Chapter 705 The patient's heart stopped beating, prepare for electric shock
The door of the operating room opened and the doctor walked out exhausted. His body was limp and he was almost being supported by the staff beside him.
Eight hours of rescue is the limit. During the rescue, the patients do not eat or drink and remain highly focused, fearing that a moment of laxity will cause the injured person's tiny vitality to disappear.
Lu Tingchuan was kneeling on the ground and hadn't gotten up yet. His legs had already lost all feeling. No normal person could stand kneeling like this. His knees were already damaged.
Watching the doctor approach him, he listened to his own hoarse voice and asked, "How is she?"
"The patient still has a heartbeat." The doctor looked troubled. "Mr. Lu, please be mentally prepared..."
As soon as the doctor said this, Lu Tingchuan felt the force gripping his heart tighten, and his eyes were already looking towards the corridor window.
"The victim's condition is very serious. There's a large amount of blood clots on her head. She could be brain dead or become a vegetative state. The blood clots are suppressing too many nerves. We can't perform surgery. Her current condition... maybe she can only survive for a day..."
A feeling of despair that was collapsing weighed heavily on Lu Tingchuan's heart. He coughed, and tears from the corners of his eyes and blood from his mouth flowed out at the same time.
"It all depends on her will to survive..." the doctor said with a sigh.
"Can I go in and see her?"
"Can."
Lu Tingchuan tried to stand up but couldn't. His legs had lost all feeling as if he was crippled. Finally, a nurse pushed a wheelchair over and helped him sit in it. After several rounds of disinfection, she was willing to take him in to see Shen Qing.
Shen Qing lay quietly on the bed, with various instruments and tubes connected to her body, her eyes closed, like a puppet. Looking at Shen Qing like this, Lu Tingchuan could no longer cry.
The end of sadness turned out to be silence, the ultimate silence, with only the sounds of machinery around. Lu Tingchuan sat in a wheelchair and looked at Shen Qing lying quietly on the bed, tears unconsciously covering his entire face.
Lu Tingchuan reached out to touch Shen Qing, but the nurse beside him stopped him and shook her head at him.
He could only put down his hands, clench his fists and place them on his knees. Now even breathing was painful.
"Shen Qing, if you want to take revenge on me, you should inflict these injuries and pain on me. What's the point of lying in bed like you without saying a word? Huh? You also said that you want me to live a hundred years. Do you think I can live that long if you are gone?"
Lu Tingchuan's voice choked, and tears fell like beads from a broken string. He was wearing a hospital monitoring suit that covered his face, so he couldn't wipe away his tears and could only let them blur his vision.
"Shen Qing, if you die, I will die too. I won't listen to you and live well. I haven't gotten anything I wanted in my life, whether it's people or things. The Yellow Springs Road is dark and cold. How can you go on like this if you are so timid?"
"Time flies, and we've known each other for three years now. Do you still remember the first time we met three years ago? You were a hotel waiter, and when you were bullied, you didn't say anything, but secretly made your eyes red, as red as a rabbit's..."
"You asked me if your eyes are very similar to Shen Zhichu's. In fact, the most different thing about you is your eyes. I don't know when it started, but your appearance, your voice, your smile, your tears, all have nothing in common with Shen Zhichu."
Shen Qing was the innocent Shen Qing, but he made her dirty. Shen Qing was originally the most unique existence in the world, but he insisted on treating her as a substitute.
Thinking of the past, Lu Tingchuan's face was bitter. He woke up and sniffed: "I don't think I've ever told you about my family situation."
"I am the illegitimate child of the Li family. My mother was a lover. She committed suicide when I was five years old. I stayed by her side for a whole day, from dusk to dawn, watching her body stained with blood. After I became an orphan, I was taken back home by the Li family who came to visit me."
"When I got home, they threw me to a nanny and left me alone. She secretly took away all the food and supplies they prepared for me, leaving me with her grandson's leftovers. Some of the food was even rotten. Sometimes I was so hungry that I would go through the trash cans and pick up the garbage to eat... I lived in that environment for three whole years. I was abused and insulted. The places where I hid my clothes were covered with wounds and the wounds became inflamed. I was also locked in a small warehouse outside the yard. At night, I was bitten by insects and my body was covered with lice..."
These were the past that Lu Tingchuan was most reluctant to mention, but now he talked about them again, downplaying them as if they were the most insignificant gust of wind.
Regardless of whether Shen Qing heard it or not, the nurses standing nearby were stunned. They never knew that this "prodigy" as rumored by the outside world actually had such a shameful past.
"Later, I called the police myself and had the nanny sent to prison. Only then did they officially bring me back to the Li family." The "they" Lu Tingchuan mentioned was referring to Old Man Li.
Did Lu Tingchuan hate Old Man Li? The answer was yes, but how much he hated him was unknown. He tolerated him in the Li family, but after leaving, he never called him Grandpa.
"My nominal grandfather told me this. He said these three years were my first lesson. If I don't become stronger, I'll be at the mercy of others. Even servants can bully me."
"When I was a child, I had a dog named Yuanyuan, a beautiful Samoyed. He was later poisoned to death. He taught me another lesson: the last thing a family needs is affection. Emotion can become a weakness. If you can't protect it, don't keep it around..."
"So, Shen Qing, from childhood to adulthood, I have been surrounded by calculations. No one has ever loved me, and I have never loved anyone. What is family affection? It turned into a pool of blood when I was five years old, and I knew about love too late... It's not that I didn't love you before, it's that I didn't know I loved you. At the age of thirty, you are my first woman... and my only love. I love you, very much, like a fish that will die without water. I want you to stay by my side and we will get along as equals. If you want to leave, I will let you go, but please give me a chance to pursue you, okay? Shen Qing, hold on, the person you should take revenge on is me, not yourself. You don't deserve to die... I am the one who should die."
In the quiet room, Lu Tingchuan murmured in pain, his tears had dried up. Besides the muffled sobbing, there was also the sound of the electrocardiogram monitor.
Lu Tingchuan looked at Shen Qing's face for a while, then at the data jumping on the instrument. He couldn't describe his mood at the moment. Fear was an understatement. The electrocardiogram line rose up and up, and his own heart was also tense along with that line.
"Drip--" The sudden piercing sound tried to shatter Lu Tingchuan's eardrums. The undulating line slowly turned into a straight line. Lu Tingchuan's pupils shrank, and the whole person seemed to fall from a high altitude. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
Until the nurse pushed him out of the room, doctors rushed in one after another, pushing instruments and medicine bottles. Everyone was well-trained and moved very quickly.
"The patient's heart has stopped beating. Prepare for electric shock—"
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