Tan Yubai patiently explained, but what he got was a cold laugh from Shen Nian.
Tan Yubai was startled, he frowned as he looked at Shen Nian, unable to understand what she meant.
He didn't seem to consider this matter carefully enough. Even though Yu Meng seemed to be willing, he still couldn't help but feel wronged.
The man half squatted on the ground with his head held high, his eyes filled with a rare perplexity, as if they were covered in a layer of dust, as if some kind of emotional collapse had left behind fragments.
He looked at her, deep and hopeless.
"But I don't love you." He said, "Shen Nian, I don't love you."
The reason why he had accompanied Shen Nian for so many days was only because he felt guilty, but Shen Nian's unceasing show of goodwill and ambiguous oppression had already sapped away all of her friendship with Shen Nian.
With the last of his patience, he told her, "Wake up, okay?"
Tan Yubai stood up, his legs were a little numb. He stomped his feet, and when he raised his head, it was as if he found that everyone was looking at a certain place.
Tan Yubai unconsciously looked over, but it was difficult to shift his gaze away.
On the balcony of a certain ward on the third floor, Yu Meng's petite figure was wrapped under the huge body of that man. That scene was so cruel that it almost tore Tan Yubai to shreds.
He didn't believe that Yu Meng would one day do this sort of thing behind his back, but he also wouldn't make a mistake. That woman who accompanied him every night in his dreams, that familiar appearance, carved into his heart.
Tan Yubai's footsteps were heavy as he left Shen Nian's wheelchair and walked step by step towards the building.
He headed in the direction of his dreams.
Within his eyes that were filled with neither joy nor sorrow, at this moment, the hidden sorrow was almost nowhere to be concealed. The pain and pain in his heart that was overturning the seas and rivers was also tightly pressed down and was about to pour out.
On the balcony, Shang Hui finally released Yu Meng. He raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, still as charming and arrogant.
"You enjoy it."
Shang Hui could feel that she was drowning in his lips, recklessly venting her emotions.
Even though she vented her anger, she hurt him badly.
But Shang Hui didn't seem to mind.
Yu Meng glared fiercely at Shang Hui. Her previous hatred was not over, as all the spikes on her body were still standing straight. But after a moment, she could not stay still, and her eyes drifted away.
In her mind, she still remembered the scene when they were kissing in front of everyone's eyes. Yu Meng was so ashamed that she wanted to escape, but she could not, because she knew, that no matter how her reason resisted, and no matter how she did not want to admit it, she could not deny in her heart that Shang Hui was right.
She enjoyed it. She enjoyed this kind of indulgence. It was a feeling she had never experienced before.
However, this feeling of enjoyment made Yu Meng even more unable to face herself, and made her loathe herself even more.
"You are a madman." She scolded him, but did not meet his eyes.
After he finished cursing, he quickly turned around, wanting to escape this place and never see him again.
But in the next moment, when he raised his head, he just so happened to meet Tan Yubai's cold and gloomy eyes.
Yu Meng froze in her tracks, as if she had been struck by lightning.
Tan Yubai did not say much. Clenching his fist tightly, his leg moved past Yu Meng's side and grabbed Shang Hui's collar as he punched.
This punch used most of Tan Yubai's strength, and knocked him down to the ground. After a fierce cough, he spat out a few pieces of broken teeth.
Tan Yubai's eyes burned with passion. Without waiting for Shang Hui to react, he bent over and grabbed him once more, rushed to the balcony, and pressed him against the railing of the balcony.
Most of Shang Hui's body was inclined outwards, and was swaying in midair.
Yu Meng's heart tightened and she quickly followed her.
"Tan Yubai, what are you doing?!" She exclaimed and rushed to grab his hand. "You're crazy! This will kill you! "
Tan Yubai's eyes were already gloomy, when he looked at Shang Hui, his expression was extremely terrifying, he did not care about Yu Meng's persuasion, and only stared at Shang Hui.
Her voice was laced with venom: "I warned you."
It had to do with how he would end up if he were to pester Yu Meng.
Yu Meng was extremely anxious, she watched as Shang Hui's body slowly moved away from the balcony, but Tan Yubai had no intention of letting him go.
She tried to wrench his hand away, but it was useless.
Shang Hui didn't seem to care at all. There was blood at the corner of his mouth and the left side of his face was already starting to swell up. However, his alluring phoenix eyes still carried a look of relaxation and disdain as he looked at Yu Meng with interest.
"Pure-hearted girl, if I die, you must remember me for the rest of your life."
These words were mixed with an ambiguous feeling that was unknown, it was adding fuel to the fire because of Tan Yubai's anger.
Yu Meng's face was pale as she scolded him harshly, "Shang Hui, are you crazy? Yet you still dare to say such words to provoke him? "
Tan Yubai was finally enraged, he clenched his teeth and released his hand.
Shang Hui did not struggle, he allowed the inertia of his body to continue, and slowly climbed out from the fence behind him. At that moment, he only needed to use a little bit of strength on his legs to stabilize his body, so he would not really fall down.
But Shang Hui didn't, he seemed to be waiting for something.
And he finally got what he wanted.
Yu Meng grabbed onto Shang Hui's tottering body and pulled him towards the balcony with all her might.
Yu Meng's forehead started to perspire, her lips turned white, but even if she used all the strength in her body, the only thing she could do was not let him fall, and not be able to drag Shang Hui inside.
"Tan Yubai! Help me! " Yu Meng was so anxious that she was about to cry, but Tan Yubai just stood there calmly and used his low and hoarse voice to ask Yu Meng: "You don't want him to die, do you?"
Yu Meng was flustered and exasperated.
"What nonsense are you talking about? No one can die! "
Yu Meng's fingertips turned white. She grabbed onto Shang Hui's body, and slowly slid down from her palms bit by bit.
Just when Yu Meng could no longer hold onto anything, Tan Yubai reached out and pulled Shang Hui up.
It was a thrilling play, with the balcony as the stage, and the patient doctors in the courtyard as the spectators. Until the end of the play, when all the actors were exhausted, the hospital staff finally managed to catch up.
After being tormented like this, the wound on Shang Hui's leg was torn apart once again.
Yu Meng felt a little guilty. After all, she was the one who had brought him into the hospital, and now he had almost fallen down because of her.
Once it started, this feeling of guilt would only grow bigger and bigger.
While the doctor was examining Shang Hui, Yu Meng stood at the entrance of the ward and waited. Tan Yubai stood opposite to her, also leaning against the wall.
"Don't you need to take care of Shen Nian?" Yu Meng lowered her head and said in a voice that was devoid of sadness and joy, "She can't leave you, can she?"
Tan Yubai seemed to be angry from the jealousy from Yu Meng kissing with another man, his tone was stiff.
"What, you want me to leave so that you can leave space for you to do other things?"
"What do you mean?" Yu Meng had always thought that Tan Yubai was being too impulsive today. She had already been trying her best to suppress her temper, but Tan Yubai didn't seem to realize her mistake.
Yu Meng could no longer control her emotions.
"Pure-hearted." Tan Yubai laughed coldly: "The title that he gave you is indeed naked."
"Tan Yubai!" Yu Meng finally exploded. She raised her head, and when their gazes met, it was her anger and his anger.
"What right do you have to criticize me?" Yu Meng sneered, "Aren't you always here to accompany other women? Even if I wanted to meet you, it would be so difficult!"
Tan Yubai was stunned, he did not think that Yu Meng would mention such a thing.
"We had said it earlier, Shen Nian is a special case, she was injured like this because of me, I had to take care of her until she slowly recovered, didn't you say that you understood me before?"
"I understand you. I just want you to take care of her as a friend." Yu Meng took a deep breath, recalling the scene when they kissed. She was as furious as Tan Yubai was before, "I didn't want you to whisper, I didn't want you to be intimate with each other, and I didn't want you to kiss in the courtyard in broad daylight!"
Tan Yubai was startled, he had seen everything that happened in the courtyard.
Therefore, Yu Meng, who had always been sensible and obedient, couldn't help but become angry with him.
Tan Yubai's throat moved slightly, however, he was only able to say those words after a long time.
"Little Meng, listen to me, that kiss …"
Yu Meng suddenly interrupted him.
"You want to say that she was the one who took the initiative to kiss him, did you not think about it at all?" There was an indescribable sadness in Yu Meng's smile, "Then I can also say that Shang Hui forced me to do that kiss of mine. I couldn't break free, I had no other choice."
After that, there was a long silence between the two of them. No one said anything.
They were both telling the truth, and both of them were actually willing to believe it. However, that kiss seemed to have some kind of omen, a hole that slowly drilled through the feelings they had once believed to be unbreakable.
Love has never been afraid of life and death, ups and downs, is afraid of the dull days of thorns, prick in the heart, at first do not think, only gently itch, but more and more thorns, until the heart is like a hornet's nest, can never make up for it.
That needle was currently stuck in Yu Meng and Tan Yubai's heart, and neither of them knew how to pull it out.
"You can go." It was the first time in her life that she didn't want to see this man. It was as if seeing him meant that she had no choice but to face the changes in their relationship. She didn't want to face it, nor was she willing to face it.
If love were always as good as the first, how wonderful it would be.
Yu Meng sighed, "Let's calm down a bit."
Tan Yubai opened his mouth, as though he wanted to say something, but in the end, he did not.
He didn't want to leave.
However, Yu Meng didn't want to continue the stalemate.
"Quickly go take a look at Shen Nian. She must have seen everything just now." Yu Meng looked at Tan Yubai. "I won't let anything happen to Shang Hui, don't worry."
Her explanation was only to get him to leave.
Tan Yubai understood, but felt even more sorrowful.