She could hear the sound of gunshots. Blood was everywhere, dying her entire vision red, suffocating her so much that she almost couldn’t breathe. With that, she woke up.

  “Did I wake you up, Sister? I am sorry, I came to change the wound’s dressing.” Mu Qing said guiltily.

  Shangguan Ning looked expressionlessly at Jing Yiran who was standing behind Mu Qing and said softly, “It is okay, I wasn’t sleeping. Give me the dressing, I can change it for him.”


  Mu Qing didn’t insist. Instead, he gave it to Shangguan Ning.

  The blood splatter on Shangguan Ning’s face had been washed away. But she was still wearing the purple dress which she had worn, the previous day. The dress was creased, and the blood stains on the dress had turned into dried flakes. She looked messy.

  She stood up and extended her hand to reach for the plate in which the gauze and medicine were lying.

  Jing Yiran was staring intently at Shangguan Ning’s pale face when all of a sudden, he felt something outside the window flash by.

  That was the reflection of the sighting mirror on the sniper rifle.

  Without hesitation, Jing Yiran shouted “watch out” and plunged at Shangguan Ning.

  The thick two-layer glass windows exploded with the bullet the next second.

  Before Shangguan Ning had time to react, she had already been pushed down by Jing Yiran. In the meanwhile, she felt a piercing pain in her arm.

  Blood gushed out and she knew immediately that the bullet had hit her arm.

  Jing Yiran and Mu Qing spoke simultaneously.

  “Are you alright, Shangguan Ning?”


  “Are you okay, Sister?”


  Tiger and Lee Duo rushed in after hearing the loud noise. They shouted, “Lady!”


  Shangguan Ning pushed Jing Yiran away from her and turned a look at the tall building, visible from her position. But she could see nothing.

  With one hand covering the wound, she said in a calm voice whilst tolerating the pain. “I am fine, go and find the killer!”


  Tiger and Lee Duo nodded, but they didn’t move. Their responsibility was to keep Shangguan Ning safe. Someone else was in charge of finding the killer.

  The loud crashing sound woke up the man lying in sickbed. Jing Yichen opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was Shangguan Ning’s bleeding arm.

  He called out “Ning” hoarsely and wanted to get up the following moment. But the pain in his chest stopped him from even trying it.

  Shangguan Ning was very close to his bed side, so she heard his voice immediately.

  She thought that she was just imagining, but when she looked at him, a pair of black eyes were staring back at her.

  For a moment, Shangguan Ning forgot about her wounded arm and the searing pain. She was happily surprised and said, “You are awake, Yichen?”


  He recalled the trail of events preceding the gunshot. It took him a few seconds before Jing Yichen realized that he had fallen into a coma because of being shot and that he was lying at Family Mu’s Hospital.

  But that was not what he cared about at the moment. Instead, he stared at Shangguan Ning’s arm where blood was gushing out from and said to Mu Qing, “Stop the bleeding!”


  Mu Qing was still reeling under the shock of what had just happened. He had never witnessed such a thing happening within such close distance. Fear had turned him into a statue.

  Jing Yichen’s voice brought him back to reality. He quickly lifted Shangguan Ning’s arms and checked it out.

  Mu Qing said anxiously, “The bullet is still in your arm, Sister. We need to operate upon it right away to take it out.”


  Shangguan Ning didn’t want to leave Jing Yichen at this moment. He had just woken up and she wanted to stay by his side! She wanted to take care of him and didn’t want to get operated upon.

  “Just leave it there. Bandage it up so that it doesn’t bleed. I don’t want to go anywhere, I want to stay by his side.”


  “No way!”


  “That won’t work!”


  Jing Yichen and Mu Qing spoke simultaneously.

  “Mu Qing, give her a strong anesthesia and take her to the operating room!” Jing Yichen said in a hoarse voice and gave the order in an authorized tone.

  Mu Qing understood what Jing Yichen meant. He answered positively and decided to get her drugged first before pushing her into the operation room. He had never met any woman before who could stay so calm as to allow the bullet to remain in the arm.

  Did she want to live or not?

  If the bullet stayed on in the arm, the wound would get infected and the blood would keep coming out. That was a kind of pain which no one was able to bear.

  Shangguan Ning seemed to understand that Jing Yichen was dead serious.

  Worried that she would not wake up until a while later, she said instantly, “I will go for the operation, just don’t drug me heavily.”


  Mu Qing pulled up Shangguan Ning and started to walk outside. “Sister, hurry up. The sooner I take out the bullet, the earlier you will be able to get back. I can do the operation fast, ten minutes at most!”


  Shangguan Ning walked out of the ward but she kept looking back at Jing Yichen who gave her a consoling look.

  It was not until Shangguan Ning laid down on the operation desk that she realized that Jing Yiran had disappeared. Shangguan Ning was stricken with a weird feeling when she thought of how Jing Yiran pushed her down at the right moment.

  She had thought that Jing Yiran would be the last person who would save her. But he turned out to be the first one. Didn’t he keep using her to provoke Jing Yichen? Wouldn’t he be happy if she got injured? Why did he save her?

  Shangguan Ning wasn’t scared actually. For one thing, it was because her mind was on Jing Yichen totally and for another, she had already put on the bullet-proof coat which Jing Zhongxiu had sent the previous night.

  But Jing Yiran totally forgot that Shangguan Ning had a bullet-proof coat on. He had been afraid that she would get injured so he pushed her down subconsciously.

  All was ready at the operation room, so Mu Qing instantly started to disinfect and stopped the blood on the wound the moment Shangguan Ning came into the operation room. Then he took the nipper to remove the bullet from her arm.

  The bullet was stuck between the bone of her arm. Mu Qing soon brought out the bullet being an experienced doctor. He didn’t even use any other instrument.

  Then he took the operation knife and removed some of the burnt flesh on Shangguan Ning’s arm to make sure that the flesh was safe from infection.

  He was working carefully when a soft voice spoke from behind his back. “Is she alright now?”


  Mu Qing answered subconsciously, “She is okay. She will recover soon.”


  Only then did he realize that something was wrong. Who dared to enter his operation room?

  Jing Yichen?

  Mu Qing looked back and sure enough, he saw Jing Yichen who was supposed to be in the sickbed, standing right in front of him!

  He almost screamed out of astonishment.