Chapter 406: The Person Who Is No Longer Here
Yu Linna rushed to the city center’s hospital at the fastest speed. She asked the receptionist for the patient’s room. When she arrived, Huang Jinglin was crying at the door. She had used up one tissue after another, and her eyes were red from crying. The doctor was saying something to her, and Huang Jinglin collapsed on the spot, kneeling on the ground and crying her heart out.
The unease in Yu Linna’s heart deepened. At this moment, she could imagine all the worst-case scenarios.
Her steps were so heavy. When she reached the entrance of the emergency room, she found that she couldn’t even stand straight. Her legs were trembling. How she wished that everything today was fake, that all of it was fake, that nothing was real.
But the fact was, all of this was real.
Chen Xi was being rescued in the emergency room, but it was not optimistic. The doctor was trying his best to save her, and had also exhausted all his strength. But not everyone in this world is lucky. Some people are lucky, and some people will surely be unlucky. In the end, this is just a matter of probability, a probability of whether you can get God’s happiness.
The light in the emergency room went out. The chief surgeon took off his gloves, opened the door, his face full of fatigue. Huang Jinglin hurried over to ask about the situation. The doctor said that there was not much hope. The patient’s life frequency was getting lower and lower, and continuing would not have any effect. Huang Jinglin didn’t care about that. She knelt down and begged the doctor, saying that she was willing to spend any amount of money.
The doctor also repeatedly assured them that they would do their best, that they would use their greatest efforts to complete the surgery. But the fact was, they were not confident either.
Although Chen Xi had the best doctors, the best facilities, and the best conditions, she did not have the best fate.
Yu Linna also waited bitterly with Huang Jinglin for a long time. During this time, she didn’t even eat, for fear that she would miss the doctor’s message. She waited and waited, hoping to hear good news.
But there was none.
At 8:05 in the evening on the second day after Chen Xi’s car accident, the surgery was over.
The doctor came out and took off his gloves.
“We did our best.”
The facts were in front of them. No one could change them.
Huang Jinglin once thought she had misheard. She grabbed the doctor’s collar and shook him crazily, her face full of collapse.
“Are you kidding me! Tell me, this is all fake! Tell me!”
“Please calm down.”
“Calm your mother down! You tell me, this is all fake! Tell me! How could that person, Chen Xi, just fall down like that? This must be a lie! You’re lying to me! You must be lying to me!”
As she shouted, tears couldn’t stop falling. That collapsed tear gland, and that hysterical voice, sounded so harsh to the bystanders.
Yu Linna was completely stunned, unable to come back to her senses for a long time. She looked at Huang Jinglin, at the operating room. She still couldn’t return to reality.
In the end, what Yu Linna saw was the woman on the hospital bed, covered with a white cloth, being pushed to another place by the doctor. For this woman, there was no need to stay in this place anymore.
“No, Chen Xi, this isn’t real! Let go of me, Chen Xi! Let go of me! Chen Xi… you’re lying to me! I’m going to sue you…”
Huang Jinglin grabbed the doctor’s hand, holding onto that hospital bed tightly and not letting it be taken away. She looked like a madwoman, but at this time, no one would blame her. After all, the person lying there was her best friend, the most important person in her life.
Zhao Yuyan had been at the hospital for a long time. After receiving the doctor’s notice, she could no longer hold it in and hugged Yu Linna, crying her heart out, her tears and snot all over her. Yu Linna still couldn’t come back to her senses. She was being held by someone, but she herself hadn’t shed a single tear.
The person who was fine just yesterday, did she just die like that?
Is she really gone…
Not long ago, we were still sitting together drinking coffee, talking about work, and talking about the holidays. She was clearly still fine.
How could she just be gone like that…
Sister Chen…
A sourness welled up in the corner of her eye. She didn’t know if she should cry or not. She also hugged Zhao Yuyan, her whole person becoming bewildered.
The sun in Guangnan City was bright, the light brilliant, but the inner world of the wailing person was a storm.
Chen Xi’s parents soon came to Guangnan from the countryside. Pity these old people. After seeing their daughter’s body, they collapsed on the spot. There is nothing more painful in this world than a white-haired person sending off a black-haired person. In the end, it was Chen Xi’s older brother who came to take back his younger sister’s body.
The driver who had caused the accident was already dead, and this accident had involved more than ten people, causing at least seven deaths. This accident had also made the news.
The news wrote about the misfortune of this accident, expressing condolences for the victims, and hoping that their relatives would be strong. At the same time, it condemned the act of driving tired. But as the people involved in the accident, Yu Linna and the others were not in a good mood. Only they could understand what it was like to lose a person.
It turned out that a person’s life was so fragile, that it could be taken away so easily. This was also the first time Yu Linna had known. She had never experienced death, nor had she ever sent off a dead person. This was the first time she had experienced someone close to her leaving her without any warning. The manuscript she had been holding to give to her, in the end, she had not been able to hand it over.
The news also reported that among the victims of the accident, one was an editor from Wenqing, and she was also Shion-sensei’s editor. Regarding this matter, many readers expressed their regret online, telling Shion-sensei not to be sad.
When Yu Linna returned to school, she hadn’t slept for two days, troubled by all sorts of things. Fang Jiangning felt very sad seeing her like this, prepared some hot soup for her, and told her to go and rest.
“Rest? I can’t sleep. I don’t know why. I have no mood to rest at all. Jiangning, human life is really so fragile. Why is that? Sister Chen was clearly such a good person. Why did it have to be her? So many people, why did it have to be her?”
“Linna, don’t be like this.”
“I don’t understand. Why? I really don’t understand…”
She held her head, squatted on the ground, and curled up in a corner.
“My heart hurts so much. Why does it hurt so much? I didn’t even cry at the hospital, but now it hurts so much, so much that I can hardly breathe. I really miss Sister Chen now. It would be so great if she were here…”
Yu Linna, who hadn’t cried at the hospital, was now crying in a very unseemly way, as if she had been holding it in for a long time, releasing it all at once.
To her, Sister Chen was not just her editor, but more like her confidante, who helped her with everything, gave her everything. Chen Xi had accompanied her during her most difficult times, and had still been her editor when she was at a low point in her career. When she had returned to the ranks of a great author, Chen Xi had also been by her side.
“We had already agreed that she would watch me climb to a higher peak, that she would watch me become a supreme god author. We had already agreed… Sister Chen, why was it Sister Chen…”
For the first time experiencing life and death, besides pain, she had nothing.
She cried very loudly, very sadly. No one in the dorm disturbed her. They all knew that this person had lost her most important editor.
Her cries were heard throughout the entire dorm building, but no one blamed her.
Bai Ya and the others silently dispersed the girls who had wanted to come and watch, saying that nothing more could happen to Yu Linna. The girls all expressed their understanding and did not do anything extra. They also knew that Yu Linna was Shion-sensei, and not long ago, she had lost her editor.
Not long after the incident, some people who were morally kidnapping posted on Weibo, saying that Shion-sensei had not posted on Weibo to mourn after her editor’s death, and had no sympathy at all. In comparison, Wenqing had specially posted on Weibo to mourn this editor and had even stopped work for a day.
Not long after the Weibo post was published, this hater had not yet been cursed by the fans, but Zhao Yuyan had stood up at the first opportunity and had furiously cursed this immoral person online.
“Do you have any morals? Using those grand-sounding reasons to kidnap others, to consume the dead like this, can’t you just respect Sister Chen a little? You say Little Nana has no sympathy. What do you know? You just rely on a keyboard, thinking you are a messenger sent by God. Do you have no shame!”
They had never seen Zhao Yuyan speak so irrationally online before. The fans all went crazy, and this Weibo post was soon deleted, but the netizens had taken screenshots.
After that, many girls from Guangnan University stood up to clarify that Shion-sensei was not not sad. In fact, she had been crying very hard in her dorm, almost crying for a whole day. Everyone in the dorm knew. Her voice should be hoarse from crying by now.
After getting this confirmed news, that blogger quickly posted an apology, and the people online also all felt sorry for these few authors.
Air-sensei and Shion-sensei were both authors brought out by Chen Xi. Now that this editor was gone, they should be the saddest ones.
Ye Zhiyun came to Yu Linna’s side at the first opportunity, took Yu Linna from her roommates, and brought her back to her own home. In the current situation, Ye Zhiyun was not at ease letting her stay in the dorm, so she temporarily brought her home first.
“Nana, don’t cry. Everything will be alright. Look at you. Your voice is almost gone.”
“I’m fine…”
“Nana. I’m here. I’ll be with you.”
Ye Zhiyun coaxed her, hugged her, but Yu Linna did not get better at all. She had no choice but to take her back.
Chen Xi had known Yu Linna since she had participated in the National Singer Competition. She had accompanied Yu Linna to many places along the way. Yu Linna’s career was also brought up by Chen Xi. Now, Yu Linna was left alone. She could only walk by herself. There was no one to guide her anymore.
She also hoped that things would slowly develop in a good direction.
A few days later, at Chen Xi’s funeral, Yu Linna attended this funeral, together with Zhao Yuyan. The two youngest female authors of Wenqing, for the first time, were in the same frame in a public place, and it was actually at their own editor’s funeral. This was the most ridiculous thing. This funeral was held by Wenqing at its own expense, just to give Chen Xi a final send-off. No matter what facilities, they were the best. Chen Xi usually had many private friendships in the editorial department. These colleagues cried one more tragically than the other at the funeral, especially Qian Jiaxuan, whom she had single-handedly brought up, who had cried into a tearful person.
There were naturally reporters at this funeral, but they were relatively polite, not like usual.
Yu Linna and Zhao Yuyan together put a wreath in the center of the river, bowed their heads to send their editor, Chen Xi, on her final journey. The atmosphere of the funeral was very heavy, and the sad music made people’s mood even lower. They looked at the flying flower petals and silently shed tears. How they wished that Chen Xi’s departure was a lie.
Yu Linna and Zhao Yuyan hugged each other, unable to help but want to cry again, but they still held it in. Yu Linna had no parents, but this was the first time she had tasted the taste of life and death. At this moment, she understood the fragility of life. Some things, only when you lose them do you know their preciousness.
