Darling, Please Forgive Me
Chapter 136 - 132: Life and Death (5) On the Verge of Death

Chapter 136: Chapter 132: Life and Death (5) On the Verge of Death

It was getting darker as the night wore on.

Song Zhizhi had her eyes half-closed.

She was too tired.

Soaking in the sea made her weaker than she had imagined.

She was leaning on Luo Xiaolang.

Her eyes faintly gazed upward at a sky no longer dotted with stars.

Probably, it was the blackness before dawn.

She couldn’t see her hand in front of her face.

"You can sleep for a while," Luo Xiaolang said, "I’ll hold you up."

Song Zhizhi didn’t answer.

At that moment, she didn’t even have the strength to speak.

She didn’t even want to speak anymore.

She didn’t want to waste her strength.

She didn’t want to die either.

There were still so many things she hadn’t done; she couldn’t die.

She kept telling herself, over and over again.

The sky seemed to be getting a little brighter.

Song Zhizhi still squinted her eyes, watching the sky as it dawned, and then she saw the very red sun rising from the sea level.

It was truly beautiful.

So beautiful that she couldn’t open her eyes.

She could no longer feel her body.

She didn’t know what her body had turned into under the soaking of the seawater.

She even lacked the sense of her body.

She thought.

Maybe, maybe... she couldn’t hold on.

Such a night, with no water to drink, no food, constantly depleting energy.

Her eyes gradually closed.

In front of her seemed to still be the fiery red sun rising before her.

She was sleepy.

She really wanted to sleep.

"Miss Song," a familiar voice suddenly rang in her ear.

Song Zhizhi struggled.

"Miss Song..."

It was Ji Baijian.

Ji Baijian, save me.

Save me...

You promised to keep me safe.

"Miss Song... don’t sleep."

No, no...

"Don’t sleep, don’t sleep..."

Song Zhizhi struggled violently.

She saw Ji Baijian.

She really saw Ji Baijian standing in front of her, calling her with an anxious face.

But she couldn’t approach him.

She wanted to run, to go to his embrace, she wanted him to hold her.

But she couldn’t move her body at all.

She could only watch Ji Baijian helplessly.

"Be good, don’t sleep," Ji Baijian used a very gentle voice.

That was, that was a tone he wasn’t very good at.

"Be good, don’t sleep."

But... how could she stay awake?

Song Zhizhi was anxious.

"Song Zhizhi." Ji Baijian suddenly called her by her full name.

She had never heard him call her that.

"Song Zhizhi!"

Ji Baijian.

Song Zhizhi moved her lips.

Why couldn’t she make a sound?

Why did her throat hurt so much?

No.

She couldn’t sleep.

She couldn’t go to sleep, couldn’t die.

She remembered she was still at sea; she had to stay alive, she had to keep herself alive.

"Ji Baijian!" Song Zhizhi suddenly called out.

At that moment, it seemed like she suddenly became conscious.

She abruptly opened her eyes.

For that moment, she quickly closed them again.

The sunlight was blinding.

At this moment, what time was it?

The person holding her seemed to feel her awakening.

Luo Xiaolang said, "You can’t sleep now."

Song Zhizhi’s body still had no sensation, but at that moment she seemed to smell something fishy.

"If you sleep again, you won’t wake up, your body has already reached its limits," Luo Xiaolang spoke again, "So no matter how sleepy, you must keep your eyes open."

"Mmhmm." Song Zhizhi managed to make a faint sound.

At that moment, she seemed to taste bitterness in her mouth.

Was her throat broken?

She was in pain, a pain more severe than what a cold would cause in her throat.

She asked with all her strength, "Is there still no island around?"

"No, there will be one soon."

Song Zhizhi’s eyes flickered, was the sunlight too dazzling? She couldn’t see anything.

There was nothing but a boundless sea in front of her.

"Trust me, I grew up in the forests since I was a child, I am very familiar with nature, I can smell, or perhaps sense, the scent of trees and flowers," Luo Xiaolang explained.

She trusted Luo Xiaolang, even if she was being deceived, she still trusted him.

She kept her eyes open, always looking ahead.

"Xiaolang, pinch me every five minutes," Song Zhizhi said weakly.

Her eyelids were getting heavy, her spirit was fading; she needed pain to stimulate her.

Yet, she didn’t even have the strength to bite her lip.

Just like this, she kept persevering.

She kept telling herself, she couldn’t die.

She absolutely couldn’t die.

She needed to survive, to bring down those who had harmed her.

She couldn’t die...

She couldn’t die.

If she died, Ji Baijian would be heartbroken.

Ji Baijian...

Her eyelids became heavier and heavier.

The pain seemed unable to help her keep her eyes open, but at that moment, she heard Luo Xiaolang’s slightly excited voice, "I see the island, ahead."

At that moment, Song Zhizhi suddenly gathered her strength as if infused with energy, her eyes widened. At sunset, she saw an island far away, its green vegetation along the sea level appeared like an oasis.

She would survive, she had to survive.

She kept her eyes fixed on that distant island.

But, after a long, long time, the island was still so far.

Still so distant.

"We’ll get there soon, we’ll get there soon," Luo Xiaolang said.

She seemingly also felt Song Zhizhi’s increasingly fragile condition.

Even if she pinched her, she no longer even reacted physically.

It couldn’t be like this.

Luo Xiaolang said, "Song Zhizhi, you have to hold on."

Song Zhizhi struggled to keep her gaze forward.

Life was just ahead, she just needed to hold on to survive.

The moonlight appeared.

Song Zhizhi watched the moonlight over the sea.

She couldn’t see the island anymore.

It was too dark, she lacked Luo Xiaolang’s keen senses.

She even felt she could no longer see any hope.

She was repeatedly awakened from deep sleep, drifting in and out of consciousness.

Dawn had broken.

Song Zhizhi saw the island again.

But, but... she couldn’t hold on anymore.

Even though it was right before her eyes.

Sorry.

She had not been able to avenge herself.

Sorry.

Ji Baijian.

...

"Mm."

Song Zhizhi moved her lips.

Water.

It was water.

She sipped at it.

Sipping slowly, slowly awakening from the deep darkness.

She thought that she would sleep forever.

Now, as she opened her eyes to the brightening sky, she was still dazed, wondering if she had arrived in another world.

"Are you awake?" It was Luo Xiaolang’s voice nearby.

Song Zhizhi turned to look at her.

It was this woman who had saved her.

"Xiaolang," Song Zhizhi spoke.

She could still speak.

She was still alive.

"Rest here for a while; I’ll go into the jungle to see if I can find some clean water for you to drink," Luo Xiaolang said.

At last, she was lying on the beach.

She felt the warmth of the sand transmitting through her body.

"I seem to have sipped some water just now," Song Zhizhi said, moistening her lips as she spoke.

Her lips were somewhat moist.

But... it didn’t taste like water.

Bitter with a tang, like the taste she had in the sea when she thought her throat was broken.

She reached out to wipe her lips.

Blood.

Red blood.

She suddenly looked at Luo Xiaolang.

Watching the obvious bloodstain on her wrist.