The Panacea for Everything

"What?"

"He's gone?"

"How could you lose sight of him?"

The head nurse's voice cracked with anger. That was someone a VIP had specifically requested special care for. If anything happened to him, no one could bear the responsibility, let alone the fact that his emotional state was highly unstable!

The young nurse, having been yelled at, didn't dare make a sound.

Who knew what had happened?

The man had clearly been acting perfectly normal, but in the blink of an eye, he suddenly disappeared...

...

Amidst the light snow, Lin Yu wandered aimlessly down the street.

He didn't know where he should go.

His mind right now was both a chaotic mess and a complete blank.

It was like a room piled high with garbage. When it gets messy to a certain extent, so messy that you have no idea where to start, so messy that you don't know how to organize it.

Your brain simply gives up on these unmanageable things and instead sinks into a chaotic void.

Lin Yu was exactly like this right now. He didn't know how to handle the crushing weight of the things in his mind.

He just felt the hospital was suffocating and wanted to come out for some fresh air.

Even though Lin Yu's mind was a mess and he didn't even know where he was going.

Subconsciously, however, a certain extreme thought had already quietly extended a hand, secretly pushing him along, pushing him toward that shortcut that could solve everything.

Pushing him toward his favorite place to relax.

Lin Yu had actually long sensed that extreme thought sneaking out its little hand, but he didn't care.

It didn't matter to him.

The hospital in H City wasn't far from the river. Lin Yu simply figured out a general direction and slowly walked over.

Arriving at the water's edge, the freezing wind was tinged with moisture, like needles hidden in the snow, making the cold piercing to the bone.

The biting wind brought a bit of clarity back to Lin Yu's brain.

The thoughts in his head were still numerous, chaotic, and jumbled, like countless tangled earphone cords.

Twisted and knotted together, so messy it could drive a person to a breakdown.

Simply put, Lin Yu just shoved them all aside.

Pure love?

It didn't matter.

Harem?

Whatever.

With things having reached this point, absolutely nothing mattered anymore.

Everything was meaningless.

Among the many problems, Lin Yu saw the most glaring one, which was also the most crucial one.

If.

If all of this was unavoidable.

If the events depicted in the erotic manga were all going to happen.

Then, did that mean that he and Mother Tang were also destined to...

...

This thought was like a terrifying poison, injected from his thoughts into his soul, and then transferred from his soul into his bloodstream.

In an instant, Lin Yu felt the blood in his body run cold, its flow turning sluggish, like water at zero degrees just before it freezes, viscous and freezing.

Oh God...

Oh God.

The ice-flecked blood stung his veins, making Lin Yu tremble uncontrollably.

If something like that happened, she would definitely go crazy, right?

She would definitely go crazy...

She had already become somewhat extreme because of him. If something like this happened again...

She... she wouldn't be able to bear it.

That sneaky little hand instantly found its leverage, pushing Lin Yu forcefully, making him walk toward that most convenient shortcut.

By the time Lin Yu snapped back to reality, he had already walked to the very bottom of the steps.

Beneath his feet, a layer of clear water lapped against the silver-gray stone steps.

The river in H City had always been turbulent. The successive heavy snows and freezing temperatures of the past few days had failed to make it submit to the extreme winter.

It still surged with undercurrents, roaring unwillingly within its banks.

The cold wind wrinkled the river's surface. Amidst the sparkling ripples, the river looked like a door leading to another world, a door to go home, and also like a good medicine.

A good medicine that could solve all your troubles.

Lin Yu stood on the steps. He looked at his own reflection in the water, almost standing on the river's surface, and stared blankly.

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew by.

The river's surface rippled even more violently.

In a daze, Lin Yu could no longer see himself on the river's surface.

Instead, Tang Manman's figure appeared on the river.

Like him just moments ago, she stood by the river with a pale face and vacant eyes, as if she had lost her soul.

She seemed to have suffered some unbearable, massive blow. Her slender figure swayed, looking as though a slightly stronger gust of wind could blow her into the river's embrace.

Ending her poignant and beautiful life.

A surge of anxiety suddenly welled up in Lin Yu's heart. He didn't want to see her do something stupid; he wanted to save her.

But in the blink of an eye, the poignant Tang Manman disappeared. On the river's surface, it was still his own figure, finely distorted by the ripples.

Right.

Lin Yu suddenly understood.

How could he save her?

Continuing to live would only be harming her.

That was it, wasn't it?

As long as he died, dying as cleanly as that homeless man taken care of by Zhao She in prison, none of this would happen, right?

That must be it...

Makka Pakka, Akka, Wakka, Mikka, Makka, Moo!

Makka Pakka, Appa, Yakka, Ikka, Akka, Oo!

Moo, Dam, Akka, Pong.

Ee-ya-yo~

The somewhat idiotic yet slightly cute music rang out, abruptly stopping Lin Yu's foot just as he was about to lift it.

After hesitating for a moment, he really couldn't stand this stupid ringtone anymore. The thought of this damn music becoming his funeral dirge made him mad with anger.

He took his phone out of his pocket. Just as he was about to hang up, he saw the caller ID, and he couldn't press his finger down.

After thinking about it, he chose to answer, pressing the phone to his ear.

"Lin Yu."

The girl's soft voice sounded by his ear, just like back in high school, soft and tinged with timidity.

"I think I'm pregnant."