Chapter 122 - Chocolate

From the sensation of the satchel hitting his face, Li Huowang could feel the pain that caused Yang Na’s outburst. He too felt the same pain, and so he raised both his hands and hugged the girl.

“Nana! Please stop. I beg you,” said Li Huowang.

Feeling the embrace of the one she had been yearning for, Yang Na gradually calmed down and rested her head on his shoulder while crying.

At that moment, they looked just like they did a few years ago, sitting at the top of their school and staying up all night until sunrise.

Time slowly passed as Yang Na continued to remain in Li Huowang’s embrace. She wished for the flow of time to stop at this moment.

But, she soon felt a pair of hands on her waist gradually pushing her away. In response, she hugged Li Huowang even tighter; she didn’t want to let him go.

However, her strength was nowhere near his and she was soon pushed away.

The girl's eyes were still red from crying. Li Huowang opened his mouth but no words came out. He felt distraught.

After giving some thought, he calmly said, “Nana, please promise me something; promise me that you will live on even if I were to die one day.”

“No!” Yang Na was adamant. “Don’t decide that for me! My thoughts are mine alone! My choices are none of your concern. I

will

continue to wait for you until the day you wake up!”

As soon as she finished saying those words, Yang Na grabbed her satchel and stormed off.

However, she stopped just as she passed by the door. She hesitated for a few seconds before turning back. Then, she took out a small pack of chocolate from her satchel and coldly passed it to Li Huowang.

As he stared at the beautifully wrapped chocolate, Li Huowang asked Yang Na, “What day is it? Why are you giving me chocolate?”

However, Yang Na just continued to cry while ignoring him. Then, she opened up the wrapping around the chocolate before unceremoniously shoving the alcoholic chocolate down Li Huowang’s mouth.

Li Huowang laughed as he tasted the sweet chocolate. “Nana, what are you doing?”

Since this was just a hallucination, he no longer wanted to argue with her. At the same time, since he was inside the hallucination, he had no control over what he was doing on the other side either, and so there wasn’t much he could do.

As Li Huowang smiled, the tense atmosphere within the ward became mellow.

“What are you laughing at? Stop laughing!” Yang Na swung her satchel onto Li Huowang’s shoulder.

“Ouch! Be a little gentle, it hurts!” Li Huowang hissed in pain and held his shoulders.

“Tsk, you are feeling pain from just this? Why weren’t you in pain when you got shot in the face? Look at how you look right now,” Yang Na said as she took out a small mirror from her satchel and placed it in front of Li Huowang.

This was the first time he had seen himself in the hallucination in a long while. He was still a young boy, but his face that was originally filled with hope was now split in half by a scar. The scar ran from the upper left of his face to his lower right and completely disfigured his face. His entire look had been changed due to it.

Li Huowang gingerly touched his own face, feeling the rough sensation of the scar. He knew how he got it—it was from the sniper bullet grazing his face back at the kindergarten.

Looks like the hallucination is quite logical.

Li Huowang silently thought to himself.

After a while, Yang Na took the mirror back and frowned at him. “What are you thinking? Are you thinking that I will abandon you just because your face has been disfigured? I didn’t even do so when you had turned into a psycho, so don’t even think that I will give up on you now. In fact, I don’t care about it in the slightest.”

Hearing this, Li Huowang shook his head and smiled. Then, he took the pack of chocolate sitting atop the white sheets and popped a piece of it into his mouth. He took another one and offered it to Yang Na, “Have one. I remember that you were a massive fan of snacks.”

However, Yang Na shook her head. “You can eat it. Outside, I can buy it anytime I want, but here, it’s almost a delicacy for you.”

Li Huowang nodded and ate another piece, the sweet taste enveloping his tongue. “Yeah, I haven’t tasted this in a long time...”

Li Huowang's eyes were filled with a sense of yearning and nostalgia. Since he could never go back to his old life, he could only use the hallucination to relieve his yearning for his old life.

Yang Na was heartbroken when she heard him. She held his hands gently and said, “If you want to eat it, then I will buy it for you everyday! Now that I’m in university, my father gives me a lot of money to use as living expenses. He gives me 2500 a month! And I take part-time jobs during breaks as well. I can buy any chocolate you want... but I don’t know whether you will even be coherent the next time I bring chocolate for you...”

Yang Na’s words instantly caused the atmosphere to grow cold.

Li Huowang swallowed the chocolate and was about to console her when he suddenly started coughing.

“Aiya, I have been telling you since elementary school to eat slower and to not talk while eating. See, you just choked on the chocolate. Let me pour a glass of water for you,” said Yang Na as she took the cup on the table and walked out.

Cough-cough!

Meanwhile, Li Huowang started coughing even more vigorously. At the same time, he felt a burning pain radiating from his esophagus to his stomach.

This ain’t right! Something’s happening to the other side!

Li Huowang raised his head and stared coldly at Yang Na’s disappearing back. “Who are you? What did you feed me?!”

Soon, an intense pain burst forth from his stomach, causing him to start shouting, ”AAAA!”

It was almost as if a living hedgehog was running amok within his body.

Amidst the intense pain, everything around him started to shift back—the warm sunlight and bright hospital ward started to fade. Soon, Li Huowang was back in the Ao Jing Sect’s cave. At the same time, he saw blood on the floor in front of him, the very same blood that he had just coughed up.

At this moment, Li Huowang was red-faced and had veins bulging on his head. He grabbed his neck with both hands while kneeling on the ground like a shrimp.

Blegh!

Soon, a massive pile of items were vomited out, consisting of blackened blood, bits and pieces of flesh, small black tentacles, and... rusty nails.