The distance was short, very close, yet it felt like an eternity to him.
Gong Ning lay quietly on the operating table, her small, pale face pale and bluish.
Anhe was as peaceful as if she had entered a tranquil dream, just as she usually slept quietly and obediently.
The man held her small, delicate hand and gently stroked it as usual, but he could clearly feel the temperature of her palm gradually getting colder and colder.
Just like at this moment, his heart was slowly turning cold and desolate...
The man gently leaned down, bringing his face close to hers, and pleaded humbly, as if whispering, "Gong Ning, please don't sleep, please don't sleep, wake up, please wake up!"
He struggled to grasp her hand, cupping it in his palm and breathing on it to try and dispel the icy warmth. "You said that once you could see again, we would go to the sea together, and you would listen to my stories for the rest of your life. Don't fall asleep, okay? Don't leave me alone..."
"You're all I have left..."
A few tears welled up in the man's eyes, dripping onto her snow-white, translucent cheek—precious, fleeting, like crystal…
"drop--"
The machine roared to life, and Yan Jingzhou froze on the spot.
A moment later, he blankly raised his head and stared silently at the flat vital signs curve on the screen...
After a few seconds of stunned silence, an overwhelming sense of panic surged within me, spreading throughout my entire body…
Suddenly, Yan Jingzhou, at a loss, picked up Gong Ning and held her tightly in his arms, patting her gently.
As if coaxing a child, as always, as if trying to hold her tightly, to hold onto her as she slips away, "Jiaojiao, Gongning, Gongning, don't scare me, don't be naughty, don't sleep, wake up, Gongning, wake up..."
His eyes brimmed with blood, tears welling up, and he uncontrollably kissed her forehead, his Adam's apple bobbing as he choked out, "Come back, don't leave me, Gong Ning, come back, come back!"
No one responded to him anymore; only the constant whirring of the machines filled the room.
Yanyun Hospital fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
Inside the car outside the hospital, the elderly man seemed to age decades in an instant upon receiving the devastating news.
"master!"
"Jingzhou, I'm afraid... he'll never forgive me..."
………
Half a month later, Xingzhan Garden entered August.
Despite it being the height of summer, the vast manor was filled with quiet and oppressive atmosphere.
But the outside world doesn't seem to be much better.
After the extremely mysterious banquet of the Yan clan ended, everyone in the upper-class circles knew that the young master Yan's fiancée was vomiting blood and had been issued critical condition notices several times.
The major families who usually had their eyes on the position of the Yan clan chief's wife no longer had the leisure to gloat or rejoice.
After the banquet, Liangcheng changed completely, descending into chaos overnight.
The reason is simple: the Su family fell from grace.
Su Cheng, the second daughter of the Su family, was suddenly exposed in a video of her using drugs in a night bar.
At the same time, a video of Su Zhenzhi, the head of the Su family, offering bribes went viral.
Immediately afterwards, Su's stock price plummeted to its daily limit, and Su's declared bankruptcy.
Madam Su committed suicide by jumping off a building. Su Zhenzhi learned of this, and Su Cheng was arrested. Later, news spread that Su Cheng had committed suicide in a drug rehabilitation center.
The eldest daughter of the Su family, Su Yang, has disappeared for a time.
In just a few moments, this once-promising rising star was defeated without warning.
Although the Su family did not have the deep foundation of ordinary aristocratic families, the wealth they possessed was something that ordinary people could not acquire even after several lifetimes of hard work. Yet, it was destroyed overnight.
Everything happened too coincidentally, making one unconsciously think of the few words Yan Shao left behind when he departed that day.
Everyone was horrified; the thought of it filled them with dread.
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