Chapter 318: Making Amends for Past Sins

Jiangzhou.

Shi Youxuan's Apartment.

"Ranran, can you please stop crying? You're giving me a headache." Jian Yixin tossed the doll in her hand aside, sprawled her limbs out, and lay on the living room floor in a very unladylike manner.

"Sob... I want Mommy, I want Uncle, give me either one!"

Shi Ran imitated Jian Yixin's posture, sprawling her limbs out on the floor.

But she wasn't just lying there; she kept waving her arms and kicking her short little legs, wailing as she cried: "Where did Mommy and Uncle go? Did they go away together and leave me behind? I want to go with them too..."

"Ouch—"

Shi Ran kicked Jian Yining in the waist, and she cried out in pain.

Don't let the little one's size fool you; she had quite a bit of strength, and her kicks were especially painful, yet Jian Yixin still couldn't do anything about her.

Not only could she do nothing, but she couldn't even manage to play dead.

She swore: she would definitely not have children after getting married; children were little ancestors that one simply couldn't afford to provoke!

She had only been looking after Shi Ran for a few days, and she was so worried she felt like her hair was about to fall out.

Small children were so hard to take care of; nothing she did worked.

Just as she was feeling utterly distressed and hopeless, the doorbell rang: "Ding-dong—"

Both of them leaped up from the floor at the same time, racing to open the door.

Shi Ran: "It must be Mommy coming back."

Jian Yixin: "It's not your mommy, it's my fiancé."

Jian Yixin won; the person pressing the doorbell was indeed Sheng Zerong. He brought them food and some daily necessities, and of course, news from the hospital.

"Big Brother still hasn't woken up, but the doctor said he is already out of danger. It's thanks to his heart being in a different position than other people's; otherwise, even an immortal couldn't have saved him." Sheng Zerong was still terrified every time he mentioned this.

Jian Yixin agreed: "Right, those who survive a great disaster are bound to have good fortune later. He will definitely make it through this crisis safely, don't you worry."

At the time, Xiao Fang had arrived with people to take them away, and the police arrived shortly after.

They began a city-wide search.

At the same time, Jian Yixin also called Sheng Zerong. Sheng Zerong, Yun Zhehao, and Wang Yong led all the manpower they could muster to start searching for them.

People split into several groups, following the tracks left by the van. Wang Yong and his men were the first to find that abandoned factory and Sheng Hanyu lying in a pool of blood!

When Wang Yong saw where the knife was plunged, his heart went cold halfway.

But he had experience; without panicking, he first placed his finger under Sheng Hanyu's nose and could feel a faint breath.

He immediately had people carefully lift Sheng Hanyu onto the car to lie flat, then drove it himself, heading to the hospital quickly and steadily.

It was also fortunate that the first person to discover Sheng Hanyu was Wang Yong; if it had been someone without experience, they might have panicked and pulled the knife out, and the man would not have survived.

Sheng Hanyu's heart was not on the left side, but on the right; since the knife didn't hit the right place, it wasn't a major issue.

However, he had just donated eight hundred CCs of blood to Shi Ran, and his body hadn't recovered yet. The excessive blood loss led to impaired blood supply to the brain, which was why he hadn't woken up even after several days.

These past few days, everyone had taken turns going to the hospital to look after Sheng Hanyu.

Calling it "looking after" was really just putting on a sterile gown and going into the intensive care unit to talk to him.

The doctor said that if he didn't wake up within a week in his condition, he was likely to remain a vegetable forever!

They suggested having someone the patient cared about most come to his side to talk, as it could help wake him up.

The person Sheng Hanyu cared about most was Shi Youxuan, but they didn't know what her situation was now. Wang Yong had already volunteered to return to L Country, swearing before he left—he would definitely bring her back in one piece!

There was another person Sheng Hanyu cared about, which was Shi Ran, but Shi Ran was too young, and everyone was afraid she wouldn't be able to handle it, so they didn't let her go.

But several days had already passed, and Sheng Hanyu still showed no signs of waking up.

Sheng Zerong had come this time to discuss with Jian Yixin the idea of taking Shi Ran to the hospital to see Sheng Hanyu, hoping the child could wake him up.

"What did Aunt say?"

Jian Yixin couldn't make up her mind about this kind of thing either.

"Aunt said it's okay to let the child try." She nodded: "Alright, I'll go talk to the child."

"I want to go see Uncle, let's go right now." The little one didn't know when she had stood behind them; she had heard every single word they said.

Jiangzhou Central Hospital.

There were no sterile gowns for children, so Jian Yining specially made one for her that fit well.

After washing her hands and disinfecting in the hallway, then putting on the sterile gown, the little girl came to the hospital bed and saw Uncle lying there!

"Daddy."

Shi Ran said: "Uncle Ze Rong and Aunt Yixin said you are my daddy, is that true?"

Sheng Hanyu's left ring finger moved imperceptibly.

Shi Ran walked around the bed and saw many tubes connected to instruments at one end and to Uncle's body at the other; she was a little scared.

Uncle's face was so pale, as white as paper, not like the Uncle who usually played with her.

Shi Ran gathered her courage and took Sheng Hanyu's hand, saying in a soft, cute voice: "Uncle, say something? Tell me, is what they said true? Are you really my daddy..."

In the monitoring room on the other side of the hospital ward, the doctor pointed at the indicators on the instrument and said happily: "Quick, everyone look."

Sheng Hanyu's blood pressure began to rise, from a systolic of seventy and diastolic of fifty-two, quickly rising to a systolic of one hundred and diastolic of seventy.

His heartbeat also went from thirty-seven or eight beats to over fifty.

But it was still unstable, fluctuating up and down.

Sheng Zerong didn't understand medicine, but he understood the doctor's expression, and asked with great anticipation: "Doctor, please explain clearly, is this good or bad?"

Jian Yixin patted him on the head: "Silly, of course it's good; Ranran going in had an effect!"

Shi Ran chatted with Sheng Hanyu inside for over half an hour.

The little girl was a bit reserved at first, but she adapted very quickly.

She didn't just sit obediently by the hospital bed; she not only chatted with Sheng Hanyu but also sang and danced for him.

She was very careful when she danced, staying far away from the instruments for fear of tripping over the tubes and harming her uncle.

Shi Ran was still not quite used to calling Sheng Hanyu "Dad."

She kept forgetting, so she alternated between calling him "Uncle" and "Dad."

The title "Dad" was something Jian Yixin had told her to use while they were in the car.

Jian Yixin had said, "Ranran, if you want Uncle to get better as soon as possible, you can't call him Uncle anymore; you have to call him Dad."

"If you call him Dad, he will definitely wake up very soon."

Sheng Zerong kept criticizing her on the side, telling her not to speak like that, saying that calling him that without Shi Youxuan's permission would surely cause a huge scene if Shi Youxuan found out.

Jian Yixin told him not to interfere, insisting on teaching Shi Ran to call him that, and asked what he was going to do about it.

She was Sheng Hanyu's daughter to begin with, so what was wrong with calling him that?

Shouldn't she?

She wasn't afraid of offending Shi Youxuan at all; that woman had never liked her anyway, so she didn't care about adding one or two more things to the list.

Jian Yixin raised her eyebrows triumphantly and said to Sheng Zerong, "How about that? Isn't my method good?"

"Good, you're the best."

Sheng Zerong gave her a thumbs up: "Just wait for Shi Youxuan to return to the country and hunt you down."

"I'm not afraid of her; she should thank me for saving her daughter and send me a gift."