Ye Wanwan pushed open the door of the neighboring hospital room, where at this moment, a faint light was still shining, and the noise of the door attracted the attention of Shen Yi, who was lying on the hospital bed.
Shen Yi’s fever had subsided in the afternoon, but now his head still felt foggy and painful, and his knee was also aching faintly.
He was frowning, a look of irritation on his face, and looked over subconsciously at the sound, then he saw the person peeping in from the doorway.
In the dimly lit room with only a night light on, Shen Yi’s vision was a bit blurry, and he couldn’t see very clearly, but even with that blurred glance, he recognized the person at the door right away.
Then he saw Ye Wanwan walk in from outside and come to the side of his hospital bed.
"What’s wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" Ye Wanwan asked in a low voice as she reached the side of the hospital bed, her words full of concern.
Shen Yi came to his senses, knowing that his frown had worried Ye Wanwan, so he relaxed his eyebrows and curved his lips into a faint smile, shaking his head at Ye Wanwan.
"No," Shen Yi said, his voice still a bit hoarse.
Ye Wanwan didn’t respond, instead directly reaching out to feel Shen Yi’s forehead temperature, then she frowned, "Do you have a fever again?"
"I’ll go call a nurse to take a look!" Ye Wanwan couldn’t set her mind at ease and said she would turn around to find a nurse.
Shen Yi hastily grabbed Ye Wanwan’s hand, "The nurse just came by a while ago, I don’t have a fever, don’t worry."
"Really?" Ye Wanwan looked at Shen Yi, somewhat skeptical.
Shen Yi nodded, but this nod made his head throb with pain, and Shen Yi bit back any sign of weakness.
Ye Wanwan considered for a moment, then decided not to go out for the nurse and sat down on the chair beside the hospital bed instead; Shen Yi also sat up on the bed.
Shen Yi’s hold on Ye Wanwan’s wrist turned into grasping her hand, then he started to gently stroke it.
Ye Wanwan, looking at Shen Yi lying in the hospital bed, didn’t know what to say for a moment, as she was already aware of everything Shen Yi had done before.
Several elders had already told her about it, saying that when she was unconscious and the doctors were helpless, Shen Yi, running out of options and perhaps truly at his wit’s end, had gone to a run-down temple, knelt before the Buddha to pray, and did so for more than ten hours until he eventually passed out from a high fever right in front of the Buddha.
Ye Wanwan knew the place they were talking about, for Shen Yi had gone to that temple numerous times to pray for her after she had passed away in her previous life.
At the same time, it was there that Shen Yi also died trying to save a monk.
Thinking about all this, Ye Wanwan couldn’t help the tears welling up in her eyes, feeling heartache for the Shen Yi of the past, and for the Shen Yi of here and now.
That mysterious person had told her that her time was up, but Shen Yi wanted her to wake up, willing to pay any price just for her to regain consciousness.
At this moment, watching Shen Yi lying on the hospital bed, Ye Wanwan several times wanted to speak. She wanted to ask what Shen Yi had exchanged.
What kind of sacrifice had he made to wake her up?
But looking at Shen Yi, Ye Wanwan felt there was no need to ask.
Because Ye Wanwan knew all too clearly, Shen Yi would never tell her the truth.