Can I still be saved? [Transmigration] - Chapter 22
During his days in the hospital, Su Yunjing still called Fu Hanzhou every day.
Now that Fu Hanzhou had finally started a new life, Su Yunjing didn’t know if his own death would deal a serious blow to him.
That was one of the main reasons he hadn’t told Fu Hanzhou the truth.
After much deliberation, Su Yunjing decided to write him a letter. Telling the truth in a letter would be better than letting Fu Hanzhou witness his death firsthand.
At this time, the speed of letter delivery was slow. Even the fastest standard letter would take two days, and with several hundred kilometers between them, it would likely take four or five days to arrive.
Su Yunjing’s condition was already extremely poor. He wrote the letter intermittently for two days before handing it to Song Wenqian to mail.
After mailing the letter, Su Yunjing called Fu Hanzhou that same day.
It was a pleasant surprise for Fu Hanzhou to receive a call from Su Yunjing at one o’clock in the afternoon on non-Saturdays and Sundays.
But what Su Yunjing said next ruined the mood completely.
“We’re about to go on winter break, and the school arranged a winter camp just before vacation. My mom signed me up for it.”
“I start training tomorrow, so I won’t be able to take your calls anymore.”
After only a few sentences, Su Yunjing started coughing.
He clutched the blanket on his hospital bed, forcing himself to suppress the raw, itchy pain rising in his throat.
The moment Fu Hanzhou heard that he wouldn’t be receiving calls anymore, the slight smile in his eyes vanished completely. His lips tightened into a straight line.
After a long pause, Fu Hanzhou narrowed his eyes and asked, “What’s a winter camp?”
His tone was flat, without a trace of emotion.
“A winter camp is a special kind of training. It’s meant to build physical fitness and discipline, so we’ll be living in the mountains for a few days.”
“There’s no cell signal in the mountains, and the teachers don’t let us bring phones.”
Su Yunjing’s health was very poor and he didn’t have the energy to talk to Fu Hanzhou every day.
By the time Fu Hanzhou received the letter, Su Yunjing would probably be gone.
With the buffer of not contacting for a few days, Su Yunjing hoped that Fu Hanzhou would be less sad.
After all, kids their age didn’t really understand death.
But, the little sickly cub wasn’t an ordinary kid, and he is very dependent on him, so he will feel more uncomfortable than ordinary children.
That’s why Su Yunjing was glad he’d at least become more open and had grown closer to Shen Nianyun. He was no longer the only person Fu Hanzhou relied on.
But Su Yunjing had still underestimated Fu Hanzhou’s intelligence.
The moment he finished speaking, Fu Hanzhou knew it was a lie.
Fu Hanzhou lowered his eyelashes, and his grip on the phone tightened, leaving his fingertips bluish-white.
Why lie to him?
Why didn’t Su Yunjing want to contact him anymore?
Fu Hanzhou swallowed hard, forcing down the violent surge of emotion rising in his chest.
Still, he remained as polite and obedient as always. He softly responded, “Okay.”
Then he added, “Do you still remember what you said before?”
Su Yunjing’s pale lips moved slightly. He hesitated, unsure how to answer.
He remembered.
The day Fu Hanzhou left, he had promised to buy him a sugar hawthorn skewer when he came back.
Who could’ve known the system would be so heartless?
He wouldn’t get the chance to buy it anymore. But in the letter, he’d tucked in two yuan, telling Fu Hanzhou to buy one himself.
Of course, he couldn’t say that now.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure you get your sugar hawthorn,” Su Yunjing promised.
“Okay.”
Fu Hanzhou said “okay,” but he wasn’t reassured.
He’d long known Su Yunjing wasn’t healthy. Song Wenqian had always been careful with him, not letting him do this or that.
So even if the school had organized a winter camp, Song Wenqian would never allow him to attend.
He was lying and hiding something.
After hanging up, Fu Hanzhou called Shen Nianyun with a gloomy face and told him he wanted to return.
Fu Hanzhou was the type of person who would do something once he made up his mind, and Shen Nianyun couldn’t stop him.
He wanted to see what Su Yunjing was doing.
Shen Nianyun had been swamped with work and couldn’t go with him, so he had his assistant accompany Fu Hanzhou instead.
The assistant booked the earliest available flight. After three hours of flight and another car ride from Xinchengpu Airport, they finally arrived at their destination after 11 p.m.
Fu Hanzhou had been thinking about Su Yunjing the entire way. All he wanted now was to see him.
But when he reached the doorstep, he hesitated.
He couldn’t just go in. If Su Yunjing really was at home and asked why he’d rushed back like this, he wouldn’t be able to explain.
His mother, Fu Tang, was extremely controlling, and Fu Hanzhou inherited the same trait. He couldn’t tolerate anything outside of his control.
Today’s call was completely beyond his expectations.
Su Yunjing was a very strange person, he always felt compassion for the weak.
That was true for other orphans. And for him as well.
It’s just that Su Yunjing liked him more, Maybe it was because he was better-looking, or maybe because he looked weaker.
But no matter how weak he was, he’d never be weaker than a newborn baby.
Fu Hanzhou had already accepted that once the baby was born, Su Yunjing’s attention would slowly shift to his real, bl00d-related sister.
He’d mentally prepared for that. He could bear it.
But the baby hadn’t even arrived yet, and Su Yunjing already didn’t want to talk to him?
Although Su Yunjing gave a reason, Fu Hanzhou didn’t believe it. He came to see for himself, to be at ease.
In the end, after much hesitation, Fu Hanzhou didn’t go in. He stayed at a nearby inn.
The next morning, he went to Su Yunjing’s home again.
But no one was at Su Yunjing’s home. After asking a neighbor, he learned that Su Yunjing had been hospitalized and hadn’t come home in several days.
This news made Fu Hanzhou at a loss for a moment, and when he came to his senses, his hands and feet were cold.
He took out his phone and called Song Wenqian.
Su Yunjing’s condition had worsened rapidly, and the medical conditions in the county were limited. he had been transferred to the city hospital two days ago.
Fu Hanzhou and his assistant took a taxi and took more than an hour to get to the Second City Hospital.
But Fu Hanzhou came at a very unfortunate time. If he had come ten minutes earlier, he might have been able to see Su Yunjing.
Now, Su Yunjing was already in operating room. Song Wenqian and Lu Tao sat in the corridor outside, waiting anxiously.
It had only been half a month since they last saw each other, but the couple looked noticeably haggard.
Especially Song Wenqian, with her bulging belly, sitting on the bench at the door of the operating room. Beneath her swollen eyelids, her eyes were bloodshot with exhaustion and worry.
Seeing Fu Hanzhou coming, the couple just gave him a brief nod. After all, Su Yunjing was still in the operating room, and none of them were in the mood to greet each other.
And Fu Hanzhou didn’t go over and put on his usual obedient act. He didn’t even ask what illness it was, or if the surgery would succeed.
He was just a child.
No one would tell him the truth anyway.
And he didn’t want to hear it.
He stood at the door of the operating room, staring at the red-lit sign that said ‘In Surgery’, waiting for Su Yunjing to come out.
Time ticked by. The door to the surgery room stayed closed.
At one point, Shen Nianyun’s assistant stepped aside to take a call and report the situation.
Hearing that Su Yunjing was undergoing surgery, Shen Nianyun grew concerned. After all, this was Fu Hanzhou’s only friend.
The assistant did not know the specific situation, but looking at the expressions of Su Yunjing’s parents, he knew that this was not a small operation.
“What about Hanzhou? Is he okay?” Shen Nianyun asked.
The assistant turned and looked at Fu Hanzhou.
The young boy with delicate features stood still, looking unusually calm.
Too calm for a seven-year-old.
The assistant couldn’t help but take another look.
Wasn’t this his best friend? Why didn’t he seem worried at all?
Fu Hanzhou was indeed not worried. Su Yunjing had promised he would always be with him. Promised to buy him sugar hawthorn.
He had plenty of patience. He could wait here quietly.
As long as that door opened, Su Yunjing would come out.
He stared unblinking at the “In Surgery” sign.
Four or five hours later, the door of the operating room finally opened.
But the person who emerged was not Su Yunjing.
It was a male doctor in surgical scrubs.
Song Wenqian’s body instantly went stiff. Lu Tao helped her up. She looked at the doctor with fear and anticipation.
The doctor removed his mask, revealing a regretful expression.
“I’m sorry…”
He hadn’t even finished when Song Wenqian’s body shuddered violently. Her knees buckled and she collapsed.
Lu Tao caught her just in time, but she had already fainted.
“Wenqian, what’s wrong? Don’t scare me!” The 1.80-meter-tall man seemed to have completely collapsed at this moment, and his voice choked with sobs. as he shouted for help. “Doctor, doctor, please check on her!”
The male doctor hurried forward to help.
Meanwhile, Fu Hanzhou still stood at the door. His expression was dazed.
He looked at the open doorway, puzzled.
Why hasn’t Su Yunjing come out yet?
He stood there for a long time.
He stood there for a long time. The assistant, unable to bear it, was just about to step forward and say a few comforting words when a group of nurses finally pushed Su Yunjing out.
Su Yunjing’s eyes were tightly shut, his face pale as ash. He lay flat on the hospital bed, with not the slightest rise or fall in his chest.
Fu Hanzhou’s crow-like eyelashes trembled, and his face turned pale in an instant.
Because he saw them again—
Those ugly, white insects with grotesque mandibles, crawling all over Su Yunjing’s body, trying to burrow into his flesh.
They wanted to take him away!
In that moment, panic and rage overwhelmed Fu Hanzhou.
He threw himself on Su Yunjing, trying to shake the insects off.
But to the others, he looked possessed by evil spirit, grabbing and clawing at Su Yunjing’s lifeless body.
The doctors and nurses were startled, but they quickly reacted and hurriedly called assistant to take Fu Hanzhou away.
The assistant rushed forward, lifting the small boy into his arms.
“Let me go!”
Fu Hanzhou thrashed wildly, kicking and biting the assistant like crazy.
Su Yunjing’s body was covered in those horrible bugs, which drilled in and out of his body, gnawing at him mercilessly.
Fu Hanzhou’s eyes were bloodshot with anger and anguish as he struggled even harder.
The assistant couldn’t hold Fu Hanzhou down on his own, it took two male doctors working together just to barely restrain him.
“Let me go!”
They’re taking him!
They’re going to take him away…!
Fu Hanzhou looked crazy, the blue veins on his neck bulged, and the whole person seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, but his eyes revealed helplessness and despair.
Until a needle was injected into Fu Hanzhou’s body.
His strength faded away bit by bit.
His limbs twitched uncontrollably and his bloodshot eyes were filled with utter hopelessness.
As he watched the insects devour Su Yunjing entirely, Fu Hanzhou’s eyes didn’t move. His expression changed from resentment to despair, and finally to numbness.
He remembered what that woman had once told him.
No one will ever love a filthy thing like you.
If someone does.
Then they’ll leave too.