[Try as he might, Fang Duobing still can't imagine Li Lianhua discouraging this attempt to find a cure for Cat. Even if it didn't work, wouldn't it be better to let him try, rather than throw doubt on the fire?...]
[He would believe it more readily if the cure was for Li Lianhua himself, but not for Cat. But the way the other boy looks to him now... He sets his uncertainty aside for the moment.]
I would believe it. Who wouldn't want someone they care about to recover? Even I want you to try everything you can.
[And he's only a friend, not anything so close or dear as a sister. There's no doubt in his mind that this person Cat cherishes would go to the ends of the earth for him.]
... I'm sure it's only a misunderstanding. It's not as if he hasn't been in a similar place before.
[The memory of that time still stings a little, the old frustrations rising up. But he can't change what was done. He can only learn from it and move forward.]
We had a one-of-a-kind cure for him as well, you know. But he gave it away. He said there was only a small chance it would work on him, while it was certain to cure someone else who needed it.
...He worries about things like that, even when the rest of us want to be hopeful; and seeing things from our perspective is... difficult for him, I think.
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[He would believe it more readily if the cure was for Li Lianhua himself, but not for Cat. But the way the other boy looks to him now... He sets his uncertainty aside for the moment.]
I would believe it. Who wouldn't want someone they care about to recover? Even I want you to try everything you can.
[And he's only a friend, not anything so close or dear as a sister. There's no doubt in his mind that this person Cat cherishes would go to the ends of the earth for him.]
... I'm sure it's only a misunderstanding. It's not as if he hasn't been in a similar place before.
[The memory of that time still stings a little, the old frustrations rising up. But he can't change what was done. He can only learn from it and move forward.]
We had a one-of-a-kind cure for him as well, you know. But he gave it away. He said there was only a small chance it would work on him, while it was certain to cure someone else who needed it.
...He worries about things like that, even when the rest of us want to be hopeful; and seeing things from our perspective is... difficult for him, I think.