before Song Yihe.

Before she could get down on her knees, Song Yihe grabbed her arm. "Your child is still young, so you need to be especially careful about what he eats. Foods like nuts must only be eaten under adult supervision, never on his own."

The young mother nodded and thanked him. "I'll be careful. Thank you, thank you."

"You're welcome."

A round of applause rose from the onlookers around them, including An Zhiwu.

Song Yihe, however, remained calm. He took An Zhiwu's hand. "Let's go."

He was leading An Zhiwu toward the door when she realized her phone was still on the table. "Wait, my phone's still on the table."

Then she turned back to get it.

The viewers in her livestream had witnessed the whole thing, and a dazzling barrage of comments flew across the screen.

—I heard him just now. He said he was a doctor.

—He's so handsome!!!

—He's totally got that aloof, abstinent look!

—He held Three Hundred Jin's hand!!

—He's so good at this. The way he gave first aid just now was commanding and decisive.

—Woman, give me the child. I can save him. I think I've fallen for him.

—An'an, come out here! Is he your boyfriend??!

—Didn't she say on her livestream before that she'd been single for all 23 years of her life?

An Zhiwu didn't have time to read the comments. She hastily said goodbye to the viewers and ended the livestream.

Inside the car, the atmosphere was rather quiet.

An Zhiwu looked at Song Yihe, whose lips were pressed tightly together as he sat in silence.

He had just saved a child. Shouldn't he be happy? Why did he look unhappy?

Once they got home, An Zhiwu finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Song Yihe, are you unhappy?"

The lights were off in the house, and only a little dim light came in through the window.

She couldn't make out Song Yihe's expression.

She only felt Song Yihe suddenly bury his head in her neck. "I'm not unhappy. It's a feeling of helplessness."

An Zhiwu didn't know what he meant by that feeling of helplessness, and Song Yihe wasn't expecting her to answer.

In the darkness.

The man's cool, low voice rang out. "I was just thinking, if I hadn't been the one there today, if I weren't a doctor, that child could very well have suffocated to death. But this kind of accident is completely preventable. I can't teach everyone in the world how to prevent it, or how to save someone when it happens. So I feel helpless. In places I can't see, so many things like this happen, but there's nothing I can do."

An Zhiwu's heart ached for him, this man whose heart held a great love for all living beings. "You've already done very well. Haven't you heard a story?"

"What story?" Song Yihe's muffled voice came from her neck.

An Zhiwu began telling it. "A man was walking along the seashore when he saw lots of little fish that had been washed up on the shore. They would soon die out of the water. Then he suddenly saw a little boy up ahead, crouching on the beach, picking up the fish one by one and throwing them back into the sea."

"The man walked over and said to the little boy, 'There are hundreds, thousands of fish here. You can't pick them all up, so who cares whether you do it or not?' The little boy threw the fish in his hand into the sea and said, 'This little fish cares.'"

"So, Song Yihe, you're not Superman. You can't save all living beings, but the little boy you saved today cares. His mom and dad care, don't they?"

Song Yihe said nothing, only held her tighter. After a long while, he said, "Zhiwu, thank you. Thank you for being willing to stay by my side."

Thank you for becoming a ray of light in my life.

An Zhiwu patted his back as though soothing a child. "All right, don't be sad. Today is a day worth celebrating."

"Mm."

An Zhiwu turned on the light, and its glare made her narrow her eyes.

When she looked at Song Yihe again, his usual expression was back in place, with no trace of the sadness he had shown just now.

An Zhiwu couldn't help thinking that this was probably a surgeon's disguise.

When their surgery failed to save a patient's life, they must feel extreme sorrow and self-reproach.

Yet on the surface, they still had to pretend everything was as light as a cloud in a gentle breeze. Who could see their sadness?

Perhaps An Zhiwu's gaze was too full of pity.

Song Yihe suddenly laughed and flicked her forehead. "What are you imagining, silly girl?"

An Zhiwu rubbed her forehead and chuckled. "Hehe."

That evening.

An Zhiwu took out her foot-soaking tub and put a packet of Chinese medicinal herbs in it, then soaked her feet while wearing a face mask and surfing the internet.

Because of the unexpected incident during her livestream today.

She was already trending on Y Cat Live.

Quite a few viewers had recorded that part of the livestream, paired the clips with all sorts of captions, and posted them on the streaming platform.

Before long, videos of her livestream that night were everywhere in the platform's recommendations.

The titles were even more varied.

[Mukbang streamer Three-Hundred-Jin An'an livestreams with her boyfriend], [The romance between a mukbang streamer and a doctor], [Mukbang streamer saves someone halfway through a livestream], [Three Hundred Jin An'an's boyfriend is a doctor], [Three Hundred Jin An'an's boyfriend saves someone], [Mukbang streamer forgets to turn off her livestream after signing off, and unexpectedly catches this scene on camera]

An Zhiwu's head began to ache as she read them.

She had worked diligently at livestreaming before without becoming popular, yet an incident that happened by chance had unexpectedly made her go viral.

She checked her followers again and saw that she had passed one million.

There were even thousands of comments under her latest video.

[An'an, is that man really your boyfriend? Come tell us.]

[Was the rescue staged on purpose to get famous?]

[I suspect it was too. How could it be such a coincidence? She just happened to be livestreaming when an accident happened, and a doctor just happened to be with her.]

[That doctor is so handsome!!!]

[Sisters, I've already dug it up. That doctor is a star doctor at Zhikang Hospital in City A!]

[I'm going to Zhikang to see a doctor tomorrow!! Mommy, I'm sick!]

An Zhiwu scrolled through the comments.

It's over, she thought.

What if the netizens really went to Zhikang to find Song Yihe?

She decided to give Song Yihe a heads-up tomorrow morning so Dr. Song wouldn't be startled.

By the time she lay down in bed.

An Zhiwu received a message from Shen Songqing.

Shen Songqing: [An Zhu, you won Dr. Song over??]

Only then did An Zhiwu remember that she hadn't yet told Shen Songqing she and Song Yihe were together.

She had meant to tell her last time, but she had been interrupted by the matter of Shen Songqing and her ex-boyfriend.