Time is always something that catches you off guard. There's wind when it's sunny, and rain when it's cloudy. You can't fight against the passing of time, and you miss the past. Time quietly steals away your youth, but you can never hold onto someone like me.
Although life in the epidemic area was busy, it seemed that things had finally calmed down.
Besides working day and night to treat patients and research prescriptions, Yi Shangyun spent the rest of her time worrying about Xuan Yuanhan's safety.
The air in the mountain temple was filled with the strong smell of herbs, as if the sky above everyone's head was also full of smog. But no one cared whether it was a sunny or cloudy day, and just hurried back and forth in the air.
One day, from a makeshift tent erected in front of the temple, a man's heart-wrenching cries suddenly rang out: "God, if you want to punish someone, then punish me. If you want to take someone's life, take mine. Why take them, mother and child? Don't you know they were my everything? Now they're gone, leaving me alone in this world, making my life worse than death. What's the point of living? What's the point?"
Immediately afterwards, a woman's apologetic voice rang out, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry. It's my fault, I was incompetent. I couldn't save them, but please calm down and don't..."
The man seemed to be suddenly awakened by her voice, and wanting to vent all the consequences, he bared his teeth and shouted at her, "You said you promised you wouldn't let them die, but now they're dead. Liar, you're a complete liar, a murderer!"
The man was extremely agitated and began to speak recklessly, his words escalating until he shouted fiercely, "Maybe it was you, this quack doctor, who deliberately took their lives! You killed them, it was you! Today, I will avenge them, I will make you pay with your life! I, I..."
As the man spoke, he looked around and finally fixed his gaze on the hands of a doctor. He strode over, angrily snatched the scissors from the doctor's hand, and forcefully stabbed them straight into the woman's left chest.
Just then, a middle-aged doctor who was treating another patient stepped forward and blocked the woman's path. He extended two fingers and accurately struck an acupoint on the man's arm holding the knife. The man's arm immediately lost its strength, and the gleaming scissors fell to the ground with a clang.
He then immediately reprimanded her, saying, "Are you crazy? If it weren't for Yongning..."
Seemingly realizing he had misspoke in his excitement, he paused, glanced at the woman, and continued, "This is a physician from the imperial palace, and the best healer here. She has treated more patients by herself than dozens of other physicians combined. If it weren't for her exceptional medical skills, she and her child would have died on the second day after they arrived. Don't make baseless accusations against innocent people without any evidence!"
"I, I..." Upon hearing this, the man was clearly unable to speak any further.
The middle-aged doctor glared at him fiercely, then turned to the woman with great admiration and concern, asking, "Miss Yi, are you alright?"
"It's alright! Thank you." Yi Shangyun was also heartbroken. She frowned as she watched the man return, still holding his wife's hand tightly with reluctance, and said sadly.
The middle-aged doctor followed her gaze and looked back, saying with concern, "You've done your best. For her and the baby in her womb, you've been taking care of her day and night since she arrived here, and haven't had a proper rest for over ten days. Go and rest for a while; there are more important things waiting for you later!"
“Yes, more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the prescription for curing the plague has been tried again and again, but it still hasn’t worked. If this continues, the entire Dragon Tiger City will probably be…” As Yi Shangyun spoke, he unconsciously clenched his fists tightly, as if he dared not continue thinking about it.
Finally, she whispered helplessly, "Thank you!" and turned to leave the tent.
Outside the tent, with each slow step she took forward, all she could see around her were more patients groaning in pain, casting pleading glances at her.
Please, she must save them, save their parents and brothers, save their husbands and wives, save their sons or daughters, save the Kingdom of Dongning…
In an instant, Yi Shangyun could no longer hold back her tears and they streamed down her face...
Just now, she witnessed a man reluctantly seeing off his wife who was suffering from the disease.
Here, every time she faced death, she bit her lip tightly, as if it were bleeding without her realizing it. She felt so powerless, and even though she tried her best, she still couldn't help them.
The man's wife had just discovered she was pregnant when she first found out she had contracted the disease. In order to protect the baby, she refused to take many medications that were harmful to pregnant women.
Her will was already so strong, but having just passed through the most dangerous first three months of pregnancy, she finally couldn't hold on any longer and passed away.
Having witnessed all of this, Yi Shangyun suddenly felt as if she couldn't breathe. She quickened her pace and ran wildly out of the temple gate until she reached a small river. There, she collapsed to the ground with a "plop" and burst into tears.
"Your Highness, where are you? Where are you now? Please come back, please come back! Yun'er, Yun'er really can't take it anymore, can't take it anymore?"
For some reason, I suddenly felt dizzy, and everything went black before my eyes. I murmured, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, I'm sorry..."
Before he could finish speaking, he threw himself heavily into the river in front of him.
Just then, a pair of large hands appeared by the river. They rushed over, caught her steadily, and pulled her back. The series of movements were particularly smooth, and finally, they held her tightly in their broad arms.
In a hazy, dreamlike state, Yi Shangyun vaguely saw what appeared to be a man's face. With her last vestiges of consciousness, she murmured, "Your Highness, you're finally back! Finally...finally back by Yun'er's side? You...you must forgive...forgive...Yun'er, Yun'er...Yun'er misses Your Highness so...so...so tired..."
He fainted as soon as he finished speaking and lost consciousness completely.
“Your Highness, isn’t that…” Suddenly, a voice came from behind a bush nearby, from a group of people dressed in black with black masks covering their faces.
Just as Yi Shangyun ran out of the temple gate, Xuan Yuanhan and Cheng Liang, along with several guards, were hiding behind the bushes. Seeing that Yi Shangyun was in bad shape, they wanted to see what had happened.
Finally, seeing him collapse from exhaustion, Xuan Yuanhan was about to step forward to help him up when Yi Sanshao, who had also been silently hiding in the shadows, appeared first and took him away.
"That Young Master Yi is really persistent; he's everywhere!" Cheng Liang said angrily.
Xuanyuan Han stared blankly at the two people who were gradually disappearing into the distance, silently clenching his fists. He was thinking about what Yi Shangyun had said by the river earlier, and thought to himself, "This woman clearly has feelings for me, but she just keeps being stubborn. She really doesn't tell the truth."
Seeing that his figure had finally disappeared from everyone's sight, Cheng Liang asked, "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
Xuan Yuanhan's gaze was cold and sharp as he said sparingly, "Go back!"
And so, the riverbank finally returned to calm.
That night, a bright moon hung high in the sky.
In a daze, Yi Shangyun finally woke up slowly.
Young Master Yi carried her all the way back to the room, and from then on, he stayed by her bedside without leaving her side for a moment, watching her intently. When he saw her eyes finally move a few times, he said with delight, "Girl, you're finally awake!"
Upon recognizing that the person before him was indeed Young Master Yi, Yi Shangyun excitedly stood up and said, "Young Master Yi, it's you! Didn't I tell you not to come here? It's dangerous here, why didn't you listen?"
Upon hearing this, Young Master Yi, recalling the danger he had just faced by the river, said with unwavering resolve, "Girl, you have no idea how dangerous it was by the river. You almost fainted on the riverbank and were swept away by the current. Since you are so careless about your own safety, don't even think about chasing me away."
Yi Shangyun really didn't know who owed whom in their previous life. She had a feeling that she was helpless against him in this life. Every time, things would turn out differently than she wished, so she simply let him be.
He glanced up casually and saw a bright, unusually large moon in the night sky outside the window. His face lit up with delight, and he said with great interest, "Third Young Master, I'd like to go out into the courtyard to see the moonlight tonight and get some fresh air."
Young Master Yi then looked outside as well, and was quite surprised. He said, "Alright, I'll go with you!"
So the two of them went to the courtyard, looked up at the bright moon, and became a pair of lovebirds.
Young Master Yi felt a sense of déjà vu about the scene, and recalled all the little things that had happened between the two of them since they met in Xi Qin. On a whim, he suggested, "In our Nan'an Kingdom, it is said that making a wish under the full moon is the most effective way to grant it. Why don't you make a wish under this moonlight, little girl?"
Yi Shangyun smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you, Third Young Master, would believe in this?"
Young Master Yi raised an eyebrow and insisted, "Give me a promise!"
Forced into a corner, Yi Shangyun could only clasp his hands together, slowly close his eyes, and silently pray in his heart, "May Heaven protect him, and may Young Master Yi live a peaceful and carefree life in Dragon Tiger City..."
Just as Yi Shangyun was making a wish, Young Master Yi also quietly clasped his hands together and quickly and sincerely made a wish: "May Heaven bless this girl and grant her a long and healthy life. I, Young Master Yi, am willing to extend her life with my own."
As soon as Yi Shangyun opened her eyes, Young Master Yi eagerly asked, "Tell me quickly, what wish did you make?"
He thought he was unaware of what he was doing, but in fact, Yi Shangyun had already seen through his little scheme.
Just now, while the two of them were making a wish together, she squinted one eye and secretly glanced at him beside her, then asked him, "So, Third Young Master, what wish did you make just now?"
Yi Shangyun thought his actions were rather childish and was laughing when she suddenly felt a faint nausea rising in her chest...
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