Chapter 59 Lost Memory, Awakening

Whitehead Hospital.

The only sound in the quiet ward was the slight movement of instruments.

The liquid in the medicine bottle slowly flowed into the blood vessels through the tube. Xi Ruan lay quietly on the bed, as if she was asleep.

Bai Yi paced back and forth outside the ward, looking at Xi Ruan inside through the glass window.

In the end, she couldn't help it and grabbed Jiang Lingsi who was sitting on the chair.

"What the hell is going on? Didn't she go with you to look at the house? Why did she suddenly faint? She hasn't woken up in two whole days!"

Originally, they wanted to arrange for the housekeeper to take care of the house matter directly, but Xi Ruan insisted that he would only feel at ease after seeing it with his own eyes, and said it would be very convenient for him to go and see it with Jiang Lingsi after school. They thought that with Jiang Lingsi there, they felt relieved and did not interfere too much.

What he waited for was the news that Xi Ruan had fainted and was in a coma.

Father Bai took a deep puff of his cigarette and said coldly without even looking up: "Bai Yi, let go."

Bai Yi gritted her teeth, glared at Jiang Lingsi, and then let go of her hand.

Jiang Lingsi didn't even raise his eyelids and continued to sit in the chair, his pair of black eyes were dull, silent and depressed.

Bai Yi looked at her father and then at Jiang Lingsi. The two of them had been like this since she arrived at the hospital.

One of them just sat there with his head down and didn't say anything, while the other one just kept smoking and couldn't stop.

"Are you hiding something from me? What happened to her?" Bai Yi snatched the cigarette from Bai's father's mouth and said angrily, "Tell me clearly! If you don't, I will have someone tear down our front door right now!"

There is an old house in the Bai family's manor with a tall lintel. It is an ancient building handed down from ancestors and a symbol of their ancestors' glory. It has to be carefully maintained on weekdays. All the younger generations of the Bai family's direct and collateral branches have to pay their respects in front of the gate during festivals and are not allowed to move at all.

When Mr. Bai heard this, he got a terrible headache.

"My dear little girl, can you please be quiet for a while and let me be alone?!"

Originally, when Jiang Lingsi heard Xi Ruan recognize him and learned the name "Shen Xiaoshu" from the Malatang boss, he had a headache, and now Bai Yi was still making trouble.

He simply couldn't imagine what state Xi Ruan would be in after waking up. It would be fine if she only remembered their childhood, but if even that memory was implicated...

Father Bai sighed heavily and rubbed his face vigorously, just hoping that everything would be alright.

Suddenly, Mr. Bai's phone vibrated. Seeing that it was a call from his secretary, he answered it irritably and said sternly, "Didn't I tell you not to look for me unless you go bankrupt?! Am I paying you a salary just to eat for free?!"

Father Bai was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of joy, "Okay! I'll go pick her up myself! I'll go now! You treat her first! Don't be negligent!"

Father Bai hung up the phone, stood up and said to Bai Yi, unable to hide his excitement: "Master Yuan Jing has come to Rongqiao City! Ruan Ruan's throat can be saved!

I will go to welcome her now, and if possible, maybe I can let her see your sister's current condition. You take good care of Ruan Ruan in the hospital, and tell me immediately if there is any news!"

Bai Yi's ferocious expression softened when he heard this, and he hurriedly urged, "Go quickly!"

After saying that, Bai Yi pushed Father Bai out of the suite.

Jiang Lingsi raised his eyelids when he heard that there was finally a response.

So this is her chance to recover...

Bai Yi, who was standing by, saw his father leave and turned to look at Jiang Lingsi.

She smiled grimly, clenched her fists and walked slowly towards him.

"Tell me! What's going on!?" Her eyes widened with ferocity and she grabbed Jiang Lingsi's collar again.

Jiang Lingsi looked at Bai Yi's face, which was as dark as the devil's, and his thoughts went back to the night when Bai's father talked to him.

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"What's the matter?!"

"What do you mean by not letting her remember more about our childhood? Why?" Jiang Lingsi couldn't understand what Bai's father said at that time.

He had to admit that he was actually very selfish.

If possible, he wanted her to remember him.

So he always called her "little softie" in an attempt to evoke some of her memories of them, waiting for her to smile with sparkling eyes and say to him one day, "I remember now, you are Xiaoshu's brother, right?"

However, Father Bai shattered all his fantasies and possibilities.

At that time, Mr. Bai lit a cigarette, exhaled, and said in a deep voice: "Ruan Ruan was abducted when she was a child. She suffered a strong shock at that time and lost part of her memory, so I don't want her to recover her memory."

Jiang Lingsi was stunned and frowned slightly, "What's the excitement? What does it have to do with our childhood?"

Father Bai looked at Jiang Lingsi with a complicated expression and slowly told the story.

"One day after school, she was walking on the road when a human trafficker grabbed her and took her into a car and abducted her."

"At that time, children's smart watches seemed to have just become popular. Ruan Ruan's father bought her one. The traffickers didn't know about it at first. While in the car, Ruan Ruan secretly used the watch to send an emergency message to her parents."

After saying that, Father Bai looked up at Jiang Lingsi again, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "She also sent you a message."

"That was the last message she sent from her watch."

"Because you are not her emergency contact, there is no shortcut button, so she sent it secretly while looking at her watch."

"I don't know if you remember, but that message should have been a string of 9s."

Jiang Lingsi was silent.

He tried to search his memory, but he couldn't remember anything. Perhaps he just thought that message was sent by a little girl...

Father Bai didn't care and continued:

"The traffickers later confessed that they had not noticed Ruan Ruan's actions at first, but a little girl who was sold to them in the car discovered it. After they found out, they threw away her watch."

"Ruan Ruan's father is a policeman. When she sent the message, his father was on duty outside and had no time to check his phone. Her mother was also in the theater at the time and did not see it. By the time they found out, a long time had passed."

"Ruan Ruan was abducted to a mountain village and kept in a small bungalow in the trafficker's home until the trafficker found a suitable buyer."

"She was too young to escape on her own, so every day she hoped that her heroic policeman father would come to rescue her, and that her omnipotent brother Xiaoshu would appear to help her."

"Her father was eager to save his daughter. With this kind of trafficking, if he was even half an hour late, he might lose the child forever. He didn't know where the child was transferred to, so he took the initiative to act on his own."

"Her father found Ruan Ruan after many twists and turns. He sneaked into the trafficker's yard alone and broke down the door to rescue the abducted child when the trafficker went out to eat."

"There were three children in total. His father held one in each hand and carried another on his back. He ran away through the woods with the children."

"I don't know how, but one of the children was probably too hungry and smelled the fragrance of cooking in the villager's house, so he jumped down and ran into the villager's house."

"In that kind of village, almost the entire village has a tacit understanding about trafficking. If they find a child running away, they will immediately inform the trafficker."

"Almost half of the village came out to patrol the mountains and surrounded Ruan Ruan's father and his men. Several traffickers were drunk at the time, and were used to doing evil things. They beat his father to death in front of Ruan Ruan."

"When the police found Ruan Ruan later, her father's body was lying next to her. The ground in front of her was covered with the words 'Dad' and 'Shen Xiaoshu' which was crossed out, as well as 'Shen Xiaoshu'."

"When she was taken back, she was completely mentally ill. Her mother said that Ruan Ruan refused to eat or drink, and sat in her room almost all day. She would suddenly scream and cry, and scratch the wall with her hands."

“Her mother said she took all the blame on herself.

She said that if it wasn't for saving her, her father would not have died.

She said that it must be because she got Xiaoshu's brother's name wrong again, so Xiaoshu, who always protected her, got angry and ignored her. "

Father Bai blinked away the tears in his eyes and looked up at Jiang Lingsi, "You see, children are sometimes so naive. You always protect her, so she thinks you are like a guardian angel who can do anything for her."

Jiang Lingsi's figure seemed to have fallen into darkness, and his black eyes sank.

"What happened next..." he asked, his voice so soft that it was almost blown away by the wind.

Father Bai pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled stiffly, "Later, her mental state became more and more crazy.

When ordinary children could not even understand death, she watched her father die in front of her and even stayed with his motionless body for more than two days.

She was too young and could not bear such stimulation. She screamed like crazy every day, beat herself, and banged her head against the wall.

Her mother had to clear out everything in the house and put cushions around it.”

"Not long after that, her grandparents also passed away due to grief over the loss of their son. Her mother took her away from that sad place, moved house, and took Ruan Ruan to the hospital for treatment."

"Until one day, Ruan Ruan suddenly got better."

"Everything is back to normal for her."

"But she also forgot everything. She didn't remember her father, and only had fragmentary memories of Shen Xiaoshu, and she remembered him as 'Shen Xiaoshu'."

"The doctor speculated that it might be because the memories of the two overlapped greatly, leading to their mutual involvement. Because she could only see her father frequently during the winter and summer vacations, and would sleep a little later to wait for her father to come home, and Shen Xiaoshu could only see him during the winter and summer vacations."

"So... this is why I don't want her to recall anything about you, especially the three words 'Shen Xiaoshu'.

I was afraid that she would think of her father, that she couldn't bear the shock, that she would fall into madness again."

"Xiaoshu, will you promise me?" Father Bai asked earnestly.

Jiang Lingsi agreed.

How could he not agree?

However, he did not quite agree with one point that Mr. Bai said.

He felt that she only remembered "Shen Xiaoshu" as her punishment for him.

Punishment for not paying attention to her message for help.

It was a punishment for her that she had clearly called his name correctly, but he did not show up to protect her.

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Jiang Lingsi looked at Bai Yi with his dark eyes. He did not feel any anger when she grabbed him. There was only a dead indifference in his eyes.

Bai Yi couldn't get the truth out of him and was so angry that she wanted to slap him, but seeing his look, she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Suddenly, Bai Yi loosened his grip and threw Jiang Lingsi back onto the chair.

"Xi Ruan!" Bai Yi rushed in, "Sister, you're awake!"

Jiang Lingsi widened his eyes slightly when he heard that and immediately turned to look.

The girl slowly sat up with the help of Bai Yi, then slowly turned her head and looked at him through the glass.

Those clear eyes were like the abyss, calm without any ripples.

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