Chapter 67 A fool Sude came out of the operating room...
Su De came out of the operating room and took off his mask. Chen Song and Gu Yiming rushed forward one after another.
"The patient has been saved, but his condition is still very serious. The sulfuric acid concentration is very high and has corroded the surface of the bone. It depends on whether he can survive this night. Even if he does, he still has a week of critical period to endure. If he is in good condition after about a week, he will immediately undergo skin grafting. The injury is too severe to perform an allogeneic artificial transplant, only an autologous transplant. The injured area is too large to be completely transplanted, and it will leave a large scar, but we will do our best to minimize the scar."
Chen Song could no longer remain calm after hearing what happened in front of him. His heart palpitations became stronger and stronger. He looked deeply behind the operating room door. There was no one he wanted to see. Only doctors and nurses came out.
Does this mean...he might die?
Will Gu Xingjue die?
Chen Song had witnessed many deaths and deaths, and thought he had long since become numb to the question of "life and death." He even felt no struggle or fear when death approached. But when this happened to Gu Xingjue, he felt fear.
This kind of fear was unprecedented, as if the Grim Reaper was holding a scythe on the tip of his heart, piercing it bit by bit.
Chen Song wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of pain. His relationship with Gu Xingjue was destined to be fruitless. All that had happened back then, that phone call, was like a thorn deep within his heart, spreading and enveloping his entire being, each tiny vine covered in poisonous barbs. Even the slightest plucking would unleash unbearable pain.
Even so, he just wanted to never see him again in this life. He hoped that Gu Xingjue could live well, spend his brilliant life peacefully, grow old like an ordinary person, until the end of his life. Not in this way.
Gu Yiming's body shuddered in vain. He blinked a few times awkwardly, his moist eyes trembling. He asked in a hoarse voice, "I'll take the person away and go find Brother Che. He must have a way. He has the best artificial skin and can definitely restore his appearance."
He Rulin frowned and said, "No, Young Master. Young Master Gu is in a critical condition and cannot be transferred."
"What should I do then!" Gu Yiming shouted with red eyes, "My brother must live! Doctor He, is there really no other way? What if he...can't make it through this night..."
He Rulin was stunned. He had been brought here overnight by a helicopter from the Gu family. He had been treating Gu Xingjue for years, bringing him back from the brink of death many times. He understood Gu Xingjue's condition better than anyone else. No matter how serious an injury Gu Xingjue had suffered, his strong body, thanks to years of exercise, could always survive it.
However, in the past year, his physical condition has been very poor, he has suffered from insomnia and overwork, and this time will be the most painful one.
He Rulin noticed the distraught Chen Song standing beside him, and withdrew his gaze, resting his hand on Gu Yiming's shoulder to comfort him: "Xiao Yi, your brother will get through this."
"I will contact the Yun family regarding the subsequent skin transplant and come up with the best surgical plan."
Gu Yiming instantly understood what He Rulin meant and looked at Chen Song: "Really... is it okay?"
"Of course he can. He will come back. There are people in this world waiting for him to come back, and he can't bear to leave them."
Chen Song's gaze passed through the people coming in and out, and he remained at the door until Gu Xingjue was wheeled out. He had completely lost the ability to weigh the pros and cons, and his body instinctively followed Gu Xingjue closely. Only when he was stopped outside the intensive care unit did he stop, watching the patient on the bed from afar through the glass door, constantly paying attention to the weak lifeline beating on the medical equipment.
This night, everyone was concentrating intently. It was the most difficult night, longer than Chen Song’s first half of his life.
......
Gu Xingjue was trapped in an endless cycle of uncertainty. It was a gloomy world, with nothing visible around him except for a faint, cold light shining ahead. Standing in the light was a man in a gray down jacket.
Gu Xingjue recognized him immediately and called out tentatively, "Chen Song? How's your injury? Does it still hurt?"
Chen Song walked forward and turned his head slightly when he heard the voice. The cold light made his skin as white and translucent as porcelain. He seemed to glance at Gu Xingjue out of the corner of his eye, then turned back and continued walking forward.
Gu Xingjue strode forward. No matter how he walked or shouted, Chen Song kept walking forward without looking back. The distance between them did not change at all. Gu Xingjue began to get impatient and quickened his pace to run. The person he had finally caught up with was instantly far away. He reached out to touch Chen Song but could not reach his back.
Chen Song walked forward slowly, without looking back, into the darkness, out of his world.
"Chen Song!"
"Chen-Song-!"
All he got in response was endless silence.
Gu Xingjue stopped where he was and gasped in pain: "Chen Song... Chen Song, why did you have to go so far? I miss you so much... I'm going crazy thinking about you. Why, why don't you want me anymore? I will change, I will change everything. Can you look back... and look at me again..."
As Gu Xingjue shouted, the sky spun, time and space twisted rapidly, and the scene turned into an abandoned factory shed with dim light bulbs hanging around.
Gu Xingjue returned to the year when he was thirteen years old.
In the scorching heat of midsummer, the noisy chirping of cicadas was drowned out by the crying of a little boy.
"Cry, cry, cry, all you do is cry! Will your dad come to save you if you cry? What's the point of crying? It's so fucking noisy! If you cry again, I'll burn your mouth to death with a cigarette!"
Nine-year-old Gu Yiming had just started third grade and had been well protected by Ye Ai since he was a child. Although Ye Ai was strict with him, she had never been so fierce to him.
His whole body was tied up with hemp ropes. The rough ropes were strangling him. He struggled like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, which only increased the pain and almost broke his bones.
The more the man scolded him, the harder he cried. In a rage, the man stabbed the cigarette butt into Gu Yiming's mouth. Gu Xingjue, who was lying on the ground, didn't know where he got the strength to stand up and block the scorching cigarette butt for Gu Yiming. His eyes were fierce, not afraid of the pain at all. He just frowned and said angrily: "Don't touch my brother!"
The burning cigarette butt devoured the boy's eyebrows, spreading the flames to his skin. From then on, a scar was left on that skin, and no eyebrows would grow back, leaving his brow peak broken off.
Chen Song occasionally asked him where the scar came from. Gu Xingjue simply smiled and changed the subject. This wasn't just a scar on his body, but an indelible wound in his heart. Every time he saw the scar in the mirror, he would remember everything that had happened.
This is a striking sign, warning him not to believe any flattery or fawning anymore, and not to trust people's hearts easily anymore.
So whenever Chen Song asked, he didn't want to answer, and didn't want to think about that night again.
Protecting Gu Yiming is the education that Ye Ai has been ingrained in his bones since he was a child, and it has penetrated into his heart imperceptibly.
They finally waited until reinforcements arrived. Ye Ai rushed to Gu Yiming as if she hadn't seen him, anxiously and carefully checking where Gu Yiming was injured. After the examination, she immediately picked him up and left.
Gu Xingjue suddenly grabbed Ye Ai's skirt and asked, "Mom?"
Ye Ai slapped his hand away and questioned him with red eyes: "Gu Xingjue! Why did you take Xiao Yi out!?"
Gu Xingjue was startled by the shouting and stood there in shock. He watched Ye Ai carrying Gu Yiming away from him. His father stayed by Ye Ai's side, comforting the mother and son.
The bodyguard beside him came over and picked him up and followed them, but Gu Xingjue still felt like he was left there.
He also wanted to hide in Ye Ai's arms and cry. Wasn't he her child?
Gu Yan hugged Ye Ai, Gu Yiming lay in Ye Ai's arms, and he lay in the arms of the bodyguard. The three of them looked like a family.
In the middle of the night, Gu Xingjue heard Ye Ai and Gu Yan arguing. There was a sound of falling objects in the study.
There was a man's roar in his voice: "They are brothers! Ah Jue is just his brother, just a little naughty. How could he have the thoughts you have at such a young age, only about ten years old! I think you are so anxious that you have lost your mind! They are your children, how could you..."
"Xiao Yi is my child! He is my biological child! Gu Xingjue is your son, not mine! For so many years, I have been watching his face, trying my best to coax him. If I do something that makes him unhappy, I have to coax him for a long time. Haven't I seen his face enough over the years!?"
"I don't want anything, but my son can't be hurt again!"
"You are totally unreasonable!" Gu Yan didn't want to argue with her anymore. He opened the door angrily and walked out. Seeing Gu Xingjue standing at the door, he was stunned for a moment, turned around and pointed at Ye Ai, "Look at what you have done!"
When Ye Ai saw Gu Xingjue, the flames were extinguished instantly and he became much more rational.
Gu Yan snorted coldly, slammed the door and left, never to return.
Ye Ai straightened her messy hair, tucked the loose strands behind her ears, walked over to Gu Xingjue, squatted down, touched his face, and said with a gentle smile, "A-Ajue, Mom didn't mean that. Mom was just too worried about Xiao, too worried about you two, so... in the heat of the moment, I said some excessive words. Mom apologizes to you, and I hope you don't take it to heart."
"I don't want to harm Xiaoyi because you are my mother." Gu Xingjue looked at her and said.
Twenty-three-year-old Gu Xingjue was trapped in this thirteen-year-old body, unable to move. What he wanted to say and what he wanted to do were all impossible to achieve. He could only watch helplessly as all this happened again.
But when everything happened again, he would still give priority to Gu Yiming. Because it was Ye Ai who taught him, and he couldn't forget it.
It was that night that Gu Xingjue saw through all of Ye Ai's disguises. It turned out that Ye Ai had never loved him from the beginning to the end. Everything she had done was just a means for her to enter the Gu family and become the mistress.
Everything is fake. Ye Ai is no different from those who curry favor with him and covet the power and money of the Gu family, and she is no different from the many women who have hooked up with Gu Yan.
Even so, Gu Xingjue didn't take his anger out on her in the end. He acquiesced to Ye Ai's identity and left home on his own, rarely returning. Ye Ai expressed her guilt towards him, often calling him back and asking about his well-being, but Gu Xingjue knew that she never wanted him to go back.
He also gradually understood why Ye Ai was often strict with her brother and indulgent with herself. It was because she wanted Gu Yiming to be the heir in the future, not him.
His only responsibility is to be an uneducated, dissolute rich second generation.
Gu Xingjue wanders around, searching for the meaning of his existence, but he has no solution. He can only feel the existence of life through extreme sports that bring him infinitely close to death.
Until he met Chen Song.
A fool who said he would give it to his family.
A fool who mistakenly thought he was a poor bricklayer and tried to introduce him to a job.
A fool who will keep waiting for him even after his hot and cold behavior disappears at any time.
One, the only fool in the world who loved him, whom he lost.
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