TFWYH – Chapter 364 Passion for You

After Tang Wan finished surgery on the last patient, she finally dragged her exhausted body outside to get some fresh air.

Dawn was already breaking. After such high-intensity work, even Tang Wan could barely endure it.

As for the other doctors, they had long since collapsed from fatigue.

If her body hadn’t been strengthened by the pocket-space artifact, she figured she would be in the same state.

When she lifted the curtain, she saw that outside some people had already fallen asleep from exhaustion, some were quietly sobbing, and many who couldn’t be saved in time had lost their lives. Their bodies were laid neatly to one side under white cloths, with relatives weeping over them.

Ling Yu stood quietly not far away, watching her with a complicated look in his eyes.

His once-clean pale robe was already stained with dirt, and his black hair hung loose behind his neck, slightly disheveled — yet instead of looking shabby, he carried a kind of unruly elegance.

The first ray of morning light fell across him, making him look refined as jade, almost otherworldly.

But when he saw Tang Wan looking toward him, his already pale face turned even paler, and he almost awkwardly avoided her gaze.

Tang Wan composed herself and walked over with a smile, her expression as natural as ever. “Husband, are you tired? Things are done here — want to go back and take a hot bath first?”

Ling Yu trembled slightly and stared at her. His Adam’s apple moved. After a long moment, he said hoarsely, “You’re not blaming me?”

Tang Wan shook her head and said seriously, “By the time you knew, it was already too late. With that little time, it was impossible to arrange shelter for everyone.”

“…That’s not it. I just believed life and death are fated and simply didn’t want to interfere.”

Ling Yu was silent for a long while before speaking again. “Seeing how hard you fought to save them, I thought you’d blame me — think I was cold-blooded.”

“Mhm.” Tang Wan nodded. “You are pretty cold-blooded.”

Ling Yu’s expression dimmed.

But then she added, “Good thing I’m cold-blooded too. We’re a match made in heaven.”

Ling Yu smiled faintly. “How are you cold-blooded? You worked so desperately.”

“I just wanted to do what I could and save a few more people.”

At that, Tang Wan glanced around, then quickly rose on tiptoe and kissed his chin — a brief touch — and asked with complete seriousness, “I really am cold-blooded — warm-hearted only toward you. It’s fine if you’re cold-blooded too — just be warm-hearted only toward me, okay?”

Seeing her earnest expression, Ling Yu suddenly smiled. “Okay — warm-hearted only toward you.”

Tang Wan’s eyes lit up. “Then will you go back and rest for a bit?”

Ling Yu smiled and shook his head. “Can’t. I just spoke with my uncle — we’re preparing to move the wounded to one of his estates.”

Tang Wan frowned. “Why?”

Ling Yu hesitated. He wanted to say a locust plague was coming next, but he was afraid she’d see him as a monster, so he answered vaguely, “We can’t let the refugees stay here forever.”

Tang Wan understood and praised him sincerely, “You’re not actually cold-blooded.”

Ling Yu only smiled without replying.

He thought to himself: If not for worrying that you’d exhaust yourself saving people, who would bother with them?

Don’t think he hadn’t noticed — Tang Wan was actually hurting inside.

As for unrelated strangers… heh. In his previous life, he had killed far more people than this himself.

After the two cold-blooded schemers went their separate ways, Su Yuan and Ling Yu split into two groups.

Su Yuan went to report to his superiors and led people to clear the ruins.

Ling Yu led others to begin transferring the wounded.

With nothing else to do, Tang Wan went to Jishi Hall to help.

Doctor Li and the other two didn’t know how to perform surgery, so many patients had piled up.

Some had already died.

Tang Wan threw herself back into work again.

By the time all the wounded had been treated, it was already night.

Seeing the clinic packed to capacity, Tang Wan told Doctor Li and the others to organize the townspeople and transfer all those whose injuries had been treated to the estate under Su Yuan’s name.