The doctor paused briefly at Fu Xiuyuan's question, then explained, "It's all right, it's all right. As long as he receives proper postoperative care, it won't affect anything."
Only then did Fu Xiuyuan's heart finally settle, and he helped the doctor wheel him into the hospital room.
As he looked at the pale figure lying in bed, his eyes brimmed with bitterness and relief.
He knew the other man had not wanted to stay for him.
But he was also relieved that he had survived.
Fu Xiuyuan sat quietly beside the bed, his eyes filled with obsession and love, murmuring as though to himself.
"It's all right. I'll watch over you forever. No matter what happens, we have to stay together."
He gently raised his hand and kept stroking the young man's face, the warmth beneath his touch bringing him a sense of reassurance.
"Yu Meng?"
Gu Nian'an looked at the woman before him in surprise. He did not know why he had come here, nor why she was here, and instinctively tried to step forward.
Something flashed before his eyes. When he opened them again, he had left that expanse of chaos and arrived in a wondrous palace.
The palace walls were deep blue, yet shimmered with a faint light, as though countless stars were embedded within them.
Yu Meng stood in the center of the great hall, watching him.
Unlike the stillness of a tranquil lake when they first met, the woman's eyes were now filled with tenderness and a trace of divine compassion.
Gu Nian'an felt his throat tighten, unsure what to say.
It was the woman who spoke first. "Gu Nian'an, it's been a long time." She slowly stepped down from the center, countless shooting stars falling beside her and casting a faint divine radiance.
"No,