Yang softly shake Shi in order to wake her up and then watched in amusement as she turned her face away from him. He again shaked her and started to talk to her,
"Shi wake up it is getting Shi..... Shi wake up you have yet to have your dinner..... Shi come on wake up..... Shi... Shi you have a guest downstairs..... She came here to meet you..... Shi a lady called Ying is waiting for you downstairs.''
The last statement seemed to the trick as Shi instantly woke up a bit groggily and looked around her trying to figure where she was. Yang who was still standing on her bedside watched while suppressing a smile as he watched her craning her beautiful swan neck to look around.
But soon his humour turned to surprise and then to pure shock as Shi started to freak out as she still looked around as panic filled her once crystal clear eyes and big doe eyes. She suddenly turned towards Yang and asked in a shaky voice filled with panic,
''Where am I? Who are you? Answer me!!!''
It was in that moment that Yang felt an invisible hand crush his heart and it was in that moment also that he finally understood the discussion he had with Yifeng.
'She is haunted by her nightmares and her past'
Yang was once again grateful to Yifeng as he had told Yang what to do if such a situation arises. At that moment he had took his words lightly but right now he was satisfied with himself as he had listened to his words because for him even if they did not held any importance, they were related to his Shi.
Yang carefully walked towards Shi, who was now acting like a like a hurt animal. While walking towards her he started to talk to her in order to pull her back from whatever place she had gone to.
''Shi talk to me, Shi it is alright, there is nothing wrong here, you are safe, everything is alright, there is no one to harm you here, Shi can you listen to me?''
As Yang was walking towards Shi slowly he was able to see that Shi was finally pulling back from her nightmare and was now silently sitting on the bed. Yang finally reached Shi and squatted beside her and placed a hand on her head to stroke her hair.
Shi flinched at the gesture and that was all Yang needed to take her hand back and pace it respectfully at his lap and he softly asked her,
"Shi are you alright? Do you wish to go take a bath?''
To which Shi slowly nodded her head and headed to the bathroom leaving Yang behind in her room.
Yang who was left behind in the room looked towards the closed bathroom door and released a heavy sigh and decided to wait for Shi.
*******
As Shi entered the bathroom she strode in front of the mirror and saw her pale face and disordered hair. She started at her image before speaking in a hoarse voice,
''You are weak, you are useless. For how much time are you going to cry over the? For how long are you going to be a slave to your nightmares?
No, you are stronger than that, you are better than that. You do not need them, you are better off without them. They never cared for you so why should you care about them. Forget about them, you have a new family who loves you, they care for you.''
Shi continued to give herself a pep talk while washing her face with chilly water in order to fully wake herself up.