Dead, Then Alive

Qin Ning helped her up from the ground, then walked toward the hospital room.

"Young man, what are you trying to do?" Seeing this, the doctor hastily spoke up to stop him.

However, after entering the room, Qin Ning casually closed the door and directly raised his hand to cast a barrier, isolating everyone outside. No matter how hard they pushed, the door wouldn't budge an inch.

Buzz!

He walked to the hospital bed and lifted the white sheet.

It was a young man only two or three years apart from him in age. His face was already pale, and he had been pronounced dead.

Qin Ning didn't say a word. He raised a finger and tapped the empty air, circulating his spiritual energy and injecting it into the center of the young man's brow.

Because his back was facing the door, even though there was a glass window on it, the people outside couldn't see exactly what Qin Ning was doing. They just thought he was standing there, not doing anything.

Lin Lan looked through the glass window, burning with anxiety. Seeing Qin Ning just standing there quietly doing nothing, the last sliver of hope in her heart completely died.

However, after waiting for about half a minute, Qin Ning suddenly turned around in the room, opened the door, and walked out.

Lin Lan's face was pale, and she was already crying her eyes out, lacking the strength to say anything.

The doctor beside her, however, was furious and was about to vent his anger on Qin Ning.

"Mom..."

Right at this moment, a weak voice like this came from the hospital room.

Everyone froze, their gazes subconsciously turning toward the room.

They saw that the young man lying on the hospital bed, who had originally been covered with the white sheet, had actually woken up. His pale face had regained its color.

"Zhou Ping'an!"

Lin Lan was the first to react. Crying tears of joy, she sprinted all the way into the hospital room.

"How is this possible?"

Outside the door, the doctors and nurses who had been alarmed by the commotion were all dumbfounded. They stood frozen in place, and only after coming to their senses did they hurriedly enter the room to check on the young man's condition.

"Brother."

Right at this moment, not far down the corridor, Qin Fei returned.

She didn't know what had happened. Holding a payment slip, she came to Qin Ning's side. "Why did you get up by yourself? What if you fall? Hurry back and lie down. I'm going to pay the fees now, and then I'll help you go get your X-rays."

"There's no need, Xiao Fei. Just process my discharge," Qin Ning said.

His hand of bringing the dead back to life just now, although very common in the Cultivation World, this was Blue Star after all.

He didn't want people bothering him later, so it was better to leave as soon as possible.

"How can we do that?" Qin Fei frowned.

However, she ultimately couldn't win the argument against Qin Ning and went ahead with the discharge procedures.

It wasn't until the Qin siblings had left the hospital that Lin Lan and the doctors in the room finally realized in hindsight and remembered Qin Ning's existence.

When they wanted to look for him, he was nowhere to be found.

...

Liu City, an old urban district in the north of the city.

In a rented apartment, Qin Fei brought Qin Ning back here.

This was the place the siblings had rented five years ago. Although it only had one room, the rent was cheap.

In the past, Qin Fei always took the bedroom, while Qin Ning slept on the sofa in the living room.

The furnishings inside had hardly changed at all; the only difference was that the furniture had gotten much older.

"Brother, sit down first. I'll go downstairs to buy some groceries. We'll celebrate properly tonight."

Qin Fei found a pair of slippers, placed them in front of Qin Ning, and turned on the TV for him before heading out.

Qin Ning sat on the sofa, his gaze sweeping over everything in the room, feeling a sense that things remained the same while people had changed.

Knock, knock, knock...

Suddenly, the sound of knocking on the door came.

Qin Ning initially thought it was Qin Fei who had forgotten her keys, but with a sweep of his divine sense, he discovered that the visitor was a middle-aged woman—none other than Lin Lan, whom he had just met at the hospital.

It seemed the other party must have found his place through the hospitalization records.

He frowned slightly, then stood up to open the door.

Thud!

Upon seeing Qin Ning, the first thing Lin Lan did was kneel down before him. "Thank you for saving my son!"

"Aunt Lin, you mustn't do this!"

Qin Ning hurriedly helped her up. "Back when I was still in the orphanage, I received no small amount of your help."

"Orphanage?"

Lin Lan froze, her gaze curiously appraising Qin Ning. A moment later, she said in surprise, "You are... Qin Ning?"

Earlier at the hospital, she had felt that Qin Ning looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember why.

Now, hearing the word orphanage from his mouth, Lin Lan finally recalled him.

"It's me, Aunt Lin. Come in and sit down first."

Qin Ning smiled and nodded, welcoming her into the house. "My home is simple, please sit anywhere."

"You're really Qin Ning?"

Sitting down on the sofa, Lin Lan said in great surprise, "I really liked you siblings back then. Later, because of work, I couldn't visit the orphanage for a long time. By the time I went again, the director said you two had already left."

"Right, where's your sister?"

"She just went out to buy groceries. She should be back in a bit," Qin Ning said with a smile.

"Back then..."

Lin Lan fell into reminiscence for a moment, but quickly snapped out of it and slapped her thigh. "Wait, why am I chatting with you? Qin Ning, Auntie came over this time to thank you for saving my Zhou Ping'an."

Zhou Ping'an, her son's name.

"I only have this one son. If I lost him, Auntie wouldn't even know how to go on living."

As she spoke, Lin Lan couldn't help but shed tears again, and was actually about to kneel down to thank Qin Ning once more.

Qin Ning hurriedly grabbed hold of her. "It's just a small matter. Auntie, don't kneel anymore, or I'll really have to kick you out."

In the Cultivation World, Qin Ning was decisive in killing, but to those who had shown him kindness, he always repaid them tenfold.

A small matter...

Lin Lan was a little dazed.

That was a person who had been pronounced clinically dead. To be saved even from that—how could it possibly be a small matter?

Although she still found it unbelievable, she also knew that there were some things she shouldn't ask about.

After taking a deep breath, she took out a bank card from her satchel and placed it in front of Qin Ning. "Although Auntie helped you siblings a lot back then, you've given us the grace of saving a life. Auntie knows that no amount of money can express my gratitude for what you did for my Zhou Ping'an, but you must take this five million."

Lin Lan had married when she was young, but later divorced due to certain circumstances. Over the years, her business had grown quite large, and she was considered a top-ranking wealthy merchant in Liu City. Five million was absolutely nothing to her.

Before coming to find him, she had also inquired about Qin Ning at the hospital and learned that the Qin siblings had not been well-off these past few years.

Qin Ning looked at the bank card she handed over and didn't refuse, casually accepting it.

He didn't need money. With his current cultivation base, money had long since become just a number.

But he thought of Qin Fei.

When he woke up, Qin Ning had promised himself that he would make sure she lived better than anyone else in the future.

And this five million was only the beginning.