"According to the CT results, the patient's brain was not injured. She should wake up once the anesthesia wears off."
Hearing this, Shi Qiubai suddenly relaxed. "It's good that the injuries aren't serious."
Nearby, after seeing off the doctor, Shi Qiubai finally had ti to carefully understand the complete sequence of events of the accident.
Upon learning that no one else at the car scene was injured, Shi Qiubai was certain this must be punishnt from the system. Otherwise, it wouldn't have created such a big commotion with only Shen Xiaoyu getting hurt.
Shi Qiubai bit her lip, lowering her gaze to look at the person lying on the bed, her eyes deep and dark.
"Mommy, Mama still hasn't woken up."
Hearing the voice, she turned to see Shen Nian'an taking Qiu Ye's phone and calling Su Huan with intermittent sobs. "Mommy, when will you get to the hospital?"
"I'm already on the road. I'll be there in an hour and a half," Su Huan's voice ca through the phone. "Has Mama co out of the operating room?"
"She ca out. The doctor just ca too and said Mama's head wasn't injured, and Mama will wake up soon."
Su Huan breathed a sigh of relief. "I understand. Stay by Mama's side and don't go anywhere, okay? Did you see Aunt Li Xiang? She went to find you."
"No, where is Aunt Li Xiang?" Shen Nian'an asked in confusion.
"Then who's with you?"
"Aunt Shi and Aunt Qiu."
Su Huan's voice paused for a mont, then naturally continued: "Give the phone to Shi Qiubai. I have sothing to tell her."
Shen Nian'an made an "oh" sound and turned to hand the phone to Shi Qiubai. "Bad Auntie, Mommy says she has sothing to tell you."
Shi Qiubai let out a light sneer and took the phone irritably, saying flatly: "Senior Su doesn't need to worry. I'll take good care of Sister. Teacher Su can go ahead and focus on your own work. You don't need to co to the hospital, and you don't need to send your people to the hospital either. Even if they co, I won't let them see her!"
She had already stationed people at the door when she arrived. Without her orders, no one was allowed near sister's hospital room.
Su Huan ignored her provocation. "I'll arrive at the hospital in about an hour and a half. Don't go anywhere—I have sothing to tell you."
"I won't..."
Before Shi Qiubai could finish her words, Su Huan hung up directly, leaving only Shi Qiubai staring at the phone.
She was so angry she stood up imdiately, pointing at the phone for a long ti without being able to say a word, then threw the phone back to Qiu Ye.
"Don't give the phone to Shen Nian'an anymore. Also, tell the people outside that if Su Huan cos, kick her out directly."
"Understood." Qiu Ye nodded.
Just thinking about Su Huan's embarrassed appearance when kicked out made Shi Qiubai feel good. She sat back down and looked up to et Shen Nian'an's angry face.
"Why is An'an looking at like that?" Shi Qiubai pretended not to understand. "Don't worry, I'll take good care of you until Sister wakes up."
"I don't need you to take care of . My mommy will take good care of !" Shen Nian'an said huffily.
She shrugged her shoulders, completely unconcerned. "Fine by . Saves the trouble."
Shi Qiubai wasn't in the mood to bicker with her. After speaking, the two fell into silence.
Shi Qiubai was busy having people investigate the cause of the car accident and the identity of the driver, while Shen Nian'an lay by the bedside and fell asleep.
By the ti Su Huan arrived at the hospital, it was already 6 PM.
Li Xiang was pacing at the hospital entrance. Upon seeing her, she imdiately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sister Huan, you're finally back." She imdiately stepped forward to explain: "After receiving your call, I arranged personnel deploynt imdiately. But by the ti I got to the hospital, it was too late. Shi Qiubai had people guarding the ward, and I couldn't get in at all. I couldn't get through to your phone later either, so I..."
Su Huan waved her hand. "It's fine. Go back first. I'll handle Shi Qiubai myself."
After saying this, she turned to look outside. "Block the paparazzi for now. I'll arrange the rest myself. Also, keep an eye on the police side. It would be best if you could get the surveillance footage from the incident. If not, go find Ning Bai and have her help."
Li Xiang nodded in agreent and hurried away.
Su Huan observed the area again, didn't spot any paparazzi, then entered the inpatient departnt and took the elevator directly to the floor of Shen Xiaoyu's ward.
As soon as she approached Shen Xiaoyu's room, she was stopped.
"Miss Su, Miss Shi has instructed that no one is allowed near the ward."
"I don't want to attract attention, so move aside!" Su Huan's gaze was cold, her face expressionless, her aura sharp and intimidating.
The people blocking her didn't move. "Please don't make things difficult for us."
"What if I insist on making things difficult for you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, two n in black erged from the stairwell and charged straight at them.
Those two were also trained and instinctively began to fight back.
Imdiately, the four began wrestling. Nurses who received the news ca over to break up the fight and called hospital security.
Su Huan took advantage of the chaos to walk straight into Shen Xiaoyu's ward.
The mont she entered, her steps faltered, her gaze falling directly on the hospital bed, her brow furrowing.
"Mommy!" Shen Nian'an's swollen red eyes imdiately lit up. She jumped down from the stool and into Su Huan's arms, hugging her neck pitifully.
"Mommy, you're finally back!" Her little mouth trembled as tears welled up in her eyes again. "Mama still hasn't woken up, and she's injured all over."
Su Huan patted her back, unable to focus on comforting her. She took two steps to the bedside, and upon seeing Shen Xiaoyu's condition clearly, her breathing hitched. Her heart felt like it was being squeezed by a large hand, making it almost impossible to breathe from the pain.
Her eyes gradually reddened. She closed them, forcing all the tears back, then exhaled to calm her emotions.
Shi Qiubai leaned back in her chair with her arms crossed, her voice indifferent: "You've seen her. You can leave now."
Su Huan forcibly moved her gaze away from Shen Xiaoyu and looked at her. "Co out. I have sothing to tell you."
Shi Qiubai shook her head, showing no intention of getting up. "I have nothing to say to you. Don't think you can use this thod to make leave sister!"
Su Huan gave her a cold glance, then patted her daughter's back and took her outside. "Go find Qiu Ye first and have her take you downstairs for dinner. Mama will take you back in a bit, okay?"
Shen Nian'an shook her head, shrinking into her arms. "I don't want to. I don't want to go anywhere. I just want to be with you."
"How about this—you wait with Qiu Ye in the stairwell, and I'll take you to eat in a mont, okay?" She spoke gently. "I have sothing very important to tell Shi Qiubai. Ten minutes at most, okay?"
Hearing this, Shen Nian'an could only agree, walking out while looking back every three steps.
The bodyguards who had been fighting outside had already stopped when Su Huan entered the ward. Qiu Ye, who had rushed back breathlessly, stood guard at the door, holding Shen Nian'an's hand while looking worriedly at Shi Qiubai, as if inquiring about her decision.
Shi Qiubai and Su Huan locked eyes. She narrowed her eyes slightly and waved at Qiu Ye.
As long as Su Huan didn't take sister away, she was willing to hear what Su Huan wanted to tell her.
Qiu Ye nodded and thoughtfully closed the door as she left.
The room imdiately fell quiet. Shi Qiubai crossed her legs and asked casually: "Go ahead. What do you want to tell ?"
"Tang Tang escaped. I don't know if she's with Ning Yu, but I can confirm that I won't be able to catch Tang Tang again or control the system." Su Huan said flatly.
"Control the system?" Question marks appeared above Shi Qiubai's head.
Her mind raced, and suddenly a terrible thought occurred to her. Her gaze instantly beca sharp. "Don't tell that sister beca like this because you wanted to control the system!"
"Yes and no. Xiaoyu beca like this because of Tang Tang's system."
"Tang Tang's... system?"
Shi Qiubai frowned, keenly noticing the issue. "You still haven't told everything!"
Su Huan nodded, pondered for a mont to organize her words. "If I were to describe it in Xiaoyu's terms, you and I are just supporting characters in a tragic romance novel. The protagonists are Tang Tang and Ning Yu, and this entire world revolves around them. Originally, this world ran very stably, but then soone ca." Su Huan's gaze fell on Shen Xiaoyu, tender and lingering. "She ca with a mission to pursue but unfortunately almost failed and nearly died in this world. But because of her, this world changed."
She withdrew her gaze to look at Shi Qiubai, pointing at her then at herself. "Those who should have died didn't die. The corrupted villain didn't fall for the female lead. So this world generated its own system to correct the plot—let's call it the correction system—and it bound itself to Tang Tang." Su Huan said. "Oh, I forgot to tell you—Tang Tang, as the protagonist, awakened. That's the fundantal purpose of the system's creation."
The flood of information made Shi Qiubai's head spin. She stared blankly at Su Huan, struggling to process this sudden information.
Su Huan didn't care whether she could accept it and continued: "The correction system's purpose is to return this world to its original state, so it will kill anything that doesn't belong to this world, like Shen Xiaoyu. To prevent the correction system from threatening Shen Xiaoyu, I've been trying to control it. But unfortunately, current technology can't support my complete control of the system. The last typhoon was created by the system to kill Shen Xiaoyu."
Shi Qiubai opened her mouth, taking a long ti to find her voice. "...Then this car accident..."
Su Huan pursed her lips, sighed, and said quietly: "Originally, the system could only kill Xiaoyu through natural forces. But... I think it couldn't wait anymore. Or perhaps it was to distract and create conditions for escape."
Shi Qiubai seed to understand. "So when you said Tang Tang escaped, you actually ant the system inside Tang Tang escaped!"
"Correct. I have people monitoring Ning Yu. If they see Tang Tang, soone will contact . But..." Su Huan's expression darkened. "I lost a group from my research team. They disappeared from this world, including my research base that exploded later—now there's no trace of it either. I think the system modified this world's plot and deleted these from your mories."
Shi Qiubai's frown deepened as she struggled to digest the details.
Tang Tang was actually an awakened female lead, and she had a system... the system wanted to kill Sister... the last typhoon... this car accident...
She closed her eyes, feeling it was all absurd. "Are you sure this isn't sothing you made up to deceive ?"
How could she possibly be an NPC in a novel? With her qualifications, she should obviously be the protagonist!
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