Chapter 62: I Can't Explain
Ye Jie splashed his face with cold water for a long time. He was tired but at this moment, he looked completely beaten up. The wisps of his hair fell over his eyes. His eyes were getting bloodshot. Through deep breaths, he calmed down himself and walked inside the E.R.
The doctor was relating some precautions to Xu Mey who gave the impression of being concentrated on his words. Her swelling had visibly gone down but there were still some red spots on her body and face. When he came near her bed, he heard the doctor's voice. "Take care of your diet and sleep. Both are necessary for speedy recovery."
"Thank you, doctor." Ye Jie thanked him sincerely. The doctor nodded before walking away. "We can go home now. Let's go!" Ye Jie's voice was stern and he didn't look at Xu Mey while speaking. But Xu Mey wasn't in her observing mode. She was rather in her sleepy mode at that time. All she wanted to do was escape from the hospital.
The tranquility in the car was exuberant to the point that Ye Jie felt stifled. But Xu Mey was feeling congenial. Enjoying silence was her forte and at this time, when she just escaped a hell she called the hospital, she was even more content.
She was leaning back at her seat with her eyes closed. "Are you feeling okay?" Ye Jie started the conversation.
"En." She replied with closed eyes.
Ye Jie didn't want to be direct with his confrontation. But he needed the answers. He felt like he'd go mad if he didn't speak. "My company is starting a new resort. They called me this late for some important details related to the location." Ye Jie lied keeping his eyes on the road ahead.
"Ahan..."
"Some directors suggested we should choose Kun Village." The moment he said 'Kun Village', Xu Mey's sleep was thrown out the window. She abruptly opened her eyes, sat straight and looked at him in horror. Under the dim road lights, he saw the way her face went pale in a second. She was breathing heavily. "Have you been there?"
'Get a grip of yourself, Xu Mey! He doesn't know anything about your time there. Calm down! Don't make him suspicious.' Xu Mey calmed her mind and replied, "No... I haven't."
"Oh..." Ye Jie's eyes were brimming with the accusation but Xu Mey couldn't see it. "Well, I heard it's a beautiful place with mountainous forests and shallow lakes." Ye Jie was marveling about the beauty of Kun Village without paying attention that his every word was making Xu Mey uncomfortable. "Would you like to visit? We haven't even gone on our honeymoon yet. So, we can spend a weekend there for relaxation. It'll be like a mini-holiday."
For normal people, that suggestion was very ordinary. But Xu Mey's heart was being pricked slowly. The pain was getting unbearable with each passing second. Her chest felt stuffed up making it harder to breathe. Her head was pounding loudly blocking every other sound around her. "Stop the car." She said slowly.
"Huh?" Ye Jie didn't understand her intention.
"I said, stop the car!" She yelled all of a sudden taking Ye Jie by surprise. He parked the car on the roadside and Xu got off immediately. The cold night breeze stung her face but she enjoyed it. Ye Jie got off after her and ran towards her. Before he could ask for a reason, he saw her bent down and puke her guts out.
Ye Jie was alarmed. He didn't expect this to be the reason. His earlier frenzied mind now only focused on one thing; she was looking paler and sickly. Ye Jie rubbed her back slowly and held her hair in place for her. He passed his handkerchief to her which she accepted with gratitude.
"We should go back to the hospital." Ye Jie decided all by himself feeling the worry seeping in his heart.
Xu Mey held his hand and shook her head. "It's alright." Her voice was feeble.
"How is this alright?" He was agitated by her stubbornness.
"This is nothing to worry about." She said.
"You said that about that allergy as well." He retorted.
"That was different. This is different."
"How? Enlighten me?" Ye Jie had a displeased written all over his face.
"I can't explain." She tried to argue weakly.
"Can you explain anything to me?" Ye Jie was fuming at his point as he crossed his arms over his chest and pointed his chin at her.
Both kept their eyes at one another without a word. The cold night breeze was freezing but both were standing without any concern. There were occasional sounds of vehicles passing on the road. His eyes were asking a million questions, her eyes were hiding a million emotions. But both were equally stubborn.
After a long while, when Ye Jie was about to give up he heard her low voice, "When my mind is overly stressed, I can't digest anything. It leads to vomiting. It's very common. Nothing out of the ordinary for me." She was looking down at her hands which held his beautiful silk handkerchief.
'Stress? Vomiting? Common? Nothing out of the ordinary?' Ye Jie's mind was running around for answers while his heart felt like being pricked by a needle. 'How much are you burying inside that it's unbearable? And why did you get stressed so suddenly today? Was it because of Xu Liqing and Fu Lan or did I do something to trigger it?' Apparently, these questions were worth asking but Ye Jie had no courage left to ask any further.
He supported her in walking and brought her to the car. The rest of the ride was spent in complete silence. But this time, the silence was earth-shattering for Xu Mey. She felt like caged between a double-edged sword. There didn't seem a way to escape at all.
If the secret is simple, it wouldn't be worthy of being a secret anymore. Some secrets might only break a relationship. But some secrets break a person.
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XiaoMeeHee Dear Readers, if I narrated the content of the video then wouldn't my cliffhanger will just become a hanger?
But don't worry, you'll get hints here and there about the content as for what it is in it? Well, that's a mystery for another time.
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XoXo!!!
Chapter 63: I Won't Be Caged
There was absolute darkness with no ray of light. It was like a canvas painted in black with other colors left to the imagination of the person appraising it. The darkness was like a promise. A promise of her ineluctable doom and gloom.
Suddenly, a sliver of moonlight splashed down the darkroom as a silver-white glow painting the black canvas. The milky white light caressed her small, weak and pale figure clad in a white gown. She was sitting on the cold hard floor as she hugged her knees to her chest and buried her face between her knees.
She could hear the loud wails, shrieks, the sound of banging the door making her body tremble frightfully. She curled up her body shrinking back towards the corner in fright.
The scene changed in a second as her younger self stood at the top of the hotel trying to escape from Xu Liqing. "Today, I'll end you completely." Her voice was laced with malice making Xu Mey's tears fall uncontrollably.
Then she heard her eerie voice. "Kun Village is a beautiful place with mountainous forests and shallow lakes. You'll love it there, dear elder sister."
The whole world drowned in the chasm of endless light. She squinted her eyes trying to accustom herself to the bright light around. There she saw a handsome tall man walking towards her. Her present self was clad in a black dress while the man in front of her had a beautiful white suit with a daisy flower in his hand. His dark brown eyes were looking into her black orbs making her soul feel naked.
It was a terrifying feeling that he could read not only her mind but also her soul. She was charmed by his eyes feeling herself drown into them. Then she heard his low, husky voice that seemed to tingle her ears. "I heard it's a beautiful place with mountainous forests and shallow lakes. Would you like to visit?"
Her body started shaking fortuitously. As she looked again at his smiling face, she felt a tug at her heart. She felt like someone trying to suck her soul out of her.
She started running. Running as fast as she could. As far away as she could. She couldn't see in the bright light but it didn't matter as long as there was a way out she'll run. All she found was a tall mirror towering above her.
She turned around only to be rammed into a hard thing. She looked up to see the handsome face smiling back at her. She stepped back only to strike into the mirror. The reflection inside the mirror changed. Now, the mirror showed her young self with Xu Liqing holding onto her arm. She looked back at those charming brown eyes staring back at her.
"Kun Village is a beautiful place with mountainous forests and shallow lakes. You'll love it there, dear elder sister."
"I heard it's a beautiful place with mountainous forests and shallow lakes. Would you like to visit?"
Both voices were intermingling. Frightening her even more. Her body shook with vigor. The voices were getting louder and louder. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out. She shook her head repeatedly trying to shake off both the voices around her.
"I-" Her voice was hoarse and low. Barely audible. But she didn't give up. "I won't-" The constraint in her throat was making it harder for her to speak. It felt parched like she hasn't drunk a drop of water for a million years. She felt scared even more. All of a sudden, she felt something hard in her hand. Without even looking, she raised her hand banged the hard thing on her head while screaming with utmost strength. "I won't be caged!"
She felt a stream of blood trickle down her forehead. It felt warm. Then a faint voice came from far away, "Wake-" She couldn't hear it clearly. She tried to hear it again with concentration this time. "Please, wake up, Xu Mey. Don't scare me like that." The voice was brimming with fraught.
Xu Mey frowned. 'Who can be scared because of me? I clearly remember people scaring me all the time. But can my absence scare anyone?' She was confused in her own mind.
Her eyes felt like they were bearing the burden of a boulder. Her head was hurting. But the anxious voice was still there. Faint but still there. "Wake up... Wake up already..."
She tried to open her eyes slowly but closed them because of the bright light glaring at her. She tried to open them again and succeeded. She felt wet and cold. She realized her pajamas were sticking to her body because of sweat.
Cold sweat was dripping down her forehead. There was a piercing pain in her head. And there was that beautiful face filled with distraught looking at her. Seeing her opened eyes, he visibly relaxed and pulled her in his embrace.
He stroked her hair saying, "You scared me to death just now. I told you we should go to the hospital. But you really don't like listening to me."
Xu Mey's mind was muddled. "Do you also think, I'm crazy?" Her voice was still hoarse. Ye Jie pulled her body out of his embrace to look at her pale face dripping with cold sweat. Her body was still trembling. Her next words broke everything inside Ye Jie. "Are you gonna cage me as well?" Her eyes were filled with tears but she was holding on to it. Not letting a single tear escape.
"I only want to cage you in my heart, silly... But I want you to cage me in your life..." He replied while cleaning her face with a towel as a solitary tear trickled down her face. He passed her a glass of water.
She took a sip to ease up her parched stinging throat. She held the glass in her hand while her thumb was drawing circles on it. "I'm not good enough for you, right?"
Ye Jie pulled her into his warm and cozy embrace once again. "I suddenly realized, it's me who's not good enough for you." He replied as he buried his face in the crook of her neck.
His warm breath tickled her softly. But his scent and warm embrace made her muddled mind to clear up. That's when her eyes fell on his left hand. It was bleeding profusely. She saw the glass shards strewn on her bedside.
She pushed his body lightly saying, "What happened to your hand? How did it get injured?" She was totally alarmed now. With all her focus on his bleeding hand as she took it in her own. But seeing the light grazes on her own hand with a tiny glass shard stuck in one of them. She caught the whole picture. "I did it."
"No... You didn't do anything." Ye Jie tried to explain but Xu Mey wasn't listening.
"It's not the first time. It must be me. It has to be." She looked at his eyes and asked, "How?"
Ye Jie sighed finding no way out. "I think you're having a nightmare. I woke up. I saw you holding onto that glass in your hand and you're about to hit your head. So, I placed my hand between the glass and your forehead."
She didn't know how to react. Whether to be happy that he saved her or to yell at him for hurting himself in the process. In the end, she chose to stay quiet. She pulled out the medicine box from her side table and helped him with his wound. Her own were not worthy of mentioning but on Ye Jie's insistence she had to apply some medicine on them.
They laid back in bed in silence. Both were wide awake. "Are you still scared?" He asked softly.
"Yes..." Xu Mey didn't lie this time surprising Ye Jie.
He pulled her body towards himself and let her use his arm as a pillow. "I'm here. You don't have to be scared anymore. I'll make all the nightmares go away." His words would have been absurd to her under usual circumstances but at this time, they worked like magic.
His soothing voice, with his soft spearmint breath along with his warm body that perfectly fit her small one, worked like charm as she slowly fell into a deep slumber.
We can run from reality because our nightmares are enough to haunt us. But to escape nightmares, we can only live them over and over again. Until someone helps us in embracing reality.
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ZeroKiryu545!!! This chapter is a surprise present for you. 'Cause you're such an understanding reader.
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Nightmares are indeed scary but not more than reality. Maybe that's why we try to escape reality instead of escaping from our nightmares.
This chapter gave a huge hint at what happened to her in the past. Let's see your theories...
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