"No need, it's not a big problem."
She said it so casually, as if she weren't a patient, as if she were talking about something trivial.
Ye Lingyun frowned and said seriously.
"But I feel like you're already beyond saving. You don't even care about yourself."
Tang Xiaomin didn't continue talking, her gaze fixed ahead.
The more indifferent she appeared, the more Ye Lingyun couldn't help but worry.
He looked at Tang Xiaomin with a complex expression, as if making a decision.
He walked towards the sea, step by step.
The tide was rising, and the waves grew stronger with each one.
Ye Lingyun walked into the water without looking back. Before long, the waves covered his calves, then the beach shorts he was wearing.
Soon, the water reached his waist.
Yet, he continued to walk forward resolutely.
Seeing this, Tang Xiaomin could no longer sit still. She shouted at Ye Lingyun.
"The tide is coming in, this is very dangerous, come back quickly."
Ye Lingyun turned his head to look at Tang Xiaomin, said nothing, and continued walking.
Soon, the water reached his shoulders.
"Lingyun!"
"Oh no, Lingyun can't swim!"
Liu Feng shouted from a distance and ran over quickly, followed by Shu Ya and the others.
Tang Xiaomin's head buzzed upon hearing this.
By the time she turned around, the water had submerged Ye Lingyun's neck, and he was struggling in the water.
Without thinking further, Tang Xiaomin shot up.
In a rush, saving a life was paramount. She disregarded everything else.
She bent her knees, gathered her strength, and launched herself forward.
Splash!
She landed precisely beside Ye Lingyun.
She quickly grabbed his neck, intending to swim back with him.
Unfortunately, Ye Lingyun really couldn't swim.
Drowning, driven by the instinct for survival, he desperately clung to Tang Xiaomin.
In his panic, he even pushed Tang Xiaomin's head underwater.
"Cough... cough..."
Tang Xiaomin choked on some water. Just then, a wave hit, sweeping them both into deeper water.
News reports often recounted how rescuers drowned while saving drowning victims.
At that moment, Tang Xiaomin, entangled by Ye Lingyun, had no words to express her plight, drowning along with him.
Water poured into her nose and mouth. Just as she felt despair, Ye Lingyun's hand on her head finally let go.
At this moment, Liu Feng arrived with a lifebuoy.
Ye Lingyun, clinging tightly to the lifebuoy, finally calmed down a little.
The three of them successfully returned to shore. Qian Lili burst into tears and threw herself into Liu Feng's arms, holding him tightly.
"Fengzi, you scared me to death just now, sob..."
Lu Sisi stepped forward and anxiously supported Ye Lingyun, dabbing the water off his face with her clothes.
"Young Master Yun, are you alright?"
Shu Ya and Lin Ke Ke stood by Tang Xiaomin, looking at her with concern.
"Xiaomin, how are you?"
Huff... huff...
They were breathing heavily.
Qian Lili's sobbing tugged at everyone's heartstrings.
Everyone was fine now, and their gazes shifted to the two embracing figures.
Liu Feng's hair was wet, and water dripped onto Qian Lili.
After the perilous moment they had just experienced, he held Qian Lili tightly in his arms.
"I'm fine, I'm lucky."
He said so, but in that situation, it was truly dangerous.
It was a miracle that the three of them had returned safely.
After escaping danger, everyone's emotions were complex.
Ye Lingyun pushed away Lu Sisi, who was fawning over him, and said something to Tang Xiaomin.
"Knowing it's a path to ruin, why wouldn't you turn back?"
Tang Xiaomin's gaze remained on Liu Feng and Qian Lili, lost in thought.
Ye Lingyun had gone to great lengths, risking his own life, just to enlighten her.
In that critical moment, she instinctively wanted to survive; beyond survival, she had no other thoughts.
If her depression weren't taken seriously, it would be like Ye Lingyun walking into the sea, step by step, leading to eternal damnation.
Tang Xiaomin stood up from the ground and proactively extended her hand to Ye Lingyun.
Ye Lingyun didn't speak, he pulled Tang Xiaomin up by her hand.
Their eyes met; they didn't say anything more.
Everything was understood without words.
"Liu Feng!"
"I'm warning you, if you do this again, I'll break up with you!"
Qian Lili suddenly pushed Liu Feng away and said angrily.
Liu Feng smirked.
"You were crying for me just now, and now you're threatening to break up with me. I don't believe your women's nonsense, because women always say the opposite of what they mean."
"I'm not saying the opposite, if you keep this up, I'll really break up with you. Because I don't want to be constantly worried about you every day. You have no idea what I went through just now, sob..."
As she spoke, Qian Lili started crying again.
"Alright, alright. It was all my fault just now."
Sob... sob...
"Lingyun is my brother, and Xiaomin is a friend. I can't be selfish and abandon them. If I were that disloyal, I don't think you would have fallen for me."
Sob... sob...
Qian Lili couldn't speak.
The two of them hugged for several minutes, showing no signs of separating.
"Achoo!"
Ye Lingyun sneezed impatiently.
"You guys hug all you want, I'm cold, I'm going back."
"I'm cold too," Tang Xiaomin added.
Shu Ya and the others chimed in and left with Tang Xiaomin.
If they didn't leave, they'd get too much of this "dog food" and their anger would surge, and at a certain point, they'd be tempted to break up the couple.
Lu Sisi followed behind Ye Lingyun, chattering incessantly.
"Xiaomin is really something. If she wanted to end her life, it was really dangerous just now."
"If you hadn't saved her, I really can't imagine what she would be like now. Depression is truly terrifying."
"Heh..."
Ye Lingyun let out a sarcastic cold laugh, too lazy to bother with the ignorant Lu Sisi.
Lu Sisi became more animated.
"Young Master Yun, I know you and Young Master Feng are both loyal people. But life is only once. Some people might not be worth you risking yourself for."
"Seeing you struggling in the water just now, I was truly scared. Next time something like this happens, I hope you'll think more about yourself."
Ye Lingyun, annoyed, turned around and looked at Lu Sisi with a look of contempt.
Only when Tang Xiaomin, Shu Ya, and the others caught up did Ye Lingyun loudly declare.
"Let me clarify. The one who wanted to drown herself just now wasn't Xiaomin, it was me."
"If you were truly as concerned as you say you are, you should have jumped into the water to save me, like Xiaomin and Liu Feng did. Instead of just offering verbal concern afterwards."
"We're not children, and we won't be moved by mere words. Keep your self-righteous verbal concern."
"Those words only move yourself."