novelaction Chapter 358 The Boy Band Member is an Arrogant Male Supporting Character (33)
Chapter 358 The Boy Band Member is an Arrogant Male Supporting Character (33)
The monitor's beeping suddenly became rapid, and Lin Shen felt as if a handful of shards of glass had been stuffed into his chest, each breath accompanied by a sharp, stinging pain.
He saw Lin Su knock over a chair when he hurriedly got up, the metal legs scraping against the ground with a screeching sound.
"Don't move!" Lin Su's voice changed, and his hand hovered in mid-air, not daring to fall.
Lin Shen then realized that his left hand was unconsciously clutching the fabric of his chest, his knuckles turning bluish-white.
He tried to loosen his fingers, but found that even such a simple movement required him to use all his strength.
A flurry of footsteps echoed down the corridor as the attending physician entered with two nurses.
Lin Su was squeezed into a corner, and his suit jacket tore as it brushed against the door frame.
"Mr. Lin, we need to do emergency treatment." The sound of the doctor pulling back the sheet was like tearing a piece of silk.
Lin Shen felt the cold stethoscope pressed against his chest, and his vision began to blur with static.
He heard the clanging of metal instruments coming from afar, like the mournful cry of a shipwreck in the deep sea.
In the fleeting moment of consciousness drifting away, 003's voice suddenly rang in his mind: [Host's vital signs have dropped to a critical level. Pain shield activated.]
The sudden clarity of the sky made Lin Shen's eyes widen. He saw the syringe in the nurse's hand reflecting the pale light of the overhead lamp.
"Intravenous amiodarone!" The doctor's instructions were like being kept in the dark.
Lin Shen felt warm liquid sliding down the corner of his eye, unsure whether it was physiological tears or some belated fear.
The moment the needle pierced his skin, he suddenly remembered some fragmented things, like countless sharp arrows piercing his body.
The alarm from the monitor gradually subsided, and Lin Su's outline became clear again in his field of vision.
The man's forehead was pressed against the cold glass window, and the protruding knuckles on the back of his neck resembled a broken butterfly wing.
Lin Shen counted his trembling shoulder peaks and suddenly noticed that his uncle had a few more clumps of white hair than last week.
"Let the family members in."
"The nurse said softly as she put away the emergency equipment," Lin Su said. He almost collapsed to the bedside, his knees slamming heavily against the metal bed rails without him even noticing.
The scent of disinfectant was mixed with the base notes of cedar perfume, a fragrance that Lin Shen had casually remarked as pleasant when he was a child.
“Deeply…” Lin Su’s fingertips traced his features lightly, as if checking if a lost and found piece of porcelain was intact. “Dr. Yang said… he said it was early-onset myocardial fibrosis.” He spoke each word with extraordinary difficulty, as if spitting out bloody shrapnel.
Lin Shen's pupils contracted slightly. He had known for a long time, but when the truth actually came, he felt a stinging pain in his heart. But hadn't he already blocked out the sense of pain?
"Why is this happening?" he tried to ask, but the words that came out were barely audible.
The waveform of the electrocardiogram monitor showed tiny spikes as his emotions fluctuated. Lin Su immediately gripped the bed rail to steady himself, as if a chain binding his soul was attached to the hospital bed.
[Node task completed.]
As dusk deepened outside the window, the afterglow of the sunset tinged Lin Su's profile with a blood-red hue.
He was using a cotton swab dipped in warm water to moisten Lin Shen's lips, his movements as devout as if he were making an offering to a deity.
Lin Shen suddenly remembered that rainy night ten years ago, after his parents' funeral, eighteen-year-old Lin Su knelt in front of the hospital bed and changed his dry pajamas with trembling hands.
"Transplant...success rate?" He struggled to piece together the words.
A cotton swab suddenly fell onto the snow-white sheet, leaving a small water stain.
Lin Su's Adam's apple bobbed several times, but in the end he simply shook his head slightly.
This usually shrewd business tycoon is now unable to concoct even the most clumsy lie.
A night breeze lifted the pale blue curtains, and the blue light from the monitor cast eerie ripples on the ground.
When Lin Su finally mustered the courage to hold his hand, Lin Shen felt warm liquid dripping onto his fingertips.
"I will arrange the best medical team." Lin Su's vow was tinged with sobs. The new German treatment... and... His words were broken by the sudden vibration of his cell phone.