“Then what do you want me to do?”
Drop after drop of tears slid down from the corners of Su Ling’s eyes.
“How long do you plan to keep me locked up?”
“Come, eat first.”
Ye Moran did not answer. Instead, she continued to scoop up a spoonful of porridge and placed it in the Little Fellow’s mouth.
“I hate you…”
Ye Moran’s heart trembled. She forced a faint smile.
“First, eat…”
Su Ling did not look at her. He opened his mouth numbly and ate…
Ye Moran tremblingly scooped up another spoonful.
“I’m full.”
Su Ling said softly, then slowly pulled over the quilt. He lay down gradually, completely hiding himself beneath the covers!
Ye Moran bit her lip hard. Even when she bit it until it bled, she didn’t care at all.
She just kept watching him like that. Finally, perhaps because she was tired of watching, or perhaps because she felt the Little Fellow had already fallen asleep, she stood up and left!
Once she had gone, Su Ling crawled out from under the quilt.
He had originally thought she would sleep here, but he hadn’t expected Ye Moran to leave directly. He couldn’t describe the feeling in his heart—it was very awkward, a bit strange?
However, he didn’t want to think about those things. He closed his eyes and fell asleep once more!
Over the next few days, Ye Moran would still come down every night, but it was merely to deliver food to the Little Fellow. Before leaving, other than leaving behind breakfast and lunch that could be preserved for a while, she did nothing else.
Su Ling’s body also gradually recovered. He removed the bandages from his neck layer by layer. Unexpectedly, no wound remained on his neck; instead, it was still fair, tender, and smooth!
Su Ling couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy in his heart. He had thought that his neck would definitely be scarred, but he hadn’t expected there to be nothing.
He went to the bathroom to take a simple shower, then put on his clothes and opened the door, looking at the staircase winding upward.
He wanted to step onto it, but what then?
Wouldn’t he just have to come back again?
Even though he thought this in his heart, he still stepped onto them, walking up step by step!
Until he once again stood before The Iron Door!
The Iron Door was still tightly shut. He tried to push it twice, and as expected, it didn’t open.
“Heh!~”
Su Ling looked at everything before him and suddenly laughed. He turned his head and began to search the area carefully!
But after searching for a long time, he still found nothing. He grit his teeth, returned to that room again, and began searching inside!
But even after turning the room into a mess, he still found nothing!
He slumped onto the floor, staring blankly at the ceiling. In the next moment, he suddenly blurted out a nonsensical sentence.
“I am not your toy…”
“I’m not…”
“I hate you. I hate that you don’t believe me, I hate that you keep me in Confinement, and I hate your love even more!”
Su Ling knew the other party could definitely hear him. This place must have surveillance cameras installed, just like how Ye Moran would know immediately whenever he previously tried to run away or wanted to go out to see the Sun!
She must have heard everything he just said!
After saying this, he returned to the bed. After sitting for a while, he fell asleep again.
—
Ye Moran sat silently in her room having finished cooking, but she didn’t go to deliver the food to the Little Fellow right away. Instead, she placed the meal in front of Lin Qingyu, who had already been sitting at the dining table waiting for some time!
“Tsk, you didn’t poison me, did you?”
Lin Qingyu looked at the food before her, which was perfect in color, aroma, and taste, feeling an indescribable sense of strangeness in her heart.
It wasn’t that she didn’t know Ye Moran could cook, but rather that she would actually cook for her to eat?
Was she worthy?
Or was it that Ye Moran felt her actions last time had made her angry, so she wanted to poison and kill her?
“I want to ask you for a favor.”
“Oh, so it seems there is a request then?”
The corner of Lin Qingyu’s mouth curled up. She immediately picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth. She had to admit, this girl’s culinary skills were truly excellent!
The rich sauce enveloped the tender meat; with a gentle bite, the juices overflowed, leaving an endless aftertaste even after swallowing!
“Can you make someone forget a certain memory?”
“Hmm?!”
“What do you want to do?”
“I want him to forget everything I’ve done, so that he’ll still treat me like an Elder Sister!”
“Sorry, I can’t do that. I can help someone with amnesia remember, but I can’t make someone with their memory intact lose it!”
“However, through some Neurosurgery, all of this can be achieved, but I wouldn’t advise you to do that!”
“Doing that will only push him further away!”
“But he already hates me now.”
Ye Moran lowered her head, her entire being appearing somewhat dejected.
“Then do your best to make amends. Don’t keep him locked in that kind of place anymore. Let him out and give him what he wants!”
“No, he’ll try to run away!”
Hearing this, Ye Moran immediately denied the suggestion. She knew the Little Fellow hated her now; if he came out, he would surely try every possible means to escape!
“Then let him run!”
“In any case, your influence is so vast, you can monitor him no matter where he runs!”
Lin Qingyu continued to persuade her patiently. To be honest, the two of them reaching this point today was something she didn’t want to see!
Ever since she first met Ye Moran, Ye Moran had been saying she liked Ye Jin, but reaching this stage was something she truly didn’t want to see!
After all, this best friend of hers had suffered too much in her childhood. Now that she was grown, being able to have someone she liked was a very good thing!
Therefore, she also wanted to help the two of them be together, rather than letting them end up hating each other!
“No, what if someone else falls in love with him? Many people like him, I…”
“So what if many people like him? Can’t you fight for him yourself?”
“Could it be that you think you’re inferior to those people?”
“I…”
Ye Moran was momentarily speechless. Of course she wasn’t inferior to those people.
“Don’t keep him locked up anymore. Let him out. If he wants to leave, then let him leave for a while!”
“If you can’t do that, then at least don’t lock him in that wretched place. Even I would go crazy staying there, let alone Ye Jin!”
After Lin Qingyu finished speaking, she took a lingering look at the food in front of her, picked up her coat, and stood up to leave!
She had said everything she needed to say. No matter what Ye Moran chose to do in the end, she had at least contributed her final bit of effort!
She just didn’t know what the Little Fellow would look like the next time she saw him. Would it be him after having a nerve excised, having lost his memory, or would it be the lively and vivid version of him?
Memories of the first time she met Ye Jin involuntarily surfaced in her mind. Back then, the Little Fellow laughed with such wild abandon, and his mouth was so sweet; the first time he met her, he called her Elder Sister and even gave her candy to eat!
As she thought about it, a trace of a smile couldn’t help but appear at the corner of her mouth…
—
Ye Moran sat alone in a daze. She looked at the food in front of her before finally remembering to deliver the meal to the Little Fellow!
Taking a deep breath, she packed another already prepared portion of food into a lunchbox!
She pushed open the door and walked in, but she didn’t see the Little Fellow sleeping soundly!
The Little Fellow’s two fair and tender legs were dangling off the edge of the bed, swaying up and down unconsciously. He was half-reclined on the bed, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling!
“It’s time to eat!”
Ye Moran forced herself to move her gaze away from the Little Fellow’s legs!
Su Ling silently sat up from the bed and came to sit at the dining table.
“I won’t feed you this time. Eat by yourself.”
Hearing this, Su Ling gave no reaction, not even sparing her a single glance. He silently took the chopsticks and began to eat bit by bit!
Su Ling was full very quickly. He put down his bowl and chopsticks and walked toward the bed without looking back!
It had been like this for the past few days; after eating, he would go back to the bed and cover his head with the quilt!
He was simply showing her an attitude that he didn’t want to see her, and Ye Moran would usually leave quite tactfully!
Only this time, Ye Moran seemed to be a bit lacking in tact!
“Wait, I have something I want to say to you!”