Chapter 193 - 192: Whence Love Arises

Chapter 193: Chapter 192: Whence Love Arises

The impact came as expected, but the pain wasn’t nearly as bad as Yu Zhiming had anticipated.

In fact, the ground felt somewhat soft.

Painful grunts echoed in Yu Zhiming’s ear, and he instantly understood what had happened.

Yu Zhiming scrambled to his feet and immediately began examining Gu Qingning, who had cushioned his fall...

After giving Gu Qingning a thorough check from head to toe, Yu Zhiming breathed a long sigh of relief.

"You’re okay. No broken bones, no internal injuries!"

"Let me help you up!"

Yu Zhiming took Gu Qingning’s hand, but just as he was about to pull, he cried out first, "Ow, ow, ow."

"Ow! My back! Quick, look at my back..."

"Fifth Brother, you’ve got three or four small shards stuck in your back! It’s bleeding."

Yu Xiangwan’s voice was normal for that sentence, but the next one was tinged with tears.

"Fifth Brother, Fifth Brother, the baby is so small, and he’s not crying or moving. Quick, see what’s wrong with him!"

Yu Zhiming forgot about helping Gu Qingning up. He turned to see his Fourth Sister, stiff as a board, holding the infant as if it were a bomb.

The expression on her face was frozen with tension.

Yu Zhiming reached out, took the baby, and examined him.

"Sis, the baby’s fine. He just passed out for a moment."

Just then, another soft WHOOSH of combustion sounded nearby. The Yu Family Siblings realized they still weren’t safe.

The two of them dragged the whimpering Gu Qingning another dozen meters away from the accident scene.

"Fifth Brother, are you okay?"

"Qingning, are you okay, too?"

Yu Xiangwan looked at her brother, then glanced at Gu Qingning, unsure who to fuss over first.

Gu Qingning moved her body a little. Despite grimacing in pain, she nodded and said, "I’m fine."

She looked at the filthy, blood-stained baby in Yu Zhiming’s arms and asked, "Zhiming, this baby?"

Yu Zhiming pulled his gaze away from the white SUV being consumed by flames and sighed.

"There was a pregnant woman in that car, over nine months along."

Yu Zhiming didn’t explain further, but Gu Qingning and Yu Xiangwan understood.

In those few short minutes, this guy had actually performed a C-section on someone and successfully delivered a baby.

They both couldn’t help but look back at the burning car, a wave of retrospective fear washing over them...

"Qingning, thank you!"

Yu Zhiming thanked her sincerely, then added with great seriousness, "Don’t ever do something so foolish again."

"A fall like that, for me, would at most cause some pain, dizziness, and a few scrapes. It wouldn’t be a big deal."

"But with my weight and momentum, landing on you could have had extremely serious consequences. It could have even been fatal."

"The fact that you’re not seriously hurt is just pure luck."

Gu Qingning looked at Yu Zhiming’s stern expression, gave a silly smile, and said, "Zhiming, you’re a famous doctor. I’m just an ordinary girl. It doesn’t matter if I get hurt, but if you get hurt, that would be a huge problem."

She chuckled again and said, "And it proves I was right, doesn’t it? You weren’t injured, and I wasn’t crushed."

"Heh heh, heh heh..."

Gu Qingning giggled foolishly again under Yu Zhiming’s gaze, starting to feel a bit embarrassed. She shifted her feet and moved behind him, only for her heart to leap into her throat again.

"Ah, Zhiming! Zhiming, the blood has soaked through your clothes! These shards stuck in you..."

"Don’t touch them!"

Yu Zhiming stopped Gu Qingning, who had already reached out a hand, saying, "I can feel it. The injuries aren’t serious."

"We can take care of it at the hospital later..."

As he said this, Yu Zhiming remembered something he’d overlooked—there were two other crashed cars...

Fortunately, the three people in those two cars had been promptly rescued by passersby.

Yu Zhiming gave them a quick check-up.

Other than one person who had a broken rib from the seatbelt, the three of them were mostly fine.

In less than ten minutes, police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks arrived one after another.

Yu Zhiming described the course of events to the police and left his contact information.

Then, with a motorcycle police escort, Yu Zhiming’s group brought the newborn baby to Ning’an Hospital.

The baby was handed over to a pediatrician for a more detailed examination and care.

Yu Zhiming was also taken into a treatment room to have his back injuries dealt with.

In total, the doctor removed three larger fragments and five smaller ones from Yu Zhiming’s back.

Luckily, the wounds weren’t large and didn’t even require stitches.

After his back wounds were cleaned, disinfected, medicated, and bandaged, and after he received a tetanus shot, Yu Zhiming walked out of the treatment room to find a crowd of people waiting.

Besides Yu Xiangwan and Gu Qingning, there were Gu Qingran, Academician Zhang Yuanzhao, Luan Guoqing, and others—a crowd of ten to twenty people in all.

Yu Zhiming moved his arms in an exaggerated way and said with a smile, "It’s just a few minor cuts on my back. It won’t affect my movement or my work for the day."

"Thank you all for your concern. You can all go back now!"

Gu Qingran said in a deep voice, "Dr. Yu, I’ve heard the whole story from Qingning and your sister. It was truly harrowing."

"You should just stop working for today."

At this moment, it would be impossible for Yu Zhiming to say he didn’t feel any lingering fear.

He had, after all, been thrown several meters by an explosion.

Yu Zhiming said thoughtfully, "The physical exams can be postponed, but those pregnant women can’t wait."

"Let’s adjust their fetal positions first. I also need to throw myself into work to process what just happened..."

At Yu Zhiming’s insistence, the morning’s work of adjusting fetal positions for difficult births proceeded as scheduled...

In Vice Dean Gu’s office, Gu Qingning, now in a change of clean clothes, wore a pitiful expression.

"Brother, when I was changing just now, I saw them... here, here, and this whole big patch on my back..."

"It’s not just swollen, it’s all black and blue. It hurts a lot."

Gu Qingran reached out and ruffled Gu Qingning’s hair, his feelings complicated as he said, "You’ve really fallen for that kid, haven’t you?"

"To throw yourself down without a second thought to be his human cushion. With that small frame of yours, weren’t you afraid of being flattened into a pancake?"

Gu Qingning giggled and said, "At that moment, I saw him being thrown toward me, saw the terrified look on his face with his eyes closed, and I don’t know what came over me, I just went to meet him."

"I don’t know if this is love."

"To be honest, being with a guy like Zhiming isn’t fun at all. He doesn’t know how to make people laugh, and he’s always making me mad."

"There have been several times I’ve wanted to give him a good thrashing."

Gu Qingran smiled. "That kid has a certain charisma that makes people want to protect him without even realizing it."

Gu Qingning thought for a moment, then nodded. "It might be because he always charges forward without hesitation at critical moments, and never lets people down."

"Brother, you have no idea. He had barely run a few meters with the baby when that car exploded."

"That huge fireball almost swallowed him whole. I was scared to death."

"And, and..."

Gu Qingning chattered on, "Brother, I haven’t even told you about the snake yet."

"It was a pet corn snake, not even a meter long. Somehow it had snuck under the cabinet of the murphy bed, and Zhiming saw it."

"He was so scared he was trembling all over. He let out a yelp, jumped up, and ran..."

Gu Qingning waved a small hand at Gu Qingran, showing off, "And he dragged me along with him when he ran..."

Seeing the way the girl’s eyes lit up, Gu Qingran was certain in his heart that this was, without a doubt, love.

’Love truly does spring from the most unexpected places...’