Chen Zan sat outside the emergency room the entire time, his eyes fixed tightly on the three glaring red words: “Emergency in Progress…”
His thoughts were in complete chaos.
How did this happen…
How did Youwei get into a car accident…
Memories of Chen Zan and Jiang Youwei surged through his mind like a relentless carousel, tearing at his sanity.
The first time he confessed to Jiang Youwei, he hadn’t prepared anything at all. It was when she was eating KFC, her hands greasy and shiny with oil.
At that moment, he thought she looked especially beautiful and adorable.
With his usual carefree attitude, Chen Zan blurted out, “Youwei, I like you. Will you be with me?”
He was immediately met with her soft, pink fist thumping against his chest.
Her ears flushed red as she pouted in dissatisfaction and said, “Be serious.”
Who confesses while someone is eating…
Chen Zan raised four fingers, his tone suddenly sincere, “I’m very serious. I really like you.”
Jiang Youwei turned her head away, refusing to look at him, her voice soft as she said, “We’ve only just met, and you’re already talking about liking me. I don’t believe it.”
She tried hard to wipe the grease from her fingertips.
The next second, Chen Zan slipped the pull tab from his soda can onto her ring finger.
He looked at her and said, “Say yes. Okay?”
“No!”
The girl’s cheeks were clearly flushed, yet her words contradicted her heart.
Back then, how could Chen Zan have understood…
The sweetness of that memory faded, yet Chen Zan’s face remained completely expressionless, as if he had turned to stone.
Assistant Xiao Nan was in a panic. She held back her sobs, but tears still fell uncontrollably down her face as she wiped them again and again.
She had only gotten out of the car to buy coffee for CEO Jiang. She never expected that a vehicle from behind would lose control, crash into the car parked neatly within the roadside parking lines, and send the CEO straight into the hospital.
Oh God…
Just take her already.
She had only just entered society, and now she was facing something she had no way to handle. She was going to die from this…
Xiao Nan sniffled, not daring to make a sound.
The silence stretched awkwardly through the narrow hospital corridor.
Her helpless gaze couldn’t help but drift toward this unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar man.
She hesitated, then said, “Aren’t you the waiter from that night… the one who didn’t take the designated driver job?”
Chen Zan slowly lifted his hollow, unfocused eyes and nodded, then returned his gaze to the emergency room.
Xiao Nan asked, “Were you the one who called the ambulance?”
Chen Zan shook his head, then nodded again.
His mind was a mess.
Xiao Nan couldn’t understand and asked, “Why do you look so sad?”
The pain in him was practically overflowing… he looked even more desperate than she felt.
He didn’t know… he really didn’t know.
He felt completely dazed.
After an agonizing hour, the emergency treatment finally ended.
The moment the doctor stepped out, Chen Zan rushed forward, his eyes filled with concern as he asked, “Doctor, how is she?”
The doctor replied, “For now, the patient is in stable condition. However, the car accident has still caused some aftereffects.”
Chen Zan’s heart instantly tightened, “Aftereffects?”
What kind of aftereffects…
He blurted out, “Did it injure her face?”
He remembered how, when they were together, Jiang Youwei had always cherished and carefully protected her beautiful face. Just thinking about it made his heart twist painfully.
He personally didn’t care about such things, but if Jiang Youwei found out and couldn’t accept it, what would she do…
The doctor shook his head, “No.”
Chen Zan’s eyes widened, “Then… did it injure her brain?”
That would be even worse.
Jiang Youwei had always been a top student. Every year, her name appeared on the school’s award list. She had been like a role model idol to all the juniors.
In her world, there was no place for stupidity.
The doctor hesitated slightly and said, “No. This patient…”
Then he paused and asked, “Um… are you her family member?”
Chen Zan froze.
The doctor continued, “Listen to me…”