Listening to the tearful gratitude in his ears, Lin Yu forcibly suppressed the trembling of his heart and tried his best to put on a normal expression, speaking softly,
"Why are you saying thank you to me?"
"Let's go."
"Take me to see how Little Shan is doing."
Xia Muzhu raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face, nodding as she said,
"Okay, I'll go get the car."
"Don't."
"Let's just take a taxi."
Lin Yu quickly stopped her. Given Xia Muzhu's current state, he really couldn't feel at ease letting her drive.
Xia Muzhu naturally knew this as well. She nodded obediently and chose to follow Lin Yu's arrangement.
Lin Yu led her out of the residential area, hailed a taxi on the road, and headed to the city center hospital.
A while later, they got out of the car at the city center hospital. Lin Yu followed behind Xia Muzhu, and they soon arrived at the intensive care unit where Xia Yueshan was staying.
Since the surgery had just been completed, family members were not allowed inside the intensive care unit. Lin Yu could only stand outside the door and observe Xia Yueshan through the glass.
On the hospital bed in the intensive care unit, Xia Yueshan lay there quietly.
The wild and messy hair on top of his head, which used to look like wild grass, was long gone.
Now, his head was wrapped tightly in thick layers of bandages, and his skin had a deathly, bloodless pallor.
His thick, light eyebrows, which were usually so restless, were now peacefully relaxed. This quiet demeanor didn't seem like him at all.
Seeing Xia Yueshan's critically ill state again, Xia Muzhu couldn't help but start sobbing softly. Just as Lin Yu was about to comfort her, a phone call came in.
Afraid that the ringtone would disturb Xia Yueshan in the ward, Lin Yu immediately stepped to the side.
Taking out his phone, Lin Yu glanced at the caller ID and found that it was a call from Z, a subordinate of Zhao She.
Lin Yu quickly answered the call and asked impatiently,
"Did Zhao She tell you to call?"
"How are things going with the doctor?"
On the other end of the line, Lin Yu was met with dead silence.
At a time like this, Lin Yu was in no mood for guessing games. Just as he was getting impatient and about to press further, Z's voice finally came through.
"Master Yu, the younger brother of yours who got into an accident, is his name Xia Yueshan?"
"Yes, why?"
Lin Yu frowned. For some reason, he felt that Z's voice sounded noticeably strange when he said this.
"Uh..."
Z paused for a moment before continuing,
"As far as I know, Doctor Li from the capital seems to be in H City right now, and the patient he is currently treating happens to be named Xia Yueshan."
"What?!"
Hearing this news, Lin Yu almost couldn't control his volume.
"It's like this,"
Z said sheepishly,
"It seems that someone else found Doctor Li before us and asked him to treat Xia Yueshan."
Upon hearing this, the image of an aloof and stunningly beautiful face subconsciously appeared in Lin Yu's mind.
Right.
With her capabilities, she definitely would have received the news the moment Xia Yueshan had his accident...
...
"Master Yu?"
Z's voice rang in his ear, dragging Lin Yu's consciousness back from its daze.
"Oh, okay, I understand. It's fine now."
"Thank you."
Lin Yu thanked him and hung up the phone.
"Was that your friend calling?"
"How did it go?"
"Can the doctor come?"
Xia Muzhu had been observing Lin Yu from the side all along. Seeing him hang up with an expression that didn't look too good, she grew anxious. Her mouth turned down at the corners, and her tears were about to fall again.
"He can come, he can come."
Lin Yu repeatedly reassured the extremely emotionally unstable Xia Muzhu, saying,
"The doctor is right here in H City. He will be able to take over Xia Yueshan's treatment right away, so don't worry."
Hearing Lin Yu say this, Xia Muzhu's hanging heart finally settled. However, the crystal-clear tears welling up in her eyes trembled and ultimately slid down the corners of her eyes.
Seeing Xia Muzhu's haggard expression, Lin Yu noticed her body swaying as she breathed a sigh of relief.
Afraid that she might fall, Lin Yu reached out an arm to half-embrace her, supporting her as they walked over to a chair by the corridor to sit down.
Xia Muzhu leaned softly into Lin Yu's embrace. Her body curled up slightly, wanting to burrow deeper into his arms, greedily seeking more of a sense of security.
Lin Yu wrapped his arms around her waist and looked down at her. He felt that despite her voluptuous and proud figure, she appeared somewhat petite and fragile in this moment.
"Sister Zhuzi, you should go home first."
"I'll keep watch here for you."
After a brief embrace, Lin Yu, worried about Xia Muzhu's health and also concerned that Tang Manman might start overthinking if she didn't get a reply from him for a long time, suggested a mutually beneficial idea.
"No."
Xia Muzhu stubbornly shook her head and shrank further into Lin Yu's embrace.
Seeing Xia Muzhu act like this, Lin Yu couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.
Why are you women all the same?
Helpless, Lin Yu could only appeal to her emotions and reason with her.
"Go back, Sister Zhuzi."
"I need to rest too, and I'll be waiting for you to recover your strength so you can come take my shift."
"You wouldn't have the heart to watch me suffer here for twenty-four hours straight, would you?"
If Lin Yu had just told Xia Muzhu to care about her own physical condition, she probably wouldn't have left no matter what he said.
But the moment Lin Yu used himself as leverage, Xia Muzhu had no choice but to obediently give in, no matter how reluctant she was.
"..."
"...Alright."
After agreeing, Xia Muzhu lingered in Lin Yu's arms for a little while longer before reluctantly sitting up and saying goodbye to him.
Xia Muzhu's figure disappeared around the corner of the hallway.
Lin Yu sat on the hollowed-out iron bench installed along the hospital corridor and let out a heavy, long breath.
Mental exhaustion often drags the physical body down with it into an abyss of fatigue.
Lin Yu rested his hands on his knees, feeling utterly exhausted in both body and mind.
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grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
