Isabelle eventually woke up after being comatose for four days and four nights.

When she opened her eyes, she noticed from the light outside the window that night had just fallen. She suddenly scanned all corners of the hospital room, having some difficulty in turning her head.

She had laid in bed for quite a long time when she felt her head surge with excruciating pain.

Isabelle had laid in bed for quite a long time when she felt her head surge with excruciating pain.

She instinctively wanted to lift her arm and touch it, but soon realized that there was some kind of pull on her wrist. Her pupils turned towards her wrist to find that she actually had a tube in her.

Isabelle felt slightly groggy. How did she end up on an IV drip?

Then, she scanned her surroundings, and realized that she was in a hospital.

Her brows furrowed at the thought of what the hell had happened, when suddenly, she heard someone's erratic voice. "She's awake! The patient in room 101 is finally awake!"

A woman wearing a pink nurse uniform came running to her beside. "Miss Davis, you've finally woken up?"

As she said this, the hospital's room doors were suddenly flung open.

"Izzy!"

"Izzy, you're awake?"

Isabelle heard two familiar shrieks of joy draw closer, and Aunt Davis and James's faces appeared in front of her. Behind them were a few doctors, who surrounded her and started to perform all sorts of checks on her.

After quite a long time had passed, the lead doctor took off his face mask, pointed at Aunt Davis, and asked Isabelle, "Do you know who she is?"

How could she not recognize auntie... Isabelle glanced at the doctor with an odd look, then cried, "Auntie". That's when she realized that her voice sounded a little weak.

"Who is he?" The doctor then pointed at James.

"...James."

The doctor nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Aunt Davis and James, who stood behind him and said, "Miss Davis's memory is just fine, and her heart pressure is normal. Probably because she fell quite severely, her brain was seriously shaken, which is why she fell into a coma for quite some time. But, now that she's awake, there aren't any major problems. She'll be well enough to go home after a few days."

When the doctor left, Aunt Davis came to Isabelle's beside and grabbed her hand. The rims of her eyes suddenly became red. "Izzy, you're awake? You almost scared auntie to death."

"I'm fine," reassured Isabelle in a quiet voice. Then she suddenly remembered that she had had a dinner date with Alexander, and so she turned her head to glanced out the window. Seeing as the skies had darkened, she impatiently asked, "What time is it?"

James lifted his wrist to check the time. "It's almost eight o'clock."

So late? Isabelle abruptly sat up, but because she'd gotten up so forcefully, she felt a little dizzy. Her vision darkened for a moment, and she almost fainted again.

James hurriedly came to support her back onto the bed. "Izzy, you've only just woken up. You can't be moving around."

"No... I have plans to have dinner with someone."

Aunt Davis then answered, "You had dinner plans with someone that night? But you've been unconscious for four days and four nights."

Four days and four nights? Isabelle's heart suddenly jumped, and she instinctively felt around her pillow. "Where's my phone?"

"Your phone is probably at my house. Whatever it is, it can wait until you're slightly better. Tomorrow, I'll go get it from my house."

Aunt Davis went along with James and also tried to persuade her. "That's right. Izzy, you've only just woken up, don't think of anything else. Hurry and get some rest."

Isabelle wanted to borrow James's phone for a second, but remembering what had happened between him and Alexander over the Williams Enterprise incident, she eventually didn't say a word.

It hadn't been long since Isabelle first woke, but she soon fell asleep. Perhaps it was because she'd been unconscious for quite some time, this time, she didn't sleep for long. When she woke up again, it was already late at night.

The entire world sounded spectacularly silent. James might've not slept well for a few days, and so when she finally woke up, he fell deep asleep in the other bed. Her wrist was still on a drip, which looked like an IV.

This time, when she woke, her head was a lot clearer than the first time. She remembered how she bumped into the Williams family's housekeeper and fell down the stairs. They told her that she'd been unconscious for four days and four nights... four whole days and nights. Could Alexander have tried looking for her?

Before she fell unconscious, she got into an argument with him. She originally wanted to apologize to him. What if he tried to look for her these few days and she didn't reply...

The more Isabelle thought about it, the more confused her heart became. She turned her head and glanced over at James, who was deep asleep. She bit her bottom lip, lifted her arm up, yanking the needle from her wrist. Then, she quietly removed her covers and climbed out of bed.

The moment her feet touched the ground, Isabelle felt stars appear before her eyes. She used the bed to support her up and waited a moment to feel more comfortable. She then let go of the bed and slowly moved her feet. It didn't feel entirely painful to walk, and so she tiptoed all the way to the door.

There were no other clothes in the hospital, and so she could only wear the hospital gown out. Just before she walked out the door, she realized that she didn't have any money on her and so she went over to the wallet James put on the table and pulled out two notes.

Luckily it was late in the night at the time, and so the nurses on the late shift were spread out on their desks, dosing off. She used that chance to casually slip out.

Isabelle had only reached the entrance when she felt that her body was at it's limit. She waited by the road for a while, and raised a hand to hail a taxi.

~*~

Isabelle entered the passcode and opened the door to her apartment in Lotus Garden. The apartment was pitch-black, with no lights coming through whatsoever.

She turned on the lights, then changed her shoes at the entrance, went upstairs to her bedroom, and saw that everything was just as it were on the day she left. Her changing room was a complete mess. After she had tried on every outfit, she had randomly thrown all her clothes in every direction.

Isabelle walked to the bedside and collapsed there. She grabbed for the home phone on her bedside table and called Alexander.

"Sorry, the number you dialed cannot be reached within your service area."

Isabelle furrowed her brows. Not in the service area, was the phone out of battery?

She put the phone down and nestled there in bed for a while. Only when she regained her strength a little did she sit up. Seeing that the iPad was on the coffee table, she walked over and put in her WeChat ID and password.

After it took a long time for it load, she finally got into her account. A ton of messages popped up one after the other. So much so that one of her group chats had almost ten million unread messages.

Isabelle searched for Alexander's name, and was disappointed to find that he hadn't sent her a single message. Nevertheless, she still sent him one, [I'm home at Lotus Garden.]

After she sent the message, Isabelle scrolled through her other unread messages. The first name she clicked on was Camila. She'd sent her a ton of messages, which mostly were "You here?" or emojis.

First, Isabelle replied to Camila with a "Yeah". Just as she was about to write more, Camila suddenly replied with an exclamation mark. Then she sent her a voice note. "Izzy, you're still alive? Do you know that Mr. Smith has been looking for you like crazy?!"

Isabelle originally wanted to ask Camila why she wasn't asleep when it was so late, but when she heard those words "Mr. Smith has been looking for you like crazy", her fingers on the iPad suddenly stopped.

Camila continued to send her endless amounts of voice notes. Before Isabelle could even click on them, the other sent her a video chat request.

Isabelle accepted the call. In her iPad, she saw Camila in a pair of large framed glasses, pajamas, and with an erratic expression on her face. She asked, "Izzy, I called you but you didn't pick up. Just what the hell got into you?"

"I don't have my phone on me..."

Isabelle only got those few words in before Camila interrupted her, as though she had other important matters to tell her. "Forget it, forget it. I'll deal with you for that later. Right now, I've got three important things to tell you. First, "Heaven's Sword" is set to continue shooting from next Wednesday. Second, Mr. Smith has been looking for you. Third, yesterday morning, you've been caught in a scandal!"

It sounded like Camila wasn't going to take a breath, nor give Isabelle time to ask her the questions on her mind, as she jabbered on until everything was said. "Izzy, do you remember when you filmed "Alluring Times" with an actress who played Jake's secretary? She's quite good looking and she has a great personality. She was in an incident that later dragged you into it..."

Isabelle furrowed her brows for a moment. "How did it drag me into it?"

"Her boyfriend is a very popular singer in Hong Kong. The two of them were caught taking drugs the day before yesterday at eleven o'clock. News got out, and it reached the top of headlines.

"At first, everyone was hot on the two of them, but at twelve o'clock, someone released a photo of you and her on the set of "Alluring Times". There were some other photos from an outtake that made her look tired. Those photos look like drugs were taken.

"As you were the second female lead of the recently popular drama, "Alluring Times", your followed count has increased. But then, everyone thought that you were taking drugs too, and then someone found photos of you and her together...

"You know what the people on the internet are like. They basically never go and find out the truth, they just follow the trends, and so the rumors started to spread everywhere in a moment's notice. Everybody's saying that you took the drugs, so you're in the headlines."

Isabelle didn't think that she'd fall down the stairs and be unconscious for several days, and when did wake up, colossal changes would have happened. She hastily clicked onto the app, but she didn't search her name. Her brows couldn't help but furrow when she thought that Camila was pulling a prank on her.

But then Camila said, "Headlines like these, about taking drugs, is a career killer for celebrities. On top of that, other celebrities would brutally stay far away from you. Then to top it all off, the nation is extremely strict on these things, so after these rumors came out, a lot of people didn't dare speak out for you.

"Apart from Helen, who came out to say something. But in the end, even she received backlash. They said that even she might be taking drugs! Finally, at around three in the morning, Mr. Smith saved you."

"Alexander?"