IJCFIARFS Chapter 3

“Oh no, an asthma patient is having an attack! Is there a doctor? Get over here quickly!”

Amidst the exhaust smoke filled with the smell of gasoline, a firefighter with a black face shouted at the top of his lungs.

“I’ll do it!”

Lin Zhiyu had just finished bandaging a wounded person’s head, and he ran over and saw that it was a little girl who was no more than seven or eight years old. He squatted down and said to the firefighter, “Quick, help me put the patient in a semi-recumbent position, let her waist lean forward, good, good! Where are her parents? Ask them where her medicine is.”

“Her mother was seriously injured and unconscious. She was just sent to the ambulance. The child was fine just now, but she suddenly started to gasp for air for some reason!”

“Has the ambulance left?” Lin Zhiyu looked around.

A nurse happened to come over to help: “Three of the cars have already left, and there is a seriously ill patient in another one. There are no spare ventilators, and the regular dexamethasone is gone! We must find this little girl’s medicine!”

Lin Zhiyu’s heart sank as if it were weighed by a thousand pounds. He patted the girl’s back and gently said, “Don’t be afraid, little girl. Tell me where your medicine is. Do you remember where the medicine you used when you couldn’t breathe before is?”

“Ho…hoho…Mom, hoho mom-mom…”

The little girl’s face was flushed, she was on the verge of fainting from gasping for breath, and tears were streaming down her face.

“Little girl, do you have any asthma spray in your car? Can you tell me? I’ll go get it.” The nurse asked anxiously.

But the little girl seemed to have lost the ability to think because of fear. She had no idea how to answer and even breathing was painful.

“This won’t work. Where is this little girl’s car? I’ll go find it.” Lin Zhiyu looked at the firefighters.

“It’s the only blue car at the front of the accident site, I’ll go!” said the firefighter, then stood up and ran towards the car.

But when he ran over, he found that there was no medicine in the trunk, which could barely be opened. There was a medicine box under the flattened passenger seat.

But the passenger seat was so squashed that the door couldn’t be opened, and even the window had been squeezed to only one-third of its original size.

The firefighter carefully smashed the car window and stretched out his arms as hard as he could to get the stuck medicine box out, but he couldn’t. Finally, he put in a lot of effort to open the lid of the medicine box, but the first layer of the medicine box was filled with medicine bottles, and he had no idea which one was the asthma medicine.

When he was frowning and preparing to take out all the bottles and take them back, a strong force suddenly grabbed his shoulders and lifted him. After he stood firm, he found that it was the handsome young man who helped him save the little girl just now.

The firefighter’s eyes widened: “What are you doing here? It’s dangerous here!”

“It will be more efficient for me to find the medicine. Go help the others. I see your teammates are looking for someone to help lift the car.”

Lin Zhiyu waited for two minutes and when no one came back, he knew that there might be a problem.

He leaned over and glanced at the medicine cabinet: “There’s no asthma spray here.”

“There isn’t?”

The firefighter was stunned.

“Yes, at least not on the first floor.” Lin Zhiyu leaned forward desperately, his arm was scratched by the sharp iron piece protruding from the car window, and blood gushed out, but he seemed to feel no pain.

He pushed open the first layer with all his strength, but suddenly heard a loud shout behind him.

“This is bad!”

“Don’t look anymore, retreat!” The young firefighter stared in horror at the oily trunk of the overturned truck in front of him. A few crackling sparks were faintly visible.

He desperately waved his arms at everyone around him, yelling loudly: “Oh no, it’s going to explode, evacuate – quickly! Evacuate!!!”

Upon hearing this, the faces of several nearby firefighters changed drastically. They rushed to escape with the injured on the racks. As for the injured who were still stuck in the car with spinal injuries, they did not bother to rescue them slowly, but carried them out roughly and took them away at a high speed.

Lin Zhiyu did not move. His face was stern and his brows were tightly furrowed. He made up his mind and forcefully opened the second layer of the medicine box.

I saw that there were indeed two bottles of Fluticasone among the densely packed medicine bottles at the bottom!

Lin Zhiyu gritted his teeth and just as he reached out to take it, a photo floated down from the bottom of the second-layer medicine box like a falling leaf. On the photo was the little girl with asthma and a white-haired old man holding her. Behind the old man stood a smiling couple.

On the photo in childish handwriting, was written: “I love my family.”

This old man turned out to be Jiang Guoping, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, who had awarded Lin Zhiyu the Youth Award.

Lin Zhiyu was stunned, and heard a heart-wrenching roar behind him, “Run! Stop looking for medicine, run!!!”

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Lin Zhiyu’s mind. His eyes were dark and his face was grim. Instead of running away, he reached out to grab the medicine.

As soon as he grabbed a bottle of medicine, a sharp sense of crisis and desire to survive suddenly rushed up from Lin Zhiyu’s feet to his scalp and exploded fiercely! In an instant, Lin Zhiyu’s adrenaline seemed to have reached its peak. He suddenly stood up and ran desperately. His ears were filled with the whirring of blood and his rapid heartbeat. He didn’t know how many seconds had passed, and suddenly he heard a sky-shattering explosion behind him.

“BOOM—-!”

A tremendous force rushed over, and Lin Zhiyu was pushed forward. Intense pain exploded in his back as if his skin and bones were forcefully split open.

Blood was pouring out, but Lin Zhiyu was unaware of it until he crawled several meters away, leaving a trail of blood, and then he heard screams from the other side.

“Don’t move, don’t move—”

Two firefighters rushed over, picked up Lin Zhiyu, who was covered in blood and put him on a stretcher. Lin Zhiyu gritted his teeth and didn’t cry out. He raised his hand holding the medicine bottle. Blood flowed down his arm into his fingers, staining the medicine bottle blood red.

“To that kid…”

“What on earth is wrong with you…!” The black-faced firefighter’s eyes were red. He stared at Lin Zhiyu, but in the end, he just wiped his face, took the medicine bottle, and ran out.

After he brought the medicine to the medical staff, he immediately ran back.

“Ambulances from the Sixth Hospital and the 303 Hospital will be here soon. Just hold on. Scream if it hurts.”

Looking at the person in front of him who looked worried that he might fail, Lin Zhiyu was a little dazed. Things were different now.

It was completely different from the days that had been etched into his bones and torture that made his life worse than death…

Lin Zhiyu squinted his eyes and looked at the sky, which was pitch black but with a faint silvery light at the edge.

Suddenly said: “That’s great…”

” That’s great?!”

The black-faced firefighter was stunned for a moment, then he almost yelled with red eyes, “You almost died, you died! Your back was blown to pieces, and you still say it’s, okay?!”

“I told you to retreat, why didn’t you retreat?!”

The medical staff who rushed over were also very anxious. “The injury is serious. Hurry, the ambulance is coming, send the ambulance.”

“No need.” Lin Zhiyu said, “My condition is not that serious. Leave the ambulance to others.”

“Five or six cars have just arrived. That’s enough, enough this time!” the black-faced firefighter shouted.

“Yes, most of the injured have been sent to the hospital.” The medical staff also said hurriedly. She stared at Lin Zhiyu, her eyes full of worry and disbelief.

Most people with this kind of injury would have died from the pain or fainted, so why did this good-looking young man in front of her look so calm, as if it was only a minor injury? She had been a nurse for decades and had never seen or heard of anyone who could endure pain so well.

It’s unbelievable.

Upon hearing that most of the injured had been sent to the hospital and that there were sufficient resources, Lin Zhiyu no longer insisted.

“Okay then.”

Lin Zhiyu glanced at the nervous faces of the nurse and the firefighter, and suddenly he was a little dazed.

Was his injury really serious?

But compared to my previous life, this injury is like a broken finger, which is not even worth mentioning.

He seemed to have become numb from the inhuman torture…

But none of these matter anymore.

The important thing is——

He won the bet.

Lin Zhiyu was sent to the hospital and underwent surgery immediately, but things did not go well during the operation.

Because he refused general anesthesia and the doctor insisted on it, the operation was delayed.

In the end, the doctor could not persuade Lin Zhiyu, who was about to bleed to death and had to operate using local anesthesia. However, the effect and duration of local anesthesia were not as good as general anesthesia. Throughout the process, the doctors and nurses were worried that Lin Zhiyu would struggle or faint from the pain, but they witnessed his terrifying endurance in disbelief.

During the entire process, Lin Zhiyu did not make a sound, nor did he struggle at all, his eyes were so calm that the doctor was shocked at first and then terrified. In the end, he couldn’t help but wonder if Lin Zhiyu had a sensory disorder that caused him to lose his sense of pain.

Lin Zhiyu did not explain. He just opened his calm eyes and looked at everything in front of him.

He didn’t want to fall asleep, because he would most likely be taken away by the Ruan family. He couldn’t fall asleep either, because he could finally catch a breath and think carefully about his past life and everything he saw before his death…

Those scenes played like a kaleidoscope in the depths of Lin Zhiyu’s mind. He looked at himself and his family’s miserable struggles, and in the end, he couldn’t help but tear up.

It seemed that only at this moment did he truly feel the reality of being reborn.

Lin Zhiyu hated himself. Why was he reborn so late?

At this moment, his father and sister are in prison and his mother…

On the day his father and sister were arrested, she went to the company to look for evidence but was hit and killed on the spot before she reached the company. He returned to school on the third day after his mother’s funeral, and then he received a notice of expulsion that hit him in the face, and then he was imprisoned in the dark and suffered inhuman torture.

A tear slid down the corner of his eye, and Lin Zhiyu closed his eyes.

Mother…….

“Does it hurt?!” a medical staff member asked hurriedly.

It hurts.

It hurts so much.

But it’s not his body that was in pain.

The pain and hatred that was enough to destroy his soul left Lin Zhiyu breathless. In the end, he just held on and tried his best to hold back his tears.

Ruan Family…

Wait for him.

**

“What? Not done yet?”

An extremely cold voice came from the cell phone. It was the hottest day of the year, but the man with a crew cut in the black car had cold sweat on his back.

He reported carefully: “I’m sorry, Third Master, there was a problem with the operation. Lin Zhiyu has been sent to the hospital by a group of people. I promise to take him away today.”

Mr. Ruan Sanye didn’t want to know why Lin Zhiyu was sent to the hospital again, he only cared about the result.

“Three hours.”

“Yes…Yes, Master San, I will complete the task within three hours!”

“Third Uncle, what are you doing? I’ve been looking for you for a long time, why don’t you come and see me try on the dress~” A faint and charming voice suddenly came from the other side of the phone, soft, sweet, and delicate, making the spines of all the men in the car numb.

But the call was cut.

The man with the crew cut put the phone away, glanced at the people in the car, and sternly said, “Everyone, buckle up! Eighth and ninth brothers, follow me to the hospital, and the others will stay here as support. This is not just a mission but it is revenge for the young lady. Do you understand?”

“Yes!”

On the other side, Ruan Jiaojiao, wearing a high-end dress worth tens of millions, looked like an angel. She twirled her white skirt and had an innocent smile. She was so pretty and lovely.

She held Ruan Yanzheng’s arm intimately: “Third uncle, who are you calling?”

“I just sent some men to China. Good Jiaojiao, Uncle San said he would avenge you, and he will avenge you.”

Ruan Yanzheng looked doting, but his voice was icy cold: “Those who harmed you will not have a good ending.”

Then he paused and said, “Jiaojiao, do you still like Lin Zhiyu now?”

“Oh, Third uncle!”

Ruan Jiaojiao puffed up her cheeks, and her crystal clear lips pouted slightly, “What are you saying?”

“I have long…” She glanced at Ruan Yanzheng complainingly and lowered her head slightly: “I have long disliked him.”

“Really?”

“Of course.” A few tears flashed in Ruan Jiaojiao’s slightly drooped eyes, and her tone revealed uncontrollable loneliness, pain, and grievance.

Then she put on a forced smile and said, “I liked him, but that’s all in the past. How can I continue to like him when he treated me like that?”

Seeing Ruan Jiaojiao’s sad and lonely look, Ruan Yanzheng felt distressed. He narrowed his narrow eyes and his look became increasingly cold.

“Third uncle knows that you’ve suffered.”

“The hardships I suffered before were nothing. Now I am really happy to have found my true family.” (T/N: Green tea)

Ruan Jiaojiao raised her head, her delicately brushed eyelashes trembled slightly, and a sweet smile appeared on her face with a blushing face. “I am also very grateful for the torture and pain I went through in the Zhao family before. It makes me cherish, Third Uncle, even more.”

Ruan Yanzheng was extremely soft-hearted and at the same time, he was extremely angry towards the Zhao family, Lin Zhiyu, and others.

His Jiaojiao was so well-behaved, sensible, and considerate, but those people treated her like this.

He will make those people wish they were dead!

“Oh, by the way, I heard that Lin Zhiyu might have been having an affair with another senior at the time, and that senior even went on stage to give a speech with him after I confessed my feelings to him.”

As Ruan Jiaojiao spoke, the scene of Lin Zhiyu coming to Huada High School to give a speech that day emerged in her mind.

That person was so bright and handsome, sharp and talented, and his every move revealed an indescribable temperament. He deserved to be called a genius among geniuses.

But such a person was a rotten person at heart. Regardless of how much she needed light and how much pain she was in, he rejected her when she finally mustered up the courage to confess her love and pushed her into the abyss!

And the tall senior schoolmate who was standing behind that man and watching him silently, obviously liked him too. Maybe after she left China, they would be together happily.

“Which senior? Why haven’t I heard you mention this before?” Ruan Yanzheng has endless patience with Ruan Jiaojiao.

“I only found out later…” Ruan Jiaojiao lowered her head.

“I heard her name is Li Muchao, and she is also from Huazhong University.”