BOOK 5. This is mainly a love story following the couple through their first meeting and going on to finding out about each other, they survive a few difficult situations and have to deal with other problems along the way. Crime, violence, becaus...
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Yunlan was shocked but tried to show calmness in his answers.
"I am Zhao Yunlan and your name is Shen Wei, we were kidnapped and dumped in the forest and left to die, why, I don't know. It seems that you have lost your memory, hopefully only temporarily. I am a police detective and you are a university lecturer, we have been friends for a short while."
"Why would someone want to kill us?" Wei asked as he studied the face in front of him which was showing concern and he began to wonder how deep was this friendship.
"I really don't know, but this is the second time for me this week. Whether its the same person or not, I don't know, but if I had to guess, I would say yes because they failed the first time."
Shen Wei continued to stare at the gentle caring person who had survived two attempts on his life and couldn't believe that he had done anything to deserve it. He brushed some hair away from Yunlan's brow with his hand finding the dried blood left over from the blow in the coffee shop which had travelled through his hair and he was surprised.
"Did you hit your head when you fell?" he asked.
"No Wei, I was knocked out in the coffee shop after you were drugged. They put something in your coffee and I didn't taste mine, so they hit me on the head before they dumped us in the forest. I'm boiling some water to clean your head wound and when it cools we can both have a drink."
Yunlan went back to sit at the fire watching the pot, he didn't know if it was the drug that had caused Wei's amnesia or the bump on the head or a combination of both and he prayed that it would only be temporary. Shen Wei was a brilliant lecturer and he loved his job, his amnesia would put an end to his career and Yunlan didn't want that to happen.
Eventually when the water boiled, he separated it into different containers, one for drinking and the smaller one for Wei's head wound but had to let it cool before using it. He very carefully washed the damaged area using the tissues, tossing them in the fire after use, and left it uncovered because they had no dressings available. Shen Wei lay still on the bed studying every movement and the look in the man's eyes as he cared for his injury, knowing that this man loved him, he didn't need to say it, he showed it his feelings by the way he looked after him and Wei felt safe in the hands of this stranger.
Yunlan brought some cooled water over for him to drink and helped him to sit up slightly. Wei felt the room tilt and the vertigo hit him hard, causing him to close his eyes.
"I'm alright just very dizzy, the room is moving if I keep my eyes open. Talk to me, tell meanything to take my mind off it . Yunlan please."
Yunlan started telling him about his house, how big it was and all about the library. How the light came through the different tinted glass sections in the roof and all the portraits that he had seen so far. Then he spoke about Black Robe and some of the story in the book he was reading which agreed with the older reports in the computer at work, until he noticed that Wei had fallen asleep and he laid him back down to rest. Yunlan sat on the floor leaning his back against the fireplace to sleep and enjoy the heat as he rested.
