“Could it be that without the potion, you no longer have an ounce of heart for me?” Zhong Jinghao was expecting such an outcome, he was just not happy about it.
“If you had that confidence, why would you have injected me with the potion in the first place? I don’t care what feelings you really have for Gu Yi Ren, and I don’t care even more about how much Gu Yi Ren loves you, I just want to get out of here!”
As Jane Gardner’s words left her mouth, a pang of pain rose in the direction of her chest.
“What’s wrong with you? I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have provoked you tonight, it’s only been a few days since your surgery, if you’re uncomfortable anywhere down there, I’ll take you to the hospital right away!” Zhong Jinghao thought of Jane Gardner’s surgery not more than a few days ago, on the other hand, she had suffered so much in the past few days because of his poor care.
He picked her up and was about to send her to the hospital.
“I’m not going to the hospital! If you really want me to be comfortable, you put me in bed and you get out.” Jane Gardner endured the pain, all inside her mind were Gu Yi Ren’s words.
She said that the side effects would become more and more obvious because of the gradual increase in the time the potion was in her body.
Now, it wasn’t just the inflexibility of her legs that was the only side effect, her body, after the injection of the antidote, was starting to seize up in full force.
“I don’t feel comfortable leaving you alone here. You rest well, I promise I won’t disturb you!” Zhong Jinghao saw Jane Gardner’s bout of pain easing up, and he placed her on the bed and covered her with a blanket.
Jane Gardner also noticed that the bout of pain in her chest disappeared, she closed her eyes but couldn’t sleep.
I don’t know how long, Jane Gardner fell asleep, in her dream, all the memories of the past like a tidal wave towards her brain, her forehead was filled with sweat, and soon after, she had a high fever.
Zhong Jinghao kept lowering Jane Gardner’s temperature physically, but her fever was still recurring.
Jane Gardner felt a hand holding her in her dream, but she couldn’t hear what the other person said.
“Zachary Irwin …” Jane Gardner mumbled Zachary Irwin’s name, she cried and laughed, and it seemed as if years had passed in just one night.
The next day, Jane Gardner slept until noon before waking up completely.
“You finally woke up?” Zhong Jinghao served Jane Gardner for a night last night, and at the same time, he was beside her and also listened to her screaming Zachary Irwin’s name for a night.
Jane Gardner saw the obvious dark circles under Zhong Jinghao’s eyelids, and even more so, she saw the bitterness that filled his eyes, and she remembered the hand from last night, “Last night, it was you who kept me company?”
“You were disappointed to see it was me? Last night, you screamed the name ‘Zachary Irwin’ for the rest of the night, I wanted to wake you up many times, but in the end, I held back.”
Zhong Jinghao was smiling, but Jane Gardner could tell that he was more angry.
“You should have gone to the hospital last night to accompany Gu Yi Ren, she would have been happier than me if she saw you accompanying her.” Jane Gardner looked pale as she got out of bed and put on her slippers, about to go wash up.
Just as she was putting on the slippers, inside her mind, Yu Yuzhang remembered the past.
When she first woke up, Zachary Irwin was the one who would carry her to the bathroom.
She would brush her teeth, he would squeeze the toothpaste for himself, and when she reached out, he would put his clothes on for him.
“And what about you? Are you happy to see that I stayed with you all night?” Zhong Jinghao knew that the answer Jane Gardner gave wouldn’t be good, but he couldn’t help but ask.
If Jane Gardner wasn’t covered in bruises and had just been rescued from the kidnappers, he would, at this moment, definitely not let go of her.
Zhong Jinghao had never been so desperate in his life, he looked at Jane Gardner in front of him, even if he held out his heart to her, she still did not care.
He had a strong feeling of powerlessness.
Jane Gardner did not answer Zhong Jinghao’s question, she looked at herself in the mirror, her face was even paler than before, even on her lips, there was a miserable and pitiful pink color.
“Good, since you want me to accompany Gu Yi Ren so much, I will do as you wish!” Outside, Zhong Jinghao’s voice was completely enraged, and he threw the door with force, and the person left the room.
When Jane Gardner washed up and came out, Zhong Jinghao was indeed no longer in the room.
“Second sister-in-law, I heard that you were kidnapped by the kidnappers last night, I wonder if you still have the appetite to eat the breakfast Selena personally made for you this morning?” Jane Gardner had just come downstairs when Felix walked in towards the hall carrying a thermos.
Jane Gardner heard Selena Lott’s name, she tugged at her lips and squeezed out a smile, “I’m fine, I can still eat and drink, what did Selena cook for me? I happen to be starving.”
“Dumplings, Selena rolled them out herself, it’s the first time I’ve seen her cook in all the time I’ve known her, Second Sister-in-law, your relationship with Selena is really making me jealous too.” Felix smiled as he opened the thermos, then stared at Jane Gardner with burning eyes.
“If I told you that I no longer needed the antidote, would I still be able to eat this dumpling?” Jane Gardner saw something in Felix’s eyes, and she stopped her chopsticks in mid-air, and her eyes were colored by something else.
“You’re going to stay and never leave for the rest of your life?” Felix heard that Jane Gardner didn’t need the antidote, and he made an instantaneous assumption.
“I want to get out of here.” Jane Gardner’s eyes were firm; she really wanted to leave.
“So that means you got the antidote. I’m curious, where did you get the antidote? As far as I know, there aren’t many people who have the antidote in the whole of the Y at the moment, and it’s even more unlikely that you know of it, Second Sister-in-law.
Unless, it was Second Brother who gave you the antidote!” Felix thought of the possibility that Zhong Jinghao might have given Jane Gardner the antidote, and he quickly ruled it out again.
“You don’t need to care where I got the antidote from, I just want to ask you, can you help me get out of here? At no cost.”
Felix fell silent; he didn’t say anything and his attitude spoke for itself.
“Well, it seems that this dumpling is out of my league, Felix, you go back.” Jane Gardner, seeing that there was not a single servant in the hall, went herself to the kitchen and warmed herself a few slices of bread.
“I can’t help you leave, but the dumplings were made by Selena for you to eat, and Second Sister-in-law, even if you don’t help me persuade Selena to marry me, I’d still like you to go over there more often when you have time to spend with her.”
Jane Gardner watched Felix’s figure fade away as she looked at the dumplings on the table again, picking one up with her fork she ate it.
In her head, the memories of her past with Selena Lott also came flooding back to her mind like a movie playing frame by frame.
She didn’t know whether she should be happy or cry, just as Gu Yi Ren said, her memories gradually recovered, which also meant that her body, would gradually collapse.
After breakfast, Jane Gardner went to the garden to walk around a bit, her legs were getting more and more inflexible now, she didn’t want to become a cripple at a young age.
Presumably the exercise had made Jane Gardner’s legs feel less numb.
She had just returned to her room and was about to lie down and rest for a while when Gu Yiren’s phone call came over.
“Sister Jane, I heard brother Jing Hao say that you made him come to the hospital to see me, should I say thank you, after all, because of you, brother Jing Hao is now treating me especially well, I think that once you leave, my wish will be realized.”
On the other end of the phone, Gu Yiren’s voice was bright and emotional, completely unable to hear that she was an injured patient.
“Then I congratulate you in advance for getting your wish, and if it’s okay, I’m going to rest.” Jane Gardner didn’t know what Gu Yiren had come over to show off; her feelings for Zhong Jinghao had long since run out.
She now knew how she and Zhong Jinghao met.
She also knew how Zhong Jinghao had used her trust to trick herself out so that she could inject herself with the potion.
She had treated him as a friend in the beginning, but now, she had lost even her friendship.
Jane Gardner’s heart sours at the thought of remembering Zachary Irwin as she leaves. If the price of remembering Zachary Irwin was that all types of organs in her body began to go downhill.
Well, she was willing to bear that price.
She would rather remember everything than live well and not remember Zachary Irwin at all.
“Second young lady, sir wants you to come down, says you have a visitor at home and need to be entertained.” Jane Gardner wanted to rest and was once again disturbed, she said “yes” towards the maid at the door and even though she couldn’t bear it, she got up from the bed.
Jane Gardner didn’t know what guests Henri Fran was entertaining that still required her to go down.
As usual, she fixed her hair and simply threw on a shawl and headed downstairs.
No sooner had she descended the stairs than she caught sight of Zachary Irwin’s long figure, carved into her bones, and her heart raced uncontrollably.
Jane Gardner’s lips unconsciously showed the curve of a smile.
Zachary Irwin saw that there was no obvious trauma on Jane Gardner’s body, his tightly lifted heart hanged down, but he remembered the way she treated herself before leaving, his face was still tightly tensed, not seeing a trace of warmth.
“Jane, Jing Hao went to the hospital, I also have something to go out immediately, Mr. Irwin, it will be you who will receive for father, remember, Mr. Irwin is a heavy guest of Windsor Castle, treat him with the courtesy of a noble guest.” Henfran saw Jane Gardner come down, and he rose to leave with his steward.
Jane Gardner knew that Henfran was purposely making room for Zachary Irwin to see him, she nodded and waited for his figure to leave, which led her over towards Zachary Irwin.
It was clear that they hadn’t seen each other in just a few days, but she felt that they hadn’t seen each other in months.
Jane Gardner’s eyes were watery, her nose was even more sore, she wanted to rush forward and shrink herself into Zachary Irwin’s arms, she wanted to tell him how much she missed him, how much she missed Steven Irwin and Xin Ruzhuang.
She wanted to ask him if Grandma was okay, if The Shine was as it had always been.
Zachary Irwin saw Jane Gardner coming towards him, he was still sullen and his voice was cold, “Jane Gardner, you’re really something! After not seeing you for a few days, you’ve tossed yourself into this state, those who don’t know would think that Zhong Jinghao has abused you!”
Jane Gardner looked at Zachary Irwin’s tense face, she knew that he still remembered what happened before, she wanted to tell him that she had gotten the antidote, and all the things in the past came back to her.
She wanted to tell him that she wanted to go back to her country with him, that she wanted him to take her with him right away, that she couldn’t stay here, not for a moment.
But she couldn’t say anything, the tears in her eyes fell as she looked at Zachary Irwin.