One Life, One Incarnation, Beautiful Bones

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Chapter 13.1 – Mysteries that Could Not Be Unraveled (1)

Zhou Wenxing quaveringly spoke only a couple more sentences and then broke down into sobs.

Very sorrowful sobs.

Genuinely alarmed by this, Shi Yi tried to console her, “I’m fine now. Honest, Wenxing.”

“I’m scared to death just thinking back on it now,” Zhou Wenxing choked out in a nasal-sounding voice. “So scared after the fact. If you had really, just like that… Big Brother would hate me for sure.”

She comforted Wenxing, “He wouldn’t. He loves you very much. And it was just an accident.”

Every time Zhousheng Chen spoke of this younger sister, he would have a gentle expression on his face. She knew that he must like Wenxing very much and also felt the same about Xiao Ren. In this old manor, the three of them were a rare source of comforting warmth.

Wenxing only spoke for a short while before a look of fatigue overcame her, even as she still, again and again, apologized in a voice filled with guilt.

She ended up being the one to console Wenxing and, after all sorts of persuasion, finally convince her to return to her room and rest. The girl Zhousheng Chen had left to attend to her very adeptly changed her intravenous solution bag and then gave her a friendly smile.

“Thank you.”

The girl continued to smile. “Young Madam, don’t worry. Eldest Young Master will be back soon.”

She was taken aback for a moment and then smiled.

When it was lunchtime, he still had not returned.

Originally, the young girl had wanted to help Shi Yi with her food, but she declined with a smile. Instead, she asked for a tray table to be set on the bed, and slowly, she fed herself. She was not hungry, though, and in fact, when she ate, her stomach would hurt somewhat. The girl comforted her that dizziness and stomach pain were normal symptoms after near-drowning. After all, her brain had suffered from lack of oxygen for a period of time and she had also swallowed water, so these were inevitable.

Now, the main things were neurological nutrition and protective treatment for the lungs.

She recalled that Wenxing had said her heart had stopped, and feeling some retrospective fear, she did not ask further.

With head lowered, she ate her food. She felt that everyone’s reactions were exceptionally cautious, as if this was not an accident.

The door was pushed open.

Zhousheng Chen strode in and cast his gaze first in the direction of the person on the bed.

Her white, two-piece pajamas made her look very frail. He waved his hand to dismiss the young girl. At the same time, Shi Yi detected his presence and raised her head to look at him. “You’re back? Have you eaten?”

“I have.” He sat down beside her and asked, “May I feed you?”

Blinking at this, Shi Yi smiled, “Alright.”

After she had just awoken, he had left. Undeniably, she had felt a sense of disappointment about that.

But now, as she thought about it, he had not even changed his shirt. He must have stayed right at her side and watched over her the whole night, and only when she regained consciousness did he finally take the time to go see his own younger sister.

“Last night, [maternal] Grandmother’s state of health was not very good.” He took the soupspoon from her hand, scooped up a spoonful of rice porridge, and brought it to her mouth. “Everything seemed to happen all together.”