Chapter 71

Zixiu didn’t know how long he had been in a coma before he woke up. He felt so tired that he was even reluctant to open his eyes. “What’s wrong with me?”

“Zixiu, you’re awake finally!” someone cried out.

Next, Lingxiao burst into his sight with a worried look.

“Rumble!”

Feeling as if a bomb exploded in his head, Zixiu blushed in an instant. What had happened before he fainted became clear in his mind little by little.

“I married Nangong Du of my own free will! I like him and I can’t bear to see him die!!”

“Gosh! How embarrassing!” As a positive and easygoing young man, he acted so childishly in front of these two gays! What’s more, out of sheer pique, he even made such an… indecent remark! “Damn it! How stupid I was!”

Seeing the glow on his face, Lingxiao thought that Zixiu was running a fever and he became even more worried. In spite of his fake pregnancy, Zixiu’s physical changes would be the same as those of a real pregnant woman. Fainting for no reason was a dangerous sign of illness, which combined with fever, suggested that Zixiu’s health was far from optimistic. With the diagnosis, Lingxiao could tell that Zixiu was not only poor mentally but was also feeble physically, as if he had been seriously ill before.

“Zixiu, are you feeling better?” Lingxiao asked, full of concern.

His words stopped Zixiu from complaining about himself and reminded him of the moments Lingxiao cheated on him and made a fool of him. “It’s all this quack’s fault! He not only repeatedly lied to me but also spread the rumor that a cheery young man like me was pregnant! Yan Lingxiao, you’ve gone too far! How dare you bully me like that? Even though I’m not as mighty as a tiger, I’m not a kitten like K, K…”

Though the name had sprung to his lips, Zixiu just couldn’t call it to mind. “K, K…” He tried hard to search in his memory anxiously when a vague shadow in his mind kept on zooming in and out, stretching and deforming before it morphed into a tiny, fuzzy figure in the end. Zixiu was reluctant to give up, so he tried even harder, wanting to recall the name that had just flashed through his mind. “It still doesn’t work! The system needed to be reset…” He suddenly heard someone’s faint voice ringing from nowhere.

With the voice fading away, Zixiu had a splitting headache again. Unable to bear the pain, he let out a miserable scream, wrapping his head with his hands, “Ah—”

Hearing that, both Nangong Du, who was lying in bed, and Yan Lingxiao, who was taking care of Zixiu by the couch, were shocked into a cold sweat. “Darling!” “Xiuxiu!” the two of them cried out synchronously.

Like a person who had a sudden burst of energy just before he was about to die, Nangong Du suddenly bounced out of the bed. However, before he could take a step to his ‘darling’, he lost his balance. Fortunately, Yueying held him up in time.

Lingxiao lost the composure of a physician and removed the silver needle from Zixiu in a hurry before wrapping him with his arms. He then put two fingers on Zixiu’s wrist and was surprised to find that he couldn’t sense the latter’s pulse. What shocked him even more was that Zixiu’s body was as cold as a dead man’s!

“Xiuxiu, what’s wrong with you? Come on, say something! Xiuxiu! Xiuxiu!”

“My headache… is killing me…” Zixiu spat out the words feebly through his pale lips. As if his whole body was drained of all the strength, he stopped screaming and struggling with his face growing ashen and his pupils dilating gradually.

With the help of Yueying, Nangong Du managed to walk to the couch. “Darling…” trembling all over, he muttered, looking so pale. However, there was no hint of emotional fluctuation in his voice.

“He must be calling someone else!” In half-consciousness, Zixiu thought, feeling a little irritated for no reason. “How could he call someone else while looking at me!”

“Your bastard!” Lingxiao roared furiously before he kicked Nangong Du hard in the leg. If anything bad happened to Zixiu, Lingxiao would definitely kill Nangong Du to avenge him!

“Thump!” Caught off guard, Yueying had no time to apply more strength to support his master, who fell to his knees before Zixiu.

“Darling…” Nangong Du muttered one more time, staring at Zixiu blankly. As Zixiu had thought, this prince was thinking of his darling, the woman he once loved so much. “How come Liu Zixiu is so similar to Xianxian? Especially his innocent eyes, just like hers…” “Don’t leave me, Zixiu!”

“Rumble—”

Hearing the thunder crack overhead, the two of them fixed their gaze on Zixiu, full of horror, thinking that the sudden thunder of a sunny day was an ominous sign.

After a moment of dead silence, Zixiu suddenly cried out, “Karupin!”

As if a flower had blossomed on a rock, his bleak eyes suddenly lit up, shining with vitality.