Li Caiyi took another sip of her drink. It tasted like fresh grape juice with a pretty strong sll, but it wasn't unpleasant. She relished the sour after-taste it had on her tongue so much she didn't notice ng Renshu's grave look.
"Xiaoyi, I told you before that I have a hard ti sleeping lately, didn't I?" ng Renshu asked as he leaned on the pillar beside her.
"Yes. Did it get better?"
ng Renshu smiled. "I don't know yet. But one thing for sure, the ti where I had the most peaceful sleep lately was when I slept beside you."
"Cough!" Li Caiyi was caught off guard when she heard that. After her violent cough subsided, she recalled when both of them accidentally fell asleep beside each other at the hospital. She got embarrassed for thinking that ng Renshu probably regained the mory of sleeping together in their previous life.
"I-I see," she replied awkwardly.
"Are you okay? You should drink slowly. Even if it isn't alcoholic, this juice is a pretty strong one."
"Yeah, I'm fine. More importantly, what do you an by that?"
ng Renshu caressed the rim of his glass while looking down. "The other day, I said I was afraid you wouldn't believe , even if I told you about my dream. Can I say it to you now?"
"Well, if it's only listening, I can lend an ear."
"Thank you." ng Renshu took a deep breath before looking at Li Caiyi with a complicated gaze. "Actually, I have a hard ti sleeping because of you."
"Huh?" Li Caiyi tilted her head in confusion, "You an because I gave you headache lately, that's why you can't sleep well at night?"
ng Renshu shook her head. "No, not that. I had a dream. A bizarre yet familiar dream. About you and incidents which never occurred but vividly shown in my dream."
"Dreams are usually like that. You would occasionally dream about an event that has yet to happen but later occurred in the future. That's where the déjà vu feeling often ca."
"At first, I also thought like that. But later, I noticed that the scenery and sensation I felt in my dream were so familiar like I had ever experienced it before. It was more like a mory rather than a vision."
Li Caiyi didn't want to sound skeptical and asked him carefully, "Hmm, do you rember what kind of dream you see in your dream? Am I also included in it?"
"Yes. You are always there in my every dream, to the point I think you are a ghost haunting ."
"Well, that's… Must feel horrible for you." Li Caiyi said sarcastically.
ng Renshu chuckled. "No, I don't an it in a bad way. It's just… I have this strong feeling in my heart every ti I wake up. It felt like my dream was trying to tell sothing because it kept repeating every night without fail."
"So, you are saying you are having the sa dream every night consecutively?"
"Not necessarily. I can't rember the dream quite well, but I know my dream always ends in the sa way." ng Renshu gazed at Li Caiyi hesitantly.
"How did your dream end every ti? Is it related to again?"
ng Renshu slowly nodded his head. "At the end of my dream, you are always there. I think this is the reason my dream scared so much. It was a sight I never wanted to see again."
It surprised Li Caiyi to see a genuine fear flickered in his eyes. It was rare to see him feel afraid of sothing. For as long as she can rember, she never saw him looking this frightened. What kind of dream did he see that reduced him to this state?
"What was I doing in your dream?" She asked carefully.
ng Renshu bit his lips. The fear in his eyes now mixed with a hint of anguish and sorrow.
"You did nothing. Because in my dream… you were dead."
Thump.
Li Caiyi felt the ti suddenly flowing slowly in front of her. She could feel her heart beat clearly as it sped up with each breath she took. She was very familiar with this nagging and uneasy feeling.
It was a sign of bad premonition.
Li Caiyi swallowed her saliva nervously as she asked in a stiff voice. "How? In your dream, how did I die?"
ng Renshu's face looked like he was in pain. He hesitated a lot before finally answering, "You were in awful shape in my dream. I think it was suicide by jumping from a tall building. There was barely anything left in your head at all."
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Li Caiyi felt suffocated by how hard her heart was beating. Her breath beca short and labored, and her head felt dizzy. The hold on her glass loosened as her hand trembled involuntarily.
ng Renshu, who saw that, imdiately beca alard. He moved forward and clasped her hand, which held the glass, to prevent it from falling. His eyes widened in surprise once he felt how cold and shaky her hand was.
"Xiaoyi… Are you okay?" ng Renshu asked urgently. His tone was laced with concern.
Li Caiyi's mind was spinning. A firm grip on her hand brought a sense of warmth, and it cald her heart down a bit.
"I-I'm fine…." Li Caiyi said quietly, although she still felt a bit shaken.
"You don't look okay at all. Your face is pale, and you are cold like ice!"
Li Caiyi forced herself to stand steadily and inhaled a lot of oxygen to clear her thoughts. ng Renshu stood close to her throughout all that because he was worried she would fall if he let her go.
His words earlier kept echoing in her brain. She already had a bad premonition the second he said he saw her die in his dream. Still, she didn't expect him to even know how she had died in her previous life!
But why? Why did he dream about such a thing? This was too good to be a re coincidence.
ng Renshu's dream…. Could it be?
What if he also… kept his mory from the past?
"Xiaoyi, how about we go in? I'll ask the maid to prepare a room for you to rest." ng Renshu didn't quite understand her condition, but he assud she was probably too shocked when he told him how she was dead in his dream. He wanted to know what made her so frightened like this?
However, his primary concern right now was Li Caiyi's health. Nothing was more important than that.
His gaze subconsciously fell on how Li Caiyi held on his arm gingerly, as though she was reluctant to lean on him wholly. ng Renshu wouldn't mind even if she did, though.
"Brother Renshu…. Could you tell more about those dreams of yours?"
"Xiaoyi, that can wait for next ti. I think you need sothing to sit on—"
"No, please." Li Caiyi clenched on his suit, "Just say it here. I want to know more about what happened in your dream. Do you… I an, is there anything else that happened in your dream? What else do you see?"
ng Renshu was very confused now. Despite her condition, he didn't understand why Li Caiyi was so adamant in wanting to know about it. Her expression looked like she could cry anyti if he refused.
"....Alright," ng Renshu said reluctantly, and her hold on his suit loosened.
"I can't rember much, actually. It's like a cut scene of a movie replayed in my dream repeatedly. However, everything is gone from my mind once I wake up. One thing for certain, no matter which cut scene I witnessed in my dream, it always ends in the sa way…."
"I see…."
Li Caiyi felt lighter when she heard that. ng Renshu didn't have any reason to lie about this, so she took his words as it was. However, her relief was short-lived after she heard his following sentence.
"Nevertheless, I feel like I can rember it much better than I did lately. I don't know why, though."
"What did you rember?" Li Caiyi asked nervously.
This ti, ng Renshu was still hesitant, but his countenance was more embarrassed rather than sad. He averted his gaze from Li Caiyi's before replying, "I dreamt about our wedding day."
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