Free Web NovelChapter 954: Chapter 354: [Brokenhearted Fairy Tale] This Unending Tsunami (Part 3)
The blinding white, even the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
This is a hospital.
After Lin Chu strained to open her eyelids, she looked around, searching at the window for the person who appeared in her dreams.
He was no longer a boy.
Tall and upright, his silhouette split the sunlight filtering into the ward through the window, casting an extremely elongated shadow on the ground.
Just his back exuded an unapproachable solitude.
From the moment Lin Chu woke up, she never moved her gaze again.
For as long as she looked, the man stood in that position just as long.
He neither smoked nor made any other gestures, merely stood there. freewebnσvel.cøm
Lin Chu didn’t move either, even her breathing maintained the rhythm from her coma.
Slow, gentle.
As if unwilling to break this silence.
The sunlight wasn’t very bright, and the outside sky carried a hazy darkness, Lin Chu couldn’t tell what time of day it was.
From Lin Chu’s angle, she could see one-third of his profile, hidden in shadows, with sharp and distinct curves and angles.
He looked out the window, seemingly pondering something.
When deciding to use such an extreme method to retrieve her memory, she considered other possibilities; perhaps it was all useless, and what was forgotten would remain forgotten.
However, the forgotten time was reclaimed by her.
The scene in her dreams was vivid and clear, as if she had revisited the past. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
The button she had worn around her neck since she was ten, pulled from his shirt, was once her treasured possession.
But... she threw it away.
Out of desperation, out of dead stillness, wanting to erase everything related to him.
Even the evidence of Lu Huai’an pulling her back from the hands of death was discarded.
Her neck felt empty.
Initially, she wasn’t used to it, often subconsciously reaching for it, but then she stopped because she knew it was already bare.
Perhaps noticing Lin Chu’s gaze, Lu Huai’an turned to look in the direction of the hospital bed.
Four eyes met.
It seemed he knew she would wake up at this time, for there was no significant emotional fluctuation in his deep, dark eyes, and the slight trembling disappeared fleetingly.
A minute, two minutes...
Lu Huai’an stepped closer, leaned down, and his warm hand brushed against her forehead.
He broke the silence, "Would you like some water?"
Tiredness was faint in his eyes, and the bloodshot veins in his eyeballs weren’t particularly noticeable, just the stubble on his newly grown jaw scraped her skin a little painfully.
Lin Chu shook her head, her throat uncomfortable, but perhaps because she drank too much in the swimming pool, she didn’t feel thirsty.
Gazing dazedly at the man’s handsome face so close by, she asked hoarsely, "Have you... not rested for a long time?"
Lu Huai’an looked at her for a long time.
Since the day she answered in An City, she had never spoken to him in such a calm tone, every interaction laced with scorn and hatred...
Today, something was different.
It was concern.
Lu Huai’an supported her body, helping her to sit up, his low voice calm and unruffled, "Not long, only two days."
This was the second day of Lin Chu’s coma, and aside from necessary activities, Lu Huai’an hadn’t left this ward, entrusting all work to Lun Jun.
Watching her be wheeled into the emergency room, then lying with eyes closed on the hospital bed, her brow furrowed, was she dreaming of something?
Or... even in her dreams, she wanted to escape from him.
She didn’t yet know there was a new life in her belly, if she knew, would she even want it?
Two days, forty-eight hours, not only was Lin Chu trapped in a nightmare, but Lu Huai’an’s mind also repeated a scene over and over.
Not the moment he watched his sister’s breath stop, nor his mother’s passing, but when he found Lin Chu in Su City.
Without him, she was doing well, life was peaceful, and there was a faint smile in her eyes.
In the silence, the ward was so quiet even breathing could be clearly heard.
Lin Chu leaned against the man’s warm chest, his unique scent peeling away the smell of disinfectant, lingering around her nose.
Before jumping into the swimming pool, she never thought of dying.
Yet, when those images invaded her mind, she wished she could die in that icy water.
In a daze, the young Lu Huai’an and the present Lu Huai blended into one, all the memories she had forgotten returned to her.
Originally thought to be blood-soaked torments lurking beneath calmness, starting with Lu Huai’an, she now realized it was her, all because of her.
