535 A memory all too real
The Liu and Han family on the other side was all in a chaotic mode with Jin and Shui’s accident that involved Nian and Xing Bi too, adding Jun and Shui to the situation too.
Xing Bi was treated for minor injuries where Nian had fortunately saved her in time. But she was slightly feverish and had fallen unconscious.
Nian kept glancing back and forth between her ward and his brothers’. On one side there was Xing Bi and on the other side, Jun and Jin were not in a good condition either.
Jian grabbed his shoulders and stopped his rapid pacing. “Calm down, Nian. Everybody will be alright,” he said with a tone of firm reassurance.
“How the hell is everybody alright, Jian? Jin’s car crashed, and he and Shui almost died, Xing Bi is hurt and I have no clue why Jun and Ai fell so sick that they had to be admitted to a hospital at the same time! How can something like this happen to us on the same day!”
Jian pressed his temple. He didn’t blame his twin. First, they got news from Nian about Jin and Shui’s accident and later suddenly, Zhou Yichen informed them about Jun and Ai.
Nuo held her brother’s hand and said, “No matter how weird it is, everybody will be okay…” her eyes were slightly reddish with tears.
It was indeed a difficult situation to cope for so many of her loved ones in danger at the same time.
Nian pursed his lips and patted her head. “You are right,” he took a deep breath and smiled, “You should head over to Siying’s side. He needs you. That doting brother would be crying so much by now seeing Shui hurt.”
Nuo sniffled and pouted. “You say as if my brothers aren’t doting enough.”
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“They definitely don’t leave my side either if I get hurt. So much so that I have to throw you all out of my room at one point.”
Jian chuckled. “Now, go.”
Nuo softly nodded her head and left.
Sometime later as the twins waited, it was Xing Bi who woke up first. Nian immediately jumped on his feet. “Xing Bi is awake!?”
He paused and turned towards Jian. “You should go to Mom and Grandma’s side.”
“Are you sure?”
He sighed. “They must have dehydrated themselves with so much crying bynow. You should help out your girlfriend in taking care of them.”
“Or do you not want me to see you getting dehydrated? I can imagine you will cry like a baby inside.”
“…”
“Shut up and go. And let me know immediately if Jun, Jin or Ai wake up!”
“Alright, alright.”
Nian quietly opened the door and tip-toed inside. The nurse nodded at him as if signaling thay Xing Bi was fine as she left.
He slowly walked towards her and gently placed his hand over her forehead. He felt his heart squeeze, feeling the slight temperature on her body.
As Xing Bi felt a pleasant, cool sensation on her head, she gradually opened her eyes, seeing Nian smiling before her.
“Hey.”
Xing Bi was silent for several moments, but she jolted all of a sudden. “T-The accident! What happened? Jin? Shui? Are they okay? I saw Jin was bleeding-“
“Sshh,” Nian placed his finger over her lips. “Don’t suddenly push yourself like that. Do you not want to recover? First, calm down,” he scolded her but still keeping a soft tone.
Xing Bi felt slight pain in her head. “How can I…Everything happened so…”
Nian made some place for himself on the bed beside her and held her hand. “First, you worry about yourself. Do you know that you terrified the shit out of me?”
She parted her lips to speak but said nothing.
“You stood frozen in front of the car. If I hadn’t reached you in time, the car would have crashed into you instead of the tree.”
Xing Bi could hear the trembling in his voice and feel his quivering fingers intertwined against hers. She stared into his beautiful black orbs and saw the fear of losing her shining in them.
“…Maybe I am bad luck for you. We just got together today and you already almost lost your life.”
Xing Bi raised her hand and smacked on his head but it was as soft as a feather. “Since when did the mighty and stubborn Liu Nian talk about bad luck?”
He brought her hand closer to his moist eyes. “Then what should I say? When I saw Jin’s car speeding towards you…I felt as if my soul flew out of my body. You didn’t move. You really…scared me out there…” his voice grew quieter and quieter as tried to hold back his tears.
Xing Bi contemplated for a minute and said, “It’s not like…I didn’t want to get out of harm’s way. More like I couldn’t.”
Nian raised his head and blinked at her in confusion. “Couldn’t?”
She pressed her lower lip. “Something…very strange happened to me at that time.”
“Strange? Like what?”
She hesitated. “It’s hard to believe. I don’t understand what it was either. But it was…” she swallowed back, “really scary.”
“I will believe whatever you have to say,” he said in a matter-of-fact voice.
“No it’s really…”
“Xing Bi.”
He looked into her eyes with utmost sincerity and finality. “I will believe whatever you have to say. That’s it.”
Her eyes stung with tears, and she whispered as her voice croaked, “When the car w-was speeding towards me, I…suddenly saw a flash of an image in my mind. In it, I was…dead.”
Nian stared at her.
“I don’t know how it happened, but I repeatedly kept seeing myself dead. When I saw Jin collapse on the steering wheel…” her gaze looked faraway as recalled the memory which strongly imprinted in her mind, “I saw myself in his place…My head had h-hit the steering wheel and I was bleeding j-just like Jin was…”
Xing Bi clenched the blanket in her fist. “I was dead in that picture. Or a m-memory? I don’t know what it was. But I just knew that I was dead. It felt all too real as if…it had already happened to me.”