Cao Wenjun gloomily went to charge the phone, turning his head to see Chang Yuncheng sitting and flipping through the folder in his hands, holding a carbon pen in the posture of gripping a writing brush, writing something on paper.
Can’t even hold a pen properly! Can’t even send text messages! Like an illiterate who doesn’t recognize many characters, pretending to be cultured!
“Can you write? Do you want me to teach you?” he asked.
Chang Yuncheng ignored him, marking the phone number that hadn’t connected earlier, then closed the folder.
“Not calling anymore?” Cao Wenjun asked, tossing his own phone in his hands twice. “Want to use mine?”
Beg me, you bastard!
“No need.” Chang Yuncheng said very decisively.
Cao Wenjun was quite surprised.
These past two days, this guy had been clutching his phone making calls except during work and sleep time.
He thought he would persist until he finished calling everyone.
“Don’t be polite, I don’t mind you using up some of my phone bill.” Cao Wenjun said.
Chang Yuncheng shook his head.
“I’ve finished today’s calls. I should do other things now.” He said, standing up. “I’m going out for a while.”
“Want little me to accompany you?” Cao Wenjun asked with raised eyebrows.
Chang Yuncheng glanced at him.
“No need. You’re too ugly, wouldn’t look good taking you out.” He said.
Cao Wenjun nearly fainted.
What does it mean to be fearless through ignorance – now he understood!
A person with no status, no money, nothing at all, actually dared to treat him like this!
Who was he? He was Cao Wenjun! Third generation of the Cao family! The legitimate third generation!
The jeep roared as it charged into a hospital, scaring the security guard directing parking to scatter in all directions.
Cao Wenjun opened the car door and vomited several times.
“I said I’d drive, but you wouldn’t listen. Damn it, how many cameras caught us along the way? That’s going to be trouble…” he said between dry heaves.
Chang Yuncheng patted the steering wheel and looked at Cao Wenjun.
“You.” He said.
Cao Wenjun looked over.
“Have you ever seen a grown man riding on a horse led by someone else?” Chang Yuncheng asked flatly. Though it was a question, he obviously didn’t need Cao Wenjun to answer. After speaking, he glanced at the outpatient building in front of them and strode away.
What was that about?
Indeed, there was something wrong with his brain!
Damn, he’d never seen someone with mental problems act so arrogant!
“I said, haven’t you had enough? You’ve been calling non-stop these past few days. How old are you, still playing at meeting internet friends?” Cao Wenjun caught up and said.
“I made the calls, but I still need to come confirm.” Chang Yuncheng said.
“Confirm what?” Cao Wenjun asked in confusion.
To confirm that perhaps she had forgotten him over the phone, but seeing him in person, would she remember…
Chang Yuncheng glanced at the folder in his hand. The Dr. Qi Yue at this hospital was an obstetrician-gynecologist. Standing in this bright, crowded hall, he felt somewhat dazzled.
What a chaotic world…
How could there be so many people…
“Make way, make way…”
Emergency doctors in the hall pushed an emergency patient rushing in.
Chang Yuncheng seemed to see a scene from the past.
He couldn’t help but lift his foot and follow that group of people.
The emergency room doctors and nurses were busy. Various monitoring equipment made beeping sounds.
“Family members please step back, family members please step back.” The nurses were persuading the crying, shouting family members crowding in the room.
But the emotionally agitated family members couldn’t listen at all.
The scene became even more chaotic.
“Didn’t you hear them tell you to get out?” Chang Yuncheng stepped forward in a few strides, reached out with his long arms and pushed, sending four or five family members retreating outward.
He was tall and imposing, his voice authoritative, and his strength great. For a moment, everyone was intimidated and stood stunned as they were pushed out.
A new security guard at the hospital?
The nurse looked at this man in surprise. Oh my, he was also incredibly handsome…
“Thank you so much.” She smiled and thanked him, deciding to thank him again after finishing her work. Maybe grab a meal together or something.
Cao Wenjun slapped his forehead and grabbed Chang Yuncheng, who was standing at the door like a door god.
“You’re addicted to being a gatekeeper!” he said in a low voice. “Can you not embarrass yourself?”
After shouting, Cao Wenjun regretted it a bit. Damn it, him embarrassing himself was exactly what he wanted! Why did he meddle and pull him back!
Was he getting addicted to being mistreated and ordered around?
He angrily let go of his hand.
Chang Yuncheng said nothing, turned around, and strode away.
I don’t care if you embarrass yourself. It would be better if security threw you down from upstairs!
Cao Wenjun thought this way and didn’t follow.
“I’ll wait in the car!” he said angrily, walking to the entrance. Then he remembered the car keys weren’t with him. He could only curse furiously and stand at the entrance smoking heavily.
Before long, Chang Yuncheng came out. Without saying a word, he opened the door and got in the car. Cao Wenjun snorted and followed.
“Did you find…” he had just begun to speak when he saw Chang Yuncheng suddenly jerk the steering wheel. The rest of his words turned into a curse as Cao Wenjun gripped the handle tightly and began another round of swaying back and forth.
Watching the car charge into another hospital, Cao Wenjun clung to the car door, vomiting so much he didn’t have the strength to get out.
“Are you really going to visit every single hospital?” he asked weakly.
“Yes, starting with Beijing.” Chang Yuncheng said, taking out the folder and crossing out the Dr. Qi Yue he had just met, his gaze falling on the second name as he jumped out of the car.
“Are you crazy? When will you finish searching like this?” Cao Wenjun shouted in surprise.
“I’ll finish eventually.” Chang Yuncheng said, slamming the car door and walking away.
Crazy!
Cao Wenjun gave him the middle finger.
At the pediatric outpatient clinic of Beijing Third Hospital, the attending Dr. Qi was quite worried.
This man in front of her had been sitting there for quite a while.
“If the child is uncomfortable, you need to bring them over for me to examine personally. I can’t diagnose based on just what you’re telling me.” Dr. Qi said patiently once again.
“Alright.” Chang Yuncheng said, still looking at this doctor.
Dr. Qi was thirty-five years old. Although she had passed the age of being star-struck, being stared at by a man like this still made her blush involuntarily.
She couldn’t help but cough lightly.
“Family member, please go back and bring the child then.” She said, tapping the desk.
Chang Yuncheng watched her hand tapping the desk, his expression becoming excited.
“Are you Yueniang?” he said tremblingly, leaning forward and gripping the desk.
Dr. Qi was startled.
“No, no, I’m Qi Yue.” She said, pulling the nameplate on the desk over to show this man.
Although he was very easy on the eyes, could there be something wrong with his brain…
Chang Yuncheng didn’t look at the nameplate, still staring at this doctor.
“Qi Yueniang, I, I’m Chang Yuncheng.” He said again. “Don’t you remember me?”
Dr. Qi stood up with a bang.
“Security! Security!” she screamed.
Cao Wenjun, smoking outside the door, saw a large group of security guards charging into the outpatient building as if facing a great enemy. He shook his head.
“Alright, this round is over. Time to move to the next location.” He said to himself, throwing the cigarette butt into a nearby trash can, clapping his hands and walking toward the parking lot.
Behind him came a cacophony of noise and commotion. Cao Wenjun didn’t even need to turn his head. Before he reached the car, Chang Yuncheng had already stridden past him and opened the car door.
His expression was calm. His clothes, wrinkled from the scuffle, didn’t affect his image at all.
“I say, let’s hurry to the next location.” Cao Wenjun got in and said.
Chang Yuncheng glanced at him.
“This way, you’re getting closer and closer to being admitted to a mental hospital.” Cao Wenjun said, grinning.
Chang Yuncheng also grinned at him and suddenly stepped on the gas.
Although Cao Wenjun was prepared, he was still nearly thrown out. He gripped the handle tightly.
The jeep roared and charged out recklessly, leaving chaos and tumult in the parking lot.
“…I’m Qi Yueniang, handsome guy. Want to come out and chat…” A sweet voice came through the phone.
Chang Yuncheng took the phone away and hung up, crossed out a name in the folder, then dialed another number.
“Sorry, the number you have dialed is out of service due to unpaid bills…”
What did that mean?
Chang Yuncheng listened for a while, but no real person spoke, so he had to hang up too.
“Finished all the calls?” Old Cao walked into the living room, rotating health balls in his hands.
Chang Yuncheng looked at the folder full of various marks – all done. Except for the unreachable ones, all done.
“Personnel changes frequently, and phone numbers change quickly too.” Old Cao said, sitting down across from him. “Has the advertisement been placed?”
Chang Yuncheng nodded.
“Then don’t worry. If she sees it, she’ll definitely contact you.” Old Cao said, looking at Chang Yuncheng. “Little Chang, about that person whose car tire you shot out at the entrance last time – he asked if you’d be interested in competing with him, special forces one-on-one…”
“Not interested.” Chang Yuncheng interrupted him, standing up. “I still have one more hospital to visit.”
Old Cao looked at him.
These days, every hospital in Beijing with a doctor named Qi Yue, big or small, had been disturbed by a madman to the point of headaches and unrest.
“The advertisement has been placed, the calls have been made. If you search hospital by hospital like this, when will it end? After finishing Beijing, will you go to every hospital in the country?” Old Cao asked. “Little Chang, life is long. Take it slowly. Some things shouldn’t be searched for but waited for…”
At this point, Old Cao suddenly saw the man in front of him stiffen abruptly. This was the first time he had seen him show such emotional exposure.
Old Cao stopped talking and looked at Chang Yuncheng.
“Life… is not long…” Chang Yuncheng said slowly, his tongue seeming somewhat stiff, spitting out each word. “Some things… cannot wait… if we don’t… wait…”
At his age, Old Cao had experienced everything. His emotions had long been numb, but at this moment, when these words were spoken, he felt overwhelming sadness wash over him.
“…Feng’er, wait for me. Wait here for me. I’ll be back soon to take you away…”
In the dense gunfire and rising smoke, his young self had let go of that girl’s hand.
And then there was no more then…
Old Cao didn’t notice when Chang Yuncheng left. He sat alone quietly on the sofa, silently lighting a cigarette. His health doctor had already forbidden smoking. The nanny would remind him if she saw, but she noticed the old man wasn’t smoking but just letting it burn in the ashtray, watching the cigarette slowly rise with smoke.
The nanny tiptoed away. The old man sitting alone on the sofa in the room was silent like a statue.
“No?” Chang Yuncheng asked, looking down at the folder in his hands again.
Qi Yue, Beijing Hospital Thoracic Surgery Department.
“Right, there used to be one, but she was transferred a while ago.” The nurse said.
This wasn’t the first time encountering such a situation. Among the registered doctors on these lists, some had been transferred, some had resigned, and some had gone into other professions.
But that was nothing. He would search for them one by one. After finishing the hospitals, he would search non-hospital places. This world was powerful, with so many methods available. As long as he wanted to find someone, he would definitely find them.
Chang Yuncheng nodded, thanked her, and walked away.
The nurse watched his retreating figure.
“Hey, he’s quite polite and courteous. Where’s the madman they talked about…” she said.
“It’s mainly about the face.” The nurse beside her put her arm around her shoulder. “In your eyes, as long as they’re handsome, even a madman is an angel.”
Laughter echoed in the corridor.
Chang Yuncheng had already entered the elevator.
Several people stood in the elevator, all doctors in white coats. Chang Yuncheng didn’t look much, standing properly and focusing on the indicator light.
“Wait, wait, wait…”
Just as the elevator door was about to close, someone pried it open from outside. A plump nurse squeezed in, holding an armful of things.
“Little Huang, why are you in such a hurry?” A doctor laughed.
“Ah, Dr. Qi, I was just looking for you.” Huang Ying said happily.
The words “Dr. Qi” made Chang Yuncheng turn his head to see a spirited elderly male doctor standing in the back.
An old doctor, male.
Chang Yuncheng turned his head back and continued watching the indicator light. The nurse beside him squeezed over, so he stepped aside a bit, watching the nurse shake a pile of newspapers in her hands, trying to pull out one. Because she was holding too many things, all the newspapers scattered to the floor with a whoosh.
Everyone in the elevator helped pick them up, except Chang Yuncheng, who stood straight without even moving his feet. He lowered his head slightly and saw the newspaper that had fallen on his shoe.
“Hey, look at this one. Who has nothing better to do than place this kind of inexplicable missing person ad… Qi Yueniang, I’m Chang Yuncheng, I’m here, where are you…”
“…Probably copied from the If You Are the One advertisement…”
“…It’s an advertisement, just like that previous mistress declaration ad about former Mrs. Zhang and current Mrs. Zhang…”
Lively chatter and laughter filled the elevator.
Huang Ying suddenly grabbed the newspaper from Chang Yuncheng’s shoe, looking at him with dissatisfaction.
This man looked so good and seemed well-educated, but how could he be so impolite? Really…
These days, good-looking men are all spoiled rotten…
The elevator door opened, and Chang Yuncheng stepped out.
“Dr. Qi, look, this newspaper has a feature report about Yueliang…”
Chang Yuncheng suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Yueliang?
Yueliang!!
