Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 482 - Chapter 482 Chapter 480 His Heart Tightened

Chapter 482: Chapter 480: His Heart Tightened Chapter 482: Chapter 480: His Heart Tightened The woman on the bed had her eyes tightly closed, her complexion pale, with a rivulet of blood flowing from beneath her nose, already soaking half of the pillow.

She seemed to have no sensation whatsoever and had fallen into a coma.

Gu Siting rushed over to the bed in a few strides, and when he touched Ming Yao’s forehead, it was burning hot.

“Yaoyao, Yaoyao!”

He called her name several times, but she showed no response at all.

Gu Siting didn’t dare to delay, quickly lifting her in a horizontal carry and racing downstairs.

Seeing Gu Siting hurry down while carrying Ming Yao, Old Madam Gu and Song Yulan were both shocked.

“Siting, what happened to Yaoyao?”

Without responding, Gu Siting glanced at Steward Zhong, “Get the car ready quickly.”

Steward Zhong promptly drove a car out of the garage.

Gu Siting sat in the backseat holding Ming Yao and kept urging Steward Zhong to speed up all the way.

Gu Siting held the woman in his arms tightly; her body alternated between cold and hot, and no matter how he called her, he couldn’t wake her up.

His heart clenched tightly.

“Yaoyao, can you hear me talking?”

No matter what he said, the woman showed no response whatsoever.

Steward Zhong drove as fast as he could and reached the hospital.

The Dean and the chief physician were already waiting downstairs.

Gu Siting followed with the stretcher to the resuscitation room.

He wanted to follow inside, but the Dean stopped him, “Fourth Master, please stay calm!”

Gu Siting grabbed the Dean’s arm, “You must ensure she is safe.”

“Don’t worry, we will do our best!”

After the doors to the resuscitation room closed, Gu Siting clenched his fists tightly and paced back and forth in the hallway several times.

As if thinking of something, he took out his phone and made a call to Yun Zhuo.

He remembered that Yun Zhuo was still in the capital for an academic exchange and had not returned to Tang Sect.

The phone rang a few times before being answered.

“Yaoyao is in trouble; come to the City Hospital quickly.”

Yun Zhuo hurried to the hospital as fast as possible.

Yun Zhuo, who always had an elegant and ethereal visage, wore a trace of urgency, “What happened to Xiao Yao?”

Gu Siting described Ming Yao’s symptoms, “She’s still in the resuscitation room.”

Seeing the pained expression on Gu Siting’s face, Yun Zhuo refrained from saying anything more.

Skilled in medicine, Yun Zhuo wanted to check on Ming Yao’s condition; Gu Siting quickly contacted the hospital to allow him to change into surgical attire and enter the operating room.

The Dean and the chief physician did their utmost but could only temporarily preserve Ming Yao’s life.

In their decades of practicing medicine, they had been unable to determine Ming Yao’s condition.

After Yun Zhuo entered, he checked Ming Yao’s various stats.

He lifted her neck slightly and half-squinted his clear eyes.

“Doctor Yun, what are you looking at?”

Yun Zhuo pointed to two small punctures on the back of Ming Yao’s neck, “Do you know what bit her?”

“It looks like a small bug.”

Yun Zhuo’s elegant features grew tense, “Judging from the wounds, and her current condition, it should be a bite from a Blood Fever Bug.”

“Blood Fever Bug?” The Dean and the other doctors all looked surprised.

These bugs thrived in the harshest conditions of the Devil’s Desert and were notorious man-eaters.

Because very few people ventured into the Devil’s Desert, there had been very few cases of people being bitten, and no such cases had been recorded in medical science.

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Gu Siting paced back and forth outside the operating room, anxious and worried.

Yun Zhuo had been inside for over an hour, and the doors of the operating room had yet to open.

Every minute, every second, was an agony for Gu Siting.

She had been fine last night, so why had she fallen unconscious today?

Gu Siting suddenly recalled she had a nosebleed the previous night. At the time, he hadn’t taken it seriously, actually believing she had a nosebleed because she saw him in a bath towel.

Now, it seemed that she had already been feeling unwell then.

And yet, he had still bothered her for a long time last night.

Damn it!

Gu Siting clenched his large hand into a fist, wishing he could punch himself to death.

Time passed, and finally, the operation room’s door opened.

Yun Zhuo emerged with a cold, congealed expression.

“How is she?”

Yun Zhuo’s countenance was gravely serious as he said, “Not good.”

“What exactly is going on?”

Yun Zhuo’s features tensed up, “She was bitten by a Blood Fever Bug in the Devil’s Desert.”

Gu Siting’s eyebrows knitted together, “What is that?”

“The Blood Fever Bug is a rare poisonous insect that lives in the harshest of environments. People bitten by it exhibit no symptoms for the first few days, but later they start to experience nosebleeds, alternating cold and heat spells, fall into comas, and within a week at most, they die from the poison!”

Hearing Yun Zhuo’s words, Gu Siting’s tall frame shook unsteadily.

Regret and pain appeared on Yun Zhuo’s elegantly stoic face, “I would rather it was I who had been bitten.”

Veins throbbed on Gu Siting’s forehead as he gripped Yun Zhuo’s arm tightly, “You are her all-capable Senior Brother, is there really no way for you to save her? Doesn’t your Tang Sect know how to neutralize any poison?”

Yun Zhuo’s voice was hoarse, “It’s possible, but the development of the Antidote Serum for the Blood Fever Bug would take at least a month. She can’t wait that long.”

Undoubtedly, Yun Zhuo was in pain.

Ming Yao’s previous incarnation had passed away due to insomnia, and now, she had been infected with the Blood Fever Bug–

Even though he was right by her side this time, he was unable to immediately develop the Antidote Serum to restore her health, leaving him feeling self-reproach and heavy inside.

Yun Zhuo was usually gentlemanly and calm, but at this moment, he was unable to stay calm, his hands gripping Gu Siting’s shirt collar tightly.

“If it wasn’t for your affairs, she wouldn’t have been bitten by the Blood Fever Bug!”

Gu Siting’s eyes were filled with a bloody red hue, and he, too, was suffering immensely.

“Just beat me to death!”

Yun Zhuo forcefully pushed Gu Siting away, “I won’t beat you, but if Xiao Yao doesn’t make it, I will make you pay with your life!”

Gu Siting leaned weakly against the wall.

After an indeterminate amount of time, he went to visit Ming Yao in the intensive care unit.

Her body temperature was getting higher and higher and just wouldn’t come down.

Her little face had no trace of color, and her lips had turned purplish black.

Gu Siting called over the hospital director and the attending physician, “I want a thorough investigation; I refuse to believe that there isn’t an Antidote Serum for the Blood Fever Bug in this world!”

The director and the attending physician hurriedly searched through medical records and even made phone calls to consult with their peers.

The next morning, the director received a call from his teacher.

His teacher was a doctor at the Presidential Residence, having retired a few years ago and now living a life of leisure in the countryside.

He had woken up and seen the message from the director.

“More than twenty years ago, the Third Princess was bitten by the Blood Fever Bug.”

The Third Princess was Old Lady Gong’s youngest daughter, Gong Xiao’s sister, and the most cherished figure in the Presidential Residence.

Now, she was the duchess of a ducal mansion in country Y.

The director promptly reported this news to Gu Siting.

Upon hearing this, Gu Siting’s expression turned grim and gloomy.

After an inner struggle, he visited the Presidential Residence once again.

Gong Xiao had been worried about how to persuade Gu Siting, not expecting him to come seeking help of his own volition.

Hearing that Ming Yao had been bitten by the Blood Fever Bug and urgently needed Antidote Serum, Gong Xiao sighed softly.

Perhaps this was their fate!