Chapter 002: 'What is actually happening ?'

‘’Fiancée?!’’ Oh my god! What trouble have I gotten myself into?

He moved even closer to me. I got a generous sniff of his musk body spray. The smell felt somehow familiar. The sense of satisfaction obtained from his body spray disappeared away once I glanced at his eyes. His eyes were too menacing so that I could only look down to push off the feeling of guilt building up in my mind.

Guilt? Why?

‘’What are you pretending and plotting now?!’’

I was startled by his sudden fit of anger and jerked in surprise. Dr Wei who stood silent all this while moved forward and towards him and finally started speaking.

"Mr Zhou, I’ve already made it clear to you. You can’t agitate her like this when she’s in such a condition. And I also told you that she has amnesia, so it is completely useless for you to stand here and shout for nothing’’

‘Mr Zhou’ quickly rose up and turned towards Dr Wei. Every action of him seemed so threatening and this was no exception. As expected, he reached up to Dr Wei in just 2 long strides and grabbed him by the collar.

"Ah! No! .... Calm down Mr Zhou’’ The plea of Alice was completely ignored by him. Dr Wei didn’t move and stood calmly. Mr Grim Reaper’s face twisted in rage.

"You would say that because you don’t understand how it feels! Do you know how it feels when someone tells you that your fiancée, on whom you were developing a strong crush, never existed?!’’

He didn’t release his grab and turned toward me. His eyes seemed to be teary and looked quite passionately at me. Maybe I saw it wrong? However, in no time, his expression changed into something like hate and disgust.

"And you!....... Everything was just an illusion created by you. I don’t care whatever you call it in our terms. But you clearly fooled me around. So, from the beginning, it wasn't Yi Sha but you! And only you! How could you….!’’

He froze midway in his sentence and looked away from me. He seemed to be going through some kind of pain. Heartache?

As if suddenly coming into his senses, he release the collar of Dr Wei and hurriedly stepped backwards. He quickly adjusted his suit and returned to an emotionless expression and stood gazing at the ground for a while. Then raised his head and looked at us,

"My apologies. I was feeling a bit upset and lost my composure. I’ll better leave now.’’

He turned around to leave, but stopped in his tracks and slowly turned to look at me. His eyes were sad and dejected, and he prolonged to look at me with a melancholic look on his face. I could only stare back and when I did that, I clearly felt his gaze quite familiar. He let out a sigh,

"Take rest, and recover well’’, he didn’t wait any longer and headed towards the door.

"Laia, hang in there, I’ll show him out, and Alice, go to check on the other patients. I’ll arrive shortly afterwards.’’ Dr Wei hurried after him, and Alice too left with him. The door clicked after them.

Suddenly everything fell silent. I could only hear the buzzing of the monitors which were recording my vitals.

So….. according to Mr Attractive Grim Reaper, I impersonated his fiancée.

No. He later mentioned that I created some illusion. What exactly was he saying?

Anyway, he didn’t seem as if he was lying. He told that I had something to do with or did something to his fiancée or whatever. So, this woman……Yi Sha, how did I get to know her? The name doesn’t ring any bells…

"Ouch! ...’’

Unexpectedly, the tinnitus came out of nowhere, and the throbbing in the head also returned. Before I could press the buzzer, I felt my head sinking into the pillows and my body going numb. And my vision blacked out.

……………..

I could smell something like food.

Whoa! Food! How long has it been since I had a decent meal?

What is here to eat? Let’s take a look.

I slowly opened my eyes and what I saw wasn’t food but Dr Wei and the same cute intern Alice.

"Finally, you wake up.’’

Slowly raising myself up  from the bed, I eyed him inquiringly,

"Finally?’’

"Yesterday when I came to check on you after sending off Mr Zhou, you had fainted. And eventually, you wake up after one day’’

"I tried to recall my memories but I failed and ended up fainting as you said’’

"First, eat up’’

Alice laid the food. The food wasn’t very extraordinary but at least it could relieve my hunger. Only after starting to eat did I realize how hungry I was.

"Dr Wei, I’m leaving. My shift will be over soon’’

"Mmm.’’ He nodded at her and soon shifted his attention towards me. I continued to gobble up everything as ‘decently’ as possible. He pulled a chair close to my bed and sat down.

"Laia, listen carefully. Since you are currently experiencing retrograde amnesia, it’s not advisable for you to force your memories back. Even if you sense something which feels quite familiar, don’t try to ponder about it. It would only do more harm than good.’’

I nodded my head in response. As soon as I completed eating, he helped me put the food platter away and returned back to his position and continued to speak.

"Take good rest for today and tomorrow. Let’s first stabilize your condition beginning from the day after tomorrow and once your condition is fine, we can start to stimulate the process of sparking your lost memories back. Until that, don’t try to recall things. I repeat again- it is really dangerous’’

But while listening to him, I think I felt that he wasn’t explaining the procedure in a formal manner but feeling really concerned about me. Ever since regaining consciousness, I could feel some warmth from him. Even his face carried signs of worry. Thinking back, he even recognized me as Laia. I didn’t at all expect that he’d remember my name. Back in university, we haven’t even interacted much except a few times during a project. He was the typical ‘cool senior’ who was admired by a lot of girls, so I thought he might not notice girls much in detail.

Meanwhile, I noticed him slowly putting up a grin. Oops! I’ve been staring at him all this while. I quickly averted my eyes.

He stood up and walked towards me and leaned closer.

"What? Are you losing yourself in my good looks?’’

"Huh?’’

Wait! Is he joking or flirting?