Unfortunately, she couldn't hear his call in her sleep and was still tortured by nightmares.
Suddenly, he helped her up, held her gently in his arms, and said hoarsely, "Ruo'er, I'm sorry..."
Her cold body suddenly came into contact with a thick and warm chest. She instinctively reached out and hugged him tightly, murmuring with nostalgia, "It's so warm..."
"Miruo, I'm here."
He called her affectionately in her ear, wanting to give her the greatest sense of security, but...
Mi Ruo, who was sleeping, might have heard his voice and suddenly woke up. He looked at her deeply, his eyes soft and gentle.
She slowly raised her eyes to look at him, obviously attached to the tenderness in his eyes at this moment, but there were bursts of burning pain in her heart, which was so dry that she wanted to shed tears.
He stretched out his hand to caress her cheek and said softly, "If you want me to go out, I'll leave now."
There was an unspeakable bitterness in her throat. Recalling what happened between him and Joanna last night, she didn't want to say any words to him.
Seeing her downcast eyes of disappointment, he gently helped her lie down, then stood up and said in a low voice, "You have a good rest, I'll be right outside the door."
She turned sideways, as if she didn't want to pay attention to him, and slowly lowered her eyes, suppressing the tears that came from her eyes...
The next day, Li Yan and Rong Ye stood outside the door of Mi Ruo's ward.
"Yan, you haven't rested all day and night. I heard from Gu Bo that the people in Fumo City also seem to be targeting you. If something happens at this juncture, it will be troublesome," Rong Ye paused slightly and said thoughtfully, "
Why don't you go back and take a rest first, I'll have people guard Mi Ruo here."
Li Yan didn't seem to hear Rong Ye's words, but looked deeply at Mi Ruo in the ward and asked, "She still refuses to see me?"
Rong Ye nodded slightly, "Actually, Mi Ruo's health is no longer serious and she can be discharged from the hospital today... However, she doesn't seem to want to go back."
Li Yan glanced at Mi Ruo in the ward without making any answer. He knew that her unwillingness to go back must be because she did not want to see Joanna.
She still turned sideways, as if she knew he was looking at her, and closed her eyes tightly.
Her coldness forced him to withdraw his eyes from her, and finally turned around and walked away.
Feeling the burning gaze withdraw from her body, Mi Ruo slowly opened her eyes and turned to look at the window. In her sight, his figure had indeed disappeared outside the glass window.
She couldn't tell whether it was loss or disappointment, she only felt that her heart was very uncomfortable.
"Knock knock knock—" Suddenly, there was a knock on the door in her ears. Mi Ruo quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
Seeing that she didn't answer, the person outside the door gently turned the doorknob.
The gaze projected on him was not as hot as Li Yan's, and he whispered in a soft and steady voice, "Mi Ruo."
"Doctor Rong?" Mi Ruo turned around and looked at Rong Ye blankly.
"Li Yan has left," he asked as he sat down with a smile, "Now, you can sit up."
"Yes." Mi Ruo nodded dullly. It turned out that she was the one who asked Rong Ye for help to drive Li Yan away.
With his usual gentle smile, Rong Ye said gently, "There are some things that you have never given Li Yan a chance to explain to you, so let me take him to explain them to you."
Mi Ruo lowered her eyes and said calmly, "I don't want to hear about him and Joanna..."
Rong Ye said seriously, "You must listen, because this is also related to the relationship between you and Li Yan."
The light in Mi Ruo's eyes was still dim, and she choked out her voice, "I think there is nothing left to say between me and him." Although she also knew that a man like him, especially when it comes to sexual (harmony) matters,
A man who demands perfection cannot fall in love with her alone forever.
Although she knew this in her heart, because she was a woman, she could never talk about feelings and sex separately like men.
Her love is unavoidable. If he loves her, he can only fall in love with her. If he can't, she would rather not be with him.
Rong Ye said directly, "Li Yan should have told you about the relationship between him and Joanna. Did he ever say that he only regarded Joanna as his sister?"
Mi Ruo was stunned, then snorted, "Who knows how many good sisters he has."
Rong Ye smiled faintly, "He is telling the truth. He really only regards Joanna as his sister."
"You're not him, how do you know what he thinks? Moreover, I saw it with my own eyes yesterday..." Mi Ruo suddenly choked up in the middle of her words. When she thought of what happened last night, she found it difficult to speak.
"The matter between him and Joanna dates back more than ten years ago," Rong Ye began to tell the story of Li Yan's stay in the Demon City when he was a boy. "He, Joanna, and William were the two brothers.
We entered the Demon-Subduing City on the same day. That place was a demon cave. Not to mention how cold and cruel the instructors were, even the children who were brought into the Demon-Subduing City for training like them had already been trained to kill people.
Machines, killing and robbing were commonplace, and there was intrigue among everyone. At that time, the only people around him who could be considered friends were the two brothers Joanna and William."
Mi Ruo only knew Joanna, but did not know that Joanna had a brother named William. She listened blankly, as if she had been transported into the mysterious demon-slaying city by Rong Ye's story.
"Li Yan's grandfather found him ten years later. At that time, he had been living in Demon-Faulting City for almost ten years. You can imagine how much pressure he endured before he survived. If he is a monster, it is not a big deal.
It’s not an exaggeration.”
Mi Ruo thought about the hostility and darkness she saw in Li Yan when she first met him, and couldn't help but suddenly realized that it turned out that he became like this all because of the Demon-Suppressing City...
She thought in a daze: It's no wonder that Joanna is a special existence to him. After all, he and she have lived in the same closed castle for nearly ten years. Or maybe at that time, they could be called each other.
Maybe it's a relationship of mutual sympathy.
Although she felt a little disgusted in her heart, Mi Ruo suddenly understood Li Yan's thoughts. The relationship between Li Yan and Joanna was just like the relationship between her and Luo Yuan, or maybe it was a closer relationship.
Rong Ye sighed softly and said warmly, "There is indeed some bond between Li Yan and Joanna in the past, but this should not be a hindrance to the two of you."
The look in Mi Ruo's eyes flickered slightly, "But, I saw the two of them..." Halfway through her words, she choked again. What she saw and heard that night was so real that she really couldn't say it out loud.
Rong Ye frowned slightly and continued, "As far as I know, Li Yan has always behaved himself since he was with you. Although I am not sure whether something will happen between him and Joanna, there is one thing I must
What it means is that after all, Joanna grew up in Demon-Subduing City, and her scheming and methods are certainly unimaginable to ordinary people. If you want to know the whole story, why don’t you give Li Yan a chance?"