Chapter 22 Xincheng Hospital Your wish is freedom?
The city that Lin's father took Lin Fengbai to was called Wa Town.
Wa Town is a place nestled against mountains and by water, with little pollution and clean air, making it a great place from a health perspective.
However, there is only one primary school and one secondary school that includes junior and senior high school, and the school's college entrance rate is incomparable to that of schools in big cities.
Xiao Lin Fengbai transferred to Wa Town Primary School.
A few years later, he entered Wa Town Middle School. From junior high to high school, he always ranked first in his grade. During the city-wide joint examination, he even defeated students from the top classes of many key schools and won first place.
The teacher said that as long as he performs steadily in the college entrance examination, he can definitely get into a university in Beijing with his grades, and if he performs even better, he can even become the top scorer in the city.
The capital city?
The thought of the capital city brought a smile to Lin Fengbai's face.
My brother is in the capital. Once he gets into the capital, he can go see his brother. He will give his brother a surprise, and his brother will definitely praise him.
His parents' divorce and separation from his brother plunged his life into darkness, but now a ray of light has appeared in that darkness.
But Lin Fengbai ultimately failed to take the college entrance examination.
He was beaten into the ICU by his biological father the night before the college entrance examination.
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Lin's father is a businessman who is always busy and rarely comes home. He is not close to his two sons, but he has not shown any signs of domestic violence in the past ten years.
After his bankruptcy and divorce, Lin's father became depressed and developed bad habits in Wa Town: smoking, drinking, playing mahjong, gambling... Although the company went bankrupt, the Lin family still had some savings, enough for the father and son to live on for most of their lives if they were frugal.
However, due to Lin's father's gambling addiction, the family fortune was quickly squandered.
After sobering up, Lin's father suddenly realized his mistake. He went around asking friends for money, hoping to make a comeback. He failed once, twice, and tried again and again, until he was finally crushed by debt.
During the most difficult period, Lin's father worked three jobs to pay off debts, leaving home before dawn and returning late at night, sometimes not even coming home all day. Lin Feng, left at home, would buy the cheapest white steamed buns, break one in half, mix it with water, and eat it as two meals a day. When he was hungry, he would do his homework to distract himself.
However, the huge debt could not be paid off by Lin's father working three jobs.
Lin's mother somehow found out about this.
Perhaps out of consideration for their past as husband and wife, Lin's mother helped pay off this huge debt.
Lin's mother's help did not earn Lin's father's gratitude. Instead, it aroused his unnecessary male chauvinism. He felt that Lin's mother looked down on him and was giving him charity, like treating a beggar.
One night, Lin's father came home drunk. He sat in the living room and looked at Lin Fengbai's tightly closed bedroom door across the room.
His son, the child born to that woman, was never close to him. He wouldn't even greet him when he came home. He was his father, yet he wouldn't even speak to him.
That woman looked down on him, and the child she bore also looked down on him.
That night, Lin Fengbai was writing his homework in his room when the door was suddenly pushed open. Before he could turn around, he was pulled out of the bedroom by a strong force.
This scenario repeated itself repeatedly afterward.
"You look down on me? You dare look down on me! I'm your father! You dare look down on your father?"
"Who am I working so hard for? Isn't it all for you? You can't look down on me..."
“Your mother doesn’t want you anymore, your mother wants your brother, but your brother doesn’t want you anymore either. We’re both abandoned, so neither of us should look down on the other.”
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“My brother didn’t abandon me; he will come to find me.”
Kobayashi Fuuhaku retorted and was slapped across the face.
His face was slapped to one side, half of it swollen. He turned his head back defiantly and said, "My brother will come back for me one day!"
Then they were beaten even worse.
My brother will come back to me someday.
Kobayashi Fuuhaku firmly believed this.
But when this long-cherished wish was fulfilled, he wished Lin Qinghe hadn't come back to find him.
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The night before the college entrance examination, Lin Fengbai went to bed early to make sure he had enough energy for the exam the next day.
In the middle of the night, the bedroom door was suddenly kicked open, and he was half asleep when he was pulled out of the covers and slammed to the ground by a great force.
Lin's father, who was an alcoholic, had red eyes and repeated the same sentence.
Do you look down on me?
Lin Fengbai got annoyed by the questions. He had to take the college entrance exam the next day and didn't have time to waste on this crazy man. He said, "Yes, I do look down on you... But I don't look down on you for being poor, I don't look down on you for failing in your business, I don't look down on you for doing the dirtiest and hardest jobs to pay off your debts. I look down on your self-degradation."
But Lin Fengbai couldn't finish his sentence. After he finished speaking, he was kicked away and his head hit the corner of the wall. He smelled a strong smell of blood, his vision began to blur, and then he lost consciousness.
The person woke up in the ICU, a week had passed.
The doctor said that if he had arrived even a few minutes later, he would not have been able to be saved. However, Lin Fengbai did not care about that. What he cared about was that he had missed the college entrance examination.
He originally planned to repeat a year of high school, but his eyesight suddenly deteriorated. At its worst, he couldn't see anything and had to temporarily suspend his studies to treat his eyes.
The reason for his vision problems was the fatal injury to the back of his head.
Lin's father felt guilty and remorseful, and couldn't sleep at night. He borrowed money to treat his son's eyes. He humbled himself and used his connections to get Lin Fengbai into a decent domestic university that didn't require entrance exams. Without Lin Fengbai's knowledge, he completed the enrollment procedures for him to make up for his guilty conscience.
But that wasn't Lin Fengbai's dream, so he didn't pursue it.
After his eyesight recovered, Lin Fengbai left Wa Town for a second-tier city with less competition and more job opportunities, and entered the workforce ahead of schedule.
Two years later, Lin Fengbai received a call from his landlord saying that his father had died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the rented house. Lin Fengbai returned to Wa Town and calmly handled the funeral arrangements.
A few days later, the landlord called again.
A man wearing a mask claims to be your brother and wants your phone number. Should you give it to him?
Lin Fengbai slid out from under the car. The midday sun was dazzling, so he squinted, wiped the engine oil off his hands on his dark work clothes, and switched hands to hold his phone.
He said, "I don't have a brother, so he must be a liar."
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Often, the more you want to see someone, the less likely you are to see them; but when you stop wanting to see them, that person reappears.
Lin Fengbai eventually met his brother at the auto repair shop where he worked.
He recognized his brother at a glance.
Because they have the exact same face, both when they were children and now.
However, due to long-term malnutrition, he is now a few centimeters shorter than Lin Qinghe, and his frame is also smaller than Lin Qinghe's. He looks very thin and listless.
When they first met, Lin Qinghe was wearing a high-quality white shirt and suit pants, with a gray suit jacket draped over his arm and a pair of expensive silver-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, as if he had just left a banquet.
Lin Fengbai was wearing the auto repair shop's uniform gray work clothes, which were stained with large and small stains. His hands were covered in engine oil, and he looked disheveled.
They seemed to be from two different worlds.
He least wanted his brother to see him like this, but he still ended up being seen.
"Go back to your studies." These were Lin Qinghe's first words.
He said, "I'm not going."
Lin Qinghe stepped forward, her gaze fixed on him as if it could burn a hole: "Go back and repeat the year, then retake the college entrance exam, or study abroad, you choose one."
"I won't choose."
Lin Qinghe came every day after that. He didn't say anything extra, just told him to go back to school. He refused, and the two were at an impasse. Over time, the auto repair shop owner and other employees started to have opinions about him.
Lin Fengbai had no idea that his once gentle and accommodating brother would become so domineering.
He eventually agreed to study abroad.
But he broke his promise on the day he was to leave and took a long-distance bus to another city.
He didn't want his brother's money, nor did he want to see his brother again.
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Lin Fengbai went to a remote small city and gave himself a fake name, "He Yuan".
He works at a car repair shop during the day and as a waiter at a karaoke bar at night. He is saving money to study abroad.
He didn't want his brother's money; he wanted to study abroad through his own efforts.
He lamented that he had inherited his father's unnecessary male pride, but he was also glad that he hadn't given up on himself.
These days are fulfilling and busy.
Until Lin Qinghe reappeared.
"Come home with me."
The tone was one of negotiation, but the actions were unquestionable. Lin Fengbai, along with his luggage, was packed up and taken home by Lin Qinghe.
"Home," it really is home.
Because the property certificate is in both his and his brother's names, it's their home.
This is a very beautiful villa, with a yard, a garden, a rockery, a fishpond, a swimming pool... It's even bigger than the villa they used to live in. There are servants and bodyguards inside, but it seems like these people are there to monitor him.
Lin Qinghe wouldn't let him go out.
Lin Qinghe still doted on him and indulged him. He could make any request and do whatever he wanted at home, but he was not allowed to go out.
Sometimes he wondered if his brother was angry because of the time he left without saying goodbye.
But after so long, the anger should have subsided by now.
Sometimes he felt...
It seems he's being held under house arrest by his brother.
Lin Fengbai didn't like this, regardless of his brother's motives.
He announced his intention to leave and expressed his determination.
That was the first time in over twenty years that he had seen his usually refined and gentle brother go crazy.
"Go? Go where? This is our home. I am your only family in the world. Where are you going?"
"I said we would never separate."
"I will never let you leave me; we will be together for the rest of our lives."
"You're not going anywhere."
He was pinned to the door by the back of his neck, only able to whimper intermittently: "Brother, I promise you... I promise you I'll study abroad, I... I won't run away anymore, please don't do this..."
Lin Qinghe whispered in his ear, "It's too late. I don't want to let you go now."
That was Lin Fengbai's lifelong nightmare.
He was 24 years old that year.
He slit his wrists, turning the entire bathtub red.
After being rescued, Lin Qinghe finally relented and sent him abroad to continue his studies.
He studied clinical medicine, completing his undergraduate degree in four years and his master's and doctoral degrees in five years. He spent a total of nine years abroad.
During those nine years, Lin Qing often visited him abroad, and the two resumed their normal brotherly relationship.
Lin Fengbai thought his brother would no longer go crazy.
He can pretend that thing from a long time ago never happened.
However, when he graduated and returned to China, he found that Lin Qinghe was even more insane than before.
He used to be crazy in private, but now he's crazy in the open. Not only does Lin Fengbai think he's crazy, but all of Lin's relatives, including the Lin family's former butler, think he's a madman.
Why should we care about what others think? What do their opinions have to do with us?
“Mom and that man are both dead, who can take care of us now? Relatives? What are they? The housekeeper? He's buried in the ground.”
"I've taken care of them. No one will dare to gossip about us anymore..."
"If they do, I'll make sure they can't speak."
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The madman who imprisoned him was the refined and noble director of Xincheng Hospital, while he himself had studied medicine for nine years, earned a doctorate, but ultimately failed to become a doctor.
This person is no longer his brother.
This person is a madman, a madman who ruined his life's dreams.
One morning while washing his face, Lin Fengbai looked at himself in the mirror and made a decision.
He walked into the dean's office with a scalpel in hand, harboring a dark thought: he looked exactly like this man, and he could kill him and take his place, thus gaining both freedom and fulfilling his medical ambitions.
However, this person already knew what he was thinking. Lin Qinghe dismissed everyone in the hospital and gave him this opportunity. He didn't even put up a fight and let the sharp knife pierce his abdomen.
"I may have done something wrong, and it's understandable that you hate me."
"But I've been trying my best to make it up to you all these years, you know..."
“Yes.” Lin Fengbai said resentfully, “You’re making amends, you’re making amends, so I want to thank you, thank my dear brother, thank you for sending me abroad, thank you for giving me the opportunity to study!”
“Otherwise…” He whispered in Lin Qinghe’s ear, trying to suppress his trembling and appear confident, “how would I replace you?”
"So that's how it is..." Lin Qinghe suddenly smiled. He gently stroked Lin Fengbai's bloodless cheek and said in a tender tone, "So you wanted to be the dean. You might be capable enough. I'll give it to you. Everything I have is yours. Don't cry..."
The ambulance arrived in time, and since the knife wound did not hit any vital areas, Lin Qinghe was not in mortal danger; she simply spent a week in the hospital.
A week later, Lin Qinghe was discharged from the hospital.
He returned to his office and saw Lin Fengbai slumped over his desk, a pale arm hanging limply over the edge, and several empty medicine bottles at his feet.
The person was already cold.
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Lin Fengbai thought that he could be freed from this burden by dying.
Unexpectedly, his ghost was trapped in the hospital.
He dared not go out during the day, but only dared to move around in the hospital at night.
He saw Lin Qinghe was listless for a while, but it was only for a while. Lin Qinghe recovered and was still the noble and incomparable director of Xincheng Hospital.
His death had little impact on Lin Qinghe.
Lin Fengbai felt fortunate, but also a little uncomfortable.
Gradually, Lin Fengbai noticed that there were several more ghosts in the hospital, and Lin Qinghe was spending more and more time in the hospital.
Then, he discovered that Lin Qinghe seemed to be able to see him.
He soon realized it wasn't just a possibility.
Lin Qinghe can really see him!
There are more and more ghosts in the hospital.
Lin Qinghe turned the hospital into an amusement park.
In the amusement park, he told Lin Fengbai, "No one can separate us. We will always be together."
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After reading the whole story in his mind, Shi Yu sat up in bed and pressed his temples.
The story is too long; it's more tiring than watching a movie.
Logic aside, this is a pretty good melodramatic story.
This Dean Lin is truly insane; he doesn't even let his brother go after he died.
He and Shen Su had always suspected that Lin Qinghe was killed by the madman's younger brother, but they never expected that the real madman was Lin Qinghe, and the villainous younger brother they thought was actually a pitiful little thing.
Shi Yu turned her head to look at Lin Fengbai beside her, her beautiful lips slightly parted: "So your wish is, freedom?"
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