The operation went quite smoothly, and when White Pillow woke up, she still had a strong sense of dizziness from the anesthesia. She was no stranger to this, and when she woke up, this feeling accompanied her for almost two months.
Someone held her hand, and in the blurred vision appeared a figure she was becoming more and more familiar with—although there seemed to be two now.
Your Highness…
She wanted to make a sound, but her tongue would not obey.
White Pillow's left arm is still soaked in the recovery fluid, and it will take at least twenty-four hours to liberate. Not only Hua Mu, Hua Baihuang and Hua Mo also sat obediently at the end of the bed to accompany her.
Hua Mu asked her not to speak, and leaned down to kiss her forehead.
"It's over, if you're tired, just sleep for a while."
The white pillow felt Hua Mu's soft lips, and only felt a warm current rushed into the brain from the forehead, and the dizziness was relieved a lot. This made her involuntarily think of her experiences and feelings last night, and her consciousness instantly became much clearer.
"Hall..."
"Auntie!" Hua Baihuang saw her mother kissing her, and immediately came over to join in the fun, "I want to kiss, I want to kiss too."
She was like a bull, and Hua Mu was afraid that she didn't know the importance, so she held her head and didn't let her come over.
"Don't press your aunt."
Hua Baihuang is not ignorant, but he was excited and couldn't control his movements. Hearing what his mother said, he immediately got up lightly, and carefully stuck to the side of the white pillow and took a sip.
"Auntie, are you still in pain?"
White pillow never knew that there would be such a big difference in the feeling of being accompanied by family members in the hospital. If she hadn't experienced it, she probably wouldn't have felt it, but only after experiencing this kind of happiness did she understand the feeling of loneliness.
"I'm fine."
Hua Baihuang showed a relieved look, "That's great, Auntie, you haven't woken up, and my mother is crying."
"Bai Huang!" Hua Mu didn't expect this little traitor's mouth to be so unreliable, and he didn't hesitate to sell his mother.
Hua Baihuang was startled, and slipped back to the end of the bed, burying his face on Hua Mo's small body. Huamo felt something and hugged her head quietly.
Hua Mu was so displeased by her daughter that she rarely showed a bit of shyness when she saw Bai Zhen looking at her faintly. Since knowing that the white pillow is really back, she has been very bold. Last night, it was even more... I didn't do it again and again, but in the end, I'm still shy about things that make me shy.
"It's not as bad as crying, just a little worried..."
Well, she couldn't help but secretly shed a few tears - looking at White Nail's unconscious appearance, she inevitably remembered the scene when the other party was frozen.
Bai Zhen clenched Hua Mu with her slightly recovered hand, with deep guilt in her eyes. She felt very sorry for the fact that she almost died, for not remembering the past, and for not being able to face Hua Mu calmly now.
Although what happened last night brought the two closer emotionally, it also raised some other issues. Because she didn't remember, she didn't feel deeply before, but after getting in touch with Hua Mu, she suddenly felt a strong sense of loss.
Moreover, she believes that this sense of loss is not only felt by herself - His Highness must feel more strongly.
They were originally combined sentinels and guides, and the connection between their spiritual bodies allowed them to have the most intimate and inseparable connection. However, both of their spiritual bodies disappeared because of that incident.
Although they were still sure of each other's intentions, the strong sense of emptiness that had lost half of their body had attacked them violently last night. It was not just tears of happiness and joy, but tears of nostalgia and pain. Beneath love and joy is the fact that lovers lick each other's wounds.
Thinking of this, Bai Zhen felt even more sorry for Hua Mu.
"What are you thinking about?"
Seeing her frowning slightly, Hua Mu gently stroked her long hair and asked, "What are you thinking, so serious?"
The white pillow showed a faint smile and shook his head gently.
"Anyway, don't be cranky, take care of your body these days, and think about everything else in the future."
"Um."
While Her Royal Highness was busy taking care of her lover, some rumors gradually began to spread in the empire. First, a paparazzi filmed the scene of His Highness taking his daughter and sister to watch a movie with a tall and attractive woman. Later, it was rumored from some forum that the princess stayed in the tower for a week and had been taking care of a certain woman in the hospital. The female bodyguard thing.
Is a lover!
The public quickly caught the breath of gossip, and all kinds of speculation and reasoning quickly spread on the Internet.
Based on this Highness's tragic and solemn experience and self-cleaning, reclusive style, few people gossip about this in recent years. But less does not mean no, it is not only guessing the identity of her dead partner, but in recent years, more and more people have begun to pay attention to when this His Royal Highness will restart her love life.
It's a pity that there are not many candidates, and after thinking about it, it seems that the female sentinel who succeeded the queen's guard is somewhat suitable.
However, as soon as the appearance of the two little princes was made public during the Chinese New Year, many "experts" who specialize in royal gossip began to trace their origins.
Black hair and black pupils—or brown pupils that are similar to black pupils are not uncommon in the empire. Several big families in the empire are yellow people with black hair and black pupils. But after a series of exclusions, Her Royal Highness's partner candidate was locked on the black-eyed female sentinel who was once popular in the empire but disappeared without a trace.
There were not many video materials at the time, and the charisma of this guard was so high that it set off a wave of female sentinels in the empire under the condition of poor intelligence.
This inference is very reasonable and well-founded. Once spread on forums and various social media, it immediately became popular online. And after the paparazzi photos were made public, the reasoning looked more solid and convincing.
This new woman looks almost exactly like the sentinel, right? And whether it's a revival of an old love or a surrogate lover... Isn't it all delicious
The people are boiling - on the Internet!
Hua Mu stayed with White Pillow for a week in the hospital. Although she also left halfway, she took care of White Pillow in person most of the time. Especially during rehabilitation, she will accompany her every time.
The recovery of the white pillow was not smooth. It's not that there is a functional disability, but the pain problem is very serious.
Even with current technology, a little pain just after surgery is unavoidable. In addition, the white pillow is still the guardian of the five senses Octavia, so at first everyone thought this was a normal situation.
But the problem quickly became more and more serious. Neither painkillers nor anesthetics had any effect. Shen Shihe immediately judged that it was not a physical cause.
After the anesthesia was over, the moment Bai Zhen realized that the arm was back, the pain of losing her arm was activated again in her brain.
This is a hallucination pain that is very similar to the previous limb hallucination pain. Because the original amputated limb has been reattached, it is also called Theseus phantom pain.
This situation rarely occurs in ordinary people, but the probability of sentinel is greatly increased. However, this symptom is not permanent, and the symptoms will gradually ease after the reorganization of cerebral cortex function.
Shen Shihe has rich experience and quickly adjusted his rehabilitation plan. He not only cooperated with physical therapy, but also applied to the guide to help with mental therapy in the tower.
Although the escort's demand for the guide element is much lower than that of the sentinel, it is also inseparable from it. It's just that guides have always been in short supply, and most of the time it is difficult for them to be comforted by public guides.
The fact that White Pillow needed to apply for public guide treatment was a blow to Hua Mu, which made her recall the pain of losing Luna again.
As the half body of the sentinel and guide, the spirit body does not follow the host from birth, but most of them will accompany the host to the end of life. Sentinels and guides who have been severely traumatized and only lose their psychic body are generally considered to be saved by the psychic body, and the loss of memory is another self-protection mechanism.
But Hua Mu didn't forget, whether it was the pain of losing the white pillow, the pain of losing Hati or the pain of losing Luna, she never forgot.
The return of the white pillow brought about the recovery of the heart. The heart that was numb from the pain suddenly became fresh, and the pain of losing the important half of the body began to become more intense.
She knew that not only she felt it, but the white pillow felt it too.
This is one of the reasons why the two have had an intimate relationship, but have never mentioned it during this period of time. That kind of joy, that kind of pain, they couldn't bear to mention it.
"The time is up, okay, let's end today's rehabilitation here." Today is the day when Bai Zhen was discharged from the hospital, and Shen Shihe worked tirelessly to accompany her to complete the last rehabilitation during her stay in the hospital.
Because of the accident of Theseus Phantom Pain, White Pillow's rehabilitation period was slightly extended, and after discharge from the hospital, he had to report to the rehabilitation area every day.
The white pillow doesn't seem to be a big problem except for being a little tired. Most of the rehabilitation training for the bionic prosthesis at the beginning is based on finesse, so the physical exertion is relatively small.
"Auntie, are you ready to play? I want to play and I want to play too!"
Today's rehabilitation project is a hand-touch audio game, in a sense it is really playing a game. Hua Baihuang was eager to try, and when the white pillow stopped, he couldn't wait to rub it up.
She has been very active since she was born, and it is rare to be able to accompany the white pillow so honestly these days.
Bai Zhen endured the pain in her arm and wanted to hug Hua Baihuang to the seat, but Hua Mu quickly picked up her daughter and put it on the chair.
"Just play for a while, and play with Momo."
Huamo also has a lot of training on maintaining physical integrity, so she is no stranger to rehabilitation tools.
"Okay~"
Hua Mu settled the two children, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on the white pillow's face.
"It starts to hurt again?"
In fact, the pain has not stopped, and can only be relieved by the guide and neutralizer. From this point, we can actually know that it is the ability of the sentinel that causes pain.
"It's okay."
Shen Shihe doesn't think it's a simple bad thing. The Phantom Pain of Theseus is often a sign of the return of power to Sentinels who have lost their mental bodies.
"You take a break and go to Cen Sang's side. She will be free in half an hour."
But it is too early to say, after all, the inevitable connection between the two has not yet been researched, and she is afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
The author has something to say: Luna and Hattie are still a long way from the reunion, and of course Shaishui wants to summon them back!