“When the patient fell from the building, she hit the back of her head, and the blood clots pressed against her nerves. We are not sure about the recovery time. It could be a day or two, a few months, or even years, or she might never wake up.”
Listening to the doctor’s words in her ear, Yun Yongjun sat dejectedly on the chair outside the hospital room. She buried her head in her knees, and her hands, holding her head, could not stop trembling.
Why did she answer the phone?
Why did she leave Feifei’s side?
Why did she not notice something was wrong sooner?
It was all her fault. If she had not been so careless and let Bai Tiantian get close, Feifei would not have lost consciousness.
“Er Ya, do not blame yourself too much. This is not your fault.” Yun Xi looked at the bloodstains on Yun Yongjun’s clothes, and then looked at Mu Xuefei inside, who was connected to an oxygen tank. She sighed in her heart.
Sitting beside Yun Yongjun, she hugged the other person. “If you want to cry, just cry.”
“I am fine. Please let me be alone for a while.”
Because her arms were blocking the view, Yun Xi did not clearly see Yun Yongjun’s expression, but even without seeing it clearly, she knew the other person must be feeling terrible inside. She hesitated and looked at Director Mo standing nearby. Seeing him nod, she had no choice but to get up and go with him to handle the subsequent matters.
They had both seen Bai Tiantian intentionally hurt someone and even commit murder. They just needed to handle the accusations properly, and the police would naturally come to resolve it. The most important thing now was for Mu Xuefei to wake up; otherwise, they really did not know how to comfort Yun Yongjun. They also had not expected that after knowing each other for less than one or two months, Yun Yongjun’s feelings for Mu Xuefei would actually run this deep, as if this affection was carved into her very bones.
Looking once more at her younger sister, who was buried in her knees, Yun Xi sighed, turned around, and left with Director Mo.
Indeed, of all things in the world, matters of the heart are the most hurtful.
“Whoosh—” The scene playing in the air paused on Yun Yongjun’s back.
“Host, please choose whether to stay in the first world.”
Mu Xuefei’s gaze did not leave that back. Her hands, resting at her sides, were clenched into tight fists. “Is the male—no, the target’s favorability not at one hundred yet? How can I leave?”
“After the host had the accident, the target’s favorability reached one hundred. Would you like to check the message logs?”
Mu Xuefei did not answer for a long time, her gaze somewhat conflicted. After a long while, she finally closed her eyes and gave her answer.
Time passed quickly, and before she knew it, more than a month had passed.
“How is Mumu today?” Just finished dealing with company matters, Yun Yongjun eagerly drove home. After handing her coat to the housekeeper, she immediately asked the private nurse standing nearby.
A week ago, the doctor said Mu Xuefei’s other issues had recovered well and she just needed to wait until she woke up. Yun Yongjun then had the other person discharged from the hospital, moved back to their previous villa, and hired a private doctor and a private nurse to look after her.
“Still the same.” The nurse taking care of Mu Xuefei was a young girl. After secretly glancing at Yun Yongjun, she could not help but speak up, “Miss Mu has been in a coma for so long, she probably will not wake up again. Miss Yun, you…”
“You are fired.” Yun Yongjun paused in her footsteps, cutting off the other person’s words. She cast a cold glance at the girl. “Housekeeper, take her out right now. Do not let me see her again.”
“Yes.” The elderly housekeeper standing by and hanging up the coat sighed silently, then had someone take away the young girl who thought she could advise Yun Yongjun. Previously, quite a few young girls could not bear to watch Yun Yongjun wait like this and said a few words, only to be fired by Yun Yongjun every single time.
After no longer seeing that woman, Yun Yongjun walked with a gloomy face toward Mu Xuefei’s bedroom. However, almost the moment she entered the room, her expression softened.
Sitting by the bedside, Yun Yongjun reached out and touched Mu Xuefei’s overly pale face. “That nurse today actually said you would not wake up, so I fired her. Do you think I should find someone older next time? That way they will not always be so self-righteous and say you will not wake up.” As she spoke, she lowered her head and kissed Mu Xuefei’s somewhat cold lips, rubbing back and forth against the other’s lips.
With their heads pressed together, she closed her eyes, and tears from the corners of her eyes inexplicably flowed down. “I am still waiting here, why won’t you come back?”
“If I had not seen you cry, I would have wanted to go back even after coming back.”
Huh?
“Feifei?” Yun Yongjun abruptly raised her head, only to find that she actually saw Feifei looking at her and smiling? Thinking of this, she quickly shook her head and muttered, “I must be dreaming.”
“How come I never knew that when you dream, you also like to smear your tears all over other people’s faces?” Mu Xuefei distastefully picked up the towel nearby to wipe the tears off her own face, and after wiping away the tears at the corners of Yun Yongjun’s eyes as well, she casually tossed the towel aside. She reached out, wrapped her arms around the other’s neck, pulled the other’s body down, and kissed her. Rather than a kiss, it was more like biting or gnawing, nibbling on the other person’s two lips as if gnawing on a pig’s trotter.
Pulled back to her senses by the pain coming from her lips, Yun Yongjun was just about to kiss back when she found that the other person had already pulled away. In the end, she could only take a sharp intake of breath, touch her already slightly broken lips, and speak with amusement, “Is this the gift you gave me after sleeping for more than a month?”
Mu Xuefei felt a little guilty. Although she had quickly made her choice back in the space, the passage of time was different in the two places, and coupled with the fact that she was locked in her own mind and could not get out after returning to this world, by the time she struggled free, it was already the present. However, during the time she was locked away, although she had not woken up, she could hear everything Yun Yongjun said to her.
Raising her head to meet the other’s slightly red-rimmed eyes and dark eye bags, that trace of guilt quickly turned into remorse and heartache. She fiercely hugged the other person, her voice somewhat choked, “I missed you so much.” She was clearly right by her side, yet unable to touch her—this feeling had almost driven her crazy.
Yun Yongjun, who was being held, was stunned for a moment, then wrapped her arms around her in return, her expression softening. “I missed you too.” Seeming to feel that what she said was not enough, she tightened her hold on the person in her arms and added, “I missed you every single moment.”
Mu Xuefei felt a bit guilty, but she did not want the other person to continue sinking into that sorrowful atmosphere. A second thought crossed her mind, and she teased, “Then were you thinking of me while taking a bath? Wouldn’t that be very perverted?”
“I was thinking of you then too. I thought of you when I woke up, when I brushed my teeth and washed up, when I ate, and when I worked,” Yun Yongjun’s voice sounded somewhat hoarse from having just cried, carrying a kind of inexplicable earnestness. “Even when I slept, I wanted to think of you, but you never gave me the chance to keep thinking of you.”
Noticing the wetness at the crook of her neck, Mu Xuefei’s eye sockets also grew slightly red. She forced the corners of her mouth up. “Why must you make the atmosphere so sad? I finally woke up, after all. Also, crying really does not suit you. You cry so ugly, I am starting to regret wanting you. Do you accept returns?”
“No acceptance.” Yun Yongjun amusedly patted someone’s bottom. “However… trade-in for a new one, do you want it? I will trade you for the current me.”
“Of course I want it, but can I go wash up and change into something new first? You made my clothes all dirty.”
“Since they are dirty, let’s wash them together.”
“Hey hey hey, no way, I am a patient! How can we just take a bath together!!” A short while later, Mu Xuefei’s indignant voice came from the bathroom, “Hurry up and give me back my clothes.”
“What is there to be shy about? When you were in a coma, I changed all your clothes and wiped your body. Where have I not seen or touched?”
You go die!!!!”
“If I die, who will take off your bra?”
“Ah, I am going to beat you to death!!”
“You cannot beat me.”
“Mm-mm-mm…”
Postscript.
After waking up, Mu Xuefei began to recuperate. At the same time, the TV drama she participated in filming also began airing. Her role as Shui Yu won plenty of tears and sympathy from the audience, so she quickly gained her very first fans. Taking advantage of this momentum, Yun Yongjun found her a few good commercial endorsements and TV dramas, and she won the Best Actress award the following year.
In the third year, Mu Xuefei won the Best Actress award for starring in the urban drama “Accompanying You Through Long Years.” At the awards ceremony, Mu Xuefei suddenly came out publicly and proposed to her lover. Only then did the audience discover that their goddess’s lover was actually Yun Yongjun, who had won numerous awards many years ago!
When they first got together, quite a few fans still opposed it, but as the two showed their affection year after year, many people came to believe that they truly loved each other. The story of how Mu Xuefei had an accident many years ago and Yun Yongjun lovingly and unceasingly cared for her for over a month was also exposed. By then, the two fandoms who had been dissatisfied with them being together finally began to accept the couple.
“What, are you still browsing Weibo on your alternate account?” Mu Xuefei, who had finished packing her luggage, looked at her lover, who was holding her phone and smiling endlessly, and raised an eyebrow.
“Your fans finally do not oppose us being together anymore, and they even said to bless us so we stay loving for a long time.” Yun Yongjun quickly handed the screen over for Mu Xuefei to see. “This comment even told me to show off our affection more often.”
“Tsk. You posting five or six status updates a day showing affection is not enough?” Mu Xuefei looked at the time. “If you do not get up soon, we are going to miss our flight. If we miss our flight, this honeymoon of ours will have to—”
“Ah, I will be ready right away.” Standing up quickly, Yun Yongjun put on her coat and took Mu Xuefei’s luggage. “Let’s hurry and go.”
Beneath the clear blue sky, the airplane left a continuous trail behind as it flew, while not far away, the setting sun glowed a brilliant red.
Amidst the system’s prompt sounds, Mu Xuefei chose to enter the next world directly. Because the spirit had previously said that all target objects would be the same person, she did not want to stay in that cold space for even a moment to reminisce about the sweet past between the two of them.
[Ding, successfully entered the second world, the apocalyptic dungeon officially begins. Will you accept the plot?]
“Accept.” Before Mu Xuefei even had time to calm her head, she hastily chose to accept.
[Ding, transmitting plot.]
[Target favorability: -100/100. Favorability interpretation: Reborn for another lifetime, I only want to kill this black-hearted lotus and that fake white lotus.]
Hearing the system’s prompt, Mu Xuefei—who was dizzy from the plot just shoved into her head and had not yet digested it—was suddenly stunned. What the heck, minus one hundred?
“Mm.” Before she even had time to question the system, she found something tightly gripping her throat, making it hard for her to breathe. Then she opened her eyes.
“Mm-mm-mm—Junjun?”