Chapter 104 Awakening

Lu Jiunian got out of bed almost immediately, opened the wardrobe and changed his clothes.

I hung up the phone and walked outside.

Shi Nianzhi sat on the edge of the bed. "Where are you going so late?"

"Something's up."

Lu Jiunian didn't say much, and his figure disappeared through the door.

Shi Nianzhi didn't hear what was being said on the phone, and he didn't know what Lu Jiunian was doing. Judging from his appearance, it must have been something urgent.

It was already very late at night, and Shi Nianzhi sat on the bed in a daze for a while.

I couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.

The hospital was brightly lit.

When Lu Jiunian arrived, almost everyone from the Gu family had already gathered. Gu Yuanyuan's eyes were red as she saw Lu Jiunian.

He immediately grabbed Lu Jiunian's arm, "Uncle Lu, the doctor said my uncle is dying, tell me, this can't be true. He's been lying down perfectly fine, how could he suddenly, so suddenly be like this!"

Lu Jiunian remained relatively calm and asked Gu Yuanyuan, "What did the doctor say?"

"Brain dead, still being resuscitated. I just don't understand, my uncle has always been in a vegetative state, lying there perfectly fine, how could he suddenly become seriously ill and turn into brain dead."

Brain death, medically speaking, means that a person has already been declared dead.

Upon hearing the news, Lu Jiunian seemed to lose his balance and took a step back before clenching his fist.

He looked at the door of the emergency room, his eyes filled with pain. "Am I really not even allowed to say goodbye?"

These words, so poignant, silenced everyone present.

Gu Yuanyuan clenched his fist and slammed it against the wall. He looked down, his shoulders trembling slightly.

He cried.

The door to the emergency room opened, and the doctor came out.

Everyone crowded around, asking, "How is it?"

The doctor took off his mask and said, "We did our best, we're sorry."

Gu Yuanyuan was the first to get angry. He rushed up and shoved the doctor hard, shouting, "What are you all doing? My uncle is so young! Go and save him! Go and revive him!"

The doctor kept his head down and remained silent.

Li Yuanla hugged Gu Yuanyuan again.

Gu Yuanyuan seemed unable to suppress his emotions; he threw himself into Li Yuan's arms and burst into tears.

"Mom, I don't have a younger uncle anymore..."

Gu Yuanyuan's words brought tears to everyone's eyes, and Li Yuan cried along with Gu Yuanyuan.

Madam Gu was so overwhelmed by the shock that she fainted.

Gu Dongxuan squatted down in front of Old Madam Gu, "Mom!"

The doctors quickly gathered around to check on the situation.

Only Lu Jiunian walked into the emergency room. The gaunt man was lying on the emergency bed, his body covered with all sorts of tubes.

He lay there peacefully, as if he were asleep.

Lu Jiunian walked over, took Gu Zijian's hand, and squeezed it tightly.

He called out to him, "Zijian."

He choked up at the very first note.

"Are you really not going to say another word to me? You've followed me for so many years, saying you'd marry me when you turned 18. On your 18th birthday, you were in a car accident on your way to the airport to chase after Lu Bing, and you never woke up. You have nothing to explain to me. As long as you say it, I'll believe you."

Lu Jiunian lowered his head, thinking that he hated Gu Zijian because Gu Zijian had deceived him.

But when he held Gu Zijian's hand and had to accept that the person beside him was leaving him forever, he was so sad.

Suddenly, the hand that Lu Jiunian was holding in his palm twitched.

Lu Jiunian suddenly raised his head, stood up, and leaned down to look at Gu Zijian on the hospital bed, "Zijian! Zijian!"

He called his name, each call more urgent than the last.

Gu Zijian's hand moved again.

Lu Jiunian quickly called the doctor.

He went back outside the emergency room to wait, and after a long time, the doctor came out with a happy expression.

"It's truly a miracle. Not only is Young Master Gu out of danger, but he has also unexpectedly woken up. However, he is currently quite weak and has been transferred to the intensive care unit."

Gu Yuanyuan was overjoyed. He grabbed the doctor's hand and said, "What did you say? My uncle came back from the dead? I knew it! I knew he would be alright."

Can brain-dead people wake up?

While Lu Jiunian was overjoyed, he raised a question.

"We are also investigating this. Perhaps there was a misdiagnosis before. Although such miracles are extremely rare, we cannot rule out their existence. The patient still needs further observation and examination, as serious sequelae cannot be ruled out."

Gu Yuanyuan immediately spat, "What aftereffects? My uncle won't have any aftereffects. He's so young and so outstanding, even Death wouldn't dare take him. Uncle Lu, my uncle is awake, why are you still worried about these things? Aren't you happy that my uncle is awake?"

"happy."

"That's good! I'm going to tell my parents and grandma this good news. They'll be overjoyed."

Gu Yuanyuan ran away excitedly.

Lu Jiunian glanced at the doctor and then walked in the direction Gu Yuanyuan had left. Since Old Madam Gu had fainted, he should go and see her.

The doctor breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they had all left, and he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The doctor entered the emergency room, where Gu Zijian had already sat up on the bed, his legs crossed. "Is everything done?"

"Everything is done."

Gu Zijian tugged at the tubes inserted into his body unhappily, "When will I be able to get rid of these? They're so annoying."

"Just bear with it a little longer. You've only been awake for a few days, and your body is still very weak."

Where is my mom?

I'll come see you later.

Gu Zijian touched his face, then suddenly chuckled softly, "Before, I couldn't enter the Gu family, I wasn't accepted, and when I got seriously ill, I could only wait to die. If it weren't for my mother's desperate efforts to fight for me, where would I be today?"

Then, in a self-deprecating voice, she said, "Just by changing my face, I became someone of such high status, and even my lover is so outstanding."

Gu Zijian spread his hands out again, looking at his own thin, bony hands.

The doctor was silent for a while before saying, "It's not like you got a new face. You already looked like him. It was just minor cosmetic surgery."

“My mother was so persistent, and God was kind to her, not letting me, her son who became a vegetable after brain tumor surgery, die. I will wake up one day. I will live well with this face. One day the Gu family will be mine, and my mother will be buried with Gu Jianyun in place of that woman.”

"Zichu, your mother has had a hard life. Just be understanding towards her."

Gu Zijian suddenly looked up at the middle-aged doctor. “Uncle, don’t call me Zichu anymore. Gu Zichu was a mistake from birth. He died in that dilapidated house because he couldn’t afford surgery and turned into a jar of ashes. I am now Gu Zijian, the young master Gu whom Gu Jianyun had late in life and cherished in his palm.”

......

Lu Jiunian hadn't been home for several days in a row, and Shi Nianzhi learned from Aunt Zhang that he was away on a business trip.

Shi Nianzhi was busy reviewing, getting up earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the dogs, and he had to keep his eyes open during class so that his eyelids wouldn't droop.

He simply didn't have time to think about Lu Jiunian.

When he remembered that he was Lu Jiunian's other half, and his husband was away on a business trip, he wondered if he should call and check on him.

He was already sitting in the examination room.

The exam papers were handed out.

Shi Nianzhi held his pen, looking at the Chinese questions on it. He gets nervous during exams, and when he gets nervous, he becomes forgetful.

Finally, I stared blankly at the question, completely clueless.

It's true that he recognizes the question, but the question doesn't recognize him.

However, it must be said that Su Hengyi's guessing skills are really impressive. He said that this classical Chinese text would be on the test, and it was. He said that the reading comprehension passage might be from a certain source, and it was. He said that the essay topic might be related to environmental protection, and it was.

Shi Nianzhi bit his pen, on the verge of tears, but his mind was blank, and the answers he had memorized were gone.

During his exam, it only flashed briefly in his mind before being automatically deleted, leaving not a trace in Shi Nianzhi's brain.

Shi Nianzhi finished the monthly exam in this state.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and with the weekend, schools will be closed for three days.

After finishing the exam, Mu Guangcheng was full of confidence, "I'm definitely not last in the grade this time!"

Shi Nianzhi gave a dejected "oh".

Mu Guangcheng patted Shi Nianzhi on the shoulder, "You're definitely not one either. I have to say, although Su Hengyi is quite annoying, his brain is simply unbeatable. Look at how he guessed this question, doesn't the teacher who set the question feel ashamed?"

"I......"

Shi Nianzhi scratched his face, looking somewhat troubled.

In any case, the results of the monthly exam won't be released until after the holiday, so he'll just celebrate his birthday first.

That man probably won't blame him for his poor grades, for being last in his grade.

Probably.

Shi Nianzhi turned around and asked Shi Er, who was following behind him, "How did your exam go?"

Shi Er, "I handed in a blank paper."

Mu Guangcheng gave Shi Er a thumbs up, "Impressive!"

"The English and math were both very simple, so I just wrote them down casually."

Shi Er added.

"How exactly is it simple?"

"It's very simple, everyone knows how to do it."

Shi Nianzhi: "..."

I thought someone was in last place.

What kind of brain do they have? It's so annoying. Is he the only one who can't do anything?

Su Heng walked over and grabbed Mu Guangcheng's wrist. Mu Guangcheng was startled and then forcefully shook him off.

What are you doing?

He had been avoiding him for several days, and was suddenly caught, which made him panic.

I should have run faster after school instead of chatting and exchanging ideas with Shi Nianzhi.

Just when I feared most, Su Heng asked in a very calm tone, "Why aren't you running anymore?"

Mu Guangcheng immediately reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "Who ran away?"

Shi Nianzhi suddenly realized, "Hey, boss, why didn't you just run off with your backpack today? Usually, if I want to talk to you, you run faster than a rabbit."

"Ah, I had something to do earlier."

Shi Nianzhi liked to get to the bottom of things, "What's the matter?"

Mu Guangcheng: "...Grandma Li at the convenience store is sick, I'm going to help her watch the store."

"That little shop downstairs from your house? Isn't it run by a husband and wife?"

"No! It's not the one downstairs from my house!"

"Where is that from?"

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you, so shut up!"

Shi Nianzhi puffed out her cheeks and said, "Oh."

Mu Guangcheng changed the subject, looking at Su Hengyi, "But I haven't seen that grandson Gu Yuanyuan lately, I heard he didn't come to the monthly exam either."

Su Heng, seemingly unconcerned, suddenly said, "I'll start tutoring at your house tomorrow."

Just as Mu Guangcheng was about to say something...

Su Hengyi added, "Take it with you and remember it."

Shi Nianzhi nodded, "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I'll bring you mooncakes!"

Anyway, Lu Jiunian is very busy and can't be seen much. If he's going to see anyone, it will probably be in the evening. It won't interfere with his promise to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with Mu Guangcheng.

Because the eldest brother is alone.