She hated this woman.
...
Ye Lu fainted from exhaustion and overwhelming grief, left in the village clinic with an IV drip.
At night, it was not appropriate to have a child keep watch, and considering Ye Lu was a woman, the village chief asked a young and sturdy woman to stay up with her.
This woman managed to stay awake for the first half of the night but slipped away to sleep in the next room as the night progressed.
About half an hour passed, and a figure silently leaped in through the window, making his way to the bedside under the moonlight.
His eyes, deep and vast as the ocean, were filled with intense concern and helplessness. His pale fingers gently brushed her cool and gaunt cheeks. In just a short span of ten days, she had lost a lot of weight, looking so wan and distressed.
It tormented him so much that he could hardly eat or sleep.
