Don't Be Kind Rashly (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 161

The fever wouldn’t break easily. Lu occasionally muttered deliriously, drenched in cold sweat.

“I’m tired… I want to stop….”

Only because Hayden was beside her could he understand—most of her words were barely coherent murmurs.

“Hayden… Ha…”

“Yes?”

The one whose name was called replied, watching something flicker between her eyelashes. But Lu didn’t call out to him again. As if she couldn’t, she fell silent like the dead.

So she’s only saying now that she wants to stop because it’s hard? The man who rarely showed surprise was left utterly speechless—this person who’d vanished in an instant without a word, only to say it now after finishing everything. He gently wiped her sweat-soaked face with a cool, damp cloth.

He’d given her specially procured medicine, lessened her pain, and borne what little remained himself—yet she still showed no sign of waking.

“Why, Lu?”

There was no real conversation in the bedroom. Only her pained moans drifted into the air, met by his voice, then faded away. She never answered him.

She wandered somewhere beyond consciousness. She’d opened her eyes once and seen him—but whether she truly recognized him or not, she couldn’t say. All he could do was hope her fever would break and the bones he’d set would heal properly.

“I’m waiting for you again.”

Even though he’d brought her back, Lu still hadn’t returned. Was she refusing to open her eyes because she’d seen him briefly and disliked it? His head filled with all sorts of thoughts, and he lowered it.

Lately, Hayden handled nearly everything right from this spot—waiting for Lu to wake, monitoring her condition all day, and still tending to the empire. Of course, even if war or civil strife erupted, whether or not Lu opened her eyes, he could command everything from this very place.

“I wish you’d understand that.”

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