Chapter 214: Black Mist

“Hello, Auntie!” Lü Yang turned around and smiled at Lin Mu.

“Yinyin’s friend… Hello, come sit.” Sometimes, between husband and wife, a single look is enough to understand each other. Lin Mu clearly grasped the underlying meaning in Lin’s Father’s words and quickly greeted Lü Yang while giving him a careful once-over from head to toe.

Lin Mu was more “discerning” than Lin’s Father. She immediately recognized Lü Yang’s “status” from his clothes and shoes. Combined with Lü Yang’s tall, handsome appearance, Lin Mu smiled warmly. It was clear she was quite pleased with Lü Yang.

Lü Yang sat by Lin Mu’s bedside, looking a little awkward. When he looked at Lin Mu, he couldn’t help but frown slightly…

For a moment, Lü Yang seemed dazed. He suddenly noticed that Lin Mu’s face looked very dark, and her body was faintly shrouded in a layer of Black Mist.

“Old Lin, why are you just standing there? Cut some fruit for them!” Lin Mu called out to Lin’s Father, jolting Lü Yang out of his trance.

What did the dark face and Black Mist mean? Was she going to die? Lü Yang suddenly felt a very bad premonition…

“Okay, I’ll go wash these two Apples.” Lin’s Father stood up and took two red Apples from a bag on the table.

“Let me do it.” Lü Yang walked over and tried to take the two Apples.

“You sit! Stay! Talk with Auntie…” Lin’s Father refused to let Lü Yang help. After pushing Lü Yang back to the bedside, he went to the hospital room’s bathroom to wash the Apples.

Lü Yang looked again at the empty hospital bed but found that the female doctor who had smiled at him earlier had already left. He didn’t know when she had left, and he hadn’t even heard her footsteps.

“Mom, how did you suddenly get a brain tumor?” Lin Yin spoke to Lin Mu, tears starting to fall again.

“Ah… People… always have some aches and pains… Yinyin, take care of our guest. Pour him some water…” Lin Mu seemed worried that Lin Yin might neglect Lü Yang.

“Don’t worry about him. If he’s thirsty, he’ll pour it himself!” Lin Yin glanced at Lü Yang, seeming annoyed with him. In reality… she was deliberately acting spoiled in front of her mother, indirectly showing her close relationship with Lü Yang.

“I’m not thirsty.” Lü Yang smiled at Lin Mu, taking the chance to observe her closely again. But this time, he didn’t see the black aura on her face or the Black Mist around her body.

…

No one ate much for lunch, especially Lin Yin, who couldn’t eat anything at all. Although Lin Yin later found a chance to tell Lü Yang that if he had something else to do, he didn’t have to stay, Lü Yang insisted on remaining.

He could see that Lin Yin was very fragile and lost at the moment. Lin’s Father seemed like someone who usually listened to his wife and wasn’t very decisive. Besides, they weren’t locals, and the doctors and Nurses at the hospital spoke to them harshly and impatiently. If anything happened, the father and daughter wouldn’t be able to handle it. By staying, Lü Yang could at least provide them with some psychological comfort and support.

In China, if you want to feel the harshness and coldness of the world, the hospital is the best place.

Before the surgery, there were many tasks to handle and prepare, including later moving the patient’s bed. Someone needed to help, or the Nurses moving the bed would have very unpleasant expressions.

Lü Yang was busy running around, basically taking care of everything by himself.

“Yangyang is such a good young man. Yinyin, you must treat him well in the future.” Before entering the operating room, Lin Mu tightly grasped Lü Yang with one hand and Lin Yin with the other.

Lin Yin just cried continuously without answering Lin Mu.

“Yangyang, my daughter Yinyin is very well-behaved, a good girl with a good temper. But sometimes she’s not very careful, stubborn in her ways, and a bit absent-minded. Don’t mind it too much; be more forgiving of her…” Lin Mu looked at Lü Yang again, tears welling up in her eyes, and her grip on his hand tightened even more.

“Auntie, don’t worry. With me around, no one will dare to bully her…” Lü Yang also gripped Lin Mu’s hands firmly and assured her.

“Alright! Time to go in.” The middle-aged female Nurse pushing the bed urged everyone impatiently. She had several more surgery patients to transport today.

“Mom… Mom…” Lin Yin cried, throwing herself onto the surgery bed and tightly gripping the bed rail.

“Are you going through with this surgery or not? If not, let’s just cancel it!” The middle-aged female Nurse was growing very impatient.

“Yinyin, it’s just a minor surgery. Don’t worry too much; Mom will be fine.” Lü Yang forcibly pried Lin Yin’s hands off the bed rail and carried her away from the moving bed.

The door to the operating room slammed shut with a “Bang!”…

Lin Yin kept crying, almost to the point of passing out. Lü Yang could only hold her and comfort her continuously.

…

“Eat some bread. You didn’t eat anything at noon. If you keep crying like this, you’ll end up in the operating room for rescue.” After Lin Yin calmed down a bit, Lü Yang took out the bread he had bought and urged her to eat.

Lin Yin shook her head. She had stopped crying as much but still leaned sadly against Lü Yang’s shoulder.

“Why won’t you listen? Even for your parents’ sake, you should eat something! If you collapse, have you thought about what will happen to them?” Lü Yang took a piece of bread and forced it to Lin Yin’s lips.

Lin Yin was stunned. She looked up at Lü Yang and finally opened her mouth, letting him feed her some bread.

Her state truly pained Lü Yang. Having been inside her body, his feelings for her were strange and complex—more than family, more than lovers, as if… she were another part of himself… At the very least, Lü Yang didn’t want to see her so sad and suffering.

Lin’s Father, sitting nearby, saw Lü Yang feeding Lin Yin bread. A trace of comfort showed on his sorrowful face. Without Lü Yang there, he wouldn’t have known how to care for and comfort his deeply distressed daughter.

After eating one piece of bread, Lin Yin refused to eat more. She drank some water that Lü Yang handed her and leaned sadly against his shoulder again. For her, it wasn’t just the fear of losing her mother if the surgery failed; her own future also felt uncertain.

Lin Mu had entrusted her to Lü Yang, but Lin Yin knew very well that Lü Yang hadn’t truly promised her anything. More importantly, there was also Xiao Hui…

Speak of the devil, and she shall appear.

Lü Yang’s Mobile Phone rang. It was Liu Hui calling…

After Lü Yang and Lin Yin switched back to their own bodies, they also exchanged their Mobile Phones. This Mobile Phone wasn’t the cheap one Lü Yang had that was almost broken, but an expensive, latest model large-screen Mobile Phone that Liu Hui had bought for “Lü Yang.”

Although in the Parallel Space where the Death Killer existed, Liu Hui had given Lü Yang a phone number, Lü Yang hadn’t memorized it, so he didn’t recognize whose number it was. He picked up the phone and answered directly. Lin Yin tried to stop him but was too late.

“I’m at your door. You’re not home?” Liu Hui spoke directly.

“Xiao Hui!?” Lü Yang was very surprised. He could never mistake her voice.

“What’s wrong?” Liu Hui found Lü Yang’s tone strange.

“You’re looking for me?” Lü Yang’s mind was in chaos. About Liu Hui’s matters, Lin Yin hadn’t had time to discuss them with him in detail.

“Ah… Didn’t we agree to meet this afternoon?” Liu Hui asked Lü Yang in a puzzled tone.

When Lü Yang called out “Xiao Hui,” Lin Yin guessed what was happening. Then, when Lü Yang said, “You’re looking for me?” Lin Yin quickly snatched the Mobile Phone from him. But she immediately realized… in her current identity, she couldn’t speak directly to Liu Hui…

Liu Hui’s voice came through the phone, “Hello? Hello?” Lin Yin had no choice but to hang up directly.

Lin Yin’s heart was in turmoil. She wanted Lü Yang to go accompany Liu Hui to avoid hurting her feelings. She also wanted to be with Liu Hui, but she also wanted Lü Yang to stay with her. If he left, she would feel as if the sky had fallen…

No Woman had ever made her emotions as complicated as this.

Liu Hui called again. Lin Yin stared blankly at the ringing phone, feeling torn and almost crying again.

Lü Yang took the Mobile Phone and answered it.

“Why did you hang up on me?” Liu Hui asked Lü Yang.

“Xiao Hui, I’m busy today, very busy, extremely busy. Let’s meet another day.” Although Lü Yang didn’t know exactly what had happened between Lin Yin and Liu Hui, he understood Liu Hui’s personality well.

“What’s going on today? We agreed to meet this afternoon!” Liu Hui’s tone was very disappointed. These days, she didn’t want to be apart from Lü Yang for a moment.

“I have something very important to do.” Lü Yang replied to Liu Hui.

“What’s so important? I can go with you to handle it…”

“That’s not very convenient. I’ll call you back later. Be good, don’t make a fuss.”

“You won’t suddenly disappear again, will you?”

“No, I won’t.”

“Then… alright…” Liu Hui’s voice sounded dejected.

Lin Yin stared blankly at Lü Yang, thinking that… his relationship with Liu Hui seemed more than just a one-night stand…

The words “Be good, don’t make a fuss” seemed like something you’d only say to someone very close, like a lover, younger sister, or daughter.

After hesitating for a while, Lin Yin glanced at Lin’s Father sitting not far away and pulled Lü Yang to the nearby Staircase. They went down half a flight and stopped by the window.

“What are you going to do about Xiao Hui?” Lin Yin looked at Lü Yang with mixed feelings.

“You met her?” Lü Yang looked at Lin Yin. Originally, after switching back, they should have had a long talk to share their experiences in each other’s bodies, to avoid confusion from memory gaps.