Condition Worsens

Pulling his cotton-padded jacket tighter around himself, Lin Yu stood by the roadside, looking around to see if there were any taxis.

Looking left and right, Lin Yu didn't spot a taxi, but he did see someone he wasn't particularly familiar with.

Watching the man walk toward him step by step, Lin Yu asked jokingly:

"What's up?"

"Where are you heading off to work this time?"

The Super Part-timer, who had once simultaneously juggled jobs as a fried chicken shop prep cook, an underground plaza flyer distributor, and a bartender, shook his head and cut straight to the chase:

"I'm not going to work this time."

"I came specifically to find you."

With that, the Super Part-timer pulled a small jade pendant, two fingers wide and four fingers long, out of his pocket and handed it to Lin Yu, saying:

"This is for you."

Lin Yu took the jade pendant curiously.

Pinching the ends of the jade pendant with two fingers, Lin Yu held it up to the sunlight and turned it over and over to inspect it.

A moment later, Lin Yu came to a conclusion.

This thing looked a lot like a green glass bottle.

When it came to jade, Lin Yu was completely clueless.

Jade worth millions and jade worth a few hundred bucks didn't look much different in his eyes.

Lin Yu still remembered a long time ago, seemingly in his first year after transmigrating here, seeing a jade bracelet in Qingmo's villa.

Having nothing better to do at the time, he had picked it up to play with and casually asked her how much the bracelet cost.

She had replied airily, saying it was over a hundred million.

Lin Yu remembered how his hand had uncontrollably trembled at that moment, almost dropping and smashing half a residential district's worth of money.

"What is this thing?"

Lin Yu withdrew his gaze from the jade pendant, turned his head to look at the Super Part-timer, and asked in confusion.

"Consider it interest."

The Super Part-timer paused for a moment before saying:

"If there's ever a chance, I will pay that money back to you."

The Super Part-timer's words made Lin Yu raise an eyebrow.

As everyone knows.

When someone tells you 'if there's a chance to do so-and-so,' it generally means there won't be a chance.

However, Lin Yu didn't really care.

Because Lin Yu had intended to just give him that money in the first place.

He never expected him to pay it back.

"Alright."

"I'll accept it."

Lin Yu was in a hurry to go home and check on Little Darling, so he had no mind to casually chat with this Super Part-timer.

After casually agreeing, Lin Yu carelessly stuffed the small jade pendant into his pants pocket.

The Super Part-timer watched Lin Yu's nonchalant action, the corner of his mouth twitching imperceptibly, as if that small jade pendant shouldn't be treated that way.

At the same time, an empty taxi saw Lin Yu waving. The driver inside turned on the blinker and began to slow down, pulling over to the side of the road.

"Um..."

Before Lin Yu could get into the car, the Super Part-timer stopped him.

Lin Yu paused his movement of getting in. Keeping one hand on the car door, one foot inside the car, and half-bent over ready to slide in, he turned his head and looked at the Super Part-timer in confusion.

"It's best if you carry that jade pendant close to your body."

"It's quite precious, and it can keep you safe..."

The Super Part-timer reminded him, lacking a bit of confidence.

That jade pendant was relatively expensive to him, but when talking to a super-rich guy who could casually throw around seven-figure sums, he really didn't have the confidence to discuss what was "precious."

As for keeping him safe, that sounded more like something a charlatan would say.

"Ah?"

"Is that so?"

"Alright."

"I got it."

Lin Yu agreed, although he still seemed absent-minded.

Sitting in the backseat of the taxi, Lin Yu gave the address of the villa.

The blue-bodied, white-roofed taxi quickly started up and slowly merged into the flow of traffic.

Sitting in the backseat, Lin Yu took out his phone, just getting ready to scroll through some mindless short videos to kill time, when a call suddenly came in.

Looking at the three characters for Su Yuyao displayed on the phone screen, Lin Yu's heart suddenly tightened, and he inexplicably felt that something was wrong.

Upon answering the call, Su Yuyao's crying poured out almost immediately.

She was crying so hard she could barely catch her breath, and it took a great deal of effort for her to intermittently say what she wanted to say.

"Lin, Lin Yu."

"Come back quickly!"

"Little Darling, Little Darling is in the emergency room!"

"The doctor says her condition is very bad right now."

"Hurry back!"

Although he had vaguely anticipated that Su Yuyao calling would be about Little Darling.

But upon hearing that the situation was so urgent, Lin Yu still felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his heart clenching into a tight knot from anxiety.

"Okay, okay, okay."

"Don't be afraid, I'm right here in City N, I'll be back right away."

While comforting the panicked and crying Su Yuyao over the phone, Lin Yu said to the driver in the front seat:

"I'll give you an extra thousand bucks!"

"Get me there as fast as you possibly can!"

The taxi driver sitting in the driver's seat was an older middle-aged man.

When he heard that Lin Yu seemed to have an emergency, his reaction wasn't huge.

After all, having been a taxi driver for so many years, what day didn't he encounter a few people in a rush?

But when he heard Lin Yu say he'd directly add a thousand bucks to the fare, his spine abruptly straightened, and even his eyes changed.

Determined.

Focused.

He looked like an assassin ready to lay down his life for his boss at any moment!

Lin Yu didn't waste words; he directly scanned the QR code and transferred a thousand bucks.

The moment the payment receipt notification chimed, the driver didn't waste any words either, directly starting to street-race through the city.

With a sudden brake, the taxi stopped outside the villa gates.

Lin Yu couldn't even care about the urge to vomit surging up his throat as he hurriedly opened the door and got out.

Walking briskly into the villa, Lin Yu headed straight for the makeshift emergency room set up inside.

Outside the emergency room door, a crowd of people were gathered noisily.

There was Su Yuyao, the villa's butler, a few close servants, and two medical assistants.

They were gathered around Su Yuyao, in a frantic and flustered state, making it look as though something had gone wrong with Su Yuyao as well.

Lin Yu strode into the crowd and discovered that Su Yuyao was currently slumped on the ground, her face deathly pale, gasping heavily for air, drenched in so much sweat it looked like she had just been fished out of the water.

Upon seeing Lin Yu squeeze into the crowd, a rare glimmer of light gathered in Su Yuyao's nearly unfocused eyes.

She reached out a hand toward Lin Yu, her slender and delicate arm as weak as a fallen leaf in the wind.

Pea-sized teardrops squeezed out of her eyes and slid down her entirely bloodless cheeks.

She opened her mouth, her pale pink lips trembling, and squeezed out an aggrieved and fragile voice from her throat.

"Lin Yu..."

Lin Yu immediately crouched down, pulling Su Yuyao's frail body into his arms, and comforted her in a deep voice:

"Little Darling will be fine."

"Don't worry, I promise you."

"She will definitely be fine."

Su Yuyao's petite body was currently as soft as if she had no bones. She used all her remaining strength to lean against Lin Yu's shoulder, squeezed her eyes shut tightly, and let out a tearful mhm.