The Cherished Old Time - C206

Under the persuasion of the nurse, Shang Hui finally calmed down a little.

The nurse’s wrist was in so much pain from Shang Hui’s grabbing, she frowned and tried to break his hand, as she replied.

“Suicide…”

“The explanation she said … “So it’s this…” Shang Hui thought back to the time when she had promised Shang Wujin that within three days, she would give him a satisfactory explanation for his mistakes.

He didn’t expect that she would be so foolish as to use her own life to make up for it.

Although Shang Hui’s voice was soft, it still reached Tan Yubai’s ears.

He had been numb to this moment, but it was as if something had rushed into his mind.

He grabbed Shang Hui’s collar and questioned him coldly: “What did you say? “What explanation?!”

Shang Hui suddenly laughed at himself as he looked at Tan Yubai’s face which was covered in blood.

“So … “So I was the one who harmed her …”

The one who was beaten to this state shouldn’t be Tan Yubai, it should be him.

“What do you mean?!” Tan Yubai felt all the pores on his body standing up in anger, he clenched his fists and waited for Shang Hui to explain.

Shang Hui’s gaze was dull, his voice weak. Yet, he spoke the entire story clearly.

It was as if he was explaining to Tan Yubai, but also as if he was reminding himself that every single detail was the cause of today’s tragedy.

In the end, the veins on Shang Hui’s forehead bulged, and he blamed himself.

“You go ahead.” Shang Hui saw Tan Yubai’s tightly clenched fist, and said with a hoarse voice, “You can kill him however you want.”

However, Tan Yubai slowly loosened his fist and looked at him coldly and disdainfully.

“This time, if Little Meng is fine, then she should return the favor. If anything happens to her, then don’t bother her anymore. If anything happens to her, then I will bury her with her family.”

Tan Yubai’s disgust towards Shang Hui had already reached its limits, and he was too lazy to even hit him. Blood was the lightest form of punishment, and torturing him was better than death, which was not even enough.

The light in the emergency room changed from red to green, Tan Yubai retracted his glare, and only waited for the doctor to come out.

“Creak!”

When the emergency room door opened, Tan Yubai’s heart was in his throat.

“Doctor, how is it?”

The doctor slowly removed his mask, his face calm.

“The patient’s condition has temporarily stabilized, but the signs of life are still very weak. Tonight is her critical period. If she can wake up, then there will be no danger to her life. If she can’t wake up …” The doctor paused, as if to give his family time to accept. “If you don’t wake up tonight, you may never wake up.”

Tan Yubai’s heart fiercely trembled.

Yu Meng was pushed out of the emergency room. She wore an oxygen mask on her face. She looked completely silent.

The hospital’s disinfectant smell was so strong, it made Tan Yubai’s eyes sour.

In the ward, only Tan Yubai accompanied her.

Shang Hui left on his own accord. He understood that she did not need him at the moment, she only needed Tan Yubai.

The wind rustled in the night. Tan Yubai looked at the girl’s peaceful face on the bed, and a hint of gentleness appeared at the corner of his brows.

All these years had gone by in the quiet of the night, all these years had been filled with evil intentions, storms of blood, the pain of being separated from the dead …

One after another, they were replayed in Tan Yubai’s mind.

He slowly reached into the quilt and took her soft hand in his. His fingertips touched the gauze wrapped around her wrist, and he thought of the deep cut there, as if it had cut his heart.

Tan Yubai’s eyebrows drooped down, and he said gently: “I know you are tired, sleep well.” Tan Yubai’s breathing was very light. After pausing for a while, he continued, “I’ll wait for you to wake up.”

He found the mood that Yu Meng had when he returned from the Death Line. Perhaps it was this: To love a person, one should believe that no matter how difficult or difficult it was, he would always come back.

Don’t be nervous, waiting is the best way.

The night was long.

As the morning sun was about to rise, Tan Yubai lit a cigarette on the balcony. The smoke permeated in front of his eyes and turned hazy.

When he finished the cigarette and returned to the ward, Yu Meng had already opened her eyes.

Tan Yubai slightly raised the corner of his mouth, as if he had thought of all of this long ago, and looked calm and natural.

However, in his heart, he finally felt relieved.

Yu Meng lifted her hand from the blanket and struggled to touch the face mask. She felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to remove it.

“Don’t move.” Tan Yubai was very gentle as he carefully placed Yu Meng’s hand on the blanket. “I will call the doctor to help you remove the quilt.”

Yu Meng could not make a sound, and could only blink at Tan Yubai.

This time, his heart melted from the blink of an eye.

He called for a doctor, checked Yu Meng’s body and found that it was still stable, and helped her remove the oxygen mask on her face.

“Doctor, how is she?”

“If there’s no surprise, nothing will happen.”

“Okay, thanks, doctor.”

Tan Yubai sat on the side of Yu Meng’s bed and watched her hands that were stretched out from under the blanket.

He could not help but sigh. “Does it still hurt?” he asked her.

Yu Meng shook her head.

“I want some water.” “No,” she said.

Tan Yubai hurriedly poured a cup of warm water and carefully helped Yu Meng up. He placed her head on his shoulder and started feeding her water mouthful after mouthful.

Perhaps it was because she had lost too much blood, but Yu Meng’s entire body felt numb. Her perception was very weak, and her limbs were constantly being manipulated. It was very difficult for her to move them.

Her entire body was uncomfortable, but when she rested her head on Tan Yubai’s shoulder, a sense of peace and security swept through her heart.

Tears flowed without warning.

Tan Yubai was shocked when he felt Yu Meng’s tears.

“What’s wrong?” He hurriedly placed the cup on the table and held on to the dream to help her wipe her tears away.

“Does it hurt?”

“No.”

Yu Meng’s voice was hoarse, making Tan Yubai’s heart ache.

She raised her eyes to look at him, her expression gloomy.

“Didn’t you want to leave me? Why did you suddenly come to find me?”

If not for Tan Yubai rushing to the hospital in time, she would have died from blood loss long ago.

Tan Yubai carried Yu Meng and felt her body’s warmth. He opened his mouth saying, “I realized that you transferred the company to me, so I felt that something was wrong.”

He thought for a moment, then added, “Why did you transfer the company to my name?”

“Daddy is old. You are the only family I can trust.”

At the time of her death, looking back, it seemed that only Tan Yubai could rely on her.

“Family …” Tan Yubai’s heart was filled with pain, but he finally felt a hint of sweetness, and instead chided: “Since you think of me as your family, then you shouldn’t do something so foolish and make me worry.”

Yu Meng holed up in Tan Yubai’s embrace, not saying a word.

The reason why she had chosen to cut off her wrist was because she could clearly experience the process of death. She would not die immediately, but lay on the ground, feeling the blood slowly flow out of her body until it dried up. Accompanied by pain and despair, Yu Meng felt that this was something she should have endured in the first place.

She had made so many mistakes and caused so many innocent people to be implicated that she had to end her own life in the cruelest way possible. That was the best explanation for all of this.

After a long while, Tan Yubai finally spoke in a soft voice.

“Hungry?”

Yu Meng shook her head.

“I want to lie down a little longer.”

Tan Yubai had been carrying Yu Meng the entire time, and he was reluctant to let her go, but he had forgotten that hugging her for too long would cause her to feel uncomfortable.

“I’m sorry.” He helped her lie down carefully. “If I stick close to your warm body, I can feel a bit more at ease.”

Yu Meng turned her head away, refusing to look into Tan Yubai’s eyes.

That pair of sad and moist eyes made Yu Meng feel that the method she used to atone for her sins had hurt him yet again.

Yu Meng realized that she had made a mistake in everything she had done. There would always be people who would be hurt because of her.

“You’re still angry with me, aren’t you.”

Tan Yubai sighed: “That day, I was too angry, that’s why I said that.”

“I’m not angry with you.”

Yu Meng turned her head. “I’m just angry at myself.”

She looked at him with a gaze that made him feel strange.

Yu Meng said, “You shouldn’t have saved me.”

Tan Yubai stood at the side, he had waited for her return with much difficulty, but what she had said just now was too late. It was no different from giving him a little bit of warmth and cold water.

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“If I die, everything will be over.” Yu Meng’s gaze was calm as she replied, “Without me, your lives would have been back on track. How wonderful …”

“Shut up.” Tan Yubai endured his anger and interrupted Yu Meng, “I won’t allow you to think anymore nonsense. Take good care of your injuries, I’ll stay by your side and accompany you forever.”

The sudden change in Yu Meng caught Tan Yubai off guard. She had always been an optimistic and positive girl, but suddenly she gave up like this. As she spoke, she was filled with self-denial and self-abandonment.

Tan Yubai felt that something was amiss, he invited a psychiatrist to check on her, and the answer was that she had moderate depression.

Tan Yubai did not expect this outcome. He asked the doctor how to treat it, but he received a cure that was impossible.

Yu Meng’s depression stemmed mainly from mental stress, so she had no other choice but to help her open her heart and regain the hope to live a new life.

Tan Yubai looked at the rest of the dreams on the bed, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

Her life was saved, but her heart was dead.

Fate never seemed to let her off, slicing her body again and again, forcing her to have no choice but to retreat in pain, wishing that she was dead.

She had suffered so much in her life that she didn’t know when it would end.

If he could, Tan Yubai was willing to bear this pain on her behalf, that was more than ten times what he had done. He had always been by her side, watching her naive and innocent, watching her optimistic and positive, watching her break through all kinds of hardships.

He tried his best, tried countless methods, but to no avail.

As small as he was, he suffered more or less from his powerlessness.