"Water..."
The low, hoarse voice was exceptionally clear in the silent laboratory.
Li Yueshu quickly got up, her mouth still full of something she hadn't swallowed. "Shen Wei?"
Shen Wei didn't respond, his eyes still tightly shut, his brow furrowed. "Water..."
Hearing this, Li Yueshu quickly poured a glass of water.
However, Shen Wei was already delirious from the fever. He called for water but couldn't swallow what was brought to his lips.
After failing a few times, Li Yueshu looked at the cup in her hand, then at Shen Wei's flushed cheeks, and pouted.
For a moment, she actually thought of a cliché plot from a melodramatic TV show: feeding water mouth-to-mouth.
How ridiculous!
She had a spatial artifact. Even without a nasogastric tube, she could administer intravenous fluids!
So, Li Yueshu tilted her head back and drank the water herself, then directly administered another injection into the back of Shen Wei's other hand.
After eating and drinking her fill, she planned to tend to Shen Wei's other wounds.
He had sustained such severe injuries, it was a miracle he survived. He had held on for two days without medication and even saved her life.
For that reason alone, she couldn't abandon him.
Li Yueshu herself had an IV drip, but her movements were not slow. She directly tore open his tattered clothes.
Shen Wei's skin was a healthy tan, and every muscle was perfectly sculpted. In modern terms, he had a standard golden ratio physique.
Li Yueshu raised an eyebrow.
His physique was the best among all the men she had ever seen!
She never saw him exercising. How did he maintain it?
Li Yueshu felt a pang of envy. Suppressing the urge to reach out and touch him, she quickly collected herself and began to seriously treat the wounds.
She first addressed the more visible injuries, then moved on to the others.
When she was treating a wound on his neck, she suddenly noticed a wrinkled protrusion behind Shen Wei's ear.
Li Yueshu curiously touched it with her hand and found it seemed to be a piece of skin.
She pulled at it, and the piece of skin actually extended along his neck to his cheek.
Li Yueshu's heart skipped a beat, and a guess suddenly formed in her mind.
She carefully continued to pull, directly peeling off a thin-as-cicada-wing human skin mask from Shen Wei's face.
Beneath the mask was a face like a deity's.
A chiseled jawline, a high-bridged nose; his entire face was as if meticulously carved by the heavens.
Li Yueshu had never seen such a handsome man and was momentarily stunned.
She remembered Shen Wei's eyes were beautiful. If he opened them, how exquisite would he be!
Thinking of this, Li Yueshu felt a touch of jealousy.
Her own face was quite attractive, but compared to Shen Wei, it was clearly inferior.
Li Yueshu tossed the human skin mask aside and smacked her lips. "Such a handsome face shouldn't be hidden away!"
She was a face-lover, just like Xiao Yu. Her greatest pleasure was admiring handsome men.
This face was perfectly tailored to her aesthetic preferences!
Li Yueshu couldn't help but admire it for a while before continuing to treat the wounds.
After an unknown period, the wounds were finally treated, and sweat beaded on Li Yueshu's forehead.
She wiped her brow with her free hand and sat down on a chair, feeling rather limp.
However, seeing Shen Wei's face, she felt a sense of comfort.
After resting enough, Li Yueshu resumed her movements.
Although she had no serious injuries, having been unconscious for two days and soaked in water, she felt sticky all over.
The laboratory had a lounge area with a change of clothes. Though it only contained a nightgown from her modern life, it was better than what she was wearing.
With her IV drip still in place, Li Yueshu prepared to go to the lounge to freshen up. But as she was taking off her clothes, she noticed something was wrong.
Why was the tie of her clothes fastened crookedly?
Li Yueshu checked again and confirmed it was indeed tied askew.
But the river water could at most have loosened the tie, how could it have retied itself?
Li Yueshu sniffed herself. She did smell like she hadn't showered for days, but there was no damp, musty odor from wet clothes that had dried, indicating they had been dried.
Suddenly, she thought of something and turned to look at Shen Wei, who was lying on the experiment table, her cheeks turning red at a visible speed.
He... he took advantage of her!
Li Yueshu was furious, even wanting to slap the unconscious man awake.
But she knew in her heart that Shen Wei had done it for her own good.
She had a head injury and seemed to have a fever. She was already halfway to the grave. If her wet clothes weren't changed in time, she might have already died.
Just thinking about how she had recently given him a divorce letter and then this happened was too dramatic!
Li Yueshu gritted her teeth and could only silently tell herself, "If you didn't see it, it didn't happen. If you didn't see it, it didn't happen..."
After repeating it a few times, Li Yueshu felt much better, though she occasionally glared at Shen Wei with a hint of teeth-gritting.
Once Shen Wei's condition stabilized, Li Yueshu brought him out of the spatial artifact.
He had profound internal energy and excellent physical quality; he might wake up at any moment.
Although he knew she could conjure things out of thin air, he was unaware of the existence of the spatial artifact, let alone that she could enter and exit it at will. Of course, she wouldn't reveal it.
What Li Yueshu didn't expect was that Shen Wei, whose condition had stabilized, developed a high fever that same night, and his back wound showed signs of infection again.
Li Yueshu quickly brought him back into the spatial artifact and reconnected his IV drip.
But after a short while, Shen Wei's condition improved again, as if what had just happened never occurred.
Li Yueshu's heart sank. She suddenly thought of Mother Mo's situation.
She tried taking Shen Wei out of the spatial artifact and indeed saw his temperature rise again.
At this point, Li Yueshu understood everything.
Shen Wei, like Mother Mo, was someone who was supposed to have died in the original book. Naturally, the plot would "correct" his condition.
However, their situations were slightly different. One was experiencing post-operative rejection, and the other was severely injured and unconscious.
Li Yueshu's gaze fell on Shen Wei's injured back, her eyes deep with unspoken thoughts.
Shen Wei had been unresponsive for so long, but now that he was injured and on the verge of death, he suddenly showed a reaction.
Did that prove that even the plot couldn't arbitrarily control the people in this world?
This speculation brought a heavy sigh of relief to Li Yueshu's heart.
Since arriving in this world, she had been completely in the dark, with no knowledge of the plot's power, making her sensitive to any slightest disturbance.
If the plot couldn't arbitrarily control people in this world, or rather, couldn't control people like Mother Mo and Shen Wei who had completely deviated from their predetermined fates, then it meant the plot's power was not invincible!
With this thought, Li Yueshu's gaze towards Shen Wei softened, and she even went to get him better medicine.
To be safe, Li Yueshu waited until Shen Wei was completely out of the critical period before bringing him out of the spatial artifact again.
However, this wait turned out to be five days.
During these five days, a major event occurred in Tong Mu County.