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Cheng Anya had long recovered, and Third Young Master Ye specially remained for a few days more so that she could recuperate that bit more until Bai Ye gave her the all-clear. It was only then that Third Young Master Ye heaved a sigh of relief.
Tonight, when they finished packing, Ye Hailan crawled out from her crib. Her face was a terrible red, and bubbles seemed to fill her obsidian eyes. She seemed extremely weak.
“Mommy, my head is spinning…” Ye Hailan gently screamed and sounded tender. Cheng Anya was with Third Young Master Ye and Ning Ning, discussing whether they should head out to buy gifts for a few good friends of theirs when the young kid heard Ye Hailan’s voice. When he turned around, he was shocked and dropped his magazine in panic. The couple quickly rushed over whereas the young kid ran downstairs to call for Bai Ye.
“Hailan, what’s happened?”
“My head, it spins…” Ye Hailan softly shouted before fainting in Cheng Anya’s embrace. The two of them were in a fluster that their eyes reddened. They rushed to bring her downstairs to look for Bai Ye. Little Hailan seemed to be in an extremely serious condition as she was running an extremely high fever, and her breathing was extremely shallow.
There was insufficient equipment in the Su family, and following preliminary checks in Hailan, Bai Ye decisively ordered somebody to prepare a car and send Hailan to the hospital.
In the car, Su Man frowned and immediately jabbed Hailan with an alleviator and pricked Hailan’s fingers with a very fine needle and drew a sample of her blood to be checked in the hospital. When Cheng Anya saw her daughter’s unconscious form, her heart ached and her eyes reddened.
Su Man and Bai Ye had long reminded her that being able to deliver her child was no guarantee to the child growing up in one piece and how she had to be mentally prepared to lose her child anytime. Cheng Anya was in suspense initially, but she thought that Su Man and Bai Ye had cured her as Hailan seemed extremely healthy recently.
Little did she fall ill so swiftly and so severely that everyone was caught off guard.
She was clearly in good shape before she slept. They were still joking with her and there were no signs of her being unwell. Cheng Anya gritted her teeth at how her daughter suddenly fell ill and suddenly hugged her. She could clearly feel that her daughter’s breathing was becoming weaker by the moment. Third Young Master Ye merely huddled with them and silently comforted them albeit as panicky as them.
“Bai Ye, what’s happening?”
“The virus could be engulfing the cells,” Bai Ye said worriedly. Thankfully, Su Man and himself had predicted this to happen and handled it as steadily as they could.
When Cheng Anya heard it, her heart sank. The pain that Eleven experienced surged into her heart. All of a sudden, she felt extremely afraid.
“Don’t worry. We will do our best,” Bai Ye said.
“Bai Ye, save that statement. When doctors say that, it typically means that the patient is beyond hope,” the young kid said.
The atmosphere instantly became much tenser.
When they were at the hospital, Bai Ye and Su Man tag teamed as Bai Ye gave Hailan a complete checkup while Su Man ran blood tests on her. As no typical doctor could tend to Hailan’s condition, only the two of them could step up to the plate.
Cheng Anya, Third Young Master Ye, and Ning Ning waited nervously. Cheng Anya secretly chided herself for being so careless and not noticing that Little Hailan was out of whack. She must have been uncomfortable for a very long time.
“Mommy, don’t blame yourself. Nobody wishes for sister to be in such a condition.”
“Anya, calm down. Don’t scare yourself unnecessarily,” Third Young Master Ye said.
“I’ve seen how Eleven writhed in pain, and I am afraid that the same would happen to Hailan. She is still very young and won’t be able to endure the pain.” Cheng Anya’s beautiful eyes were a little misty as she tightly bit her lip. Her heart, as though it was crumpled, was utterly aching.
“Su Man said that Eleven and Hailan are different cases. Let’s calm down first and see what the checkup says.” Third Young Master Ye insisted she sit down and hugged her.
The young kid gently comforted the shocked Cheng Anya.
Three hours later, Ye Hailan was sent into the ICU. Third Young Master Ye and Cheng Anya saw many tubes plugged into Little Hailan’s body and were in a panic. They asked Bai Ye how she was.
“You must be mentally prepared. Your little princess’s vital organs are rapidly deteriorating,” Bai Ye solemnly said.
Cheng Anya, who was absolutely shocked, lost her footing and almost fell if it were not for Third Young Master Ye holding her. Third Young Master Ye had to hold her tightly so that she could regain her footing.
When the doctor, especially Bai Ye, told them to be mentally prepared, it more or less meant that there was little to no hope left. She felt her tears flow out when one of the top doctors in the world said so. If that was the case, then Hailan…
While she knew little about medicine, she had, at least, some rudimentary knowledge of the vital organs in the body and what vital organ failure meant.
“Hailan… Hailan…” Cheng Anya’s tears fell as she watched Hailan through the glass window of the ICU. Bai Ye comforted her and went to look for Su Man, whose tests had yet to yield results. He, however, knew that things were not looking up and now hoped that he and Su Man would be able to come up with a way to save Hailan. If not…
Third Young Master Ye and Cheng Anya spent a whole three days in the hospital looking at Hailan in a daze. Hailan quietly lay there in a coma. Her breathing had stabilized despite her heartbeat and breathing stopping a few times. While Hailan was successfully resuscitated a few times, Cheng Anya was scared out of her wits. Bai Ye and Su Man, struggling to find a cure for Ye Hailan, had three sleepless days and nights.
As long as even the slightest hope persisted, they would never give up.
The virus which had initially integrated into the cellular layers suddenly burst out for no apparent reason and wreaked havoc in Ye Hailan’s body. Ravaged by the virus, her vital organs were infected and rapidly deteriorated.
Little Hailan was too young and her immunity was inherently weak. The onslaught of the virus was utterly terrifying.
“Anya, go back and rest. I’ll remain in the hospital.” This was the umpteenth time Third Young Master Ye had reminded Cheng Anya to return home to rest despite Cheng Anya’s unwillingness. Despite his many efforts to coax, and even threaten her, he could not even get her to budge. She insisted on remaining in the hospital to watch over Ye Hailan.
The young kid, who accompanied the two of them to watch over Ye Hailan in the hospital, did not get a good rest either. This could be their last time accompanying Ye Hailan.
In this short period of time, Bai Ye and Su Man could only slightly keep the ravaging virus in check and had yet to discover a means to cure her. They were hapless against the virus and could only deal with the virus with each passing day.
Cheng Anya could neither eat nor sleep well, and she did not dare to interrupt Bai Ye and Su Man. She could only hope that Bai Ye and Su Man would check in on her when they came over to do a checkup on Hailan. She was extremely panicky.
“Bai Ye, is there any way out?”
Bai Ye and Su Man looked at each other, and they did not seem to dare to look directly into Cheng Anya’s gaze. This left Third Young Master Ye even more downcast. Hailan was beyond cure… He could see the apologetic look in Bai Ye and Su Man’s calm eyes.
They were extremely apologetic that they could not save her.
He could not help but hold Cheng Anya tightly as she bit her lip and insistently wanted Bai Ye to give her an answer. She had only spent slightly more than a month with Hailan. She could not bear to leave her.
Nobody else could bear to leave her.
“You could accompany her for one more night.” Bai Ye was being as tactful as he could. Despite being unfamiliar to the cycle of life, he could not bear to see his dearest friends in the eye as though they were family.
One could only say their affinity with the child was just too shallow.
Cheng Anya could not withstand the impact, and that compounded with the tension and fatigue from the past few days caused her to collapse into Third Young Master Ye’s embrace.
“Anya…”
“Mommy…”
Cheng Anya fainted out of exhaustion and slept until midnight. Third Young Master Ye had to scramble on both sides and went up to see Ye Hailan and then Cheng Anya. The handsome man’s face was full of sadness and helplessness.
Su Man had warned her at the beginning that the child might not live long and they might have to consider losing the child. While he insisted on having the child, he did not expect himself to part with the child this quickly. He was extremely unwilling, and his heartache was no less than Cheng Anya’s.
The young kid saw Cheng Anya and then watched over Ye Hailan from outside the ICU.
Su Man and Bai Ye attempted a last-ditch effort.
At two in the morning, the hospital was dead silent and there was nary a noise. As this was Su Man’s private floor, Ye Hailan was the only patient. To facilitate Third Young Master Ye taking care of his wife and daughter, Cheng Anya was arranged to be in the furthermost ward on the floor and the young kid sat outside the ICU. He had only slept a few hours in the past few days and was about to doze off when he heard people seemingly arguing in Ye Hailan’s ward.
The young kid, in shock, quickly stood up. With his fatigue clean from his face, he sprinted before the glass window and saw a lady in white and a lady in green bickering about something.
The teenager in white was about eighteen and seemed extremely beautiful. He, for some reason, felt that her eyes and features resembled his sister, Hailan’s eyes. There was holiness to her that he could not bear to directly look at.
The lady in green was also about eighteen, and her gorgeous looks gave hints of her strong willfulness. She had a slender figure and long green hair. Her eyes were green, and her delicate features were foreign.
They wore strange clothes and did not seem to be from this era. Who were they?
The young kid looked at them perplexedly.
The teenager in white had slight anger to her and berated. “Nishang, I’ve been reborn ten times and you killed me in nine of them. Do not go overboard.”
“Hmmph! That’s very simple. It’s either you or me. I am made from clay. Do you think you can stop me?” The teenager in green coldly laughed and mocked her for her arrogance.
The teenager in white frowned. “If Leah knows that you are privately interfering in the things of the human realm, you ponder upon the consequences.”
“So what if she knows? What’s your basis? Who, following Armageddon, destroyed their own soul? If you are so willing to forsake yourself, why bother about your future incarnation?” The teenager in green laughed.
“That is none of your business! That said, you will not take her life. If you do, she will only reincarnate after a hundred thousand years.”