Just in Time Chapter 71
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 71 Explanation
Yun Fang had been issued three critical condition notices in a row. Tang Yi, who had hurried over, could no longer stand and was helped by a policewoman to sit on a chair, crying inconsolably.
Yi Chenliang leaned against the wall without moving, his gaze always falling on the door of the operating room.
After an unknown amount of time, the door was finally opened. Yun Fang lay on the stretcher with a pale face, an oxygen mask covering his face.
“…He’s temporarily out of danger, we’ll observe him overnight. The patient’s will to live is very strong…” The doctor was talking to Tang Yi. Yi Chenliang stared at the person lying down, straightened up and took a step forward.
But after just one step, his vision went black, and he fell straight to the ground.
People around him were in a flurry trying to help him.
“I’m fine.” Yi Chenliang’s voice sounded distant even to himself amidst the chaos, only feeling his feet firmly stepping on the ground again.
“I’m fine.”
He repeated it once more.
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[This is a case of a violent kidnapping. There were three hostages in total, two of whom were seventeen-year-old high school students from Wu City No.1 High School, and a six-year-old child. The kidnappers were two extremely vicious criminals who had committed multiple serial murders and violent kidnappings. They usually kill the hostage after getting the money…]
[This time, the kidnappers didn’t even have time to call for a ransom before the police received a mysterious emergency call. The content of the call is not convenient to disclose, but based on this call, the police quickly arrived at the abandoned Qiushan Orphanage…]
[In the abandoned warehouse behind the orphanage, two hostages were found. One of them had been shot in the right shoulder and lost too much blood, falling into a coma. The other had lost consciousness due to a blow to the head. But the two strong kidnappers were also unconscious on the ground, seriously injured. The third kidnapped child was not at the scene of the crime…]
The recent uproar over the kidnapping case was being broadcasted on the hospital’s local news.
Wang Lianhua sat in the hospital chair, speaking to Tang Yi, “We went into the forest to search for the child. We heard crying. When we rushed over, the child was holding a handgun, standing next to Yun Fang who had already lost consciousness.”
“No one knows why he suddenly appeared there. He was seriously injured. We extracted the kidnapper’s DNA from the bloodstains on his school uniform. The wounds on his body also matched…We deduced that he subdued the two kidnappers…”
Tang Yi turned pale upon hearing this, “Impossible, my Sugar, he doesn’t even dare to kill a chicken, how could he kill a person?”
“Miss Tang, you misunderstood. The two kidnappers did not die, and they are already out of danger.” Wang Lianhua said, “Does Yun Fang have any hobbies? Like martial arts?”
“No… his health has always been not very good. His father and I don’t even let him carry a bag of rice.” Tang Yi wiped her tears, “He just likes to read books, do puzzles. He doesn’t even like to go out for a walk. Officer, did you make a mistake? Sugar can’t fight, he can’t beat anyone…”
Yi Chenliang closed the door of the ward, isolating the conversation outside.
He walked to the bedside, looking at Yun Fang on the bed, his breathing weak.
He had been lying on the bed for three days, and there was still no sign of waking up.
The doctor said he would wake up at the earliest tomorrow. They could try calling his name to wake him up.
Yi Chenliang gently held his hand.
“Yi Chenliang.” Yi Chenliang didn’t dare to use force. The other’s fingers were cold, without any response. He called him again softly, “Yi Chenliang, wake up.”
Whether it was Tang Yi or the doctor, they all called him Yun Fang. They were calling Yun Fang, but the Yi Chenliang lying on the bed couldn’t hear.
So he could only choose a time when no one was around, repeating his own name to the person on the bed over and over again.
“Yi Chenliang, Yi Chenliang.”
“Yi Chenliang…wake up.”
Three days later, Qi Huo, who was still lively despite his cast, dragged Chang Ziqi to see Yun Fang. Because Qi Huo was too noisy, they were soon chased back to their respective wards by the nurse.
Yun Heyu came back from outside on the third day. Tang Yi was worried that he was not steady while driving, so she didn’t tell him on the day. After telling him the next day, he left his truck in the service area and hurried back by bus. After he came back, Tang Yi seemed to have finally found her backbone, and she threw herself into his arms, crying so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath.
But no matter who it was, no one knew why Yun Fang suddenly appeared there, and why he was able to subdue two felons, seriously injured.
“Xiao Yi, eat something.” Tang Yi opened the bone soup she brought from home. Yun Fang couldn’t eat anything, she brought it for Yi Chenliang.
No matter how long Yun Fang lay there, Yi Chenliang accompanied him for the same amount of time. His complexion was even worse than Yun Fang’s on the bed. She and Yun Heyu persuaded him to go to school, but they couldn’t persuade him.
“Sugar will wake up soon, his hand moved this morning.” Tang Yi handed him the bowl, “The doctor said it will be in these two days.”
Yi Chenliang nodded, huddled in the corner holding the bowl and drinking soup. He hung his eyes, the bottom of his eyes was dark blue, his eye sockets had sunk in, and the whole person was silent and dead.
Tang Yi felt heartbroken when she saw it.
She didn’t know why, but seeing Yi Chenliang was like seeing Yun Fang now. Although they were two completely different people, they both made her heart ache.
Her Sugar seemed to have changed into a different person after being rescued from suicide. Sometimes he even felt strange to her as a mother. Naturally, she had doubts in her heart, but she felt it was too absurd, and she didn’t dare to tell Yun Heyu.
Maybe it was because of the brush with death, his personality changed greatly, and he was no longer as close to her.
Tang Yi could only think so.
Tang Yi touched Yun Fang’s forehead, “Sugar, wake up soon. Mom and Dad are waiting for you. Mom made your favorite braised pork.”
A few months ago, her Sugar’s favorite food was not braised pork.
In the final analysis, a mother who loves her child is not so easily deceived.
Unless she is willing.
She had already lost Sugar once, and she didn’t want to lose him a second time no matter what.
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Yun Fang woke up after being in a coma for a week.
He slept until his bones were soft, as if the weary and tired soul of many years had finally slept a long and steady sleep, completely merging into this resurrected body. The pain and fatigue of his soul finally became one with this body, inseparable.
In front of him was a blurry white. He raised his hand to touch his glasses, only to remember that his previous glasses were broken.
“Sugar!” Tang Yi, who was dozing off, suddenly woke up, reached out to press down his raised arm, “Don’t move, you’re on an IV. I’ll go call the doctor!”
Yun Fang opened his mouth, his throat was terribly hoarse. His gaze circled the room, and he didn’t find the person he wanted to see in his blurry vision.
Before he could feel disappointed, a hurried footsteps rushed into the ward, but hesitated to walk in front of him.
Yi Chenliang’s heart was pounding. He pursed his lips and cautiously and carefully called out three words, “Yi Chenliang?”
With a nervous expectation and uncertain fear.
The more he hoped Yun Fang would wake up, the more he feared Yun Fang waking up.
The idea of borrowing a corpse to resurrect a soul, which was beyond his worldview and understanding, was full of absurdity and unknowns. He didn’t know who would wake up from Yun Fang’s body this time.
He agonized and speculated for seven days, considering countless possibilities. Except for the one he hoped for the most, all other results were unbearable for him.
He looked at the person who woke up, wanting to get close, but dared not.
He was afraid to hear the other person ask who are you, afraid to meet the kind of eyes that look at strangers.
He had already lost once in his dreams. If it happened again in reality, he would go mad.
The person lying on the bed tugged at the corner of his mouth, and his eyebrows and eyes were all tinged with a smile, “I’m here.”
Just these two words.
The heart that had been hanging in the air for a long time finally landed with a thud. The calm and composed demeanor he had been holding up these days suddenly collapsed. The person who had been standing straight with a blank expression on his face slumped his shoulders, as if he had finally found his lost soul and returned to this world exhausted.
Yi Chenliang suddenly thought, so surviving a disaster and regaining what was lost is such a heavy joy.
Yi Chenliang sat dazedly by the bed, Yun Fang couldn’t see his expression clearly, and reached out to gently hook his little finger.
“Xiao Yi.” Yun Fang’s voice carried the gentleness Yi Chenliang was accustomed to.
“I saw you waiting for me.”
Yi Chenliang suddenly reddened his eyes, gritting his teeth and staring at him fiercely.
Warm droplets of water fell on Yun Fang’s hand. He raised his hand and just touched the corner of Yi Chenliang’s eye when he was caught by him.
“Don’t be afraid.” Yun Fang pinched his fingers, “I…”
Footsteps came from outside the ward, and Tang Yi brought the doctor into the ward.
After a series of complicated checks, the doctor said to Tang Yi, “…The patient is fine, let him eat liquid food for now…”
Tang Yi seriously remembered what the doctor had said, thanking the doctor repeatedly.
After the doctor left, Tang Yi sat down on the chair next to the bed as if she had lost all her strength, looking at Yun Fang with red eyes.
Yun Fang felt guilty under her gaze and called out to her in a hoarse voice, “Mom.”
Tang Yi couldn’t hold back her momentum, she slapped the quilt and cried out, “You still know I’m your mom!”
Yun Fang pursed his lips and didn’t dare to speak.
“How dare you!” Tang Yi wanted to hit him, but she couldn’t bear to. She cried and scolded, “You even dared to fight with the kidnappers! Are there not enough police without you, a high school student!? You lied to me and Xiao Yi, who taught you to lie!”
Yun Fang didn’t dare to refute.
Yi Chenliang reacted belatedly, and his gaze towards him also became less friendly.
Yun Fang: “…”
Tang Yi got angry and grabbed his ear, “You don’t let me have a day’s peace! I gave birth to you only to find trouble for myself!”
“Hisss-- Mom, it hurts.” Yun Fang lay stiffly on the bed and couldn’t dodge, he could only beg for mercy.
Yi Chenliang quickly stopped Tang Yi, “Auntie, be gentle, he’s not well yet! Don’t pull it off!”
Tang Yi was also angry, she let go of her hand and wiped her tears incessantly, “You heartless one!”
More than one person had scolded him for being heartless, cold-blooded, he either listened indifferently or sneered, but Tang Yi’s scolding made him feel warm inside.
This feeling was too strange, strange enough to make him at a loss.
But he didn’t dislike it.
“Mom, I’m sorry.” He apologized sincerely to Tang Yi.
A mother’s heart was always too soft. Seeing her son lying on the bed with a pale face and a soft voice saying sorry, her heartache took over.
Yi Chenliang and Yun Fang saw Tang Yi’s expression soften, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
But what was more terrifying than Tang Yi’s anger was Yun Heyu’s anger.
Mr. Yun Heyu, as the head of the Yun family, seemed to always be at the bottom of the food chain. He always said yes and okay to his wife and son, worked hard and diligently, and could handle both the hall and the kitchen. In Yun Fang’s memory, this good old man had never lost his temper.
But this time he was angry.
Apart from the surprise on his face when he first entered the ward after learning that he had woken up, he had a stern face for the rest of the time.
“Yun Fang, you must explain well.” Yun Heyu stared at Yun Fang with a serious expression, “Do you know how worried your mother and Xiao Yi have been these days? Do you know what you’ve scared everyone into? You’re seventeen, not a child, you should know what consequences your actions can have. You tell me and your mother, and Xiao Yi, what were you thinking.”
Someone who could remain calm even on the brink of life and death was stared at by three pairs of questioning eyes, and for once, he felt what it was like to be at a loss.