"Your sister is awake?" Ye Jie's mind was in disarray. He couldn't comprehend her meaning until she pointed with her chin towards the hospital bed. Ye Jie followed her lead and looked at the wan figure with her eyes fluttering.
Ye Jie was astounded. He felt staring at Azalea whose fingers made a slight movement. He leaned a bit and his hand stroked her forehead and her head. "Zelie? Are you awake? Come on, open your eyes and see, your Jie Ge-Ge is right here with you." Ye Jie lost the control over his tears as he felt a stream trickling down his face but he didn't care at all. "Ge-Ge will never let anyone hurt you anymore. Please, open your eyes." His eyes were beseeching while his voice was choked up. He held Azalea's weak hand in his own and tried to provide all his strength to her through his touch.
"She can hear you. She can even feel your touch. She's just too weak and that's why she can't open her eyes. But by tonight, she'll be able to open her eyes." He heard Ru's relaxed voice behind him and shifted a bit to look at her with tears running down his face and bloodshot eyes.
"How did you do this?" He asked with a heavy burden weighing on his chest.
"I think since I know being in a coma at a personal level, I understood her condition better. Also, don't you trust my medicinal skills?" She asked giving him an askance look.
"I believe in your heavenly skills. I just never thought that you'll be able to bring her back to me in 4 days." He replied wiping his tears with the back of his hand.
"I'm not the one who saved her. She's been well taken care of from the past year and a half. Also, I believe it's your voice that attracts her the most. More like, she has a will to wake up. It seems your sister loves you a lot." Ru commented and turned to Azalea to take her pulse. After a while, she added, "She's a bit too weak. You need to make sure that she has proper meals filled with nourishment and also, don't try talking about unnecessary things with her." Ye Jie nodded.
"Now, move away for a bit." She ordered and Ye Jie walked back leaving room for Ru.
She pulled out a small wooden box from inside of her hoodie and opened it to reveal different acupuncture needles. Ru used the needles with precision. Two needles were on Azalea's toes that had a direct link with the brain then she used another needle on the brain point in her ear. After that, she held Azalea's hand and used mild pressure to massage the acupuncture point on her ladyfinger.
When she removed the needles, she massaged different pressure points on her body. After a while, she fed some medicinal drink to Azalea through a feeding tube.
"Ru, sometimes I feel like you can bring a dead person back to life. Is there anything that you can't do?" Ye Jie asked looking at her immersed in doing the treatment.
"I guess I'll have to thank that old man for making me sit through all those lectures that he gave me back in the days. Although I still think I can't compete with him if we don't consider him then I won't lose from anyone for sure. And this is not being a heavenly person. It's more like having the ancient traditional medicinal skills. You very well know the origin of my clan; we have a lot of skills that defy the basic beliefs of people." She replied calmly not losing her focus.
Ye Jie actually wasn't too sure about her family clan but the thing he was sure about was that her family really was extraordinarily skilled. Also, they were ruthless. Ye Jie still remembered the day he met Ru; she was covered with bruises and blood. At just the age of 5, she was punished terribly for missing out on her training.
"Also, there are plenty of things that I can't do like working on my own memory fragments." She sighed and added, "It will be better to get her to a house when she wakes up. She would need a change of atmosphere. It will help her in recovering. But wait for 3 more days, I have to perform the acupuncture for 3 more days."
"I don't know, how to say thanks to you, Ru." He was really in debt to her this time.
"You're the only friend I have. Why do you have to say thanks? Just buy me feel if you're feeling too touched." She said making Ye Jie roll his eyes at her. He was amazed by her yet again. How could someone be so nonchalant? Once Ru was nonchalant about death. Today, she was nonchalant about life. He looked at her green eyes and didn't know what to say. Ru patted his shoulder and said, "I can only fix things like these, Jie. I can only talk about the things I know. Taking care of someone like fixing them is in my hands but healing is not. A person can only heal through their own sheer willpower. If you feel like it's not the right time then don't go to your parents. Wait for the time when you have all the answers."
"Can you help me in finding those answers?" He asked in a daze.
She smiled and shook her head. "It's something you have to look for yourself. No one can help you in this except for the people who really matter in your life." After saying that, she pulled up her hood to cover her face and left the room.
"Ge-Ge!" Ye Jie heard a soft voice almost like a whisper making him freeze at his spot. He turned his head slowly almost like he was afraid that the voice was his hallucination and if he turned, it will break. But to his utter surprise, the girl was staring at him with her brown weary eyes and her lips were furled up ever so slightly.