Shangguan Wan felt like she had sunk into an endless darkness.

  Nightmares continued to plague her in her dreams. There was an extremely ugly black face in front of her, and she opened her mouth and kept screaming and screaming for help until her throat was hoarse and dying. Just as she thought she wouldn’t be able to escape from that person’s evil claws, a tall figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere, like he was a God that had been sent from Heaven……

  She grabbed that person’s arm and called for him with a hoarse voice. “Ye Yanfeng, Ye Yanfeng……”


  Her small hand was held tightly by that person, and a man’s low and hoarse voice trailed into her ear. “I’m here.”


  Ye Yanfeng? Shangguan Wan looked up and glanced at the man speaking by her ear. All she saw was that person smiling evilly at her and suddenly became a large beast that was opening its bloodied mouth……

  Shangguan Wan widened her eyes in shock.

  Her breathing was unstable and panicked as her chest heaved up and down.

  Her blurred eyes slowly cleared.

  Staring at the man’s handsome face in front of her, Shangguan Wan suddenly could no longer tell if it was reality or if she was still dreaming.

  Her heart was slightly uneasy, as if it had fallen into a depthless abyss. It took a long while before she slowly regained her senses.

  Nightmare. It was only a nightmare just now.

  It wasn’t real.

  Seeing that Shangguan Wan had woken up, Ye Yanfeng caressed her forehead with his hand. “You have a fever and woke up just in time to take your medicine.”


  There was no expression on his handsome face. His pretty eyes were slightly red, making him look a little scary.

  Shangguan Wan didn’t want to speak to him. She closed her eyes once more and turned away slightly.

  However, in the next second, the man carried her slender figure up from the bed roughly. He sat by the bed, one hand around her shoulder to hold her within his arms while his other hand took the bowl of medicine.

  Pursing her lips, Shangguan Wan refused to take the medicine. She didn’t want to speak to him.

  Although she was not a normal girl and was rather accepting of most things, she was still a woman. It would be impossible to not be affected when she was almost raped by those two bastard men.

  After she was held in Ye Yanfeng’s arms forcefully, Shangguan Wan didn’t struggle and continued to ignore him.

  She was treating him as if he didn’t exist.

  Ye Yanfeng looked down at the woman in his arms. Her cheek was less swollen now. However, the red mark left by the whip was still very clear. Her lips were completely pale and slightly chapped, making her look completely different from how she did usually.

  “Are you taking it yourself or do you want me to feed you?” Ye Yanfeng asked her.

  Still, she acted as though she didn’t hear him.

  Ye Yanfeng smirked. “It seems like you want me to feed you.”


  He took a mouthful of the medicine before he pinched Shangguan Wan’s cheek and forced her to open her lips. He leaned down and pressed his lips against hers.

  Shangguan Wan could not help but open her lips from his hold.

  The bitter medicine flowed into her mouth from his mouth.

  He pressed her tongue down, forcing her to swallow the medicine.

  Shangguan Wan frowned.

  He was about to feed her the second mouthful when Shangguan Wan raised her hand and spoke with a hoarse voice. “I’ll take it myself.”


  Ye Yanfeng laughed wickedly, staring at her with a complicated expression. “Do you think you can take it yourself because you want to? It’s too late now!”


  With that said, he used the same method to feed her the second mouthful, then the third…… Until he finished feeding her the entire bowl of medicine.

  Shangguan Wan thought that he would move away after he was done, but he curled his tongue around hers and started to kiss her ruthlessly.

  His kiss came with the energy to swallow everything, as if wanting to swallow her completely.

  As she still had a fever and felt extremely weak all over, she wasn’t able to resist him at all. She let him kiss her with dazed eyes, not giving him any reaction.

  Perhaps he thought that such a kiss was meaningless, so he let go of her after a short while.

  Once Shangguan Wan was done with the medicine, her mind turned dizzy and heavy again, and she fell asleep very quickly once more.

  Ye Yanfeng had already gotten the doctor to check Shangguan Wan. She had a small concussion on her head, while the gun injury on her calf had worsened from the ordeal.

  The only way for her to heal properly was for her to rest, so she wouldn’t agitate her condition. It was a good thing that she would be able to leave this place soon.

  After she fell asleep, Ye Yanfeng brought a bowl of cold water over from the bathroom. He wet a towel with the cold water before placing it on her scorching forehead.

  He pulled a chair over to sit by the bed. After a while, he would change the towel on her forehead.

  As he sat there, his thoughts trailed to the memory of two hours ago, when his father called him to his room……

  He touched his head, a deprecating smile appearing on his lips……

  When Shangguan Wan woke up again, the skies were starting to lighten.

  Pain was all she felt. She felt sore and tired all over, her bones feeling like they could fall apart anytime.

  It was so unbearable.

  She turned slightly, looking up to see the man sitting on the chair.

  After coming to this godforsaken place, it was Shangguan Wan’s first time seeing him in the morning.

  He was sitting on the chair, his long legs crossed elegantly as he leaned slightly towards the back. His eyes were closed. It seemed he had fallen asleep.

  Even if he was sitting, he still remained as poised and elegant as usual.

  The sleeping him did not seem as devilish and dangerous as he seemed when he was awake. He looked a little like a grown boy, with an unguarded elegance.

  However, there were deep creases between his eyebrows. He seemed extremely troubled even after he had fallen asleep.

  He had joined the SSS group. Even though he was the Prince’s son, he probably had to give more in order to get the others’ recognition!

  Staring at him sleeping, Shangguan Wan really could not relate him with the devilish image he had. However, with all that he had done, what else could he be apart from being a devil?

  Within a few days, Shangguan Wan felt like she had lived through an eternity. She wished so much that all of these were only a dream.

  When she woke up from the dream, Bo Yan and the rest would still be alive while Ye Yanfeng hadn’t turned into this stranger she no longer knew!

  She did not know how long she had stared at him for, but suddenly, he opened his eyes. As he had just woken up, sleepiness was still present in his eyes and Shangguan Wan hurriedly closed hers.

  Ye Yanfeng stood up, his first reaction was to touch Shangguan Wan’s forehead.

  Although it still felt a little hot, it was a lot lower than last night already.

  Ye Yanfeng went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he was done, he stood by the bed and stared at Shangguan Wan, who had her eyes shut tight. He said with a hoarse voice, “I know that you’re awake. I’m not interested in doing anything to you with how tattered you looked. I’m going out later, so take your medicine by yourself.”


  Shangguan Wan opened her eyes and met his.

  His eyes were clearly red, and there was a tiredness that couldn’t be hidden.

  Confusion appeared on her face when she heard what he said. Did he sit on the chair for the entire night just to take care of her?……

  Ye Yanfeng went out early and came back late for two consecutive days.

  After two days, Shangguan Wan’s fever had finally gone down.

  Ye Yanfeng would only return after she fell asleep every night, and when she woke up, he was gone already. Although they were staying in the same room, they were as good as strangers.

  This morning when Shangguan Wan woke up, she thought that she wouldn’t be able to see Ye Yanfeng, just like the last two days.

  However, when she opened her eyes, he was standing beside her.

  “Awake?” His gaze on her was very very deep, so deep it felt like he was carving her onto his heart. Staring into his eyes, Shangguan Wan did not know why, but her heart skipped a beat.

  An ominous feeling grew in her heart.