Incurable Pain

IP Chapter 37.1

Incurable Pain | Chapter 37.1

In the end, the five of them didn’t “die together” successfully on the eighth-floor rooftop at midnight.

At the moment when the midnight bell rang, it was as if Cinderella’s magic had descended. All the evil spirits were trapped by the increasingly closer sirens in the night sky, leaving them with nowhere to hide.

“How did the cops find this place?” 

Liu Yiba’s imposing aura suddenly dissipated in an instant, replaced by anxiety. He nervously and somewhat neurotically pulled Yu Luoyin, who was hanging half of his body outside the rooftop, back inside. He glanced down and his expression changed.

“d.a.m.n it, we need to get out of here.” 

Perhaps there were several police cars approaching below, and Liu Yiba’s face suddenly turned ugly.

He didn’t care about Yu Luoyin and Bai Xunyin anymore. Even the fiercest thug fears the agents of justice. Liu Yiba nearly panicked as he abandoned the two students and fled with his brother.

“Yu Luoyin! Are you okay?” 

Seeing those people hastily leave and climb the stairs to the rooftop door above, Bai Xunyin’s legs weakened, and she almost collapsed as she rushed towards the youth lying beside the railing, his school uniform stained with blood.

For a moment, she didn’t even realize she could speak. She just knelt beside Yu Luoyin, looking at his bruised and bloodied face, tears welling up in her eyes. 

“Yu Luoyin…”

The young man stared at her blankly, as if incredulous.

He closed his eyes and opened them again, realizing he wasn’t dreaming. It was as if flowers were blooming quietly in his heart.

In an instant, all the consultations, books he had read, efforts he had made, and even the setbacks he had experienced seemed to have found their rightful place.

Yu Luoyin felt it was worth it.

“Yinyin,” he stared at her in disbelief. His throat, just released from being strangled, was hoa.r.s.e, and his usually deep and clear voice sounded terrible. 

“You can speak now.”

Bai Xunyin was stunned.

“You can speak now.” 

Yu Luoyin’s lips curled up slightly, his eyes shining brightly amidst the scars on his face. Ignoring his increasingly cold body, his voice hoa.r.s.e and weak, he repeated, “You can speak now. I’m truly happy.”

Bai Xunyin felt like she had gone through acupuncture combined with internal injuries, unable to move, just kneeling there.

She couldn’t understand what had happened, couldn’t understand how she suddenly regained her voice after being voiceless for over two years. She hadn’t even realized it, as if she had never been mute…

But Yu Luoyin’s weakening breath couldn’t allow her endless contemplation.

He was bleeding.

“Yinyin,” his slender hand grasped her cold fingers, gently but firmly, as if he couldn’t let go. Yu Luoyin stubbornly looked at her. 

“Say something to me again.”

It was as if he wanted to confirm something.

Bai Xunyin forced herself to regain her composure, looking at the teenager lying on the ground, battered and bruised. Her fingers trembled slightly.

The girl’s voice was soft and cold, perhaps because she had just cried or hadn’t spoken in so long, it sounded somewhat hoa.r.s.e:

“I’ll call an ambulance.”

At midnight, police cars and ambulances arrived one after another.

Many years later, Bai Xunyin still remembered this midnight – the most chaotic and unexpectedly joyful moment she had experienced, and also the midnight that inadvertently changed many people’s destinies.

In the ambulance, doctors and nurses tore open Yu Luoyin’s school uniform and used portable equipment to examine his injuries, but they encountered unexpected resistance.

Resistance from the victim himself, as Yu Luoyin tightly held Bai Xunyin’s hand.

Even when she couldn’t bear it anymore and tried to get up, stumbling down to the simple stretcher below, her injured leg ached fiercely, causing Yu Luoyin to awkwardly kneel on the ambulance floor, with the girl at his feet.

Bai Xunyin was stunned, subconsciously wanting to bend down to help him, but was firmly held back by the teenager.

“Yinyin, forgive me once.” 

Yu Luoyin seemed to have made up his mind to act pitifully when he was half-dead and half-alive. His usual refined and elegant demeanor was nowhere to be found. Under the swaying ambulance light, his long, narrow black eyes shimmered with a pleading light. 

“Can you forgive me for lying to you before? I won’t do it again.”

Bai Xunyin, under the gaze of a group of speechless medical staff, was begged for forgiveness by this guy kneeling on the ground. For a while, her mind went blank and she froze in place.

Until Yu Luoyin’s slender body swayed.

“Fine, fine.” Bai Xunyin regained consciousness as if awakening from a dream. She still wasn’t used to speaking, and her cold voice became a bit choked when in a hurry. 

“Go back to the hospital bed quickly and let the doctor examine you.”

Yu Luoyin obediently lay back, a satisfied smile playing at the corners of his lips.

But he still didn’t let go of Bai Xunyin’s hand, both of their cold hands warming each other.

“Young man, you have fractures all over. Do you still want to sweet talk your girlfriend?” 

The doctor lightly pressed Yu Luoyin’s knee with some force, watching the boy grimace without making a sound, only sweat breaking out on his forehead, feeling both impressed and helpless. 

“You’ve got some spirit—

—No, you kids should just stick to high school romance, fighting in the middle of the night? This injury is no joke, you know?”

“Doctor, is it serious?” 

Bai Xunyin asked nervously, her eyes still watery from crying, innocent and vulnerable under the glaring light above.

Her voice was cold, but her accent was soft and gentle, with a slight nasal tone when she hummed softly, making people’s hearts itch.

The doctor snorted lightly. “A little.”

With that, he continued to examine Yu Luoyin’s injuries, his movements swift and decisive.

But lying on the hospital bed, the slender teenager, with his school shirt stained with patches of blood, just looked… painful to behold.

Bai Xunyin clearly felt Yu Luoyin’s hand tighten unconsciously every time the doctor pressed down on him, causing her heart to contract involuntarily, subconsciously stopping him. 

“Can you be gentler?”

“Yinyin.” 

Yu Luoyin gritted his teeth against the pain, still in the mood to joke with her despite his suffering, his slightly stinging eyes squinting as he stared at Bai Xunyin, not letting go. 

“I’m not going to die, right?”

…

The doctor, who had finished examining the superficial injuries, looked at him quietly, pretending to be cool.

“You won’t.” 

But Bai Xunyin knew nothing about medical matters, and just looking at Yu Luoyin’s battered appearance made her feel sorry for him. 

She shook her head busily, “You won’t die.”

Her other hand, which wasn’t being held by Yu Luoyin, hung at her side, unconsciously clenched together, her nails almost digging into her palm.

“But I feel pain all over.” Yu Luoyin’s elegant eyebrows furrowed slightly, taking advantage of Bai Xunyin’s momentary daze, he made an extra effort to act pitiful. 

“Yinyin, can we… can we make up?”

Bai Xunyin was taken aback, then she realized where she was, surrounded by the mocking gazes of doctors, nurses, and the police taking notes, and her ears turned crimson involuntarily.

She whispered softly, “Can we talk about it later?”

“No, I want to know the answer now. What if I’m either dead or crippled?” 

Yu Luoyin was relentless, turning his head to look at her with pleading eyes, a glimmer of hope shining in his black eyes, making him look pitiful. 

“Just humor me, okay?”

Bai Xunyin’s palm was either pulled or forced by him, and she felt the heat starting to sweat.

Yu Luoyin’s fiery gaze made her feel trapped, he was still waiting for a so-called ‘answer’ while his body was covered in scars, still childish enough to delay treatment…

Bai Xunyin could only nod vaguely, conceding inexplicably.

Soon.

But her heart felt like it was stung by a hornet’s nest, buzzing and chaotic.

In fact, Yu Luoyin knew that Bai Xunyin was just trying to get him to get proper treatment, but even so, he was temporarily satisfied.

The tension in the boy’s mind suddenly relaxed, and he only realized after the fact that he was feeling the pain from the beating all over his body, his chaotic black eyes squinted slightly, trying to keep his eyes open to see Bai Xunyin more clearly… but he couldn’t hold on and pa.s.sed out.

“This kid is really infatuated, only fainting now at this point.” 

The doctor onlooker shook his head, somewhat speechless. 

“I’ve already given him a shot of pethidine long ago.”

Bai Xunyin was stunned for a moment, pursing her lips without saying a word.

It wasn’t until the ambulance arrived at the hospital, and Yu Luoyin’s hospital bed was wheeled into the emergency room, that his grip on Bai Xunyin’s slender fingers was forcibly pried open.

Bai Xunyin lightly moved her finger joints, feeling as if her hand had been squeezed numb by him all the way.

“Miss Bai, it’s too late tonight. Can you come to the police station tomorrow for another round of questioning?” 

The policewoman who accompanied them just asked Bai Xunyin on the way to the hospital. At the hospital entrance, she politely smiled as she finished preparing a brief transcript. 

“Because this person who claims to be Liu Yiba had a criminal record before. He was involved in a money fraud case in the neighboring province half a year ago. It’s estimated that this time, he threatened you for money out of desperation.”

“Sure.” 

Bai Xunyin nodded and softly said, “I will go.”

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