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Xiao Jinyan felt Shen Chuwei coming back, and he called out softly, "Chuwei."

"I’m here." Shen Chuwei dragged her shoes onto the bed and propped his head on her legs, looking down at his pained expression and wondering if the headache might be because of his memory recovery.

"Jinyan, have you remembered something?"

This time, Xiao Jinyan had a splitting headache; even the words Shen Chuwei said weren’t very clear to him. It felt as if he was in a strange place, surrounded by incessant noise tearing at him, making life seem worse than death.

Seeing him in such discomfort, Shen Chuwei had no choice but to press on his sleep acupoint. Acupoints on the human body must not be pressed randomly unless one is very familiar with their function, as there is the potential for death or disability.

After pressing the sleep acupoint, the previously agonized Xiao Jinyan fell into a deep sleep, and his breathing became very steady.

Only then did Shen Chuwei let out a sigh of relief. She carefully laid Xiao Jinyan flat on the bed, then took off her clothes and crawled into his arms.

The bed was so small that there was nowhere to sleep without crawling into his arms.

After Shen Chuwei crawled into his arms, it didn’t take long for her to fall asleep.

At that moment, before the Buddha Statue, Wu Tan sat in meditation, constantly chanting scriptures, his speech suddenly becoming agitated.

In the night sky, a bolt of lightning illuminated the dark temple, and Wu Tan suddenly spat out blood. Amid the flash of lightning and the roar of thunder, one could clearly see his face turn deathly pale and his pupils crimson red.

The hand pressed against the ground clenched tightly into a fist, and the flat stone surface visibly sank in at the speed of sight.

After the lightning and thunder passed, heavy rain poured down.

Inside the temple, darkness returned as before, except for the hurried breathing that became hazy and indistinct after being suppressed.

The next morning,

Xiao Jinyan woke up and looked around the dilapidated room, dazed for a moment before quickly bending down to look at the spot beside him; he found Shen Chuwei sleeping in his arms, almost pressed against him.

He glanced over and saw that she was lying right by the edge of the bed; if she didn’t hold on to him tightly, she might have fallen off.

Last night, he remembered suffering from a severe headache, but he didn’t know how he had fallen asleep.

Looking down at the person in his arms, he wondered what sweet dreams she was having, a pleasing curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Having lived in the ancient period for a while, Shen Chuwei often missed the delicacies of the modern world. Right then, she sat at a dining spot, eating a pizza fresh out of the oven, especially delicious.

After finishing the pizza, she went to buy ice cream, chocolate ice cream—her favorite.

In her dream, she was almost always eating...

But she woke up while eating, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xiao Jinyan’s slender phoenix eyes, so close she could see the long lashes, each one distinct.

She then realized that Xiao Jinyan was kissing her, and what she had been continuously eating was probably...

In her ears, the sound of rain and gasps from outside the window reached her, but she distinctly heard only the latter.

"Jinyan."

Xiao Jinyan’s breath was a bit disordered, "We can’t leave today; we’ll have to rest for a day or two more in this temple."

Having been on the road for so many days, Xiao Jinyan had been restraining himself due to the exhaustion of the journey, but now with the rain, he had no choice but to slow down.

Since there was no rush to continue the journey, Xiao Jinyan no longer wanted to hold back.

Shen Chuwei’s face flushed, and when she looked at Xiao Jinyan, her eyes were brimming with concern, "Jinyan, didn’t you suffer from a severe headache last night? Why not rest more today?"

"It doesn’t hurt now." Xiao Jinyan continued to kiss her.

The headache last night was too severe for him to bear; now, the headache was totally tolerable.

Since pulse diagnosis couldn’t determine why he was in pain, Shen Chuwei also didn’t know if he was saying that to keep her from worrying or if the pain had really subsided.

However, she believed that he truly wasn’t in pain in the moments that followed.

Xiao Jinyan said in a hoarse voice, "Your body is so hot."

Shen Chuwei was feeling hazy at that moment and hummed without answering.

After everything ended, Xiao Jinyan realized that Shen Chuwei’s fever wasn’t for any other reason but because she was sick.

"Chuwei, you have a fever."

Shen Chuwei was too tired to move. She lifted her eyelids slightly and said weakly, "Then I’ll just take some fever medicine."

Xiao Jinyan was confused when he heard this; seeing her close her eyes again, he shook her awake, "Fever medicine? Where is it?"

Shen Chuwei looked up at Xiao Jinyan, thought for a while, and realized the fever medicine was in the Space. She glanced at the table beside the bed, used her mind to take out the fever medicine from the Space, and placed it on the table.

She pointed with her tiny hand and said weakly, "It’s on the table."