Ye Tiancheng and the little fox were truly exhausted, so they didn't bother to catch up on their meals. They just ran back to their rooms to sleep.
Ye Qingcheng was attending classes at home. Before resting, Ye Tiancheng had a word with her. The tutor also chatted with Ye Tiancheng for a bit before Ye Tiancheng finally settled down completely.
Around eight or nine in the evening, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox each got up once. They went down to the dining room for dinner. To avoid disrupting their biological clocks due to jet lag, they each ate their fill and then returned to their rooms to rest.
The next morning, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox were the earliest to wake up at home. This way, it wouldn't really affect their biological clocks and would be easier to adjust. As long as they could hold on until normal bedtime to rest, there wouldn't be any problems.
However, while Ye Tiancheng and the little fox slept soundly at home, Lin Yun at the hospital was not so fortunate.
After seeing Ye Tiancheng and the little fox off in the morning, Lin Yun, whose foot was injured and inconvenient, immediately called for a nurse to help her find a caregiver.
She wasn't very familiar with this aspect. Lin Yun was not a frequent visitor to hospitals, nor had she ever been seriously ill, so she lacked experience. That's why she chose to ask the nurse for a recommendation. Nurses working in hospitals would generally know where to find people for caregiving.
The nurse listened to Lin Yun's needs and found an auntie who looked to be around forty years old.
This auntie was quite efficient and had a good attitude. Lin Yun was quite satisfied and didn't find fault with anything. She wasn't someone who lived a particularly luxurious or pampered life.
Everything was fine initially, but Lin Yun felt that, for some reason, the hospital seemed particularly noisy today, no less than a bustling marketplace.
Lin Yun was very confused. Ye Tiancheng and the others had arranged a deluxe single room for her. Such rooms were usually on a separate floor, were quieter, and had good soundproofing. Why was it so noisy?
However, considering that it was a hospital and Lin Yun was unable to leave, she didn't voice any complaints. Lin Yun knew that such things couldn't be controlled and wouldn't be useful. Even if she complained, there wouldn't be any good solutions, and she couldn't stop others from making noise.
Lin Yun noticed something unusual around evening.
At that time, due to her leg injury, Lin Yun couldn't move around much and could only lie in bed to rest. She hadn't slept well the previous night, had experienced something terrifying, and had stayed up all night. Lin Yun was extremely fatigued. So, she slept for most of the day.
But if one slept too much, they would also have trouble sleeping and feel uncomfortable. So, in the evening, Lin Yun couldn't fall asleep at all.
Unable to sleep and with nothing else to do, Lin Yun could only lie in bed and play on her phone.
Lin Yun was playing on her phone. She had just finished dinner, and the caregiver she hired had taken the meal boxes out and was temporarily not in the room. Lin Yun was alone in the room.
As she was playing on her phone, Lin Yun suddenly felt a figure flash past her bed. At first, she thought it was the caregiver, so she didn't think much of it and didn't look up, her attention still focused on the phone screen.
However, as time went by, Lin Yun inexplicably felt the room getting colder and colder.
Just as Lin Yun was wondering if the air conditioning in the room had been set to the wrong temperature, her gaze inadvertently swept across the doorway. She then froze blankly for three seconds before her mind finally caught up, and she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
Her body began to tremble uncontrollably. She thought to herself that the room door was closed. The caregiver had closed the door after taking out the meal boxes and then re-entered. How could she not have heard the sound of the door opening and closing?
Lin Yun was almost scared to death. She cautiously turned her head slowly towards the direction where she remembered the person had entered the room later.
Then, Lin Yun saw an elderly person wearing a dark blue top sitting by the window. Since a considerable amount of time had passed, the sky outside had gradually darkened. The room light was not yet on, and Lin Yun dared not turn on the light at this moment.
The elder was with his back to Lin Yun, facing the window. Lin Yun dared not startle him, but she couldn't escape either because her leg was injured, and she couldn't walk.
Where was the caregiver? Why hadn't the caregiver returned yet? So much time had passed; the caregiver should have returned long ago.
Suddenly, Lin Yun felt that the elder in the dark blue clothes seemed to be a little closer to her, but she hadn't seen the elder move, nor had she seen the elder turn around. The elder remained with his back to Lin Yun.
Lin Yun was about to scream, but she dared not. She could only shrink under the covers, trembling, biting her fingers tightly, and not daring to make a sound.
She evasively pulled her head under the covers, not daring to look. But after a long time being suffocated, she couldn't stand it anymore. Moreover, she couldn't control herself and wanted to see where the elder was now.
Lin Yun secretly lifted the covers a little and glanced in the direction where the elder had been. This time, she truly couldn't hold back anymore and instantly screamed, "Ah!"
The elder was even closer to her, but still without turning around. However, the elder's posture had never changed. He was just continuously approaching Lin Yun.
Lin Yun frantically wanted to get out of bed and escape the room, but for some reason, although only one of her feet was injured and she couldn't walk, now that she wanted to run, her body couldn't move at all. She remained stiffly huddled under the covers, staring intently at the elder's back.
She dared not blink, as if blinking would cause the elder to be even closer when she saw him again.
But how could a person resist blinking? Lin Yun's eyes were wide open due to extreme fear, and soon her eyes felt sore and dry. Her eyelids couldn't hold up any longer and started to droop, wanting to blink.
Until she really couldn't hold on any longer and blinked, indeed, the elder was indeed a little closer.
Lin Yun couldn't control her physiological instincts at all and couldn't escape. She could only watch as the elder got closer and closer to her. She was almost desperate and wanted to scream, but only a very faint sound came out of her throat, as weak as the whimper of a kitten.
Suddenly, Lin Yun felt a sharp pain on her cheek. Then, her vision brightened. Lin Yun saw the caregiver auntie standing by her bed, pressing one hand on her shoulder, with the other hand raised and not yet retracted.
The caregiver auntie observed her expression, clearly judging whether Lin Yun had woken up. If she hadn't woken up, she would probably have hit her again.
Lin Yun looked at the caregiver auntie's hand, and her cheek felt a burning pain. It turned out that the caregiver auntie had slapped her awake, just as the elder was about to reach her bed.
The caregiver auntie opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, perhaps to explain her actions. However, Lin Yun had no energy to dwell on these things at the moment.
Moreover, strictly speaking, Lin Yun should be grateful to this caregiver auntie. Without that slap, she wouldn't know what she would have encountered or if she would have been able to wake up.
Lin Yun's voice was choked with tears. Almost the moment she woke up, she immediately threw herself at the caregiver auntie, her voice trembling as she said, "Where's my phone? Where's my phone?"
The caregiver auntie hadn't expected that Lin Yun's first reaction after being slapped awake would be this.
However, she was still the caregiver hired by Lin Yun, and her main job was naturally to serve and care for Lin Yun. So, she immediately picked up Lin Yun's phone, which had fallen by the bed, and handed it to Lin Yun.
"Miss Lin, please don't worry. Your phone is here; it's not lost."
However, Lin Yun's search for her phone was clearly not to confirm if it was lost. She fumbled to take her phone from the caregiver auntie and quickly dialed Ye Tiancheng's number.
Fortunately, the shop they opened was just separated by a wall, so the owners of their respective families had exchanged numbers.
Therefore, before Ye Tiancheng left in the morning, when he told Lin Yun to call him if she needed any help, he hadn't exchanged phone numbers with Lin Yun. That was precisely the reason.
However, when Lin Yun made the call, it rang until it was automatically hung up, and no one answered. Lin Yun tried calling several times with the same result. She didn't know what Ye Tiancheng was doing that he wasn't answering her call.
Later, Lin Yun thought despairingly that Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had stayed up all night with her and then went to open the shop during the day. Perhaps they had already returned to rest early and that's why she couldn't reach them. No one could save her.
But Lin Yun couldn't stay any longer. Clutching the caregiver auntie's sleeve like a lifeline, she said to the caregiver auntie, "Discharge me, process my discharge! I want to be discharged! I don't want to stay here anymore!"
The caregiver auntie looked confused, but when the employer's request was so firm, it wasn't her place to object. The caregiver auntie nodded and said to Lin Yun, "Okay, Miss Lin, I'll go and process your discharge procedures right away."
The caregiver auntie turned to leave, but Lin Yun's hand, which was holding her sleeve, didn't let go. The caregiver auntie was very puzzled and quietly reminded Lin Yun, "Miss Lin, please let go of me for a moment. If you don't let go, how can I process your discharge procedures?"
Lin Yun was truly frightened, and her mind couldn't process things properly. Hearing what the caregiver auntie said, she didn't immediately let go but asked blankly, "You're going?"
The caregiver auntie nodded and said, "Of course. If I don't go out, I can't process your discharge procedures."
Lin Yun's emotions suddenly became agitated, and her tears even began to fall uncontrollably. "Don't go, don't go! Stay with me, stay and keep me company!"
"Don't process the discharge papers for now. Stay with me tonight and don't leave here for a moment. I can pay you extra! I'll pay any amount!"
Seeing Lin Yun like this, although her foot was injured, it was as if her head had been hit. However, for the sake of money, the caregiver auntie agreed to Lin Yun's request. "Alright, but staying overnight and not leaving requires an increase in wages. I want triple the pay."
At this moment, let alone triple, Lin Yun would have agreed to ten times the amount without any hesitation. So, Lin Yun agreed to the caregiver auntie's request immediately without even thinking.