Make your ex-boyfriend cry? That's easy!

The doctor sighed deeply, a look of regret on his face. "What a pity! If the preoperative preparations had been quicker, you might have passed away peacefully and unconsciously before the effects of the ether wore off."

He shook his head, seemingly feeling helpless about this sudden change, muttering, "Why did he wake up at this critical moment instead of earlier or later?"

Then, the doctor gently waved his hand, pointed at Jiang Ningzhi on the stage, and said slowly:

"Just to be clear, all the anesthetics I have in stock must be used on the young master on the operating table over there."

"So when I start the operation later, even if the pain is unbearable, please don't scream too loudly. Otherwise, it might interfere with my operation and affect the successful removal of your heart. If I accidentally cut an extra blood vessel, you will suffer even more."

Hearing this, Jiang Yan, who was tied to the pillar, widened his eyes and asked with red eyes, "Why?"

Faced with such questioning, the doctor did not answer directly. Instead, he cast his gaze towards Jiang's father standing beside him and asked with a hint of sarcasm: "Ah... As for the reason, Mr. Jiang, please tell me."

Father Jiang frowned, looking at everything in front of him with an indifferent expression, and responded casually: "Humph, what else could it be? It's just that you have a bad fate."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang's father turned to look at the doctor again and urged anxiously, "Can the operation start quickly? My son is feeling very uncomfortable now."

At this moment, Jiang Yan was completely stunned, his mind was blank, and he had no idea what to say.

Why do I always have to encounter such terrible things?

Why is it that I have never done anything wrong? I just want to continue living and I just want to have an ordinary and simple future.

Why do we have to go through such hardships?

Why is it so difficult to realize even this small wish?

Could it be that fate was deliberately playing tricks on him? Thinking of this, a deep sense of despair surged in his heart, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.

He just wants to live.

Why is it... so difficult?

****

Ji family villa.

Sunlight streams into the center of the spacious living room through huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

Auntie stood at the door of the villa, looking anxiously in the direction of the gate. She had been waiting for a long time, but Jiang Yan, who was supposed to be back from buying groceries, was still nowhere to be seen.

Auntie frowned and kept calling Jiang Yan, but the only response she got was a cold busy tone.

Jiang Yan has always been a well-behaved and sensible child. He never fails to come home on time for no reason, and he never fails to answer the phone and make people worry.

This abnormal situation made the aunt's heart instantly hang in her throat.

As time passed, my aunt became more and more restless.

She paced back and forth in the living room, her heart full of worry.

What on earth had happened? Was Jiang Yan in danger? Countless questions swirled in her mind, but she had no idea how to deal with the situation.

In desperation, the aunt dialed Ji Cenzhou's number with trembling hands.

Ji Cenzhou's calm voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, what's wrong?"

Auntie said anxiously, "Cen Zhou, Xiao Yan has been out buying groceries for two or three hours and still hasn't come back. I can't get through to him on the phone! He's usually so obedient, there's no way he'd just come back without saying anything. Can you find someone to help look for him? I'm so worried..."

When Ji Cenzhou heard his aunt's words, his heart skipped a beat.

For some reason, he suddenly thought of the Jiang couple who were still on the run.

An ominous premonition came to his mind, and he immediately realized that the matter might be much more serious than he had imagined. Without the slightest hesitation, Ji Cenzhou decisively chose to call the police.

After receiving the report, the police took swift action. They first retrieved the surveillance footage from the roads outside the Ji family villa and carefully examined every frame.

Hard work pays off. Not long after, the police found an important clue in a video.

Jiang Yan was walking alone on the road when suddenly a figure jumped out from the side, stretched out his arms, and covered Jiang Yan's mouth and nose with an unknown object in the blink of an eye. Soon Jiang Yan fainted and was carried up, and then disappeared from the surveillance range.

Because the kidnappers acted extremely quickly and cautiously, the entire crime process only exposed the pair of strong and powerful arms, and no other key information was known.

Even so, this valuable clue still brought a glimmer of hope for solving the case. The police decided to continue their investigation along the direction the kidnappers fled, leaving no clues unturned.

However, what is tricky is that the person seems to be fully aware of the surrounding environment and can always cleverly avoid surveillance cameras or choose to go to blind spots that are not covered by surveillance.

This makes it extremely difficult for the police to track his whereabouts through surveillance footage, like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, the Ji family villa is located in the city center, and most of the people living here are wealthy people.

For security reasons, surveillance facilities are distributed extremely densely. It is no exaggeration to say that you can see a surveillance camera almost every two steps.

Because of this, the police were able to gradually conduct in-depth investigations along these fragmentary and vague clues, and eventually get closer to the truth bit by bit.

……

At this time, Jiang Yan had been ruthlessly thrown onto the cold operating table, his hands and feet tightly bound with special restraints.

To ensure safety and prevent him from struggling and escaping, the spacing between these restraints is very small, with one approximately every palm's width.

They crisscrossed and densely packed together, firmly fixing Jiang Yan on the operating table, leaving only a large area of ​​his chest exposed for the doctor to perform the heart removal surgery.

Poor Jiang Yan was pinned to the operating table without any power to resist, and no matter how hard he tried to twist his body, it was of no use.

He could only raise his head in despair, looking in horror at the doctor standing beside him holding a gleaming scalpel, and at the other's eyes that were free of emotion.

In an instant, an intense fear of death came over him like a surging tide.

At the same time, a complex and contradictory emotion surged deep in my heart——

On the one hand, I feel a deep fear and reluctance about the impending end; on the other hand, I have an inexplicable sense of relief, as if the heavy burden I have been carrying for a long time can finally be put down.

The cold scalpel cut open Jiang Yan's chest without hesitation.

In an instant, a piercing pain spread throughout his body.

"what--"

Jiang Yan couldn't help but let out a shrill scream.

The pain of having a large piece of skin and flesh cut open without any anesthesia was unbearable for him.

Even an adult would not be able to bear the pain, let alone he is only seventeen years old.

——It hurts so much.

It hurts so much. It hurts so much. It hurts so much.

Blood gushed out like a flood bursting its dam, flowing from Jiang Yan's chest at an alarming speed, like a rushing waterfall. Jiang Yan's chest seemed to be the source of this torrent, and the wound was like a bubbling spring.

Jiang Yan widened his eyes, staring in horror at the coldly shining scalpel as it mercilessly cut through the skin and muscle tissue on his chest again and again.

Every time the knife was cut, it brought a sharp pain. He watched helplessly as his originally white chest was gradually soaked with bright red blood until it completely turned into a shocking sea of ​​blood.

The unbearable pain made Jiang Yan struggle and twist desperately, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not break free from the extremely strong restraints on the operating table.

The belts tightly bound his body, like the devil's claws, holding him firmly and making him unable to move at all.

Due to excessive exertion, the blue veins all over his body bulged out like earthworms and were clearly visible.

At this moment, Jiang Yan's only remaining movement was his hands. His ten fingers frantically scratched the cold, hard iron operating table, attempting to alleviate the fear and pain in his heart.

However, the prolonged and intense friction made his fingertips pale and bloodless, the blue veins on the back of his hands bulged high, and even his nails split and broke due to uneven force.

But even such piercing pain in the ten fingers was insignificant compared to the pain of having the chest cut open.

As time went by, Jiang Yan's moans became weaker and weaker, as if a candle in the wind was about to go out.

His consciousness began to gradually become blurred, and the scene before his eyes became more and more hazy and unreal.

At this moment, a loud "bang" suddenly came!

In a trance, Jiang Yan vaguely saw Ji Cenzhou kick open the rusty door of the abandoned factory.

In an instant, the blood-red afterglow of the setting sun outside the door poured in like a tide, illuminating the entire dark and damp space.

"Jiang Yan——!"

A heart-wrenching cry suddenly rang out, shattering the deathly silence of the factory. Like a bolt of thunder, it struck directly into Jiang Yan's chaotic consciousness.

Jiang Yan's eyelids, which were originally as heavy as lead, trembled slightly, as if he was trying hard to open his eyes, but it was all in vain.

He felt as if he was in an endless dark abyss, surrounded by a suffocating and oppressive atmosphere.

Why do I seem to see my brother...

Is it... an illusion?

He is so sleepy.

Fatigue washed over him like a tide, wave after wave, gradually devouring his remaining shred of clarity. He was so sleepy that he didn't even have the energy to think.

Ji Cenzhou was already extremely anxious. His eyes were now bloodshot, almost red.

I saw that he was clenching his fists tightly, and his knuckles turned pale because he was squeezing too hard.

Suddenly, like a wild beast out of control, he raised his fist and hit the doctor in front of him hard.

There was a dull "bang" sound, and before the doctor could even react, he was knocked back by the huge impact force, hitting the wall behind him heavily, and then slowly sliding down the wall.

Ji Cenzhou completely ignored the doctor's life or death and rushed to the operating table.

At this moment, Jiang Yan was lying quietly on the operating table, his body covered in shocking blood. The red liquid was continuously flowing out of his wounds, staining the white sheets red.

Ji Cenzhou's heart instantly tightened into a ball, and the pain was so severe that he could hardly breathe.

He stretched out his hands tremblingly and carefully approached the belts that bound Jiang Yan's body.

Every time he untied a belt, his hands would shake unconsciously, for fear of hurting Jiang Yan.

When the last strap was untied, Ji Cenzhou took a deep breath, slowly leaned over, and called softly: "Jiang Yan... Jiang Yan..."

Jiang Yan, lying on the hospital bed, finally opened his eyes with great difficulty. Through his blurred vision, he vaguely saw the familiar face.

It really is Ji Cenzhou.

Ji Cenzhou really came.

"Brother..." Jiang Yan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but found that his throat was so dry that he could hardly make a sound.

"I'm here, brother is here, don't be afraid, brother is here, brother is always here!"

Although Ji Cenzhou's face was still expressionless, a typical "expressionless face", his red eyes and slightly trembling lips all revealed the fear and worry deep in his heart.

Looking at Jiang Yan, who was covered in blood and wounds, Ji Cenzhou felt so distressed that he wished he could bear all the pain for him immediately.

He really wanted to open his arms and hug Jiang Yan tightly, giving him the warmest comfort and support.

However, reason told him not to do this, because he was afraid that it would further aggravate Jiang Yan's injuries.

The police outside the door were well-trained and acted quickly. In the blink of an eye, they successfully subdued the Jiang couple and Butler Li.

As soon as the police entered the factory, they were shocked by the extremely cruel scenes before them.

They had never expected that the incident would develop to such a tragic level, so the only people who came to support them were the police team doctor.

However, faced with Jiang Yan's extremely serious injuries, a mere team doctor was obviously helpless.

Despite this, time was running out and there was no time for further thought, so the team doctor immediately rushed forward to give Jiang Yan first aid.

However, because the wounds on Jiang Yan's body were so horrific, the team doctor could only do some basic and simple treatments. As for how to move Jiang Yan or implement more complicated treatments, he didn't even dare to think about it.

At this moment, the ambulance was still on the way, but Jiang Yan's condition was already extremely critical. Seeing Jiang Yan's blood gushing out of his chest like a flood, everyone present was extremely anxious.