Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Judging from Gu Yuzheng’s expression, Sheng Ziyou knew that he definitely knew the truth.
Sure enough, after she asked the question, guilt rose in Gu Yuzheng’s eyes. He opened his mouth but didn’t say anything.
Sheng Ziyou glanced at Fu Jiahuan and the others out of the corner of her eye, then added to Gu Yuzheng, “Come with me.”
Then, stepping on her high heels, she walked towards a secluded corner.
Gu Yuzheng slowly got up and followed.
Lin Yidong, Fu Jiahuan, and Jing Xianglei looked at each other in bewilderment.
“Speak,” Sheng Ziyou said coldly, rarely appearing this angry and serious.
Gu Yuzheng opened his mouth, his voice very soft: “… Ji Ran ate a box of chilled raw seafood on an empty stomach last night, drank a bowl of cold rice wine, and… and ate chili peppers.”
“What?!”
Sheng Ziyou couldn’t help but clench her fists, grabbing Gu Yuzheng’s arm and demanding, “Doesn’t he know he can fake being sick?! Why does he have to torture himself like this? Didn’t you even stop him from eating?!”
After she finished yelling, she and Gu Yuzheng both froze.
Gu Yuzheng covered his face and squatted down. He was usually calm, composed, and very intelligent, but now he was squatting down crying.
This was the first time Sheng Ziyou had seen him cry. Although he covered his face and didn’t make a sound, Sheng Ziyou knew he was crying.
“I didn’t stop him… I’m sorry…” Gu Yuzheng’s voice was hoarse.
Sheng Ziyou’s eyes gradually cleared, and she closed them slightly: “I’m sorry, it’s not your fault, I was just too anxious.”
“It’s my fault. Besides him, only I know his physical condition best. I knew he was gambling with his life, but… but I watched him gamble.” Gu Yuzheng didn’t look up, covering his face and resting his forehead on his knees.
That night, he felt incredibly guilty, and crying actually made him feel better.
Sheng Ziyou sighed, gently reached out and touched his slightly disheveled hair, comforting him, “Don’t cry. I know why you didn’t stop him, because… if it happened to you, you would make the same choice, right?”
Gu Yuzheng stiffened slightly, and Sheng Ziyou knew that she had guessed it rightly.
She had always known that these two boys were very hardworking, but at this moment, she changed her mind.
This isn’t just effort; it’s… a desperate struggle.
She thought faking illness would suffice, but these two were even more ruthless to themselves than she was.
“Get up, don’t be sad. Let’s go to the hospital to see Ji Ran. The fact that there’s still no news is good news.” Sheng Ziyou reached out her hand.
Gu Yuzheng looked up, his eyes red-rimmed. He had wiped away his tears, but there were still teardrops in the corners of his eyes.
He looked at the woman in front of him with blurry vision, and she reached out her hand to him.
Gu Yuzheng slowly raised his hand, placing his large hand into the small one.
With a pull from Sheng Ziyou, Gu Yuzheng stood up.
Let’s go.
“Good.”
Lin Yidong and the other two didn’t know what the two had gone to talk about, so they stood there anxiously waiting until Gu Yuzheng and Sheng Ziyou appeared, at which point they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Can you take us there, Teacher Sheng?” Fu Jiahuan didn’t ask what they had talked about, she just asked if she could take them there.
Sheng Ziyou led the group into the car and headed straight for the hospital.
“Why are you up too?” Sheng Ziyou asked Yang Yun, puzzled.
The other person yawned: “I’ll go with you.”
No matter what you do or who you go with, having an assistant by your side is always more convenient.
Moreover, even if you are being secretly photographed, having an assistant with you is better than being alone.
Sheng Ziyou nodded, then looked at Fu Jiahuan and the others: “Where are you guys? I remember you didn’t share a dorm with Ji Ran, why are you up too?”
“The noise was too loud, and we couldn’t sleep. We were also worried about Ji Ran, so we decided to go with Brother Zheng,” Fu Jiahuan explained.
Lin Yidong craned his neck: “Teacher Sheng… Ji Ran… will he be alright?”
Sheng Ziyou turned her head and glanced at Lin Yidong, who was sitting in the back row. Lin Yidong looked nervous, worried, and even scared.
But she still told the truth: “I don’t know either. Let’s find out the specifics when we get to the hospital.”
Lin Yidong and the others turned even paler in an instant.
“Sister You, it’s already on the front page! Everyone’s concerned about what happened to Ji Ran, but the production team hasn’t responded yet,” Yang Yun reported to Sheng Ziyou, scrolling through her phone.
Sheng Ziyou nodded and sighed, “It’s only a little past five in the morning. It will probably be even more lively during the day. The production team hasn’t responded, and there’s no news from the hospital. They should be alright.”
“Let’s go in through the side entrance of the hospital. There are already quite a few reporters at the main entrance, all squatting down waiting for news,” Yang Yun analyzed, looking at the news online.
“Okay.” Sheng Ziyou nodded, then looked at Gu Yuzheng, “What was Ji Ran’s state last night?”
Gu Yuzheng slowly moved his stiff neck and looked back at Sheng Ziyou, his voice hoarse: “At one o’clock last night, Ji Ran started to get up and vomit. We helped him lie down, but he got up and vomited again after a while. By four o’clock in the morning, Ji Ran… Ji Ran could only vomit water, which was also bloody. We quickly went to find Sister Xu, but before the ambulance arrived, Ji Ran had collapsed.”
“Why didn’t you take him to the hospital sooner?” Jing Xianglei frowned, somewhat disapproving.
If they had taken her to the hospital as soon as he started vomiting, it certainly wouldn’t have been this serious.
Gu Yuzheng didn’t speak but glanced at Sheng Ziyou.
Sheng Ziyou sighed: “Is it Ji Ran who disagreed?”
Lin Yidong’s eyes reddened: “We said we wanted to go see Sister Xu, but he wouldn’t let us, insisting it was an old problem. Who knew…”
“It’s nothing, it has nothing to do with you, I don’t blame you,” Sheng Ziyou said.
She could only blame herself for giving Ji Ran this idea.
Ji Ran probably wanted to vomit up everything he ate last night before going to the hospital, but little did he know that his health was even worse than he had imagined, to the point that he vomited blood.
Sheng Ziyou felt a little upset. She shouldn’t have come up with this idea. Ji Ran was a very serious person, and when she asked him to pretend, he actually did it for real.
It would have been better if his agency had simply announced that he had a stomach problem. Even if the outcome wasn’t perfect, it would still be much better than risking his life.
If anything were to happen to Ji Ran, Sheng Ziyou thought she would live with self-blame for the rest of her life.
Gu Yuzheng, standing next to her, was the same. He could have stopped Ji Ran earlier, or called a doctor earlier, but he insisted on waiting as Ji Ran had said.
His head rested on the seat, his gaze fixed on the window, feeling only despair and helplessness.
A hand patted him on the shoulder, pulling him out of his despair. He turned his head and saw Sheng Ziyou looking at him with concern.
“It’s alright, Ji Ran will be fine,” Sheng Ziyou sighed softly.
Gu Yuzheng paused for a moment, then forced a smile and slowly nodded.
The car drove towards the hospital. Sheng Ziyou, wearing a mask, led the group through a side entrance. At this time of day, the hospital was almost deserted, and the side entrance had been specially opened by someone. They didn’t care whether they were photographed or not and hurriedly rushed to the emergency room.
At the entrance of the emergency room.
“How is it going?” Two staff members from the production crew were waiting at the door. Sister Xu was on the phone, so Sheng Ziyou asked the other person.
The man frowned: “They haven’t come out yet, I don’t know what’s going on.”
Sister Xu was clearly on the phone with the program director, her voice urgent: “The news has already leaked out, and we still don’t know Ji Ran’s situation… Yes, yes, I know, don’t worry… Okay, okay… Alright.”
After hanging up the phone, she first frowned and glanced at the closed door of the emergency room, then looked at Sheng Ziyou: “Teacher Sheng, why did you bring them here?”
“They were very worried, and I also wanted to see how Ji Ran was doing, so I came along.” Sheng Ziyou said with a somber face.
Sister Xu nodded and said nothing more.
They were too preoccupied to say anything, staring at the closed door with worried expressions.
If something happened to Ji Ran, the entire production team would be ruined, so Sister Xu couldn’t care why Sheng Ziyou came.
They waited at the door for a while, and then Ji Ran’s agent arrived with his entourage, clearly having just gotten out of bed as well.
He walked over hurriedly, and the first thing he said to Sister Xu was, “Where is your program manager? We need an explanation for this. What exactly happened? Why did Ji Ran get into trouble on the program?”
“We don’t know what’s going on right now, but it seems like Ji Ran’s stomach problems have flared up again,” Sister Xu explained.
The agent pressed further: “Can a stomach ailment flare up this badly? You have to give me…”
“Enough!” Sheng Ziyou shouted sharply, and only then did the manager notice that Sheng Ziyou was standing next to him.
Sheng Ziyou was still wearing a mask, but her voice was unusually calm: “If you have anything to say, wait until Ji Ran comes out.”
The agent opened his mouth as if to say something, but when he met Sheng Ziyou’s cold gaze, he shut his mouth.
With Ji Ran’s fate still unknown, it was really going too far for the agent to start nagging the production team about responsibility.
Moreover, Sheng Ziyou knew that, strictly speaking, this whole thing could be described as Ji Ran directing and acting on his own.
If the agent started to break ties with the production team now, the situation may not be optimistic when Ji Ran wakes up.
Moreover, even if he comes out unharmed, because of this incident, the production team may not want him to continue participating in the show and may even have grounds to ask him to withdraw from the competition.
If Ji Ran wanted to stay on the show, his agent couldn’t make a scene with the production team now, so that they could use that as leverage to negotiate terms later.
Therefore, it would be better for Ji Ran’s agent to discuss it with him after he wakes up before making a decision.
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