"Xie Mi!"
"Xie Mi!"
Urgent calls rang in her ears, making Xie Mi frown as she tried to open her eyes.
Her eyelids felt as heavy as lead. She struggled to open them, only to be met with a dazzling expanse of white.
"Drip-"
"Drip-"
The sound from the IV tube mingled with the beeping of a heart monitor, and she smelled hospital disinfectant.
The voice calling beside her finally became clear.
"Xie Mi! You're finally awake, Xie Mi! Thank goodness. You have no idea how worried I was about you. I really..."
The man's voice trembled with sobs he was doing his utmost to suppress.
Xie Mi's eyelid twitched. Suddenly struck by a bad feeling, she hurriedly turned toward the voice.
There he was.
A thin man sat beside her hospital bed, tightly clasping the hand she had resting at its edge, as though she were some treasure he had lost and recovered.
Xie Mi recognized him almost at once.
Mu Yihe, the male lead of the world she had previously lived in.
So...
She was back.
"You were unconscious for three whole months. Do you know how I got through those three months...?"
Mu Yihe choked back sobs, gazing at her with slightly reddened eyes full of affection. "Xie Mi, I never imagined you'd go this far for me. I always thought you just wanted to toy with my feelings. After all, how could a campus beauty like you possibly like me...?"
"Only now do I realize how terribly wrong I was. You actually love me so much that you were willing to trade your own life for mine."
"Xie Mi, I'm saying yes. I won't avoid you anymore. I'll accept your feel-"
Before he could finish saying "feelings," Xie Mi pulled her hand away.
She looked at