Chapter 45 (1/2)

Translator: Noodletown Translated  Editor: Noodletown Translated

Huo Mian couldn’t remember how she managed to leave her apartment and how she got to the hospital’s emergency room.

The operating room was already closed, and a group of people was waiting outside the door.

She saw her mother collapsed in a chair in the hallway, wracking with heart-wrenching sobs.

“Mom, how’s Zhixin?”

“Oh, my poor Zhixin. You have got to be okay. How will mom live with herself otherwise?” As though she was unable to see Huo Mian, Yang Meirong continued to wail with her eyes closed.

Two young nurses walked over, intending on scolding her to keep it down. They were surprised when they saw Huo Mian. “Huo Mian, are you the patient’s family, too?”

Huo Mian nodded, her face pale. “Weiwei, how’s my little brother? What’s the situation?”

“We don’t know yet. But it was pretty scary when they brought him in. His heart rate was irregular, and his blood pressure was frighteningly high… The attending is trying to save him. You have to wait for now.”

“Okay, I understand.”

Huo Mian felt the strength drain out of her body; she was close to collapsing.

They were just eating lunch together around noon, chatting and laughing. How could something like this happen in the same afternoon?

If anything were to happen to Zhixin, she couldn’t imagine how she and her mother could continue living on this Earth.

Seven years ago, Uncle Jing’s death had already veiled their family in a sheet of frost. If something were to happen to her brother now, she was afraid that she would lose the courage to live.

By now, she noticed that other families were crying outside the operating room, and only then did it occur to her to ask what happened.

A middle-aged man, about forty years old and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, walked over.

Huo Mian recognized him. He was Jing Zhixin’s university professor.

“Professor Sun, what in the world happened?”