"I'm not dead! I'm really not dead! Save me, please save me!"
Inside the intensive care unit at Yingtian City Central Hospital, Ye Fei lay on the hospital bed, screaming frantically in his mind, desperately trying to reach the girl beside him and awaken himself.
A week ago, due to the car accident, Ye Fei became a vegetative state, left with only thought and hearing. His only hope was his girlfriend of four years, Meng Ying.
But Meng Ying coldly turned to the doctor beside her and said, "Doctor, he's now, why not just go through with euthanasia?"
Ye Fei couldn't believe those words came out of Meng Ying, the girl who had once promised to marry him and love him forever.
"Why?" Ye Fei tried to roar, but he couldn't make a sound. Even opening his mouth was a luxury.
Next to him, the doctor was equally shocked and said, "Miss, do you know what you're saying? The patient is just in a vegetative state, there's still hope for awakening. Besides, euthanasia requires complex procedures and is extremely costly..."
The sound of a door opening echoed, followed by a man's cold laughter as he entered and said, "Doctor Wu, you don't need to worry about that. Just do as Xiao Ying says."
Doctor Wu stared at the man who had just walked in, his face filled with shock. "You are..."
Ye Fei's heart thudded violently at the sound of the man's voice.
Bai Meng was the first wealthy young master Ye Fei met after arriving in Yuntai City. To call it a meeting would be generous—it was more like being bullied.
This young master, who loved to humiliate him, how could he possibly appear in his hospital room?
But Ye Fei quickly understood.
Because what followed was a sweet, coquettish voice from Meng Ying that he had never heard before.
"Brother Meng, why are you here!"
"Heh, what do you think? I came to see my little darling, and while I'm at it, deliver the final blow to this poor bastard who dared try to steal my woman. Since the car accident last time didn't kill him, why not finish it now once and for all?" Bai Meng said, wrapping his arms around Meng Ying as he laughed.
"Brother Meng, there are people here!" Meng Ying glanced at Doctor Wu nearby, worried.
Bai Meng swept a playful gaze at Doctor Wu and said, "Doctor Wu, what did you hear just now?"
"I... I didn't hear anything!" Doctor Wu quickly gestured with his hands.
The Bai Family had invested in this hospital. Even if he was shocked inside, Doctor Wu could only say he heard nothing. Otherwise, Bai Meng undoubtedly had the power to make his life a living hell.
Bai Meng seemed satisfied with Doctor Wu's answer and said with a smile, "Prepare for the euthanasia that Xiao Ying mentioned earlier. Oh, and don't talk about things you shouldn't. Got it?"
"This... I... I understand!" Under Bai Meng's threat, Doctor Wu could only nod and leave the room to prepare.
Seeing this, Bai Meng immediately picked up Meng Ying and laughed, "Darling, you're not scared anymore, are you? I've been missing you terribly lately!"
"Brother Meng, this... this is a hospital, and Ye Fei is still beside us!" Meng Ying immediately understood Bai Meng's intentions and hurriedly protested.
"Him? That pauper? Even when he was awake, you snuck out to play with me. Now that he's dying, why pretend?"
As Bai Meng spoke, he directly placed Meng Ying next to Ye Fei's bed, smirking maliciously. "You know, being in front of your ex-boyfriend has its own... unique charm!"
"Brother Meng, you're so bad... ah!"
As Bai Meng took the initiative and Meng Ying half-heartedly resisted, soon only indescribable sounds remained in the ward.
Listening to their heavy breathing.
Ye Fei's chest felt like it was about to erupt in flames. He never imagined that his current state was all Bai Meng's doing.
Even more unexpected, Meng Ying had long since gotten together with Bai Meng!
He had always believed Bai Meng's wealth meant nothing because he had Meng Ying, but now it turned out he was just lying there, listening to the sounds of their illicit affair, unable to even scream in anger.
"Move! Move! Damn this body, why won't you move! I want to kill those cheating bastards—kill them both!"
Ye Fei's mind was roaring in desperate fury, but no miracle occurred, his lifeless body exuding nothing but despair.
"Hmm? Such a soul steeped in despair! Ye Fei, do you truly desire to kill those cheating bastards?"
Suddenly, a voice echoed in Ye Fei's mind.
"Who... who's talking?" Ye Fei reacted with a surge of excitement.
But soon disappointment followed because this wasn't the first time this voice reverberated in his mind—it belonged to a self-proclaimed Soul-controlling Demon.
Being someone who never believed in the supernatural, Ye Fei always thought it was just a hallucination—perhaps even a symptom of mental illness.
The thought that his plight had reduced him to a vegetative state and now even his mind was fractured caused a pang of self-pity.
If there was one consolation, it was that without the Soul-controlling Demon's voice to talk to, Ye Fei, trapped in blindness and immobility for the past week, might already have lost his sanity.
Normally, whenever Ye Fei chose not to believe it, the Soul-controlling Demon's voice would fade on its own. But this time, the voice didn't vanish; instead, it persisted, now laced with a tempting tone. "Ye Fei, I can make you move again and grant you power. What do you say?"
"You can make me move?" Ye Fei remained skeptical, though he realized that at this moment, chatting with the Soul-controlling Demon seemed to be the only thing he could do.
"Heh, you don't believe me?"
The Soul-controlling Demon seemed unsurprised by Ye Fei's reaction and immediately added, "Your current state is only because your soul is too weak. Fine! I'll share a bit of soul energy with you and make you believe me."
As the words fell, Ye Fei suddenly felt a warm current rushing into his brain, even sensing the breeze brushing against his skin!
"This... is this..." Ye Fei was instantly overwhelmed with excitement.
"Do you believe me now? Relax your body entirely, and I can restore you!" The Soul-controlling Demon chuckled darkly.
Without hesitation, Ye Fei instinctively relaxed his entire body.
But at that very moment, he was pulled into an even deeper abyss of darkness. Before him appeared a gigantic black skull, devouring him relentlessly!
"What... what are you doing?" Ye Fei cried out in terror.
"What am I doing? Of course, I'm going to eat you! Don't worry, I'll look after your body and mind, and I'll kill those cheating bastards for you. Now, rest easy!" The black skull spoke as it moved in to swallow him whole.
"Eat me? After all I've been through, you still want to harm me!"
Ye Fei felt an unprecedented rage rising within him and bit down on the skull without hesitation.
The pitch-black skull instantly shrieked in terror, "You... what are you doing?"
"You want to eat me? Then I'll eat you!"
Ye Fei roared furiously!
Nobody knew how long had passed, but suddenly, Ye Fei's body on the bed emitted a burst of black light.
At that moment, Ye Fei sat up!