Sui Sui is here, but where is Ping An

The door to the storage room, which had long been converted into a makeshift emergency room just in case, was violently pushed open from the inside.

A doctor in green scrubs strode out.

Her gaze swept over the few people waiting outside. Upon spotting Lin Yu, the one in charge, she said directly,

"The young miss is in a very critical condition right now."

"The medical facilities here simply aren't enough."

"We need to transfer her to a hospital immediately..."

Before the doctor could finish her sentence, Lin Yu suddenly felt the person in his arms go limp. He instinctively looked down, only to find that Su Yuyao, who had already been pushed to her absolute limit, could no longer withstand this series of devastating blows and had fainted.

"Su Yuyao?"

"Su Yuyao?"

Lin Yu called out to Su Yuyao anxiously twice. Finding no signs of her waking up, he decided not to waste any more time here.

He knew exactly what the root of all this was.

After gently setting Su Yuyao down, Lin Yu turned, shoved his way out of the crowd, and sprinted up the stairs as if his life depended on it.

As he dashed upstairs, he kept hypnotizing himself in his mind.

Just like this.

Keep running.

Keep running.

Do not stop.

Do not stop for even a single step.

Run until the very moment your feet are completely suspended in the air!

Run until the very moment gravity drags you down from the sky above the rooftop!

Lin Yu tried hard to empty his mind, doing his best to leave only this single thought in his head.

He did not dare to think too much.

He was afraid that if he thought even a little, his toes would stop at the edge of the roof.

He was afraid that if he thought even a little, Little Darling's vibrant life would wither away like a dead leaf falling from a tree.

Lin Yu absolutely could not accept such an ending.

In truth, Lin Yu had long ceased to care about whether he won or lost.

Right now, he only wanted Little Darling to survive.

It was pure instinct.

As a father, he just wanted his child to live.

Unfortunately, fate had never been on Lin Yu's side.

The steep stairs connected one flight to another. Amidst the soreness of repeatedly and rapidly lifting his legs, Lin Yu lost his ability to gauge the height.

His toe caught on a step, and he crashed onto the slanted staircase, tumbling all the way down.

"Fuck this!"

Lin Yu fiercely slammed his fist into the floor in front of him, producing a loud thud.

Over a dozen steps.

Lin Yu had rolled down them like a ball.

But for some reason, he felt no pain at all. He merely felt a slight numbness and tingling in his body, as if he had just been jolted.

There was no time to think about all this nonsense.

Lin Yu took a deep, sharp breath, forced himself up from the stairs, and prepared to charge toward the rooftop once again!

Unexpectedly, yet making perfect sense.

A loud shout echoed from the floor beneath him.

"The young miss, her condition has stabilized!"

Hearing that tearful shout coming from below, which sounded like the most beautiful music to his ears, Lin Yu slowly came to a halt, like a wind-up toy that had run out of steam.

He stood on the stairs, resting one hand on the winding handrail beside him, panting heavily.

For some reason, at this moment, Lin Yu felt pretty good. It was much like the refreshing sensation after running a kilometer, his body feeling slightly fatigued, but flooded with dopamine.

Even though he had just taken a nasty fall.

Aside from a slight dizziness in his head, he did not feel that anything was wrong.

After standing on the stairs and catching his breath for a moment, Lin Yu turned to head downstairs, wanting to see how Little Darling and Su Yuyao were doing.

Su Yuyao had fainted from anxiety just now.

But with a doctor by her side.

She should be fine.

Thinking this, Lin Yu turned around. As he looked down at the flight of stairs leading to the next floor, he suddenly froze.

On the stairs, specks of blood were evenly distributed along a straight line across every single step.

Fresh blood had dripped onto them, splattering into gorgeous little crimson blossoms that looked like plum flowers.

With a bewildered look in his eyes, Lin Yu followed the trail of blood down the stairs.

At the fifth-floor landing where he had just fallen, he saw a puddle of dark red blood the size of two fists. It was a shocking sight.

Only then did Lin Yu belatedly realize something. He raised his hand and touched his hair.

When he looked back at his hand, his vision was filled with bright crimson.

"Phew."

Seeing the blood on his hand, Lin Yu did not panic, nor did he lose his composure.

He merely let out a long exhale, held onto the handrail beside him, and slowly sat down on the steps.

Whether it was due to blood loss, or the dopamine his body secreted after the injury.

Lin Yu felt very peaceful right now.

An unprecedented sense of peace.

Just sitting quietly on the stairs like this, he surprisingly felt a sense of comfort that put him at ease.

Right!

Lin Yu suddenly remembered a trivial little matter.

He reached into his pants pocket, which held the jade pendant gifted to him by that super employee who was so good at telling stories.

Didn't he say this jade pendant could keep one safe?

Lin Yu pulled the jade pendant out of his pocket.

Looking at the jade pendant, which had already shattered into two halves and lost its luster, Lin Yu found it a bit funny, but he no longer had the strength to even curl the corners of his mouth.

What a fraud.

Lin Yu secretly muttered in his heart.

Downstairs, a flurry of anxious footsteps began climbing up.

Lin Yu turned his head to look but saw nothing.

But he could guess that the people rushing upstairs were probably the maids in the villa or the doctors.

They must have heard the sound of him falling just now and were coming up to see what had happened.

Retracting his gaze, Lin Yu looked down at the jade pendant in his palm.

This thing must have accidentally shattered when he rolled down the stairs just now, right?

Lin Yu figured that had to be the case.

But for some reason, he still found it a little strange.

He remembered that under the sun, this jade was as green as a glass beer bottle.

But now its color wasn't nearly as pretty...

...

Was it a lighting issue?

Lin Yu didn't know.

And he didn't want to know anymore.

The hurried footsteps downstairs were getting closer. With a casual toss, Lin Yu threw the broken pieces of jade away like trash.

Watching the irregular jade fragments tumble down the steps, Lin Yu slowly closed his eyes.

He felt really sleepy.