"...I had a nightmare."
The woman's voice was hoarse.
As soon as she finished speaking, she froze.
She could speak?
She reached up and touched her throat.
She had really returned!
Tears once again surged from the corners of her eyes.
She had finally returned!
She had almost thought she would be trapped there for the rest of her life.
It had been terrifying.
Truly terrifying!
Thank goodness.
Truly, thank goodness!
"Did you really have a nightmare?"
The old woman had not expected her casual guess to be the truth.
Seeing her daughter cry again, she felt both heartache and amusement. "Silly girl."
"You're already so grown-up, yet you still cried because of a nightmare."
She reached out and wiped the tears from her daughter's face.
"It was only a nightmare."
"Everything's fine."
"You've already woken up. Nothing's wrong anymore."
"Nothing's wrong anymore."
"...What happened?"
The doctor who entered after opening the door noticed that the atmosphere in the ward was somewhat off. As he asked, he hurried toward the hospital bed.
"Ms. Yuan is awake?"
Then the doctor noticed the tears on the woman's face and froze. "Ms. Yuan, are you feeling unwell?"
"Where does it hurt?"
This was the first time the doctor had seen the woman cry.
It was inevitable that his heart skipped a beat.
Had her condition worsened again?
His head began to throb faintly.
Because of the woman's strange illness, they had already been working overtime for several days, yet they still could not come up with an effective treatment plan.
The main problem was that they still had not determined the cause of the illness. How could they talk about a treatment plan?
"No, Doctor."
The old woman smiled sheepishly. "This child had a nightmare."
"We didn't know that just