Xing Bi nodded. She scratched her chin and awkwardly smiled. "It's so strange, right?"
Nian stared at her in silence.
Xing Bi was trying to be strong in front of them despite being shaken inside. It wasn't the dream of her death that haunted her so much as much as the terrifying words she heard about Ai's death.
Jun asked, "What did she say?"
Xing Bi slightly stiffened. She still remembered those callous words about her own interference in some matters which led to her accident and death.
"Ha...hahaha...oh that...I don't remember..." she sheepishly grinned, "I told you, right? It happened too suddenly. I just felt like I heard her voices? Or maybe it was someone else? I don't know. It wasn't so clear. Anyway, I was most probably hallucinating. It's such a weird thing to happen," she shrugged. "Maybe I lack sleep these days," she seriously nodded.
Ai struggled to speak for sometime but when she found her strength, the door then just opened and a nurse came in. "Miss. Xing! What are you doing here? And Mr. Liu too. You two are patients. You are supposed to be resting on your own beds!"
Xing Bi coughed and averted her gaze. "I-I was just looking for some fresh air hehe..."
"Please let the nurses help you with that," she sternly said, "You still need some to fully recover. So kindly come with me to your own respective wards."
After the nurse's stern scolding, Jun and Xing Bi had no choice but to leave. He leaned and kissed on Ai's forehead. "Take care. We will talk about this later," he whispered.
Ai nodded, her face slightly white.
The nurse then informed them. "Also good news for you. Mr. Liu Jin is awake now as well."
Jun brightened. "Jin is!? Which ward is he in? Let me meet him-"
The nurse interrupted him. "It's your time to eat food and take medicine. Then we have to run some tests too after which you have to take some good rest. Until then, you cannot step out."
His brow twitched.
"Rest assured. Your brother is doing okay. Now please, if you will come with me."
Xing Bi was taken to her own room first. Nian patted her head. "You should rest. Don't worry about the dream, okay?"
She nodded.
He held her hand and kissed the back of it. "I swear on my name of Liu Nian. I don't know if that dream you saw meant anything, but I won't let a single person harm even a strand of your hair," Nian looked into her eyes, dead serious.
He didn't have to say anything more as his words conveyed the deepest emotions of his heart.
Xing Bi smiled and tapped on his nose. "Well Mr. Liu. I never told you this before, but you look really hot when you are serious."
He cocked his brow up. "This is just the start, my dear girlfriend. You are yet to see a lot of sides of mine," he chuckled, "I am more eager to show you my shameless side."
"I think I have already seen that side-"
"On the bed," he corrected her.
"..."
The shameful and uncensored R18 thoughts of a naked Nian and doing unspeakable things to her popped into her mind automatically, and her cheeks flushed hard.
"G-g-get out!" She pulled the duvet over her head, refusing to see his face. "You young people nowadays are too bold!"
"I am only two years younger than you. There is hardly any generational gap."
"Shut up!"
He chuckled and kissed her forehead from on top of the blanket. "I will see you later."
Nian left her ward, whistling and hummy a merry tune with a smile on his lips, but his expression changed as soon as he stepped into Jun's ward. The nurse had just left after doing a regular checkup.
"Yo, little brother."
Jun frowned. "Why are you here, Bro? Shoo. I am not in any mood for your chitter chatter. You should stay beside your girlfriend," he sighed and grumbled, "not like me who was thrown out..."
Nian took a seat beside him and smiled.
"...What?"
Suddenly, Jun felt this gloomy feeling in his chest. He unconsciously sat straight, feeling Nian's gaze.
"Let's talk a bit," Nian said.
"I am a little tired so can we do it la-"
"Let's. Talk. A. Bit."
Jun felt the danger tingling at the back of his spine, and his unconditioned response was, "Sure why not."
Nian nodded. "So as you heard, Xing Bi saw these strange images or memories - she doesn't know what they are, but they felt very real to her."
Jun bobbed his head like a robot.
"Do you know anything about it?"
"...Why would I know anything about it?"
"Then why did you and Ai look as if you two saw ghosts when Xing Bi mentioned about it?"
Silence.
Jun awkwardly smiled. "Ghosts? That's going too far, Bro. I was just surprised because this was my first time hearing something like this."
Nian stared at him hard. "Little brother."
Jun inwardly gulped. He didn't like the sound of 'Little brother.'
"Do you take me as a fool?"
"Of course not," was his instantaneous response.
"You better not because your elder brother can understand the difference between the reactions of seeing something for the first time and something which you have already seen before..." his voice turned quieter towards the end. "If that were your and Ai's reactions of 'first time' then you two really suck at it. Let's not even talk about Ai. She looked like somebody just threw her into the Arctic. And you. Go get some serious acting lessons from Chyou."
"..."
Jun uncomfortably shifted in his bed. He looked at the door, praying hard for some nurse to come in.
"The nurse is already done with her work. It's just you and me now."
Why does that sound like my head is on the guillotine?
"I figured you and Ai know something about it. You looked like 'Huh? Why did this happen with Xing Bi?' or more accurately it could be, 'Why did this happen with Xing Bi TOO?'"
Cold sweat broke on his forehead.
"So tell me what's going on."
Jun felt stifled. "Nothing like that-"
"I think you misunderstood my tone. It's not a request. It's an order," Nian smiled, his black orbs shining with threat.
"Xing Bi saw her death in those pictures. She didn't tell you because she didn't want to worry you two, but she heard something not so palatable related to Ai as well."
He stiffened.
"And if anything remotely concerns Xing Bi's life and wellbeing or anybody that I hold dear to me - then I don't want to stay on the sidelines. So start talking little brother. Liu Nian has very limited patience."
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