Chapter 3: Almost Scared the Doctor to Death

The doctor immediately arranged for resuscitation, hooked her up to the machines, prepared adrenaline, and was about to use the defibrillator when the patient suddenly opened her eyes, sat up abruptly, and stared blankly at the doctor holding the defibrillator.

The doctor was startled and instinctively took two steps back.

Then, doctor and patient stared at each other.

Three seconds later, the nurse exclaimed, “The patient’s heart rate has returned to normal.”

The doctor put down the defibrillator and hurried forward to check Ye Xiaozhen’s body.

While checking, he asked, “How do you feel? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”

Ye Xiaozhen shook her head.

The doctor checked and found that she was indeed fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

He said to the old man in the corridor, “The patient in bed seventeen, her family, the patient has woken up.”

The old man, upon hearing this, immediately got up and limped into the room.

Then, he saw Ye Xiaozhen sitting on the bed, staring at him with wide eyes.

The original Ye Xiaozhen’s memories were still there, she knew who this old man was.

Although she couldn’t move at the time, her hearing was not affected, she had heard the old man arguing with that bizarre couple.

It was just that she couldn’t accept her new identity for a moment.

Lin Xinghua knew she had a mental problem, and seeing her sitting there blankly, he didn’t think much of it.

He took out the steamed bun that the young nurse had given him and handed it to her, “Kid, you must be hungry, eat.”

Looking at the steamed bun, Ye Zhen felt a mix of emotions.

It was because of the steamed bun that she had the car accident, that she came to this strange place, that she became the unlucky Ye Xiaozhen.

She didn’t want to eat the steamed bun, she hated the sight of it now.

Ye Zhen turned her face away.

Lin Xinghua raised his hand in mid-air, but didn’t get angry, he chuckled and said, “You just woke up, you probably don’t have much of an appetite. Don’t worry if you can’t swallow the steamed bun, I’ll go buy you a bowl of porridge.”

After saying that, Lin Xinghua left the ward and found the young nurse in charge of this ward, “My kid is hungry, but she doesn’t have an appetite for steamed buns, I’ll go buy her a bowl of porridge, please watch over her for a while.”

“Okay, go ahead, I’ll watch over her.”

The patient in bed seventeen had just woken up, the doctor had instructed that she needed to be closely monitored, she would have watched over her even if he hadn’t said anything.

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Ye Zhen couldn’t accept the huge change in identity for a moment, she buried her head under the blanket, not wanting to see anyone.

At the same time, she replayed Ye Xiaozhen’s life in her mind.

Ye Xiaozhen was a premature baby, her biological mother died in childbirth, and she herself was not very bright because of being premature.

Less than half a month after her biological mother died, her biological father brought Sun Qing, a widow from the next village, home.

Soon, Sun Qing became pregnant, and seven months later, she gave birth to twins, Ye Xiaoqiang and Ye Xiaochun.

They were also premature.

It was said that all three children in the Ye family were premature, but the other two were healthy and normal, only Ye Xiaozhen was different.

The key was that they were twins? This was intriguing.

It was likely that Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing had been hooking up for a long time.

There were rumors in the village, but Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing never admitted it.

Ye Zhengguo only cared about his second wife and youngest son, he treated his two daughters indifferently, especially his eldest daughter, Ye Xiaozhen.

He thought she was unlucky, that she had cursed his wife to death, and that she was a fool, making him lose face.

As for Sun Qing, she only doted on her own two children.

Ye Xiaozhen was slow-witted and foolish, she wouldn’t speak up if she was bullied, so they treated her like a maid.

Even though Ye Xiaoqiang and Ye Xiaochun were only a few months younger than her, they demanded that she take care of them.

She had to get their bowls when they ate.

She had to pour water for them when they washed their feet.

She had to wash their dirty clothes.

If she didn’t do it well, she would be beaten.

Ye Xiaozhen was a fool from birth, slow to react. She often did things that didn’t please them, and being beaten was a common occurrence.

It was incredibly difficult to grow up in such an environment.

She had been a maid for that family for so many years, and now that she had grown up, she was sold for a thousand yuan to the man at the head of the village who was rumored to be cursed with a “killer star” fate.

Xie Lin’an had already cursed his father to death, his mother had abandoned him and his sister, along with his two newborn brothers, and ran away.

When he grew up, he cursed his fiancée, and he cursed three of them, finally making him infamous in the village for being a “killer star” who scared everyone.

What was even scarier was that this “killer star” would soon become her husband.

Five thousand yuan, five thousand yuan in 1986, even if she was sold by the pound, she wouldn’t fetch five thousand yuan.

Headache.

At this moment, someone entered the ward.

Ye Xiaozhen stuck her head out from under the blanket and looked at the door.

The person who entered was Lin Xinghua. It was said that he had fled to Xiaoxigou Village from another place, and his speech always had a slightly different accent from the locals.

At that time, Xie Lin’an’s grandparents took him in, gave him food, and later he directly married into their family.

This old man was always kind to others, but unfortunately, the kindest people are often the easiest to be bullied.

He had three sons, but now only Xie Lin’an, his grandson, was willing to take care of him.

It was another heart-wrenching story.

“Kid, are you feeling better?” Lin Xinghua saw her looking at him and quickly put the porridge he had bought on the coffee table next to her.

“Drink it quickly, it’s still hot. After you finish, I have to return the bowl, I paid one yuan for it.”

Ye Xiaozhen was considered a fool in the eyes of outsiders, but she was no longer a fool now, she didn’t know how to talk to him.

Plus, she was afraid that that shameless couple would change their minds, so after thinking about it, she decided to pretend to be a fool.

“Grandpa drink it, I’m not hungry.” Her tone was the same as Ye Xiaozhen’s usual way of speaking, clearly that of a fool.

But Lin Xinghua still pushed the bowl towards her, “Be good, drink a little, you’ll recover faster.”

Seeing that she couldn’t get out of it, she was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so she had to pick up the bowl and finish the porridge.

Lin Xinghua took the empty bowl and went out again, he didn’t come back for a long time.

He came back with a tall, imposing man with a cold face, who could scare any child to tears.

This man was none other than Xie Lin’an, the “killer star” who cursed his wives to death and was feared by everyone in the village.

He must have come back from work, he was wearing a sleeveless undershirt that was popular at the time, the undershirt was dirty and covered in dirt.

The sleeveless undershirt perfectly showed off his strong muscles, his chest was broad and muscular, his arms were thick and strong, Ye Xiaozhen couldn’t help but touch her own thigh.

Could his arms be thicker than her thigh?

He wasn’t just muscular, he was also tall, the kind who stood out in a crowd.

Ye Xiaozhen’s attending doctor wasn’t short, but standing next to Xie Lin’an, he was half a head shorter.

Such a strong, muscular man, his skin was surprisingly not rough, it was very clean. His facial features were sharp, his jawline was perfect, a handsome man with a cold demeanor.

This was simply perfect.

My goodness, marrying him wouldn’t be a loss?

Xie Lin’an was currently asking the doctor about Ye Xiaozhen’s condition.