CHAPTER 61: CHAPTER 61: CONFESSION

Although today they had completely opened their hearts to each other, when it came to actually helping Ye Manman take off her clothes and cleaning her body with a warm towel, He Chen felt he just couldn’t handle it.

Especially after personally removing her clothes, the delicate girl in front of him shivered hard from the cold and embarrassment, her adorable face blushing, and her misty eyes looked at him shyly.

He Chen’s breathing heated up, nearly causing him to have a nosebleed on the spot.

Fortunately, Ye Manman was still wearing her undergarments, and the areas that were closer to dangerous spots were just lifted to be wiped clean. Those areas, she was too embarrassed to let him help clean, deciding to wait one or two days until her hands healed a bit more to do it herself.

He Chen repeatedly recited ’lust is emptiness’ in his mind, not daring to look around, carefully helping Ye Manman clean her body, and then attentively helping her dress well before finally letting out a deep breath of relief.

After completing the task, getting back into bed, he still felt a bit excited and inexplicably exhilarated, which made him not the least bit sleepy.

Ye Manman was also wide awake.

Knowing that He Chen wasn’t asleep, she turned her head and asked him.

"He Chen, aren’t you at all curious why I suddenly remembered things from the past?"

"And don’t you think I’ve changed a lot? I even know a lot of things that nobody else knows about. Haven’t you ever doubted anything about me?"

Since coming through, she had been living from the perspective of an observer, plus He Chen had always pampered her, so Ye Manman never deliberately concealed anything.

But in reality, her personality was not only completely different from the original host, everything she knew was impossible for the former Ye Manman to understand.

He Chen also turned his head to look at her, at her bright eyes, and in the darkness, his face quietly blushed.

"I have thought about that, but when I saw you injured today, those things didn’t seem important at all. As long as you’re the you now, no matter what your reasons are, I can accept it."

He no longer wanted to go through such heart-stopping experiences.

Compared to himself, the slender and fragile Ye Manman seemed too delicate. No matter why her personality had drastically changed or why she knew such unknown things, he was willing to accept them.

Ye Manman hadn’t expected him to think this way. After a moment of silence, she decided to tell him the truth.

"Actually, although my name is also Ye Manman, I am not the real Ye Manman. Anyway, the person you knew when you were a kid was me, but later the one who didn’t know you wasn’t me. I only returned before our engagement."

Even she thought it sounded a bit convoluted, but the matter was just too unbelievable, even a bit mystical, which sounded rather frightening. She didn’t dare to be too detailed, fearing that He Chen might get scared.

The whole transmigrating into a book thing is something no normal person could accept, let alone tell him that he, a person who had lived for over twenty years, was just a character in a book.

If this got out, she would immediately be seized and condemned.

She could only pick the less frightening parts to talk about.

And the person she told was He Chen.

She wasn’t sure how he would take it...

Ye Manman felt a bit apprehensive, and He Chen didn’t respond immediately, leaving them in silence, which was eerily quiet in the darkness.

After a long while, He Chen suddenly sighed, his large hand sneaking out from under the blanket to carefully grasp her uninjured fingertip, his hot hand feeling like an iron, making Ye Manman’s fingertips sweat a bit.

"Actually, I should have guessed long ago."

"The you I know, so proud and confident, so sunny and lively, how could you suddenly become so timid, speaking to people with your head down? I even thought..."

"But it’s really great that you could come back."

At this point, his tone suddenly turned serious.

"So, why did you suddenly leave previously?"

"And after more than ten years, you came back, but now it’s been a few months again, will you suddenly leave again?"

"Will you suddenly forget about me again?"

He Chen suddenly felt very nervous, his large hand unconsciously tightened, the rough calluses rubbing against Ye Manman’s tender fingertip, but even now, he was very careful not to touch her wound.

He felt that this matter seemed lucky but also terrifying.

What if someday the Ye Manman in his heart suddenly left, and the one sleeping next to him became a Ye Manman he wasn’t familiar with at all? What would he do then?

What if the next time she leaves it’s even longer, ten years, twenty years, or even longer, and she can’t come back, how is he supposed to hold on?

Ye Manman was a bit confused by his question for a moment.

"Well... I don’t know either. Actually, I think I probably can’t go back, after all, so much time has passed."

This matter was indeed too mysterious; she didn’t even know how she came through, much less how she would go back.

Maybe her modern self fell into another coma?

But she merely fell asleep, if she passed through according to the length of her coma, she should have gone back the next day after coming through, but she was still here now.

He Chen suddenly leaned over, getting closer to her.

"Manman, please don’t leave, okay? Promise me, even if you have to go, you must tell me in advance; I will always wait for you to come back."

He leaned over pitifully and kissed her cheek, his tone filled with worry and helplessness.

For something so beyond human control, both He Chen and Ye Manman found it quite vexing.

Ye Manman let out a soft "hmm."

"Don’t worry, I won’t leave. If that day really comes, I’ll definitely tell you in advance. You must not betray me because I left, or I’ll make you regret it when I come back!"

She waved her hand fiercely, indicating she would use force to punish that kind of behavior.

He Chen thought her action was extremely cute, like a little cat with ruffled fur, but he couldn’t lift the corners of his mouth.

Although Ye Manman tried her best to be funny, a sense of sadness lingered around them.

"Alright then, I’m really not going to leave, you don’t know how much I wanted to leave these past few months, only to find that I simply couldn’t."

"You really don’t have to worry."

Ye Manman couldn’t pat his shoulder, so she could only speak dryly.

But fortunately, He Chen seemed to understand.

He responded with a soft "hmm," before lying back down, careful not to move and touch her wound.

Instead of blaming heaven and earth and worrying about a future that might never happen, it was better to make the most of the present, to live each day well, and take care of her.

At least right now, she was still by his side, in his view.

"Then let’s just sleep well, okay? Can you sleep?"

It was already later into the night, and they both had already slept half a sleep, so naturally, they weren’t tired.

Ye Manman sighed.

"You don’t know, where I used to live, if I couldn’t sleep, I could just play with my phone or computer, there were so many fun games, not like now where I can only stare at the ceiling blankly."

He Chen also became quite curious about the place she mentioned.

"What kind of place was it you talked about? What are phones and computers?"