“Are you sure about bringing me along with you? I mean I could— “
“Yes, you are coming with us.” Zhou Jingren responded as he eyed Bei Tian. “Along with the doctor. You are coming with us.”
Bei Tian pursed his lips as irritation flashed in his eyes.
“I’m sorry.” Bei Tian met his eyes. “I know… I am a liability right now. Whatever it is that the man injected me could be viral. It is best to—”
“You are family.” Zhou Jingren interrupted him. “And Europe has some good facilities. I already planned to have them check you while you are there. Just to assure us that you are fine.”
“And if it’s a deadly virus?”
“Then… we find him.” Zhou Jingren answered almost immediately. “We kill him and we will die together.”
“Poetic.” Bei Tian smiled. “But crazy.”
Zhou Jingren returned his smile. “Well… we already had the doctors check your body. You don’t have any symptoms nor do you have any virus inside you. It’s either that the man was bluffing or… he gave you something that even the doctors don’t recognize. Still, that is too far fetched to believe.” Zhou Jingren shrugged. “I am going to see him six months from now so we won’t have any problems. I will get that antidote, if there really is one.”
A sighed escaped Bei Tian’s lips as he thought of not even knowing that he had lost his consciousness that night. He didn’t remember smelling something weird. All he remembered was reading a comic before waking up in the hospital bed. Everything that happened just made him feel so useless, he felt that he was already starting to lose some weight just by thinking about it. “Hey… do you think… this virus is targeting my brain?” He said after a few seconds of silence. “I mean… after that accident, I can no longer sleep well. I think my anxiety is always up and…” He raised his arms. “I am already starting to lose some weight. Did you ask the doctor to check my brains?”
Zhou Jingren narrowed his eyes at him. “Do you want them to check your head?”
“Of course!”
“Are you sure?” Zhou Jingren asked.
“Why— Why do you ask?” Bei Tian asked, confused. Of course he was sure. He just wanted to make sure that his brain was not suffering from something that could affect his senses. What if his brain was already rotting? His eyes widened at the thought of having a rotting brain.
“What if they find that it is really empty?”
“You—” Bei Tian was speechless. He glared at Zhou Jingren, mouth agape, unable to retort his words. What if the doctors found out that his head was empty? What kind of question was that?
“You know that I’m joking, right?” Zhou Jingren laughed.
“I almost believed you!” Bei Tian responded almost immediately. “Can you stop cursing me like that?” He let out a long sigh as he shook his head. “How can a person survive without something in their head?”
“Yeah… your head is fine.” Zhou Jingren nodded before he smiled. “I can assure that your brain is fine. One hundred percent fine.”
Bei Tian pouted before his face turned grim. “I will kill that man.”
“Hmmm.”
“By the way…. Why are you still in your study? It’s extremely late. Are you fighting with Lily?”
Zhou Jingren immediately shook his head. Smiling, he thought about what he did after Qin Chuan had left earlier. Zhou Jingren immediately went to Lily and told her everything. He then told her his dilemma and gave her the journal. Now, it was up to Lily to read it or not.
Zhou Jingren realized that at the end of the day, everything was Lily’s choice. Again, the journal was not Zhou Jingren’s. It was not his place to decide what to do with it. That— and he trusted that Lily would make the right choice. Lily was after all a very smart woman. She would not do something that would endanger herself and the baby.
“No, we are not fighting. I have to finish something before I sleep. You really should sleep now.” Zhou Jingren said.
“Are you sure?”
“Positive.”
“Alright then.” Bei Tian said. “Call me if you need anything, alright?” He gave him a worried look.
“What is that for?” Zhou Jingren responded. “It’s not like my wife will bully me.”
“Really?”
Zhou Jingren responded with a low chuckle. Did Bei Tian really think that his wife was bullying him? “Go sleep and stop thinking about your brain or it will really leave your head.”
Bei Tian huffed and left without saying anything leaving Zhou Jingren laughing at his own words.
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Meanwhile, Lily was staring at the two journals that she had placed on their bed. She sighed as she remembered Zhou Jingren’s honest words about his concerns. How did she become so lucky to have someone like him? Lily smiled as she opened the first journal that she found in Grandma Ye’s secret room. She started reading the familiar words again before closing it.
Zhou Jingren said that some parts of the journal said there was a possibility some people had been watching her since she was a child. While her curiosity was killing her, Lily could not risk reading the journal now.
To her, the past was a part of the past for a reason and her priority at this moment was her baby, Zhou Jingren and their little family. Of course, she would soon read the journal. But she would not do this while her emotions about her encounter with Qin Chuan earlier were still high. His affect on her current emotional state was undeniable and Lily would not want to lose her sleep because of another mystery that she won’t be able to solve today.
Smiling, Lily stood from the bed and walked towards one of the luggage that she will be bringing to Luxembourg. Maybe she could read the journal on her way there.
Lily was smart enough to know that after what happened earlier, she needed some time— in her husband’s arms. Some time to think, to cry, some time to loosen up and relax. Once her emotions had calmed down, then she might start reading the journal.
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