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Chapter 33: Terminal Illness part 1
Yun Yingzhi entered the consultation room and saw the doctor in the white coat once again.
The doctor had his personal optical brain set to open projection, displaying the medical imaging records that belonged to Yun Yingzhi.
Yun Yingzhi couldn’t understand the scans, but he could clearly see his own name and date of birth at the top.
Name: Yun Yingzhi Age: 19 years old
Below that was a wall of professional terminology. Yun Yingzhi couldn’t make heads or tails of it, so he peeked at the doctor, observing his facial expressions.
The doctor’s brow was furrowed, his face a mask of solemnity.
Yun Yingzhi sniffled. He thought he really might have some major illness.
The doctor said, “You’re only nineteen.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…Mhm.”
The doctor let out a soft sigh.
Yun Yingzhi felt even more deeply that he might not have long to live.
He didn’t know how much time he had left in the future, but in the days to come, he first needed to refund Wei Yuanqing’s money. He probably had to refund Ji Xiaobo and Jing Haomiao too. After that, he would devote all his energy to designing a source weapon for Yun Yinghui.
He tried to hold it back but failed. Yun Yingzhi lowered his head, tears pitter-pattering onto the floor.
The doctor rested his chin on one hand, his gaze still fixed on the projected light screen. He hadn’t noticed that Yun Yingzhi was crying as he asked, “Where is your family?”
Yun Yingzhi thought, As expected, he wants to contact my family to have them prepare for my funeral?
He felt his stomach move again.
Yun Yingzhi struggled to stabilize his emotions and said, “…I, I don’t want them to know.”
He didn’t want Yun Yinghui to know because he didn’t want his brother, who was still on the battlefield, to worry. He didn’t want the Admiral or Madam Yun to know because he knew they had never cared about him.
He had once seen on the Star Network that some children who lacked love would resort to self-harm.
Those children thought that by self-harming, they could gain their parents’ attention.
Even when he was very small, Yun Yingzhi knew that Admiral Yun and Madam Yun never cared about him. No matter how many outrageous things he did, they wouldn’t be sad for him; instead, they would only feel that his actions were disgraceful. The only person who would truly be sad was the brother who loved him.
He didn’t want his brother to be sad for him.
The doctor’s gaze remained on the scans, his expression grim. “But your situation right now is very serious. You need to tell them,” he added. “You probably can’t handle this on your own.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…It’s okay.”
He actually really wanted to ask the doctor: Is there truly no treatment?
If it’s untreatable, how much longer can I live?
After thinking about it, he felt it was necessary to continue messaging Yun Yingyao to leave his final words.
He really wanted to tell her that once he was gone, he hoped she could take his place in being filial to Yun Yinghui.
But no—he didn’t have the right to demand that of her.
After some thought, Yun Yingzhi sent a private message to Yun Yingyao: [Yingyao, in the future, you must take my place and be good to Papa and Mama. Also, could you please take my place in comforting Gege?]
Yun Yingyao continued to send video call requests.
Yun Yingzhi’s tears kept falling as he continued to reject them. He replied: [Don’t send me video calls, I don’t want to pick up.]
Yun Yingyao: [Yun Yingzhi! Don’t do anything stupid!]
Yun Yingzhi froze. Me doing something stupid? What stupid thing could I do?
He was momentarily dazed, but after a thought, he suddenly understood.
Before he could find a suitable explanation, Yun Yingyao on the other end said: [I’ve already called the police.]
Yun Yingzhi: “…”?
His eyelids twitched, and a giant question mark slowly formed in his brain.
Yun Yingyao: [Do you really like Huai Boshe that much? You’d actually do something like this for him?]
Yun Yingzhi’s heart skipped a beat, and fine beads of sweat broke out on his forehead. He felt a sense of unease.
Something like this? For Huai Boshe? Calling the police?
In other words, Yun Yingyao misunderstood that he might commit suicide over love, so she called the police?
Once the police received the news, they would definitely try to rescue him immediately.
Perhaps…
The news channels would report: The second son of the Admiral’s Manor was trapped by love and was about to commit suicide. The police mobilized a large force to save the lost youth, only to find that he didn’t want to kill himself, but was terminally ill.
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
Yun Yingzhi: “…………”
His face, which had been pale from learning he was “terminally ill,” instantly turned beet red. He felt so embarrassed he could dig out a whole Admiral’s Manor with his toes.
His hands were almost trembling as he tried to reply to Yun Yingyao, telling her to cancel the police report.
Just then, the doctor spoke up: “Why are you crying like this?”
Yun Yingzhi lifted his eyes to meet the doctor’s.
His eyes were red and rimmed with tears; he looked incredibly pitiful.
The doctor sighed softly, pulled out a tissue, and handed it to him. “Stop crying. You need to control your emotions; otherwise, it will affect your body.”
Yun Yingzhi thought to himself, I’m about to die, how am I supposed to control my emotions?
In truth, he wasn’t afraid of death; he just couldn’t bear to leave his brother, his friends, his parents, and the younger sister who never called him Gege.
He cried even harder.
No. Even though he was going to die, he couldn’t lose face like this before the end. He had to contact Yun Yingyao as soon as possible and tell her to contact the police to cancel the report right now, this instant.
The doctor paused and suddenly asked, “Who is the child’s mother?”
Yun Yingzhi froze. A giant question mark slowly formed in his head. What “who is the child’s mother”? He asked with a face full of dazed confusion, “Ch-child’s mother?”
The doctor frowned and said, “The other blood relative of the two children in your stomach. If it’s not a mother, could it be a father?”
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
He was in a complete daze. He felt that the amount of information in the doctor’s sentence was a bit too much.
Two… two?
Two children?
Inside his belly, there were two?
The child’s mother? As a male, how could he be pregnant with a child of another female?
Yun Yingzhi said, “So, males can also be pregnant with a female’s child?” He looked shocked, his pupils in a state of continuous earthquake.
The doctor replied, “It seems the children’s other blood relative is also a father.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…” Not only could he be pregnant with a female’s child, but he could also be pregnant with a male’s child.
His entire body was already red, but at this moment, his exposed skin turned even redder. He felt like he was about to start smoking.
Wait!
That wasn’t the point. The point was that he didn’t have a terminal illness—he was pregnant!
For a moment, Yun Yingzhi subtly felt that compared to being terminally ill, being pregnant didn’t seem like such an unacceptable thing after all.
Suddenly, his spirit jolted. Wait!
Yun Yingyao just said she called the police.
In other words, the scenario he just imagined had to be changed to…
The second son of the Admiral’s Manor tried to commit suicide for love, the police immediately rescued him, only to find that the youth didn’t want to kill himself—he was just pregnant.
Yun Yingzhi thought: next, everyone in the Perseus Empire would know he was pregnant, and with two babies to boot.
His heart thundered in his chest. He was now so embarrassed he wanted to dig out an entire Imperial Palace.
Just thinking about it made him feel that he’d rather have a terminal illness.
This was far too embarrassing.
The doctor looked at him and asked, “Who is the children’s other father?”
Yun Yingzhi instinctively wanted to tell the truth, but he immediately realized now wasn’t the time for that. He had to contact Yun Yingyao first.
He didn’t want to become the Empire’s headline, nor did he want to enter the top of the trending searches again.
He said “Wait a second” and quickly sent a private message: [Yun Yingyao, don’t think nonsense. I’m not going to kill myself. Hurry up and cancel the police report.]
Yun Yingyao: [Then why won’t you answer my video call?]
Yun Yingzhi: [Just cancel the report first!]
Yun Yingyao sent a second message: [Before, whenever Gege contacted you, no matter how busy you were, you would reply. Why won’t you answer the video call Gege sent you now?]
Yun Yingzhi’s eyelids jumped wildly. Just now, all his thoughts had been on his conversation with the doctor, and then they were all on preventing an embarrassing situation. He hadn’t realized at all that he had missed a video call from Yun Yinghui.
He was as anxious as an ant on a hot griddle.
Yun Yingyao made things worse: [I know where you are right now. The police will arrive soon, and I’m on my way too. If you dare do something stupid, I won’t forgive you.]
Yun Yingyao: [If anything happens to you, Gege will be heartbroken too!]
Yun Yingzhi felt that in her current state, Yun Yingyao wouldn’t believe anything he said in text. In his urgency, he sent her a video call request.
Almost the instant he sent it, she picked up.
At this moment, Yun Yingyao’s long hair was messy, her eyes were bloodshot, and she was driving a floating car.
Yun Yingzhi said, “Yun Yingyao, why are you crying?”
Yun Yingyao: “If you weren’t doing something stupid, would I be crying?”
Yun Yingzhi: “No, Yao-yao, I don’t want to fight with you right now. Just cancel the police report first.”
Yun Yingyao: “Yun Yingzhi, we can discuss anything. Death doesn’t solve anything.”
Yun Yingzhi shouted, “Yun Yingyao, I’m not going to die!”
Yun Yingyao: “Then why did you leave me your final words?”
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