“Get a taxi in.”

Liu Sijie realized and ran out of the alley to the road hurriedly. A few minutes later, he ran back out of breath.

“Young Master Yan, I have got a taxi. It’s waiting at the entrance of the alley. The driver is unwilling to pull over inside. Let me help her get into the car.” Liu Sijie reached out his hands, trying to carry Li Mei, but Shen Yan turned his body sideways and carried her, walking out of the alley. Why did he bother to give Li Mei to Liu Sijie? He could carry her, and the key was sending her to the hospital as soon as possible.

There were not many people in the emergency hall at night. When Liu Sijie arrived there, Li Mei had been sent into the emergency room. Shen Yan was sitting alone on the bench outside the room. He covered his forehead with one hand and rested the other one on his knee. He lowered his head a bit and looked very gloomy.

His well-cut suit wrinkled, and his tie around his neck was lost somewhere.

Liu Sijie slightly took a deep breath in his heart because the atmosphere in the emergency hall was in tension at this time, and the situation was uncertain. Liu Sijie didn’t dare to inquire more or say more, so he could only stand and wait.

Over ten minutes later, the door of the emergency room was opened, and a doctor came out of the emergency room.

Shen Yan stepped forward almost with one stride. “How’s it going?”

The doctor answered in a mild voice, “She’s fine. She just has some hypoglycemia.”

“What about those injuries on her body?”

“Most of them are soft-tissue contusions. And some injuries on the skin have been treated. Other injuries can be confirmed only when the report comes out tomorrow. But her left ankle seems to be seriously injured. I recommend you should take her to the Orthopedics Department tomorrow morning and have an X-ray examination.”

Hearing this, Liu Sijie breathed a sigh of relief. Soon, Li Mei was moved out of the emergency room to the ward by the nurse. Actually, it was not a “ward” because she was just arranged to lie in a sickbed in the corridor. She was sent to the emergency room contingently. Public hospitals were in shortage of beds. Liu Sijie was not very satisfied with such an arrangement when seeing this and was determined to argue with the nurse who came to help Li Mei get an intravenous drip.

However, the nurse was not in charge of these things, so she was indifferent and arrogant, which almost provoked Liu Sijie to quarrel with her. Shen Yan drew him aside. “Forget it.”

“How can she be left to lie here at night?”

Shen Yan looked back at Li Mei who was still in a coma and frowned. “Let’s deal with it tomorrow morning. You just go to help her check in first.”

Liu Sijie had no other choice but to glare at the nurse who was still giving an injection to Li Mei. Then he took his bag and went downstairs.

About ten minutes later, Liu Sijie came back with the check-in list while the nurse had gone. Shen Yan stood alone in front of her sickbed, thrusting his hands into his pants pockets. The person in the bed remained in a coma. Shen Yan standing beside the bed looked gloomy, and he stared at the person in the bed with concern. The person’s shadow beside the bed was dragged to be long and slim under the pale and bright light in the corridor at this time.

Standing in the distance, Liu Sijie watched him for a while, and at last, he heaved a sigh gently. “Young Master Yan.”

The person beside the bed didn’t move. So, Liu Sijie stepped forward half a step. He cast a look at Li Mei, whose face was still swollen seriously and seemed to be shocking by the sight under the light.

As it was in the small hours now, the corridor became a little colder.

“Young Master Yan, who do you think did it?”

Shen Yan remained silent, so Liu Sijie decided to drop the topic. He stood behind him for a while. Then his phone just rang. Liu Sijie went a few paces away to answer the phone. When he came back, he found that Shen Yan was still standing there in the same posture.

Liu Sijie felt timid and anxious in his mind. Not knowing what to do, he had to put his phone in his pocket first.

“Jin Mao just called me and told me that Li Mei met Young Master Mo and Li Tianci today. The injuries on her body…” Liu Sijie broke the silence. The man in front of the sickbed finally turned around, still with no emotions on his face.

“Perhaps, we will know the truth when she wakes up.” Shen Yan used the word “perhaps” because he was really not sure whether Li Mei would tell him the truth.

Liu Sijie didn’t reply. So, they should keep waiting?

When Li Mei woke up, it wasn’t quite light. It might be four or five in the morning. And the corridor was very quiet. Though she still felt a little dizzy, she gathered up her muddleheaded consciousness and went back to reality little by little as if she had just woken up from a deep dream. She opened her eyelids gently and saw the man called Shen Yan at first sight.

He was just sitting in a plastic stool which was about half a meter away from the bed, with his eyes closed and his back against the wall of the corridor. His long legs naturally curved in an arc and diverged slightly to the sides. Though he was sleeping, his eyebrows still frowned by habit.

In the beginning, Li Mei had thought she was still in a dream because the person in front of her was so unreal to her. How could he stay on for her? She wanted to look more carefully, but as long as she moved a bit, she felt all her bones aching as if her body had fallen apart. And the pain made her realize it was not a dream at all, but the reality.

Why did he stay here? As if a small stone was thrown into the lake of her heart, Li Mei felt that there were some ripples undulating in circles in her heart, and such a strange feeling could not be described by words.

Fear was always enveloped by the dark night layer after layer, and it became more and more terrifying in a nightmare. The horrible experience which happened to her yesterday flashed constantly in her mind while her heart was still full of endless fear which was roaring wantonly at this time. The soberer she became, the more pain she suffered, and she could not escape from this feeling at all.

She closed her eyes helplessly. When she opened her eyes again, the man in front of her was still asleep.

His hands rested on his knees. His five well-defined fingers were clenched into a fist. There was about a one-arm-long distance between them when she reached out. She straightened her cold fingers to gently touch Shen Yan’s hand.

The person on the stool moved a bit and frowned more tightly. Li Mei withdrew her hand at once. Luckily, she did it in time. When Shen Yan woke up, he happened to find that she was staring at him, lying in the bed with the head aslant.

He was stunned for a few seconds. “You are awake?”

Li Mei didn’t reply. She felt a little perturbed in her heart.

Shen Yan thought that she still did not come to herself as she just recovered. So, he stood up and came over. Then he touched her injury on her face with his hand. “Does it still hurt?”

Li Mei shook her head with a dull expression. Shen Yan could only continue to ask, “What about other places? Anything uncomfortable?”

Li Mei inhaled softly. “No.” She struggled to get up, but as long as she moved her left leg, it hurt badly as if it was being cut with a knife.

Shen Yan stopped her with his hand at once. “Don’t move. Your left ankle is swollen seriously.”

Li Mei felt a little frustrated. Yesterday, she had intended to escape, but she wrenched her ankle and was kicked by Li Tianci several times. When she recalled this right now, she still felt scared and became even paler.

Shen Yan assumed she was in pain. “I’ll take you to the Orthopedics Department to have an X-ray examination at dawn!”

Li Mei didn’t say anything. She turned her head aside and closed her eyes.

When the sun rose, Shen Yan used his social relations to arrange a ward for Li Mei and took her to the Orthopedics Department to have an X-ray examination. The examination showed that her bone was not hurt, but she needed a good and quiet rest and should keep lying in bed. They were kept busy all morning, and it was past ten o’clock in the morning. Shen Yan went to fetch the medicine downstairs. When he left her ward, Li Mei found that her phone was ringing. She glanced at the caller ID and felt stunned for a while before she answered it.

“Madame Zeng!”

“Where are you?”

“In the hospital!”

“What happened?”

“I wrenched my ankle yesterday when I met Li Tianci. And someone passing by just saw me and sent me to the hospital.” Li Mei didn’t mention Shen Yan to Madame Zeng somehow.

“Is it serious?” Madame Zeng asked with concern. In the past years when she was in the WS, Li Mei had accompanied her all the time as intimately as her relative.

“I took an X-ray examination just now, and the doctor said that my bone was not hurt.” Li Mei told her about the injury on her foot simply. “But the doctor said that I still needed to stay in the hospital for a few days.”

Though her ankle was not seriously hurt, she couldn’t hide the injuries on her face. Li Mei didn’t want Madame Zeng to see her look now. She was afraid that Madame Zeng would be scared. She wanted to go back after her injuries on the face were recovered a little.

“I’m worried that you stay alone at the hospital.” Madame Zeng was afraid that Li Tianci and his people might hurt Li Mei, and she was more afraid that he might ask Li Mei about her whereabouts.

“Don’t worry. I am at the hospital now. He dares not to make trouble in the hospital. Besides, I told him yesterday that you had gone to the WS with the Eldest Miss, and I was left to deal with some domestic affairs over here.” Li Mei understood Madame Zeng’s worry, so she comforted her on the phone.

Her words relieved Madame Zeng’s anxious heart. She said some other things to Li Mei and then hung up.

Li Mei heaved a sigh and put the phone back into her pocket. She frowned tightly as if she had too many things to worry about.

Liu Sijie who hid in the dark eavesdropped the whole conversation and saw all of this. He said to himself in his heart that Madame Zeng seemed to be in big trouble.

Soon, Shen Yan came back with a plastic bag which was full of various medicines. When he went into the ward, he saw Li Mei holding the phone in her hand. He glanced at it and no longer cared about it. Then he turned to take one box of medicine out of a pile of medicine and opened it.

“Stretch out your left leg!” He said while sitting on the edge of her bed. But the woman in the bed stared at him dully, which made him feel speechless, so he helped her move her left leg and rest it on his knees. “What’s wrong? Anything on my face?”

Li Mei was still silent. He was Young Master Yan who was dignified! Was he going to apply medicine to her ankle? How could she accept it? Li Mei felt flattered.

Shen Yan assumed she was too frightened yesterday, so he intently began to apply medicine to her ankle. He sprayed some pain killer on her skin first. Then, he poured some liquid medicine on his palm and rubbed her ankle. His hot palm wrapped around her ankle, and every rub made her feel great pain, but the warmth from his palm with the cool liquid medicine seeped into her skin little by little and then relieved her pain with a comfortable feeling. He repeated it several times. Li Mei finally moaned gently with relief. Shen Yan stopped at once and asked, “Does it hurt?”

Li Mei shook her head. Shen Yan looked up at her. “It hurts indeed, but after applying the medicine, you will recover faster. I’ll do it more gently.” He then lowered his head and continued to pour some liquid medicine on his palm to keep rubbing Li Mei’s ankle around and around. Li Mei, gazing at the man in front of her, found that his hair was a little messy, and his shirt was wrinkled. He should not have applied the medicine for her here. He should have been somewhere else.

“Young Master Yan…” Li Mei wanted to say something, but she stopped.

Shen Yan seemingly understood what she was going to say, so he smiled. “You don’t need to have any psychological burden. I won’t inquire who you met or what you did yesterday if you don’t want to say. In fact, I can roughly guess what happened even if you don’t tell me. So, I don’t have to corner you. You are only a person who runs errands for someone else, aren’t you?”

Besides, she was seriously hurt and almost lost her life.

Li Mei gave a bitter smile. Shen Yan’s words were undeniably eloquent. How clever he was! She had no way to hide something from him at all.

But just as he said, she was only a person who ran errands for someone else. She could tell nothing to him if she was not allowed by her master to do so.

The ward became quiet for a while. These two people were both in silence, and it lasted for a few minutes. At last, Li Mei broke the silence. “Young Master Yan, can I ask you a question?”